in Ancient Geography, seven days journey to the west of Thebe, a district of the Nomos Oasis; called an island, because surrounded with sand, like an island in the sea, (Ulpian); yet abounding in all the necessaries of life, though encompassed with vast sandy deserts, (Strabo); which some suppose to be a third Oasis, in the Regio Ammonica; and the site of the temple of Ammon answers to the above description, as appears from the writers on Alexander's expedition thither. It was a place of relegation or banishment for criminals. (Ulpian).

BEATTIE, James, an eminent Scottish poet and moralist. See Supplement.