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by the Helvetii, G. i. 11; join in a petition against Ariovistus, _ibid_. 33; at the head of one of the two leading factions of Gaul, G. vi. 12; Caesar quiets an intestine commotion among them, C. vii. 33; they revolt from the Romans, G. vii. 54; their law concerning magistrates, _ibid_. 33; their clients, i. 31; vii. 75 Aeg[=e]an Sea, the _Archipelago_, a part of the Mediterranean which lies between Greece, Asia Minor, and the Isle of Crete Aeg[=i]n[)i]um, a town of Thessaly; Domitius joins Caesar near that place, C. iii. 79 Aegus and Roscillus, their perfidious behaviour towards Caesar, C. iii. 59, 60 Aegyptus, _Egypt,_ an extensive country of Africa, bounded on the west by part of Marmarica and the deserts of Lybia, on the north by the Mediterranean, on the east by the Sinus Arabicus, and a line drawn from Arsino[)e] to Rhinocolura, and on the south by Aethiopia. Egypt, properly so called, may be described as consisting of the long and narrow valley which follows the course of the Nile from Syene (_Assooan_) to _Cairo,_ near the site of the ancient Memphis. The name by which this country is known to Europeans comes from the Greeks, some of whose writers inform us that it received this appellation from Aegyptus, son of Belus, it having been previously called Aeria. In the Hebrew scriptures it is called Mitsraim, and also Matsor and Harets Cham; of these names, however, the first is the one most commonly employed Aemilia Via, a Roman road in Italy, from Rimini to Aquileia, and from Pisa to Dertona Aet[=o]lia, a country of Greece, _Despotato;_ recovered from Pompey by the partisans of Caesar, C. iii. 35 Afr[=a]nius, Pompey's lieutenant, his exploits in conjunction with Petreius, C. i. 38; resolves to carry the war into Celtiberia, _ibid_. 61; surrenders to Caesar, _ibid_. 84 Afr[)i]ca, one of the four great continents into which the earth is divided; the name seems to have been originally applied by the Romans to the country around Carthage, the first part of the continent with which they became acquainted, and is said to have been derived from a small Carthaginian district on the northern coast, called _Frigi._ Hence, even when the name had become applied to the whole continent, there still remained in Roman geography the district of Africa Proper, on the Mediterranean coast, corresponding to the modem kingdom of _Tunis,_ with part of that of _Tripoli_ Agend[)i]cum, a city of the Senones, _Sens_;
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