names, are apt to excite v feelings from 
pa te pe ced in mind of the read- 
epitaphs of Pope. (2) 
EPITRITES, in music, is an interval whose ratio 
is 2, = 2544-5 £4.22 m, and is the Fourta Minor ; 
which see. 
EPIZOOTY, derived from ex: and Zwsy, signifies a 
plague or murrain among animals. In the common 
acceptation of the term, murrain is limited to distempers 
among useful and domesticated animals, whereas epi- 
gl remy 
averting the . At present, however, we shall 
chiefly restrict our remarks to some historical notices of 
the more singular and decided epizooties which have 
wi 
of 
hte 
lus, in the year 212 before Christ, 
ind and animals were alike the victims of a pesti- 
lential disorder ; and if we could trust to Silius Itali- 
cus, the of it might be described. 
J age centuries of the Christian era, : 
instances of are found in the works of the an- 
HE 
indiscriminately, in the year 65; and the Roman ter- 
ritory was ravaged by a similar pestilence about the- 
year 190. 
In the fourth century, we learn that the means 
4 
EPI 
to avert a general 
89 
Se tedelly phen ia ellis whee b eaten 
ly ly produ t ef w is ascribed to 
it, Vegetias Renatas, who floured in the same eon- 
, various cures for the different pestilen- 
Kal disorders of cattle. 
destructive, which ravaged different parts of Europe.” 
such diseases, 
ple existence of the malady ; but, in the sixteenth cen« 
tury, the subject was ined with more attention. 
Fracastori, an Italian physician, witnessed an epizooty 
in the year 1514, which first 
Frioul, whence it spread by ion to 
thence to ‘etange A — 
in France during ‘ollowing year, and 
are described as an eruptive fever, narrowly re- 
sembling the small Few isti 
served, except that it was extremely contagious, and 
Venice, and 
ce 
lady in 1578, it was more plainly designated small-pox, 
apprehensions were some time after entertained, 
that man might be liable to infection. The Vene- 
tian ent, therefore, on an universal dysentery 
attacking the citizens of Venice and Padua, issued an 
edict in 1599, ibiting the sale or distribution or 
the flesh of , or milk, butter, or cheese, under pain 
of death, It had likewise been observed, that such dis- 
from the east, and that some dis- 
had been t from Hungary and Dal- 
where the malady so common, that an- 
was sought out for the two cities. 
1661, after a hot, summer, 
spread among pein especially horses, cattle, 
> but we ¢ pA ovens Maman pccote 
pally to 
climates, and, al 
This was accompanied by gangrene of the tongue and. 
intesti and the former sometimes came away in 
pieces. who tended the cattle, and neglected 
proper: precautions, are said to have been infected by 
the disease, and to have died. Its: was regu- 
wonderfully increased in the 
‘of the eighteenth century ; and oppor. 
izooty in Europe, was Epizooty. 
alti CluMals tek faa Cemotine’| with a echsnee “See” 
