ELEUTHEROCILICES. ■0^1 to tin " aSiMZK. (Atheo. li S.) It > of Foljr Atninn tnd Lwnpe mnpslleii it to btmk cff fiim Itw oociMBrM?. (PolTt. IT. fia, SS> Dim Cuaiiu (uivL 1} hu ui odd Bitrj about
- kmt of Inltcn iriUiii] who g>Ts up tba atj to
<). Uat^tu CnUau, HBking ■ brvKh thmaKfa ■ -itroog brick tnrar bf maiu ofy'megn. It wuei- IMuig ID Uw tiro* of ffimoclei; lud tba niunber and imaOj af Iti rilrer ccdm atuni it to bavabeen a ^•Mflf gnatconudBation. (Eckhal,Td. Ii.p.311.) llw VwHtiaa M& of tha I6th ontm? mentiDiu tba raouliu of thii atj as baing lo anonncna u to Sbika tha aj* vitb woodor at Ibe portar and ricba «f a pacfila tiuit ooold aSbrd to nar saeh itatalj MtODnnU. ( Unt. CUut. AnHq. rd. iL p. 393.) Mr. Paahk7 (TVwaJi, vcL L p^ 145, 310) dil- Oonrad matign of antiqnitr on tha inminit of a loftj hill D«r a pUce itill called ElUktnm. about fivs Biifea 8. tf tha jcnat comnt of ArkAi&i, which ptaaiiiiM a Mttdild to tha aita. [£. B. J.] ELEUTHEBOCIXICEB. [Ciucu, )>.esi, i.' ELEUTHEROPOLia [Bbthooabbu.] ELEUTBEBU8 CZA.Jfltpoi), > river tt Syria, in tba country of Hamalh ('Afurfrru xapa), accord- log to tba anthor of Ibe booli of Usocalwca (lifdce, m. S9 — 30), a littla to tha loath of which Jooitban mat and dafaated tho arm; of DenHtriiu. Jaae{>hui i^ya, that M. Antauoa gava to Cleopatn all tha ciliea batwaaa Elantbanu and EgTpt ntce[C Tyn and Sidon (Jii<.».4.§l,S.y. i.lS, §5},aaud«iiifficient<^ itialf to disprora iCa ideolitj nitb tba modem KSti- wtfA, ■ Kttla to Ibc north of Tyre, ind craisiderably nnlh of Sidoo, — > tbeoiy not mora anciant than thaChroDiclae of the Cnuadta. (See the refttancoa to Bobiiwoo, Ba. Sf. ni. iii. p. 410, Dota I.) Tba da»kal geogT^)beni all place it ccnaideTablj nortb of this rinr. Thus, Ptdamy makei it tho noitbeni haaoiurj it Phoenida, and placea Ortbotia (Tor- <<wa) and Shnjia (Amra) lODth of it (i. IB). SIrabo alio tDSntioDi it in cttuwctim with Ortboeia, and uariy opposite to tba ncky island Aiadns (ivL PP.IOTI, I0T3). PHny places it botw(Bi Orthona aod Bimyra (t. 30). Manndrdl was tba firat to indi- cate tba Nakr^KMr (" tba great riTar '), north of Trip]li,ai Iba modem repraaratatiTe of the ElaDtbanii (TrnHb, pp. S4, 36); and be is followad by Pococka (toL iL p. 30i, Ac), and Bnrckhardt (%w, p. 1 SI ), and other lata' tfanOlfra. Maninirell frond Naiir-
- l~KMr to be ni tnilaa ncrth of Tripoli, and the
DorthenutHBt and moat ecoaderahle of thne atroiina tbat wUer the rary fruSlAil {dfiin of Jonia. Be noticed also to the north of this, only a quarter cf an bou aonth of Tortoaa, "a riter, or rather a cbumalof aTircrilbrit wMnowalmoatdiy; tboagb qoartioiilfas bwe mint bare been andently no in- doudarablt Mream; as we might infer both from Ae largaona o( the channel, and the fiagmanti of ■ itDae-biidga ftrmerlj laid over it " (p. 19)- Thii EUHGA. ail isaboat half an hour north rf the point on the Boait opponte to wluch Suad, the ancient Andua, 1« sitoated, and thenfbn aocorda with Stiabo Utter than Nalir-tl-K^lr, which ia too far sonth; as MaandreU also binuelf inlim«t« (p. IB). [0. W.l ELGOVAE. [Sblootak.] ELGU8 (lAim : Eth. '£*.