Racillia, the wife of Cincinnatus. Livy, bk. 3, ch. 26.
Racilius, a tribune who complained in the senate of the faction of Clodius. Cicero, Against Verres, bk. 2, ch. 12; Letters to his brother Quintus, bk. 2, ch. 1.
Ræsaces, an officer of Artaxerxes. He revolted from his master, and fled to Athens.
Ramises, a king of Egypt. See: [Rhamses].
Ramnes, or Rhamnenses, one of the three centuries instituted by Romulus. After the Roman people had been divided into three tribes, the monarch elected out of each 100 young men of the best and noblest families, with which he formed three companies of horse. One of them was called Ramnes, either from the tribe of which it was chosen, or from Romulus. Another was called Tatian, and the third Luceres. Varro, de Lingua Latina, bk. 4, ch. 9.—Livy, bk. 1, ch. 13.—Horace, Art of Poetry, li. 304.—Plutarch, Romulus.
Randa, a village of Persia, where 3000 rebellious Persians were slain by Chiles. Polyænus, bk. 7.
Rapo, a Rutulian chief, &c. Virgil, Æneid, bk. 10, li. 748.
Rascipŏlis, a Macedonian sent to the assistance of Pompey. Cæsar, Civil War, bk. 3, ch. 4.
Ravenna, a town of Italy on the Adriatic, which became celebrated under the Roman emperors for its capacious harbour, which could contain 250 ships, and for being for some time the seat of the western empire. It was difficult of access by land, as it stood on a small peninsula; and so ill supplied with water, that it was sold at a higher price than wine, according to Martial. The emperors kept one of their fleets there, and the other at Misenum, on the other side of Italy. It was founded by a colony of Thessalians, or, according to others, of Sabines. It is now fallen from its former grandeur, and is a wretched town situate at the distance of about four miles from the sea, and surrounded with swamps and marshes. Strabo, bk. 5.—Suetonius, Augustus, ch. 49.—Pliny, bk. 36, ch. 12.—Mela, bk. 2, ch. 4.—Martial, bk. 3, ltr. 93, li. 8, &c.
Rāvŏla, a celebrated debauchee, &c. Juvenal.