AN days' illness, July 18, 1814. By the death of his ANGE DE ST. JOSEPH, le Pere, a Carmebrother he had succeeded to a share in the cele-lite, of Toulouse, and missionary in Persia, died brated manufactory of gunpowder at Dartford; 1697. ANGELI, Bonaventure, a native of Ferrara, professor of law, and writer of a history of Parma, died 1576. and purchased the noble mansion built by Lord ANGE DE STE. ROSALIE, a learned Au Grenville, facing the Green Park. His death gustine, author of a history of the royal family was so unexpected, that he had sent out above of France, died 1726. 200 cards of invitation to ladies to see the memorable fireworks in the Green Park, from his windows. He left property estimated at 110,000l. ANDRISCUS, an impostor, who pretended to be the son of Perseus, king of Macedon; he reigned a short time, and was put to death by order of the senate, 147 B. C. ANDROMACHUS, a Cretan, physician to the emperor Nero. ANDRONICUS I. was seated on the thronell ANGELI, Baldus, an Italian physician of the 16th century. ANGELI, Peter, a Latin poet of Tuscany, and professor at Pisa, died 1596. ANGELIC, John, a celebrated painter, of Fiezola, died 1455. ANGELIS, Dominico de, an eminent scholar, of Constantinople, as emperor, in 1183, and af-of Lecce, in Otranto, who wrote on historical terwards put to death for his cruelties. ANDRONICUS, Palæologus II., succeeded his father, Michael VIII., and, after a feeble and turbulent reign, was banished, and died in a monastery, in 1322. ANDRONICUS, Palæologus III., grandson of the preceding, a bold, warlike, and enterprising prince, died 1341. ANDRONICUS IV., was seated with his father on the throne of Constantinople, and died in exile. ANDRONICUS, founder of a sect of the same name; he maintained that the upper part of woman was the work of God; but the lower the work of the devil. ANDRONICUS, of Thessalonica, teacher of Greek at Paris, Rome, and Florence, died 1478. ANDRONICUS, Livius, the oldest of the Roman dramatists, lived about 240 B. C. ANDRONICUS, Cyrestes, an Athenian, inventor of weather-cocks, and architect of the famous octagon temple at Athens. ANDRONICUS, à Rhodian philosopher, lived about 63 B. C. subjects, died 1719. ANGELO. See MICHAEL. ANGELO, Thomas de, an ecclesiastic, author of a history of Sicily for the first five centuries, died 1720. ANGELONI, Francis, author of an Augustan history, by medals, from J. Cæsar to Constantine, died 1652. ANGELUS, Christopher, a learned Greek, driven from home by the Turks, became a teacher of Greek in England, and died in 1638. ANGIER, Samuel, a native of Dedham, author of tracts on theological subjects, died 1677. ANGILBERT, St., the minister and favourite, and afterwards the son-in-law of Charlemagne; an elegant poet and able statesman, died 814. ANGIOLELLO, author of a history of Mahomet I., in the Italian and Turkish tongue, after having been a slave, died after 1473. ANGLICUS, Gilbertus, physician to the archbishop of Canterbury, died at the close of the 13th century. ANGLICUS, Ricardus, an eminent English ANDROSS, Edmund, sir, governor of New- physician and author on medicine, died 1230. York in 1674, and of New England in 1686; he ANGLUS, Thomas, an English priest, emiwas odious and tyrannical in his administration, nent for his learning, and his attachment to the and was seized by the people and sent to Eng-peripatetic philosophy, died after the reign of land, but never tried; he came over as governor Charles I. of Virginia, 1692, and died in London, 1714, at an advanced age. ANDROUET DU CERCEAU, James, a French architect of the 16th century. ANDRY, Nicholas, a native of Lyons, professor of philosophy, and dean of the faculty of medicine at Paris, died 1742. ANGUIER, Francis and Michael, two brothers, natives of Normandy, of great merit as sculptors, the former died 1699, the latter 1686. ANGUILLARI, John Andre del', an Italian poet of the 16th century. ANGUSCIOLA, Sophonisba, a native of Almona, in Italy, eminent for her historical and ANICETUS, pope of Rome 157, suffered martyrdom under Marcus Aurelius, 168. ANICH, Peter, born near Inspruck, an ingenious mechanic, much esteemed for his knowledge of astronomy, died 1766. ANICHINI, Lewis, a Venetian engraver of great celebrity. On seeing his pieces, Michael Angelo is said to have exclaimed, that the art of engraving had reached the summit of perfection, time