Dictionary of Greek and Roman geography . [T. H. D.] ZEUGMA. 1. (SeC^^a, Ptol. v. 15. § 14), atown founded by Seleucus Nicator, in the provinceof Cyrrhestica, in Syria. It derived its name froma bridge of boats which was here laid across theEujihrates, and which in the course of time becamethe sole passage oer the river, when the older oneat Thapsacus, 2000 stadia to the S., had becomeimpracticable, or at all events very dangerous, owingto the spreading of the Arabian hordes. (Plin. v. 21; Strab. xvi. p. 746; Steph. B. s. r.) Zeugmalay on the right bank of the Euphrates, opposite toApame
Dictionary of Greek and Roman geography . [T. H. D.] ZEUGMA. 1. (SeC^^a, Ptol. v. 15. § 14), atown founded by Seleucus Nicator, in the provinceof Cyrrhestica, in Syria. It derived its name froma bridge of boats which was here laid across theEujihrates, and which in the course of time becamethe sole passage oer the river, when the older oneat Thapsacus, 2000 stadia to the S., had becomeimpracticable, or at all events very dangerous, owingto the spreading of the Arabian hordes. (Plin. v. 21; Strab. xvi. p. 746; Steph. B. s. r.) Zeugmalay on the right bank of the Euphrates, opposite toApamea, 72 miles SW. of Samosata, 175 miles the maritime Seleucia, and 36 miles N. of Hiera-polis. (Plin. I. c, and v. 12. s. 13 ; Strab. xvi. ; Tab. Pent.) It was therefore opposite to themodern Bir or Biredsjik, which occupies the site ofthe ancient Apamea. (Cf. Ritter, Erdkunde, x. , seq.) In the time of Justinian, Zeugma hadfallen into decay, but was restored by that de Atd. ii. 9, p. 237, ed. Bonn.) ( CUlX OF ZEUGMA. ZIPHENE. Polyb. V. 43 ; Dion Cass. xl. 17, xlix. 19 ; Lucan,viii. 236; Jtin. Ant. pp. 184, 185, &c.) 2. A place in Dacia. (Ptol. iii. 8. § 10). Man-nert (iv. p. 210) identifies it with the Pons Augustiof the Geogr. Rav. (iv. 14) and Tab. Pent.; con-cerning which see above, p. 656.) [T. H. D.] ZICCHI (ZiK-xoi, Arrian, Perip. P. Etix. p. 19),ZINCHI (Ztyxoi, Ptol. v. 9. § 18), or ZINGI ( 7. s. 7), a savage piratical tribe of Asiatic Sar-matia, on the coast of the Pontus Euxinus, betweenSanigae and Acliaei They are called by ProcopiusZrjxoi and ZrjKxot {B. Goth. iv. 4, B. Pers. ii. 29),and by Strabo, Zvyoi (i. p. 129, xi. pp,492, 495), if,indeed, he means the same people, as he places themin the interior on the Cauc:wus. [T. H. D.] ZIGAE, a people of Sarmatia, on the Tanais(Plin. vi. 7. s. 7). [T. H. D.] ZIGERE, a place in Lower Moesia, in the neigh-bourhood of Axiopolis (Plin. iv. 18). [] ZIGUENSIS MONS. [Zeugita
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