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eai ■EUBATtTK. / nutf ba mamctled b; impiinii^ tlut preriouttf'it had been iohmlnwd 1^ th* Pswoiui no. Enutbia wu, aftet lb* Roroui c«ni{nHt, iaclndcd in the tiuni regioD of Macedonia, utd cmMiDcd tfae following dtiea: — BiEtoKA, CrripM, Abgae, EoiasA, Ctbrhus, Auiofia, EimoPDa, Ata- t,AIiTA, GoRTiKiA, and Idokkhs. (Leako, JVorfA- en Gntct, ™l. iiL pp. 442—147.) [B. B. J.] EM'BATUM (Ti '£;<«««), * plan in the t«r- ritoij of EiTthnta, mentioned bj Theopampu in Cb> eijbtb book of fai» HiUatica (Staph. B. : o.) It appeals fron TbucTdidae (itL 29) that it was «  tbUaet.- [G.L.] EMBO'LIUA (^KMKiiia, Aniui, it. SSi PtcJ. Til. 1. g S7i Ecbolioia, Cart. viiL 13. % I), a bnm ■PFarentl; in Bsctriana, thon^h conadend bj Pto- lemj to bn within the arbitnij diviuoo of nncisnt India which ha calli " India inCia Gangem.' It WM, according to bim, near tb« rirar Tndoa. It vn* virited bj Alexander the Great after the rock Aomoi, near which it stood. It must therefore have been aa the west bank of the Indni, perhaps at llie modern Amhar, or Amb. The urntiTe of Curtiai caoDOt be reconciled wiib ite position, nor indeed with anj other place in this part of lbs country, as he plaoee Embolima at liilcen marcha from the Indoe. It waa made bj Alexander % magazine for the tjoope of which Cratema wu left in charge. (Wilson, -lri«<..M91.) [V.] EME'RLTA AUGUSTA. [Acoubta EuERriA.] V* KUESA or EMlSSACEfiurvn: Eth. 'E^xnirol}. a citj of Sjrii, reckon^ by I'WIemy to that part iif the diatrict of Apameiw, on the right cr enaiem bank of the Oioiit« (t. IS. § 19). to which Pliny awigna a deeert diatrict beyond Palmyra (v. S6). It ia chieily celetnated in aiKient timdi for ila mag- nifioent temple of ibe Sun ; and the appointment of iti jning priest Bunauoa, otherwiaa called Elagi bains or Uelingataloa, to the imperial dignitj, 1 hie fourteenth year, by the lioman legionaries of Syru(A.D. 218; Dkt. e/Bi)gr..t.v. Elagabalua). It wu in Ilie nughbourhood of Emesa that Zenobta, ijMen of Palmyra, wai delealal b7 the emperor Anrrltan, A.D. 37a. (Vopic Aurd. 2S.) It wu arfginallj governed by independent chiefs, at whom the names of Sampeiceremiu and Umblichn preserwd. (Strab. iri. p. 753.) It waa mi cohny with tin Jus Itahcom by Csracalia (Ulp<«n, ■ap. Dig. Sa tit IS. a. 1), and aflerwards became lbs capital of Phoenicia Ubaneaia. (HierocL; MalaL xiL p.S9G, edBonn.) There are etill extant cdns of CaraeailK and ElBgabaloa, in which it ia called a colony and metrepolia. On the crans of CaraoUla it U called «1^>ny, and on thrae of Ehigsbslni a metrepolia, 1 which dignity it wu do doubt elevated by the latter -emptror. The luinmted can of Caiacaila represents ' if the Snn. (Sckhel, vid. Eiuutrs. . p. 3tl.) The jteaent naiiia «f Enien' k ««. [G.W.1 EUIHS COufilr, 'Eu/uun), the rary auaent in- ibitanta of Mcab, a gigantic race, ai their name importe, diaposeeesod by the children of Lot [Hoaa] {DtitL iL 10, 11), baring been then Utdy wesk- eoed, u would appear, by lbs defeat they had ex- peiienced in the valley li Kiriathaim from Cbedn-' ' 'infth «(xiv.5). [0.» EMHA'US CE/<fuu>^> 1. A nlla mentioned by St. Lnke (iiiv. 13), distant hxIii fnrlonga &am JemMlem. Thia ia doubticae idflo- bcal with the Xttfar 'Afifioo^ cf Jooephna, whiek be says ik*'X" v-iiv 'lepMoA^^ui' araSlan {(*- na-rn, m which Vespasian eatablisbed a cdoi7 of 800 vetaani. (& J. ni. 6. g 6.) A tnliliM, criginsting apparently in the 1 4th centnTy, wbii^ has fixed its ate at the village of Ei^KktbeiUi, bu no value whatever, and the distance doss dM coininde (RutHnson, S. & vol iii. pp. 65, 66). A more ancient and ennaiatent badition^ which ttiU prevails among the Greeks, identifies it with tbi Tillage of Kmv/at-ti-AauJi, popularly oJM Aiik Gooih, on the road between Jemaalsm and Jab, about 1] hour frcm the former city. The antb(» ticily of this tradition is cooQnned by the exiilaic* at the present day of a native village, on the nal between Jecusulem and Kurifot-ei-Aiuii, nuacd Colonia or Kuioaia^ obviooaly deriving its Bsnie Cnsa the military colony esiabliahed in the district of Ammaos by Vnpatoan. It is still cdebialad Sot its waters, u it wu in the time al Julian, *bii attempted to atop Ibe fountain m acconnt d the miraculous virtues imputed to it. (TheCflianBa, dted by Beland, Palae4t. p. 7S9.) It ia often cat- ' inded with the fbllovnng, u it is, UKteed, by founded), still retaining its andent ni unchanged, being now called Ammtmt. times it wu designated Nicopolis, in e< tion, as is suggested, of the deatnicliim of (Willibaid. ap. Belaud, p. 760.) It is frequeuly meotiooedin the book of Mactaben, and byJoeephus (cited in Reland, pp, 428, 129, ;S8, 759), and B joined with Lydda and Thamna. The Itinennan Hierosolymitanani places it 93 Roman miles fim Jarnaalem: and St. Jerome aocniatciy sUtis ill poaitioo, " ubi ina[aHnt mmtana Judseae ccnur- ffun" (_C»imtaU. in Dmid. til); but both he and Enaebins erroneously identify tliis d^ wilb >!■■ viilage menlioDed by St Luke. {Epita^ Pmbit, and da Ledi StAraiau, ai voc 'Eftfiaoii.) Pliny <T. U) aeema to make the same mistakf^ wboi b* writes of it as a toparchy — " Fontibua inignani Emmsum, Lyddam, Joffkam,' — a charaderiilie certainly more descriptive of the village tJ St. Lika than of the dty Nicopolis, whose uts ia still malted by a vilLige hiring the earns name, and tmoa of sDcient ruins, on the right hsnd, or north, rf U* rtad from Jerusalem to Jaffa, in the ii "' vidmlyofZa(rMii,theCsslellun ' "■ the Cniaades. 8. CAfitmnii.) The name gi™ by Joiejii" j (JiW. iviiL 2. g 3, B. J. iv. 1. §/f) to the medi-tf/ ciniU hot-springa of Tibeilu, and wfaidi be iilB- / prets tA mean " warm bstha," probably idoilifpf tbe name irith the Hdirew Hammath; which •H' (Jiua Dr. Bobinaoa (o tegard the aocieul lo*a ' n booi I^tmnii i'