of his death not known. ANEAU, Bartholomew, principal of the col-portrait paintings, died 1626. lege at Lyons, murdered by the catholics in 1565. ANELLO, Thomas, vulgarly called Massaniello, was a poor fisherman of Naples, born in 1623. Having headed the malcontents in an insurrection at Naples, caused by the viceroy's laying a new tax on fruit, fish, &c., in 1647, he occasioned the most shocking disturbances in that city, murdering a great many people, and among the rest the duke of Caraffa. He ordered many gibbets and wheels for torture to be set up, and was followed by ten or twelve hangmen to execute his orders. After this sedition had! continued, with all kinds of barbarity, for ten days, it was suppressed by four gentlemen knocking the traitor on the head. His corpse was dragged about the streets with all the scorn ANNA, Ivanovna, daughter of Ivan Alexioand contempt imaginable. His head, being vitch, emperor of Russia, married William, then cut off, was thrown into one ditch, and his duke of Courland, and succeeded Peter II. 1730. body into another. She died 1740. AVERIN, an ancient British poet, died about 50 supposed by some to be the same as the venerable Ciidas. ANIELLO, Thomas, vid. ANELLO. ANKERSTAOOM, John James, a Swedish officer who murdered Gustavus, king of Sweden, for which he was executed, 1792. ANNA, Comnena. See COMNENA. ANNAND, William, A. M., a native of Edinburgh, was made dean of Raphoe, in Ireland. and died 1710. 29 AN ANNA, Francis, a nave or nouergue, of the order of the Jesuits, teacher of philosophy at Toulouse, died at Paris 1670. AN ANSEGISUS, abbot of Lobbes, in the dio cess of Cambray, a man of great learning and application, died 833. ANSEGISUS, a learned priest of Rheims, ANNE, of Austria, daughter of Philip II. of Spain, married Lewis XIII., and was the mo-made archbishop of Sens, died 883. ther of Lewis XIV.; she died 1666. ANNE, of Beaujeu, daughter of Lewis XII. of France, married the duke of Bourbon, and was regent during the minority of her brother, Charles VIII.; she died at Chantelle, 1522. ANNE, of Brittany, first married Maximilian of Austria, next Charles VIII. of France, and afterwards Lewis XII.; she died 1514. ANSELM, archbishop of Canterbury in the reigns of William Rufus and Henry I., born 1033, at Aost, in Savoy, died at Canterbury 1109. He was the first archbishop who restrained the English clergy from marrying, and was canonized in the reign of Henry VII. ANSELM, an Augustine monk, author of a chronological history of France, died 1694. ANSELM, Anthony, distinguished as a preachANSER, a Latin poet, the friend of Antony, in the age of Horace and Virgil. ANNE, of Cleves, daughter of John III., duke of Cleves, was married to Henry VIII.,er and a poet, died 1737. but was soon divorced, and returned to Cleves; she died 1557. ANNE, daughter of James II., succeeded William III. as queen of England. In 1683, she married prince George of Denmark, and died 1714. ANNE, dutchess of the Viennois, after the death of her brother John I., defended her rights against the claims of Robert, duke of Burgundy; she died 1296. ANNE, of Ferrara, daughter of Hercules II., duke of Ferrara, married Francis, duke of Guise. She was for some time imprisoned at Blois. ANNE, of Russia, married Henry I., king of France, and afterwards Raoul, a relation of her first husband. ANSON, Peter Hubert, a French writer, mem ber of the national assembly, and farmer of the post, died 1810. ANSON, George, lord, was the son of William Anson, Esq., of Shutborough, a very ancient and worthy family in Staffordshire, and was born in 1700. On the breaking out of the Spanish war he was appointed to command a fleet of five ships, destined to annoy the enemy in that dangerous and unfrequented sea which lies beyond America, and in that unexpected quarter to attack them with vigour. His departure being unaccountably delayed some months beyond the proper season, he sailed about the middle of September, 1740; and about the vernal equinox, in the most tempestuous weather, arrived in the latitude of Cape Horn. He doubled that dangerous cape in the month of March, 1741, after a bad passage of 40 days, in which ANNE, of Hungary, married Ferdinand of he lost two ships, and by the scurvy, four or five Austria, and placed him on the throne of Bohe-men in a day. He arrived off Juan Fernandes mia; she died 1547. in