Geography

• Cabalis a people of Asia Minor. Herodotus (3.90) mentions the Cabalii in the same nome (the second
• Cabasa in the Delta of Egypt, the modern Khabas, was the principal town of the nome…
• Cabassus . According to Apion, quoted by Stephanus, a village of Cappadocia between Tarsus and Maza
• Cabellio a town in Gaul, on the Druentia (Durance), and on a line of road between Vapincum (Gap) an
• Cabillonum or CABALLINUM, with other varieties. Coins of this place, with the epigraph Caballo, are m
• Cabira a place in Pontus, at the base of the range of Paryadres, about 150 stadia south of Eupato
• Cabubathra Mons Mons (Καβούβαθρα ὄρος), a mountain on the SW. coast of Arabia, mentioned by Ptolemy (6.7.
• Cabyle or CALYBE (Καβύλη, Καλύβη), a town in the interior of Thrace, west of Develtus, on the riv
• Cachales a river of Phocis, rising in Mt. Parnassus, and flowing by Tithorea into the Cephissus. (P
• Cacyparis a river on the E. coast of Sicily, mentioned only by Thucydides (7.79) during the retreat
• Cacyrum a town in Sicily, mentioned only by Pliny and Ptolemy, who afford no clue to its position.
• Cadena a place in Cappadocia mentioned by Strabo (p. 537) as the royal residence of one Sisinas,
• Cadi Cadi (Κάδοι: Eth. Καδηνός), a city of Mysia according to Stephanus (s. v. Κάδοι). Strabo (
• Cadistus a mountain of Crete, belonging to the ridge of the White Mountains. Its position has been
• Cadmus a mountain of Phrygia Magna (Strab. p. 578), which the Turks call Baba Dagh: the sides are
• Cadra in Cappadocia, an eminence on Taurus, which Tacitus (Tac. Ann. 6.41) mentions with Davara,
• Cadrema a city of Lycia, a colony of Olbia: the word is interpreted to mean the parching of corn (
• Cadrusi Cadrusi (Plin. Nat. 6.23. s. 25), a district on the Indian Caucasus or Paropamisus, in whi
• Cadurci Cadurci (Eth. Καδοῦρκοι), a Celtic people who occupied the basin of the Oltis (Lot), a bra
• Cadusii Cadusii (Eth. Καδούσιος, Strab. xi. pp. 506, 507, 510, 525; Pol. 5.44; Ptol. 6.2.5; Steph.
• Caecina or CECINA, a river of Etruria, mentioned both by Pliny and Mela, and still called Cecina.
• Caecinus a river of Bruttium, in the territory of Locri, between that city and Rhegium. It is menti
• Caecubus Ager Ager (Καίκουβος, Strab.), a district of Latium bordering on the Gulf of Amyclae, and inclu
• Caelia CAELIUM, or CELIA (Καιλία or Κελία). 1. A town in the south of Apulia, mentioned both by S
• Caena a town of Sicily mentioned only in the Itinerary of Antoninus, which writes the name Cena,
• Caenae a town of some importance on the western bank of the Tigris; according to Xenophon, 34 par
• Caenepolis or CAENE (Καινὴ πόλις, Ptol. 4.5.72; Geog. Rav. p. 104), the modern Clenè was the southern
• Caenica the name of one of the districts into which Thrace was divided by the Romans. It was situa
• Caenicenses Caenicenses a people in Gallia Narbonensis, an oppidum Latinum, as Pliny (3.4) calls them;
• Caenina a very ancient city of Latium, mentioned in the early history of Rome. Dionysius tells us
• Caeno a city of Crete, which, according to the legend of the purification of Apollo by Carmanor
• Caenys a promontory on the coast of Bruttium, which is described by Strabo as near the Scyllaean
• Caepionis Turris Turris or MONUMIENTUM (Καιπ́.ωνος πίργος: Cipiona), a great lighthouse, built on a rock su
• Caeratus a river of Crete, which flows past Cnossus, which city was once known by the same name as
• Caere called by tie Greeks AGYLLA (Ἄγτλλα: Eth. Ἀγτλλαῖος), an ancient…
• Caeresi Caeresi or CAERAESI (Cerosi, Oros. 6.7, Haverkamp's note), a people mentioned by Caesar (C
• Caesairea in the Maritime Itinerary, is one of the islands off the north-west coast of France, the n
• Caesaraugusta or CAESAREA AUGUSTA (Καισάρεια Αὐγούστα, Ptol. 2.6.63; Auson. Epist. 24.84; Inscr. ap.…
• Caesareia CAESARIA, CAESAREA (Καισάρεια: Eth. Καισαρέυς). 1. (Kaìsariyeh), a city of the district Ci
• Caesarodunum the chief town of the Turones or Turoni, a Celtic people in the basin of the Loire. Caesar
• Caesaromagus the capital of the Belgic people, the Bellovaci. Its position at Beauvais agrees with the
• Caesaromagus in Britain, is, in the fifth Itinerary, the first station from London (from which it is di
• Caesena a considerable town of Gallia Cispadana, situated on the Via Aemilia, 20 miles from Arimin
• Caesia Silva Silva one of the great forests of Germany, between Vetera and the country of the Marsi, th
• Caetobrix CATOBRIGA (Itin. Ant. p. 417), CETOBRIGA (Geog. Rav. 4.23), a city of Lusitania, belonging
• Caicus a river of Mysia (Hdt. 6.28; 7.42), first mentioned by Hesiod (Hes. Th. 343), who, as well
• Caieta a town of Latium on the coast of the Tyrrhenian Sea, between Tarracina and Formiae, celebr
• Cailamus a town of Phoenicia, mentioned by Pliny (5.17) as following Trieris. Pollbius (5.68) speak
• Calabria was the name given by the Romans to the peninsula which forms the SE. promontory, or, as i
• Calachene a district of Assyria, probably the same as that called by Ptolemy Calacine (Καλακινὴ, Pto
• Calacte or CALE ACTE (Καλάκτα, Ptol.: Καλὴ Ἀκτὴ, Diod. et al.: Eth. Καλάκτα, Eth. Calactinus: Caro
• Calagum seems to be a town of the Meldi, a Gallic people on the Matrona (Marne). If Iatinum is Mea
• Calagurris a city of the Vascones, in Hispania Tarraconensis, stood upon a rocky…
• Calagurris a place in Aquitania, on the road between Lugdunum Cornvenarum and Tolosa, according to th
• Calam AE (Καλάμαι), a village of Messenia near Limnae, and at no great distance from the frontie
• Calama a small place on the coast of Gedrosia, which was visited by Nearchus and his fleet. The m
• Calaminae Pliny (2.95, and Harduin‘s Note) mentions among floating islands some called Galaminae in
• Calamyde a city of Crete, of which the Coast-describer (Geogr. Graec. Min. vol. ii. p. 496), who, a
• Calasarna a town in the interior of Lucania, mentioned only by Strabo (vi. p.254), who affords no cl
• Calatia was the name of two cities on the confines of Samnium and Campania, which, from their prox
• Calaureia a small island in the Saronic gulf opposite Pogon, the harbour of Troezen. It possessed an
• Calcaria a place in southern Gallia, on the road from Marseille to Fossae Marianae or Foz-les-Marti
• Calcaria in Britain, distant, in the second Itinerary, 9 miles from Eburacum (York). The terminatio
• Cale or CALEM (Porto or Oporto). a city on the S. border of Gallaecia, in Spain, on the N. side
• Caledonia the northern part of Britannia. The name is variously derived. In the present Welsh, celyd
• Calela a place in Apulia, mentioned only by Polybins (3.101), who tells us that Minucius encamped
• Calentum a town of Hispania Baetica, famous for its manutacture of a sort of tiles light enough to
• Cales one of the most considerable cities of Campania, situated in the northern part of that pro
• Cales a river of Bithynia, 120 stadia east of Elaeus. (Arrian, p. 14; and Marc. p. 70.) This see
• Caleti Caleti or CALETES (Eth. Καλέτοι, Strab.; Καλεἱται, Ptol.) are reckoned by Caesar (Caes. Ga
• Caletra an ancient city of Etruria, which appears to have ceased to exist at a very early period,
• Calingae a considerable people of India intra Gangem, close to the sea (i. e. on the E. coast) with
• Calinipaxa a city of India intra Gangem, made known to the Greeks by the expedition of Seleuclus Nica
• Callatebus . Xerxes, on his march from Colossae to Sardes, crossed the Maeander and came to Callatebu
• Callatis a large city of Thrace, on the coast of the Euxine. It was a colony of Miletus (Mela, 2.2)
• Calleva in Britain, distant 22 miles, according to the Itinerary, from Venta Belgarum, in the dire
• Calliarus a town in eastern Locris mentioned by Homer, was un-inhabited in Strabo's time, but its na
• Callicula Mons Mons a range of mountains in the northern part of Campania. The name is found only in Livy
• Calliena a considerable seaport and capital of a principality on the W.…
• Callifae a town of Samnium, mentioned only by Livy (8.25) who relates that the consuls C. Petelius
• Calligeris an inland city of India intra Gangem, on the W. side of the peninsula, between the rivers
• Callinusa a promontory to the NW. of Cyprus, which Ptolemy (5.14.4) places to the W. of Soli. D'Anvi
• Calliope a town founded by Seleucus in Parthia. The situation is unknown; but it is mentioned by Ap
• Callipolis . 1. (Gallipoli), a maritime city of Calabria, situated on the Tarentine Gulf, about 30 mi
• Callipolis a town in the Thracian Chersonesus, opposite to Lampsacus. (Strab. xiii. p.589; Steph. B.
• Callirrhoe warm springs on the eastern side of the Jordan, and not far from the Dead Sea, to which He
• Callistratia a town in Asia, on the coast of the Euxine, 20 stadia east of Cape Carambis (Marcian. Peri
• Callium or CALLIPOLIS (Κάλλιον, Paus. 10.22.6; Καλλίπολις, Pol. ap. Steph. B. sub voce s. v. Κόραξ
• Calo a station in the north of Gallia, which is placed in the Antonine Itin. on the road betwee
• Calor . 1. A river of Samnium, one of the most considerable of the tributaries of the Vulturnus,
• Calos a river of Pontus, the position of which may be placed approximately from the fact of its
• Calpe the ancient name of the precipitous rock, at the S. extremity of the Spanish coast, and at
• Calpe a river of Bithynia, the Chalpas of Strabo (p. 543). It lies between the Psilis, from whic
• Calucones Calucones (Καλούκωνες), a tribe of the Lepontii in Rhaetia, the name of which is still pre
• Calycadnus one of the largest rivers of Cilicia. (Strab. p. 670.) It rises in the range of Taurus, an
• Calydnae Insulae Insulae (Κάλυδναι νῆσοι). 1. A group of islands off the coast of Caria, mentioned by Homer
• Calydon the most celebrated city of Aetolia, in the heroic age, was founded by Aetolus in the land
• Calydon or CALIDON, a place in Gallia,. mentioned by Ammianus Marcellinus (27.1). D'anville was no
• Calymna an island off the coast of Caria between Leros and Cos. It appears to have been the princi
• Calynda a town of Caria, according to Stephanus, is placed by Strabo 60 stadia from the sea (p. 56
• Camacha astrong fortress of Armenia, called in Armenian GAMAKH, and also ANI, was well known in hi
• Camara at a distance of 15 stadia according to the Maritime Itinerary. Xenion, a Cretan…
• Camaracum in Gallia, a town of the Nervii, on the road from Bagacum (Bavay) to Taruenna (Terouenne).
• Camarina a celebrated Greek city of Sicily, situated on the S. coast of the island, at the mouth of
• Camatullici Camatullici The regio Camatullicorum is mentioned by Pliny (3.4) between Portus Citharista
• Cambadene a district of Greater Media, in which was a place called Baptana, containing a statue and
• Cambala in the district of Hyspiratis, to which Alexander the Great sent Menon with troops to exam
• Cambes a place in Gallia, according to the Anton. Itin. and the Table, on the road from Augusta R
• Cambiovicenses Cambiovicenses a name of a people that appears in the Table; but the indication of their p
• Cambodunum in Britain. The second Itinerary presents the difficulty which attends so many of the othe
• Cambolectri Cambolectri Pliny (3.5) mentions Cambolectri Atlantici in Gallia Narbonensis, but it is di
• Cambonum a place in Gallia, mentioned in the Jerusalem Itin., on the road from Civitas Valentia (Va
• Camboricum in Britain. Another reading is Camboritum, and perhaps this is preferable,--the -rit- havi
• Cambunii Montes Montes a range of mountains forming the boundary between Macedonia and Thessaly, is a cont
• Cambyses a river of Albania, rising in the Caucasus, or, according to Mela, in the Coraxici M., flo
• Cambyses a river of Media Atropatene, which appears, from the notice in Ptolemy, to have flowed int
• Camelobosci Camelobosci (Καμηλοβοσκοὶ, Ptol. 6.8.12), a wild tribe of Carmania, placed by Marcian (p.
