A Dialogue Concerning Oratory Or The Causes Of Corrupt Eloquence Part 13

GEOGRAPHICAL TABLE:

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INDEX OF THE NAMES OF PLACES, RIVERS, &c. MENTIONED IN THESE VOLUMES.

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ACHAIA, often taken for part of Peloponnesus, but in Tacitus generally for all Greece.

ACTIUM, a promontory of Epirus, now called the _Cape of Tigolo_, famous for the victory of Augustus over M. Antony.

ADDUA, a river rising in the country of the _Grisons_, and in its course separating Milan from the territory of the Venetians, till it falls into the Po, about six miles to the west of Cremona. It is now called the _Adda_.

ADIABENE, a district of a.s.syria, so called from the river Adiaba; _Adiabeni_, the people.

ADRANA, now the _Eder_; a river that flows near _Waldeck_, in the landgravate of _Hesse_, and discharges itself into the _Weser_.

ADRIATIC, now the gulf of Venice.

ADRUMETUM, a Phnician colony in Africa, about seventeen miles from Leptis Minor.

aeDUI, a people of Ancient Gaul, near what is now called _Autun_, in Lower Burgundy.

aeGEae, a maritime town of Cilicia; now _Aias Kala_.

aeGEAN SEA, a part of the Mediterranean which lies between Greece and Asia Minor; now the _Archipelago_.

aeGIUM, a city of Greece, in the Peloponnesus; now the _Morea_.

aeNUS, a river rising in the country of the _Grisons_, and running thence into the Danube.

aeQUI, a people of Ancient Latium.

AFRICA generally means in Tacitus that part which was made a proconsular province, of which Carthage was the capital; now the territory of _Tunis_.

AGRIPPINENSIS COLONIA, so called from Agrippina, the daughter of Germanicus, mother of Nero, and afterwards wife of the emperor Claudius. This place is now called _Cologne_, situate on the Rhine.

ALBA, a town of Latium, in Italy, the residence of the Alban kings; destroyed by Tullus Hostilius.

ALBANIA, a country of Asia, bounded on the west by Iberia, on the east by the Caspian Sea, on the south by Armenia, and on the north by Mount Caucasus.

ALBINGANUM; now _Albinga_, to the west of the territory of Genoa, at the mouth of the river _Cente_.

ALBIS, now the _Elbe_; a river that rises in the confines of _Silesia_, and, after a wide circuit, falls into the German sea below _Hamburgh_.

ALBIUM INTEMELIUM; now _Vintimiglia_, south-west of the territory of Genoa, with a port on the Mediterranean, between _Monaco_ and _S.

Remo_.

ALESIA, a town in Celtic Gaul, situate on a hill. It was besieged by Julius Caesar. See his Commentaries, lib. vii. s. 77.

ALEXANDRIA, a princ.i.p.al city of Egypt, built by Alexander the Great, on the Mediterranean; famous for the library begun by Ptolemy Philadelphus, and consisting at last of seven hundred thousand volumes, till in Caesar's expedition it was destroyed by fire.

ALISO, a fort built by Drusus, the father of Germanicus, in the part of Germany now called Westphalia, near the city of _Paderborn_.

ALLIA, river of Italy, running into the Tiber, about forty miles from Rome; famous for the slaughter of the Romans by the Gauls, under Brennus.

ALLOBROGES, a people of Narbon Gaul, situate between the Rhoda.n.u.s and the Lacus Lema.n.u.s.

ALPS, a range of high mountains separating Italy from Gaul and Germany. They are distinguished into different parts, under several names: such as the _Maritime Alps_, near Genoa; the _Cottian Alps_, separating Dauphine from Piedmont; the _Graian Alps_, beginning from Mount Cenis, where the _Cottian_ terminate, and extending to Great St.

Bernard; the _Pennine Alps_, extending from west to east to the _Rhetian Alps_, the _Alpes Noricae_, and the _Pannonian Alps_, as far as the springs of the _Kulpe_. Their height in some places is almost incredible. They are called _Alps_, from _Alpen_, a Celtic term for high mountains.

ALTINUM, a town in the territory of Venice, on the Adriatic; now in ruins, except a tower, still retaining the name of _Altino_.

AMa.n.u.s, a mountain of Syria, separating it from Cilicia; now called _Montagna Neros_ by the inhabitants; that is, the watery mountain, abounding in springs and rivulets.

AMATHUS, a maritime town of Cyprus, consecrated to Venus, with an ancient temple of Adonis and Venus: it is now called _Limisso_.

AMAZONIA, a country near the river Thermodon, in Pontus.

AMISIA, now the _Ems_; a river of Germany that falls into the German sea, near Embden.

AMORGOS, an island in the Egean sea, now Amorgo.

AMYDIS, a town near the gulf of that name, on the coast of Latium in Italy.

ANAGNIA, a town of ancient Latium, now _Anagni_, thirty-six miles to the east of Rome.

ANCONA, a port town in Italy, situate on the gulf of Venice.

ANDECAVI, now _Anjou_.

ANEMURIUM, a promontory of Cilicia, with a maritime town of the same name near it. See Pomponius Mela.

ANGRIVARIANS, a German people, situate on the west side of the Weser, near _Osnaburg_ and _Minden_.

ANSIBARII, a people of Germany.

ANTIOCH, or ANTIOCHIA, the capital of Syria, called _Epidaphne_, to distinguish it from other cities of the name of Antioch. It is now called _Antakia_.

ANTIPOLIS, now _Antibes_, on the coast of Provence, about three leagues to the west of _Nice_.

ANTIUM, a city of the ancient Volsci, situate on the Tuscan Sea; the birth-place of Nero. Two Fortunes were wors.h.i.+pped there, which Suetonius calls _Fortunae Antiates_, and Martial, _Sorores Antii_.

Horace's Ode to Fortune is well known--

_O Diva gratum quae regis Antium._

The place is now called _Capo d'Anzo_.