A C R 



A C R 



fed in food, as tlie feet of calves, fwine, fliffp, oxen, or ^Vlicn he required, fome ytara after, as a reward for his 



lambs ; and of the broths of which jclhes are made. They 

 are recommended by Hippocrates as a proper food, uheic 

 there is a tendency to a dropfy. They are in general recom- 

 xnendcd as ilrenj^hencrs for weak people. 



ACROCOMES, in ylniiqui:y, a people of Thrace, ^o 

 called, from a«;o,-, htaJ, and xi-in, hair, beeaufe they had 

 long hair before like females, in contradiftlnftion to the 

 Abantes, who wore their hair long behind. 



ACRO-CORINTHUS, in ^tncknt Gnt-mphy, a hiffh 

 liill hanrjing over the city of Corinth, on which was credled 

 a citadel, called alfo by the fame name. This mountain 

 feparatcd the two continents of Greece ajul Peloponnifus, 

 fo that the fortrefs cut off all communication by land from 

 the inner pail of the illhmus of Corinth, and wlitn well i^ar- 

 rifoned, kept all Greece in awe ; on which account Philip 

 of Macedon ufed to call it the fetters of Greece. Anti 



fervices, that a piece of ground (hould be allotted him in the 

 city for liis tomb, Empedocles, with whoin he had dif- 

 puted, prevented his obtaining it. He lived about the 

 middle of the fifth centurj' before Chrift. iSiiidas mentions 

 two trafts written by him, in the Doric dialeCt, the one a 

 general treatife of phyfic, the other on abftinence or diet. 



AcRON was alio the name of an ancient fcholiaft on 

 Horace, in the feventh centui-y, whofe work is iHU extant 

 in an old edition of Horace, printed at Bafil, in 8vo. in 

 1527. 



AcRON, in Botany, among the yfncien/s, was ufed to 

 fignify the capUulum, top, or flower of plants of the thillle 

 kind. 



AcRON, in Geography, a diftrift on the Gold coaft of 

 Guinea, extending along the fca eaftward froin Fantin to 

 the mount called Monte del Diabolo, or the Devil's Mount. 



Konus took thi. fortrcfsby furpriic, with a defign to cnHavc It is divided into Great and Little Acron ; the former, 



Vcloponnefus ; but Aratiis recovered it by an adlion equal, which is the interior countr)-, is a kind of republic ; the 



in the opinion of Plutarch, to any of the mod celibratfd latter, bounded on the fouth by the fca, is a pure monarchy, 



entei-prifes of the ancient heroes of Greece. Having fccuved They are independent on each other, and yet ilridly united 



the citadel, he went into the city, and affembling the people under the protection of the Fantyns, who derive from the 



in the theatre, acquainted them with the particulars of the fertile Acrons a principal part of their maintenance. The 



Achxan league, and exhorted them to accede to it. They o'dy European fettlement in this kingdom is a Dutch fort, 



unanimoufly agreed to join in the alhance ; upon which built at Aicam, in 1697, cAltA Palience, from the difFicuU 



Aratus rcllored to them the keys of the city, which had ties they encountered whillt they were building it. Apa;n 



not been in their power fince the time of Philip, the father is a fmall village, and inhabited only by fifhermcn. The iia- 



of Alexander. On the top of this mountain flood a temple tives of Acron live in peace, cultivate their lands, and pur- 



of \"enus, and from a lower part ilTued the fountain Pyrene. fue their employments in fecurity. Eveiy year affords a 



ACROE, in Botany, the name given by the natives of plentiful harveft, which enables them to fupply their pro- 

 Guinea to a kind of ihrub, which they ufc in wine, as a teftors and adjacent countries with corn. The country 

 reftoralive and analeptic. It is of the trifoliate kind, and has abounds with game, with which the Dutch fort is plentifully 

 fomewhat of the appearance of the corallodcndrons, but it fupplied. The people, however, are poor, notwithiland- 

 is not prickly ; the middle end or leaf Hands on a pedicle of ing their induftiy and the fertility of the foil, and extremely 

 an inch long, the two other leaves have no pedicles at all. ignorant. 

 Phil. Tranf. N° 232. AcRov, in Scripture Geographv. See Accaron. 



ACROI.IRSUS, in Ancient Geography, a fortrefs of ACRONIUS Lacus, in Geography, a fmall lake formed 



Illvria, in Dalmatia, fituated on a mountain to the north of by the Rhine foon after its rife out of the Alps, and after 



Liifus, of which it was the citadel. Polybius fays, it was pafTing the greater lake, called P'eiidus, and now Bodnifce, 



impregnable by Philip king of Macedon. or the lake of Conftance. 



ACROLITHOS, in Antiquity, a coloflal ftatue placed ACRONYCAL, Achromycal, or Acronical, in 



by Maufolus, on an eminence, in the temple of Mars, in the yljironomy, is applied to the rising of a ftar or other point, 



city of Halicarnafliis. above the horizon, when the fun fets ; or its sktting when 



ACROEOCHIAS, in vl/nf/V«/ Ci-o^-rn/Zij', a promontory the fun rifes. This is one of the three poetical rifings and 



of Egypt ; which, according to Strabo, was jicar the ifle 

 of Pharos. 



ACROMION, AcROMiUM, in Anatomy, the upper pro- 

 «efs of the scapula, or (houlder-blade. 



The word is derived from a.y.:n:, highejl, and icjio:, Jhoulder, 

 n. d. the extremity of the flioiildcr. 



Some have thought the acromion of a nature different 

 from other bones ; becaufe, during infancy, it appears no 



fettings of the ftars ; and flands diftinguiihed from cosmi- 



CAL and HELIACAL. 



Among ancient writers, a ftar was properly faid to be 

 acronichal, or to rife acronichally, which rofe in the evening 

 when the fun was fet. Greek writers, it is true, ufe the 

 term axfovKjjia,- indifferently, in fpeaking either of evening 

 or morning, by reafon both are confidered as a.-^^ ri,: vvxls,-,. 

 the extremities of the night. And hence, among them we 



more than a cartilage, which offifies by little and little, and find acronichal applied to the rifnig and letting of the flars, 



about the age of twenty years becomes hard and firm, like a either in the morning or evening. But the ancients were more 



common bone. diftinfl, and by the axfoiuxlio.- rather meant the firil begin- 



ACROMONOGRAMMATICUM, from axpoj-povo; and ning or approach of night, than the end or period of it; 



yfa/xi/.a, letter, in Poetry, denotes a kind of poem, or com- and accordingly among them, the Ifars which rofe in the 



pofition, wherein each fubfcquent verfe commences with the evening, not thofe in the morning, were faid to rife acro- 



letter with which the verfe preceding terminates. nichally. 



AC ROMPH ALTON, from axpo,-, extreme, and o/^(f a^o.;, This word is fometimes ignorantly {-pelt achronical, from 



tl:e nnt'clj the tip of the navel. a miflaken notion of its being derived from a, and xfio;, /;W. 



ACRON, in Biography, a celebrated phyfician of 

 Agrigentum, in Sicily, where he praftifed phyiic in the 

 time of Empedocles, is faid to have reftrained the plague 

 at Athens, by purifying the air with large fires, and by 

 biirjiing perfumes in the manner pradifed by the Egyptians. 



ACRONYCHIA, in Botany, a fpecies of Lawsonia. 



ACRONYCTiE, flars rifing in the twilight about fun 

 fetting. 



ACROPOLIS,_ in Ancient Geography, the citadel of 

 Athens, which d«?jived its name from the eminence on 



which 



