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A£OLIS. ]fleea|^ (ai Dfcmyt. Per, 461) he follows Strabo's vaXhoAj, and idpntifies it with Stiongyle. For an account of the present state of the Lipari JdandM and their Tokanic phenomena the raider nBT««wilt Smyth's Sicily, chap. Tii. p. 274—278; Fenaza, Costjn FUffrd della SicUia, p. 199—252; Daubeor, On Vokanoes, ch. 14, pp. 245—263, 2nd edit. The historj of the islanda is almost wholly dfpcndeot on that of Lipasa, and will be found in that aztkle. [E. H. B.] AE'OLIS (AloXls, Aeolia), a district on the west eoast of Asia Minor, which is included by Strabo ia the lai^ger division of Mysia. The limits of Afolid are varioosly defined by the ancient geo- eraphexa. Strabo (p. 582) makes the riTer Her- mib and Phocaea the southern limits of Aeolis and the ntirthenx of loma. He observes (p. 586), that " as Homer makes one of Aeolis and Troja, acd the Aeoiians occupied the whole coontry from the Hetmns to the coast in the neighbourhood of Cyzims and founded cities, neither shall I im- pei&rtly maktf my description by putting together that which is nofw properly called Aeolis, which extend:} from the Uermus to Lcctum, and the raontry which extends from Lectum to the Ae- sepos. Aeolis, therefore, properly so called, ex- tenkd as far north as the promontory of Lectum, at the nortbem entrance of the bay of Adramyttinm. The bay of Adiamyttinm is formed by the S. euftst of the mountainous tract in which Ilium ^ood, by the island of Lesbos, and by the coast of AmHs S. of Adramyttium, which runs from that town in a SW. direction. The coast is irrrgular. South of the bay of Adramyttium is a recess, at the Kvtbem point of which are the Hecatonnesi, a nnmeroas group of small islands, and the southern boundazy of which is the projecting point of the »»awilMiM< vhidi lies nearest opposite to the southern ectmnity of Lesbos. The p^iinsula on which the town of Fhocaea stood, separates the gulf of Cume OB the K. firam the bay of Smyrna on the S. The ^Tttlf rfCnme receives the rirers Evenus and CaTcus. The tenritoij of the old Aeolian cities extended TOrth w anl from the Hermus to the CaTcus, com- prising the coast and a tract reaching 10 or 12 xailca inland. Between the bay of Adramyttiiun and the Calcus were the following towns : — Cisthene {Ksm^k^t CkSrSn-koiyf on a promontory, a deserted pbre in Strabo*8 time. There was a port, and a co|^ier mine in the interior, above Cisthene. Fur- ther aonth were Coryphantis (Kopv^arris), Hera- clda('H/NUiA(ia),and Attea ("ArTfa, AjaanuU-koi), C<«yphantis and Heracleia once belonged to the Mytikttaeans. Herodotus (i. 149) describes the txact of oornitiy which these Aeolius possessed, as nperior in fertility to the country occupied by the cities of the Ionian confederation, but inferior in cfimate. He enumerates the following U cities: Come, called Phrioonis; Lerissae, Neon Teichos, Trnmas, Cilia, Notinm, Aegiroessa, Pitane, Ae- gaeae, Myrina, and Grynexa. Smyrna, which was flriginally one of them, and made the nxunber 12, Ml into the bands of the lonians. Herodotus says, that these 11 were all the Aeolian cities on the mainland, except those in the Ida; " for these are •epanted" (i. 151); and in another place (v. 122) Eerodotos calls those people Aeoiians who in- lubfted the Hias, or district of Ilium. [G. L.] AEPELl (Afrcia: Eth, AiVc<£n}f). L One of the fvren Heascnian towns, offered by Agamemnon to Achilles, is sapposed by Strabo td be the same AEQUL 5^ as Thnria, and by Pausanias the same as Coronc. (Horn. //. ix. 152; Strab. p. 360; Pans. iv. 34. § 5.) 2. A town in Cyprus, situated on a mountain, the ruler of which is said to have removed to the plain, upon the advice of Solon, and to have named the new town Soli in honour of the Athenian. There is still a phice, called Epe, upon the mountain above the ruins of Soli. (Plut. SoL 26 ; Steph. B. «. v, ; Engel, KyproSj vol. i. p. 75.) AEPY (ATire: Eth. Khrimii)^ a town in Elis, so called from its lofty situation, is mentioned by Homer, and is probably the same as the Triphylian town Epeium ("Hvctov, "Eiriov, Aivfov), which stood be- tween Macistus and Heraea. Leake places it on the high peaked mountain which lies between the Ullages of Vrind and Smema, about 6 miles in direct distance from Olympia. Boblaye supposes it to occupy tho site of HeUeniata^ the name of some ruins on a hill between Platiana and Barakou. (Hom. II. ii. 592 ; Xen. HeU. iii. 2. § 30; Pol. iv. 77. § 9, iv. 80. § 13 ; Strab. p. 349; Steph. B. s, v.; Stat. Theb, iv. 180; Leake, Moreoj vol. iL p. 206 ; Boblaye, JieckercheSf &c., p. 136.) AEQUI, AEQUI'CULI or AEQUICULA'NI (A7irot and Aticovoi, Strab. ; A^kovo^, Dion. Hal. ; AucovucKoiy Ptol.; AticMXof, Diod.), one of tho most ancient and warlike nations of Italy, who play a conspicuous part in the early history of Bome. They inhabited the mouutainous district around the upper valley of the Anio, and extending from thence to the Lake Fucinus, between the Latins and the Marsi, and adjoining the Hemici on the east, and the Sabines on ^e west. Their territory was subse- quently included in Latlum, in the more extended sense given to that name under the Roman empire (Strab. V. p. 228, 231). There appears no doubt that the Aequiculi or Aequicou are the samo peo|de with the Aequi, though in the usage of later times the former name was restricted to the inhabit- ants of the more central and lofty vallies of tlio Apennines, while those who approadied the borders of the Latin plain, and whose constant wars with the Romans have made them so familiarly known to us, uniformly appear under the name of Aequi. It is probable that their original abode was in the high- land districts, to which we find them again limited at a later period of their history. The Acquicoli arc forcibly described by Viigil as a nation of rude mountaineers, addicted to the chase and to predatory habits, by which they sought to supply the defi- ciencies of their rugged and barren soil (Virg. Aen. vii. 747; Sil. ItaL viii. 371; Ovid, Fast. iii. 93). As the only town he assigns to them is Nersae, the site of which is unknown, there is some uncertainty as to the geographical position of the people of whom he is speaking, but he appears to place them next to the Marsians. Strabo speaks of them in one passage as adjoining the Sabines near Cures, in another as bordering on the Latin Way (v. pp. 231, 237): both of whidi statements are correct, if the name be taken in its Widest signification. The form Abquiculani first appears in Pliny (iii. 12. § 17), who Iiowever uses Aequiculi also as equivalent to it: he appears to restrict the term to the inhabitants of the vallies bordering on the Marsi, and the only to^fus he assigns to them are Carseoli and Clitemia At a later period the name appears to have been almost confined to the population of the upper valley of the SaltOf between Rente and the Lake Fucinus, a district which still retains the name of Cicolano^ evidently a comiption from Acquiculanura. B 3