• Cameria or CAMERIUM (Καμερία: Eth. Καμερῖνος, Eth. Camerinus), an ancient city of Latium, mentione
• Camerinum a city of Umbria, situated in the Apennines, near the frontiers of Picenum. It occupied a…
• Camicus a city or fortress of Sicily, which, according to the mythical history of that island, was
• Camisa a fortress of Camisene or Comisene (comp. Strab. xi. p.528) in Lesser Armenia, which was d
• Camisene . Strabo mentions Culupene or Calupene and Camisene as bordering on the Lesser Armenia, an
• Cammanene a division of Cappadocia. (Strab. pp. 534, 540.) Ptolemy (5.6), who enumerates six places
• Campae and Cambe in the Table, is in the Praefectura Ciliciae of Cappadocia, 16 miles N. or NW. o
• Campania a province or region of Central Italy, bounded on the N. by Latium, on the E. by the mount
• Campi Campi MACRI(Μακροὶ Κάμποι, Strab), a place in Cisalpine Gaul, on the Via Aemilia, between
• Campi Phlegraei Campi Phlegraei (τὰ φλεγραῖα πεδία) was the name given by the Greeks to the fertile plains
• Campi Raudii Campi Raudii or CAMPUS RAUDIUS, a plain in Cisalpine Gaul, which was the scene of the grea
• Campi Veteres Veteres a place in Lucania, which, according to Livy (25.16), was the real scene of the de
• Campodunum a town in the country of the Estiones in Vindelicia. It was situated on the road from Brig
• Camuni Camuni (Eth. Καμοῦνοι), an Alpine people, who inhabited the valley of the Ollius (Oglio),
• Camunlodunum in Britain, mentioned by Ptolemy as a town of the Brigantes. Identified--though, perhaps,
• Cana . 1. A village of Galilee, the scene of our Lord's first miracle. (S. John, ii.) A village
• Canae a small place founded by the Locri of Cynus (Strab. p. 615) in Aeolis, opposite to the mos
• Canas a town of Lycia, mentioned by Pliny. (5.27. s. 28). The site is not known. He mentions it
• Canasis a small port on the shore of Gedrosia to which the fleet of Nearchus came. Vincent identif
• Canastraeum the extreme point of the peninsula of Pallene. (Hdt. 7.123; Thuc. 4.110; Strab. vii. p.330
• Canate a desert shore of Gedrosia, the next station to Canasis made by the fleet of Nearchus. Vin
• Canatha . In Josephus (J. AJ 15.5.1), Κάναθα is a various reading for Kava, and is apparently the
• Candace a town placed by Isidore in Asia. Nothing is known about it, nor is it mentioned elsewhere
• Candara a place in Paphlagonia, three schoeni from Gangra, and a village Thariba. (Steph. B. sub v
• Candari Candari (Eth. Κάνδαροι, Ptol. 6.12.4), a tribe in the NW. part of Sogdiana. They are menti
• Candasa a fort in Caria, according to Stephanus (s. v.) who quotes the 16th book of Polybius. He a
• Candavia a mountain of Illyria. The Egnatian Way, commencing at Dyrrhachium, crossed this mountain,
• Candidiana a fort on the Danube in Lower Moesia, in which a detachment of light troops was garrisoned
• Candidum Promontorium Promontorium (Ras-el-Abiad, C. Blanco: all three names meaning White). a lofty headland of
• Candyba a town in Lycia (Plin. Nat. 5.27) with a forest Oenium near it. Its site is now ascertaine
• Cane an emporium and promontory on the south coast of Arabia, in the country of the Adramitae (
• Cangi Cangi a people of Britain, against whom Ostorius Scapula led his army, after the reduction
• Canini Campi Canini Campi a district of Rhaetia Prima, corresponding to the modern Graubündten. (Amm. M
• Canis Flumen Flumen a river of Arabia mentioned by Pliny (6.28. s. 32), supposed by Forster to be ident
• Cannae a small town of Apulia on the S. bank of the Aufidus, about 6 miles from its mouth, celebr
• Cannar a headland on the N. coast of Mauretania Tingitana, between Abyla and Rusaddi, 50 M. P. fr
• Canninefates Canninefates inhabited a part of the Insula Batavorum, and they were a tribe of the same s
• Canobus or CANOPUS (Quint. Inst. Or. 1.5.13; Κάνωπος, Steph. B. sub voce p. 355 s. v.; Hdt. 2.15,
• Canonium in Britain, distant, in the ninth Itinerary, 8 miles from Camulodunum, and 12 from Caesaro
• Cantaber Oceanus Oceanus (Καντάβριος ὠκεανός: Bay of Biscay), the great bay of the Atlantic, formed by the
• Cantabras a river of India (in the Panjab), mentioned by Pliny as one of the chief tributaries of th
• Cantabria the country of the CANTABRI (Eth. Κάνταβροι; sing. Κάνταβρος, Cantaber, Adj. Cantabricus),
• Cantae a people of Britain, mentioned by Ptolemy as lying to the NE. of the Caledonian Wood, betw
• Cantanus (Κάντανος, Steph. B. sub voce Καντανία, Hierocles: Eth. Καντάνιος, Steph. B. sub voce a ci
• Canthi Sinus Sinus (Κάνθι κόλπος: Gulf of Cutch), a great gulf, on the W. coast of India intra Gangem,
• Cantilia a place in Gallia, which the Table fixes on the road between Aquae Nerae (Néris) and Augus
• Cantium in Britain. Name for name, the county Kent. Probably the two areas coincide as well, or ne
• Canusium one of the most ancient and important, cities of Apulia, situated…
• Capara a city of the Vettones in Lusitania, on the high road from Emerita to Caesaraugusta. (Itin
• Capena an ancient city of Etruria, which is repeatedly mentioned during the early history of Rome
• Capernaum a town of Galilee, situated on the northern shore of the Sea of Tiberias, frequently menti
• Caphareus or CAPHEREUS (Καφήρευς,) a rocky and dangerous promontory, forming the south-eastern extre
• Caphyae a town of Arcadia situated in a small plain, NW. of the lake of Orchomenus. It was protect
• Capidava a town in Moesia, where a garrison of Roman cavalry was stationed. It is perhaps to be ide
• Capisa a city of a district probably named after it, CAPISSENE and included in the wider district
• Capitium a city of Sicily, mentioned only by Cicero and Ptolemy, but which appears from the former
• Capitolias a town of Peraea, or Coelesyria, exhibited in the Peutinger Tables, between Gadara and Adr
• Capitulum a town of the Hernicans, which, though not noticed in history, is mentioned both by Pliny
• Capotes a mountain of Armenia, from the spurs of which Pliny (5.20. s. 24), on the authority of Li
• Cappadocia . This extensive province of Asia lies west of the Euphrates, and north of Cilicia: its li
• Capraria a small island in the Tyrrhenian Sea, between Corsica and the coast of Etruria, still call
• Caprasia a town of Bruttium, placed by the Itineraries on the road from Muranum to Consentia, and d
• Capreae an island off the coast of Campania, lying immediately opposite the Surrentine Promontory,
• Caprus the port and island of Stageirus to the SW. of the Strymonic Gulf. (Strab. vii. p.331; com
• Caprus 1. (Καπρος, Strab. xvi. p.738; Plb. 5.51; Ptol. 6.1.7), a river of Assyria which flowed in
• Capsa an important city in the extreme S. of Numidia (aft. in Byzacium), standing in a fertile a
• Capua the capital of…
• Caput Bovis Bovis (Καπούδβοες), a fort at one end of the famous bridge which the emperor Hadrian made
• Caracates Caracates The Triboci, Vangiones, et Caracates, are mentioned by Tacitus (Tac. Hist. 4.70)
• Caraceni Caraceni (Καρακηνοὶ tribe of the Samnites, which according to Ptolemy inhabited the most n
• Carae a small place mentioned by Diodorus, and probably in Sittacene, one of the SE. districts o
• Caralis or CARALES (the plural form is used by the best Latin writers: Καράλις: Eth. Caralitanus:
• Carallis a city of Isauria, supposed by Cramer to be the same which Hieroeles and the Councils assi
• Carambis . a promontory of Asia Minor, in the Paphlagonia of Strabo (p. 545), who describes it as a
• Caranitis a canton of Upper Armenia, added by Artaxias to his dominions. This district is at the foo
• Carantonus a river of Gallia, which flowed through the territory of the Santones:-- Santonico refluus
• Caranusca The Antonine Itin., says D'Anville, gives only xxxiiii between Divodorum Mediomatricorum (
• Carasa a place in Aquitania, according to the Antonine Itin., on the route from Pompelo (Pampelon
• Caravis a city of Hispania Tarraconensis, on the right bank of the Iberus (Ebro), 37 M. P. above C
• Carbae a people of Arabia, named by Diodorus Siculus (3.46), after Agatharcides, as being contigu
• Carbana (Κάρβανα: Eth. Καρβανεύς, Steph. B. sub voce a city of Lycia, the name of which may be wor
• Carbantorigum in Britain, mentioned by Ptolemy, and probably, under the name Carbantium, by the Geograph
• Carbina a city of the Messapians, mentioned by Clearchus (ap. Athen. 12.522), as having been destr
• Carbis the name of a shore of the sea-coast of Gedrosia which was visited by the fleet of Nearchu
• Carcaso a town in the Provincia of Caesar (Caes. Gal. 3.20), and the Gallia Narbonensis of Pliny (
• Carcathiocerta the capital of SOPHENE one of the cantons of Armenia. (Strab. xi. p.527; Plin. Nat. 6.10.)
• Carcici Carcici for so D'Anville affirms that we ought to read the name in the Maritime Itinerary
• Carcina CARCINE (Plin. Nat. 4.12. s. 26), CARCINITIS (Καρκινῖτις, Hdt. 4.55, 99; Hecat. ap. Steph.
• Carcoras a river of southern Pannonia, flowing from the heights of Illyricum into the Savus. (Strab
• Cardamyle a town of Messenia, and one of the seven places offered by Agamemnon to Achilles. Il. 9.15
• Cardia one of the chief towns of the Thracian Chersonesus, situated at the head of the gulf of Me
• Carduchi Carduchi (Eth. Καρδοῦχοι, Xen.). The wild tribes who occupied the high mountainous tract,
• Careiae a station on the Via Clodia in Etruria, probably a mere village, is placed by the Itinerar
• Carene or CARINE (Καρήνη, Καρίνη: Eth. Καρηναῖος), a town of Mysia. The army of Xerxes, on the ro
• Careni Careni a people in Britain, mentioned by Ptolemy as lying to the east of the CARNONACAE an
• Carentomagus a town in Gallia, is placed by the Theodosian Table between Divona (Cahors), and Segodunum
• Caresene a mountainous tract in the Troad, which contained many villages, and was well cultivated.
• Caria a country in the south-west angle of Asia Minor. Strabo (p. 632) makes the southern bounda
• Cariatae a small town of Bactriana which was destroyed by Alexander the Great. It is said by Strabo
• Carilocus a town of the Aedui, according to some of the Latin texts of Ptolemy; but the name is said
• Carisa or CARISSA (Coins: Κάρισσα, Ptol. 2.4.13: regia (Carissa cognomine Aurelia, Plin. iii. l.
• Carmaei Carmaei a tribe of the Minaei [MINAEI], mentioned by Pliny (6.28. s. 32), probably the sam
• Carmalas a Cappadocian river. Strabo (p. 537) says that in Cataonia there is a hill fort, Dastarcum
• Carmania an extensive province of Asia…
• Carmel a city of Judah, mentioned between Maon and Ziph, in Joshua (15.55), the same that occurs
• Carmelus Mons Mons Χερμήλ, Κάρμηλος, LXX.; Κάρμηλος, Strab. xvi. p.758; Καρμήλιον ὄρος, J. AJ 13.15.4),
• Carmo Κάρμων,, Strab. iii. p.141: Eth. Carmonensis: Carmona), a strongly fortified city of Hispa
• Carmylessus a town of Lycia, placed by Strabo (p. 665) between Telmissus and the mouth of the Xanthus.
• Carna the capital of the Minaei, a tribe of Arabia Felix (Strab. xvi. p.768), mentioned also by
• Carni Carni (Eth. Κάρνοι), an Alpine tribe, who inhabited the ranges of those mountains which se
• Carnia Καρνία), a city of Ionia, mentioned by Nicolaus of Damascus in the fourth book of his hist
• Carnonacae a people in Britain, mentioned by Ptolemy as lying between the Creones and the Careni. Thi
• Carnuntum an ancient and important Celtic town in the north of Pannonia, on the southern bank of the
• Carnus
• Carnutes Carnutes or CARNUTI (Eth. Καρνοῦτοι). Tibullus (1.7,12) has the form Carnūti. Plutarch (Ca
• Carocotinum a place in Gallia, the commencement of a road in the Antonine Itin., which passes through
• Caron Portus Portus (Καρῶν λιμήν), a port town in Moesia, on the coast of the Euxine, in a district cal
• Caropolis or the city of the Carians, a place in Caria, mentioned by Alexander in the first book of
• Carpasia (Καρπασία, Strab., Ptol., Diod., Steph. B. sub voce Καρπασεία, Stadiasm.; *karpa/sion, Hie
• Carpates Mons Mons (ὁ Καρπάτης ὄρος: Carpathian Mountains). The name first occurs in Ptolemy, who applie
• Carpathus an island in the sea between Crete and Rhodes, which was named after it the Carpathian sea
• Carpentoracte a town of Gallia Narbonensis, mentioned only by Pliny (3.4), who calls it Carpentoracte Me
• Carpetani Carpetani, CARPESII (Eth. Καρπήσιοι, Plb. 3.14; Liv. 23.26; Steph. B. sub voce Καρπητανοι,
• Carpi Carpi, CARPIANI (Καρπιανοί, Ptol. 3.5. § 24), CARPIDES (Κάρπιδες, Anon. Per. Pont. Eux. p.
