. .) Edessa or Antiochia Callirrh5e CE5e<ro-a,.A<ri<$xea V «rl KaAAipp6ri, or A. fii^ofidp^apos :O. T. Ur : Urfah), a veryancient city in Mesopotamia, the capital of Osroene. It be-longed to the province of Mesopotamia in thetime of Trajan, and accordingly was afterwardssometimes under Boman, sometimes underOriental, rule. [See Mesopotamia.] It wasmade a Boman colony and a metropolis, prob-ably by M. Aurelius, since it is so describedon a coin of Commodus. It was the seat of akingdom from B. c. 137 to A. D. 216, when
. .) Edessa or Antiochia Callirrh5e CE5e<ro-a,.A<ri<$xea V «rl KaAAipp6ri, or A. fii^ofidp^apos :O. T. Ur : Urfah), a veryancient city in Mesopotamia, the capital of Osroene. It be-longed to the province of Mesopotamia in thetime of Trajan, and accordingly was afterwardssometimes under Boman, sometimes underOriental, rule. [See Mesopotamia.] It wasmade a Boman colony and a metropolis, prob-ably by M. Aurelius, since it is so describedon a coin of Commodus. It was the seat of akingdom from B. c. 137 to A. D. 216, when theking was sometimes partially, sometimes wholly,a vassal of Home. [Abgabus.] It stood onthe river Scirtus or Bardesanes, which ofteninundated and damaged the city. It was here EDETANI ELAGABALUS 309 that Caracalla was murdered. Having sufferedby an earthquake in 525, the city was rebuilt byJustinian and named Justinopolis.—The Edessaof Strabo (p. 748 : if the text is right) is a differ-ent place—namely, the city usually called Bam-byce or Coin of Edessa In Antoninus (Caracallai :rer., koa. m. edessa. and theheads ol two cities, eastern and western ; below, smalltemple. Edetani or Sedetani, a people in HispaniaTarraconensis, E. of the Celtiben. Their chieftowns were VALENCIA, Saguntum, Caesab-augusta, and Edeta, also called Liria (Lyria).(Ptol. ii. 6; Liv. xxiv. 20 ; SiL It. iii. 371.) Edoni or Edones (HSoivof, Howies), a Thra-cian people, between the Nestus and the Stry-nion. They were celebrated for their orgiasticworship of Bacchus; whence Horace says ( 7, 26), Non ego sanius bacchabor Edonis,and Edonis in the Latin poets signifies afemale Bacchante.—The poets use Edoni assynonymous with Thracians. (Thuc. ii. 99;Hdt. v. 11; Aesch. Pers. 493 ; Soph. Ant. 955.) Eetion (HeriW), king of the Placian Thebein Cilicia, and father of Andromache, the wifeof Hector. He and his sons were slain by Achil-les, when the hitter took Thebes. (II
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