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of Venict, in /Indent Geogniphy, is a large bay in the Me- 

 <31teiTaneaii, between Dalniatia, Sclavoiiia, Greece, and 

 Italy, and extending from louth-eail to north-weft, be- 

 tween 40° and 45° 55' N. lat. about 2Co leag-uts long, and 

 50 broad. Its enlraike between Ctnina and Otrantc, 

 is about 14 leagues wide. It is called by the Greeks 

 I Aifi:/.: xoX-TO;-, Adr'ia J<mis ; by the Latins varioully, a-s 

 Adria, by Horace, (lib. i. od. 3.) " Arbiter Adri.e no- 

 t\is :" by Silius, (lib. i. v. 54. p. 6. Ed. Drakenb.) 

 " Hadrlacum pontum ;" by Cicero, (in Pifon. c. xxxviii. 

 and lib. 10. Attic. Ep. 7.) " Hadrianum mare;" by Vir- 

 gil, (jEn. xi. V. 405.) " Hadriacas iHidas." The Adria- 

 tic fea, fays Hefychius, is the fame with the Ionian fea ; 

 and in order to foU-e a difficulty in the interpretation of 

 Afts xxvii. 7. and to anfwer the queftion, how St. Paul's 

 fliip, which was near Malta, and, therefore, in the Lybian 

 or Sicilian fea, could be in the Adriatic ; it is alleged, that 

 not only the Ionian, but even the Sicilian fea, was called 

 the Adriatic. Strabo (lib. vii. torn. 2. p. 488.) informs 

 us, that the Ionian gulf is a pait of that which in his time 

 was called the Adriatic fea. Whitby Com. vol. ii. p. 751. 

 The principal rivers that ran into the Adriatic were the 

 Panyasus,Apsus, the Laous, or^As, andtheCtLVD- 

 .Nus. The State of Venice claims excluiive dominion over 

 the Adriatic fea, in confequence of a circumilance men- 

 tioned under Doge ; and the ceremony of wedding it is 

 annually praftifed in evidence of this claim, on Afccnfion- 

 day. Mr. Kirwan, in his ellimate of the temperature of 

 different latitudes, p. 53. obferves, that the Adriatic, 

 though warmer in the fummer than the Mediterranean, is fo 

 cold in winter, as to have been frequently frozen over in the 

 neighbourhood of Venice. 



ADRICHOMIUS, Christian, in Biography, was 

 born at Delft, in Holland, in 15:53 ; and having affiduoully 

 applied to iludy, he became director of the nuns of St. 

 Bai'bara : but when the civil war broke out on account of 

 religion, he withdrciv firfl; to Brabant, and then to Cologne, 

 •where he began his work, intitled, " Theatrum Terrae 

 Sanfta;," which was printed with maps at Cologne, in 159^. 

 This work, belides a defcription of the Holy Land and 

 of Jerufalem, contains a chronicle of the Old and New 

 Tcilament, under the« name of Chrillianus Crucius ; and 

 under this title, he publifhed at Antwerp the Life of Chriil, 

 and an oration, " Dc Chrilliana Beatitudine." Adrichomius 

 died at Cologne, in P585, and was buried in the convent of 

 the canoneffes of Nazareth, where he had been for fome 

 years director. Biog, Ditt. 



ADRIEN, in Geography, a fmall town of the Low 

 Country, in Flanders, on the river Dendre, two leagues 

 from AloU, and four from Gand. 



ADRIFT, in Sea-language, denotes the (late of a vefTel 

 broken from her moprings, and driven by the wind or waves. 



ADRIN, in Geography, a fmall town of Upper Hun- 

 gai-y, upon the river Sebelkeres, at the foot of the mountains 

 of Vedra, and north-well of the great Waradin. E. long. 

 37° 39. N. lat. 47° 9'. 



ADR IS, in Ancient Geography., the name of a river in 

 India, according to Ptolemy. 



ADRIUS Mons, a cham of mountains which, accord- 

 ding to Strabo, extended along Dalmatia, and divided it 

 into the Mediterranean and Maritime, 



ADROBICUM, a fmall place in Spain, on the bay 

 called Magnus Portus. 



