_Phœnician Women_.――――An island near Eubœa and Locris. _Pausanias._ =Atarantes=, a people of Africa, ten days’ journey from the Garamantes. There was in their country a hill of salt with a fountain of sweet water upon it. _Herodotus_, bk. 4, ch. 184. =Atarbĕchis=, a town in one of the islands of the Delta, where Venus had a temple. =Atargătis=, a divinity among the Syrians represented as a Syren. She is considered by some to be the same as Venus, and honoured by the Assyrians under the name of Astarte. _Strabo_, bk. 16. =Atarnea=, a part of Mysia opposite Lesbos, with a small town in the neighbourhood of the same name. _Pausanias_, bk. 4, ch. 35. =Atas= and =Athas=, a youth of wonderful velocity, who is said to have run 75 miles between noon and the evening. _Martial_, bk. 4, ltr. 19. ――_Pliny_, bk. 7. =Atax=, now _Aude_, a river of Gaul Narbonensis, rising in the Pyrenean mountains, and falling into the Mediterranean sea. _Mela_, bk. 2. =Ate=, the goddess of all evil, and daughter of Jupiter. She raised such jealousy and sedition in heaven among the gods, that Jupiter dragged her away by the hair, and banished her for ever from heaven, and sent her to dwell on earth, where she incited mankind to wickedness, and sowed commotions among them. _Homer_, _Iliad_, bk. 19. She is the same as the Discord of the Latins. =Atella=, a town of Campania, famous for a splendid amphitheatre, where interludes were first exhibited, and thence called Atellanæ fabulæ. _Juvenal_, satire 6. =Atenomārus=, a chieftain of Gaul, who made war against the Romans. _Plutarch_, _Parallela minora_. =Athamānes=, an ancient people of Epirus, who existed long before the Trojan war, and still preserved their name and customs in the age of Alexander. There was a fountain in their territories, whose waters, about the last quarter of the moon, were so sulphureous that they would set wood on fire. _Ovid_, _Metamorphoses_, bk. 15, li. 311. ――_Strabo_, bk. 7.――_Pliny_, bk. 2, ch. 103.――_Mela_, bk. 2, ch. 3.