. y Roman colonists. The countrywas divided between the provinces of GalliaNarbonensis and Gallia Cisalpina; and in thetime of Augustus and of the succeeding em-perors, the tribes in the mountains were placedunder the government of an imperial procura-tor, called Procurator or Praefectus AlpiumMaritimarum. It formed the 9th Diocletian the 11th region (Trans-padana) was included with the 9th under thesingle name Liguria, with Mediolanum (Milan)as its chief town. ligusticum Mare, the name originally of thewhole sea S. of G
. y Roman colonists. The countrywas divided between the provinces of GalliaNarbonensis and Gallia Cisalpina; and in thetime of Augustus and of the succeeding em-perors, the tribes in the mountains were placedunder the government of an imperial procura-tor, called Procurator or Praefectus AlpiumMaritimarum. It formed the 9th Diocletian the 11th region (Trans-padana) was included with the 9th under thesingle name Liguria, with Mediolanum (Milan)as its chief town. ligusticum Mare, the name originally of thewhole sea S. of Gaul and of the NW. of Italy,but subsequently only the E. part of this sea,or the Gulf of Genoa, whence later writersspeak only of a Sinus Ligusticus (Strab. p. 122). Lilaea (AiXaia : ),an ancient town inPhocis, near the sources of the Cephissus(Strab. p. 47; Paus. ix. 24, x. 83). Lilybaeum (AiAvfiawv: Marsala), a town inthe W. of Sicily, with an excellent harbour,situated on a promontory of the same name ( or di Marsala), opposite to the Coin of , head ot Apollo; rev., aiaybaitan ; Lyrs. Hermaeum or Mercurii (C. Bon) in Africa, thespace between the two being the shortest dis-tance between Sicily and Africa. The town ofLilybaeum was founded by the Carthaginiansabout 397, and was made the principal Car-thaginian fortress in Sicily. It was surroundedby massive walls and by a trench fiO feet wideand 40 feet deep. On the destruction of Seli-nus in 249, the inhabitants of the latter citywere transplanted to Lilybaeum, which thusbecame still more powerful. Lilybaeum wasbesieged by the Romans in the first Punic war,but they were unable to take it ; and they onlyobtained possession of it by the treaty of the Romans Lilybaeum continued to bea place of importance. At Marsala, whichoccupies only the S. half of the ancient town,there are the ruins of a Roman aqueduct, and afew other ancient remains. (Pol. i. 42; ;. 122, 366 ; D
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