=Arachōtæ= and =Arachōti=, a people of India, who received their name from the river Arachotus which flows down from mount Caucasus. _Dionysius Periegetes._――_Curtius_, bk. 9, ch. 7. =Arachthias=, one of the four capital rivers of Epirus near Nicopolis, falling into the bay of Ambracia. _Strabo_, bk. 7. =Aracillum=, a town of Hispania Tarraconensis. _Florus_, bk. 4, ch. 12. =Aracosii=, an Indian nation. _Justin_, bk. 13, ch. 4. =Aracynthus=, a mountain of Acarnania, between the Achelous and Evenus, not far from the shore, and thence called Actæus. _Pliny_, bk. 4, ch. 2.――_Virgil_, _Eclogues_, poem 2, li. 24. =Arădus=, an island near Phœnicia, joined to the continent by a bridge. _Dionysius Periegetes._ =Aræ=, rocks in the middle of the Mediterranean, between Africa and Sardinia, where the Romans and Africans ratified a treaty. It was upon them that Æneas lost the greatest part of his fleet. They are supposed to be those islands which are commonly called Ægates. _Virgil_, _Æneid_, bk. 1, li. 113. =Aræ Philænorum=, a maritime city of Africa, on the borders of Cyrene. _Sallust_, _Jugurthine War_, chs. 19 & 79. =Arar=, now the _Saone_, a river of Gaul, flowing into the Rhone, over which Cæsar’s soldiers made a bridge in one day. _Cæsar_, _Gallic War_, bk. 1, ch. 12.――_Silius Italicus_, bk. 3, li. 452. =Arărus=, a Scythian river flowing through Armenia. _Herodotus_, bk. 4, ch. 48. =Arathyrea=, a small province of Achaia, afterwards called Asophis, with a city of the same name. _Homer_, _Iliad_, bk. 2.――_Strabo_, bk. 8.