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MASSALIA (Ancient city) FRANCE
Athenopolis, a city on the coast of Gallia Narbonensis, dependent
on Massilia. (Mela, ii. 5; Plin. iii. 4.) Stephanus (s. v. Athenai) mentions an
Athenae of the Ligystii, which may be this place. There are no measures for determining
the position of Athenopolis. D'Anville observes, that Pliny and Mela seem to place
this Massaliot settlement south of Forum Julii (Frejus); and yet in his map he
fixes it north of Frejus, at a place called Agay. Walckenaer, at a guess, places
it at St. Tropez, which is on a bay nearly due south of Frejus. The Athenaeopolitae
of Varro (L. L. viii. 35) are assumed to be the inhabitants of this place.
This text is from: Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854) (ed. William Smith, LLD). Cited October 2004 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
Azania, a city belonging to Massilia, according to Stephanus (s. v. Azania), quoting
Philo. The place is only mentioned in this passage, which is worth notice, as
adding to the list of Massaliot towns in the south of France. Walckenaer (Geog.,
&c., vol. i. p. 280) conjectures that it may be at Azillaret, near Azille, in
the department of Aude; but this is merely a guess, founded on a resemblance of
names.
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