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 HISPAHUU MABE. paw of tliia work will be iijUDd in tb« utids* <■> Uie Alans, Goths, uid Vuidals.) Tb6 indued coin, with the Homiu] legend nu- FAKORUH, ii genenily couiilered u twlongjog to the Hiipuiiiug in genentl : but there a much reura to believe that it docs not re&llj belong to Spain at all, but «aa struck m Sidlf by ■ colooj of Spauiah aoxiliaiicB lettled in that ctnaUj. [P. S.J HISPA'NUM MABE or HISFATJUS OCE- ANUS, alaa called Uakb IbKbicun ui Balea- BoAAiopmii >tAii7«i), the specific uune of l)» W. part of the UaRB iMTKBaUM {MtditemBiean}, •bout the Balearic iilanda, and along the E. coast, aad >bci, according to lome of the ancients, the S. coaat of Hi-p«ni» Thus A|;a[benwniB makes it extend from the Pillan of Herculca to the Pjnuien. <Strab. ii. p. 13S : Dim. Per. 69 ; Agathem. i. 3, ii. 14 j Fkr. iii. 6, 9 ; Plin. Hi. 5. a. 10; Sotin 23^ Priacian. Perii^. 75 ; Clandian. xiLii. 8.) [P. S.] UISPBLLUM (EUrwiXKnr, Sttab.; 'Uwm^n, FtoL: Eli. Hisp^.-Itis: Spello), a town of Umbria, at the foot of the Apennioee, and on the left of the Flaminian Way, about 4 milea ^vm Fnlginiom iFoilgno) and fl fimn Merania {Bmag- na). It IB noticed bj sereral write™ among the more coonideiable town* of thia part of Utiibria. <Strab. •.p.a!7; PtoL iii. 1. § S4j Sil. Ilal. tiiL 458; Orell. later. 98.) Pliny (ami it a cokmy, and we find it bearing in inscrrptiona the titles of '' Colouia Julia Uispelli " and "Colonia Urbana Flavia," whence it appean that it most have ro- cdred two Bucceasire cvlooieH, the cne under Augua- tOB, the other under Vespansn. (Plin.iii. U.a. 19; OrelL /»«-. 2170, 3885 ; Hjgin. da Limit, p. 179.) Augiutos, indeed, seema to haie shown it afccial bvonr, and bestowed cm Uispetlnm the gmre and temple of Clitumntu, though these were won than 12 mike distant fran the town, and separated by the inlanening lerritorka of Heraiiia and Fnlginium. (Plin. £/>. viii.e.) We Inro froni the Liber Colooiarmn that it receired a fresh accea- ■iaa of cokmista under Hadrian. (lib, Coltm, p. 324; Zumpt, de CoL p. 409.) Inecriptiona, aa welt as situit nnuins, taitify to its Sourisbing condition under the Boman empire : besidea mo- sideraUe ruins of Its ampbithealre in the plain below the modem town, there exists one of the Bnnaii gates, called Porld Veneris, in good pmerratiw, ■ome remains of a triumphal arch in a atreet tbenoe called the Via deU'Aroo, and considerable portions of the ancioit walls. The inhalntants prufeis lo show the h«ue and tomb of the poet Propenius, tor which there is certainly no anthoiity: but many critics consider Hispelium as having a better claim than Ihrania to be legarded as his biithplace. [Mi- TAHiA.] Hispelium waa an episcopal lae till the siith century, when it was taken and destroyed by the Ixmbtnls, and the see transfcrnid to FotignB; but the modeni (own of SptUo u atill a Gonsider- ' able place (Bampoldi, Cvrogr. dlKtlia, lot ir. p. lOBS.) [E. H. B.1 HiSTUEA Clffrlaifl). 1. A town in the north of Enboea, better known onder its later name Oteua. [Orbds.] 2. In AttJca. [Athbkab, p. 294.1 EISTIAKO'TIS (loTiuATit, also TffruuAni). 1. A district in the north-wvat of Theesaly. [Thbssalu.] 2. A district in the north of Euboea, of which (he chief town was Hiatiaea, afterwards called Orcua. [On«os.1 HISTO'NnJll Clirriruit: Elk. Histoniensis : It Vatto or Vaito d'Awmofie), one of the chief towns of the Frentani, situated on the coast of the Adriatic, aboat five miles G. of the promontory called Aa^ ddia Pama. No mention <rf it is found in histoiy, bnt the name is noticed by all the geographen among the towns of the Fnintani, and we learn fnm the Liber Colonianun that it received a colony, apparently imder Caesar. (Mel. ii. 4. § 9; Plin. iii. IS. s. 17; Ptol. iiL 1. g 18; Lib. Colon, p. 260i Zompt, de Coion. p, 307.) It did not, however, obtain the rank of a Calc«iia, but continued to bear the title of a mnnicipam, as we learn trom inscrip' tions. (Orell. Itucr. 2603, 4052 ; Znmpt, L e.) Tbe same authorities prove that it must have been under the Roman empire a flourishing and opulent municipal town; and this is further attested by oiisting remains, which include the vestigea of a theatre, batRs, and otiier public edifices, bemdea numerous nueuca, Etatnes, and columns of granite or marbk. Henoe there seems no-doubt that it was at this period the chief dlyoTtheFrenlanL (Roma- eUi, vol. ii 12.) J whicb have b«n found there, one of the niMt mrions records the fact of a youth named L. Val»- rins Pudens having at thirteen years of age borne away the prite of Latin poetrj in the contests bdd at Bome in the temple of Jupiter CaptoUnus. (Bo- manelli, J. c p. 34; Orell. Inter. 2603; Mommsen, /. R. N. S25S.) The naine of Uisloniom is stili foond in the lljnerariee of the fourth century (Itin. AnI. p. 3U; T<A. i^uf), and it probably never ceased to exist on its present site, though ravaged successively by the Goths, the Lumbanls, and the Arabs. Some local writers have refenwl to Histn- ninm the strange passage of Stnbo (tL p. 24S), is whicn he speaks of a place called Ortcoium (aa the name alanUa m the MSS.) as the riMrt of piratca of a veiy wild and oDCivjlised character. The paa- sa^e ia equally inapplicable to Histouinm and to Ortona, both of which names naturally suftgost themselves; and Kramer is disposed to refect it altogether aa spurious. (Kramer, ad loe.) mstonium has no uat^inl port, but a mete road- stead ; and it is nc4 improbable that in the days i^ its piosperitj it had a dependent port at the Pmla deiia PenaOj Irhere then is good anchorage, and where Roman renuiiu have also been found, which have been regarded, but probably erroieonsly, aa those of Buca. [Biica.] The inscriptions pub- lished by a local antiqnarian, as found on the same -e in all ptibability sporioiis. (See Mummsea, Regn. jVeofi. p. S74, Jpp. p. 30; irtio baa collected and published all the genuine inscriptions f<mnd at Histomum.) [E.H.1I.] HISTBIA. [litTBiA.] HITTITE^(XfTTcii.., LXX.), one of the tribea •nJU C<ff^2^n W/r^jtAtf tAL:4j^