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 ELATH. •ad AQ anoiMst bmen Btatne of Athena. He aim HMDtioos a temple of Athena Craiiaea, sitoated at tiM dktanoe of 20 stadia from Elateia: the road to it was a very gentle ascent^ bat the temple stood QpoD a steep hUl of small size. Elateia is represented by the modem village of h^ftoy vhere are some Helleiiio remains, and where thi ancient name was fbond in an inscription extant in the time of Meletius. Some remains of the temple of Athena Gnmaea have also been discovered in the situation described by Paosanias. (Gell, ilMMT. p. 217; Dodwell, voL iL p. 141; Leake, JVbrfikem Gre&x, vol. ii. p. 83.) y S. A town in Pelasgbtis in Thessaly, described by Livy, along with G«mus, as situated in the pass jftfl i^iing to Tempo. (** Utraqne oppida in bacibos nnt, quae Tempo adennt: magis Gonnns," Liv. zliL 64.) The walls of Ehiteia are seen on the height cf Mahnkk&ri, on the right bank of the Peneins, in the middle of the KUtUra, or ragged gorge throagh srhioh the river makes its way from the plain into the vall^ of DtreH or Gonnos, and thence to Tempo. (Leake, Northern Greece^ voL iii. p. 381, vol. iv. ^ 298.) Elateia is called Uetia by Pliny (iv. 8. s. 16X and Iletiom by Ptolemy (lA^ioy, iii. 13. § 42), It is mmtiff"^ by Stephanos B. under its right name. 3. Or Elatria (^^XarptOf Strab. viii. p. 324; Steph. B. I. V. *£Airtta), a town of the Gassopaei in Thesprotia, in Epenrua, menUooed by Strabo, along with Batiae and Pandosia, as sitoated m the interior. Its ezaot site is uncertain. It is said to have been a colony of Elis. (Strab. I c. ; Dem. ds Haiann, 32 ; Harpocr., Steph. B. «.v.; Liv. uziv. 25 ; Leake, AbreAem Grteoe^ voL Iv. p. 74, seq.) ELATH, the Scriptnxal name of Ablaka, under which an aeooont of the town is given. It is there stated that " the site is now occupied by a fortress odled AkabOf*' &c Dr. Robinson, however, and other travellera regard Ahaba as the representative of Edon-Geber, and find the site of Ekth on the eea-shoiv, a litde to the north of Ahaba, ** At this point extensive mounds of rubbish, which mark the site of Aihih, the Ehth of Scripture, were on our right They present nothing of interest, except as indicating that a very ancient city has here utterly perished. We did not learn that they have now a (Ba.i2a.voLi. p. 241.) [G.W.] ELATRIA. [Elatkia, Na 3.] ELAVER. [LioBRis.] ELBO (*Ee«i, Steph B. t,v,: Eth, 'EXS^i), .__ among the numerous islands which studded the Deltaie marshes between the Phatnitic and Tanitic arms of the Mile. It was in this isknd that, ao- cording to Herodotus (ii. 140), the blind king Anysis took refuge during the occupation of his realm by Sabaoo, the Aethiopian ; and thither also Amyrtaeus fled from the Persians in b. c 456 — 50 (Thuc. L 110)u From the former historian it would appear that the area of Elbe had been raised by some artificial means above the level of the surrounding waters. [W. B. D.] ELCE'BUS,arH£LCEBUS. [Helyetus.] ELDIBfAEI or ELIMAEL [Elymaki.] ^ "ELEALEH ('£A.