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Dragtt, a place of Arabia, fituate, according to Ptolemy, in 

 lon-j. •79'' 10'. aiicllat. 15° 15'. 



ADRAGANTH, the fame as gum drag as t. See 

 Tracac.anth. 



ADRAGNO, in Geography, a town of Sicily, twenty 

 miles c;;(l-north-eall of Mazaro. 



ADRAISTjE, in /incient Geography, the inhabitants of 

 a diftriift of India, which lay to the- eail of the rivers Ace- 

 lines and Hrdraotcs. 



ADRAMIT/iL, a people placed by Ptolemy in Arabia 

 Felix. 



ADRAMMEI.ECH, in Mythol'gy, one of the gods 

 adored by the inhabitants of Sephai vaim, who were fettled 

 in Samaria in the room of thofe li'raclites that removed be- 

 yond the Euplirates. The people of Sepharvaim made 

 their children pafs through the fne in honour of tliis falfe 

 deity, and another called ylnamcLrh. Jclrammelcch, i. e. 

 the magnificent king, is fuppofed to have rcprefented the 

 fun, and Anamrlech, i. e. the gentle king, the moon. Calmct. 



ADRAMYTTIS, in Ancient Geography, an ifland of 

 Afia Minor, on the coaft of Lycia. 



ADRAMYTTIUM, a famous city of Myfia Major, 

 called alfo Pedofus, which, according to Strabo, (lib. xiii. 

 torn. 2. p. 904.) was an Athenian colony, witli a harbour 

 and dock, fituate at the foot of mount Ida, near the 

 Caicus. It was fo called, fays Stephanus (de Urb. torn. i. 

 p. 22.) from Adir.mytus, the brother of Crocfus, by whom 

 it was built. Others fay, that it was founded by the 

 Lydians, and derived its name from Hermon, one of their 

 tings, who, in the Phr)-gian language, was called Adramys. 

 This is the Adramyttium mentioned Afts xxvii. 2. and not 

 as St. Jerome and others fuppofe, a city of Egj'pt built by 

 Alexander the Great, at the Canobic mouth of the Nile, 

 and which has been fuppofed to be the fame with Thebes. 

 Whitby Com. vol. ii. p. 751- Imperial Greek medals have 

 been ftruck in this city in honour of leveral ot the Roman 

 emperors. The medals are bronze, gold and filver. This 

 i:ity was formerly famous for trade and fliipping ; but is now 

 called La Andram'iti, and inhabited only by a few Greek 

 iifliermen. The Adramyttian-hay was a part of the jEgean 

 fea, on the coail of Mylia : the towns on the north-eall of 

 this bay are now in ruins. The Con-ventu! Adramyltetnis 

 T,-as the eighth in order of the convcntus juridici of Afia. 



ADRANA, a river of Germany, now the Eder, rifes 

 in Upper HelTe, waters the county of Waldeck and Lower 

 Hefle, and falls into the Fulda about two miles from Caffel. 

 When Germanicus, at the head of the Roman legions, 

 ravaged the country of the Catti, moft of their youth 

 eicaped by fwimming over this river ; and attempted, 

 though without fuccefs, to prevent the Romans from lay- 

 ing a bridge over it. Tacitus Annal. i. c. 55. vol. i. p. 105. 

 Ed. Gronov. 



ADRANA, or AdrenA, (Polybius, lib. xiii. p. 983. 

 Ed. Cafaub.) a city of Tlirace, fituate a little above Be- 

 renice. 



Adrana was alfo a town of Afia Minor, in the Lower 

 Myfia. 



AURAND, in Geography, a town of Perfia, in the pro- 

 vince of Irak ; ten leagues eaft of Amadan. 



ADRANIS, Adrantis, or Adrans, in Ancient Geo- 

 graphy, a town of Pannonia, in the more extended applica- 

 tion of the term, fituate in Noricum, north-eaft of ^mona, 

 in the limits of Carnia and Noricum. 



