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been recorded by all the otl.er poet.. Av, th. ru'-e of 

 t'ov Achilles diftinguUhed hhnfclf by a vancty of hcro.c 

 Sns ; bi.t h,h^ difgulled ^vilh Agamemnon for the lo s 

 of Dnfcls, he retired from the camp. When he afte,-wards 

 returned to avenge the death of his friend Patroclus, he Hew 

 Uc&or, faftencd his eo>Tfe to his chanot and dragged h,m 

 thrice '-ovrnd the walls of Troy. The body was alterwards 

 r deled by the father with a large nm. At aft bemg 

 vounded in\he heel with an an-ow by Pans, the brother of 

 Heaor, whiUl he was in the temple treatn,g about h.s 

 ,varra!'e with Philoxena, daughter to ku>g Pr.am, the 

 vound%roved fatal to bin. ; and he was interred on t hepro- 

 rontorj- of Siga:um. When Troy was taken, the Greeks 

 f c °c.^ PhilSxena on his tomb, in confornuty to Ins re- 

 ined that he miirht enjoy her company m the Elylian lields 

 11 fa that A'lexa.cL! when he'faw_ this tomb honoured 

 it by £ing a crown upon it ; exclaimmg at the fajne tnne, 

 hat' " Achfues .-as hajpy in having ^unng Ins hfe^ ud. a 

 friend as Patroclus, and after h.s death, a poet hke Home . 

 Ach lies is luppofed to have died 118+ years be ore the 

 Ch ftian L. ^ Isomer has been blamed for makmg his hero 

 Ac of too brutal a,>d unamiable a charaaer. Th,s 



li Dr. Blair apprehends, is unjnft to Ach.Ues, and ,t ,. 

 founded on an exaggerated reprefentat.on of Ins charade, bj 

 Horace, de Arte Poet. p. 55. Ed. Wakefield. 



" Impigcr, iraeundus, niexorabihs, acer, _ ^^ 

 Tn4 neget hbi nata, nihil non an-ogtt armis. 

 The following brief account will fervc to vrndicate Homer, 

 as weU s his h'ero. " Achilles, fays Dr. Bla.r, (Led on 

 Rlet S:c. vol. iii. 240.) is paflionate, mdeed, to a great de- 

 ir • but he is far from being a contemner of laws and 

 full c'e. In the conteft with Agamemnon, though he car- 

 Sit on with too much heat, yet he has reafon oa h.s fide. 

 H va notorioufly wronged, but he fubm.ts • and refign 

 Brifeis peaceably when the heralds came to demand her , 

 S y? - v> 1 %l^t no longer under the command of a leader 

 So had affronted him. °Befides h>s wonderful b.yery and 

 Tontempt of death, he has feveral other quahues of a he.o. 

 He is o^pen and fin^ere. He loves his fubjefts, and reve.-e 

 the JL He is diftinguifted by ftrong fnendHups and 

 ^^iS^ts; he is, tlu-oughout, f^-^^^^f^^^^ 

 honour^He; and, allowmg for a degree of feiocuy whKh 

 tZg d to'the times, and^nters into the cWafters of moft 

 of Homer's heroes, he is, upon the whole, abundantly fatted 

 to raife high admiration, though not pure efteem. 

 ArwiT I Fs T^Tius. See Tatius. ,, , 



i". .^E , h^ PMlop^phy, a name which the fcho<, s g.ve 

 to ^'pHSal-gu-ii alleged by each feA of phUo|o- 

 to tn^P'' ^ i^ of their fvften^. In this fenfc we fay, this 

 fhL'l^.S h^ tJ,ts mafter-proof, alluding to the 

 ftrenPth and mportance of Achilles among the Greeks. 