■)«(, "EhTiuit), a dty of Lycla, mentioned by Xantbns in hu Lycuos. (Staii. B.<.r.) See MMneka's note oiIStmL rG.L.1 ELIBYEGE. [Illibbbis.] ELtU (_AlXtln), the aacond alalion of tha IsraaU it«a attor thur paaaaga of tba Bed Bca, not to Marab {Exod. it. 37), where were " twelve nils of water, and three >cta:a and ten palm-tnaa." Thii ilatiim ia nov comnMnly aasignad la Waify Glm- nmM, Iwo and a batf boora distant from Ait Bauirah, asanmad in Chia hypothesis to ba Harab. There are founluna in this v^ey; and a fan snuU palm-tnes sre scattered throogh it (Botaniai, BA. Ra. vol. i, pp. 99, 100.) To obriata the diffi- cnlty suggajted by the long interval of aght boon between Wady OAw-wvJel and the moath of Wadf- tl-Taipbth, the next station of the laraelitce. Dr. BolBnson laggeals IFm^ Psail as tho Elim of Eio- dns (p. lOS). Bat, on tha wlude, he indinu to the Gret-nMntiooed theny, originated by I^ehahr (^De- fcrv>.da r^t mftis, p. 348), and adopted l^Bnrekhardt (Ssriti, p. 473). Dr. Wilson fiis Elim at Wadg WattU, the UkU cf Dr. Bobinsco — for which be gitaa the fuUawing reasons (Landt ef tha BOlIt, ToLi.p. 174):— "Hen we finnd a couidaraUe nnmber of pajm-lrees, and tderabla water. . . , Ai thia Wady, with these raqniutas, ia CKsctly IntatiDe- diate between the snppoeed Manh,and tba aJCoatlai cf Iba Lraeliles near the Red Sea, ... ve did net heaitaU to come to the concluaim that it is ths Elim of tha Scriptorea. Tor, at tba sooth of tlw peninania, ia qnile ont of tha qnestiaa. [G. W.l ELIMAEI. [ELnrau.] ELIHBERRUM. [Cukbirius.1 ELIMEIA C^XJfMia, Strab. TiL p. 338; Bteph. B.) or ELIMIOTIS ("EX^uwri., Airian, Atiab. L 7. § S), a district to the SW. of Uacedania, border- ing DpDD Eordiea and Plana, while it extended to the W. as tar a> tha range of Pindoa. It was watered by the Haliacmon, and may ba defined aa compnhendinf: the modem diitticts at GreBtmA, Vaija, and Tjenanbi. It was occnpisd in early times by (he Elimaa or Elimiots ('EAi^uw-oi, PtoL iiL 1 3. 1 3 1; Strab. U. p. 434; Staph. B.), bat iftar- warda fell into tha bands of the Hscedonisn {niocta, (Thne. ii. 99.) ThoogL a moimtaiaoai and barm tract, Elimda mnst have been an important acqnisi. ti(o to the kings of Uacadonla, fram its aitiutioa with r^srd to Tbaeaaly and Epinii, as there ware eereral paseagee lading directly into tboae pwincea fhnn tbia division of tha kingdom. In the war which tba LacediamonianB waged igainit Oljndiiu, Derdai was ptince of this country. (Xen. Bdl. v. I. Q 38.) It was finally inclnded by the Rooiana in the fomih diviMon of Uacodmia. (Liv. xlv. 30.) There wi» a town called Elhnda CEAlfitia, Stepb. B.; 'Uivu^ Ptol. iiL 13. % 31), where Perseoa, in the aaoood year of the war, B.C. 170, renewed bis fircea. (Lir. iliiL 31.) Tha lita of this town ia pobahly pnr CrweiKi, on tha liver Grmaitiki. (Leake, NorA- em Greew, vul. iii. pp. 30S, 384, 339.) [E.B. J.l ELUQA C'HAjyTfl), a town of Hi^ia BietiM, mentiDned only t^ PolybJna (u. 18). Ukert place* it in the ooghboaihood of Baecala (toL iL pC 1. p, STB). [P-a]
