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 HOBITES. HORITES. [Iduxara.] UORMA. [Almopia.] HORMANUS. [Omaihtab.] UCKfiREA, AD, a pboe in Gallia Narbonenais, whiebi agnifioi a dep6t for com and perhaps other merchandise. Such names of pUu»e occur occasion- ally. Beaufort {Karamama, p. 27) describes one of these fiorrea, or Roman granaries, near tbo ruins of Uyra, which bears a pedect inscription beginning noBRBA IMP., &c The Antonine Itinerary places Ad Horrea on the road from the Far to Forum Julii (/V^W), and between Antipolis (^Antibes) and /Wjitf. From Antipolis to Ad Horrea is 12 M.P.; «nd frum Ad Horrea to Forum Julii it is 17 M. P. The Table gives the same distances. The geogra- phers differ wonderfully about the site of Ad Horrea. Some place it at GtruMe^ NW. of Antibetj according to which the road must have made a great bend between Antipolis and Forum Julii. Others would have it to be Napoulf which is much too near Frejtis to agree with the distance. D'Anrille places it at CemmeSj in favour of which there are two things: — Cannu is on the coast, where grain might be landed, for in the days of the Romans the Provincia imported com, as it does now, finom Africa ; and it is jnobably on the old road. But it is too near to Antipolis ; which difficulty D'Anville removes by a common device of hhf — ^he reads vii. for xii. Others fix Ad Horrea at a place called fforibel or Auribeau, at the muuth of the stream of Vnner$, [0. L.] HORREA COELIA. [Hadrumetdm.] HO'RREUM, a town of Moloesis in Epirus, of uncertain site. (Liv. xlv. 26.) HORREUM MARGI (Morawa ffissar), a town in Moesia, oa the river Maigus, where, according to the Ant Itinerary (219), the Legio xiv Gemina, and aa:ording to the Not Imperii (30) the Legio XIII Gemina, was stationed. (Comp. ItitkArU. 134; Geogr. Rav. iv. 7; IL Hieroe. 565, where the name ia Oramagna; Hierocl. p. 657, *Op$4fiapxosi and PtoL iii. 9. § 5, 'O^/i^o. [L. S.] HORTA or HORTANUM (Orte), an ancient town of Etraria, situated on the right bank of the Tiber, nearly opposite to its confluence with the Nar (ATera), Its name is mentioned only by PUny, who calls it Hortanom (probably an adjective form), jmd by P. Diaconus, who writes it Horta, and men- tions it with Sutrium, Polimartium, Ameria, and other towns on the two sides of the Tiber. (Plin. ilL 5. s. 8 ; P. Diac. iv. 8.) There can, therefore, be no doubt that it is the place still called Ofo, where, besides some relics of Roman times, numerous Etrus- can sepulchres have been discovered, and objects of eonsidemble interest brought to light (Dennis, Etm- rto, vol. L pp. 162 — 167.) It probably derived its name firom the Etruscan goddess Horta, who is men- tioned by Plutarch. {Quaett. Rom. 46 ; Miiller, Etruihr. vol iL p. 62.) The celebrated Lacus Va* dimoDis, the scene of two of the most deciiiive defeats of the Etruscans by the Romans, was situated about 4 miles above Horta, close to the banks of the Tiber. [Yadimonis Lacu&] The Via Amerina, which led from Falerii to Ameria [Axeria], crossed the Tiber just bdow Horta, where the remains of a Boman bridge are still visible. (Dennis, ^ c. p! 167.) The ^Hortinae classes" mentioneid by Virgil (^ en. vii 71 5) must probably be connected with this city, though he places them on the left bank of the Tiber, among the Sabines, and the adjective formed from Horta would natomlly be Hortanus, and not Hortinus. [E. H. B.] HUNKL 1091 HORTOKA. [Ortoha.] HO'SSU, aSSII (*0<r<rll»^ Ptol. iii. 5. § 22), a people of Sarmatia Euxopaea, who occuined the E. coasts of the Baltic — Etthama and the island of Oesel, and belonged to the Finnish stock. (Schafarik. Sltw, A U. vol i. pp. 298, 302.) [E. B. J.] HOSTIXIA, a small town of Cisalpne Gaul, situated on the N. bank of the Padus, about 10 miles below the confluence of the Mincius : it is still called OMiiglia. PUny (zxi. 12. s. 43) calls it only a viUage (vicus) ; and we leam from Tacitus that it was dependent on Verona (** vicus Veronenaium," fTu^ iii. 9). But in the civil war between VitelUus and Vespasisn it was occupied by Caedna, the lieutenant of the former, as a military poet of importance, com- manding the passage of the Padus, and secured on its flank by the extensive marshes of the Tartaras. (Id. HiaL it 100, iii. 9, 14, 21, 40.) It ia again mentioned by Cassiodoras in the 6th century ( Var. ii. 31), and was probably a considerable place in ancient as well as modem times, though it did not enjoy municipal privileges. The Itinerary correctly places it SO M. P. firom Verona on the road to Bo- nonia (/(in. Ant. p. 282), while the Table gives 33 (Jab. Peut). [E. H. B.] HOSUERBAS, a Mutatio, or place, in the Jem- salem Itinerary, on the road from Bordeaux to Narborme. It is the next place to iVorftonne, and 15 Roman miles fix>m it The Table has it Usuema or Usuerva, and 16 M.P. from Narhoime, It is supposed to be a place at the ford of the torrent Jcurre or Jowrve. [G. L.] HUNGUNUERRO, one of the places called Muta- tiones in the Jerusalem Itinerary, on the road firom BordeOMX to Narhonne. From Civitas Auscius {Aiick) to Mutatio ad Seztum is 6 Gallic leagues ; and from Mutatio ad Seztum to Hungunuerro is 7 Gallic leagues. The road is direct from Auch aa hx as rou/ocwe; -and if anybody can get a good map of that part, he will be able to guess where the place is, for it Lb on the straight road between Attch and Tovioute. D'Anville guesses Gircaro ; Walckenaer guesses ^ Bvndu de devant ot Menjoulet,^ [G. L.] HUNNI or OHUNI (OSvvoi, XoOm). Observe the absence of the (urpirato in Odvvot, So early a writer as Ptolemy has the following passage: — fitra^b Bturrkpvwv koI "Pw^aKAtntv Xovvoi (iii. 5. § 25). The full value of the notice will appear in the sequel. AuTHOBiTiBS. ^-The two best authorities are Ammianus Biarcellinus and Prisons, each contem- poraiy with the actions he describes, but Priscus the better of the two. Sidonius Apollonaris notices their invasion of Gaul ; and that as a contemporary. The other authorities are all of later date, i. e. referable to the sixth century or later, e. g. Jomandes, Pro- oopius, Agathias, Gregory of Tours. Cassiodorus, the beat authority d Jomandes, wrote under the reign of Theodoric, 40 years after Attila's death. The whole history of Jomandes is written in a spirit eminently hostile to the Huns ; the spirit of a Goth as opposed to his conqueror, the Hun, HuNB OF Ammian[7& — The earliest of the two really trustworthy writers who speak with authority concerning the Huns is Ammianus Mar- cellinus (xxxL 1, et seq.). But his evidence is by no means of equal value throughout He de- scribes their appearance, partly after what he may have read in older authors respecting the Scgihiatu, and partly after what he may have learned from those who bad seen him. At any rate he draws 4 A 2