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ARAGUS. ftat its inihaliitaiits quitted Afseibjna, and fbanded Hiliofl, at tilt dJatance of 30 stadia fitni the fonner town. Ha»e the atatement of the grammarians, that AmeChjTea and Anmtia were both ancient names ef Phihia. (Steph. B. t. w. ^Ktovs, 'Apw* tm; ScfaoL td ApoH jRhod, I llo.) Boas sap- poses the rams on Mi. Pdjifen^ to be thoee of Araatbjraa. L»ke had ernneonslj supposed them to be the rains of Phlios. CBoss, ReUen im Pdo' pitme$j Tol. i. p. 27, seq.; Leake, Morta, voL iii. p. 339f seq.) [PHU17S.J A'SAGUS, ARAGON, ABKHABON CApovos, 'A ya -yi y , 'Ai^^oCmt: Aragm^ or Aralc)^ a river of Iberia, in Asia, flowing liom the Gancasus into the Crrus. It is the onlj tribntaiy of the Cyrus in Iberia, which Stnho mentions by name. (Stiab. aa. p. 500, when the MSS. have 'Aparfwa, 'A^ Y^^a, and ^A^^oSm^o.) The same river is evidentlj meant a little further on, vhere Stxabo, in describing the four mountain passes into Iberia, says that that on the N. from the country of the Nomades is a difficult ascent of three <ky5* joomey (along the TertH); after which the road pesBsa through the defile of the river Angus, a joazney of foor days, the pass being closed at ijie lower cfkd by an impregnable walL This is the great centzal pass of the Caucasus, the Caucasiae, or Sar- matkae Fylae, noir the Pau ofJ>ariel [Caucasus.] Bat Stiabo adds, as the test stands, that another «f the {our Iberian passes, namely, the one leading from Armenia^ Uy upon the rivers Cyrus and jLiagns, near which, before their confluence, stood fist^ed cities built on rocks, at a distance of 16 stadia from eadi other, namely, Harmoziea on the Cyras, and Senmara on the other river. Through this pass Pompey and Canidius entered Iberia (pp. 590, 501). According to this statement, we must sedL the pass near Misketij K. of TiJUs; but it is soppoaed, by Groskuid and ethers, that the name Angus in this last passage b an error (whether of Stnho himadf, or of the copyists), and that the pass xefened to is very much further westward, oD the great high road finom Eraeroum, through Karty to the N., and that the river wrongly called Angos is the small stream falling into the Cyrus near AHaUsik, where the ruined castles of Borum Ziche (or ArmaUiche) and Tiumar are thought to preserve the names, as well as sitss, of Strabo's HarwMtfSra aod SeuuianL (Relnegg, Beschreib. d. Came. vul. IL p. 89 ; Klaproth, Voyage ttu Cauc, ruL L pw 518.) The river spoken of is supposed to be the Pelocns of Dion Casaus (xxxvii. 2). [P. S.] ARAINUS ('AfNflyof ), a small pkce in Laconia, ■1 the we s tern side of the Laoonian gulf, containing the avmnment of Las, who founded a town calleid Lb after him. BoUaye places Arainus at Agherc^- mm (Pkns» iii 24. § 10 ; Bobkye EeckercheSj &c. p 8d; oomp. Leake, Peloponnesiaca, p. 173.) A&AMAEL [Stria.] ARAXDIS CApiuriis, PtoLiL 5. §6; Aranrn, iLAnL p. 426, Geogr. Rav, iv. 43; Aiandltani, Piia.iT. 22. s. 35: prob. Ourique)^ a stipendiary tinra of the Celtici, in Lusitania, on the high road frn the month of the Anas to Ebon, 60 M. P. BKth of OssoDoha. Some take it lor the modern AhnmUt. [P. S.] ARANGAS {6 *ApdyKas H 'Apdr/as opos), a monitfajn of Inner Libya, placed by Pt Jemy imme- diately X. of the Equator, in 47^^ long., and 1° 35' X. lat, in a port of Central Africa, now entirely u^mywn. (PtoL iv. 6. § 12.) [P. S.] ARAUSrO. 