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be was punilhed with death ; and it is reported, that, in 

 time of a famine, whicli compelled the inhabitants to de- 

 vour one another, no p;rfon was accufed of having tailed 

 any of thefe facrcd animals. See Diodor. Sicul.' 1. i. torn. i. 

 p. 94. Ed. Wefleling. 



.ALLURUS, m Zoolo^j. Sec CivPT. 



jELUS, in ylrtdait Geography, a borough of Arabia 

 Felix, belonging, according to Ptolemy, to the iElcfari. 



AEM, Am, or Ame, ajiquid mcafure nfed in moll parts 

 of Germany ; but different in different towns : the aein 

 commonly contains 20 vertils, or 80 maffes ; that of Hei- 

 delberg is equal to 48 maffes ; and that of Wirtembcrg to 

 160 maffes. See Aam. 



iEMATHIA, or Em. ".T HI A, in ylndenl Geography, a 

 difuift of Macedonia, which received its appelhitioa from 

 ./Ematliius, a prince of remote antiquity, and extended as 

 far as the Sinus Thermaicus, or gulf of Saloniclii to the call. 

 It contained feveral confiderablc cities, particnhrly Alcr a. 

 This dilhift formerly gave name to the whole country of 

 Macedonia. 



jEMILIA, one of the 17 provinces of Italy in the later 

 divilions of the Roman empire, bounded on the north by 

 the Po, on the eaft by the Adriatic gulf, on the fouth by 

 the Apennines, and extending to the fouth call as far as 

 Ariminum. 



7EMILIAN I'jav. See Roman WAVs. 



..fflMILIANA, "a town of Spain. 



.ffiMILIANI, Jeromf., in Blographf, was foimder of 

 the regular clerks of St. Maieul in the 16th century. See 

 Fathers of Somafquo. 



jEMILIANUS, tEmilius, or C.Julius, aMoorof 

 mean defcent, who, having fervcd from his youth in the 

 Roman armies, raifed himfclf to the firft employments in the 

 Hate, and became firil conful, and afterward emperor. 

 Under Gallus he was governor of Pannonia and Masfia ; and 

 in this ttation he rallied the intimidated and difperfed forces 

 of Rome, and by a fignal viftoi-y routed the barbarians, 

 - who were fpreading devaftation through tiie Illyrian pro- 

 vinces, and terror as far as the gates of Rome itfelf. Hav- 

 ing diftributed as a donative the money collecled for the tri- 

 bute, he was proclaimed emperor on the field of battle by 

 the acclamations of the foldiers. A. D. 253. Gallus, who 

 was at this time heedlefsof the public welfare, and indulging 

 himfelf in the pleafures of Italy, was roufed out of his Itth.argy 

 by information of the fuccefs, revolt and hoilile approaches 

 of his afpiring lieutenant, now the declared emperor. iEmi- 

 lianus, by forced marches, haftened to Interamna, now Terni, 

 about 32 miles from Rome ; and here he was met by Gal- 

 lus, and his fon Volufianus, at the head of a confiderablc 

 army. The troops of the latter, comparing the ignominious 

 couduft of their fovertign witir the glory of his rival, and 

 feduced by the offer of a confiderablc increafe of pay, de- 

 ferted from the Imperial llandard ; and having murdered 

 Tioth Gallus and his fon, united, with the followers of jEm\- 

 hanus, in proclaiming him emperor. The fenatc added their 

 legal fanftion to the rights of conquefl. To this affembly, 

 the new emperor addreffed affurances, that he Ihould refign 

 to their wildom the civil adminilli-ation, and reftrving to 

 himfelf the office of their general, that he would in a Ihort 

 time allert the glory of Rome, and deliver the empire from 

 all the barbarians of the north and of the call. His pride 

 was flattered by the applaufe of the fenate ; and medals 

 are flill extant, reprefcnting him with the names and attri- 

 butes of Hercules the Viclo)-, and Mars the Avenger. 