June, with only two ships, besides two atANNE, De Gonzague, wife of Edward, Count tendants on the squadron, and 335 men. He left Palatine, died 1684, and was honoured with a eulogium by Bossuet. ANNE, of Cyprus, married Lewis, duke of Savoy; she showed herself able, active, and discriminating, at the head of public affairs, and died 1462. ANNEBAUT, Claude d', of an ancient family in Normandy, distinguished himself for his bravery and wisdom, and died 1552. ANNEIX DE SOUVENEL, Alexis Francis, a learned advocate of the parliament of Brittany, died 1758. ANNESLEY, Samuel, L. L. D., a native of Cumberland, died 1696. It is said John Wesley was his grandson by the mother's side. it in September, took some prizes, burnt Paita, and staid about the coast of America till May, 1742. He then crossed the southern ocean, proceeding with the Centurion only, the other ships having been destroyed in August. Having refreshed his crew at Tinian, he sailed in October for China; staid there till the beginning of 1743; waited for the galleon at the Philippine Islands, met her on the 20th of June, and took her. Having sold the prize in China, he set sail for England, December 1743, and on the 15th of ANNESLEY, Arthur, earl of Anglesey, and June, 1744, arrived at Spithead, having sailed ford privy seal in the reign of king Charles II., in a fog through the midst of a French fleet then born 1614, died 1686. At the sale of his books after his decease, a discovery was made of the earl's famous memorandum, in the blank leaf of an Eikon Basilike; according to which, it was not king Charles I., but bishop Gauden, who was the author of that performance, which produced a long controversy. ANNIUS, de Viterbo, a Dominican, whose real name was John Nanni, master of the sacred palace of Alexander VI.; he died 1502. ANQUETIL, Lewis Peter, a French historian of eminence, prior of an abbey in Anjou, and director of the college of Senlis. His writings are numerous; he died in 1808. cruising in the channel. In 1747, being then on board the Prince George of 90 guns, in company with Admiral Warren and twelve ships more, he intercepted off Cape Finisterre a powerful fleet, bound from France to the East and West Indies; and by his valour and conduct again enriched himself and his officers, and strengthened the British navy, by taking six men of war and four East Indiamen, not one of them escaping. The French admiral, M. Jonquiere, on presenting his sword to the conqueror, said, Monsieur, vous avez vaincu l'Invincible, et la Gloire vous suit," pointing to the two ships so named. King George II., for his signal services, ANQUETIL DU PERRON, Abraham Hya-rewarded him with a peerage, by the title of cinth, a native of Paris, enlisted as a common Lord Anson, baron of Scbarton, in Hants. He soldier in an expedition fitting out for India, that died suddenly at his seat at Moor Park, in Herthe migh there pursue his favourite study of fordshire, June 6, 1762. His natural disposition Oriental literature; he published several works was calm, cool, and steady; but it is reported, connected with that pursuit, and died 1805. that this honest, undesigning seaman was freANSCHARIUS, a Frenchman, bishop ofquently a dupe at play; and it was wittily obHamburgh and Bremen, celebrated for the suc-served of him, that he had been round the world, cess of his preaching, died 865. "but never in it. See ROBINS. ANTIGONUS, Carystius, a Greek philosopher, about 300 years B. C. ANTIGONUS, Sochæus, founder of the sect of the Sadducees, about 300 B. C. ANSTEY, Christopher, a lively, but not vo-above, remarkable for his affection to his faluminous poet, born at Trumpington, in Cam-ther; he died 243 B. C. bridgeshire, 1724, died at Hardenhuth, near ANTIGONUS, Doson, king of Macedonia, Chippenham, Wilts, August 3, 1805, in his 81st took Sparta, aud defeated the Illyrians; he died year. Mr. Anstey was author of several short 221 B. C. poems; but is principally known as the inventor of a new and diverting species of poetry, of which, however, he has left but one specimen of any length, which is, "The New Bath Guide," or, "Memoirs of the B[lunderhea]d family. He was educated at King's College, Cambridge, and intended for the church; but inheriting, somewhat unexpectedly, a moderate fortune, he resigned all thoughts of a clerical life, and passed the greater part of his time at Bath. A