IPIPHANEIA. PKntioDid bj Pbdemr in Uia 001111117 of ^' Nunti, b Bbagma (Try>u(), tha pmaie fbnn of Runuh Id Uk LXX H< ujs tlut ths tribe and pnviiica at Haiah, and the town Sainili, tn atill finuid in Ihii put of the Arabina peiujiaiiU. [G. W.] EPIFQANEU ('Erup'ii'tmi fO. "Eiti^wxiii), ■ dty of ^ri», pl»™d bj Ptoleniy in 69° 3B', 3CP 26', In tba dirtrict ctf Cioiotia, in wbidi i]m> Antioch and Ltmm irera litiuiud. Th« Itinervj or AnUy mntu plEcca it 16 aiiks baa >■"■—, S3 from Emcn (Antlmsi Ijiag half Kaj bMwwm it u ' httar), ind K 101 from Anliocli of Sjiilk I ■itiulad <Hi tha mttern banli: of the Omitas, lower dom IIm Hnam tfa*n Emeai (i. e. to the ncalli), ■nd St tuppOMd to be identical with the indent B*DWtb (a 5i»>. riU. S; I lOiigi. tiii. 65 ; /(. i. 9), adhd Hk " Hanuth the Great " (Aiaot, ri. 2). St. Joone atates that both Antiooh and Epiphtneia mnGameiJ; named Hamatb, and mentiona that the flnt lUtial] DO the md to Me«tpatamia (qy. fi Aiitkicb)wu in bis dajnainadEDimaa, probably tlic nradnn Stmt ■• Emeea. Entabios ( OnoniatL tldf) doea not think it to be Ejuphaneia £men; bat St Jennie, in tha aame place, miinl tb«jr idenlitj, and aa^s that Epiphineia waa itill called P""" b7 the native bytiani. (Comp. Ononatt. 1. v. Asmath.) Aqaila also nndered IflU, T^c tMi^tiar TTit ivplat. (Theodont Q/uett. 2S •■ 3 Kmg.y, and Theodorel, in cammoa with St Jeconw, manlioni both Epipbineui and EmMk aa Hamath, and wjt that the fbnner wai itUl K called. (Ca«Mil. id Jenin. ilvi. and iv.) Bduid, bDW«*er(PaZii«rt. pp. 119,120, 317), doubts tbe idntitf, and is dispoaed to place the Hamath of Scripton fnithn eonth, and naanr to tha mnfines if the land of Israel, aa indeed NombL liii. 31 and ether faasagas abore referred to seem to require. Thia, bowercr, woold not dlsptm the araeition that Ei^phanaia was fismerl} called Hamath, the procf of which reeta on indepuDdent ground, and ii greatly ctnflnnad bj thi fact of its retaining that name •nMog the Bativca in St- Jerome') time, as indeed tt data to thia da> being still called Hamah, whicb is (becribed bf Iiiij and Uanglea as " deligbtfiill; aitaatad in a hollow, between and 00 the aides of two hiUs, near the west bank of the Orontce, bat in it- self pneenta ncAhing worthj of notice at thia daj." (TVwedf, p. 344.) [G. W.] EPIPHANEIA ('BwifoHh : EA. ■Ewifanh), a eitf of Cilicia, whicb, Phnj aajs (t. 37), was <vlgi- nailf called Oeniandoa : be plaota it in tha intsrior of Cilida. Cicuo, in his deecription of bia Ciiidan which was one day's joonie; Cn. Pompdna (Apj^, Miikrid. c 96) settled WHua pirUea here atler be hail bnken np the rob- ben, and fJso at Adana and Uallus. The Table places EpiphaneiB 30 U. P. out of Aiuuarbns [AxAZABiius], and tha same '<'«'anr« baa Alex- EPOREDIA. 