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Lempriere's Classical Dictionary From time to time I intend to add pages from this standard, if dated, work of reference. A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z Randa to Rhea chosen, or from Romulus. Another was called Tatian, and the third Luceres. Varr. de L. L. 4, c. g.—Ltv. i, c. 13.—Horat. de Art. Poet. 304.— Plut. in Rom. Randa, a village of Persia, where 3000 rebellious Persians were slain by Chiles. Polycen. j. Rapo, a Rutulian chief, &c. Virg. JEn. 10, v. 748. RascipQlis, a Macedonian sent to the assistance of Pompey. Ccesar. Bell. Civ. 3, c. 4. Ravenna, a town of Italy on the Adriatic, which became celebrated under the Roman emperors for its capacious harbour, which could contain 250 ships, and for being for some time the seat of the western empire. It was difficult of access by land, as it stood on a small peninsula ; and so ill supplied with water, that it was sold at a higher price than wine, according to Martial. The emperors kept one of their fleets there, and the other at Misenum, on the other side of Italy. It was founded by a colony of Thessalians, or, according to others, of Sabines. It is now fallen from its former grandeur, and is a wretched town situate at the distance of about four miles from the sea, and surrounded with swamps and marshes. Strab. 5.— Suet, in Aug. i&.—Plin. 3R6, c. iz.—Mela, 2, c. 4,— Martial. 3, ep. 93, v. 8, &c. Rav51a, a celebrated debauchee, &c. Juv. Rauraci, a people of Gaul, whose chief town is now Augst on the Rhine. Cees. G. i, c. 5. Reate, a pleasant town of Umbria, built, as some suppose, before the Trojan war, about 15 miles from Fanum Vacunae, near the lake Velinus. Cybele was the chief deity of the place. It was famous for its asses. Strab. 5.—Dionys. Hal. i. — Varro deR. R. i.—Liv. 25, c. 7. 1. 26, c. n. 1. 28, c. 45.—Cic. Cat. 3, c. 2. N. D. 2, c. 2. RedictlluS, a deity whose name is derived from the word redire (to return). The Romans raised a temple to this imaginary deity on the spot where Annibal had retired when he approached Rome, as if to besiege it. Fest'us de V. Si Redones, a nation among the Armonci, now the people of Rennes and St. Malocs, in Brittany. Cas. B. G. 2, c. 41. Regillee, or Regrillum, a town in the country of the Sabines in Italy, about 20 miles from Rome, celebrated for a battle which was fought there, A.U.C. 258, between 24,000 Romans and 40,000 Etrurians, who were headed by the Tarquins. The Romans obtained the victory, and scarce 10,000 of the enemy escaped from the field of battle. Castor and Pollux, according to some accounts, were seen mounted on white horses, and fighting at the head of the Roman army. Liv. 2, c. 16.—Dionys. Hal. 5;—Plut. in Cor.—Val. Max. \.-Flor. \.-Suet. Tib. i. Regillianus Q. Nonius, a Dacian who entered the Roman armies, and was raised tQ the greatest honours under Valerian. He was elected emperor by the populace, who were dissatisfied with Gallienus, and was soon after murdered by his soldiers, A.D. 262. Regillus, a small lake of Latium, whose waters fall into the Anio, at the east of Rome. The dictator Posthumius defeated the Latin army near it. Liv. 2, c. 19. Reginum, a town of Germany, now supposed Ratisbon or Regensburg. Regilim Lepidum, a town of Modena, now Regie, at tlie south of the Po. Plin. 3, c. 15.—Cic. iz.Fam. 5. 1. 13, ep. j. Marcus Atillius Regulus, a consul during the first Punic war. He reduced Brundusium, and in his second consulship he took 64, and sunk 30 galleys of the Carthaginian fleet, on the coast of Sicily. Afterwards he landed in Africa, and so rapid was his success, that in a short time he defeated three generals, and made himself master of about 200 places of consequence on the coast. The Carthaginians sued for peace, but the conqueror refused to grant it, and soon after he was defeated in a battle by Xanthippus, and 30,000 of his men were left on the field of battle, and 15,000 taken prisoners. Regulus was in the number of the captives, and he was carried in triumph to Carthage. He was afterwards sent by the enemy to Rome, to propose an accommodation, and an exchange of prisoners; and if his commission was unsuccessful, he was bound by the most solemn oaths to return to Carthage without delay. When he came to Rome, Regulus dissuaded his countrymen from accepting the terms which the enemy proposed, and when his