PRÆTORIA AUGUSTA (Ptolemy), a town of Dacia. Now called Braſſow by the natives, and Cronſtat by the Germans (Baudrand): a town in Transylvania. E. Long. 25°. N. Lat. 47°.—Another of the Salaffii, near the two gates or defiles of the Alps, the Grajæ and Penninæ (Pliny); a Roman colony, settled by Augustus after the defeat of the Salaffii by Terentius Varro, on the spot where he encamped (Strabo, Dio Cassius, Ptolemy), situated on the river Dura Major. The town is now called Aoſſa or Aouſſa, in Piedmont. E. Long. 7. 14. N. Lat. 45. 19.