ADRANUM, now Aderno, a town of Sicily at the 

 foot of Mount jEtna, towards the north-eaft, near a river 

 formerly bearing the name, which forae now afcribe to it, 

 Fiume d' Aderno. This city was built, fays Diodorus Sicu- 



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lus (lib. xiv. c. 37. torn. i. p. 671. Ed. Weflcl.) by Diony- 

 fius the elder, and fo called from the Temple of Adranus, 

 the tutelary god of the Sicihans, and faid by Hei'ychius to 

 be the father of the Dii patricii. This temple was a place 

 of great refort at ftatcd feafons of the year by the worlliip- 

 pers of this deity ; and jElian (de Nat. Anim. lib. xi. c. 3. 

 tom. ii. p. 632. Ed. Gronov,) lays, that a thoufand dogs 

 were kept here, who fawned on tliole who brouglit prefents 

 to t!ie temple, and conducted drunken perfons to tlieir own 

 houi'es, whilft they fell furioufiy on tliieves, and tore them, 

 in pieces. The medals of this city are bronze, gold and 

 filver. 



ADRAPSA, a town of Baftria, mentioned by Strabo, 

 (lib. X'V. tom. 2. p. 105 J.) but placed by Ptolemy in Hyr- 

 cania, beyond the river Maxera. It is alfo called Darapfay 

 and feeins to be that mentioned by Arrian (hb. iii. c. 29.) 

 under the name of Drapfac,?. '' 



ADRASDII, an epifcopal fee in the patriarchate of 

 Antioch, and the eighteenth under the metropolis of Se- 

 leucia. 



ADRASTE, in Mythology, the daughter of Jupiter and 

 Necefhty, who, according to Plutarch, was the only fury 

 that exercifed the vengeance of the gods. The name is 

 fuppofed to be derived either from an opa», alivays aSive, or 

 from a priv. and Ifxa, I Jt\'. The Egyptian priefts placed 

 Adralle above the moon, where (he obferved the whole 

 world, fo that no guilty perfon efcaped. See Nemesis. 

 Adrafle, or Andrajle, was the goddefs of war and viftory, 

 among the ancient Britons ; and as fuch invoked and ac- 

 knowledged. This deity was probably the fame with the 

 Astarte of the Phoenicians. Dion. Caff. tom. ii. p. 1007. 

 Ed. Reimari. 



Adraste was alfo one of the nymphs who nurfed Jupi- 

 ter in the cave of Difte. 



ADRASTIA, or Adrastea, an epithet given to the 

 goddefs Nemefis, or Revenge. It is faid to be taken from 

 king Adrastus, who firfl erefted a temple to that deity. 



Adrastia, in Ancient Geography, the name of a town 

 of ACa, in the Troade, fituate between Priapus and Pari- 

 um, in a diilrift of the fame name, in which was an oracle 

 of Apollo A£la;us, and of Diana. It was built by king. 

 Adrallus. Strabo Geog. lib. xiii. tom. 2. p. S48. 



Adrastia Certamina, in Antiquity, a kind of Pythian 

 games, inftituted by Adi-aftus, king of Argos, A. M. 

 2700, in honour of Apollo at Sicyon. Thefe are to be 

 diftinguiOied from the Pythian games celebrated at Delphi. 



^ADRASTUS, in Ancient Hijlory, a king of Argos, 

 wl'.o diltinguilhed himfelf in the famous war of Thebes, was 

 the fon of Talaus and Lyfianaffa, daughter of Polybus ki' g 

 of Sicyon. He reigned firft ia Sicyon, as fucceffor to his 

 father-in-law, and afterwards at Argos. Here he married 

 his two daughters to Polynices and Tydeus, who took re- 

 fuge in his couit ; the former of whom had been deprived 

 by his brother Eteocles of his fliare of the fovereignty at 

 Thebes. For the purpofe of relloring him, this king, with 

 fix others, chiefly of his kinfmen, marched againft Thebes ; 

 and this was called the expedition of the Itven worthies, 

 which is placed about 1 225 years before Chrift, and hr.s been 

 celebi'ated by the poets. Adraftus alone efcaped, being 

 prcferved by his horfe Arion. See Statins Theb. lib. iv. 

 V. 40, &c. p. 412. Ed. Varior. This war was revived 

 within ten years by the fons of the deceafed worthies, and 

 called the war of the Epigones. It terminated with the 

 taking of Thebes. Adraftus on this occafion loft h;s fon 

 jEgialeus, and was fo diftreffed by the event, that he died 

 of grief at Megara, as he was condutling home his viclorious 

 army. His memory was much honoured at Megara and at 

 6 Sicyon, 



