a considerable town of France, in the province of Languedoc, situated on the river Gardon, at the foot of the Cevennes. The Jesuits had a college in this place; and a fort was built here in 1689. It is 34 miles north of Montpellier, and 340 from Paris. E. Lon. 4° 20'. N. Lat. 44° 8'.

ALACOMENIUS, in Grecian antiquity, the Borean name of the month called, by the Athenians, Maimakterion.