=Ardaxānus=, a small river of Illyricum. _Polybius._ =Ardea=, formerly Ardua, a town of Latium, built by Danae, or, according to some, by a son of Ulysses and Circe. It was the capital of the Rutuli. Some soldiers set it on fire, and the inhabitants publicly reported that their city had been changed into a bird, called by the Latins _Ardea_. It was rebuilt, and it became a rich and magnificent city, whose enmity to Rome rendered it famous. Tarquin the Proud was pressing it with a siege, when his son ravished Lucretia. A road called _Ardeatina_ branched from the Appian road to Ardea. _Cornelius Nepos_, _Atticus_, ch. 14.――_Livy_, bk. 1, ch. 57; bk. 3, ch. 71; bk. 4, ch. 9, &c.――_Virgil_, _Æneid_, bk. 7, li. 412.――_Ovid_, _Metamorphoses_, bk. 14, li. 573.――_Strabo_, bk. 5. =Ardericca=, a small town on the Euphrates, north of Babylon. =Ardiæi=, a people of Illyricum, whose capital was called Ardia. _Strabo_, bk. 7. =Ardonea=, a town of Apulia. _Livy_, bk. 24, ch. 20. =Ardua=, an ancient name of Ardea. _Virgil_, _Æneid_, bk. 7, li. 411. =Arduenna=, now _Ardenne_, a large forest of Gaul, in the time of Julius Cæsar, which extended 50 miles from the Rhine to the borders of the Nervii. _Tacitus_, _Annals_, bk. 8, ch. 42.――_Cæsar_, _Gallic War_, bk. 6, ch. 29. =Arduine=, the goddess of hunting among the Gauls; represented with the same attributes as the Diana of the Romans. =Ardyenses=, a nation near the Rhone. _Polybius_, bk. 3. =Ardys=, a son of Gyges king of Lydia, who reigned 49 years, took Priene, and made war against Miletus. _Herodotus_, bk. 1, ch. 15. =Area=, a surname of Minerva, from her temple on Mars’ hill (ἀρης) erected by Orestes. _Pausanias_, bk. 1, ch. 28. =Areacidæ=, a nation of Numidia. _Polybius._ =Areas=, a general chosen by the Greeks against Ætolia. _Justin_, bk. 24, ch. 1. =Aregŏnis=, the mother of Mopsus by Ampyx. _Orpheus_, _Argonautica_. =Arelātum=, a town of Gallia Narbonensis. _Strabo_, bk. 4.――_Mela_, bk. 2, ch. 5. =Arellius=, a celebrated painter of Rome in the age of Augustus. He painted the goddesses in the form of his mistresses. _Pliny_, bk. 35, ch. 10.――――A miser in _Horace_. =Aremorĭca=, a part of Gaul, at the north of the Loire, now called Britany. _Pliny_, bk. 4. =Arēna= and =Arene=, a city of Messenia in Peloponnesus. _Homer_, _Iliad_, bk. 2. =Arenăcum=, a town of Germany. _Tacitus_, _Histories_, bk. 5, ch. 20.