• Carpis or CARPI (Plin. Nat. 5.3. s. 4), a town of Zeugitana, on the Gulf of Carthage, NE. of Maxu
• Carpis a river which, according to Herodotus (4.49), flowed from the upper country of the Ombrica
• Carrea Potentia Potentia a town of Lioguria, mentioned only by Pliny (3.5. s. 7), who enumerates it among
• Carrhae (Κάρραι, D. C. 37.5, 40.25; Strab. xvi. p.747; Ptol. 5.18.12; Steph. B. sub voce Amm. Marc
• Carrhodunum . 1. A town of the Lygians in Germania Magna, probably the modern Zarnowice, on the Pilica
• Carruca a city of Hispania Baetica, only mentioned in the Bellum Hispaniense (100.27). It lay some
• Carseae a town so called, as it is supposed, by Polybius (5.77). But perhaps Polybius uses the Eth
• Carseoli Carseoli (Eth. Καρσέολοι, Strab.; Καρσίολοι, Ptol.: Eth. Carseolanus), a city of the Aequi
• Carsulae a city of Umbria, situated on the Via Flaminia between Mevania and Narnia. (Strab. v. p.22
• Carteaia CARTEÏA (Καρτηα̈α: Eth. Carte ïenses), a very ancient city in the S. of Hispania Baetica,
• Cartenna a considerable city on the coast of Numidia, or, according to the later division, of Maure
• Carthago in Africa, the renowned rival of Rome. I. NAMES. As there can be no doubt that the Greek a
• Carthago Nova Nova (Καρχηδών; ἡ νέα, Polyb., Strab., Ptol., Liv., Mel., Plin., Steph. B. sub voce s. v.,
• Carthago Vetus Vetus (Καρχηδὼν παλαιά, Ptol. 2.6.64: prob. Carte la Vieja), an inland city of the Ilercao
• Carura a town which was on the north-eastern limit of Caria (Strab. p. 663); its position east of
• Carus Vicus Vicus a place in Bithynia, on a route of the Antonine Itin., which runs from Claudiopolis
• Carusa a Greek trading place on the coast of Paphlagonia, south of Sinope, and 150 stadia from it
• Carvancas a mountain forming the northern bonudary between Pannonia and Noricum. It extended from Mo
• Carventum an ancient city of Latium, mentioned in the list given by Dionysius of the thirty states o
• Carvetii Carvetii in Britain. An inscription now lost, but one which Cambden expressly states to ha
• Carvo a place on the road from Lugdunum Batavorum (Leyden) to Vemania (Immenstadt). The Antonine
• Caryae a town of Laconia upon the frontiers of Arcadia. It was originally an Arcadian town belong
• Caryanda . Stephanus (s. v. Καρύανδα) says that Hecataeus, made the accusative singular Καρύανδαν.
• Carystus 1. (Κάρυστος: Eth. Καρύστιος: Karysto), a town of Euboea, situated on the south coast of t
• Caseirotae one of the ten tribes into which Ptolemy divides Aria. They lived in the south part, on th
• Casia Regio Regio (ἡ Κασία χώρα), a district of Scythia extra Imaum. SW. of the Issedones, touching on
• Casii Montes Montes (τὰ Κάσια ὄρη: Khara M.), a range of mountains in the E. of Central Asia, being a c
• Casilinum a town of Campania, situated on the river Vulturnus, about 3 miles W. of Capua. We have no
• Casinomagus in Transalpine Gaul, is placed by the Table on a road from Mediolanum Santonum (Saintes) t
• Casinum a considerable city of Latium, in the more extended use of the term, situated on the Via L
• Casius Mons Mons (Κάσιον: Jebel-el-Akrá), a mountain of N. Syria, near Nymphaeum (Strab. xvi. p.751) a
• Casius Mons Mons (Κάσιος ὄρος, Strab. i. p.38, seq. xvii. pp. 758--796; Mel. 1.10, 3.8; Plin. Nat. 5.1
• Casmenae a city of Sicily founded by a colony from Syracuse, 90 years after the establishment of th
• Caspatyrus or CASPAPYRUS (Κασπάπυρος, Hecat. ap. Steph. B. sub voce Fr. 179, ed. Didot: πολίς Γανδαρι
• Caspeiria a district of India intra Gangem, about the sources of the rivers HYDASPES (Jelum), Sandab
• Casperia a town of the Sabines, known only from the mention of its name by Virgil (Aen. 7.714), and
• Caspiae Pylae Pylae (αἱ Κάσπιοι πύλαι, Pol. 5.44; Strab. xi. pp. 522, 526; αἱ Κάσπιαι πύλαι, Hecat. Fr.
• Caspii Caspii (Eth. Κάσπιος), a nation apparently originally inhabiting a district of Media, near
• Caspii Montes Montes (Κάσπια ὄρη), a western portion of the great chain of the Orontes and Coronus (Dema
• Caspingium is placed by the Table on a road from Lugdunum Batavorum (Leyden) to Noviomagus (Nymegen).
• Caspium Mare Mare (ἡ Κασπία Φάλαττα, Hdt. 1.203; Ptol. 5.9.7, 7.5.4; Strab. ii. p.71, xi. pp. 502, 506,
• Cassandreia a town situated on the narrow isthmus which connects the peninsula of Pallene with the mai
• Cassi Cassi in Britain. The name of a population sufficiently eastward to be mentioned by Caesar
• Cassiope . 1. A town and promontory of Corcyra. [CORCYRA] 2. A town of Epeirus, more usually called
• Cassiotis a district of northern Syria, containing, according to Ptolemy (5.15.16), the cities of AN
• Cassiterides in Britain. The tin-county of Cornwall, with which the Scilly Isles were more or less conf
• Cassope the chief town of the CASSOPAEI (Κασσωπαῖολ), a people of Epirus, occupying the coast betw
• Castabala a city of Cilicia, one of the praefectures of Cappadocia. Strabo (p. 537) describes Castab
• Castabala as it is called by Appian (Mlithrid. 100.105), by Ptolemy (5.8), by Pliny (5.27), who ment
• Castalia a place in Cilicia, mentioned by Theagenes in his Carica.
• Castamon a town of Paphlagonia, often mentioned by the Byzantine historians. Castamouni is a consid
• Castellani Castellani (Καστελλανοί), a people of Hispania Tarraconensis, at the foot of the Pyrenees,
• Castellum . There are many routes which end at or branch from a place called Castellum, in the north
• Castellum Menapiorum Menapiorum mentioned by Ptolemy (2.9), who says, then after the Mosa, the Menapii, and a c
• Castellum Valentiniani Castellum Valentiniani a fortress built by the emperor Valentinian, on the river Nicer. (A
• Casthanaea a town of Magnesia in Thessaly, at the foot of Mt. Pelium, with a temple of Aphrodite…
• Castoli Campus Campus (Καστωλοῦ πεδίον). Xenophon (Xen. Anab. 1.1.2), says that king Artaxerxes appointed
• Castra a station on the Candavian or Egnatian way,--the great line of communication by land betwe
• Castra Alata Alata in Britain. This is the rendering of the Πτερωτὸν στρατόπεδον of Ptolemy. It is twic
• Castra Caecilia Caecilia (Caceres), a town of Lusitania, in Spain, on the high road from Emerita to Caesar
• Castra Cornelia Cornelia (Mela. 1.7.2; Plin. Nat. 5.4.3; C. Corneliana, Caes. B.C. 2.24, 25; C. Scipionis,
• Castra Exploratorum Exploratorum in Britain, mentioned in the second Itinerary as being the first station betw
• Castra Hannibalis Hannibalis a town or port of Bruttium, mentioned by Pliny as situated on the Gulf of Scyll
• Castra Herculis Herculis This is one of the seven places on the frontier of the Rhine which Julian repaire
• Castra Pyrrhi Castra Pyrrhi a place in Greek Illyria near the river Aous, is placed by Leake at Ostanítz
• Castra Vetera Vetera or VETERA, as Ptolemy (2.9) and others call it, a Roman camp near the Lower Rhine,
• Castrimoenium a town of Latium, at the foot of the Alban hills about 12 miles from Rome, now called Mari
• Castrum Inui Castrum Inui an ancient city of Latium, the foundation of which is ascribed by Virgil to t
• Castrum Minervae Minervae a town or fortress on the coast of Calabria, between Hydruntum and the Iapygian P
• Castrum Novum Novum 1. (Κάστρον νέον, Ptol.: Eth. Castronovani, Inscr.), a city on the sea-coast of Etru
• Castrum Truentinum Truentinum called also TRUENTUM, from the name of the river on which it stood (Plin. Nat.
• Castulo .…
• Casuaria in Gallia, is placed in the Antonine Itin. on a road from Darantasia (Moutiers en Tarentai
• Casuentus a river of Lucania, mentioned only by Pliny (3.11. s. 16), who places it between the Acala
• Casus an island between Carpathus and Crete, is, according to Strabo, 70 stadia from Carpathus,
• Casystes a port of Ionia. Strabo (p. 644), whose description proceeds from south to north, after de
• Catabani Catabani (Καταβανεῖς), a people of Arabia, named by Pliny (6.28. s. 32), and Strabo (xvi.
• Catacecaumene a tract in Asia Minor. Strabo (p. 628), after describing Philadelphia, says, Next is the c
• Cataea an island on the western limit of Carmania, about 12 miles from the shore. It was, accordi
• Catalauni Catalauni or CATELAUNI. The Notitia of the provinces mentions the Civitas Catalaunorum amo
• Catana or CATINA (Κατάνη: Eth. Καταναῖος, Catanensis or Catinensis: Catania), a city on the E. co
• Catanii Catanii (Eth. Κατάνιοι), a tribe of Arabia Deserta, bounded by Syria on the west and the C
• Cataonia one of the divisions of Cappadocia [CAPPADOCIA],is described by Strabo (p. 535), who had v
• Cataroctonion in Britain. This is the form of the Geographer of Ravenna, that of Ptolemy being Cat u rac
• Catarrhactes a river of Pamphylia, which entered the sea east of Attalia. Mela (1.14) describes it as b
• Catarrhactes a river on the S. coast of Crete, which Ptolemy (3.17.4) places to the E. of Leben. (Hoeck
• Catarzene a district of Armenia, lying near the mountains of the Moschi, by the Avanes. The name Cot
• Cathaei Cathaei (Eth. Καθαῖοι), a powerful and warlike people of India intra Gangem (in the Panjab
• Cathraps a small river of Carmania, about which little more is known than its name. It was 700 stad
• Catorissium is placed in the Table on a road from Vienna (Vienne), in Gallia Narbonensis, through Cula
• Cattarus a fortress of Dalmatia in Illyricum, restored by Justinian, was situated on the east side
• Cattigara a great city and port of the Sinae, S. of Thinae, near the mouth of the river COTTIARIS on
• Catualium in north Gallia, is placed in the Table on a road from Atuaca (Aduatuca, Tongern) to Novio
• Catuellani Catuellani a British population, under the dominion of the Boduni, reduced by Aulus Plauti
• Caturiges Caturiges (Κατύριγες). When Caesar crossed the Alps from Italy into Gallia the second time
• Catusiacum a position in north Gallia, which appears in the Antonine Itin. on the road from Bagacum (
• Catviaca or, as it is sometimes written Catuica, in Gallia Narbonensis, is placed in the Table and
• Catyeuchlani Catyeuchlani in Britain, mentioned by Ptolemy (2.3.21)--whose geography for these parts is
• Cauca a city at the extreme E. of the territory of the Vaccaei, in Hispania Tarraconensis; belon
• Caucasus CAUCASII MONTES (ὁ Καύκασος, τὰ Καυκάσια ὄρη: also, ὁ Καυκάσις, Hdt. 3.97, Steph. B. sub v
• Cauci Cauci a population of the eastern coast of Ireland, contiguous to the Menapii. For the dif
• Caucones Caucones (Καύκωνες), are mentioned by Homer, along with the Leleges and Pelasgians, as aux
• Caudini Caudini Adj. Caudinus, a tribe of the Samnites bordering upon Campania. The name is eviden
• Caudium a city of Samnium, situated on the road from Beneventum to Capua. It seems probable that i
• Caue a village, as Xenophon calls it (Hellen. 4.1.20), in Asia Minor; but it is difficult to sa
• Caulares Caulares Livy (38.15), in his history of the campaigns of Cn. Manlius in Asia, says that a
• Caulonia a city on the E. coast of Bruttium, between Locri and the Gulf of Scyllacium. All authors
• Caunus a city of Caria, in the Peraea. [CARIA] Strabo (p. 651) places Caunus west of Calynda. Cau
• Causennis in Britain, mentioned in the 5th Itinerary, the difficulties of which are noticed under CO
• Cavares Cavares or CAVARI (Eth. Καούαροι, Eth. Καύαροι), a people of Gallia Narbonensis. Strabo (p
• Cavii Cavii a people in Greek Illyria, between the rivers Panyasus and Genusus. (Liv. 44.30.) CA
• Caystri Campus Campus (τὸ Καΰστρου πεδίον) is Strabo's name for the plain of the Cayster. Stephanus (s. v
• Cazeca a town of the Cimmerian Bosporus, 280 stadia from Theodosia, which has been identified wit
• Ceba a town of Liguria, mentioned by Pliny (11.42. s. 97) as celebrated for its cheeses, is evi
