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Albonica, a town of the Edetani, Tarra-

conens., E. of Lutia.

Albucella (Arbucala), a town of tlie Vac-c£ei, Tarracon., bet. Pontia and Amallo-briga. Villa Fasila. Albula, I. the old Latin name of the Tiber II. a town of Mauritania Csesar., bet. At Rubras and Ad Dracones, S.e. of Siga. Albulates fl., a r. of Picenum, falling hit

the Adriatic N. of Cupra. Vibrala. Album prom., I. a pr. of Palestine, marking the s. termination of Phoenicia, abov Alexandroscense. II. littus of Marma rica. Albunea nemus et fons, a grove and foun

tain of Latium, near Tibur. Alburnus m., a ridge of m. in Lucania bet. Tanager fl. and Calor fl. Alburno , Monte di Postiy/ione.

Albus portus, I. a port of Arabia, i. q Jamnia. II. of Bsetica, w. of Calpe Alyesiras. Alcathoe, an appellation of Megara Nissea

from Alcathous, s. of Pelops. Alce, a town of the Carpetani.Tarraconens..

near the Anas, w.s.w. of Munda. Alces, a r. of Bithynia. Alcimedox campus, a plain of Arcadia, 4 m.

w. from Mantinea. Alcimunnis (Alcimoenis), a town of Ger-mania Magna, on Alcis fl., at its junction with the Danube.

Alcimus prom., the w. extremity of Muny

chium prom, at Athens. The burial-place

of Themistocles.

Alcis fl., a r. of Germania Magna, falling

into the Danube at Alcimunnis. Alcomen^e, a town of Pelagonia Deuriopis, in Macedonia, on Erigonus fl., below Brya-nium.

Alconis opp. et ins. Vide Alonis. Alcyonia palus, a pool of Argolis, near Lerna, of depth reputed unfathomable, through which Bacchus descended in search of Semele. Alcyonium mare, the Corinthiacus »in., bet.

Boeotia, Megaris, and Corinthia. Alea, I. a town of Arcadia, 2J m. w. from Tegea. II. of Thessaly. III. of the Vet-tones, Lusitania, s. of Lacipea. Ai.ebus fl., a r. of Tarraconensis, falling into Illicitanus sin. bet. Acra Leuce s. and Artemisium prom. N. Aleisuim (Alesiseum), a town of Pisatis, Elis, bet. Olympia and Elis, on Aleisius fl., near Amphidoli. Noted for a great monthly fair. Aleisius fl., a r. of Pisatis, falling into

Alpheus fl. S.s.jb. of Salmone. Axeius campus, the district of Cilicia Cam-

pestris, bet. Sarus and Pyramus fl. The death-place of Bellerophon. Alele, a city of Libya, on Ger fl. Held. Aleos fl., a r. of Ionia, falling into Ery-thrseus sin. at Erythra. Its water pro­moted the growth of hair. Alemanni, a people of Germania Magna, at first bet. the Rhine, the Danube, and the Msenus ; afterwards extending to the Alps. The descendants of a tribe of them, settled by Theodoric in Venetia, x. of Verona, still retain almost entirely the language and manners of their ancestors. Al£ria, I. a town of the Biturges Cubi, Aquitania II., on Audria fl., bet. Argan. tomagus (21) and Avaricum (40). St. Vincent d'Ardentes. II. prius Alalia, of Corsica, at the mouth of Rhotanus fl. A Phocsean settlement. A colonia. Ale-ria.

Alesia (Alexia), capital of the Mandubii, Lugdunensis I., X.e. of Aballo, tradition­ally built by Hercules. Memorable for its siege by Csesar. Alise ,• Sainte Reine, on Mt. Auxois. Alesi.e, a town of Laconia, on Eurotas fl.,

above Amycte.

Alesium m., a m. of Arcadia, at Mantinea. Aletium, a town of the Salentini, in Japy-gia, bet. Uxentum (12) and Neretum (10), N.w. of Japygium prom. A municipium. Santa Maria delta Lizza. Aletum, a maritime town of the Curiosolites, Lugdunensis III., w. of Ingena. On Cape Guich Alet, near St. Malo. Aleus, a village of Cos ins. Alex fl., a r. of Bruttium, separating the Regini from the Locrenses, and falling into the sea at Peripolium. Alexandra m., a summit of Ida m., over­looking Antandros. The immediate scene of the Judgment of Paris (Alexandras). Alexandri, I. Ar.e, altars placed by Pto­lemy in Sarmatia, under Ripheei m., and fabulously attributed by him to Alexander the Great. II. Columns, columns erect­ed in honour of Alexander, in Sarmatia A., under Hippici m., E. III. Diversa-Rium, a caravanserai near Leontecephale, in Phrygia. IV. ins., Persia, i. q. Aracia. .lexandria, I. (Alexandriopolis), the later capital of Arachosia, on Arachotus fl.f near Gundava. It. Ariana, of Aria, on Arius fl., N. of Artasana. Pulki. \\l.priw Racotis (the No of Scripture), a town of Egypt, on the coast, s.w. of Canopus (12). Rebuilt by Dinocrates, at the command of Alexander, 332 B.c. Skanderitc, Alex­andria. IV. of Drangiana, on Etyman-drus fl., above its month. V. of Ge-