RATIA´RIA
RATIA´RIA (
Ῥατιαρία, Procop.
de Aed. 4.6, p. 290;
Ῥατιαρία Μυσῶν,
Ptol. 3.9.4,
8.11.5;
Ῥαζαρία, Hierocl. p. 655;
Ῥατηρία, Theophylact. 1.8; Ratiaris, Geogr. Rav. 4.7), a considerable town in Moesia Superior on the Danube, and the head-quarters of a Roman legion; according to the Itinerary (p. 219), the Leg. xiv. Gemina, according to the Not. Imp. (100.30), the Leg., XIII. Gemina.
It was also the station of a fleet on the Danube (
ibid.). Usually identified with
Arzar-Palanca. [
T.H.D]