 Zeno's ar<.ument againft MOT.o«, is pecuharly termed 

 Ach lies That phdofopher made a companfon between 

 ^ fi tnefs of AehiUes'andthe ""--f-f V^'lchillt 

 ' nc., that if the tortoife were one ^f^.^'f^^-'^l^^^^l'^^ 

 fnd 'the motion of Achilles ico t.mes fwifter tnan that ot 

 the torto^e yet he would never overtake tt ; and thence 

 '%::c?ud;d that there was no f-^l /'-'| ^ ^Xg 

 V,nt thi- is a mere fophifm ; and is eafily folved by LxprcUing 

 ttwiiok relative 'dillance ran by the tortoife before 

 AchiUes overtook him by the fc,llovvmg fenes, -r^ + 



ACH 



winrs black on the upper part, r blue band, «nd brown be 

 neath. and three or five ocelli ; found m America. 



large tendon, formed b/the union of the foleus and gaftroc- 

 ncmius cxtenfor mufeles, which are •"'-■<;-'l ":'° ^^e os aU 

 cis See Ten DO /IchiKs, It is fo called becaufc the latal 

 wound, by which AchiUes is faid to have been ilain, wa. 



^'TcmLL H..n, in G.o,raphy,p^^ W. point of the 



idands of Achil on the W. coafi of Ireland. N. lat. 53 

 r , " W Ion 10°. 45'. The coall bet<s-een tins head and 

 Slmel;d is mnch'i^idented by bays and -eks. Arc e. 

 riflcer or Acharifton point is eight leagues S. of this head. 

 ZaIZ Sience to ^ine head, S. by E. -gj; "' - -^ " 

 Vv'ithin land there is between thefe a high hill, called bt. 

 P, i^k' h 11, which may be feen at fea to a great d.flance 

 Ach n head i a very high point, and appears at a diftancc 

 ^th a loUow in the middle. Within this are two high 

 mountains ; and thefe three appear at fea like tl- ifl nds 



ACHILLINI, Alcxanda; m 5;o^r/j//y', a natl^c ot 

 BoWa, and dil ingnifiied both as a ph.lofopher and a 

 KciJn. He flouriihed in the 15th and .^tn ccntunes 

 S was cidled, by way of eminence, the grea pnlo^-h^^^^^ 

 His m-OErefs in his lludies was fo rapid, that he was pio 

 mote'dm early life to the honour of being a p^.ffor in h 

 univerfity. In the year 1506 he removed to 1 .-.dua, ul le 

 r fill 1 the firft chair of philofophy, and drew to his lee - 

 urSag^^t number of iludents.' ^Vhen the war, m which 

 e reiE of Venice was engaged agamft the league of 

 Cambr> o"ft>--^ him to leave Padua, he .-cturned .0 

 Stat^; country, and ^^^^^t^^^ 



SSJo":^^^. S^arSii-i-^yfaingui^ed 



for li^ acutenefs in the conduft of private and public d.f- 

 niaittns To him fome have aferibed the dilcove,-y oUhc 



S;:r:;d mcus, two ^^^x^^^^^- 



friars. The following epitaph, compofed b) Janus nan., 

 xvas infci-ibed on his tomb : viz. ^ 



" Hofpes, AchiUinum tumulo qn, q.wris, in ifto 



Fallei-is ; ille fuo junaus Anftoteh 



El fium coht ; et quas rertim hic difcere caufas 



Vix ootuit, plenis nunc videt ocuhs. 



Tu mod6,'per campos dum nobihs nmbra beato, 



T,Tnt die lonffuin perpetnumque Vale. 



H; wroJe vera^MCces on philofophical ubjeds. wh.cK 



he pubU 1 and dcdlatcd to John Bentivogh His work. 



nre . In Mundini Anatomen, Annotat.ones. Ven t. 5". 



72 \ De Humani Cor^ioris Ariatomia W . 5.6. 



\S' S":a a 3eaio; o?;il his works. phUo- 

 lln^ medical, was pu^i'^ed at Vemce ". J; o 



■vhieh 



; !■-_ of a mile 



and the 



I I $^c the fum ot wd*.^.. .- y,^ - 



the tortoife. c^Tr.irr 



Achilles, ^Wo/; in G.o,.rfl;%. SeeLEUCK. 



XcH.LLEs; in Entomology, a fpeci« ot Paf.l.o, with 



^^ai and mediea, --{>;;;--;;; ^Vother of the fnnner. 

 AcH.LL.Ni, John 1 "'^"J" 11 Vh-idario, in which arc 



atin 