opinion had had due influence on the senate, he then retired to Carthage agreeable to his engagements. The Carthaginians were told that their offers of peace had been rejected at Rome by the means of Regulus, and therefore they prepared to punish him with the greatest severity. His eyebrows were cut, and he was exposed for some days to the excessive heat of the meridian sun, and afterwards confined in a barrel, whose sides were everywhere filled with large iron spikes, till he died in the greatest agonies. His sufferings were heard at Rome, and the senate permitted his widow to inflict whatever punishments she pleased on some of the most illustrious captives of Carthage, who were in their hands. She confined them also in presses filled with sharp iron points, and was so exquisite in her cruelty, that the senate at last interfered, and stopped the barbarity of her punishments. Regulus died about 251 years before Christ. Sil. 6. v. 319.—Flor. 2, c. 3.—Horat. 3, od. 5.—Cic. de Off. i, c. 13.— Val. Max. i, c. i. 1. 9, c. 2,—Liv. cp. 16. ——Memmius, a Roman made governor of Greece by Caligula. While Regulus was in this province, the emperor wished to bring the celebrated statue of Jupiter Olympius, by Phidias, to Rome ; but this was supernaturally prevented, and according to ancient authors, the ship which was to convey it was destroyed by lightning, and the workmen who attempted to remove the statue were terrified away by sudden noises. Dio. Cos.——A man who condemned Sejanus.——Roscius, a man who held the consulship but for one day, in the reign of Vitellius. Remi, a nation of Gaul, whose principal town, Duricortorium, is now Rheims, in the north of Champagne. Plin. 4, c. 17.—Cces. B. G. 2, c. 5. Remmia lex, at judiciis, was enacted to punish all calumniators. The letter K was marked on their forehead. This law was abolished by Constantine the Great. Cic. pro Ros. RSmtLlus, a chief of Tibur, whose arms were seized by the Rutulians, and afterwards became part of the plunder which Euryalus obtained. Virg. JEn. 9, v. 360. ——A friend of Turnus, trampled to death by his horse, which Orsilochus had wounded. Id. ii, v. 636, &c. RSmtllus Sylvius, a king of Alba, destroyed by lightning on account of his impiety. Ovid. Trist. 4, v. 50. Remuria, festivals established at Rome by Romulus, to appease the manes of his brother Remus. They were afterwards called Lemuria, and celebrated yearly. Remus, the brother of Romulus, was exposed, together with him, by the cruelty of his grandfather. In the contest which happened between the two brothers about building a city, Romulus obtained the preference, and Remus, for ridiculing the rising walls, was put to death by his brother's orders, or by Romulus himself. Vid. Romulus. The Romans were afflicted with a plague after this murder, upon which the oracle was consulted, and the manes of Remus appeased by the institution of the Remuria. Ovid. ——One of the auxiliaries of Turnus against Aeneas. Virg. Aen. 9, v. 330. Reseena, a town of Mesopotamia, famous for the defeat of Sapor by Gordian. Resus, a small river of Asia Minor, falling into the Maeander. Retina, a village near Misenum. Pun. 6, ep. 16. Rendigni, a nation of Germany. Tacit, de Germ. 40. Rha, a large river, now the Volga, of Russia. A medicinal root which grew on its bank was called Rha barbarum, Rhubarb. Rhacia, a promontory in the Mediterranean sea, projecting from the Pyrenean mountains. Rhacius, a Cretan prince, the first of that nation who entered Ionia with a colony. He scied Claros, of which he became the sovereign. He married Manto the daughter of Thesius, who had been seized on his coasts. Paus. 7, c., Rhacdtis, an ancient mime of Alexandria the capital of Egypt. Strab.—Pans. 5, c. ai. Rhadamanthus, a son of Jupiter and Europa. He was born in Crete, which he abandoned about the 3oth year of his age. He passed into some of the Cyclades, where he reigned with so much justice and impartiality, that the ancients have said he became one of the judges of hell, and that he was employed in the infernal regions in obliging the dead to confess their crimes, and in punishing them for their offences. Rhadamanthus reigned not only over some of the Cyclades, but over many of the Greek cities of Asia. Paris. 8, c. 53.—Ovid. Met. 9, v. 435.—Diod. 5.—Plato.— Homer. II. 4, v. <£\.