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Ji'.piter was worfhipped in this place under tlie appellation of 

 «• Ithomatus" by the people of Mefienia : and as they pre- 

 tended that he had been educated in their country, the^ ap- 

 propriated to him a peculiar worihip ; and while the fellival, 

 called " Ithomaa'' laftcd, they were accullomcd to carry 

 water during the whole day from the fountain -Clepfydra into 

 his temple. Games accompanied this fcftival, and alfo 

 trials of (liill on various inllruments of mufic. Paulan. in 

 Meffen. 



ITHYNTERION, .Sv.r^p.ov. mJnnquity, a ftaff of lau- 

 rel, which prophets ufually carried in their hands, otherwife 

 called fceplron. 



ITHYSCOLIOS, in Surgery, an oblique curvature of 

 the fpine. 



ITIN E RANT Judges, or Jufliccs, fuch as were formerly 

 fent with commiffions into divers counties, to hear chiefly 

 thofe caufes called pleas of the erown ; the fame with what 

 are otherwife called ^'u/?;V?j ;n eyre. See Justice. 



ITINERARIUM.in Surgery,a name given by Hildanus, 

 and many other writers, to a llafF ufed in the operation of 

 cuttincr for the ftone. 



ITINERARY, the defcription a traveller gives of the 

 courfe of his journey, and of the curiofitics, &c. heobferved 

 therein . 



The Itinerary of Antonine fliews all the grand Roman 

 roads in the empire, and all the (lations of the Roman army. 

 It was drawn up by order of the emperor Antoninus Pius ; 

 but is now very defeftivc, having fuffered much under the 

 hands of the copyills and editors. 



Itinerary Column. See Column. 



ITING, in Ornithology. See Gkacula Cnha. 



ITIOBARA Bay, iti Geography, a bay on the coaft of 

 Brazil. S. lat. 6- 20'. W. long. 37° 46'. 



ITIUM Pkomontorilm, in Ancient Geography, a pro- 

 montory of Gaul, mentioned by Ptolemy, and fuppofed to 

 be at the mouth of the Somme, in France, and extending 

 towards the north. According to D'Anville it is Grifs- 

 nefs. 



ITIUS PoRTUs. See Iccws Partus. 



ITKARINSKOI, in Geography, a town of Ruflia, in 

 tk- Ejovernment of Kolivan ; 156 miles E.N.E. of KoUvan. 

 N. lat. 5J' 36'. E. long 85"' 44'. 



ITONA, in Ancient Geography, a town of Epirus. — 

 Alfo, a town of Italy. — Alfo, a town of Alia Minor, in 

 Lydia. — Alfo, the name of two places, one in Boeotia, the 

 other in Lydia. 



ITORUM Urbs, a town of Italy, on the route fro-n 

 Otricoli to Rimini, near the mountains ; mentioned by 

 Strabo. 



I TRABO, in Geography, a town of Spain, in the pro- 

 vince of Granada ; 10 miles W N W. of Motril. 



ITRI, a town of Naples, in the province of Lavora ; 

 3 miles S.E. of Fondi. 



ITSJA, a town of Japan, in the idandof Ximo ; 10 miles 

 N of Taifero. 



ITTENDAL, a town of Sweden, in the province of 

 Kelfmgland ; 15 miles N. of Hudwickfwal. 



ITTERGAIJ, a fertile diftria of" Upper HefFe, watered 

 by the Itter, which runs into the Eder, two miles S. W. 

 of Vohle. 



ITTER THAL, lTTi:R-i.:K-.vAr„ or Bergjladt, a town 

 of Upper HetTe; 24 miles W. of CafTel. 



