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 1090 HIVITES. dwelt in the district of Hebron, and in the neigh- boarhood oi the Amorites. ((7 en. xziii. 7) seq. ; Ntmb» xiii. 29.) Solomon compelled them to pay tribate along with the other GanaanitLsh tribes (1 Kinfftf iz« 20, seq.) ; but we find them at a later period (in the time of Joram, king of Israel) governed by kii^ of their own (2 Kings^ vii. 6). The Hittites are also mentioned after the retnm of the Jews from captivity {Eeraf ix. 1); but after this time their name does not occur again. HIVITES (Eikuot, LXX. one of the tribes of the Canaanites, whom the Israelites found in Palestine. (Gm. z. 17; Exod. iii. 8, 17, xziii. 23; Joih. iii. 10.) They dwelt in the north of the country, at the oot of Mount Hermon (Judg, iii. 3), and appear to have been driven by tiie Israelites to the north-west, as we find them mentioned in the time of David together with Tyre and Sidon. (2 Sam, zxiv. 7.) The remnant of the nat ion was reduced to subjection by Solomon (1 Kinfft, ix 20), after which they dis- appear from history. HOLM! (*OAau>i : EtA. 'OKfiM6s), a town on the coast of Gilida Trachna, a little to the south-west of Seleucia; during the period after Alexander its in- liabitants were transferred to form the population of the neighbouring Seleuceia. (Strab. xiv. p. 670 ; Scy- ]ax, p. 40; Ste]?!. B. «. v.; Plin. v. 22, who calls the place Sohma.) Leake (Asia Minor, p. 205) thinks the modem town of AghaHman occupies the site of the ancient Holmi, which Scybx des^ibes as de- serted even in his time. Another town of the same name existed in Phry- gia, on the road from Apameia to Iconium, at the en- trance into a pass of Mount Taurus. (Strab. xiv. p. 663.) It is probable that it may have been the same pkce as the fort Myriocephalon, by which the emperor Manuel Comnenus passed in a. i>. 1172, before the battle of Iconium. (Nicet Chonat. p. 115.) [L. S.] HOLMCXNES. [Olmosks.] HOLOPHYXUS. [Olophyxus]. HOMAMA, mentioned by Pliny (v. 23) as a town in Pinidia, is no doubt the same as Ohiiaviba in Hierocles (p. 675). It was, probably, situated at the southern extremity of lake Caralitis, and was the capital of the Homanades on the frontier of Isanria, who, besides Homana, are said to have pos- sessed 44 forts (comp. Tac. Aim, iii. 48), a state- ment opposed to the remarks of Strabo (xii. pp. 569, 668, 679), according to which the Homanades (*Oftaya8fis), the most barbarous of all Pisidian tribes, dwelt on the northern slope of the highest mountains without any towns or villages, living only in caves. In the reign of Augustus, the consul Quirinius compelled this little tribe, by famine, to surrender, and distributed 4000 of them as colonists among the neighbouring towns. [L. S.] HOMANADES. [Homaka.] HOMERITAE ('O^Vrw, PeripL p. 13 ; Mar- cian, p. 13 ; Plin. vi. 28 ; Ptol. vi. 7), a people of Arabia Felix who occupied its S. promontory (Ti^- men). The Arabs of Temen, who are well known in Oriental history under the name of Hvagariy and to the Greeks by the name of Homeritae, were a civilised people in very remote ages. They pos- sessed a rich and fertile territory, very advanta- geously situated for oommeros. The Himyaritie dynasty of the Tobbde (from the Arabic TabbdUth, which had a general signification like that of Em- peror, Khin, Pharaoh, Caesar, && ; D'Herbelot, Bibliothique OrUmtaU s. v. Tobbif) referred to a HOBESTL ytrj eariy period, and thor power appean to htm been very extended, as moDumeatal tniees of the Himgari have been found not only in Yiwtem, bvt ia distant countries both to the E. and W. TbcR is a considerslile affinity between the Hhmfmri diai'aela and the well-known and most ancient Divtmagmri Sanscrit The earliest writing was praiMbiy the Himyaritie, even anterior to the CuneifdnD dia- rscters. The independence of the Homeritae was fint vio- lated by an Aethopian conqueror. (Procop. R, P. L 19, 20.) Those who wish to study the very ob- scure question of the Jewish and Abyssinian kiag- doms in Homeritis will find much valoable infanB- ation in Dean Milman's notes upon the 42nd chiqiler of Gibbon, and the authorities there qnotcd, espe- cially the very able notes of Saint Martin npoB Le Beau (Bat Empirt, voL viii. ppi 46—^7, 153 — 158), to which may be added Bitter, ErdbmA, vol xiv. p. 38 ; Ewald, Guck. du VoOou Jgrmd, vol. i. pi 383, 2nd edit 1851 ; Humboldt, Ceiiwas, vol iL Y ^^t trans. ; and the 2nd vblome of Coknd Chesney's £!aipedft£on to the Etgjhrateti It msy be sufficient hers to quote the woi^ of Gibbosi: — Arabia, Mahomet must have been crashed in las Orad, and Abyssinia would have prevented a !«««- lution which has changed the dvil and Ri^n<«s state of the world." [E. B. J.} HCMOLE or HOMOXIUM CO/t^V, Strabw ix. p. 443; 'O/UXtop, Strsb. I c, liv. zlii. 38; Pfin. iv. 9. 8. 16), a town of Thessaly, situated at the foot of Mt. Homole, and near the edge of the vale of Tempe. Mt Homole was the part of the chain of Osaa Ijhig between Tonpe and the modem villsge of KarUm. Mt. Homole is sometimes used as synonynMoa «tth Ossa. It was celebrated as a favourite haunt «f Pan, and as the abode of the Centaara and the Lapithae. Pausanias describes it as the most fertils mountain in Thessaly, and well supplied with foaa- tains. (Pans. ix. 8. § 6; Enrip. Here. Fmp. 371; Theocr. fdgU, vii. 104; Virg. Aen, tiL 675; Stej^ B. #. V. 'OfdXfi.) The exact site of the town is uncertain. Both Scylax and Strsbo seem to plaes it on the right bank of the Peneins near the exit of the vale of Tempo, and consequently at some distaiwr from the sea (Scykx, p. 12; Strab. ix. p. 445); bot in Apollonius Rhodius and in the Orphic poens Homole is described as situated near tlie sea-abon^ and in ApoUonius even another town, EmymcBae, is placed between Homole and Tempe. (ApoU. Bhod. i. 594; Orpheus, jlr^on. 460.) EniTmcnae, bsw. ever, stood upon the coast more to the sootk [EuRTMKZTAE.] Leake conjectures that the oek- bnted convent of St. Demetrius, situated upon the lower part of Mt KiMtaoo, stsjids on the site of Homolium. (Leakey JVor<Aem(rr9eos^ vol. iiLpL 408, voL iv. p 415.) HONO^RIAS COp^ids), the name given by Theodosius II., in honour fi his uncle Honorins, t» the town of Clandicpolis in Bithynia, which at a still earlier time had been called Heradeia. (SbUs^ Chron, ii. 14; Hierod, pu 694.) [L. S.] HOPLI'TES. [BoBoiXA, p. 413, a.] HOB. [Idumasa.1 HORCA. rORCA.T HOREB. fSniAi.] HORESTI, m North Britain, mentiflned by Taotn {Agrie. 38). After the battle of the Gnunpisos Agricola moved into their coaDirj^ssSHrimg^ or the north part of Lanark [B. G. L.]
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