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arrow, he -wouid r.ot fuffer the wound to b« dreffed, that 

 he might exercife his fortitude in bearing pain. 



jEgidius dc CoLUMNA, a Roman monk of the Au- 

 fjuftinc order, was preceptor to the fons of Philip III. of 

 FraDce, and tancjht philofophy and theology in the univer- 

 fity of Paris with fo much reputation, that he was ho- 

 noured with the appellation of " The mod profound Dot- 

 tor." After being advanced to the rich biihopric of Berri, 

 he died in 1316 ; leaving behind him on his monument the 

 charader of " Lux in hicem reducens dubia ;" ;. e. the 

 luminary that brought dark things to hght ; a charaftcr 

 tvhich his writings, on account of their profound and un- 

 fathomable obfcurity, do not jullify. Brucker's Hiit. 

 Philof. by EnSeld, vol. ii. p. 379. His " Lucubrations on 

 the Sentences of Lombard," were printed at Balil, in 1623. 

 His work " On original Sin," in 410. at Oxford, in 1479 ; 

 and his " Quxftiones Motaphyfica; and Quodlibetici," at 

 Venice in 150 1. 



.^GiDius Corbclenjis, or Gilks dc Coriei!, Cd:\on of Paris, 

 was phyfician to Philip Auguftus, king of France, and 

 lived about the end of the twelfth ccntuiy ; " ex Salerni- 

 tana Schola, Haller fays, Mcdicus et Poeta." He \vrote a 

 treatife, " On Compound Medicines," in Latin verfe, which 

 has not been printed ; alfo " Liber unus de Urinarum judi- 

 ciis, et de Pulfibus liber unus, Venetiis imprefs. 1494, cum 

 Expofitione et Commento M. GentiHs de Fulgineo :" 

 reprinted at Lyons 1505, and at Bafil 1 5 79. 



jEGILA, in jlncisnt Geo^niphy, a borough of Laconia, 

 in the Peloponnefus. Paufanias (p. 320.) informs us, that 

 it had a temple of Ceres, in which Ariftomenes, a general 

 of the Mefl'enians, furpriftd an afTembly of women, who 

 were celebrating a feaft in it ; and that the women not 

 only defended themfelves, but repulfed him, without any 

 arms befides the knives which they ufed for their facritices ; 

 and that he efcaped merely by favour of Arcliidama, a 

 MeiTenian female, whofe affeclion he had engaged. 



jEGILA. See ^Egyla. 



^GILIA, one of the boroughs of the tribe of Antio- 

 «liides in Attica. 



JECILIOM, an ifland, called alfo Capraria, now 

 Carigotto. 



.^GII^IPSA, a place of Greece in the vicinity of Itha- 

 ca, fituate near Crocyiia of Epirus. Homer's II. ii. v. 633. 



^GILIUM. SeelciLiuM. 



^GILOPS, formed ofaiyo^ u^,goat'tface,(yn account of 

 its roughnefs, "xild Fejlnc, in Botany, a genus of the moncfri.i 

 order, and J>oi'v^'irr:la clafs, and of ihe natural order oi gramina 

 or nrajjts : the charafters are, that the hermaphrodite calyx is 

 a large bivalvular glume, fuitaining three flowers, and that 

 the valves are ovate, truncate, ftreaked with various awns ; 

 the corolla is a bivalvular glume, the outer valve ovate, ter- 

 minated bv a double or triple awn, the inner lanceolate, 

 «reft, awnlefs, with the edge bent in longitudinally ; the 

 neftary two-leaved, with ovate, flat, tranfparent, very fmall 

 leaflets ; the fl;amina have three capillary filaments, with 

 oblong anthers ; the piftillum is a turbinate germen, tlie 

 ilyles are two and reflex, with haiiy fligmas ; no pericar- 

 pium ; and the feeds are oblong, convex on one fide, 

 grooved on the other, with the inner valve of the corolla 

 adhering to it, and not opening. There are four fpecier. ; 

 Tiz. ovata, caudata, triunciaiu, 2LnA fqiiarrofa ; to wliich 

 Gmehn adds the aroma'.ka and faccharma ; and he ranks 

 this genus imder the iriandria digynia clafs and order. The 

 Krft; of thefe grafles is wild in the foutheni countries of 

 Europe, and was cultivated in 1683, by Mr. James Suther- 

 land ; the fecond was found by M. Tournefort in Crete ; 

