A Dialogue Concerning Oratory Or The Causes Of Corrupt Eloquence Part 17

ERITHRae, a maritime town of Ionia, in Asia Minor.

ETRURIA, a district of Italy, extending from the boundary of Liguria to the Tiber; now _Tuscany_.

EUBA, an island near the coast of _Attica_; now _Negropont_.

EUPHRATES, a river of Asia, universally allowed to take its rise in Armenia Major. It divides into two branches, one running through Babylon, and the other through Seleucia. It bounds Mesopotamia on the west.

EUXINE, or PONTUS EUXINUS; now the Black Sea.

F.

FERENTINUM, a town of Latium, in Italy; now _Ferentino_, in the Campania of Rome.

FERENTUM, a town of Etruria; now _Ferenti_.

FERONIA, a town in Etruria.

FIDENae, a small town in the territory of the Sabines, about six miles to the north of Rome. The place where the ruins of Fidenae are seen, is now called _Castello Giubileo_.

FLAMMINIAN WAY, made by Flamminius A.U.C. 533, from Rome to _Ariminum_, a town of Umbria, or Romana, at the mouth of the river Ariminus, on the gulf of Venice. It is now called _Rimini_.

FLEVUS, a branch of the Rhine, that emptied itself into the lakes which have been long since absorbed by the _Zuyderzee_. A castle, called _Flevum Castellum_, was built there by Drusus, the father of Germanicus.

FORMIae, a maritime town of Italy, to the south-east of _Cajeta_. The ruins of the place are still visible.

FOROJULIUM. See FORUM JULIUM.

FORUM ALLIENI, now _Ferrare_, on the Po.

FORUM JULIUM, a Roman colony in Gaul, founded by Julius Caesar, and completed by Augustus, with a harbour at the mouth of the river _Argens_, capable of receiving a large fleet. The ruins of two moles at the entrance of the harbour are still to be seen. See Life of Agricola, s. 4. note a. The place is now called _Frejus_.

FRISII, the ancient inhabitants of _Friesland_. See Manners of the Germans.

FUNDANI MONTES, now _Fondi_, a city of Naples, on the confines of the Pope's dominions.

G.

GABII, a town of Latium, between Rome and Preneste. A particular manner of tucking up the gown, adopted by the Roman consuls when they declared war or attended a sacrifice, was called _Cinctus Gabinus_.

The place now extinct.

GaeTULI, a people of Africa, bordering on Mauritania.

GALATIA, or GALLOGRaeCIA, a country of Asia Minor, lying between _Cappadocia, Pontus_, and _Pophlagonia_; now called _Chiangare_.

GALILaeA, the northern part of Canaan, or Palestine, bounded on the north by _Phnicia_, on the south by _Samaria_, on the east by the _Jordan_, and on the west by the _Mediterranean_.

GALLIA, the country of ancient Gaul, now _France_. It was divided by the Romans into _Gallia Cisalpina_, viz. Gaul on the Italian side of the Alps, with the _Rubicon_ for its boundary to the south. It was also called _Gallia Togata_, from the use made by the inhabitants of the Roman _Toga_. It was likewise called _Gallia Transpadana_, or _Cispadana_, with respect to Rome. The second great division of Gaul was _Gallia Transalpina_, or _Ulterior_, being, with respect to Rome, on the other side of the Alps. It was also called _Gallia Comata_, from the people wearing their hair long, which the Romans wore short.

The southern part was GALLIA NARBONENSIS, _Narbon Gaul_, called likewise _Braccata_, from the use of _braccae_, or breeches, which were no part of the Roman dress; now _Languedoc_, _Dauphiny_, and _Provence_. For the other divisions of Gaul on this side of the Alps, into the _Gallia Belgica, Celtica, Aquitanica_, further subdivided by Augustus, see the Manners of the Germans, s. 1. note a.

GARAMANTES, a people in the interior part of Africa, extending over a vast tract of country at present little known.

GARIZIM, a mountain of Samaria, famous for a temple built on it by permission of Alexander the Great.

GELDUBA, not far from Novesium (now _Nuys_, in the electorate of Cologne) on the west side of the Rhine.

GEMONIae, a place at Rome, into which were thrown the bodies of malefactors.

GERMANIA, Ancient Germany, bounded on the east by the Vistula (the _Weissel_), on the north by the Ocean, on the west by the Rhine, and on the south by the Danube. A great part of Gaul, along the west side of the Rhine, was also called Germany by Augustus Caesar, _Germania Cisrhenana_, and by him distinguished into _Upper_ and _Lower Germany_.

GOTHONES, a people of ancient Germany, who inhabited part of Poland, and bordered on the Vistula.

GRAIAN ALPS, Graiae Alpes, supposed to be so called from the Greeks who settled there. See ALPS.

GRINNES, a town of the Batavi, on the right side of the Vahalis (now the _Waal_), in the territory of Utrecht.

GUGERNI, a people originally from Germany, inhabiting part of the duchy of Cleves and Gueldre, between the Rhine and the Meuse.

GYARUS, one of the islands called the _Cyclades_, rendered famous by being allotted for the banishment of Roman citizens. Juvenal says, _Aude aliquid brevibus Gyaris, et carcere dignum, si vis esse aliquis._

H.

HaeMUS, MOUNT, a ridge of mountains running from Illyric.u.m towards the Euxine sea; now _Mont Argentaro_.

HaeMONADENSIANS, a people bordering on Cilicia.

HALICARNa.s.sUS, the capital of Caria, in Asia Minor, famous for being the birth-place of Herodotus and Dionysius, commonly called _Dionysius Halicarna.s.sensis_.

HELVETII, a people in the neighbourhood of the Allobroges, situate on the south-west side of the Rhine, and separated from Gaul by the Rhoda.n.u.s and Lacus Lema.n.u.s.

HENIOCHIANS, a people dwelling near the Euxine Sea.

HERCULANEUM, a town of Campania, near Mount Vesuvius, swallowed up by an earthquake. Several antiquities have been lately dug out of the ruins.

HERCYNIAN FOREST: in the time of Julius Caesar, the breadth could not be traversed in less than nine days; and after travelling lengthways for sixty days, no man reached the extremity. Caesar, De Bell. Gal.

lib. vi. s. 29.

HERMUNDURI, a people of Germany, in part of what is now called Upper Saxony, bounded on the north by the river _Sala_, on the east by the _Elbe_, and on the south by the _Danube_.

HIERO-CaeSAREA, a city in Lydia, famous for a temple to the Persian Diana, supposed to have been built by Cyrus.

HISPALIS, a town of Btica in the Farther Spain; now _Seville_ in _Andalusia_.

HISPANIA, Spain, otherwise called _Iberia_, from the river _Iberus_.

It has the sea on every side except that next to _Gaul_, from which it is separated by the _Pyrenees_. During the time of the republic, the whole country was divided into two provinces, _Ulterior_ and _Citerior_, the _Farther_ and _Hither_ Spain. Augustus divided the Farther Spain into two provinces; _Btica_, and _Lusitania_. The Hither Spain he called _Tarraconensis_, and then Spain was formed into three provinces; _Btica_, under the management of the senate; and the other two reserved for officers appointed by the prince.

HOSTILIA, a village on the Po: now _Ostiglia_, in the neighbourhood of Cremona.