a large city of the Carni, or Veneti, and a noble Roman colony, which was led thither between the first and second Macedonian wars, (Livy). It is washed by two rivers, the Natilo and Turrus, (Pliny). The reason of leading this colony was, in order to be a bulwark against the neighbouring barbarians. The colony was afterwards increased with fifteen hundred families by a decree of the senate, (Livy); from which it became a very famous port-town, (Herodian). The emperor Julian ascribes the appellation to the augury of an eagle at the time of building it; but Isaac Vossius on Mela, to the great plenty of water, as if the town were called Aquilegia. The harbour, at the mouth of the Natilo, is distant sixty furlongs from the city; so that ships of burden are towed up the river, (Strabo). It is still called Aquileia, but greatly fallen from its former splendor. E. Long. 15° 32'. Lat. 45° 45'.