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APERRAE.

APERBAE. [Apeblab.] ATESA5 CArt4iras: Fvkd), a monntun in Pe- kpcanesae abore Nemea in the territoij of Cleonae, wbere Ptonens is said to have been the &st person, vfao aaulfi ee d to Zens Apesantiiis. (Leake, Iforea, voL iiL p. 3S5; Boss, PeioponneSf p. 40.)

A´PHACA (Ἄφακα: Afka), a town of Syria, midway between Heliopolis and Byblus. (Zosim. i. 58.) In the neighbourhood was a marvellous lake. (Comp. Senec. Quaest. Nat. iii. 25.) Here was a temple of Aphrodite, celebrated for its impure and abominable rites, and destroyed by Constantine. (Euseb. de Vita, iii. 55; Sozom. ii. 5.) Aphek in the land assigned to the tribe of Asher (Joshua, xix. 30), but which they did not occupy (Judges i. 31), has been identified with it. (Winer, Real Wort. art. Aphek.) Burckhardt (Travels, p. 25) speaks of a lake Liemoun, 3 hours' distance from Afka, but could hear of no remains there. (Comp. paper by Rev. W. Thomson, in Am. Bibliotheca Sacra, vol. v. p. 5.) [ E. B. J. ]

APHEK. [Aphaca.]

ATSETAE (; Antral or *A^ai: EtJL 'A^f- nun), a port of Magnesia in Thessaly, said to have deriTed ita name from the depaitnre of the Argonauts bm it. The Perrian fleet occnpied the bay of Aphetee, prerions to the battle of Artemlsinm, from vhicfa Aphetae was distant 80 stadia, acoordiog to HaodotQa. Leake identifies Aphetae with the Dodexn hazboor of Triieri, or with that between the island of Baled THkeri and the main. (Herod. vL 193, 196, TiiL 4; Strab. p. 436: ApoU. Bhod. i. 591: Steph. B. s. v.; Leake, Northern Greece^ vol. vr. p. 397, J>emi of AtHca, p. 243, seq.) APHIDKA, or APHIDNAE(*A^i5va, A<^(8rai : Elk. 'A^ xgra uigs), one of the twelve ancient towns of Attka (Strah. ix. p. 397), is celebrated in the myth- iral period as the place where Theseus deposited Hdm, eotmsting her to the care of his friend Aphidbms, When the Diosenri invaded Attica in seazth of their sister, the inhabitants of Deceleia in- lanned the Laoedaeinonians where Helen was con- oesfed, and showed them the way to Aphidna. The IXoeaBi thereupon took the town, and carried off thor sister. (Herod, iz. 73 ; Diod. ir. 63 ; Plat The», 32: Pssos. i. 17. § 5, 41. § 3.) We lean, from a decne quoted by Demosthenes (de Coron. p. 238), that Aphidna was, in his time, a fortified town, and at a ptater distance than 120 stadia firom Athens. A5 ao Attic demus, it belonged in succession to the tribes Aeantis (Pint QfiaetL Symp. i. 10; Har- porrat. #. V. OvjpTwWSoi), Leontis (Steph. B. ; Har- pprvaL L c), Ptolemais (Hesych.), and Hadrianis (BTickh, Carp. Ttuer. 275> Leake, following Finlay, places Aphidna between Deoelda and Bhamnos, in the upper valley of the Rrer Uarathoa, and supposes it to have stood on a Mroj; and conspicuous height named Kotr6nij upon vhicb axe cooaideFBhle remains indicating the site of a fertified demos. Its distance from Athens is about 16 nJIes, half as much firora Marathon, and some- thiae km from Deceleia. (Leake, Demi ofAttica^ f. 19, f*q.) APHLE, or APLE, a town of Snsiana, 60 M. P. >W Sosa, oD a hike which Pliny (vi. 27. s. 31) eaSs the laau Chaldaicugy apparently a lake fartDed by the Pasitigris. He speaks elsewhere (n. 23. s. 26) of a lake formed by the Eulocus and Titrris, near Charax, that is at the head of the Pm^tan Gulf; but this cannot be the lacue Chal-

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great confusion, no unusual thing with Pliny.

The site of Aphle is supposed to have been at Ahuxxz (Bn.). It is supposed to be the Aginis of Nearchus (p. 73, Hadson), and the Agcrra of Ptolemy. [P. S.] APHNITIS. [DAflCTLins.] APHBODrSIAS ('A^Sio-uif} Eih. *A^po. 8((ric^f, Aphrodisienns). 1. (Ghent) an ancient town of Caria, situated at Ghera or Geyra^ south of Antiocheia on the Maeander, as is proved by in- scriptions which have been copied by several tra- vellers. Drawings of the remains of Aphrodisias have been made by the order of the Dilettanti So- ciety. There are the remains of an Ionic temple of Aphrodite, the goddess from whom the place took the name of Aphrodisias ; fifteen of the white marble columns are still standing. A Greek inscription on a tablet records the donation of one of the colomns to Ai^rodite and the demus. Fellows (LycicL, p. 32) has described the remains of Aphrodisias, and given a view of the temple. The route of Fellows was from Antiocheia on the Maeander up the valley of the Moeynns, which appears to be the ancient name of the stream that joins the Maeander at An- tiocheia ; and Aphrodisias lies to the east of the head of the valley in which the Mcsynns rises, and at a considerable elevation. Stepfaanns (s. v. MryaX^oXis), says that it was first a city of the Leleges, and, on account of its magnitude, was called Megalopolis; and it was also called Ninoe, firom Ninus (see also s. v. fiur&ii)^ — a confrised bit of history, and useful for nothing except to show that it was probably a city of old foundation. Strabo (p. 576) assigns it to the division of Phiygia; but in Pliny (v. 29) it is a Garian city, and a free city (AphrodiBienses liberi) in the Boman sense of that period. In the time of Tiberius, when there was an inquiry about the right of asyla, which was claimed and ezeroised by many Greek cities, the Aphrodisienses relied on a decree of the dictator Gaesar for their services to his party, and on a recent decree of Augustus. (Tac. Ann. iii. 62.) Sherard, in 1705 or 1716, copied an inscription at Aphro- disias, which he communicated to Ghishull, who pub- lished it in his Anttquitates Aaiaticae. This Greek inscription is a Gonsultum of the Boman senate, which confirms the privileges granted by the Dic- tator and the Triumviri to the Aphrodisienses. The Gonsultum is also printed in Oberlin's TaciiuSy and elsewhere. This Gonsultum gives freedom to the demus of the Plaraseis and the Aphrodisieis. It also declares the temenos of the goddess Aphrodite in the city of the Plaraseis and the Aphrodisieis to have the same rights as the temple of the Ephesia at Ephesus; and the temenos was declared to be an asylum. Plarasa then, also a city uf Garia, and Aphrodisias were in some kind of alliance and inti- mate relation. There are coins of Plarasa; and "coins with a legend of both names are also not very uncommon." (Leake.) COIN OF APHRODISIAS IN CARIA.