— Virg. &n. 6, v. 566. Rhadamistus, a son of Pharnasmanes king of Iberia. He married Zenobia, the daughter of his uncle Mithridates king of Armenia, and some time after put him to death. He was put to death by his father for his cruelties, about the year 52 of the Christian era. Tacit. Ann. 13, c. 37. Rhadius, a son of Neleus. Rhaeteum, a city of Phrygia. Rhseti.or Beeti, an ancient and warlike nation of Etruria. They were driven from their native country by the Gauls, and went to settle on the other side of the Alps. Vid. Rhactia. Plin. 3, c. 10. —Justin. 20, c. 5. Rhaetia, a country at the north of Italy, between the Alps and the Danube, which now forms the territories of the Grisons, of the Tyrol and part of Italy. It was divided into two parts, Rheetia prima and Rhcetia secunda. The first extended from the sources of the Rhine to those of the Licus or Lek, a small river which falls into the Danube. The other, called also Vindelicia, ex tended from the Licus to another small river callec CEnus, or Inn, towards the east. The principa towns of Rhaetia were called Curia, Tridentum Belunum, Feltria. The Rhaetians rendered them selves formidable by the frequent invasions which they made upon the Roman empire, and were a last conquered by Drvisus the brother of Tiberius and others under the Roman emperors. Virg. G. a, v. g6.—Stra&. 4.—Plin. 3, c. 20. 1. 14, c. 2, &c.— Horat. 4, od. 4 & 14. Rhamnes, a king and augur, who assisted Turnus against Aeneas. He was killed in the night by Nisus. Virg. Aen. 9, v. 325. Rhamnus, a town of Attica, famous for a temple of Amphiaraus, and a statue of the goddess STemesis, who was from thence called Rhamnusia. This statue was made by Phidias, out of a block of Parian marble, which the Persians intended as a pillar to be erected to commemorate their expected victory over Greece. Paus. \.-Plin. 36. Rhamniisia, a name of Nemesis. Vid. Rhamnus. Rhampsinitus, an opulent king of Egypt, who succeeded Proteus. He built a large tower with stones at Memphis, where his riches were deposited, and of which he was robbed by the artifice of the architect, who had left a stone in the wall easily movable, so as to admit a plunderer. Herodot. 2, c. 121, &c. Rhamses, or Ramises, a powerful king of Egypt, who, with an army of 700,000 men, conquered Ethiopia, Libya, Persia, and other eastern nations. In his reign, according to Pliny, Troy was taken. Some authors consider him to be the same as Seaostria. Tacit. Ann. a, c. 60.- Plin. 36, Rhania, one of Diana's attendant nymphs. Ovid. Met. . Rharoa, or Bharium, a plain of Attica, where corn wus first sown by Triptolemus. It received its name from the nower's father, who was called Kharos. Pans, i, c. 14 & 38. Rhaaoupftria, a king of 1'hracc, who invaded the possessions of Cotys, and was put to death by order of Tiberius, &c. Tacit. Ann. 2, c. 64. Rhea, a daughter of Ccelus and Terra, who married Saturn, by whom she had Vesta, Ceres, Juno, Pluto, Neptune, &c. Her husband, however, devoured them all as soon as born, as he had succeeded to the throne with the solemn promise that he would raise no male children, or, according to others, because he had been informed by an oracle that one of his sons would dethrone him. To stop the cruelty of her husband, Rhea consulted her parents, and was advised to impose upon him, or perhaps to fly into Crete. Accordingly, when she brought forth, the child was immediately concealed, and Saturn devoured up a stone which his wife had given him as her own child. The fears of Saturn were soon proved to be well founded. A year after, the child, whose name was Jupiter, became so strong and powerful, that he drove his father from his throne. Rhea has been confounded by the mythologists with some of the other goddesses, and many have supposed that she was the same divinity that received adoration under the various names of Bona Dea, Cybele, Dindymena, Magna mater, Ceres, Vesta, Titaea, and Terra, Tellus, and Ops. Vid. Cybele, Ceres, Vesta, &c. Rhea, after the expulsion of her husband from his throne, followed him to Italy, where he established a kingdom. Her benevolence in this part of Europe was so great, that the golden age of Saturn is often called the age of Rhea. Hesiod. Theog.— Orpheus, in Hymn.—Homer. ib.—Aeschyl. Prom. —Euripid. Bacc. & Elect.—Ovid. Fast. 4, v. 197. —Apollod. i, c. i, &c. ——Sylvia, the mother of Romulus and Remus. She is also called Ilia. Vid. jliar——A nymph of Italy, who is said to have.