spures of the mountain chain of Hermon. Before the conquest of Canan by Joshua, it was one of the chief cities of Og, king of Bashan After his defeat and death it was assigned to the half tribe of Manas?eh which settled on the eastern side of Jordan. It was the seat of a Christian bishop at an early time, and a bishop of Adna sat in the council of Selucia (A.D. 381, and of Chalcedon (A.D. 451). By the Greeks it was called Adna, and by the Crusaders Adra(illegible text) Its ruins cover a curcuit of about 2 miles, of which a a large rectangular buildingm, surrounded by a double covered colonade, and with a cistern in the middle (Numbers, xxi 33; Deutron. i 4 iii 10; Joshua xii. 4. xiii. 12, 31; Joseph. Antiq. iv. 5. § 42 : Buckingham. Travels, vol ii. p. 146: Buckhardt, id. p. 241) [ W. B. D. ]
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HadiulUnua : AdemB),M citjof the inlerics' cf Sidlj, stoated at the foot if the wcBlem slope if Mt. Aetna aboi% the Tallej of the Simelo, and about 7 mike from Centnripi. We leant fnm Diodoms (lir. 37) that there existed hen from tctj ancient limes a temple rf a local deitj named Adnnos, whcee wonhip waa eiCenaiTely simiHl tbrongbSiGil7,tuidappHnlohaie beenconnected with thatcf the Palid. (Hajcb.s.c. noAiinf.) Bnt (here was no dig of the name until the ;ear 400 B.C. when it waa founded bj the elder I^onjaina, with a view to extend his power and io- floence in the interior of the island. ([Mod. L c.) It pnbablj eontinned to be a dependency t£ Sjra- cossi but in 345 B.C. it fell uito the hands of Ti- moleon. (Id. ivi. 68; Plut. nmol. 13.) It was one of the citiee taken hj the Komans at the com- mencement of the Fint Panic War (Died, iiiii. Eic. Hoeech. p. 501), and pntabl; on this account continued aAerwards in a rektioD to Rome inferior to that of meat other Sicilian citua. This ma; per- haps account for the circumitaiioe that its name is not once mentioned bj Cicero (see Zampt ad Cie. Verr. m. 6, p. 437); but we l«ni from Phnj that it was m his time included iu the class of the " sti- peodiariae ciritales " of Sidlj. (if, K. lii, 8.) Both Diodoma and Plutan;h apeak of it as a small town owing its importance chicflj to the sanctitj of iu tem[Jo; but eiistiog ntnains prore that it must have been at one time a pUce of atane cousideration. Th«e consist of portions of the andent wmlU and toweis, built in a masiive style of large squaied blocks of lava ; of massive substructions, sapposed to hais been Ihoee of the temple of Adnnue ; and the ruins ff a large building which appears to have belonged to Rotuan Thermae. Numerona Kpolchres also have been discovered and eicarated in the immediately neighbourhood. The modern town of Adeni t«. tains the andent rite aa well as name ; it is a consi- derable place, with above 60CXI inhabitants. (Bis- caii, Viaggio w Sicilia, pp. 57 — 60; OrWani, Diz. Gfogr. della Sidlia, p. 13; Bull dell. Init. Arch. 1843, p. 129.) Stephanos Bfiantinus speaks of the dtja* ritnated ou a river of the same name: thia was evidently QO iKher than the narthem branch if the Sinela (Sy- maethus) which is still afttai called the fiune iT Ademi. [ E. H. B. ]
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