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Ad Ires Td/h-niiis, a place !n luily on the Appian way, 

 17 miles from Aricia, culled Cailello. 



Ad Tncefiniuni is fituated 30 miles, as the name imports, 

 from Aquileia, now Tricefimo ; another pofitiou in Gaul, 

 50 miles from Narbo Maitius, whence the ilinerai-)' reckons 

 the diftanee;. 



Ad Tropoea, a place of Italy in Bnitium. 



Ad Turrcin, a place of Sardinia, known by__thc name of 

 Turris Libiffonis. It is alfo tlie name of a place, called 

 Tourves, in a part of Gaul, called the«third Narbonnefe, 

 pertaining to the Suelteri, north-eafl ef Marlilla, and fouth- 

 eaft of Aqure Sextire. 



Ad Ttirh-s, a place in Italy on the Aurelian way, in the 

 territory of Cerite : another, on the Appian way in Bru- 

 tium, north of Vibo : another at the extremity of the pro- 

 montory Circeiiun : anotlier, in Liburnia, on the road from 

 Aquileia to Sigiiia, fouth-eaft of Tarfatiea: anothei-jiu Spain, 

 between Vakntia and Carthago : and another between Au- 

 gufta Emerita and Angufta Coefarea. A'd Turns albas, is a 

 place in Italy between Circeium and Antium. 



Ad Undec'im, a place of Venetia in Italy, well of Aqui- 

 leia ; in the road that leads^ to Ahimum. 



Ad Vrhanas, a place o'f Campania in Italy, between 

 Capua and Teanum, called by M. d'Anville, after Pliny, 

 Urbana, and alfo Colonia Sillana, from the colony efta- 

 blilhed here by Sylla. 



Ad Vkefiinum, a place of Italy, 20 miles from Rome, 

 on the Flaminian way, fouth-well of Capena : another, in 

 Lucania, on the gulf of Tarentum, north of Sybaris, and 

 fouth of Heraclea : another, in Afia Minor, in the road 

 from Trapez.us to Satala, in Armenia Minor : and another, 

 called by M. d'Anville Ad Vigefimum, fouth-eaft of Tolofa, 

 between Badera and Elufio. 



Ad Vuiorriolas, a fmall place of Italy in the road from 

 Hutina to Bononia. 



Ad V'dlam Serviliam, a place of Numidia in Africa, 20 

 miles from Hippo Regius, in the way to Cirta. 



ADA, in Geography, a town of Afiatic Turkey in Na- 

 tolia, about a league from the river Zacarat, in the road 

 from Conftantinople to Ifpahan. 



Ada Gulf, lies on the eaft fide of Kaffa ftraits, and to the 

 eaft of port Hads hilar, having a town in the north-weft 

 part of it. 



ADABA, in jlncient Geography, a town of Media. 



ADAC, a lake whence one of the branches of the Ti- 

 gris flows. 



ADACHA, a town of the Palmyrene region in Afia. 



ADAD, compounded of jid with itfelf, was ufed, fays 

 Mr. Biyant (Anal. Ane. Myth. vol. i. p. 23.) for a fupreme 

 title, with which both kings and deities were honoured. 

 Macrobius (Satiu-n. 1. i. c. 23.) fays, tliat it fignified one, 

 and was fo interpreted by tlie Affyrians, who gave this name 

 to their fupreme deity. Mr. Bryant fuppofes, that what Ma- 

 crobius renders one, lliould be_yfr/? or chief ; and he obferves, 

 that it was a facred title, and when fingle, was conferred 

 upon a Babyloniih deity, but when repeated, it denoted 

 greater excellence. We read of Adad, king of Edom. 

 Gen. xxxvi. 35. I Kings xi. 14. And tliere was another 

 of the fame name at Damafcus, whofe ion and fuccefibr 

 was denominated Benhadad, i Kings xx. i. The kings 

 of Syria, according toNicolaus Damafcenus (fee Jofeph. 

 Antiq. 1. vii. c. 5.) for nine generations had the name of 

 Adad. The god Rimmon was ftyled Adad. Zechar. xii. 1 1. 

 The feminine of Adad was Ada, and this was a facred title, 

 and appropriated by the Babylonians to their chief goddefs. 

