tribes, dwelt to the southward of the Regio Troglodytica. Of these, and other more inland races, concerning whose strange forms and modes of life curious tales are related by the Greek and Roman writers, a further account is given under Troglodytes. [ W. B. D. ]
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the capital of an empire, the sovereigns of which took the title of Sultans of Iconium. Under the Turkish dominion, and during the period of the Cru- sades, Iconium acquired its greatest celebrity. It is still a large and populous town, and the residence of a pasha. The place contains some architectural remains and inscriptions, but they appear almost all to belong to the Byzantine period. (Comp. Amm. Marc. xiv. 2 ; Steph. B. s. v. ; Ptol. v. 6. § 16; Leake, Asia Minor, p. 48 ; Hamilton, Researches, vol. ii. p. 205, fol. ; Eckhel, vol. iii. p. 31 ; Sestini, Geo. Num. p. 48.) The name Iconium led the an- cients to derive it from tiKwv, which gave rise to the fable that the city derived its name from an image of Medusa, brought thither by Persons (Eustath. a<Z Dionys. Per. 856) ; hence Stephanus B. maintains that the name ought to be spelt 'Eik6viov, a form actually adopted by Eustathius and the Byz,antine writers, and also found on some coins. [L. S.J ICOEIGIUM. [Egorigium.] ICOS. [Ices.] ICOSITA'NL [luci.] ICO'SIUM (^K6(nov : Algier), a city on the coast of JIauretania Caesariensis, E. of Caesarea, a colony under the Roman empire, and presented by Vespasian with the jus Latinum. (Itin. Ant. ■p. 15; Mela, i. 6. § 1 ; Plin. V. 2. s. 1 ; Ptol. iv. 2. § 6.) Its site, already well indicated by the numbers of Ptolemy, who places it 30' W. of the mouth of the Savus, has been identified with certainty by inscriptions dis- covered by the French. (Pollissier, in the Explo- ration Scientifique de TAlgtrie, vol. vi. p. 350.) Many modern geographers, following Mannert, who w;is misled by a confusion in the numbers of the Itinerary, put this and all the neighbouring places too fiir west. [Comp. Iol.] [P. S.] ICTIMU'LI or VICTIMU'LI ('Iktov/ioi/Aoi, Strab.), a people of Cisalpine Gaul, situ.ited at the foot of the Alps, in the territory of Vercellae. They are mentioned by Strabo (v. p. 218), who speaks of a village of the Ictimuli, where there were gold mines, which he seems to place in the neighbourhood of Vercellae; but the passage is so confused that it would leave us in doubt. Pliny, however, who notices the gold mines of the Victimnli among the most productive in Italy, distinctly places them " in agro VerccUcnsi." We learn from him that they were at one time worked on so large a scale that a law was passed by the Roman censors prohibiting the employment in them of more than 5000 men at once. (PHn. xsxiii. 4. s. 21.) Their site is not more precisely indicated by either of the above authors, but the Geographer of Ravenna mentions the " civitas, quae dicitur Victimuk " as situated " near Eporedia, not far from the foot of the Alps " (Geogr. Rav. iv. 30) ; and a modern writer has traced the existence of the " Castellum Victimula " during the middle ages, and shown that it must have been situated between Ivrea and Biclla on the banks of the Elvo. Traces of the ancient gold mines, which appear to have been worked during the middle ages, may be still observed in the neigh- bouring mountains. (Durandi, Alpi Graie e Pevr- nine, pp. 110 — 1 12 ; Walckenaer, Geogr. des Gardes, vol. i. p. 1 68.) [E. H. B.] ICTIS, in Britain, mentioned by Diodorus Siculus (v. 22) as an island lying ofi" the coast of the tin districts, and, at low tides, becoming a peninsula, whither the tin w.as conveyed in waggons. St. Mi- chaefs Mount is the suggested locality for Ictis |
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