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 EBURI. Crut. (Plin. liL 1. s. 3 ; Inscr. apt Mamtori, p. 461 ; Floras, Etp, S. toL xii. p. 390; Ukert, voL ii. pt. i. p. 370.) 3. {*E€6payy an inland city of the Edetani, in HiBpania Tamoonensis, S£. of Caesaraugusta, onlj mentioned by Ptolemy (ii. 6. § 63). (Brietins, Tab. ParaU, vol. i. p. 268; Ukert, toI. ii. pt i. p. 417.) 4. Mela (Ui. 1) mentions an Ebon as a port of tbe Celtid, at the MW. extremity of the peninsula, which Ukert takes to be Barre on the Tambra. (Ukert, ToL ii. pL L p. 438.) [P. S.] EBURI (EboU), a town of the Lncanians, men- tioned only by Pliny (iii. 11. s. 15), who exprersly ascribee it to that people; thoogh, from its situation N. of the Silams, it would seem to have naturally belonged to Campania, or the PicentinL' The mhis of the ancient town are yinble on a hill called the Monie tFOrOy between the modem dty of EhoU and tbe right bank of the Silams, over which are the ruins of a fine Soman bridge. An inscription found there, with the words " Patr. Mun. Ebur.," i. e. P»- trano MunicipU Eburini, both proves the ruins in question to be those of Eburi, and attests its muni- cipal rank. (Booumelli, voL iiL p. 614; Mommsen, I. R. N, 189.) [E. H. B.] EBUROBBICA (in the Antonine Itin.), EBURO- BRIGA (in the Table), was on a road between Au- tesiodnram {Auxerre) and Augustobona (7Vo^). There is the usual difficulty about the distances, but it is not great. It is agreed that the place is Si. Florentm, on the small river Armancef which flows into the Amumgon, a branch of the Yonne. The termination brica, brigaj or brwa is all one, and always indicates the passage of a river. IVAnville observes that htiweOLSLFloreiUm and AwBtrre the passage of the Strain is at a place called Ponttgnf, in which case we have a Roman name indicating the same fact that the Celtic term " briva " or ** brisa " indicates. [G. L.j EBUROBRITIUM (^Ebora de Akobaaa), a town of Lusitania. (Plin. iv. 21. s. 35 ; Floras, Etp. S. vol. xiv. p. 176.) [P. S.] EBUROMAGUS. [Hkbromaous.] EBURCXNES (*L€d^yfs, Strab. p. 194), a na- tion in that division of Gallia which Caesar names the Bdgae. He says that the Condrusi, Eburones, Caeraesi, and Paemani wera called by the one name of Germani {B, G. ii. 4). When the Usipetes and Tenchtheri, who wera Germans, crossed the Rhine from Germania (b. o. 55), they first fell on the Me- napii, and then advanced into the territories of the Eburmes and Condrusi, who were in some kind of ?>litical dependence on the Treviri. (B. G. iv. 6.) he potttlon of the Eburones was this. On the Rhine the Eburones bordered on the Menapii, who wera north of them, and the chief part of tbe terri- tofy of the Eburones was between the Mosa (^Maa») and the Bkime. (A G. vL 5 ; v. 24.) South of the Ebarones, and between them and the Treviri, were the Segni and Condrusi {B. G, vi. 32) ; and the Condrusi wera in the country of Li^ffe. [Con- drusl] The Ebunmes must have occupied Lif»- burg and a part of the Prussian Rhine province. In B. o. 54, Caesar quartered a legion and a half dnrmg the winter in the oountiy of the Eburones, under the command of his legati, Q. Titurius Sabinus and L. Aunmculeins Cotta. The Eburones, headed by their two kings, Ambiorix and Cativolcus, attacked the Roman camp; and after treacherously inducing the Romans to leave their stronghold on the promise of a ECBATANA. 799 (B. G. ▼. S6 — 37.) In the following year Caesar entered the country of the Eburones, and Ambiorix fied before him. Cativolcus p lisoned himself. The country of the Eburones was difficult for the Romans, being woody and swampy in parts ; and Caesar invited the neighbouring people to come and plunder the Eburones, in order to save his own men, and, also, with the aid of great numbers, to exterminate Use nation. (J?. G. vi. 34). While Caesar was ravaging the country of the Eburones, he left Q. Cicero with a 1^ gion to protect the baggage and stores, at a place called Adnatuca, which he tells us in this passage had been the fatal quarten of Sabinus and Cotta, though he had not mentioned the name of the place before (v. 24). He places Aduatuca about the middle of the territory of the Eburones; and there is good reason for supposing that the place is Tongem. [Aduatica«] Caesar burnt every village and building that he could find in the territory of the Eburones, drove off all the cattle, and his men and beasts consumed all the com that the badness of the autumnal season did not destroy. He left those who hod hid themselves, if there were any, with the hope that they would all die of hunger in the winter. And so it seems to have been, for we hear no more of the Eburones. Their country was soon occupied by another German tribe, the Tungri. The annexed coin is usually assigned to the Ebu- rones; but as the nation was extirpated by Caesar, it could have had no coins. The coin may perhaps belong to the Eburorices, or to Eburodunum. [G. L.] COIN OF THE KBUBOKBS. EBUROVrCES, a Gallic tribe, a branch of the Aulerci. [Aulerci.] They are mentioned by Caesar (B. G. iii. 17) with the Lexovii. Pliny (xv. 18) speaks of the Aulerci, " qui cognominantur Ebu- rovices, et qui CenomanL" Ptolemy (ii 8) makes the AbfMcoi *E€ovpalKol extend from the Ligeris to the Sequana, which is not trae. Their chief place was Mediolanum (^Evreux). Their limits corre s pond to those of the diocese of Evreux^ and they are north of the Canutes. -^ [G. L] E'BUSUS. [PnrraAB.] ECBATANA (t& *Eic«irava : the genuine orthography appeare to be 'AT^irora, as it is now written in Herodotus, and as we learn ftom Steph. B. it was written by Ctesias : 'Awotfiiraya, Isid. Char. p. 6, ed. Hudson : Ecbatana-ae, Hieron. Chron. Evteb.; LueiL Satifr. viL), a celelnated ancient dty of Media. Its foundation was popularly attributed, like those of many other very ancient places, to Semirunis, who is sud to have made a great road to it from Assyria, by Mt. Zarcaeus or Zagros, to have built a palace there, and to have plentifully supplied the district in which it was situated with water, by means of an enormous tunnel or aque- duct (Died. ii. 13.) According to the same author (L c), the city of Semiramis was seated in a place at the distance of twelve stadia from the Orontes (^Mi. Ehoend^f and would therefore correspond pretty nearly with the position of the present Hamaddn. Herodotna tells a diflerent story : according to him, the ^ty was of later origin, and was built by the ocm- ^-^a fn t •!4 /?f^..^>K,;-^^^^. fU, ^<t*,u- • v. ^;,