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 «so EOBDAICUS. remark of Polybins (op. Strah. vii. p. dS3), tbat the Cuidavuui way passed through Uie country of the Eordaei in prooeeding fixnn that of the Ljn- cestae to Edessa, and fnm the description of the inarch of Perseos from Citiom in Lower Macedonia thitmgh Eordaea into Etimeia, and to the Haliacmon (Liv. xliu 53), we obtain a knowledge of the exact sitnation of this cUstrict It appears to hare extended along the W. side of Mount Bermius, comprehending (/iirovo and Ka- trdnitza to the N., SarighioH in the middle, and to the S. the pUuns of DjumA Budja and Karm&mi, as far as the ridges near Kdzemi and the KlUmra of SioHttOf which seem to be the nataral boundaries of the province. The only Eordaean town noticed in history is Phtsca (*64rKa, ♦Mr«eas, PtoL iil 13. § 36) or Phtbcus (*^K0Sf Steph. B.), of which Thncydides (ii. 99) remarks that near it there still lemained some of the descendants of the Eordaei, who had been expelled from all other parts of their ttriginal settlements by the Teminidae. Bnt there is some reason to add to Uiis name those of Bb- OOBBA and Gauidbab as Eordaean towns. The central and otherwise advantageous position of the former of these pUuxs, leads to the conjecture that it may have been the city Eordaea (Hierocl.) of later times. As Lycophron (1342, 1444) cooples Galadrae with the land of the Eordaei, and as Sfcephanns («. 9.) attributes that town to Pieria, it might best be sought for at the S. extremity of Eoitlaea towards the Hallacmon and the frontiers of Pieria, its territory having oonsiiited chiefly, per- haps, of the plains of Budjd and Djmnd. If Ga- ladrae was in the S. part of the province, Begorra in the middle, Physca was probably to the N. about JTaApdiutea, towards the mountains of the Bermian range, a position which was most likely to have preserved the ancient race. Ptolemy (iii. 13. § 36) cksses three towns under the Eordaei of Maoedonia; but, as Scampa is one of them, he has evidently confounded the Eordaei with the Eordeti of lUyria. (Leake, Northern Greece, vol. HI p. 316.) [E. B. J.] £ORDAlGUS('£op8aZ»ebs irordMx^r,Arrian,i4fMi6. i. 5. § 5), a river of Upper Macedonia, which has been identified with the Devol, — the principal, or at leaet the longest, branch of the Apeus. This river •originates in a lake in the district of Preepa called Ventroky and makes its way through the remarkable pass of Tzangdn, which forms the only break in the great central ivnge of Pindns, from its S. commence- ment in the mountains of Aetolia to where it is blended to the N. with the summits of Haemus and Bhodope. From thence it flows to the NW. and enters a lai^ UJce at the extremity of the plain of Poyoni, and, on emerging, winds through a suc- cession of narrow valleys among the great range of mountains which border on the W. of Korytzd, till it finally joins the BeratinSt or ancient Apsus. (Leake, Northern Greece, vol. L p^ 334, vol. ilL p. 281.) [E. B. J.] ECBDETI CE^Jp^rroi, Ptol. in. 13. § 26), an Illyrian people S. of the Parthini, whose territory oontamed three towns, Scainpa, Deboma, and Daulia. (Comp. Tafel, de Viae EgnxU. parte Occid. p. 28; Pouqueville, vol. i. p. 382.) [E. B. J.J EPAMANDUODURUM, or EPAMANTADU- BUM. This toY^n is placed by the Antonioe Itin. on a rtiad from Vesontio {Besangon) to Larga (Larffitzen). From Vesontio to Velatodurum the Itin. makes 22, and from Velatodurum to Epaman- duoduruin 12. In another pUice the distance is EPEIACUM. given 81, and Velatodurum b omitted. The TMi makes it 13 to Lopoeagio^ and thence 18 to Epo- manduo, as it b written. Epamandnodurum is Mandem^ A mDestans that was dug up at Mandeure, with the name of Trajan upon it, bora the inscriptkn '^ Vesont. M. P. xzxxnz," from which we must infer Uuit ths nnmbere in the Itins. denote Gallic leagi Mcmdeure is in the airondiasenieDi of MomAe- Uetrd, in the department of Dtmbt, in a pleasant valley. The Doube flowed through the town, wUeh was, of coarse, on both sides of the river; and the two parts win united by three bridges, of wUch the traces are said to remain, and also of the ftrii which protested them. The positian of the phee with respect to the frontier of the Bhone made it sa important post. The excavations that w«re mads at Afamdeure in the sixteenth and seventeenth cm- turies brought to light a great number ef Boman remains, consisting of medab, pottery, gold, aihw, and bronze ornaments, statues, fragments of oohmmi, cinerary urns, and various utenub. The remahis of an aqueduct and bad pipes were disoofvend, ef three temples, of baths, and of a theatre cut m ths rock. The Roman road to Benm^on may also W traced. It b called in the neighbooihood the Chanutfe de C^eatr, which proves nothing aa to its antiquity, for Gaesar's name b used by tradilifln like that of other great oooqueron. Howwer, Gaesar's march from Vesontio to fight Arioviatna was up the valby of the Dwbe, and probaUy enoi^ he went near Epamandnodurum. In the canton of Mon&tUard there " are some vestiges of a Roman camp;" and, according to SchSpflin, aa anthoriiy for the antiquities of Alsace and the neighbouring puts, it was in the plain about Montb6Uard that Gaesar defeated the German Ariovbtus, B.a 58; bat thb b impossible, if Gaesar's text b rightly read. Epamandnodurum b a town unknown to histoiy, and yet it appears to have been a conaidcnUe pla<v. The name leads to the conclusion that it waa an old Gallic town, and on a river, as the terminatioa of the name shows, and the position of the modem site. (^Gmde du Foyo^eur, &c. par Richard et 'K, Hocquart.) [O. L.] EPANTE'BII, a Ligurian tribe, mentioned only by Livy (xxi'iii. 46), from whose expressions Uiey would appear to have been a mountain tribe, sHnatcd in the Maritime Alps above the IngannL Tbej were at war with the latter peqpb when Maga arrived in Liguria, B. o. 205. [E. H. B.] EPEIAGUM, in Britain, mentioned by Ptobmy aa one of the cities of the Brigantes — JBtaovium (Bin- Chester), Caiurhactamum ICatteriek Brid^), Gala- tum, Isurium {Aldborough), Rhigodunmn OJieana (/£fc/y), and Eboracum (York) being the othen, arranged as above, and apparently in tb^ order from north to south. In the *' Monumenta Britannica * Epeiacum is identified with Hexham; by Madauchlia {Survey of Watiing Street), with LtmcheOer. Each of these views b objectioDable. iTesAoai lies (see Axellodukum) too far north to bdong to the Brigantes, whilst Xoa^oricum b a better equirBlent to Z^a-chester. Indeed so few have denied tbat this btter form represents the modem Z^mdnster, that Epeiacmtn and Lonffovicum have been eonsi. dered Sbnply as synonymes for the samepbee-* one in Ptolemy, the other in the Notitia. CH>jee(ing to thb, bying considerable stress on the name, and raising exceptions to the identification of Vmdoasoia with J?6chester, the present writer bdievee tha^