187 AIIA'NTIA, ARANTI'NUS MONS. [Araj> THYIIEA.] ARAPHEN. [Attica.] ARAB, or ATIARIS CApap/Apapis: Saone), a river of Gallia, which rises in the high land, con- nected with the Votges (Vosegns), which lies between E'pinal and PlombiertM^ in the modern department of Vosges. The Soom has a general south course past Chalons mw Sadncy to its junction with the Rhone at Lugdunum {Lyon), Its length is estimated at about 300 miles. The current in the middle and lower part is very slow. (Caes. • ' W , ■i*.<iLui B. G. i. 12.) It is joined on the left bank at Verdim r,. ^ i< ^ tL SMT SaonSf by the Dubis or Aldiiasdubis {Doubt), C 'a*.*-^^*'^^* Strabo (p 186) makes both the Anr and the Dubis n > 6/^ rise in the Alps, but he does not mean the High *rf"^'^*'^» Alps, as appears from his description, for he makes '«' ^«5/ the Seine rise in the same mountains as the Sadne. Vibius Sequester (Arar Germaniae) makes the Arar rise in the Vosges, In Caesars time, the Anr from Zyofi, at least to the confluence of the IknAsy was the boundary between the Sequani on the east, and the Aedui on the west; and the right to the river tolls (jStayuyucik tcAi}, Strab. p. 192) was disputed between them. The navigation of the Sadne was connected with that of the Seine by a portage, and this was one line of commercial communication between Britain and the valley of the Rhone. (Strab. p. 189.) It was a design of L. Yetus, who commanded in Gennania in the time of Nero, to unite the Arar and the Mosella (Mosd)^ by a canal (Tacit Aim, xiii. 53); and thus to effect a com- munication between the Rhone and the Rhine, The larger rivers of France retain their Gallic names. The Sa6nis is an exception, but its true Gallic name appeara to be Saucona. (Amm. Marc. XV. 11.) [G.L.] ARARAT. [Armenia.] ARARUS {*Apap6s: perhaps the Aluta)^ a river of European Scythia (aft. in Dacia), flowing froir the N. into the Ister. (Herod, iv. 48.) [P. S.] ARATISPI, a town of Hispania Baetica, nea. Cauche el viejo, 5 leagues from Malaga, (Inscr. ap, Florez, xii. p. 296.) [P. S.] ARAUBIS {'Apavpios: Herault), The name 'Pavpapis in Stnbo (p 182) is a false tnnscript for ^Apaipis, Stnbo describes the river as flowing from the C^vennes (Kififitifoy), Mela also (ii. 5) makes it flow from the Cdvcnnes, which he calls Gcbennae, and enter the sea near Agatha, Agde. The river is therefore the Hdnult which gives its name to the department of Herault Vibius Se- quester (ed. Oberlin) speaks of a river Cyrta, which enters the sea near Agatha. This must be the H^nult; and the name Cyrta may be Greek, and have been given by the Massaliots, the Greek colo- nizers of Agatha. There was a town Anun, also called Cesero, on this river, which is ideritifled with a place called S. Tiberi. [G. L.] ARAUSIO (^Apavfrlw, Orange), a town in the territory of the Cavares or Cavari (Stnb. p. 185), north of Arelate (Arks), on the road from Arelate to Vienna (Ftenne), and near the east bank of the Rhone, on a stream which flows into the Rhone. Onnge is in the department of Vaucluse. It ap- pears from Mela (ii. 6), who calls it " Secunda- norum Anusio," to have been made a Roman colony, and Pliny (iiu 4), who has the same expression, calls it a colonia. The name Secundani denotes some soldiers or cohorts of the Secunda legio, which