ELEGEIA
ELEGEIA (
Ἐλέγεια,
Steph. B. sub voce.
1.
（
I'líjeh), a city of the Greater Armenia, which Ptolemy (
5.13) places in long. 73° 20′ and lat. 42° 45′, near the sources of the Euphrates. Trajan, in his Armenian campaign, advanced upon this town, where he granted Parthamasiris an interview. (
D. C. 68.18.) In A.D. 162 Vologeses III., king of Parthia, invaded Armenia, and cut to pieces a Roman legion, with its commander Severianus, at Elegeia. (
D. C. 71.2.)
I'líjeh is remarkable for two warm springs (whence its name), of the temperature of 100° Fahrenheit, and is situated on a limestone rock 3779 feet above the sea, not far from
Erz-Rúm. (
Journ. Geog. Soc. vol. x. pp. 359, 434; comp. Tournefort,
Voyage, vol. ii. p. 114; Ousely,
Travels, vol, iii. p. 471; Ritter,
Erdkunde, vol. x. pp. 100, 116, 737, 829.)
2.
A town of the Lesser Armenia, on, the right bank of the Euphrates, at the first or principal curve which takes place before the river enters Mount Taurus ( “apud Elegiam occurrit ei Mons Taurus,”
Plin. Nat. 5.20). Elegia is represented by the modern
I'z O´ghlú; and it is there that the Euphrates--after issuing from the mountains of
Kebbán Ma'den, and having turned to the W. round the remarkable peninsula of
‘Abdu-l-Wahháb, terminated by the rocks of
Munshár (D'Anville's pass of
Nushár)--receives the
Tokhmah-Sú, and then takes an easterly bend to pass the rocky mountains of
Bháglí Khánlí and
Beg Tágh. (
Journ. Geog. Soc. vol. x. p. 331; Ritter,
Erdkunde, vol. x. pp. 100, 116, 737, 829, 858.) [
E.B.J]