«iXi?), a town of the Beubenites, Btuated, according to Eusebius, in Gilead, and one mila distant from Heshbon, the capital of Sihon, king of the Amorites. It was m his time a very large village (k^m^ M<7^<^^t Onotfuut. # . v.). It 18 always mentiflBed in connection with Heshbon. (iViMii&.xxziL3,37; /<.xv.4,zvL9; /srem. zlviii. ^'^ mo/'^^^-'in .1 A^ 34.) It was first identified in modem timea bj Seetsen, in a ruined site named El-Al^ half an hoar north-east of Hetbdn^ the old Heshbon. It was also visited by Burckhardt, who writes it ^^j4al^and thus describes it {TraoeUj p. 365): ** It stands upon the summit of a hill, and takes its name from its sitaa- tion, — Aal meaning * the high.' It commands the whole phun, and the view ftSm the top of the hill la very extensive El Aai was surrounded by a well-built wall, of which some parts yet remain. Among the ruins are a number of large cisterns, frsgments of walls, and the foundations of houses; but nothing worth particular notice." [G. W.] ELECTRA CHA^wrpo, Pt(d. ill 17. § 4), a river on the S. coast of Crete, which Kieperf s map iden- tifies with the MalogniH, the most important river in the island, flowing in a direction pandkl with tiia coast from E. to W. H5ck (Kreki, vol i. p. 398) considers it to be the same as the small stream Go- Hgni, further to the W. [E.B. J.] ELECTRA (HA^icrpa), a small river in Messenia, a tributary of the Pamlsus, which was crossed in going froin Andania to Cyparissia. (Paus. tv. 33. § 6; Leake, Morea, vol. i. p. 482.) ELEGEIA ('EA^fio, Steph. B.). 1. (FUJeh), a city of the Greater Armenia, which Ptolemy (v. 13) pUu»s in long. 799 20^ snd lat 42^ 45', nesr the sources of the Euphrates. Trajan, in his Armenian eampaign, advanced upon this town, where he grsnted Parthamasiris an interview. (Dion Cass. Ixvili. 18.) In A. D. 162 Volc^geses 111., Idng of Parthia, invaded Armenia, and cut to pieces a Roman legion, with its commander Severianus, at El^a. (Dion Cass. IxzL 2.) rifjeh is remarkable fn- two warm springs (whence its name), of the temperature of 100^ Fahrenheit, and is situated on a limestone rode 3779 feet above the sea, not far from Er^-Ruin,, (Joum. Geog, Soc vol. x. pp. 359, 434 ; comp. Toumefort, Voyage^ vol. ii. p. 114; Ousely, TrawiBj vol. iii. p. 471 ; Ritter, Erdhmdt^ vol x. pp. 100^ 116,737,829.) 2. A town of the Lesser Armenia, on the right bank of the Euphrates, at the first or prindpsl curve which takes place before the river enters Mount Taums (''apod Elegiam occurrit ei Mona Tauros," PUn. v. 20). Elegia is represented by tha modem I't (/ghiuf and it is there that the En* phrates — after issuing from the mountains of Keb- bdnMa'denj and having turned to the W. round the remarkable peninsula of ^Abdn-l- TToAA^fft, terminated by the rocks otMwuhdr (D'Anville's pass of NtuhOr) — receives the Tokhmah'Suj and then takes an easterly bend to pass the rocky mountains of Bhd§li Khdnli and Beg Tdgh, {Jown, Geog. Soc. vol x. p. 331 ; Ritter, Erdhmde^ voL x. pp. 100, 1 16, 737, 829, 858.) [E. B. J.] ELEIA CEMyta, PtoL v. 18. § 12; Eleia, Sext Rnf. c. 27; Hileia, Amm. Marc, xviii. 10), a village to the westward of Singara, and probably within the limits of the province now celled the Smjir, It is only memorable to having been the scene of a night oonJBict between the Romans under Constantlos and the Persians, in which each army claimed the victory. There is a slight difierence between the aeooont of Ammianos and Rofos, the former mentioning two battles, one at Eleia and the other at Singara; and the Utter, only one. The battle is alluded to by Julian (jOraL 1. in Constsnt.) and by EutronuB (X. 10). [V.^ ELEIL [Eus.1 EXEON (*EfJr, Heleon, Plm.), a town hi