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EDETA. iMcbiiig wu tb« enua </ tlu mn of tUj wbod. The prafnora vn* aipelled bj Vutjrm, Biiliop of EdoM, wid tht adnol itaalf polled itwn bj ardar «( ZcDO th« BoDMQ Mnperor, A. D. 489, and ■ cburch dadiemted to St UtiJ wu bnilt on ita roini. ^Samtm Bath AnuMVu ap. Anm. i. p. 3S3 ; ChroD. Sden. i. p. «»5 Thaodor. H. £. iL 558. 586.) M expnliioB of tha prahaaon wu doablteaa one enief e*nH of tfaa iminediate and inbaeqaenl ipread of the Nntoriui bene]'. There was, betidu the Sdiola Peniaa, at IcMt oM other scbool fcc nueral- laoaooe pnpils uid ItamiDg. St. Ejipbaiiiaa tbowa that the S}riac tangnage wu in hia di; mtieh ■todiod bj the Eoniani (Biteru. 66), and it is muiiibt that Eden> wu fa jmoj ^ean the pnn- (dpal Mat of Orimtil lauiuog. C^-} KMTA Of LWRIA CHSflia i md A'tpio, PtoLiL 6. §63), Che cbisf dtj of the EpETAHl,Diie nameof which is atill rttiind bj tha town of i^ynu, when thfn an roiiB and inacriptiocia. (Laborda, /iM. A £>p<irH '°i- i- p- ass.) [P. S.] EDITA'Nl ('HSiiTimi, Ptd. H. 6. § 15; FUp. iii. 3. ^ 4) or SEDSLTA'NI (Lit. iut. 20, ncrui, S4; Sil. ItaL iii. 371, tbU-i Zhrri»I. Stnb. iii. p. 16S), a people oT Hiipanu TuTBOnieiiiii, R. of the CeiCiberi, Butetani, and OoategCaoL Their coooti?, EDBXAHiArCom prised the diitriet Ijiog betwfen the hvn Ibenu (£6ro) md Sucio (/HCar),u>d bonoded Igr the momitaiiM of Celtiberia on the W. (Con- Ovning the occopatkm of parts of their tsritoiy b; tb» llarcaooea and the SoaneCani, aee the articles.) It oonaapondad to the N. pan of fafana, and the 8. part of AregoiL. It waa tnnancd bj leranl rirn nmning from MW. to SE^ the chief of which wu the Tdria (,Tina or GuadaliBnar), and in ito ME. part were tame tribntariea ai the Ibenu. Tba Edetani pcsseeaed aome Terj calebraUd ciliea. Id the (otreme NW., en the Ibenu, was Cabsib- AUOUSTA (Zaragoio) ; and in the SE. ware Saodit- TtiM (Mtrdedro), (m the Fallantia (Paloncw), the modeni cajHtal Vai-ektia ( yaiaicia), on the Toria, and Sccto (^CuUtrat), on the river of the ume Dune, tbdt last atf on thia ude. Tbeaa three citiea b^ apoo the high road from Tanaco to Carthago Hon, the other cities npco which wen u follows, Vtg^iig fnm Dertoea, on the left bank of llie Ibenu : IirnBiu, 37 U. P. (/(»■ Atl- P- 399 : ptvli. S. Malto) : lujuii, 34 U. P. (/Ui. ib. : pvb. Villa dt Cabanti): Sefeiaci (/(in. p. 400: inb. Barriata, near VOia Riot); tJagnnUun 33 kP.,Valentia 16U.P.,3ncro30U.P. BeCwMn tUa n^ and the cout were: Ibkka, on the right bwk of the ibenu, hv ihi month; Erovigu (Lit. ziiSai 'Hrittfim, PtoL: prob. 0TOpaa).m the eoatt, SE, of Sepelad; and, in the neigfabaiiihoad of Safnntum, Stcabo mentions Chsbbohisiib, Oleai- TBDX, and Cariauas (Strab. iii. p. 159). The other principal pUcea were: EdeTA, the cajilal; HoBoacA (Lit. uiL SO, when the reading isdoabt- lol); TtruiA (LIt. xuiii. 