• Cebenna Mons Mons or CEVENNA, as it is generally written in the editions of Caesar (Caes. Gal. 7.8: als
• Cebrene There was a river Cebren (Κέβρην). The Ethnic names are Κεβρηνός, Κεβρηνεύς, and Κεβρήνιος
• Cecilionicum a town of Lusitania, only mentioned in the Itinerary, as on the great road from Emerita to
• Cecryphaleia a small island in the Saronic gulf, between Aegina and the coast of Epidaurus, near which
• Cedreae a city of Caria, mentioned by Hecataeus. (Steph. s. v. Κεδρεαί.) Lysander took the place,
• Cedrei Cedrei an Arab tribe, mentioned by Pliny (5.11), who places them on the confines of Arabia
• Cedrisus a mountain of Crete, which forms the SW. spur of Mt. Ida. (Sieber, Reise, vol. ii. p. 14;
• Celadussae a group of islands off the coast of Liburnia in Illyricum (Plin. Nat. 3.26. s. 30), per. h
• Celaenae a city of Phrygia. Strabo (p. 577) says that the Maeander rises in a hill Celaenae, on whi
• Celeia or CALEIA (Κέλεια), an important city in the south-eastern corner of Noricum (Ptol. 2.14.3
• Celenderis a town of Pamphylia, on the coast. The tradition was that it was a Phoenician settlement,
• Celenna a town of Campania, mentioned only by Virgil (Aen. 7.739) who appears to place it (in conj
• Celetrum a town of Orestis in Macedonia, situated on a peninsula which is surrounded by the waters
• Cellae a town of Macedonia Consularis, and a station on the Via Egnatia in Eordaea, between Herac
• Celnius in Britain, mentioned by Ptolemy (2.3.5), between the Tuasis aestuary (Τούαισις εἴσχυσις)
• Celsa a city of the Ilergetes, in Hispania Tarraconensis, on the Iberus, which was here crossed
• Celtiberia was the name of a large inland district of Spain, comprising the central plateau (media…
• Celtica CELTICI (ἡ Κελτική, οἱ Κελτικοί), Hispania. The repeated occurrence of these names in the
• Celticoflavia a city of the Vettones in Spain, on the borders of Lusitania, at Torrecilla de aldea Tejad
• Celurnum in-Britain, mentioned in the Notitia as the station of the second wing of the Asti. Genera
• Cema an Alpine mountain which Pliny (3.4) names as the source of the Varus (Var); but it does n
• Cemenelium a town of Liguria, at the foot of the Maritime Alps. It was only about two miles distant f
• Cenaeum a promontory of Euboea, forming the north-western extremity of the island, and opposite th
• Cenchreae . 1. A city of the Troad, in which Homer lived while he was inquiring of the things that c
• Cenimagni Cenimagni in Britain, mentioned by Caesar (Caes. Gal. 5.21) as having, along with the Sego
• Cenion in Britain, mentioned by Ptolemy (2.3.4), as a river between the Tamar and the Lizard Poin
• Cenni Cenni (Eth. Κέννοι), a tribe of the Alemanni mentioned by Dio Cassius (77.14), with whom t
• Cenomani Cenomani a Gallic nation of Celtica whom Caesar (7.75) names Aulerci Cenomani [AULERCI]. T
• Cenomani Cenomani (Eth. Κενομάνοι, Strab. Ptol.; Γονομάνοι, Polyb.), a tribe of the Cisalpine Gauls
• Centobriga a city of the Celtiberians, in Hispania Tarraconensis, the siege of which, in the Celtiber
• Centrites a river dividing the mountains of the Carduchians from the slopes and plains of Armenia, c
• Centrones Centrones (Κέντρωνες, Strab. p. 204). The Centrones were an Alpine people, who with the Gr
• Centumcellae a town on the sea-coast of Etruria, between Pyrgi and Graviscae, and distant 47 miles from
• Centuriones AD, a station in Gallia, mentioned in the Antonine Itin. It appears to be the Ad Centenari
• Centuripa or CENTURIPI (τὰ Κεντόριπα, Thuc., Diod., Strab., &c.; Κεντούριπαι, Ptol.: Eth. Κεντοριρῖν
• Ceos an island in the Aegaean sea, and one of the Cyclades, situated…
• Cephalae a lofty and well-wooded promontory of the Regio Syrtica on the N. coast of Africa, forming
• Cephallenia called by Homer SAME (Σάμη, Od. 1.246, 9.24) or SAMOS (Σάμος, Il. 2.634, Od. 4.671), the…
• Cephaloedium a town on the N. coast of Sicily, between Himera and Alaesa. It…
• Cephalonesus a small island at the E. end of the ACHILLEOS DROMOS in the mouth of the Carcinites Sinus,
• Cephissus . 1. A river of Phocis and Boeotia, flowing into the lake Copais. [For details, see pp. 41
• Cepi Milesiorum Milesiorum (Κῆπος, Κῆποι, Strab. xi. p.494; Anon. Peripl.; Pomp. Mela, 1.19.15; Diod. 20.2
• Cerameicus a bay in Caria (Hdt. 1.174), now the gulf of Boudroun, so called from a town Ceramus (Κέρα
• Ceramon Agora Agora (Κεραμῶν ἀγορά). The position of this place is doubtful. It is one of the places whi
• Cerasae or CERASSAE (Κέρασσαι, in Lydia, is mentioned by Nonnus (13.468) as a wine country. Major
• Cerasus . The Ten Thousand, in their retreat, came to Trapezus, and leaving Trapezus, they arrive
• Ceraunii Montes Montes (τὰ Κεραύνια ὄρη), a range of mountains belonging to the system of Caucasus, at its
• Ceraunii Montes Montes (Κεραύνια ὄρη, Strab. pp. 21, 281, 285, 316, seq., 324, et alibi: Khimára), a lofty
• Ceraunilia a town of Samnium or Apulia, mentioned by Diodorus (20.26) as taken by the Romans in the S
• Cerbalus a river of Apulia, mentioned only by Pliny (3.11. s. 16), who makes it the northern bounda
• Cerbesii Cerbesii (Eth. Κερβήσιοι), a Phrygian tribe mentioned in a verse of Alcman, quoted by Stra
• Cerbia a town of Cyprus, which D'Anville places near the promontory of Crommyon. Wesseling (ap. H
• Cercasorum or CERCASORA (Κερκάσωρον, Hdt. 2.15, 17, 97; Κερκάσουρα, Strab. xviii. p.806; Mela, 1.9.2:
• Cercetae one of the peoples of Sarmatia Asiatica, who occupied the NE. shore of the Euxine, between
• Cercina or CERCENNA (Κέρκινα, Κέρκιννα: Karkenah, or Ramlah); and CERCINITIS (Κερκινῖτις, Κερκιννῖ
• Cercine the uninhabited mountain chain which branched off from Haemus in a SE. direction, and form
• Cercinitis the large lake lying at the N. foot of the hill of Amphipolis, which Thucydides (5.7) accu
• Cerea a town of Crete, which from its mention by Polybius (l.c.), and from a coin with the epigr
• Cereae a place in Asia Minor, fixed by the Table on the road between Amastris (or Mastrum, as it
• Cereatae a town of Latium, mentioned by Strabo (v. p.238) among those which lay on the left of the
• Cerebelliaca a station in Gallia, placed in the Jerusalem Itin., between Valentia (Valence) and Mansio
• Ceressus a strong fortress in Boeotia, in the neighbourhood of, and belonging to Thespiae. The inha
• Ceretapa a town of Phrygia Pacatiana. The Ethnic name is known from the coins, which also show that
• Cerfennia a town of the Marsi, not mentioned by Pliny or the other geographers, but placed by the It
• Cerge a place in Mysia, mentioned by Hierocles, quoted by Forbiger, who suggests that the name o
• Cerillae or CERILLI (Κήριλλοι, Strab.; CERILLAE Sil. Ital. 8.581), a town of Bruttium, on the coast
• Cerinthus a town upon the north-eastern coast of Euboea, and near the small river Budorus, said to h
• Cerne an island of the Atlantic, off the W. coast of Africa, discovered and colonized in the voy
• Cerones in Britain, mentioned by Ptolemy (2.3.11), as lying next to the Epidii, and to the west of
• Cerretani Cerretani (Κερρητανοί, Strab. iii. p.162; Ath. xiv. p. 657; Κερροιτανοί, Ptol. 2.6.69), a
• Certonium or CERTONUS (Κερτώνιον, Κερτωνός), a place in Mysia, only mentioned by Xenophon (Xen. Anab
• Cervaria a place in Gallia close to the eastern termination of the Pyrenees, or as Mela (2.5) descr
• Ceryneia (Κερυνεία, Scyl.; Κερυνία, Κερωνία, Κεραυνία, Ptol. 5.14.4; Diod. 14.59; Κορώνεια, Κορώνη,
• Ceryneia (Κερύνεια, also Κερυνία, Κεραυνία, Κεραύνεια, &c.: Eth. Κερυνεύς; respecting the orthograp
• Cesero or CESSERO, a town of Gallia Narbonensis, in the territory of the Volcae Tectosages (Ptol.
• Cestrine a district of Epeirus in the south of Chaonia, separated from Thesprotia by the river…
• Cestrus a river of Pamphylia, which rises in the mountains of Selge (Strab. p. 571). The course of
• Cetaria a small town of Sicily, placed by Ptolemy, the only author who affords any clue to its pos
• Cetium a Roman municipium in the extreme east of Noricum, at the foot of mount Cetius, from which
• Cetius a branch of the Caicus, a river of Mysia. Pliny (5.30) says Pergamum, which the Selinus fl
• Cetius Mons Mons (Κέτιον ὄρος: Kahlenberg), a mountain of Noricum on the borders of Upper Pannonia (Pt
• Ceutrones Ceutrones a people mentioned by Caesar (Caes. Gal. 5.39) as subject to the Nervii. They ar
• Cevelum a place in North Gallia, according to the Table, on the road between Noviomagus (Nymegen)
• Chabala a city of Albania, evidently the same which Pliny calls Cabalaca, and makes the capital of
• Chaboras a large river…
• Chadisius or CHADISIA (Plin. Nat. 6.3), a river of Pontus. There was also a town Chadisia (Χαδισία:
• Chaeroneia a town of Boeotia, situated near the Cephissus, upon the borders of Phocis. The town itsel
• Chala a town in the eastern part of ancient Assyria, probably the capital of the district called
• Chalaeum town upon the coast of the Locri Ozolae, near the borders of Phocis. Leake places it at La
• Chalastra . a town of Mygdonia in Macedonia, situated on the Thermaean gulf at the right of…
• Chalcedon a city of Bithynia, at the entrance of the Pontus, opposite to Byzantium, as Stephanus (s.
• Chalcetor a place in Caria. Strabo (p. 636) says that the mountain range of Grion is parallel to Lat
• CHALCIA or CHALCE or CHALCE (Χαλκεία, Χαλκία, Χάλκη: Eth. Χαλκίτης and Eth. Χαλκαῖος, Steph. s. v. Χάλκη: Ch
• Chalcidice the name applied to the whole of the great peninsula, lying southward of the ridge of Mt.
• Chalcis in Syria. 1. Χαλκίς The chief city of Chalcidice, one of the ten political divisions of N.
• Chalcis . 1. (Egripo, Negropont), the chief town of Euboea, separated from the opposite coast of B
• Chalcitis . 1. (Eth. Χαλκίτης: Khalki or Karki) an island opposite to Chalcedon with copper mines. (
• Chaldaea in a strict sense, was probably only, what Ptolemy (5.20.3) considered it, a small tract o
• Chaldaei Chaldaei (Eth. Χαλδαῖοι), a people who dwelt in Babylonia, taken in the most extensive sen
• Chaldaici Lacus Lacus (Plin. Nat. 6.23, 27; τὰ ἕλη τὰ κατὰ Χαλδαίους, Strab. xvi. p.767), a wide extent of
• Chaldone Promontorium Promontorium placed by Pliny (6.28) on the Arabian side of the Persian Gulf, near its nort
• Chalia a town of Boeotia, mentioned by Theopompus, and in an ancient inscription: from the latter
• Chalus a river of Syria, four days' march from Myriandrus, full of fish, which were held sacred b
• Chalybes Chalybes (Χάλυβες, or Χάλυβοι, as Hecataeus named them). The Ten Thousand in their march w
• Chalybon a city in Syria, afterwards called Beroea [BEROEA No. 3], from which came the name of Chal
• Chamavi Chamavi (Καμαυοί, Καμαβοί, Χάμαβοι), a German tribe, perhaps the same as the Gambrivii in
• Characoma a city of Arabia Petraea mentioned by Ptolemy (5.17.5), the Kir of Moab of Isaiah (15.1),
• Charadra . 1. A city of Phocis, and one of the Phocian towns destroyed by Xerxes, is described by P
• Charadriae a town on the N. coast of the peninsula of Acte, mentioned by Scylax (p. 26), which Colone
• Charadrus a place on the coast of Cilicia, between Platanus and Cragus, according to the Stadiasmus.
• Charadrus the name of many mountain torrents in Greece. 1. In Phocis. [CHARADRA No. 1.] 2. In Epeiru
• Charax . Stephanus (s. v.) has collected the names of several places called Charax. One is the Ch
• Charax a seaport town, belonging to the Carthaginians, at the bottom of the Great Syrtis, very ne
• Charax Mediae Mediae (Ptol. 6.2.2), a town, according to Ptolemy, of the Cadusii, one of the tribes of M
• Charax Spasinu Spasinu (Χάραξ Σπασίνου, Steph. B. sub voce Ptol. 6.3.2; D. C. 68.28; Plin. Nat. 6.27. s.