 The authors of the Ancient Univerfal Hilloiy are of opinion, 

 that Benhadad II. was dciiied by the Syrians, under the 



Vol. I. 



title of Adad or Ader. By Adad they meant the fun, and 

 rcpnfentcd him with rays darting downw-ards to cxprefs hi* 

 beneficence. But tliia honour would iiavc been nmre fuit- 

 able to the profperity of Hazacl than of Benhadad, whu 

 was often unfortunate. And Jofcphus (Anti(i. 1. vii. c. 6.) 

 infonr.s us, that they were both deified. Adad was rot 

 properly a Babylonian deity, but one who had been deified ' 

 by the ancient Syrians, and probably revived again afler the 

 dcftrucflion of the Babylonian empire, whole new god« 

 niuft have brought him into difcredit. Adad, llius de- 

 graded, and afterwards reinltated, was the fuu, as well as 

 Bel or Baal, Ofiris and others. Auc. Un. Hill. voL i. 

 p. 443. vol.iii. p. 391. 8vo. 



ADADA, in y/neienl Geography, was a towa of Fifidia 

 to the fouth eaft of Scleucia. 1 here was alfo a town of the 

 fame name in Syria, fituate to the north-weft of Palmyra, and 

 at no great diftance from it. We alfo find a place of this 

 name mentioned by Jolhua, (ch. xv. 22.) and lying in tlit 

 fouth of Judah, towards the borders of Edom. 



ADAD Rimmon, a city of Judah, fituate in the plain of 

 Megiddo, in the valley of Jezreel, in the half-tribe of Ma- 

 nafich ; where Jofiah, king of Judah, was killed by Pharaoh 

 Necho, king of Egypt. It was aftei-wards called Maximi- 

 anopolis, in honour of the emperor Maximilian. It is 17 

 miles from Ca;farea in Paleftinc, and 10 miles from Jezreel. 

 Calmet. 



ADiE, a town of Phiygia, which Strabo places at the 

 foot of mount Ida. 



AD^EI, a people of Arabia, placed by Ptolemy !ii 

 Egypt, in a country encompafied by mountains near the 

 leli'er cataraft of the Nile. 



ADAGE, a fententious proverb or popular faying. 

 Erafmus has made a large and valuable colleclion of Greek 

 and Roman adages from their poets, orators, philofiiphers, 

 &c. Mi". Ray has done the fame with regard to the Eng- 

 liili ; and Kelly has made a colleftion of Scots proverbs. 



ADAGIO, in Mnjic, one of the words ufed by the 

 Itah:ms to denote a degree or dlftinftion of time. Adagio 

 exprefles a flow time ; the floweft of any, as fome have faiii, 

 except grave. Ufed fubftantively, it fignifies a flow move- 

 ment. Sometimes this word is repeated, as adagio, adagio, 

 to denote a ftlll greater retardation in the time of the muiic. 



Adagio has been faid by RoufTeau and others to b'- the 

 floweft degree of time in mufical mcafures, except grave ; 

 but we think that exception erroneous. In Corelli's works 

 and thofe of bis cotcmporaries, we find that quavers iu 

 adagios, vocal and inftrumental, are fung and played as flow 

 as crotchets in grave. An adagio in a fong or folo is, gene- 

 rally little more than an outline left to the performers abi- 

 lities to colour ! and the performer who is not enabled to 

 jntereft an audience by the tone of his voice or inftrumeht, 

 and by tafte and expreffion, (hould never be truftcd with 

 flow notes, in the performance of which the fmalleft dcfefls 

 are fo eafily dlfcovered ; and if not highly embelliflied, they 

 foon excite languor and difguft in the hearers. The talent 

 of executing an adagio well, in which perfonners of great 

 powers of execution often fail, is a merit of the bighell 

 clafs which a mufician can poflcfs. 



ADAGUESA, in Geography, a town of Spain, in the 

 province of Aragon, and diocefe of Balbaftro, fituate on the 

 Vero. N.lat. 41° 5S'. E. lon^. 2° 4'. 



ADAGYUS, in Mythology, a Phoenician deity, whom 

 Bochart takes to be Herraapluoditus, the fon of Venus and 

 Mercuiy, from the fimilitude of found between Adag-yus 

 and Androgynus. 



ADAJA, in Geography, a river of Spain, wliich rujis 

 .into the Duero between Simalicas and Tordelillas. 



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