 When Valerian, who was condufting a numerous and well 

 difciphned body of troops to the alliltance of Gallus, heard 



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at Rhoetla that he was dead, he quickened his march, and 

 determined to revenge his death. The army of yEmiH.jnu3, 

 compoled of traitors to their former fovcreign, lay encamped 

 on the plains of Spoleto, and awed by the chaiaftcr and 

 forces of Valerian, he had no fooner arrived than they im- 

 brued tiieir hands in the blood of a prince who had been fo 

 lately the objcft of their partial clioicc. Thus Valerian 

 obtained the poffellion of the throne, without wading to it 

 through the blood of the Roman citizens. ./Emilianus was 

 killed at a bridge in tiie vicinity of Spoleto, which Viftor the 

 younger pretends was denominated, from this circumftance, 

 llic bloody bridge. He died in tlie 46th year of his age, 

 after a Ihort reign of three, or at moll four months. Enfc» 

 bius (h vii. c. 10. p. 255) does not rank him among the 

 emperors ; and in the chronicle of Alexandria and that of 

 Nicephorus, Valerian is placed immediately after Gallus. 

 Accurding to Aureiius Victor (in jEmil.) he died a natural 

 death. Anc. Un. Hid. vol. 13. p. 482, 8vo. Gibbon's 

 Hift. vol. i. p. 408. 410, 8vo. 



yliMILIUS, Paulus, the fon of Lucius Pauhis, 

 who was killed at the battle of Cann*, was born about 

 the year of Rome 530, ante Chrill 224, and was 

 twice conful. He lived, fays Plutarch, in an age that 

 abounded with great men, and took pains to be in- 

 ferior to none of them. His firll militaiy command was 

 in Spain, whither he went as prxtor in the war with An- 

 tiochus, to quell a genei-al revolt, in effefting which he 

 fucceeded. In his firil confulate (ante Chrill 182,) he 

 triumphed over the Ligurians, and on his return lived pri- 

 vately, and fuperintended the education of his children ; 

 and in the fecond, (ante Chrill 168) fubducd Perfeus, 

 king of Macedonia, reduced that country to a Roman pro- 

 vince, and cUablilhed a new fomi of government, from whicli 

 circumftance he obtained the name of Maadotacus. His 

 behavioiu", in confequence of his dccifive viiSlory, evinced 

 him to be a man of llritl jullice ; for, according to the rules 

 of war, he gave the plunder of the camp to the infantr\', 

 and that of the adjacent territory to the horfe. The cities 

 he would not fuffer to be touched : and as for the royal 

 treafures he conveyed every part of them to Rome, though 

 his integrity excited the ill-v.ill of the army. In hisprogrefs 

 through Greece, with a view of fetthng the di\ifion of the 

 country, and eftabliflfing his new plan of government, he 

 went to Epirus for the purpofe of executing a decree of 

 the Senate, which was fo fevere, that he coidd not read it 

 without tears, though he could not demur in obeying it. 

 This decree granted to the Roman army the pillage of the 

 whole of the country which had adhered to Perfeus. ./Emi- 

 lius diftributed his troops in fmall bodies through the town, 

 under a pretence of fecuring their liberty ; but when the ten 

 chiefs of the Hate had brought into the camp, in purfuancc 

 of his orders, all the gold and filver they could find, he 

 r.Uowed the foldiers, on a certain day and hour, to make 

 booty of the remaining property of the poor inhabitants ; 

 of whom 150,000 were made Haves, and fold for the benefit 

 of the republic. 



His conduft towards Perfeus, the vanquidied and de- 

 graded fovcreign, manifelled noblenefs of mind. When the 

 king's ambafladors approached, he faid to thofc that were 

 near him, " Mark the inconllaiicy of fortune ; tliis man, 

 who hut the other day thought the ample kingdom of 

 Macedou nothing, whilft he w'as hindered from fubduing 

 the Dardanians and Illyrians, now confined in a narrow 

 illand, fends thefe poor men to allc favours." When Per- 

 feus entered his tent, and would have thrown himfelf at the 

 feet of the conful, he rofe hailily, gave him his hand, and 



voidd 



