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Liquentia (Livenza), a considerable river of Venetia, which rises in the Julian Alps to the N. of Opitergium (Oderzo), and flows into the Adriatic near Caorle, about midway between the Piave (Plavis) and the Tagliamento (Tilaventum). (Plin. iii. 18. s. 22.) It had a port of the same name at its mouth. Servius (ad Aen. ix. 679) correctly places it between Altinum and Concordia. The name is not found in the Itineraries, but Paulus Diaconus mentions the pons Liquentiae fluminis on the road from Forum Julii towards Patavium. (P. Diac. Hist. Lang. v. 39; Anon. Ravenn. iv. 36)
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Medoacus or Meduacus (Medoakos: Brenta), a river of Northern Italy,
in the province of Venetia, falling into the extensive lagunes which border the
coast of the Adriatic, in the neighbourhood of the modern Venice. According to
Pliny (iii. 16. s. 20), there were two rivers of the name, but no other author
mentions more than one, and Livy, a native of the region, mentions the Meduacus
amnis without any distinctive epithet. (Liv. x. 2.) There can be no doubt that
this is the river now known as the Brenta, which is a very considerable stream,
rising in the mountains of the Val Sugana, and flowing near Padua (Patavium).
A short distance from that city it receives the waters of the Bacchiglione, which
may probably be the other branch of the Medoacus meant by Pliny. Strabo speaks
of a port of the same name at its mouth (Medoakos limen, v. p. 213), which served
as the port of Patavium. This must evidently be the same to which Pliny gives
the name of Portus Edro, and which was formed by the Medoaci duo ac Fossa Clodia
: it is in all probability the one now called Porto di Lido, close to Venice.
The changes which have taken place in the configuration of the lagunes and the
channels of the rivers, which are now wholly artificial, render the identification
of the ports along this coast very obscure, but Strabo's statement that the Medoacus
was navigated for a distance of 250 stadia, from the port at its mouth to Patavium,
seems conclusive in favour of the Porto di Lido, rather than the more distant
one of Chiozza. At the present day the Brenta flows, as it were, round the lagunes,
and enters the sea at Brondolo, evidently the Portus Brundulus of Pliny (l. c.)
; while a canal called the Canale di Brenta, quitting the river of that name at
Dolo, holds a more direct course to the lagunes at Fusina. This canal may perhaps
be the Fossa Clodia of Pliny.
Livy tells us that, in B.C. 301, Cleonymus the Lacedaemonian arrived
at the mouth of the Medoacus, and having ascended the river with some of his lighter
vessels, began to ravage the territory of the Patavini, but that people repulsed
his attacks, and destroyed a considerable part of his fleet. (Liv. x. 2.)
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Tartarus (Tartaro), a river of Venetia, near the borders of Gallia Transpadana. It is intermediate mediate between the Athesis (Adige) and the Padus (Po); and its waters are now led aside by artificial canals partly into the one river and partly into the other, so that it may be called indifferently a tributary butary of either. In ancient times it seems to have had a recognised mouth of its own, though this was even then wholly artificial, so that Pliny calls it the fossiones Philistinae, quod alii Tartarum vocant. (Plin. iii. 16. s. 20.) In the upper part of its course it formed, as it still does, extensive marshes, of which Caecina, the general of Vitellius, skilfully availed himself to cover his position near Hostilia. (Tac. Hist. iii. 9.) The river is here still called the Tartaro: lower down it assumes the name of Canal Bianco, and after passing the town of Adria, and sending off part of its waters right and left into the Po and Adige, discharges the rest by the channel now known as the Po di Levante. The river Atrianus (Atrianos potamos), mentioned by Ptolemy (iii. 16. § 20), could be no other than the mouth of the Tartarus, so called from its flowing by the city of Adria; but the channels of these waters have in all ages been changing.
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Timavus (Timauos: Timao), a river of Venetia, flowing into the Adriatic
sea between Aquileia and Tergeste, about 12 miles E. of the former city. Notwithstanding
its classical celebrity, it is one of the shortest of rivers, being formed by
copious sources which burst out from the rock at the foot of a lofty cliff, and
immediately constitute a broad and deep river, which has a course of little more
than a mile before it discharges itself into the sea. There can be no doubt that
these sources are the outlets of some subterranean stream, and that the account
of Posidonius (ap. Strab. v. p. 215), who says that the river after a course of
some length falls into a chasm, and is carried under ground about 130 stadia before
it issues out again and falls into the sea, is substantially correct. Such subterranean
passages are indeed not uncommon in Carniola, and it is impossible to determine
from what particular river or lake the waters of the Timavus derive their origin;
but the popular notion still regards them as the outflow of a stream which sinks
into the earth near S. Canzian, about 13 miles from the place of their reappearance.