 JiiK third grows about Montpelier, Marfeilles, Nice, and 



Smyrna, and was introduced in 1776 by M. Thouin ; and 

 the fourth was found by Tournefort in the Levant, and 

 by Cavanilles in Spain. They all feem to be annual. — 

 Martyn's Miller's Did. 



tEgiuops is alfo a name given to the holm-OAK, a fpecies of 

 the tiUERCus ; to the ludd oat, a fpecies of the a yen a ; 

 to a fpecies of the andropogon, and to a fpecies of the 

 BROMus. A^gilops incurvata is a fpecies of the rotbol- 



LIA. 



vEgilops, or ^GVLOPS, in Swgety, an Abscess 

 feated near the inner angle of the eye, which is fo called 

 from its giving a call of that organ refembling a goat's eye, 

 (from aij, a goat, and u-i- the eye. J It has been noticed 

 by Virgil, " Tranfverfa tuentibus Hircis." The finuofity, 

 which we now indifcriminately call fiftula lachrymahs, in 

 its incipient Hate, was named Anchilops by fome of 

 the ancients ; but, in its llage of fuppuration, it was termed 

 agilops. For the defcription and treatment of this diforder, 



fee FISTULA 6ACHRVMALIS. 



iEGIMURUS, in Ancient Geography, a fmall ifland in 

 the Gulph of Carthage, about thirty miles from that capi- 

 tal. Phny, (H.N. torn. i. 251.) informs us, that there 

 were two rocks near this ifland, called the ara agimuri, or 

 trgimori, which, according to Servius, were the remains of 

 an ifland, fome ages before his time, abforbed by the fea» 

 This author likewife informs us, that they were called ara, 

 becaufe on them the Rom.ans and Carthaginians con- 

 cluded a treaty, and made them the hmits of their re- 

 fpedtive dominions. Virgil refers to thefe in his jEneicL 

 I. i. V.I 13. 



" Saxa vocant Itali, mediis quse in fludibus arx." 



The modem Xo'jjamoore, or the Zimbra of our fea-charts, 

 lying betwixt Cape Zibeeb and Cape Bon or Ras-addar, is 

 the JEgimurus of the ancient. The gulph in which this 

 ifland lies, is remarkable for its great depth as well as 

 breadth, and on this account was jufl.ly named by Virgil, 

 iEneid, i. i. v. id"!,. JeccJJus long'us, a long recefs. Shaw's 

 Trav. p. 76. 4to. 



iEGINA, an ifland in the Saronic gulph, or bay of 

 Engia. It was more anciently known by the names of 

 Ocnone or Ocnopia, (Plin. torn. i. 209.) and Myrmidonia, 

 from its inhabitants the Myrmidons, fo famous among the 

 poets. It was called jEgina by ^acus, who reigned in 

 this ifland, from the name of his mother, the daughter of 

 ^fopus, king of EcEotia, who being debauched by Jupiter, 

 as fabulous hiftorj- reports, in the fimihtudt of a lambent 

 flame, was removed f:-om Epidaiinis to this defart ifland. 

 It is now called Egina, and is one of the iflands of the 

 Arcliipelago. It lies between the territory of Athens, and 

 that of Epidaurus, eighteen miles diftant from the coail of 

 Athens, and fourteen from Peloponnefus. It is about 

 twenty-fix miles in circuit, and had anciently a city of its 

 own name, which being deftroyed by an earthquake, the 

 inhabitants were exempted by Tiberius, for the fpace of 

 three years, from paying any kind of tribute. Paufanias 

 (in Corinth, c. 12.) fpeaks of two magnificent templea. 

 in this ifland, the one confecrated to Venus, the other ta 

 Jupiter. The latter was built upon the fumm.it of a moun- 

 tain called PanbcUen'ius by ^acus, in order to propitiate 

 Jupiter in a time of drought ; who was fr.pplicated under 

 this epithet, and granted to his votaries rain. The temple 

 was of the Doric order, and had fix columns in front, and 

 claims a very remote antiquity : its remains, in a very ruined 

 ilate, mdicate its original magnificence. The foil of this 

 ifland was at firil very ftony and barren ; but being culti- 

 vated by the inhabitants, it became very fruitful ; and hence,, 

 lays Strabo, (torn. i. p. J76.) the iuhabitazits were called 



Myrmidons, 



