A Dialogue Concerning Oratory Or The Causes Of Corrupt Eloquence Part 18

HYPaePA, a small city in _Lydia_, now rased to the ground.

HYRCANIA, a country of the Farther Asia, to the east of the Caspian Sea, with Media on the west, and Parthia on the south; famous for its tigers. There was a city of the same name in Lydia.

I.

IBERIA, an inland country of Asia, bounded by Mount Caucasus on the north, by Albania on the cast, by Colchis and part of Pontus on the west, and by Armenia on the south. Spain was also called Iberia, from the river Iberus; now the _Ebro_.

IBERUS, a n.o.ble river of the Hither Spain; now the _Ebro_.

ICENI, a people of Britain; now _Ess.e.x, Suffolk_, and _Norfolk_.

ILIUM, another name for ancient Troy. A new city, nearer to the sea, was built after the famous siege of Troy, and made a Roman colony.

But, as was said of the old city, _Etiam periere ruinae_.

ILLYRIc.u.m, the country between Pannonia to the north, and the Adriatic to the south. It is now comprised by _Dalmatia_ and _Sclavonia_, under the respective dominion of the Venetians and the Turks.

INSUBRIA, a country of Gallia Cisalpina; now the _Milanese_.

INTEMELIUM. See ALBIUM INTEMELIUM.

INTERAMNA, an ancient town of the Volsci in Latium, not far from the river Liris. It is now in ruins.

IONIAN SEA, the sea that washes the western coast of Greece, opposite to the gulf of Venice.

ISICHI, a people bordering on the Euxine, towards the east.

ISTRIA, an island in the gulf of Venice, still retaining its ancient name. There was also a town of the same name near the mouth of the Ister, on the Euxine Sea.

ITURaeA, a _Transjordan_ district of Palestine, now _Bacar_.

J.

j.a.pHA, a strong place, both by nature and art, in the Lower Galilee, not far from _Jotapata_; now _Saphet_.

JAZYGES, a people of Sarmatia Europaea, situate on this side of the Palus Maeotis, near the territory of Maroboduus, the German king.

JUGANTES, said by Camden to be the same as the _Brigantes_, but Brotier thinks it probable that they were a distinct, people.

L.

LACUS LEMa.n.u.s, now the _Lake of Geneva_.

LANGOBARDI, a people of Germany, between the _Elbe_ and the _Oder_, in part of what is now called _Brandenburg_.

LANUVIUM, a town of Latium, about sixteen miles from Rome; now _Civita Lavinia_.

LAODICEA, a town of Phrygia, called, to distinguish it from other cities of the same name, _Laodicea ad Lyc.u.m_. Spon, in his account of his travels, says it is rased to the ground, except four theatres built, with marble, finely polished, and in as good condition as if they were modern structures; now called _Ladik_.

LAODICEA AD MARE, a considerable town on the coast of Syria, well built, with a commodious harbour.

LATIUM, the country of the Latini, so called from king Latinus; contained at first within narrow bounds, but greatly enlarged under the Alban kings and the Roman consuls, by the accession of the aequi, Volsci, Hernici, &c.

LECHaeUM, the west port of Corinth, which the people used for their Italian trade, as they did _Cenchrae_ for their eastern or Asiatic.

LEPTIS, there were in Africa two ancient cities of the name, _Leptis magna_, and _Leptis parva_. The first (now called _Lebeda_) was in the territory of Tripoli; the second, a town on the Mediterranean, not far from Carthage.

LESBOS, an island in the Egean Sea, near the coast of Asia; the birth-place of Sappho: now called _Metelin_.

LEUCI, a people of Gallia Belgica, to the north of the Lingones, between the Moselle and the Meuse.

LIBYA, the name given by the Greeks to all Africa; but, properly speaking, it was an interior part of Africa.

LIGERIS; now the _Loire_.

LIGURIA, a country of Italy, divided into the maritime, _Ligus Ora_; and the inland _Liguria_; both between the Apennine to the south, the Maritime Alps to the west, and the Po to the north. It contained what is now called _Ferrara_, and the _territories of Genoa_.

LINGONES, a people of Gallia Belgica, inhabiting the country about _Langres_ and _Dijon_.

LONGOBARDI, or LANGOBORDI, a people of Germany, between the Elbe and the Oder. See Manners of the Germans, s. 40 note a.

LUCANIA, a country of ancient Italy; now called the _Basilicate_.

LUGDUNUM, a city of ancient Gaul; now _Lyons_.

LUGDUNUM BATAVORUM, a town of the Batavi, now _Leyden_ in Holland.

There was another town of the name in Gallia Celtica, at the confluence of the Arar (the _Saone_) and the Rhoda.n.u.s (the _Rhone_).

The place is now called Lyons.

LUPPIA, a river of Westphalia; now the _Lippe_.

LUSITANIA, now the kingdom of _Portugal_, on the west of Spain, formerly a part of it.

LYCIA, a country in Asia Minor, bounded by Pamphylia, Phrygia, and the Mediterranean.

LYDIA, an inland country of Asia Minor, formerly governed by Crsus; now _Carasia_.

LYGII, an ancient people of Germany, who inhabited the country now called _Silesia_, and also part of _Poland_.

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MACEDONIA, a large country, rendered famous by Philip of Macedon and his son Alexander; now a province of the Turkish empire, bounded by Servia and Bulgaria to the north, by Greece to the south, by Thrace and the Archipelago to the east, and by Epirus to the west.

MaeOTIS PALUS, a lake of Sarmatia Europaea, still known by the same name, and reaching from Crim Tartary to the mouth of the _Tanais_ (the _Don_).