A Dialogue Concerning Oratory Or The Causes Of Corrupt Eloquence Part 14

ANTONA, now the _Avon_. See Camden.

AORSI, a people inhabiting near the Palus Maeotis; now the eastern part of Tartary, between the _Neiper_ and the _Don_.

APAMEA, a city of Phrygia, near the banks of the Maeander; now _Aphiom-Kara-Hisar_.

APENNINUS, now the _Apennine_, a ridge of mountains running through the middle of Italy, extremely high, yet short of the _Alps_. Its name is Celtic, signifying a high mountain.

APHRODISIUM, a town of _Caria_ in Thrace, on the Euxine.

APOLLONIDIA, a city of Lydia.

APULIA, a territory of Italy, along the gulf of Venice; now _Capitanate, Otranto_, &c.

AQUILEIA, a large city of the Veneti, and formerly a Roman colony, near the river _Natiso_, which runs into the gulf of Venice.

AQUINUM, a town of the Ancient Latins; now _Aquino_, but almost in ruins.

AQUITANIA, a division of Ancient Gaul, bounded by the _Garumna_ (now _Garonne_), by the Pyrenees, and the ocean.

ARABIA, an extensive country of Asia, reaching from Egypt to Chaldea.

It is divided into three parts, _Arabia Petraea_, _Deserta_, and _Felix_.

ARAR, or ARARIS, a river of Gaul; now the _Saone_.

ARAXES, a river of Mesopotamia, which runs from north to south, and falls into the Euphrates.

ARBELA, a city of a.s.syria, famous for the battle between Alexander and Darius.

ARCADIA, an inland district in the heart of Peloponnesus; mountainous, and only fit for pasture; therefore celebrated by bucolic or pastoral poets.

ARDEN, _Arduenna_, in Tacitus; the forest of Arden.

ARENAc.u.m, an ancient town in the island of Batavia; now _Arnheim_, in Guelderland.

ARICIA, a town of Latium in Italy, at the foot of Mons Alba.n.u.s, about a hundred and sixty stadia from Rome. The grove, called _Aricinum Nemus_, was in the vicinity.

ARII, a people of Asia.

ARIMINUM, a town of Umbria, at the mouth of the river Ariminus, on the gulf of Venice.

ARMENIA, a kingdom of Asia, having Albania and Iberia to the north, and Mount Taurus and Mesopotamia to the south: divided into the GREATER, which extends astward to the Caspian Sea; and the LESSER, to the west of the GREATER, and separated from it by the Euphrates; now called _Turcomania_.

ARNUS, a river of Tuscany, which visits Florence in its course, and falls into the sea near Pisa.

ARSANIAS, a river of the GREATER ARMENIA, running between Tigranocerta and Artaxata, and falling into the Euphrates.

ARTAXATA, the capital of Armenia, situate on the river Araxes.

ARVERNI, a people of Ancient Gaul, inhabiting near the Loire; their chief city _Arvernum_ now _Clermont_, the capital of _Auvergne_.

ASCALON, an ancient city of the Philistines, situate on the Mediterranean; now _Scalona_.

ASCIBURGIUM, a citadel on the Rhine, where the Romans stationed a camp and a garrison.

ATESTE, a town in the territory of Venice, situate to the south of Patavium.

ATRIA, a town of the Veneti, on the river Tartarus, between the Padus and the Athesis, now the _Adige_.

AUGUSTA TAURINORUM, a town of the Taurini, at the foot of the Alps; now _Turin_, the capital of _Piedmont_.

AUGUSTODUNUM, the capital of the aedui; now _Autun_, in the duchy of Burgundy. It took its name from Augustus Caesar.

AURIA, an ancient town of Spain; now _Orense_, in Galicia.

AUZEA, a strong castle in Mauritania.

AVENTIc.u.m, the capital of the Helvetii; by the Germans called _Wiflisburg_, by the French _Avenches_.

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BACTRIANI, a people inhabiting a part of Asia, to the south of the river _Oxus_, which rains from east to west into the Caspian Sea.

BAIae, a village of Campania, between the promontory of Misenum and Puteoli (now _Pozzuolo_), nine miles to the west of Naples.

BALEARES, a cl.u.s.ter of islands in the Mediterranean, of which _Majorca_ and _Minorca_ are the chief.

BASTARNI, a people of Germany, who led a wandering life in the vast regions between the Vistula and the Pontic sea.

BATAVIA, an island formed by two branches of the Rhine and the German sea. See Annals, book ii. s. 6; and Manners of the Germans, s. 29.

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BATAVODURUM, a town in the island of Batavia; now, as some of the commentators say, _Wyk-te-Duurstede_.

BEBRYAc.u.m, or BEDRYAc.u.m, a village situate between Verona and Cremona; famous for two successive defeats; that of Otho, and soon after that of Vitellius.

BELGIC GAUL, the country between the Seine and the Marne to the west, the Rhine to the east, and the German sea to the north.

BERYTUS, now _Barut_, in Phnicia.

BETASII, the people inhabiting the country now called _Brabant_.

BITHYNIA, a proconsular province of Asia Minor, bounded on the north by the Euxine and the Propontic, adjoining to Troas, over-against Thrace; now _Becsangial_.

BTICA, one of the provinces into which Augustus Caesar divided the Farther Spain.

BOII, a people of Celtic Gaul, in the country now called Bourbonnois.

There was also a nation of the same name in Germany. See Manners of the Germans, s. 28.