• Charcha a fortress of Mygdonia, which the Romans, in the retreat under Jovian, passed, after leavi
• Charidemi Charidemi, PR. (Χαριδήμου ἀκρωτήριον: C. de Gate), one of the principal headlands of the S
• Charieis a river of Colchis, flowing into the Euxine Sea, 90 stadia north of the Phasis. Whether it
• Charinda a small river on the western boundary of Hyrcania, which flowed into the Caspian Sea. By P
• Charmande (Χαρμάνδη,, Xen. Anab. 1.5.10; Steph. B. sub voce a large and prosperous town according to
• Charudes Charudes (Χαροῦδες), a tribe mentioned by Ptolemy (2.11.12) among the inhabitants of the C
• Charybdis a celebrated whirlpool in the Sicilian Straits, between Messana and Rhegium, but much near
• Chasuari Chasuari (Eth. Χαττουάριοι, Eth. Κασουάριοι, Strab. p. 291; Ptol. 2.11.22), or as Velleius
• Chateni Chateni an Arab tribe inhabiting the Sinus Capenus, which Pliny places on the west side of
• Chatramis a country of Arabia Felix, mentioned by Dionysius Per. (957), and Eustathius (ad loc.) as
• Chatramotitae a people of the south of Arabia. (Plin. Nat. 6.28.) The country he names Atramitae. Both n
• Chatti Chatti or CATTI (Eth. Χάττοι, Eth. Χάτται), one of the great tribes of Germany, which rose
• Chauci Chauci, CAUCHI, CAUCI, CAYCI (Καῦχοι, Καῦκοι), a German tribe in the east of the Frisians,
• Chaulotaei Chaulotaei (Eth. Χαυλοταῖοι, Eratosth. ap. Strab. xvi. p. 767), an Arab tribe at the NW. o
• Chaus The Roman general Cn. Manlius marched from Tabae in Pisidia in three days, or perhaps not
• Chazene one of the districts into which Strabo divides the plain country of Assyria, round Ninus (
• Cheimerium a promontory and harbour of Thesprotia in Epeirus, between the rivers Acheron and Thyamis,
• Chelae a place on the coast of Bithynia, marked in the Table. Arrian (p. 13) places it 20 stadia
• Chelidonia Χελιδόνια. This name occurs in Strabo (p. 663) in the genitive Χελιδονίων, as the name of
• Chelidoniae Insulae Insulae (Χελιδόνιαι), two rocks (Steph. B. sub voce Χελιδόνιοι), according to Phavorinus,
• Chelonatas a promontory of Achaia, and the most westerly point of the Peloponnesus, distant, accordin
• Chelonides Lacus Lacus (αἱ Χελωνίδες κίμναι), a series of lakes (apparently three), formed by the river Gei
• Chemmis the chief town of the Chemmite Nome in the Thebaid, and one of the most ancient cities in
• Chen or CHENAE (Χήν, Steph. B. sub voce Χῆναι, Paus., Diod.: Eth. Χηνεύς, Eth. Χηνιεύς), the bi
• Chenoboscia or CHENOBOSCIUM (Χηνοβοσκία, Ptol. 4.5.72; Steph. B. sub voce Itin. Anton. p. 166; Χηνοβοσ
• Chereu supposed to be the modern village of…
• Cherith a brook mentioned only in the history of Elijah (1 Kings, 17.3--7) without any further not
• Chersonesi Promontorium Promontorium (Χερσόνησος ἄκρα), placed by Ptolemy (6.7) towards the north-eastern extremit
• Chersonesus a name borne by three places in Crete. 1. A point on the W. coast, identified with Keronis
• Chersonesus Cimbrica Cimbrica (Χερσόνησος Κιμβρική: Jutland), the large peninsula terminating on the N. in the
• Chersonesus Magna Magna (Χερρόνησος ἄκρα, Strab. xvii. p.838; Χερσόνησος μεγάλη, Ptol. 4.5.2; also called Χρ
• Chersonesus Thracica Thracica (Χερσόνησος Θρᾳκία), the peninsula extending in a south-westerly direction into t
• Cherusci Cherusci (Eth. Χέρουσκοι, Eth. Χηροῦσκοι, or Eth. Χαιρουσκοί), the most celebrated of all
• Chesuloth a town near Mount Tabor, in the borders of Zabulon and Issachar. Dr. Robinson conjectures
• Chimaera a mountain in Lycia, in the territory of Phaselis, where there was a flame burning on a ro
• Chimaera a town of Epeirus in the district Chaonia, now gives its name to the Acroceraunian mountai
• Chinalaph the largest river of Mauretania Caesariensis, and, next to the Malva, of all N. Africa, is
• Chinnereth a fenced city of the tribe of Naphthali (Josh. 19.35.) It was apparently situated near the
• Chios an island of the Aegean, opposite to the…
• Choana a place in Media. Forbiger suggests that perhaps it is the same as Χαύων, a place mentione
• Choarene a district of Parthia immediately adjoining the Caspian Gates. It was a plain country, and
• Choaspes a river of Susiana which rising among the Laristan mountains, and after passing the town o
• Choatras a mountain range on the borders of Media and Assyria. It is part of the outlying ranges of
• Choatres a river of Parthia, mentioned by Ammianus (23.6). It is not possible to determine which of
• Choe RADES(Χοιράδες νῆσοι),two small islands lying off the harbour of Tarentum, about four mile
• Choereae a place in Euboea, only mentioned by Herodotus (6.101), appears to have been situated betw
• Cholon Teichos Teichos (Χωλὸν τεῖχος: Eth. Χωλοτειχίτης), a city of Caria, mentioned by Apollonius in his
• Choma a place in the interior of Lycia, according to Pliny (5.27), on a river Aedesa. Ptolemy (5
• Chones Chones (Χῶνες), a people of Southern Italy, who inhabited a part of the countries afterwar
• Chora or CORA, a place in Gallia, mentioned by Ammianus Marcellinus (16.2) as being on Julian's
• Chorasmii Chorasmii (Eth. Χωράσμιοι, Her. 3.93, 117; Strab. xi. p.513; Dionys. Per. 10.746; Arrian,
• Chorazin mentioned only in St. Matthew (11.26), and the parallel passage in St. Luke (10.13), in ou
• Chori Chori (Χορή, Χορί, Const. Porph. De Adm. Imp. 100.44), a district of Armenia, situated on
• Chorseus a river of Palestine, which formed the boundary between that country and Phoenicia, and fe
• Chorzane CHORZIANENE (Χορσάνη, Procop. Aed. 33; Χορσιανηνή, Procop. B. P. 2.24), a district of Arme
• Chorzene a mountainous district, situated to the NW. of the Greater Armenia, which had originally b
• Chretes a river on the W. coast of Africa, a little S. of CERNE (Hanno, p. 3), on the position of
• Christopolis a town of Macedonia, situated on the Via Egnatia, mentioned by the writers of the Lower Em
• Chrysa . Stephanus (s. v.) has a list of various places so called. He does not decide which is th
• Chrysaoris a town of Caria, afterwards called Idrias. According to Apollonius, in his Carica (Steph.
• Chrysas a river of Sicily which rises in the Heraean mountains, not far from the modern town of Ga
• Chrysippa a city of Cilicia, named from the founder Chrysippus (Steph. s. v. Χρύσιππα).
• Chrysoceras i. e. the golden horn, a promontory near Constantinople, part of which was occupied by the
• Chrysopolis in Bithynia, near Chalcedon, on the right to one who is sailing upwards, that is, from the
• Chus mentioned only in the book of Judith (7.18), where Ekrebel is said to be near Chus, which
• Chytrus CHYTRI (Χύτρος, Ptol. 5.14.6; Χύτροι, Steph. B. sub voce Suid.; Χύθροι, Hierocl.; Χυθέρεια
• Ciabrus CIAMBRUS, or CEBRUS (Κίαβρος, Κιάμβρος, Κέβρος: Czibru or Zibru), a river forming the boun
• Cibalae a town in Lower Pannonia. In the Itin. Hieros. p. 563, and the Geogr. Rav. 4.19, its name
• Cibrus or CEBRUS (Κίβρος), a town situated at the embouchure of the Ciabrus into the Danube, is n
• Cibyra . 1. MAGNA the chief city of a district Cibyratis. Strabo (p 631) says, that the Cibyratae
• Cicones Cicones (Κίκονες), a Thracian people inhabiting the coast district between the rivers Hebr
• Cicynethus a small island off the coast of Thessaly in the Pagasaean gulf. (Scylax, p. 29; Artemiod.
• Cidramus a town in Phrygia, known from its coins described by Sestini. The epigraph is Κιδραμηνων.
• Cierium a town in Thessaly, which is identified by Stephanus B. with Arne (Steph. B. sub voce Ἅρνη
• Cilices Cilices (Κίλικες). The Cilices are mentioned in the Iliad as the inhabitants of the part o
• Cilicia . The description of Cilicia is difficult; but the best way of understanding the character
• Cilla a town of Mysia, mentioned in the Iliad (1.36), with Chryse and Tenedus. Herodotus (1.149)
• Cillanius Campus Campus (τὸ Κιλλάνιον), is mentioned by Strabo (p. 629) between the plain of Peltae, which
• Cimbri Cimbri (Eth. Κίμβροι), a tribe which in conjunction with the Teutones and others invaded t
• Cimiatene a division of Paphlagonia, which took its name from a hill fort, Cimiata, at the foot of t
• Ciminus a mountain and lake of Southern Etruria, between Volsinii and Falerii. The former, still c
• Cimmericum a town of the Cimmerian Bosporus situated near the mountain of the same name (Κιμμέριον, S
• Cimmerii Cimmerii (Eth. Κιμμέριοι), a people who belong partly to legend and partly to history. The
• Cimmerium a town of the Cimmerian Bosporus which Pliny says was situated ultimo…
• Cimolus a small island in the Aegaean sea, one of the Cyclades, lying between Siphnos and Melos, a
• Cinaedocolpitae a district on the east coast of the Red Sea mentioned by Ptolemy (6.7), probably identical
• Cinara or CINARUS (Κίναρος: Zinari), a small island in the Aegaean sea, NE. of Amorgos, named aft
• Cindye a place in Caria, near Bargylia, of which the position is uncertain. [BARGYLIA]
• Cinga a river of Hispania Tarraconensis, falling into the Sicoris, a tributary of the Iberus. (C
• Cingilia a town of the Vestini, mentioned only by Livy (8.29), among the places taken by the Roman
• Cingulum a city of Picenum, situated in the interior of the province, about 12 miles S. of Aesis, a
• Cinolis or CIMOLIS (Κίμωλις), according to Strabo (p. 545), and other authorities, a place on the
• Cinyps or CINYPHUS (Κίνυψ, Hdt. 4.175, 198; Κίνυφος, Strab. xvii. p.835: Cinifo or Wadi Quasam,)
• Circeii Circeii (Κιρκαία, Dionys.: Eth. Κιρκαῖοι, Id., Κιρκαΐται, Pol., Circeienses), a town of La
• Circeius or CIRCAEUS MONS, or CIRCAEUM PROMONTORIUM (τὸ Κιρκαῖον ὄρος, Strab.; Κιρκαῖυν ἄκρον, Ptol
• Circesium a town of Mesopotamia, below Nicephorium, at the junction of the Chaboras (Khabúr) with th
• Cirphis a range of mountains in Phocis near the sea, separated from Parnassus by the valley of the
• Cirradae a tribe who lived, according to Ptolemy, along the banks of the Oxus in Sogdiana. Wilson (
• Cirta an inland city of the…
• Cisamus . 1. The port of Aptera in Crete. [APTERA] 2. Another town of this name appears in the Peu
• Cison the ancient river, which pouring its waters through the plain of Esdraelon in such abundan
• Cissa an inland city of Hispania Citerior, in the neighbourhood of which Cn. Scipio defeated and
• Cissa a small town on the river Aegos in the Thracian Chersonesus. (Plin. Nat. 4.18.) It is undo
• Cissia a district in Susiana, on both sides of the Choaspes and Eulaeus, in which was situated th
• Cissides or CISSIDAE, a place on the coast of Lycia, 80 stadia east of the island Lagusa along the
• Cissus a mountain of Macedonia, on which were found the lion, ounce, lynx, panther, and bear. (Xe
• Cisthene . 1. A town on the coast of Mysia, deserted in Strabo's time (p. 606). It lay outside of t
• Cistoboci Cistoboci (Eth. Κιστοβῶκοι), a people of Dacia (in the N. of Moldavia), extending also int
• Cithaeron a range of mountains, separating Boeotia from Megaris and Attica, of which a description i
• Citharista a place in the Maritime Itin. between Telo Martius (Toulon) and Marseille. The name which
• Citharistes a promontory in the south of Gallia, placed by Ptolemy (2.10) between Tauroentum (Taurenti
• Citharizon a fortress of Armenia, four days' journey from Theodosiopolis, and in the province ASTHIAN
• Citium . 1. A town situated on the S. coast of Cyprus. In the Peutinger Tables it is called Cito,
• Citrum a place which the epitomiser of Strabo (vii. p.330) and a scholiast on Demosthenes (Olynth
• Cius a city in Bithynia, at the head of a gulf in the Propontis, called the gulf of Cius, or Ci
• Cizari Cizari (ἡ Κίζαρι), a place in Pontus, in the district Phazemonitis, on the lake Stiphane.
