(anc. geog.), a town of Egypt, on the west side of the Arabian gulf, near its extremity, to the south of Heroopolis (Strabo, Ptolemy); called Cleopatra by some. Another Arsinoe, a town of Cilicia, (Ptolemy); and the fifth of that name in Cilicia, (Stephanus); with a road or station for ships, (Strabo). A third Arsinoe, in the south of Cyprus, with a port between Citium and Salamis, (Strabo). A fourth, an inland town of Cyprus, called Marium formerly, (Stephanus). A fifth in the north of Cyprus, between Aegina and Soli, (Strabo); so called from Arsinoe, a queen of Egypt, Cyprus being in the hands of the Ptolemies. A sixth Arsinoe, a maritime town of Cyrene, formerly called Tenebria. A seventh Arsinoe, in the Nomos Arsinoites, to the west of the Heraclaeotes, on the western bank of the Nile, formerly called Crocodilorum Urbs, (Strabo); the name Arsinoe continued under Adrian, (Coin). Ptolemy calls this Arsinoe an inland metropolis, and therefore at some distance from the Nile, with a port called Ptolemais. An eighth Arsinoe, a maritime town of Lycia; so called by Ptolemy Philadelphus, after the name of his consort, which did not hold long, it afterwards recovering its ancient name Patara. ART

Patara, (Strabo). A ninth, a town of the Troglodytes, near the mouth of the Arabian gulf, which towards Ethiopia is terminated by a promontory called Dire, (Ptolemy). This Arfinoe is called Berenice, and the third of that name in this quarter, with the distinction Epidire; because situate on a neck of land running out a great way into the sea.

ARISI and THESIS, in music is a term applied to compositions in which one part rises and the other falls.

ARSMART in botany. See Persicaria.