tiDBiised  Abgaiua  that  (be  city  sbciuld  be  i^ipregBa-
m;  ud  Eoi^taa  ^HUt.  EccUt.,  4.  27)  obaervea,
tbi  ■Itbeo^  thia  ciicDnstaoce  waa  not  mentioned  in
•uLoid'tkuer.slillttwastlweoinfnoobelief;  which

lauek  eOKfiniwd  when  Chosnei,-  king  of  Peraia,
ifter  haTingset  down  before  it,  waa  oblued  to  niae
ibtiitp.  Tbia  is  all,  however,  a  pious  fabk.— -Edeaaa
wu  Gilfed  Calliiiioe,  from  a  fountain  contained  within-

{Pfia.,5,  34.)  Tbe  souic^  of  this  fountain  still
nauiii,  and  Ae  iohebitaDts  have  a  tradition  that  this
Mibephca  whan  Abnham  offered  ap  his  pnver  pre-
vioo*  10  Us  intended  sacrifice  of  Isaac.  (Compare
fiidWr,  vol.  %  p.  407.  — 7«wntur,  lib.  2,  c.  4.)
lo  y*i  limea  it  waa  termed  Roba,  ur,  with  the  aitide
efilKAnba,Orrboa,  and  by  abbreviation  Orrha.  This
^pellauoQ  would  seem  to  have  arisen  from  tbe  cir-
caariaoce  of  Edesaa  havmg  boen  the  capital  of  tbe
uMMt  Osroenc,  er,  aa  it  waa  more  probably  called,
OnlioeDa.  The  idodun  aaaie  is  Orrkoa  or  Or/o.
[Cinw.  EietM.  m  <i»sciMMii  BM.  Orient.,  vol  1,  p.
y  i  The  AtabiaiM  levece  Aa  i^t  aa  the  seat  of
Mtacd  nan  and  of  the  purest  ArabK.  (,AMp^tg.,
Ait-  'VM^-t  P-       «^  VeMteUng,  ad  loe.)—ll.  A

of  Micedonia,  called  also  .Odessa  and  .^E^,
•Kuicon  the  Via  I^natia,  Airty  miles  west  of  PeTla.
