Arachosia

P. R. 3. 316. A region west of the Indus River, comprising part of the modern Beluchistan. See Strabo 11. 10. 1. Arachosia, indicating the eastern boundary of Parthia, corresponds to “Indus East” (P. R. 3. 272) in the description of As syria. Aracynthus. Quint. Nov. 65. A mountain on the boundary of Attica and Boeotia. Araxes. P. R. 3. 271. A river of Armenia which rises near Erzerum and flows east into the Caspian. Mela describes it as here flowing silently and placidly, and there rushing over the rocks in rapids and cataracts. (3. 5.) Virgil refers to the force of the river in the words, “Araxes that spurns a bridge” {jEneid 8. 728), which occur in a historical and geographical pa age like that of Milton. Arcadia. Arcades 28, 95; Comus 341; P. L. 11. 132. A region of central Peloponnesus. Milton’s references are usually to the conventional Arcadia of pastoral literature. Archangel (Arkania). 7. Moscovia (1) 8. 472, 473; Lit. Senat. (22) 207. A seaport of northern Ru ia, on the east shore of the River Dwina, near the White Sea, where there was a house for the convenience of EngHsh merchants. It was named after the monastery of St. Michael the Archangel situated there. When Milton refers to it as northeast of Saint Nicholas, he is following Jenkinson’s map of Ru ia. is (Ortelius, p. 99.) In reality the place but at the head Dwina, and hence east of Saint Nicholas. not, as Jenkinson indicates, close to the sea, of the estuary of the Arkania is, as Milton suggests, evidently identical with ArchHe took the name from Pilgrimes 3. 546. angel. See Irc hen field. 44