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ATINA, the name of three ancient towns of Italy. i. A town (mod. Atena) of Lucania, upon the Via Popillia, 7 m. N. of Tegianum, towards which an ancient road leads, in the valley of the river now known as Diano. Its ancient importance is vouched for by its wal ...

ARTENA, a village of Italy, in the province of Rome, situated at the N.N.W. extremity of the Volscian Mountains; it is 36 m. S.E. by rail, and 24 m. direct from Rome. Pop. (1901) 5016. On the mountain above it (2073 ft.) are the fine remains of the fortificati

ATHIAS, JOSEPH (d. 1700), Jewish rabbi and printer, was born in Spain and settled in Amsterdam. His editions of the Hebrew Bible (1661, 1667) are noted for beauty of execution and the general correctness of the text. He also printed a Judaeo-Gennan edition of

ANWEILER, or ANNWEILER, a town of Germany, in the Bavarian Palatinate, on the Queich, 8 m. west of Landau, and on the railway from that place to Zweibrucken. Pop. 3700. It is romantically situated in the part of the Haardt called the Pfalzer Schweiz (Palatinat ...

... rotary, and should be of gun-metal or one of the new bronzealloys which take a patina in salt water. For the circulating pipes many materials have been tried. Vulcanite is not only expensive and brittle, but has other disadvantages; common iron pipes, coated i ...

... umviri, the birthplace of Juvenal and of the emperor Pescennius Niger. The Via Latina traversed it; one of the gates through which it passed, now called Porta S. Lorenzo, is still well preserved, and there are remains within the walls (portions of which, built ...

... e stream now known as Fosso dell' Incastro, and 23 m. S. of Rome by the Via Ardeatina. It was founded, according to legend, either by a son of Odysseus and Circe, or by Danae, the mother of Perseus. It was one of the oldest of the coast cities of Latium, and a ...

... ich it dominated 18th-century music. It was not, however, invariable. In the Cavatina we find a form too small for the da Capo; and in the oratorios of Handel and the choral works of Bach we find a majority of arias in a larger form which evades the possibilit ...

... iven in Bruce's Roma, Wall, and the seventh volume of the Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum edited by Hiibner, containing the British inscriptions is a valuable repertory for the earlier Roman epitaphs in Britain The earliest, of course, are commemorative of sold ...

... ich resulted in the defeat of the coalition at the hands of the French marshal Catinat; but in the spring of 1691 Prince Eugene, having secured reinforcements, caused the siege of Coni to be raised, took possession of Carmagnola, and in the end completely defe ...

... * Piedmont (Haute o Prussia i — I Hanover (House of Brunswick) Bavaria A the Palatinate Venice Boundary of the Empire POPULATION] boundary between Norway and Sweden descends from the fjeld in the south it should leave to Norway both side* of the valley of the ...

... us, not by Augustus. Strabo speaks of it as the most important town on the Via Latina, and only coming after Capua among the towns in the interior of Campania. It lay on the Via Latina, here joined by a branch road from Suessa, of which remains still exist, an ...

... of each bay. The Istrian stone of which the edifice is built has taken a fine patina, which makes the whole look like some richly embossed casket in oxidized silver. The full meaning of the change which had come over Venetian architecture, of the gulf which l ...

... (In- Sierra de Santa Calalina, from which the detached Cachl, Gulumpaii and Famatina ranges project southward ; and the Sierra dc Santa Victoria, south of which are the Zenta, Aconquija, Ambato and Anoute ranges. These minor range*, excepting the Zenta. are s ...