monument is erected to his memory in the Poet's cor-Thebaid, or war of Thebes, 408 B. C. ner of Westminster Abbey, by the filial affec- ANTINE, Maur Francois d', born at Gou!tion of his son. vieux, in Liege; he was celebrated for his ANTIGONUS, son of Aristobulus II., king of Judea, was led in triumph by Pompey, and put to death 27 B. C. ANTIMACHO, Mark Anthony, a native of Mantua, author of some Latin poems, died 1552. ANTIMACHUS, a Greek poet, author of the ANTIOCHUS I., succeeded his father Seleu ANSTIS, John, an able herald and antiquary, || piety, and died 1746. and a very eminent writer, on heraldic subjects, born at St. Neot's, in Cornwall, 1663, died 1744.cus, on the throne of Antioch; he died 261 B. C. ANTAGORAS, a Rhodian poet, in the service of Antigonus of Macedon. ANTELMI, Joseph, a canon of Frejus, in Provence, author of some theological tracts, died 1697. ANTES, John, a native of America, educated in Germany, a Moravian missionary to Abyssinia, died 1811. ANTESIGNAN, Peter, a native of Rabastiens in the 16th century, author of a grammar, and editor of Terence. ANTHEMIUS, Procopius, was killed by his son-in-law Ricimur, 472. ANTHEMIUS, an architect of Lydia, in the 6th century. ANTHONY, St., the founder of monastic life, was born at Coma, in Egypt, 251. Two orders of chivalry have been instituted under his name. ANTHONY, Francis, was born in London. He was a famous empiric, and died 1623. ANTHONY,John, son of the above, succeeded his father as proprietor of his medicine, and died 1655. ANTHONY, king of Navarre, a weak and irresolute prince, died 1562. ANTHONY, titular king of Portugal; he was obliged to fly from his dominions, and died at Paris, 1595. ANTHONY, illegitimate son of Philip, duke of Burgundy, distinguished for his valour, died 1504. ANTHONY, a native of Andalusia. Vide ANTHONY, a Sicilian, who set fire to the arsenal at Gallipoli. ANTIOCHUS II., surnamed Theos, lost his dominions by the revolt of the Parthians; he died 264 B. C. ANTIOCHUS III., or Great, he was at first successful, but was finally conquered by the Scipios, and died 187 B. C. ANTIOCHUS IV., son of the Great, succeeded after his brother Philopater, and died 165 B. C. ANTIOCHUS V. was slain by Demetrius, in the second year of his reign. ANTIOCHUS, Sidetes, obtained the crown of Syria, and was slain in battle, 130 B. C. ANTIOCHUS, Grypus, son of Sidetes, fell by the hand of one of his subjects, 97 B. C. ANTIOCHUS, a stoic philosopher of Askalon, 100 B. C. ANTIOCHUS, a monk of the 7th century, and author of homilies on the Scriptures. ANTIPATER, one of Alexander's generals, died 318 B. C. ANTIPATER, a stoic philosopher of Sidon. ANTIPATER,Lælius Cæl., a Latin historian. ANTIPATER, a Jew, minister to Hyrcanus, the brother of Aristobulus. ANTIPATER, a bishop of Bostra, in Arabia, in the 5th century. ANTIPHILUS, a painter of eminence, and the rival of Apelles. ANTIPHON, an Athenian orator, and the first who laid down rules for that art; he was put to death 411 B. C. ANTISTHENES, a philosopher of Athens, founder of the sect of the Cynics. ANTOINETTE, queen of France. vid. MARIE. ANTONI, de Sceaux, a famous rope dancer on the French stage, died 1732. ANTONIA, daughter of Mark Antony, marANTHONY, N., an architect from Switzer-ried Drusus, and died in the reign of her grandland, who settled in Paris, died 1801. son, Caligula. ANTHONY, of Padua, a Franciscan monk, ANTONIANO, Silvio, a man of great learnwho taught in the Italian universities, died 1231.ing, who raised himself from a low condition ANTHONY, of Pratovecchio, a lawyer of by his merit; his parents being so far from able Tuscany, professor at Bologna, died 1464. ANTHONY, St., professor of divinity at louse, Montpelier, and Padua, died 1231. ANTHONY, a native of Palermo, a poet and writer, died 1471. to support him in his studies, that they themTou-selves stood in need of charity. He was born at Rome, in 1540, and made a quick and most surprising progress in his studies; for when he was but 10 years old, he could make verses upon any subject proposed to him; and those so excellent, though pronounced extempore, that even a man of genius could not compose the like without a good deal of time and pains. There was a proof given thereof at the table of the cardinal of Pisa, when he gave an entertainllment one day to several other cardinals. Alex ANTHONY, of Messina, called