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.

a town of Georgia in North America. See GEORGIA.

AUGUSTA Ausciorum, a town of Aquitania, so named out of compliment to Augustus, being originally called Climberrum, which name it afterwards retained. In the middle age, it took the name of the people, Auici; and is now called Auch, the capital of Gascogne.

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 Estremadura, on the river Guadiana. See MERIDA.

AUGUSTA Praetoria, a town and colony of Gallia Cisalpina, and capital of the Salassi; seated at the foot of the Alpes Graiae on the Duria. Now Aouste in Piedmont. See AOUSTE.

AUGUSTA Rauracorum, a town of Gallia Belgica; now a small village called Augus, at the bend of the Rhine northward; but from the ruins, which are still to be seen, appears to have been a considerable colony, at the distance of six miles from Basil to the east.

AUGUSTA Sueffonum, a town of Gallia Belgica on the Aoxna; so called from Augustus, and with great probability supposed to be the Noviodunum Sueffonum of Caesar. Now Soiffons, 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 Duria Minor falls into the Po; now Turin, the capital of Piedmont.

AUGUSTA Treba, a town of the Aequi, near the spring of the river Anio in Italy; now Trevi, in Umbria, on the east of the Campagna di Roma.

AUGUSTA Trevirorum, a town of the Treviri, a people inhabiting between the Rhine and the Meuse, but especially about the Moselle; now Trier, or Treves, in the circle of the Lower Rhine, on the Moselle.

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

AUGUSTA Historia is the history of the Roman emperors from the time of Adrian to Carinus, that is, from the year of our Lord 157 to 285, composed by fix Latin writers, Ael. Spartanus, Julius Capitolinus, Ael. Lampridius, Vulcatius Gallicanus, Trebellius Pollio, and Flavius Vopiscus.