• Clampetia or LAMPETIA (Λαμπέτεια,, Pol. ap. Steph. B. sub voce a city of Bruttium, placed both by Pl
• Clanis or GLANIS (Κλάνις, Strab.; Γλάνις, App.: Chiana), a river of Etruria, flowing through the
• Clanius a river of Campania, which rises in the Apennines near Abella, and traverses the whole pla
• Clanoventa in Britain. The ninth Itinerary is A Clanoventa Mediolano M.P. cl. Another reading is Clam
• Clanum a place marked in the Antonine Itin. between Agedincum (Sens) and Augustobona (Troyes), bu
• Clarius a small stream in Cyprus which ran near the town of Aepeia. (Plut. Sol. 26; Steph. B. sub
• Clarus a place in Ionia, near Colophon, where there was a temple of Apollo, and an oracle of high
• Clastidium a town of Cisalpine Gaul, situated on the borders of Liguria, about 7 miles S. of the Padu
• Claterna a town of Gallia Cispadana, situated on the Via Aemilia, between Bononia and Forum Corneli
• Clauda also called GAUDOS (Mel. 2.7; Plin. Nat. 4.12. s. 20), now Gozza, a small island off the S
• Claudia a town in the northern part of Noricum (Plin. Nat. 3.27), and perhaps the same as Claudivi
• Claudiopolis . 1. Ammianus (14.25) mentions Seleucia and Claudiopolis as cities of Cilicia, or of the c
• Claudius Mons Mons a mountain range in Pannonia, the eastern slope of which was inhabited by the Taurisc
• Clausentum in Britain, the first station of the seventh Itinerary between Regnum and Londinium, dista
• Clautinatii Clautinatii (Eth. Κλαυτινάτιοι), a Vindelician tribe mentioned by Strabo (p. 206), and app
• Clavenna a town of Rhaetia, but on the Italian side of the Alps, still called Chiavenna, was situat
• Clazomenae one of the cities of Ionia. Strabo (p. 644) fixes its position within certain limits accur
• Cleides a group of small islands which lay off the NE. extremity of Cyprus. (Strab. xiv. p.682.) T
• Cleitor a town in Arcadia, the name of which is derived by Müller, from its being situated in an e
• Cleonae . 1. A city in Peloponnesus, described by writers of the Roman period as a city of Argolis
• Climax a name equivalent to the French Echelle and Italian Scala. It was used by the Greeks to si
• Climax Mons Mons (Κλίμαξ ὄρος, Ptol.), a mountain of Arabia Felix, mentioned as a landmark several tim
• Climberris or CLIMBERRUM, a town of the Ausci, an Aquitanian people, afterwards Augusta. [AUGUSTA] Vo
• Clitae a place in the interior of Bithynia, mentioned by Ptolemy (5.1), east of the Parthenius. T
• Clitae a Cilician people who are mentioned by Tacitus (Tac. Ann. 6.41) as subjects of a Cappadoci
• Cliternia or CLITERNUM. 1. (Κλείτερνον, Ptol.: Eth. Cliterninus), a city of the Aequiculi, and one o
• Clitumnus a small river of Umbria, celebrated for the clearness of its waters, and the beauty of the
• Clodiana a town in Illyria, situated upon the Via Egnatia, at the point where this road divided, on
• Clodianus a river of Hispania Tarraconensis, at. the E. end of the Pyrenees, forming at its mouth th
• Clota in Britain, mentioned by both Tacitus (Agric. 23) and Ptolemy. Name for name, and place fo
• Cluana a town of Picenum, mentioned by Mela and Pliny, both of whom place it on the coast between
• Clunia a city of the Arevacae in Hispania Tarraconensis, the last considerable place in Celtiberi
• Clusium an inland city of Etruria, one of the most ancient and powerful in that country, and witho
• Clusius a river of Gallia Transpadana, now called the Chiese, which rises in the Rhaetian Alps, an
• Clydae a place in Caria in the Rhodian Peraea. (Ptol. 5.3.), The MSS. of Ptolemy and the older ed
• Clysma the name given by Eusebius to the Heroopolitan or western gulf of the Red Sea, through whi
• Cnemis a range of mountains forming the boundary between Phocis and the Epicnemidii Locri, who re
• Cnidus a city in Caria, at the western extremity of a long peninsula, which forms the southern si
• CNOSUS or CNOSSUS or CNOSSUS. CNOSUS or GNOSUS, subsequently CNOSSUS, or GNOSSUS (Κνωσός, Κνωσσός, Γνωσσός:
• Cobulatus or, as Polybius (22.18) writes it, COLOBATUS (Κολόβατος), a river which the Roman general
• Cocala a small place on the coast of Gedrosia, where Nearchus spent several days on his return wi
• Coccium in Britain, mentioned in the tenth Itinerary, as being 27 miles from Bremetonacae, and 18
• Coche (Κωχή or Χωχή, Steph. B. sub voce a small village on the Tigris, not far from Seleuceia, o
• Cochliusa an island near the coast of Lycia, which has its name from the shells found there, as Alex
• Cocinthus or COCINTHUM (Κόκυνθος, Pol.), a promontory of Bruttium, which is described by Polybius (2
• Cocosa or COEQUOSA, as it is written in the Antonine Itin., is the first place on a road from Aqu
• Cocylium a place in Mysia, mentioned by Xenophon with Neandria and Ilium. (Xen. Hell. 3.1. 16) In P
• Codani Codani a people of Arabia Felix, mentioned by Pliny between the Arsi and the Vadei (6.28).
• Codanus Sinus Sinus the sea to the east of the Chersonesus Cimbrorum (Jutland), which, as Pomp. Mela (3.
• Codrion a fortified town in Illyria, which surrendered to the Romans upon the capture of Antipatri
• Coela the Hollows, a part of the coast of Euboea, which was very dangerous to vessels in stormy
• Coeletae a Thracian people, divided into majores and minores, the former of whom dwelt at the foot
• Coelos COELA, COELIA, or CELA (Κοιλὸς λιμήν, Κοῖλα, Κοιλία), a port-town in the Thracian Chersone
• Coenophrurium a town on the Thracian coast of the Propontis, on the road from Apollonia to Selymbria; in
• Coetae are mentioned by Xenophon at the end of the Anabasis (7.8.25) among the nations that the T
• Cogaeonum a mountain in the district of the Getae, which, from its connection with the legend of Zam
• Colania in Britain, mentioned by Ptolemy as one of the cities of the Damnii, to the NE. of the Sel
• Colapis a river in the country of the Iapodes, in Pannonia, the district about the mouth of which
• Colchi Indiae Indiae (Eth. Κόλχοι, Peripl. Mar. Erythr. p. 33; Tab. Peuting. Colchis Indorum; Κόλχοι ἐμπ
• Colchis a district of western Asia bounded on the SW. by the province of Pontus, from which it was
• Colenda a city of the Arevacae in Hispania Tarraconensis, mentioned by Appian (App. Hisp. 99, 100;
• Coli Coli (Eth. Κῶλοι), a people of the Caucasus, in the north of Colchis, inhabiting a distric
• Colis a district on the Malabar coast, opposite to Ceylon,and a little to the northward of Cape
• Collatia an ancient city of Latium, situated about 10 miles E. of Rome, between Gabii and the Anio.
• Collops Magnus Magnus or CULLU (Κόλλοψ μέγας ἢ Κόλλου, Ptol. 4.3.3; Chulli Municipium, Itin. Ant. p. 19;
• Colobi Colobi (Κολοβοί, Diod. 3.32; Agatharch. p. 46; Ptol. 4.7.28), a tribe of Troglodytes situa
• Coloe a lake in Aethiopia, lat. 12° N., through which flows, but with little intermixture of the
• Colonae or COLONE, a town in the Troad, 140 stadia from Ilium. (Strab. pp. 589, 604; Thuc. 1.131;
• Colonia in Britain. The criticism which applies to Camulodunum [CAMULODUNUM] has been postponed to
• Colonia Agrippina Agrippina or AGRIPPINENSIS, or simply AGRIPPINA (Cologne, as the French and English call i
• Colonia Equestris Noiodunum Equestris Noiodunum (Nyon), a town in the country of the Helvetii, which the Itineraries p
• Colonia Trajana Trajana is only mentioned in the Antonine Itinerary and the Table. It is on the road from
• Colonides a town in the SW. of Messenia, described by Pausanias as standing upon a height at a short
• Colonis an island mentioned by Pliny (4.12. s. 19) as off the coast of Argolis. From the order in
• Colopene CULUPENE, or CALUPENE (Καλουπηνή), a district in Pontus on the border of Armenia Minor. (S
• Colophon one of the Ionian cities of Asia, founded, according to tradition, by Andraemon. The tomb
• Colossae a city of Phrygia, first mentioned by Herodotus (7.30) as a large city of Phrygia, on the
• Colta a small place on the coast of Gedrosia, visited by the fleet of Nearchus. Its position is
• Colthene a district in the E. of Armenia, on the banks of the Araxes. St. Martin (Mém. sur l'Armeni
• Colyergia a promontory of Argolis, placed by Pausanias (2.34.8) between Bucephala and Buporthmus; bu
• Comana 1. IN PONTUS (Κόμανα τὰ ἐν τῷ Πόντῳ or Κόμανα τὰ Ποντικά: Gumenek), a place in Pontus abov
• Comania a place only mentioned by Xenophon (Xen. Anab. 7.8.15). It appears to be not far from Perg
• Comaria according to Ptolemy, a promontory and town in the S. part of India intra Gangem. There ca
• Combaristum a place in Gallia, which the Table places 16 Gallic leagues from Juliomagus (Angers), on t
• Combretonium in Britain, mentioned in the ninth Itinerary as the second station from Venta Icenorum (No
• Combusta a place in Gallia on the road from Narbo (Narbonne) to Juncaria (Jonquière). The distance
• Combusta Insula Insula (Κατακεκαυμένη), an island, in the Gulf of Arabia (Ptol. 6.7), supposed to be Camar
• Comenses Comenses a people of Galatia, mentioned by Pliny (5.32) among those of some note. Hamilton
• Comidava a town of Dacia, which Sulzer (Geschichte Daciens, vol. i. p. 416) places near the remarka
• Cominium a city of Samnium, the situation of which is very uncertain. There are, indeed, strong rea
• Comisene one of the divisions of Parthia, according to Ptolemy, adjoining Hyrcania. Isidorus Charax
• Commagene a district of Syria, lying to the N., bounded on the E. by the Euphrates…
• Commenases a large river which flowed into the Ganges. There has been some doubt with what modern riv
• Commoni Commoni (Κομμονοί), the name of a Gallic, or perhaps Ligurian tribe, mentioned by Ptolemy
• Commoris a town of the Eleutherocilices, which M. Cicero took during his proconsulship of Cilicia,
• Complega a city of the Celtiberi, in Hispania Tarraconensis, mentioned by Appian (App. Hisp. 42, 43
• Compleutica a town of the Callaici Bracarii, in Hispania Tarraconensis, on the high road from Bracara
• Complutum a town of the Carpetani, in Hispania Tarraconensis, on the high road from Emerita to Caesa
• Compsa a considerable city of the Hirpini, situated near the sources of the Aufidus, and not far
• Compsatus a river of Thrace, which flowing through Lake Bistonis emptied itself into the Aegean. (Hd
• Compulteria or COMBULTERIA (Eth. Compulterinus), a city of Samnium on the borders of Campania, situate
• Comum an important city of Cisalpine Gaul, situated at the southern extremity of the Lacus Lariu
• Conana a place in Pisidia, which is erroneously written Comana in Ptolemy (5.5); for there are co
• Concangii Concangii in Britain, mentioned in the Notitia as the station of a Numerus Vigilum: Identi
• Concobar a place in Media, with a temple of Artemis (Isidor. Char. p. 7; Tab. Pent.; Geogr. Rav.) I
• Concordia a Gallic town on the Rhine between Brocomagus (Brumat) and Noviomagus (Speyer), according
• Concordia a considerable city of Venetia, situated about 10 miles from the Adriatic, on the high roa
• Condate is the name of several Gallic towns, situated at the angle formed by the junction of two r
• Condate in Britain, mentioned twice in the Itinerary; firstly, as being 18 miles from Mancunium (M
• Condatomagus another example of a name Condate, with the addition of may, a common Gallic ending. The T
• Conderates Conderates are only known from a Roman inscription, which records that the boatmen (nautae
• Condercum in Britain. The station of the first wing of the Asti, according to the Notitia. Generally
• Condivicnum or (Κονδιουίγκον) CONDIVINCUM, according to Ptolemy (2.8), was the name of the capital of
• Condochates a river which flowed into the Ganges, and was, according to Pliny, navigable. Modern geogr
• Condrusi Condrusi The Condrusi are mentioned by Caesar (Caes. Gal. 2.4) with other tribes, as calle
• Condylon in Thessaly, is mentioned by Livy as one of the four fortresses which defended Tempe. (Liv
• Conembrica a city of Lusitania, on the high road from Olisipo to Bracara. (Itin. Ant. p. 421; Plin. N
• Confluentes a town in Gallia, at the junction of the Rhine and Mosel, is first mentioned by Suetonius.
• Congavata in Britain, mentioned in the Notitia as the station of the Second Cohort of the Lergi. Gen
• Congustus a place in Galatia, mentioned by Ptolemy (5.4), and apparently the Congusso of the Table,
• Conii Conii or CUNEI (Eth. Κούνεοι, Eth. Appian, Hisp. 57; Κόνιοι, Plb. 10.7.5), a people in the
• Conni Conni in Phrygia Magna, is placed by the Table between Eucarpia and Nacolea, 32 miles from
• Conope afterwards ARSINOE (Κωνώπη: Eth. Κωνωπευς, Eth. Κωνωπίτης, Eth. Κωνωπαῖος Ἀρσινόη: Eth. Ἀρ
• Conopeium . East of the mouth of the Halys, Arrian (p. 16) mentions a marsh and port Naustathmus, 90
• Conovium in Britain, one of the four places of the eleventh Itinerary, Segovium, Varis, and Deva be
• Consentia an inland city of Bruttium, situated on a hill rising above the valley of the Crathis, nea
• Consilinum or COSILLNUM, a town of Lucania, mentioned only in the Liber Coloniarum, which enumerates
• Consorani Consorani enumerated by Pliny (4.19) among the peoples of Aquitania. He mentions them betw
• Constantia or CONSTANTINA (Κωνσταντία, Hier. p. 714; Κωνσταντίνα, Suid., Steph. B. sub voce Nicephori
• Constantia a place in the NW. of Gallia, which Ammianus (15.11) calls Castra Constantia. In the Notit
• Constantiana a town in Moesia, on the coast of the Euxine, southeast of Istropolis. (Procop. De Aedif.