8M andria'ad Lntun. If Ptoimj'a flgnra an tigfat (t. S), we maj collect Uiat be enpposed Epiphwneia to be near the place which he oiUs (be Amaoicaa Pylaa. It is mentioned by Ammianua (ixiL 11), bnt he givei no informilioD aa to ita poaitioiL 3. Stephanus (i. c.) mentions an Epipbantia in Bithynia. [0. L.] EPIRU3 [EpEiBna.] EPlTAXnJM (^RuniXio/: Elh. TirfroAjntj), a town of Triphjlia in Elia, ncu the ccest and a little einitfa of the livsr Alpbeine. It was identified with the Homeric Thb.yok (SpAu') or THRTOKsaA {»puitiraa), ■ town in the dominions of Nestor, which the poet deacrtbea u a pbice apon a loftj hiB near the lord of the rim Aipbeioa (Horn. IL ii. 593, zi. 710, n^ma. n ApoB. 433; Smb. nil p. 349.) Efttalinm was an important military poet, becaosa it commanded the ford of Che Aipheitu and the road Itading along the oust. Ijke the other depeodent townsbipa of Tripbylia, it niolted from Elia when Agia, the Spartan king, inTadsd the country in B. o. 401 ; and when Agis retnmed home, after raraging Elis, he left a gairismi in E{ntallnm. (Xen. HdL iii. gg 35, 39.) Tbe town was taken by Philip in the Social War, B.C. 318. (Polyb. it. 80; Sloph. ■friluoi-.) It 1 tba height of Agt^lUa. (Leake, Marea, vd it p. 198, seq.; BobUye, Stchanha, &c p. 133; Coitins, Pclopotmesoi, vol. IL p. 88.) EFOISSUM, in North Gallia, is placed by tba Antonine Itin. on the road fnm Dnromrto ni m (Aefnu) to TreveriCivilae (Trier), It ia 83 Gallic leagues frcm Dnrooorlorum to Vungns Ykvs ( Koiio), and 33 more to Epnianm (/pbci' or IvoU), now commonly called CarigntBk Iptiei ii the Geiman naiDe, which couks from Evo^iun or iToainm, the name need in the middle ages. In the Notitia Imp. the (dace is called Epnsom, and waa a station for tioopa. [0. L.] EPOMEUS UONS. [Aehasu.] E'PORA (JfiHitoro), a city of Hispaoia Baetica, cm the Baetis, 38 K. P. out of Corduba, on the road toCastnlo. </tm. JnL p. 403 ; Ciro, .^nt fiup. iii c 33; Inicr. ap. Gmter, p. 105, No. 3; Ukeit,Tol. ii.pt l,p.379.) [P.S.] EPOEE'DLA ('EToptlla : ftreo), an important town of Cisalpine Qanl, sittisted at the fixit of the Alps, on the river Dnria, just at the entcance of tba great valley cf the Salaiai, now called tba 7al ifAoila. It waa a Boman colony, finmded, as we learn frun Velleins, as early a* B.C. 100 for the pnrpoee of keeping the Salassi in check, and pro- tecting the pUms from their incursions; but it waa not till that people had been finally eabdned nnder Angustns that it waa able to liaa to prosperity. (Veil. Pat i. 15; Strab. iv. p. 205.) Neither PUnj nor Ptolemy gives it the title of a colony, bat it cer< tainly wa* a pUoe d wealth and importance, and ia mentioned by Tadtua among the moat camsiderabta provimnal towna of the ngion north of the Padna (" flTTni^wirrf Tf^iyaHatiya i^ifltna muucipa," TaQ. iruf.l70). Plii^Ullana that it was founded accord- ing to the directions of the Sibylline booka, and that ita name was derived from a Ganliah word signifring "a timer of hones." Vellnna is certainly in error m placing it among the Vagienni ; Ptolemy correctly asaigna it to the Salaui. (PlicL iii. 17. s, 31; PtoL iii. 1. § 34.) We learn from the Itinarariee Ibat it waa d^tant 33 miles fnim Veitellae. {Itin. Aitt. pp. 34S, 347.) The strength of ita pailioa at tha entranc« of the VoJ dAotIa, commanding two of
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