also Antonello, the first Italian who painted in oil, about 1430. ANTIGENIDES, a Theban musician. ANTIGONUS I., a Macedonian general, who was slain at the battle of Ipsus, 301 B. C. ANTIGONUS, Gonatus, grandson of the ANTONIDES, Vander Goes, John, a poet, born at Goes, in Zealand; he died 1684. ander Farnese, taking a nosegay, gave it to this was the reason why Cæsar, the next year, did vouth, desiring him to present it to him of the not admit him his colleague in the consulship: company whom he thought most likely to be he did, however, admit him two years after.pope; he presented it to the cardinal de Medicis, Upon the death of Cæsar, Antony was much and made a eulogium upon him in verse. This frightened, and hid himself during the night, uncardinal, who was pope some years afterwards der the disguise of a slave; but hearing that the under the name of Pius IV., brought him to conspirators had retired to the capitol, he assemRome, and made him professor of belles-lettres bled the senate as consul, to deliberate upon the in the college at Rome He was afterwards present situation of the commonwealth. Here chosen rector of the college, and died 1603. Cicero moved for a decree of a general amnesty, or act of oblivion, for all that had passed: to which they unanimously agreed. Antony disANTONINUS, Pius, a celebrated Roman em-sembled well, for it was nothing but dissimulaperor, succeeded Adrian, 138, and died 161. tion: he seemed to be all goodness; talked of ANTONINUS PHILOSOPHOS, Marcus Au-nothing but healing measures; and, as a proof relius, the Roman emperor, born at Rome, the of his sincerity, moved that the conspirators 26th of April, in the 121st year of the Christian should be invited to take part in their deliberaera, and died on an expedition against the Mar- tions, and sent his son as a hostage for their comanni, in the 19th year of his reign. The safety. Upon this they all came down from the whole empire regretted his loss as a most valua-capitol; and, to crown the joy of the day, Bruble prince, and paid the greatest regard to histus supped with Lepidus, as Cassius did with memory; he was ranked among the gods, and Antony. Antony is said to have asked Cassius, almost every person had a statue of him in his during supper, "whether he still wore a dagger house. His book of "Meditations" has been under his gown." "Yes," replied Cassius, much admired by the best judges. and a very large one, in case you invade the sovereign power." This was wha Antony all the while aimed at; and, as the event showed, he pursued his measures with the greatest address He artfully proposed a decree for the confirmation of Cæsar's acts; and, getting Cosar's register into his power, he proposed as Cæsar's acts whatever suited his purpose. He procured a public funeral for Cæsar, and took that opportunity of haranguing the soldiers and populace in his favour; and he inflamed them so against the conspirators, that Brutus and Cassius were forced to leave the city. He made a tour through Italy, to solicit the veteran soldiers, having first secured Lepidus, who had the army, to his interests; he seized the public treasure, and treated Octavius with superciliousness and contempt, though the adopted son and heir of Julius Cæsar. The patriots, however, with Cicero at their head,,espousing Octavius, in or ANTONINUS, a geographer, whose age is unknown. ANTONIO, Nicolas, canon of Seville, and author of "Bibliotheca Hispanica," in four volumes folio, died 1684. ANTONIUS, Marcus, one of the greatest orators ever known at Rome. It was owing to him, according to Cicero, that Rome might boast herself a rival even to Greece itself in the art of eloquence. He defended among many others, Marcus Aquilius; and moved the judges in so sensible a manner, by the tears he shed, and the scars he showed on the breast of his client, that he carried his cause. He was unfortunately killed, during the disturbances raised at Rome by Marius and Cinna, in the year of Rome 667. ANTONIUS, Marcus, the triumvir, was son of Antonius Creticus, by Julia, a noble lady of such merit, that Plutarch affirms her to have been "comparable to the wisest and most vir-der to destroy Antony, the latter was forced to tuous ladies of that age." Mark Antony, losing change his measures, and look a little abroad: his father when young, launched out at once he endeavoured to extort the