a fortress and town of Chili, in South America; situated in a fine valley, on a river of the same name. The natives are so brave, that they drove the Spaniards out of their country, though they had no fire-arms. W. Long. 51. 20. S. Lat. 42. 30.

ARASUSIO, or Civitas Arausiofus, or Arausiofus, (Notitia); Colonia Secundanorum, (Mela, Pliny, Coins), so called because the veterans of the second legion were there settled: The capital of the Cavares, in Gallia Narbonensis; now Orange, in the west of Provence, on an arm of the rivulet Egue, which soon after falls into the Rhone, from which it is distant a league to the east, at the foot of a mountain. Here is an ancient amphitheatre to be still seen. E. Long. 4. 46. Lat. 44. 16.