in Grecian antiquity, public entertainments first instituted by Minos of Crete, and, after his example, appointed by Lycurgus at Sparta, at which a whole city or a tribe assisted. They were managed with the utmost frugality; and persons of all ages were admitted, the younger sort being obliged by the law-giver to repair thither as to schools of temperance and sobriety.

a city and a bishop's see in the territory of Bari, in the kingdom of Naples. It is pretty large, well peopled, and situated in a spacious plain, four miles from the Adriatic coast. E. Long. 17° 4'. N. Lat. 41° 15'.