POMPEIOPOLIS: there were anciently two cities of the name; one in Cilicia, another in Paphlagonia. PONTIA, an island in the Tuscan sea; a place of relegation or banishment. PONTUS, an extensive country of Asia Minor, lying between Bithynia and Paphlagonia, and extending along the _Pontus Euxinus_, the Euxine or the Pontic Sea, from which it took its name. It had that sea to the east, the mouth of the Ister to the north, and Mount Hæmus to the south. The wars between Mithridates, king of Pontus, and the Romans, are well known. PRÆNESTE, a town of Latium to the south-east of Rome, standing very high, and said to be a strong place. The town that succeeded it, stands low in a valley, and is called _Palestrina_. PROPONTIS, near the Hellespont and the Euxine; now the Sea of _Marmora_. PUTEOLI, a town of Campania, so called from its number of wells; now _Pozzuolo_, nine miles to the west of Naples. PYRAMUS, a river of Cilicia, rising in Mount Taurus, and running from east to west into the Sea of Cilicia. PYRGI, a town of Etruria, on the Tuscan Sea; now St. _Marinella_, about thirty-three miles distant from Rome. Q. QUADI, a people of Germany, situate to the south-east of Bohemia, on the banks of the Danube. See Manners, of the Germans, s. 42. note b. R. RAVENNA, an ancient city of Italy, near the coast of the Adriatic. A port was constructed at the mouth of the river Bedesis, and by Augustus made a station for the fleet that guarded the Adriatic. It is still called _Ravenna_. REATE, a town of the Sabines in Latium, situate near the lake Velinus. REGIUM. See RHEGIUM. REMI, a people of Gaul, who inhabited the northern part of _Champagne_; now the city of _Rheims_. RHACOTIS, the ancient name of Alexandria in Egypt. RHÆTIA, a country bounded by the Rhine to the west, the Alps to the east, by Italy to the south, and _Vindelicia_ to the north. Horace says _Videre Rhæti bella sub Alpibus Drusum gerentem, et Vindelici_. Now the country of the _Grisons_. RHEGIUM, an ancient city at the extremity of the Apennine, on the narrow strait between Italy and Sicily. It is now called _Reggio_, in the farther Calabria. RHINE, the river that rises in the Rhætian Alps, and divides Gaul from Germany. See Manners of the Germans, s. 1. note f; and s. 29. note a. RHODANUS, a famous river of Gaul, rising on Mount Adula, not far from the head of the Rhine. After a considerable circuit it enters the _Lake of Geneva_, and in its course visits the city of Lyons, and from that place traverses a large tract of country, and falls into the Mediterranean. It is now called the _Rhone_. RHODUS, a celebrated island in the Mediterranean, near the coast of Asia Minor, over-against _Caria_. The place of retreat for the discontented Romans. Tiberius made that use of it. RHOXOLANI, a people on the north of the _Palus Mæotis_, situate along the Tanais, now the _Don_. RICODULUM, a town of the Treviri on the Moselle. S.