irriGIUS, Thomas, in Biography, who flouriflied in 

 the feventcenth and eighteenth centuries, was born at Leip- 

 fic about the year 1654. Here he purfued his (ludies, and 

 was afterwards appointed afFeifor of the faculty of philofo- 

 phy at tlie fame place. Being admitted to theminillry, he 

 -difchargcd the duties of that office in different churches in 



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that city. In 1686, he was admitted to the degree of doc- 

 tor of divinity, and in tlie following year he was appointed 

 firil profeffbr extraordinary in that taculty, and then pro- 

 fedor in ordinary. He took a couliderable (hare in publiih- 

 ing the " Leipfic Acls,' and befides other employments, 

 filled the poil of fuperinteiidant of ;he ecck-fiaiiical diltriti 

 of that city. He died in 17 10: and was author of "A 

 Treatife on Buruing Mountains ;'* " Dificrtatio de Hsere- 

 fiarchis jEvi Apoltolici, eique proximi ;"' " Prolego.mena 

 ad Jofephi Opera," and many other works, which were high- 

 ly etteemed by his contemporaries. Lardi.er, in his feventh 

 vol. fpeaks of him as the very learned Ittigiu?. The fame 

 author refers to his opinion in other places.. Moreri. 

 Lardner. 



ITU, in Geography, a town of South America, in the 

 province of Buenos Ayres, on the Parana ; 130 miles E, of 

 Corrientes. 



ITUCI, in Ancient Geography, a town of Hifpania, in 

 Boctica, a httle fouth of Caltulo, and north of Eliberis ; 

 called by Pliny " Virtus Julia.' 



ITUERO, in Geography, a town of Spain, in the pro- 

 vince of Leon ; 13 miles S.S.W. of Civdad Rodrigo. 



I TUNA, in Ancient Geography, an ciluary of Britain, 

 which is unqucftionably the Solway Firth, which now di- 

 vides England from Scotland on the well fide. 



ITUREA, a provice of Afia, fo called from Itur, the 

 fon of Ilhmael, fometimes erroneoufly called Jctur. It 

 was fituated on the other fide of Jordan, on the N. fide of 

 the half-tribe of ManaiTehj between that and the territories 

 of Damafcus ; fo that it made one part of Ccelefyria, and 

 lay on tha fide of Juda»a, as Idumaea lay on the other. 

 The Itureans were famous for drawing the bow, but they 

 were a fierce people. Iturea was invaded by Arillobulus, 

 who fucceeded his father Hyrcan ; but being taken ill in 

 the midft of his fucccfTes, he was under a neccffity of being 

 brought back to Jerufaleni, and to leave his brother to 

 complete the conqueft of that province j an achievement 

 which he foon accomphlhed, caufing all the Itureans, either 

 to be circumcifed and incorporated with the Jews, or elfe 

 to depart into fome other country. 



ITURISSA, a town of Hifpania, in the country of the 

 Vafcones. Ptol. In the Itinerary of Antonine it is placed 

 18 mi'es from the Pyrenees. 



ITWA, in Geography, a town of Bohemia, in the circle 

 of Piifen ; 3 miles N. W. of Teufing. 



ITYCA, in Ancient Geography, a town of Africa, in 

 Lybia, which was a colony of 'I'yrians. 



ITYPHALLOPHORI, in Ancient Mythology, MeniL. 

 ants on the orgies of Bacchus, who accompanied the Phal- 

 lophori, habited hke fawns, counterfeiting perfons drunk, 

 and Tinging, in honour of Bacchus, fongs fuitable to their 

 fundions. See OuoiES. 



ITYS, in Ancient Geography, one of the rivers of Britain, 

 which runs into the fea oppolite to the ifle of Skye. 



ITZEHOE, in Geography, a town of the duchy of Hol- 

 flein. This town has a very ancient origin : it is named 

 from a fortrefs built in the beginning of the ninth century 

 by order of Charles the Great, iffued in 809, to repel the 

 incurlions of the Danes into Germany. This fortrefs was 

 called EfTcho, or Iflcho. In prbcefs of time it was fur- 

 rounded by a number of houfes, wl.ich, about the middle of 

 the 13th century, obtained the privileges of a town. It 

 has fince been fevera! times deftroyed ; but is now a fmali, 

 agreeable, and well built town, partly fituated on the river 

 Stocr, which runs into the Elbe, and has been erroneonfly- 

 mentioned by fome travellers as a canal cut from that ri- 

 ver. It is diftant from Hamburgh 47 miles, and 1 2 from 

 Gluckftadt. The church, which is in the market-place, ij 