ADROGATION, \\\ Antiquity, a fpecies of ADOPTION, 

 whereby a perfon, who was capable of choofing for himfelf, 

 was admitted by another into the relation of a fon. The 

 word is compounded of ad, to, and rogare, to cji ; on ac- 



count of a queftion put in the ceremony of it, whether the 

 adopter would take fuch a perfon for liis fon ? and another 

 to the adoptive, whether he confented to become fuch a per- 

 fon's fon ? 



ADRON, in Andenl Geography, a city of Arabia 

 Petriea. 



ADROTTA, a maritime town of Lydia, in Afia 

 Minor. 



ADRU, or Adrou, m Ancient Geography, a town of 

 Arabia Petiu-a, which Ptolemy places in long. 67^', and lat. 



29° 55'- 



ADRUMETUM, or Hadrumetum, the capital of 

 Byzacium, in Africa, was a very ancient and famous city. 

 It had a variety of jrames, being called by Strabo and Stc- 

 phanus, Adrume ; by Plutareli and Ptolemy, Adrumetas 

 or Adrumettus ; by Appian, Adrymcttus ; by Cxfar, Hir- 

 tliis ; by Pliny, Adrumetuni ; by Mela, Hadrumdum ; and 

 in Peutinger's table, Hadrito. It was the 'Jujhniana of 

 the middle empire, and the Heraclea of the lower. This 

 city was large and populous, and built upon an hemifpheri- 

 cal promontoiy, at the dillance of two leagues to the fouth- 

 eall of the morafs, which was the boundary, as Dr. Shaw 

 fuppofes, betwixt the Zeugitana and By/.acium. It had at 

 a fmall diilance a cothen, /. e. a port, or little idand, re- 

 fembling that of Carthage. From its prcfent fituation and 

 ruins, it feems to have been fomeuJ\at more than a mile ia 

 circuit, and a place of importance rather than of extent. 

 That it was founded by the Phccnicians is alferted by Sallull 

 (in Bell. Jugurth. oper. tom. i. p. 88. Ed. Ilaverc.) and 

 others ; and Buchart (Geog. fac. lib. i. c. 24. Oper. tom. i. 

 col. -;-78. Ed. Villcm.) deduced its name from two Syriac, 

 or Piiocnician words, importing the land or countiy yielding 

 an hundred-fold, ;'. c. of corn or grain. Diodorus Slcuhis 

 (Bibl. Hill. tom. ii. p. 4 1 8. Ed. Weffcling.) reprefents it 

 as a fortified city, when it was befieged by Agathocles, in 

 the third year of the 1 1 7th olympiad. At prefent it is a bar- 

 ren and uncultivated tract, of a fandy foil, and incommoded 

 with moraffes. Dr. Shaw has taken pains to prove, that 

 its fituation is that of the prefent Herkla. Travels, 

 p. lofi, 4to. 



ADSCENDENS Caulis, in Botany, denotes a ftalk of 

 branch inclining upwards. The term is fynonymous with 

 inciiritKS. 



ADSCRIPTS, a term ufed by fome Mathematicians fof 

 the natural tangents, called alfo by Vieta/ro/inw. 



ADSENTIRI, in Antiquity, a term ufed to exprefs the 

 affent of the Roman foldiers to ajiy propofitions that were 

 made to them by their commanders, which they did by lift- 

 ing up their hands with acclamation, and linking their 

 bucklers upon their knees. Lucan, in his Pharfalia, (hb. L 

 386.) refers to this pratlice. 



ADSERERE, Adsertio, Adsertor manu in liherla' 

 tern, are terms that relate to one of the modes by which a 

 flave was emancipated : he was taken by the hand, and 

 this formula was pronounced : " Hunc liberaU caufa manu 

 adfero." 



ADSIDELA, a table at which the flamens fat, when 

 they oh'ered lacrifice. 



ADSIGNIFICATION, among Schoolmen, the ad of 

 noting or fignifylng a thing, with the addition of the time 

 \vhen it liapiiened. 



AD son's Town, in Geography, lies near the north-call 

 line of New Jerfey, and fouth-eall of the Drowned I^ands f 

 twenty-fevcn liiiles north-weil of Morriftown, and twenty- 

 four north-weft of Patterfon. 



ADSTRICTION, among Phyfcians, is ufed to denote 



the too great rigidity and elofenefs of the cuiuuAoriea ol 



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