in Ancient Geography, a noble city of the Cilpadana, made a Roman colony in the same year with Parma, situated between the rivers Gabellus and Scultenna, on the Via Emilia. Here D. Brutus, being besieged by Antony, was relieved by the consuls Hirtius and Paulla. The Greeks called it Mutina; except Ptolemy, in whom it is Motina; and in Ptolemy Motina, after the Roman manner.—Now Modena, a city of Lombardy, and capital of a cognominal duchy. E. Long. ii. 20. N. Lat. 44° 45'.