44 : pob. To^or m tha EDREL 807 OumManary ; SidOBSioA (LtgOTit, ata. anil coins ap. Vaillant, ^tin. Iwip. toL i. pp. 64, llfl; Florei, fi^p. 5. toLt. p. SI,Tol.TiiLp.97, Jfaide Etp. ml. iL pp. 573, 650 ; Hiomiet, toI. i. p. SO, S^. TOLL p. lOa; ^wi. GoA.; Eckhel, voL i, p. 5G); then an also Bomsn inacriptiooa at BaU, E. of A'e^Dpk; OseiOEU>ACOirffwtf>3a, Ptol.: Etk. Oseigerdensea, Plin. iii. 3. a. 4 ; coins ap. Flons, Med.d» Etp.To i. p. 53S,ToL iii.p. 109; Uionnet, Tol. i. p. 47, Sitppi. ToL L p. 95 ; Saatini, p. 177: pmb. Owero near Zorojoeo) ; LwHriCA (Afoi'lKn, Pltn.PloL ILce.; prob. Alcaahia Aragon); Dama- KU (Aa^iwlo, Plot.: £<A. IXunuiiUni, Plin-JLc), 3. of Caessraagnata ; BeUA, a mnnicipioin (Bj- Aiia,PioL:£l4.Be]itani, PliikLc: (cob. SeloUM; Sestinl, ifed. Itp. p. IDS): these foor piscea bid the dvitu Banana and belonged to the coDTentoi of Caeaaraugnsta. (Ukert, roL iL pi. 1. pp. 413, fidl) [P. S.] EDOMITAE. [Idubae*.] EIXyNES CHluvT, Stt«h. 1. p. 470, n. p. 6ST) or EDCKNI CT!3»™, Steph. B., PUn. iv. 11), a Tbnidan people, whim name wu oflsn usad b; the Onek and Latin poets to eiprms the wb^e of the nation of which thej fimnsd a part (Aeeoh. Per*. 493; Soph. Aii/.g5S; Eotip. ^ec. 1153; Or. Jfst li. 69, Truliv. 1.42: Proper! i. 3. S; Hot. Corm. ii. 7. 27.) It appean fion ThncjdidH (iL 99) that this Thracian clan once held posHnion of tba right bank of the Strrmcm, as &r a* HTgdonia, bnt wen driven from this bj the Temenjd pnncas of Hacedonia. Afterwards thej an fbond oocB py iag, on the left bank of Che SliTmon, the district olM Ximiru CK>«('i PtoL >U. 13. § 31), which ex- tended from Lake Cercinitis as far £. aa the rinr NeMoa, between ths spurs of Ut. Orbelos, and tha Pieitt to the S. (Comp. Herod, t. 11, rii. 110,114; 103, 109.) Edonis wu inclnded in tha fiincipa] towns of this importaiit district : Aupri- POLU, with its hsibonr Elon; UTBCDtcs; Pba- asBs; Oestha; Qabobub; Dome^us; Pmum; DkahvbcuB; Mbapoub; AcoariHiiA; TBAaii.<TH; PinOAMUB. A U^ coin of Gels, king of the Edoni, has beea jnblLtbed ij Hr. Hillingen, the charaeten on which agree with the time when the Edoui pieBeased D»- bescDB and tiia Nine Wbjb, and had Ih^nfia* ths power of workuig some of the mines. It hu been snppoied that Che ooms of the Oresdi, with the t}^, a saCyr canrinc off a nymph, belong to Edonii at its Tidnit;. The Satjn wen tba Satraa, and refir to the worship of DionTSns in the moiuitiuns Psn- gaenm and Oibelns. (Uend. <ii. 1 1 1 V Apol1od«ns (iii. 5) hu handed down some tmUbons showing tbe connection between the kings of the Edoni, aod the legends abont Dionjins snd the hUm. (Leaka, A'oHAemGresM.TDLtii. p. 313.) [E.B. J.] ELHTNIS. [AjiTAHDBm.] EDBEI ('Etpil, LXX. ; 'A Vad, Enseb.), a town of the half tribe of Msnaaaeh, bejond Jordan, menCioDed with Ashtamth (JotL xiii. 31) as a dtj of the king- dom of (^ in BaahaiL Ensalnns placee it SO mihs fromBosia. (Oiunaft j.e.'Asi^.) TheArsbiau geognpbers mentiaii a Tillage imder the name of Ei&ra in the Eaaran, which hu been identiOad mth Edn, bj Dr. Botriuon. (BiZi. Ra. nd. iii. Append, p. ISS.) BorckhardC hsd snifnaedit tn ba npmeuted bj EA-Doed, a Tillage between Daai aiid MetoMlb, to the east (4 tha Ba^ road, betwiaa 3r 4