(Cluver. Ital. p. 193.) The number of the sources is variously stated: Virgil,
in the well-known passage in which he describes them (Aen. i. 245), reckons them
nine in number, and this agrees with the statement of Mela; while Strabo speaks
of seven; and this would appear from Servius to have been the common belief (Serv.
ad Aen. l. c.; Mel. ii. 4. § 3), which is supported also by Martial, while Claudian
follows Virgil (Mart. iv. 25. 6; Claudian, de VI. Cons. Hon. 198). Cluverius,
on the other hand, could find but six, and some modern travellers make them only
four. Strabo adds that, according to Polybius, all but one of them were salt,
a circumstance which would imply some connection with the sea, and, according
to Cluverius, who described them from personal observation, this was distinctly
the case in his time; for though at low water the stream issued tranquilly from
its rocky sources, and flowed with a still and placid current to the sea, yet
at high tides the waters were swollen, so as to rush forth with much greater force
and volume, and inundate the neighbouring meadows: and at such times, he adds,
the waters of all the sources but one become perceptibly brackish, doubtless from
some subterranean communication with the sea. (Cluver. Ital. p. 194.) It appears
from this account that Virgil's remarkable expressions
Unde per ora novem, vasto cum murmure montis
It mare proruptum, et pelago premit arva sonanti
are not mere rhetorical exaggerations, but have a foundation in fact.
It was doubtless from a reference to the same circumstance that, according to
Polybius (ap. Strab. l. c.), the stream was called by the natives the source and
mother of the sea (metera tes thalattes.) It is probable that the communication
with the sea has been choked up, as no modern traveller alludes to the phenomenon
described by Cluverius. The Timao is at present a very still and tranquil stream,
but not less than 50 yards broad close to its source, and deep enough to be navigable
for vessels of considerable size. Hence it is justly called by Virgil magnus Timavus
(Ecl. viii. 6); and Ausonius speaks of the aequoreus amnis Timavi (Clar. Urb.
xiv. 34).
Livy speaks of the lacum Timavi, by which he evidently means nothing more
than the basin formed by the waters near their source (Liv. xli. 1): it was close
to this that the Roman consul A. Manlius established his camp, while C. Furius
with 10 ships appears to have ascended the river to the same point, where their
combined camp was attacked and plundered by the Istrians. According to Strabo
there was a temple in honour of Diomed erected near the sources of the Timavus,
with a sacred grove attached to it. (Strab. v. p. 214). There were also warm springs
in the same neighbourhood, which are now known as the Bagni di S. Giovanni.
This text is from: Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854) (ed. William Smith, LLD). Cited September 2004 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
Medoacus or Meduacus (Medoakos: Brenta), a river of Northern Italy,
in the province of Venetia, falling into the extensive lagunes which border the
coast of the Adriatic, in the neighbourhood of the modern Venice. According to
Pliny (iii. 16. s. 20), there were two rivers of the name, but no other author
mentions more than one, and Livy, a native of the region, mentions the Meduacus
amnis without any distinctive epithet. (Liv. x. 2.) There can be no doubt that
this is the river now known as the Brenta, which is a very considerable stream,
rising in the mountains of the Val Sugana, and flowing near Padua (Patavium).
A short distance from that city it receives the waters of the Bacchiglione, which
may probably be the other branch of the Medoacus meant by Pliny. Strabo speaks
of a port of the same name at its mouth (Medoakos limen, v. p. 213), which served
as the port of Patavium. This must evidently be the same to which Pliny gives
the name of Portus Edro, and which was formed by the Medoaci duo ac Fossa Clodia
: it is in all probability the one now called Porto di Lido, close to Venice.
The changes which have taken place in the configuration of the lagunes and the
channels of the rivers, which are now wholly artificial, render the identification
of the ports along this coast very obscure, but Strabo's statement that the Medoacus
was navigated for a distance of 250 stadia, from the port at its mouth to Patavium,
seems conclusive in favour of the Porto di Lido, rather than the more distant
one of Chiozza. At the present day the Brenta flows, as it were, round the lagunes,
and enters the sea at Brondolo, evidently the Portus Brundulus of Pliny (l. c.)
; while a canal called the Canale di Brenta, quitting the river of that name at
Dolo, holds a more direct course to the lagunes at Fusina. This canal may perhaps
be the Fossa Clodia of Pliny.
Livy tells us that, in B.C. 301, Cleonymus the Lacedaemonian arrived at
the mouth of the Medoacus, and having ascended the river with some of his lighter
vessels, began to ravage the territory of the Patavini, but that people repulsed
his attacks, and destroyed a considerable part of his fleet. (Liv. x. 2.)
This text is from: Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854) (ed. William Smith, LLD). Cited September 2004 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
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