provinces of Mainto all the excess of riot and debauchery, and cedonia and Syria from Brutus and Cassius; wasted his whole patrimony before he had put on but, not succeeding, resolved to possess himself the manly gown. He afterwards went abroad of Cisalpine Gaul, and besiege Decimus Brutus to learn the art of war under Gabinius, who in Mutina. This siege is one of the most megave him the command of his horse in Syria,morable things of the kind in history; and, in where he signalized his courage in the restora-conducting it, Antony, though defeated, gained tion of Ptolemy, king of Egypt. From Egypt very great reputation: the consuls Hirtius and he went to Cæsar, in Gaul; and after some stay Pansa were both slain; and nothing but superior there, being furnished with money and credit forces could have left Octavius master of the by Cæsar, returned to Rome to sue forthe quæs- field. Antony fled in great confusion, wanting torship. In this suit he succeeded, and after-even the necessaries of life; and this very man, wards attained the tribunate, in which office he who had hitherto wallowed in luxury and inwas amazingly active for Cæsar, who, when he temperance, was obliged to live some days upon had made himself master of Rome, gave Antony roots and water. He fled to the Alps, and was the government of Italy, with the command received by Lepidus; with whom and Octavius over the legions there; in which post he gained he formed the 2d triumvirate, as it has usually the love of the soldiery. But what was more been called. When these three conferred, they to his honour, he assisted Cæsar so successfully would easily be persuaded that the patriots on several occasions, that, twice particularly, wanted only to destroy them all, which could when Cæsar's army had been put to flight, he not be done so effectually as by clashing them rallied the scattered troops, and gained the vic-against one another, they therefore combined, tory this raised his reputation so, that he was proscribed their respective enemies, and divided reckoned the next best general to Cæsar. After the empire among themselves. Cicero fell a the defeat of Pompey, at Pharsalia, Cæsar, as sacrifice to the resentment of Antony, who, inan acknowledgment of Antony's great servi-deed, was charged with most of the murders ces, made him master of the horse; in which then committed: but they were rather to be office he behaved with violence; and this be charged to the account of his wife Fulvia, who, haviour, together with his dissolute life, (for he being a woman of avarice, cruelty, and revenge, was drunken and debauched to the last degree) committed a thousand enormities, of which her husband was ignorant. Upon the defeat of the most illustrious personage of the three, Brutus and Cassius by Octavius and Antony, and he kept a kind of school of gluttony at Rome; at Philippi, which was owing chiefly to the mi- he spent two millions and a half in entertain litary skill and bravery of the latter, Antonyments; when, finding himself very much in obtained the sovereign dominion, and went into Asia, where he had the most splendid court that ever was seen. The kings and princes of Asia came to his court, and acknowledged no other Sovereign in the East but him. Queens and princesses, knowing him, doubtless, to be a man of amour and gallantry, strove who should win his heart; and the famous Cleopatra of Egypt succeeded. See CLEOPATRA. debt, he was forced at length to look into the state of his affairs: and seeing that he had but 250,000 livres left, he poisoned himself from an apprehension of being starved with such a sum, This man wrote a treatise, "De Re Culinarta." APIEN, Peter, a mathematician of Ingolstadt, died 1552. APIEN, Philip, son of the preceding, a physician, died 1589. APION, a famous grammarian, born at Oasis, ANTONIUS, Marcus Junius, debauched Julia, the daughter of Augustus, and killed him-in Egypt was a professor at Rome in the reign of self when his disgrace was made public. ANTONIUS, Liberalis, a Greek author, of whom little is known. ANTONIUS, Honoratus, bishop of Constantine, in Africa. ANTONIUS, called Nebrissensis, or Laxibra, was for five years a professor at Salamanca, and died 1522. ANTONY. Vid. ANTHONY. ANVARI, called king of Khorassan, a poet, died 1200. ANVILLE, John Baptiste Bourguignon d', a most famous French writer on geography, born at