or AUSTA, an island in the Adriatic sea, on the coast of Dalmatia, near Ragusa, subject to Venice. E. Long. 17. 50. N. Lat. 42. 35.

AUGUSTA Ausetorum, a town of Aquitania, so named out of compliment to Augustus, being originally called Clivderum, which name it afterwards retained. In the middle age, it took the name of the people, Au-

sci; and is now called Auch, the capital of Géroncy*.

AUGUSTA Emerita, a town of Lusitania on the river Anas, the capital of the province; a colony of the Emeriti, or such soldiers as had served out their legal time, were men of experience, or had received marks of favour. The colony was founded by Augustus; and is now called Merida, a city of Spain, in Extremadura, on the river Guadiana. See MERIDAN.

AUGUSTA Pretoria, a town and colony of Gallia Cisalpina, and capital of the Salassi; seated at the foot of the Alps Graiae on the Duria. Now Augusta in Piedmont. See AUSTRE.

AUGUSTA Rauracorum, a town of Gallia Belgica: now a small village called Augst, at the bend of the Rhine northwards, but from the ruins, which are still Augusta Sueffonum, a town of Gallia Belgica on the Axona; so called from Augustus, and with great probability supposed to be the Noviodunum Sueffonum of Caesar. Now Soissons, on the river Aisne, in the Isle of France. See Soissons.

Augusta Taurinorum, a town of the Taurini at the foot of the Alps where the Doria Minor falls into the Po; now Turin, the capital of Piedmont.

Augusta Trebia, a town of the Equi, near the springs of the river Anio in Italy; now Trevi, in Umbria, or in the east of the Campagna di Roma.

Augusta Treviorum, a town of the Treviri, a people inhabiting between the Rhine and the Meuse, but specially about the Moselle; now Triers, or Trevi, in the circle of the Lower Rhine on the Moselle.

Augusta Vindelicorum, a town of the Licates on the Licus; called by Tacitus a noble colony of Rhaetia; now Augsburg, capital of Swabia.