Dictionary of Greek and Roman geography . marked by a column, and thence known by the nameof CoLUMNA Rhegina. {Itiu. Ant. pp. 98, 106,111; Plin. iii. 5. s. 10; T]?Ti\yivwv arvKis, p. 257.) The distance of this from Rhegium isgiven both by Pliny and Strabo at 12.^ miles or 100stadia, and the latter places it only 6 stadia fromthe promontory of Caenys or Fimta del Pezzo. Itmust therefore have been situated in the neighbour-hood of the modern village of Villa San Giovanni,which is still the most usual place of passage. Butthe distance from Rhegium is overstated by bothgeographers, the Pu
Dictionary of Greek and Roman geography . marked by a column, and thence known by the nameof CoLUMNA Rhegina. {Itiu. Ant. pp. 98, 106,111; Plin. iii. 5. s. 10; T]?Ti\yivwv arvKis, p. 257.) The distance of this from Rhegium isgiven both by Pliny and Strabo at 12.^ miles or 100stadia, and the latter places it only 6 stadia fromthe promontory of Caenys or Fimta del Pezzo. Itmust therefore have been situated in the neighbour-hood of the modern village of Villa San Giovanni,which is still the most usual place of passage. Butthe distance from Rhegium is overstated by bothgeographers, the Punta del Pezzo itself being less RHENUS. than 10 miles from Reggio. On the other handthe inscription of La Iolla (Forum Popilii) givesthe distance from the place of passage, which itdesignates as Ad Statuam, at only 6 miles.(Jlommsen, Inscr. R. N. 6276.) Yet it is pro-bable that the spot meant is really the same inboth cases, as from the strong current in thestraits the place of embarkation must always havebeen nearly the same. [E. H. B.]. COIN OF RHEGIUM. RHEGMA (PrJ7^a), the name of a lake or la-gune formed by the river Cydnus in Cilicia, at itsmouth, about 5 stadia below Tarsus; the inhabit-ants of this city used it as their port. ( p. 672; Stadiasm. Mar. Mag. §§ 155, 156,where it is called Prjy/ioi; It. Hieros. p. 579.)The two last authorities place the Ehegma 70 stadiafrom Tarsus, which may possibly refer to a parti-cular point of it, as the Rhegma was very exten-sive. [L. S.] RHEGMA. [Epimaranitae.] RHEIMEA (FeiMsa, Bockh, Inscr. no. 4590),a town of Auranitis, as appears from an inscriptionfound by Burckhardt (Travels, p. 69) at Deir-el-Leben, situated three-quarters of an hour from themodern village of Rima-el-Luhf, where there standsa building with a flat roof and three receptacles forthe dead, with an inscription over the door. (Biickli,Inscr. 4587 — 4589 ; comp. Buckingham, ArabTribes. ^. 25G.) ^E. ] RHEITHRUM. [Ithaca, p. 98, a.] RHEITI. [Attica, p.
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