Paris, 1702, and died there 1782, as much esteemed for the gentleness and simplicity of his manners as for his extensive knowledge. Hel laboured at his maps 15 hours a day for fifty years. ANYTA, a Greek poetess. ANYTUS, a rhetorician of Athens, who caused the death of Socrates. Tiberius. He was undeniably a man of learning, but a downright pedant; for he used to boast, with the greatest assurance, that he gave mmortality to those to whom he dedicated his works. How would his vanity be mortified, if he knew that none of these works remain, and that his name and person would long ago have een buried in oblivion, if other writers had not made mention of them! One of his chief works was "The Antiquities of Egypt." APOCAUCHUS, a Greek of mean origin, became the favourite of the emperor Andronicus; he died 1345 APOLLINARIS, C. Sulpit, professor of grainmar, at Rome, in the 2d century. APOLLINARIUS, a presbyter of Alexandria, in the 4th century. APOLLODORUS, a famous architect under Trajan and Adrian, was born at Damascus, and had the direction of that most magnificent bridge which the former ordered to be built ees Danube, in the year 104. He, however, fell a victim to the envy of the emperor Adrian, who always valued himself highly upon his knowledge of arts and sciences, and hated every one of whose eminence in his profession he had rea APPOLLODORUS, the Athenian, a famous grammarian, son of Asclepiades, and disciple of Aristarchus. He wrote several works which are not extant: his most famous proAPELLES, one of the most celebrated pain-ductions are mentioned in Fabricius' " Biblioters of antiquity, was born in the isle of Cos, theca Græca." and flourished in the time of Alexander the Great. He was in high favour with that prince, who made a law that no other person should draw his picture but Apelles: he accordingly drew him holding a thunderbolt in his band: the piece was finished with so much skill and dexterity, that it used to be said, there were two Alexanders: one invincible, the son of Philip; the other inimitable, the production of Apelles. Alexander gave him likewise another remarka-son to be jealous. bie proof of his regard; for when he employed Apelles to draw Campaspe, one of his mistress es, having found that he had conceived an affecfion for her, he resigned her to him; and it was from her that Apelles is said to have drawn his APOLLONIUS, a Greek poet and rhetorician, Venus Anadyomene. One of Apelles' chief born at Alexandria, under the reign of Ptolemy excellencies was, the making his pictures so Evergetes, king of Egypt, was a scholar of Calactly resemble the persons represented, that limachus; and wrote a poem upon the expedi the physiognomists were able to form a judg-tion of the golden fleece: the work is styled ment as readily from his portraits, as if they" Argonautica," and consists of four books. had seen the originals. APOLLONIUS of Perga, a city of Pamphy APELLES, a heretic of Syria in the 2d cen-lia, a famous geometrician, who also lived un der the reign of Ptolemy Évergetes, and comÁPELLICON, a peripatetic philosopher, who posed several valuable works; of which only, was the means of preserving the works of Aris-his" Conics" remain. totle, about 90 B. C. tury. APER, Marcus, a Roman orator, died 85. APHTHONIUS, a rhetorician of Antioch, the 3d century. APOLLODORUS, a painter of Athens, the rival of Zeuxis, 408 B. C. APOLLONIA, St., a martyr of Alexandria, 248. APOLLONIUS, a Pythagorean philosopher, born at Tyana, in Cappadocia, about the begininning of the 1st century. At 16 years of age, he became a strict observer of the rules of PythaAPICIUS. There were three ancient Romans goras, renouncing wine, women, and all sorts of this name; all very eminent, not for genius, of flesh; not wearing shoes, letting his hair for virtue, for great or good qualities, but for grow, and wearing nothing but linen. He soon gluttony: or, if we may soften the term, in after set up for a reformer of mankind, and compliance with the growing taste of the times chose his habitation in the temple of Esculawe write in, for the art of refining in the science pius, where he is said to have performed many of eating. The first lived under Sylla, the se-miraculous cures. cond under Augustus and Tiberius, and the APPOLLONIUS, a grammarian of Alexanthird under Trajan. The second, however, isdria, in the 20 century 33 |