=Abdēria=, a town of Spain. _Apollodorus_, bk. 2, ch. 5. =Abderītes=, a people of Pæonia, obliged to leave their country on account of the great number of rats and frogs which infested it. _Justin_, bk. 15, ch. 2. =Abdērus=, a man of Opus in Locris, arm-bearer to Hercules, torn to pieces by the mares of Diomedes, which the hero had entrusted to his care when going to war against the Bistones. Hercules built a city, which, in honour of his friend, he called Abdera. _Apollodorus_, bk. 2, ch. 5.――_Philostratus_, bk. 2, ch. 25. =Abeătæ=, a people of Achaia, probably the inhabitants of Abia. _Pausanias_, bk. 4, ch. 30.――_Pliny_, bk. 4, ch. 6. =Abella=, a town of Campania, whose inhabitants were called Abellani. Its nuts, called _avellanæ_, and also its apples, were famous. _Virgil_, _Æneid_, bk. 7, li. 740.――_Justin_, bk. 20, ch. 5.――_Silius Italicus_, bk. 8, li. 544. =Abelux=, a noble of Saguntum, who favoured the party of the Romans against Carthage. _Livy_, bk. 22, ch. 22. =Abenda=, a town of Caria, whose inhabitants were the first who raised temples to the city of Rome. _Livy_, bk. 45, ch. 6. =Abia=, formerly _Ire_, a maritime town of Messenia, one of the seven cities promised to Achilles by Agamemnon. It is called after Abia, daughter of Hercules and nurse of Hyllus. _Pausanias_, bk. 4, ch. 30. ――_Strabo_, bk. 8.――_Homer_, _Iliad_, bk. 9, li. 292. =Abii=, a nation between Scythia and Thrace. They lived upon milk, were fond of celibacy, and enemies to war. _Homer_, _Iliad_, bk. 13, li. 6.――According to _Curtius_, bk. 7, ch. 6, they surrendered to Alexander, after they had been independent since the reign of Cyrus. =Abĭla=, or =Abyla=, a mountain of Africa, in that part which is nearest to the opposite mountain called Calpe, on the coast of Spain, only eighteen miles distant. These two mountains are called the columns of Hercules, and were said formerly to be united, till the hero separated them, and made a communication between the Mediterranean and Atlantic seas. _Strabo_, bk. 3.――_Mela_, bk. 1, ch. 5; bk. 2, ch. 6.――_Pliny_, bk. 3. =Abisăres=, an Indian prince, who offered to surrender to Alexander. _Curtius_, bk. 8, ch. 12. =Abisăris=, a country beyond the Hydaspes in India. _Arrian._ =Abisontes=, some inhabitants of the Alps. _Pliny_, bk. 3, ch. 20. =Ablētes=, a people near Troy. _Strabo._ =Abnoba=, a mountain of Germany. _Tacitus_, _Germania_, ch. 1. =Abobrĭca=, a town of Lusitania. _Pliny_, bk. 4, ch. 20.――――Another in Spain. =Abœcrĭtus=, a Bœotian general, killed with a thousand men, in a battle at Chæronea, against the Ætolians. _Plutarch_, _Aratus_. =Abolāni=, a people of Latium, near Alba. _Pliny_, bk. 5, ch. 5. =Abōlus=, a river of Sicily. _Plutarch_, _Timoleon_. =Aboniteichos=, a town of Galatia. _Arrian_, _Periplus of the Euxine Sea_. =Aborāca=, a town of Sarmatia.