AMYDIS, a town near the gulf of that name, on the coast of Latium in Italy. ANAGNIA, a town of ancient Latium, now _Anagni_, thirty-six miles to the east of Rome. ANCONA, a port town in Italy, situate on the gulf of Venice. ANDECAVI, now _Anjou_. ANEMURIUM, a promontory of Cilicia, with a maritime town of the same name near it. See Pomponius Mela. ANGRIVARIANS, a German people, situate on the west side of the Weser, near _Osnaburg_ and _Minden_. ANSIBARII, a people of Germany. ANTIOCH, or ANTIOCHIA, the capital of Syria, called _Epidaphne_, to distinguish it from other cities of the name of Antioch. It is now called _Antakia_. ANTIPOLIS, now _Antibes_, on the coast of Provence, about three leagues to the west of _Nice_. ANTIUM, a city of the ancient Volsci, situate on the Tuscan Sea; the birth-place of Nero. Two Fortunes were worshipped there, which Suetonius calls _Fortunæ Antiates_, and Martial, _Sorores Antii_. Horace's Ode to Fortune is well known-- _O Diva gratum quæ regis Antium._ The place is now called _Capo d'Anzo_. ANTONA, now the _Avon_. See Camden. AORSI, a people inhabiting near the Palus Mæotis; now the eastern part of Tartary, between the _Neiper_ and the _Don_. APAMEA, a city of Phrygia, near the banks of the Mæander; now _Aphiom-Kara-Hisar_. APENNINUS, now the _Apennine_, a ridge of mountains running through the middle of Italy, extremely high, yet short of the _Alps_. Its name is Celtic, signifying a high mountain. APHRODISIUM, a town of _Caria_ in Thrace, on the Euxine. APOLLONIDIA, a city of Lydia. APULIA, a territory of Italy, along the gulf of Venice; now _Capitanate, Otranto_, &c. AQUILEIA, a large city of the Veneti, and formerly a Roman colony, near the river _Natiso_, which runs into the gulf of Venice. AQUINUM, a town of the Ancient Latins; now _Aquino_, but almost in ruins. AQUITANIA, a division of Ancient Gaul, bounded by the _Garumna_ (now _Garonne_), by the Pyrenees, and the ocean. ARABIA, an extensive country of Asia, reaching from Egypt to Chaldea. It is divided into three parts, _Arabia Petræa_, _Deserta_, and _Felix_. ARAR, or ARARIS, a river of Gaul; now the _Saone_. ARAXES, a river of Mesopotamia, which runs from north to south, and falls into the Euphrates. ARBELA, a city of Assyria, famous for the battle between Alexander and Darius. ARCADIA, an inland district in the heart of Peloponnesus; mountainous, and only fit for pasture; therefore celebrated by bucolic or pastoral poets. ARDEN, _Arduenna_, in Tacitus; the forest of Arden. ARENACUM, an ancient town in the island of Batavia; now _Arnheim_, in Guelderland. ARICIA, a town of Latium in Italy, at the foot of Mons Albanus, about a hundred and sixty stadia from Rome. The grove, called _Aricinum Nemus_, was in the vicinity. ARII, a people of Asia. ARIMINUM, a town of Umbria, at the mouth of the river Ariminus, on the gulf of Venice.