Anthemusia

Anthĕmūsia, ae, f.,

• a town in Macedonia, Plin. 5, 24, 21, § 86; also called An-themus, q. v.

Anthemūsia, ae, f., u. Anthemūsias, adis, Akk. ada, f., Stadt in Mesopotamien, in der Nähe von Edessa, Form - ia, Plin. 5, 86: - ias, Tac. ann. 6, 41 (wo griech. Akk. -ada). – Dah. Anthemusia auch = die Umgegend der gen. Stadt (zwischen Chaboras und Euphrat), sonst Osrhoëne, Eutr. 8, 3 (2). Amm. 14, 3, 3. Sext. Ruf. brev. 15, 11.

Anthĕmūsĭa, æ, f. , ville de Mésopotamie : Plin. 5, 86.

ANTHEMUSIA

ANTHEMU´SIA [MYGDONIA]

ANTHEMUSIA

ANTHEMU´SIA (Ἀνθεμουσία, Ἀνθεμοῦς: Eth. Ἀνθεμούσιος), a town of Mesopotamia. Strabo (p. 347) speaks of the Aborras (Khabur) flowing around or about Anthemusia, and it seems that he must mean the region Anthemusia. Tacitus (Tac. Ann. 6.41) gives the town what is probably its genuine Greek name, Anthemusias, for it was one of the Macedonian foundations in this country. According to Isidore of Charax, it lies between Edessa (Orfa) and the Euphrates, 4 schoeni from Edessa. There is another passage in Strabo in which he speaks of Anthemusia as a place (τόπος) in Mesopotamia, and he seems to place it near the Euphrates. In the notes to Harduin‘s Pliny (Plin. Nat. 5.24), a Roman brass coin of Anthemusia or Anthemus, as it was also called, is mentioned, of the time of Caracalla, with the epigraph Ἀνθεμουσίων.

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