. Dictionary of Greek and Roman geography . ur), onthe great road which led from Carrhae to Nieepho-rium, about 88 miles from Nisibis and 40 from(Procop. B. P. ii. 19, de Aedif. ii. 2.) Itwas near this town that Gordian the Younger fell ina battle with the Persians. (Amm. Marc. /. c.) Alists of the emperor Decius. bearing the legendCEn. KOA. PHCAINHCION.,which may in allprobability be referred to this town. In the the piace is subject to the government of theDux Osrhoenae (Xotit. Dign. ed. Bucking, i. p. 400).and a bishop of Besaina is mentioned among thosewho subscribed their names
. Dictionary of Greek and Roman geography . ur), onthe great road which led from Carrhae to Nieepho-rium, about 88 miles from Nisibis and 40 from(Procop. B. P. ii. 19, de Aedif. ii. 2.) Itwas near this town that Gordian the Younger fell ina battle with the Persians. (Amm. Marc. /. c.) Alists of the emperor Decius. bearing the legendCEn. KOA. PHCAINHCION.,which may in allprobability be referred to this town. In the the piace is subject to the government of theDux Osrhoenae (Xotit. Dign. ed. Bucking, i. p. 400).and a bishop of Besaina is mentioned among thosewho subscribed their names at the Council of , the town appears to have beenpartially rebuilt, and to have received the title (Hierocl. p. 793.) There canbe no doubt that it is at present represented byRas-al-Ain, a considerable entrepot of commercein the province of Diarbekr. It was nearly de-stroyed by the troops of Timur, in a. d. 1393.(DHerbelot, Diet. Orient, i. p. 140, iii. p. 112;Niebuhr, ii. p. 390.) [V.] RHINOCORURA. 709. COIN OF BHKSAENA. RHETICO, a mom,tain of Germany, mentionedonly by Pomp. Mela (iii. 3), along with MountTaunus. As no particulars arc stated it is impos- sible to identify it, and German writers are so dividedin their opinions that some take Rhetico to be thename of the Siebengebirge, near Bonn, while othersidentify it with a mountain in the Tirol. [L. S.] RHIDAGUS (Curt. vi. 4. § 7), a river of Hyr-cania, which flows from the mountains NW. to theCaspian. Alexander crossed it on his march inpursuit of Dareius. It appears to be the same asthe Choatres of Ammianus (xxiii. 24), and mayperhaps be represented by the present Adjisu. [ KUINOCORURA or RHINOCOLURA CPivo-i upoupa, Polyb. Ptol. Joseph.; PivoKoAovpy, Strab. PivoKovpaipos, PivoKovpovpirris), a maritimecity on the confines of Egypt and Palestine, and con-sequently reckoned sometimes to one country, some-times to the other. Strabo, going south, reckonsGaza, Raphia, Rhinocolura (x
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