• Constantinopolis the capital of the Lower Empire, and founded by Constantine the Great on the site of the a
• Consuantae or CONSUANTES (Κονσουανται), a Celtic tribe of Vindelicia, on the upper Lech, in the neigh
• Contacossyla a place called by Ptolemy an emporium in the country of Maesolia or Masalia, in the S. of
• Contenebra a town of Etruria, mentioned only by Livy (6.4), from whom it appears that it was situated
• Contestani Contestani (Κοντεστανοί), a people in the SE. of Hispania Tarraconensis, E. of the Basteta
• Contra Aginnum Aginnum is placed by the Anton. Itin. half way between Augusta Veromanduorum (St. Quentin)
• Contrebia . 1. One of the chief cities, and, according to Valerius Maximus, the capital of Celtiberi
• Convenae a people on the north side of the Pyrenees, in Aquitania according to Pliny (4.19), who sa
• Copae a town of Boeotia, and a member of the Boeotian confederacy, was situated upon the norther
• Cophas a small port in Gedrosia to which the fleet of Nearchus came on their way from the…
• Cophen or COPHES (Κωφήν,--ῆνος, Arrian. Ind. 1.4, Anab. 4.22, 5.1; Κώφης,--ου, Dionys. Per. 1140;
• Cophen a name given by Stephanus and Pliny to the town of Arachosia. Some editions of Pliny read
• Cophus the harbour of Torone in Sithonia, which was so called because, being separated from the o
• Coprates a river of Susiana, which rises in the NE. mountains of Laristan near Buru-jird, and accor
• Coptos in hieroglyphics Κοβτο, the modern Kouft or Keft, was the principal city of the nome Copti
• Cora a city of Latium, situated on the left of the Appian Way, between Velitrae and Norba, and
• Coracesium Strabo's boundary on the coast of Asia Minor between Pamphylia and Cilicia. [CILICIA p. 61
• Coracius Mons Mons (τὸ Κοράκιον ὄρος) is placed by Strabo (p. 643) between Colophon and Lebedus. As the
• Coralla a cape on the coast of Pontus, now Cape Kereli. It is identified clearly enough by the nam
• Coranitae an inland people of Arabia, mentioned by Pliny (6.28. s. 32), without any further clue to
• Corassiae or CORSEAE (Κορασσίαι, Strab. x. p.488; Plin. Nat. 4.12. s. 23; Κορσίαι, or Κορσεαί, Strab
• Corax a small river placed by Ptolemy in Sarmatia Asiatica, and which, rising in the Coraxici Mo
• Coraxi Coraxi 1. (Κόραξοι, Aristot. Meteor. 1.13; Hecat. Fragm. 185; Steph. B. sub voce Mela, 1.1
• Coraxici Montes Montes (Mela, 1.19.3; Plin. Nat. 6.9. s. 10, 6.12. s. 15; Mart. Cap. 100.6; ὁ Κόραξ ὄρος,
• Corbasa a town of Pisidia (Ptol. 5.5.6), the same apparently as the Colbasa of Hierocles. Ptolemy'
• Corbeus a city of the Tectosages, in Galatia,according to Ptolemy (5.4.8). It is Gorbeius (Γορβειο
• Corbiana one of the three praefectures into which Elymais was anciently divided. They were Massabat
• Corbilo a trading town in Gallia, on the Loire. It was a flourishing place in. the time of Pytheas
• Corbio an ancient city of Latium, situated on the NE. side of the Alban Hills, which plays a cons
• Corbulonis Munimentum Munimentum a fort built by Corbulo in the country of the Frisians, which probably was the
• Corcyra (Κέρκυρα, Herod., Thuc.; Κόρκυρα, Strab. and later writers, and always on coins: Eth. Κέρκ
• Corcyra Nigra Nigra (ἡ Μέλαινα Κόρκυρα: Curzola, in Slavonic Karkar), an island off the coast of Illyria
• Corda in Britain, mentioned by Ptolemy as one of the cities of the Selgovae. Identified, on scar
• Cordes a small stream of Mesopotamia which rose in the M. Masius, and was a tributary of the Chab
• Corduba one of the chief cities of Hispania, in the territory of the Turduli. It stood on the righ
• Cordyene GORDYENE (Γορδυηνή, Ι ορδηνή, Γορδυαῖα: Eth. Γορδυαῖοι, Eth. Κορδυαῖοι, Eth. Ορδύεοι, Γορδ
• Cordyle or PORTUS CHORDYLE (Plin. Nat. 6.4), a place on the coast of Pontus, 40 or 45 stadia east
• Corfinium the chief city of the Peligni, situated in the valley of the Aternus, near the point where
• Coria in Britain, mentioned by Ptolemy as one of the towns of the Damnii. Perhaps, Craw -furd, C
• Coriallum a town of Gallia, at the termination of a road, in the Table, which begins at Condate (Ren
• Coriendi Coriendi in Ireland, mentioned by Ptolemy as lying between the Menapii and Brigantes, i. e
• Corinea a district of Armenia, which, from the position assigned to it by Ptolemy (l.c.), is in th
• Corineum in Britain, mentioned by Ptolemy as a town of the Dobuni. Name for name, and place for pla
• Corinthiacus Sinus Sinus (Κορινθιακὸς, or Κορίνθιος κόλπος Gulf of Lepanto), the gulf between Northern Greece
• Corinthus one of the most important cities of Greece. I. SITUATION. Corinth stood upon the Isthmus,
• Corioli Corioli (Κοριλ́λα, Dionys.; Κοριόλλα, Steph. B. sub voce: Eth. Κοριολάνος, Eth. Coriolanus
• Coriovallum or CORTOVALLUM, a place in the north of Gallia, on a road from Castellum (Cassel) to Colon
• Corisopiti Corisopiti a Gallic people, not mentioned by any authority earlier than the Notitia. In th
• Coritani Coritani (Coritavi), in Britain, mentioned by Ptolemy as having Lindum and Rhage (Lincoln
• Corium a town of Crete, near which was a temple to Athena (comp. Paus. 8.21.4; Cic. N. D. 3.23) a
• Corius a small river of Carmania, which flows into the Persian Gulf, opposite the Island Ooracta
• Corma a small stream of Assyria, which Forbiger considers to have been one of the tributaries of
• Cormasa or CURMASA (Κύρμασα), a place which the Roman consul Cn. Manlius came to in his march desc
• Cornabii Cornabii or CORNAVII. 1. In North Britain, mentioned by Ptolemy as lying in the extreme no
• Cornacum a town in Lower Pannonia, where, according to the Notit. Imper. several detachments of cav
• Corniculum an ancient city of Latium, which appears to have occupied one of the summits of the remark
• Cornus a city on the W. coast of Sardinia, called by Livy the capital of that part of the island.
• Corobilium a town of Gallia, is placed in the Table on a road from Durocortorum (Reims) to Andematunu
• Coroc a small place in Drangiana mentioned by Isidorus. It has been supposed by Forbiger to be t
• Corocondame (Κοροκονδάμη, Strab. xi. pp. 494, 496; Ptol. 5.9, § § 6, 8; Mela, 1.19; Steph. B. sub voce
• Corodamum Prom Prom (Κορόδαμον ἄκρον), a promontory at the ME. extremity of the country of the Sachalitae
• Coromanis a town of the Abucaei, on the Sacer Sinus, at the NW. extremity of the Persian gulf. Mr. F
• Corone a town of Messenia, situated upon the western side of the Messenian gulf, which…
• Coroneia the name of several places in Greece, derived from κορώνη, a hill. 1. A town of Boeotia, a
• Coronta a small town in the interior of Acarnania, probably lying between Metropolis and Old Oenia
• Coronus Mons Mons (Κορωνός, Ptol. 6.2.4. 6.5.1, 6.9. § § 3, 4), the eastern part of the great chain of
• Coropissus as the name appears on the coins. It is Coropassus in Strabo (p. 568, 663), who says that
• Corpilli Corpilli a Thracian tribe on the river Hebrus (Plin. Nat. 4.18), which inhabited the distr
• Corragum a fortress of Illyria, of uncertain site, taken by the Romans in B.C. 200, along with the
• Corseia . 1. A town of Boeotia, sometimes included in Opuntian Locris, was the first place which t
• Corsi Corsi (Κ̓ορσιορ or Κορσοί, Ptol.), a people of Sardinia, enumerated both by Pliny and Ptol
• Corsica called by the Greeks CYRNUS (Κύρνος: Eth. Κυρναῖος: later Greek writers, however, use also
• Corsote a town in Mesopotamia, on the river Mascas, where Cyrus passed three days on his march aga
• Corsymus or CORSYNUS. It appears, from the coins of Aphrodisias, in Caria, that there was a river C
• Corterate a town in Gallia, placed by the Table on the road from Burdigala (Bordeaux) to Vesunna (Pe
• Cortona one of the most ancient and powerful of the inland cities of Etruria, situated on a lofty
• Cortoriacum The Notitia mentions the Cortoriacenses as under the command of the general of the cavalry
• Cortuosa a town of Etruria, taken and destroyed by the Romans, B.C. 388. (Liv. 6.4.) It appears to
• Cory according to Ptolemy, an island in the Sinus Argaricus, at the southern end of the peninsu
• Corycus . 1. In Lycia, is mentioned in the Stadiasmus, which places it betwen Olympus (Deliktash)
• Corycus the NW. promontory of Crete. In Strabo the name appears as Cimarus (Κίμαρος, x. p. 474). E
• Corydalla a city of the Rhodii, according to Hecataeus, quoted by Stephanus (s. v.). But it was not
• Coryleium according to Stephanus (s. v.) a noted Come in Paphlagonia, so called from a king Corylas.
• Coryphantis one of the settlements of the Mytilenaeans, on the coast of Aeolis, opposite to Lesbos, an
• Cos : Stanko, or Stanchio, a corruption of ἐς τὰν Κῶ), an island in the Myrtoan sea, one of th
• Cosa or COSSA. 1. (Κόσσαι, Strab. Ptol.: Eth. Cosanus: Ansedonia) a city of Etruria, situated o
• Cosa a town in Gallia, is placed in the Table on a road from Tolosa (Toulouse) to Divona (Cahor
• Coscinia or COSCINUS (Plin. Nat. 5.29), a place in Caria. Strabo (p. 650) speaks of Coscinia and Or
• Cosedia a place in Gallia, in the country of the Unelli. The Antonine Itin. places it on a road fr
• Cosetani Cosetani (Κοσητανοί, Ptol. 2.6.17; Plin. Nat. 3.3. s. 4; Cositani, Inscr. ap. Gruter, p. 4
• Cossa a town in India, mentioned by Ptolemy as a place famous for the diamonds found there. It h
• Cossaei Cossaei (Eth. Κοσσαῖοι), a warlike tribe inhabiting a mountainous district called Cossaea
• Cossini Cossini (Eth. Κόσσινοι). According to a fragment of Artemidorus, cited by Stephanus (s. v.
• Cossinites a Thracian river, flowing probably by the town of Consintus, and emptying itself into the
• Cossio or COSSIUM (Κόσσιον), a town of the Vasates, a people in Gallia on the Garumna, above Burd
• Cossoanus one of the many tributaries of the Ganges, recorded by Arrian. It is probably the same as
• Cossura COSSYRA, or COSYRA (Κόσσουρα, Strab.; Κόσσυρα, Ptol. 4.3.37; Κόσυρος, Scyl. p. 50.110: Eth
• Costoboci Costoboci (Eth. Κοιστοβῶκοι, Ptol. 3.5.21; Κοστουβῶκοι, D. C. 71.12; Costobocci, Plin. Nat
• Cotiaeum . The name is written Cotyaeum (Κοτυάειον) in the text of Strabo (p. 576), but the epigrap
• Cotinae a town of Hispania Baetica, famous for its mines of copper mixt with gold, lay somewhere i
• Cottabani Cottabani (Eth. Κατταβήνοι), a people of Arabia, to the east of the Omanitae, the modern O
• Cottiara the chief city, according to Ptolemy, of the Aei, a tribe who occupied the lower part of t
• Cottiaris a river of China, at the southern end of that empire, on the banks of which lived, accordi
• Cotylaeum a mountain in Euboea, at the foot of which Tamynae was situated. (Aeschin. in Ctesiph. p.
• Cotyora in Pontus. According to Xenophon (Xen. Anab. 5.5.4), a colony of Sinope, which furnished s
• Cotyrta a town in the S. of Laconia, near the promontory Malea, which was garrisoned by the Laceda
• Cragus a mountainous tract in Lycia. Strabo (p. 665), whose description proceeds from west to eas
• Crambusa . 1. A small island off the south-east coast of Lycia, which Strabo (p. 666) places betwee
• Cranae an island in the Laconian gulf, opposite Gytheium, whither Paris carried off Helen from Sp
• Cranii Cranii (Eth. Κράνιοι), a town of Cephallenia, situated at the head of a bay on the western
• Cranon or CRANNON (Κρανών, Κραννών; the name is written indifferently with the single and double
• Crataeis a small river of Bruttium, flowing near the Scyllaean promontory. It derived its name from
• Crateia is placed by Ptolemy (v. I) in the interior of Bithynia, and he gives it also the name Fla
• Crateiae some small islands lying off the coast of Liburnia in Illyricum. (Scylax, p. 8; Plin. Nat.
• Crater was the name given by the Greeks, according to Strabo (v. p.242), to the beautiful gulf no
• Crathis one of the most considerable rivers of Bruttium, which in the northern part of its course
• Craugallium a town of Phocis, in the neighbourhood of Cirrha, whose inhabitants are said to have joine
• Crauni Crauni (Κραῦνοι), a promontory on the Cilician coast, mentioned in the Stadiasmus: from th
• Cremaste a place mentioned by Xenophon (Xenoph. Hell. 4.8.37). He speaks of the plain near Cremaste
• Cremera a small river of Etruria, flowing into the Tiber a few miles above Rome. It is celebrated
• Cremna a place in Pisidia, and, as its name imports, a strong post on an eminence. It was taken b
• Cremni Cremni (Κρήμνοι), a town of European Sarmatia; W. of the promontory Agarum, and called by
• Cremnisci Cremnisci (Κρημνίσκοι, Anon. Peripl. Point. Eux. p. 10; Cremniscos, Plin. Nat. 4.26), a to
• Cremona a city of Cisalpine Gaul, situated on the left bank of the Padus, about 6 miles below the
• Crenides or CRANIDES (Κρανίδες; Eth. Κρανίτης, Steph. s. v.), a place on the coast of Bithynia, acc
• Creones in North Britain, mentioned by Ptolemy as lying west of the Cerones [CERONES], occupied pa
• Creophagi Creophagi (Eth. Κρεωφάγοι, Strab. xvi. p.771.), a Troglodytic race on the western shore of
• Cressa . 1. According to Stephanus (s. v.) a city of Paphlagonia, founded by Meriones after the w
• Crestonia a district of Macedonia, which adjoined Mygdonia to the N.; for the Echidorus, which flowe
• CRETA or CRETE or CRETE. CRETA (Κρήτη: Eth. and Adj. Κρής, Adj. Κρήσση, Adj. Κρηταῖος, Adj. Κρητεύς, Adj.
• Cretopolis . Ptolemy places Cretopolis in the part of Cabalia, which he attaches to Pamphylia. Garsye
• Creusa or CREUSIS (Κρέουσα, Κρεουσία, Strab.; Creusa, Liv.; Κρεῦσις, Xen., Paus., Steph. B. sub v
• Crimisa or CRIMISSA (Κρίμισα, Steph. B. sub voce Lycophr. Alex. 913; Κρίμισσα, Strab. vi. p.254),
• Crimisus or CRIMISSUS (Κριμισός, Lycophr., Dionys.; Κριμησός, Plut.; Κριμισσός, Ael.), a river of S
• Crissa or CRISA (Κρίσσα, Κρῖσα: Eth. Κρισσαῖος, Eth. Κρισαῖος), and CIRRHA (Κίρρα: Eth. Κιρραῖος)
• Critalla a place in Cappadocia, where all the army of Xerxes was mustered, and from which he set ou
• Crithote [ACARNANIA p. 9b.] CRIU-METOPON (Κριοῦ μέτωπον, Ptol. 3.6.2; Scymn. Ch. Fr. 80; Anon. Peri
• Crobialus a place on the Paphlagonian coast, mentioned by Apollonius Rhodius (Arg. 2.944), with Crom
• Crobyzi Crobyzi (Eth. Κρόβυζοι), a people of Moesia, near the frontiers of Thrace. (Ptol. 3.10.9;
• Croceae a village of Laconia on the road from Sparta to Gythium, and near the latter place, celebr
• Crociatonum CRONCIACONNUM in the Table. Ptolemy makes it a port of the Unelli or Veneli, a Gallic nati
• Crococolanum in Britain, mentioned in the sixth Itinerary as 12 miles from Lindum (Lincoln). Identified
• Crocodeilon a river of Syria, near which there was formerly a town of the same name (Κροκοδείλων πόλις
• Crocodilopolis the name of several cities in Egypt, derived from the local worship of the crocodile. 1. A
• Crocyleium a town in Aetolia Epictetus, on the borders of Locris, and one day's march from Potidania.
• Crodunum a place in the Gallia Provincia, mentioned by Cicero (Cic. Font. ch. 4). There is no indic
• Cromi Cromi or CROMNUS (Κρῶμοι, Paus. 8.3.4, 27.4, 34.6; Κρῶμνος,, Xen. Hell. 7.4.21; Κρῶμνα, St
• Crommyon the most N. point of the island of Cyprus, NW. of…
• Crommyon a village of the Corinthia…
• Cromna . It was 60 stadia east of Erythini…
• CROTON or CROTONA or CROTONA (Κρότων: Eth. Κροτωνιάτης, Eth. Crotoniensis and Crotonensis, but Cicero uses C
• Cruni Cruni (Κροῦνοι), a town in Moesia, on the river Ziras, was, at a later time, called Dionys
• Cruptoricis Villa Villa a place in the country of the Frisians, where 400 Roman soldiers made away with them
• Crusinie a place in Gallia, according to the Table, on a route from Cabillio, that is Cabillonum (C
• Crusis . The Crossaea, Crusaea, or Crusis, was sometimes considered as a part of Mygdonia, but is
• Crustumerium CRUSTUMERIA, or CRUSTUMIUM (Κρουστομέριον and Κρουστομερία, Dionys., Steph. B. sub voce: E
• Crustumius a river of Umbria, flowing into the Adriatic Sea between Ariminum and Pisaurum. It is noti
• Crya a city of Lycia, according to Stephanus (s. v.). He quotes the first book of the Epitome o
• Cryassus a city of Caria, according to Stephanus (s. v.). It does not appear what his authority is;
• Cryptus Portus Portus (Κρυπτὸς λιμήν), at the straits of the Persian gulf (Ptol. 6.7), by some supposed t
• Ctenus Portus Portus (Κτενοῦς λιμήν, Strab. vii. pp. 308. 312), the port which from the N. side, meeting
• Ctesiphon a large city in the southern part of Assyria, on the left or eastern bank of the Tigris, t
• CTIMENE or CYMENES or CYMENES. CTIMENE (Κτιμένη), a town in Thessaly, on the borders of Dolopia and Phthia, n
• Cuballum a place which the consul Cn. Manlius came to in his march into Galatia from the river Alan
• Cuculum a town of Central Italy, mentioned only by Strabo, who tells us that it was near the Via V
• Cucusus COCUSUS, or COCUSUM, a place in Cataonia several times mentioned in the Antonine Itin.; an
• Cuicul a city of Numidia Caesariensis (aft. Sitifensis), on the right bank of the river Ampsaga,
• Cularo afterwards GRATIANOPOLIS (Grenoble), a town in Gallia, on the Isara (Isère), a branch of t
• Cumae a city on the coast of Campania, about six miles N. of Cape Misenum. It was one of the mos
• Cumerus a promontory of Picenum, on the coast of the Adriatic, still called Monte Comero. (Plin. N
• Cunaxa the scene of the battle between Cyrus the Younger and the forces of his brother Artaxerxes
• Cunetio in Britain, mentioned in the fourteenth Itinerary, as being 15 miles from Spinae (Speen).
• Cuneus i. e. the Wedge, a name applied, from its shape, to that part of the Spanish peninsula whi
• Cuniculariae Insulae Insulae is the name given by Pliny to some small islands lying in the strait which separat
• Cuppae a town in Upper Moesia, with a garrison of Dalmatian horsemen. (Itin. Ant. p. 217; Geogr.
• Cupra the name of two cities or towns in Picenum, called for the sake of distinction Cupra Marit
• Cures but also Curensis, Plin.: Correse), an ancient city of the Sabines, situated to the left o
• Curgia or CURIGA (Itin. Ant. p. 432; Geogr. Ray. 4.44: La Calera), a city of the Celtici, in Hisp
• Curianum is placed by Ptolemy (2.7) on the coast of Aquitania, between the mouth of the Adour and o
• Curias the most S. point of Cyprus, forming a low and rounded excrescence…
• Curicta an island off the coast of Illyricum, now called Karek, or Veglia, a little south of the…
• Curiosolitae a people of Celtica who are mentioned by Caesar several times (B. G. 2.34, 3.7, 11, 7.75).
• Curium a city of Cyprus, situated to the W. of the river Lycus, 16 M. P. from Amathus. (Peut.…
• Curmiliaca in Gallia, is placed by the Antonine Itin. on a road between Samarobriva (Amiens) and Caes
• Curta a town in Pannonia, the site of which is unknown. (Ptol. 2.16.4, who places it in Lower Pa
• Curubis a city on the E. coast of Zeugitana, in Africa Proper, between Clypea and Neapolis, 16 M.
• Cusa a river on the W. coast of Mauretania Tingitana, S. of Atlas Minor and N. of the river Asa
• Cusae the modern Kusieh, was a town in the Lycopolite nome of the Thebaid. In the Notitia Imperi
• Cush the Scripture name for ARABIA usually rendered by the LXX. Αἰθιοπία, as e. g. Numb. 12.1;
• Cutatisium a small town in Colchis, on the river Phasis, now Kchitais or Kutais. It was identified wi
• Cutiliae a town of the Sabines, between Reate and Interocrea, situated in the immediate neighbourho
• Cyane a fountain and river in the neighbourhood of Syracuse, flowing into the Anapus. According
• Cyaneae . Leake (Asia Minor, p. 188) says that this Lycian town was discovered west of Andriaca [A
• Cyaneus a river of Colchis, a little to the south of Dioscurias. According to Pliny, it must have
• Cybeleia or CYBELLIA (Strab. p. 645), a city of Ionia. Strabo, after saying that the mountain Mimas
• Cybistra . Strabo (p. 537), after mentioning Tyana, says that not far from it are Castabala and Cyb
• Cyclades a group of islands in the Aegaean Sea, lying to the south of Attica and Euboea, and so cal
• Cydonia one of the most ancient…
• Cydrara Steph. B. sub voce (s. v. Κύδραρα) refers to the seventh book of Herodotus for the name of
• Cyiza a small port on the coast of Carmania, in the country of the Icthyophagi, to which the fle
• Cyllene . 1. A lofty mountain in the north-eastern corner of Arcadia, upon the borders of Achaia.
• Cyme a city of Aeolis, so called, according to a legend, from Cyme an Amazon; and the city was
• Cynaetha a town in the north of Arcadia, situated upon the northern slope of the Aroanian mountains
• Cynamolgi Cynamolgi (Κυναμολγοί, Diod. 3.31), a barbarous tribe in the south of Aethiopia, of whom t
• Cyneticum Littus Littus in Gallia Narbonensis. Festus Avienus (5.565--570) places the sands of the Cynetic
• Cynopolis a town in the Cynopolite nome of the Heptanomis, lat. 28° 2′ N. The dog-headed deity Anubi
• Cynoscephalae the names of two ranges of hills, so called from their supposed resemblance to the heads o
• Cynossema that is, the Dog's Tomb, a promontory on the eastern coast of the Thracian Chersonesus, ne
• Cynossema . After Loryma, says Strabo (p. 656), is the Cynos-sema, and the island Syme; then Cnidus,
• Cynosura i. e. Dog's Tail. 1. A promontory of Attica. [MARATHON] 2. A promontory in the west of Sal
• Cynuria a district on the eastern coast of Peloponnesus, between the Argeia and Laconia, so called
• Cynuria a district in Arcadia mentioned only upon the occasion of the foundation of Megalopolis, w
• Cynus the principal sea-port of the Locri Opuntii, was situated on a cape at the northern extrem
• Cyon a city of Caria. Stephanus (s. v.) cites the Carica of Apollonius, and adds that it was on
• CYPAERA or CYPHARA or CYPHARA. CYPAERA (Κύπαιρα, Ptol. 3.13.45), or CYPHARA (Liv. 32.13), for these names app
• Cyparissia 1. (Κυπαρισσία, Strab. viii. pp. 349, 359; Steph. B. sub voce Liv. 32.21; Plin. Nat. 4.5.
• Cyparissus 1. (Κυπάρισσος: Eth. Κυπαρισσεύς), an ancient town of Phocis, in the vicinity of Delphi. I
• Cypasis a commercial town in Thrace, on the east of the Hebrus, on the Bay of Melas. (Scylax, p. 2
• Cyphanta a town on the eastern coast of Laconia, belonging to the Eleuthero-Lacones. It was in ruin
• Cyphus a town of Perrhaebia in Thessaly, which supplied 22 ships for the Trojan war. It is placed
• Cyprus an island lying off the coast of Phoenicia and Cilicia. The physical features and the lege
• Cypsela a town on the river Hebrus in Thrace, which was once an important place on the via Egnatia
• Cypsela a fortress in the district of Parrhasia in Arcadia, which was occupied and fortified by th
• Cyptasia a place on the coast of Asia Minor (Ptol. 5.4), apparently the same which the Table places
• Cyrenaica (ἡ Κυρηναίη χώρη, Hdt. 4.199; ἡ Κυρηναία, Strab. xvii. p.837; ἡ Κυρηναϊκὴ ἐπαρχία, Ptol. 4
• Cyrene or CYRENAE (ἡ Κυρήνη: Eth. and Adj. as those of CYRENAICA: Ghrennah, very large Ru.), the
• Cyrene is one of several unknown towns, which Stephanus (s. v.) assigns to Massalia If these noti
• Cyreschata a town of considerable importance…
• Cyretiae a town of Perrhaebia in Thessaly, frequently mentioned in the Roman wars in Greece. It was
• Cyri Campus Campus (τὸ Κύρου πεδίον), a plain in Phrygia, the position of which is not well described
• Cyri Castra Castra (τὸ Κύρου στρατόπεδον) Strabo (p. 539) seems to mean that Mazaca [CAESAREIA] is 6 d
• Cyropolis a town in Media Atropatenc, between the rivers Cyrus and Amardus. Salmasius (in Solin. p.
• Cyrrhestica (Κυρρηστική, Ptol. 5.15; Plb. 5.10; Dion. Cass. 49.20: the readings Κυρριστική and Κυριστι
• Cyrrhus 1. (Κύρρος, Thuc. 2.100; Κύριος. Ptol. 3.13.39), a town in Macedonia. Sitalces penetrated
• Cyrtii Cyrtii (Eth. Κύρτιοι, Strab. xi. p.523), a robber tribe of Media Atropatene, who lived alo
• Cyrtones anciently called CYRTONE (Κυρτώνη), a city of Boeotia, east of the lake Copais, and 20 sta
• Cyrus . 1. A large river, which flowed into the Caspian in a course nearly SE. There is some dif
• Cysa a small village on the coast of Gedrosia, at which the fleet of Nearchus arrived. Its posi
• Cythera an island lying off the south-eastern extremity of Laconia. Its northern promontory, Plata
• Cytherius a small river in Pisatis in Elis, flowing by Heracleia, and falling into the Alpheius on i
• Cythnus an island in the Aegaean sea, one of the Cyclades, lying between Ceos and Seriphos. (Strab
• Cytinium one of the four towns of Doris, more frequently mentioned in history than the other towns
• Cytorus and CYTORUM (Κύτωρος: Eth. Κυτωριεύς, fem. Κυτωριάς: there is also Κυτωρίτης, Steph. s. v.
• Cyzicus and CYZICUM (Plin. Nat. 5.32; Mela, 1.19), a city on the Propontis in Mysia, on the neck o