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would not fuffer him to kneel ; and aftti*md3 treated him 

 with civility nnd ivfpecl. \Vhcii TEiullius relunieU to 

 Rome, he obtained, after fome helitatlon, a triumph of 

 three days, which was one of the moll fpleinlid fpectacles 

 Home hud ever belield. The jjold and liUor earricd in the 

 (how amounted to a fum wliieli was liilHcient to free tlie 

 people from ail taxes for 125 years. I'erfeus was at tliis 

 time confined in a common gaol ; and llie conful's reply to 

 his rtqucft, that he might not be made a fpeftaclc in his 

 triumph was not lo honourable to his humanity as liis for- 

 mer conduct. " This (lays he) is entirely in your own 

 power ; vou need not alk the favour ot us ;" intimating 

 tliat the king might kill himfelf, and thus avoid the (hame 

 of being expofed. However, wlien the humiliating fpee- 

 tacle was finilhed, and the unfortunate Perfeus conlincd, 

 with circunillanccs of d.'prelRon and cruelty, in the common 

 gaol, iEmilius ordered him to be releafed, and treated with 

 greater decency. The conl'ul did not long furvive his tri- 

 umph. Having accepted the office of cenfor, and dil- 

 charged it with honour, he fell into a lingering illnefs, of 

 which ho died, in the 64th year of his age, ante Chrili 

 J 60. His funeral was conducted with great folemnity ; 

 and the natives of thofe countries which he had conquered, 

 who were then at Rome, attended the proceffion, con- 

 tended for the honour of carr^-ing his bier, and paid the 

 tribute of their tears and praifcs to his humanity and inte- 

 grity. To his children he only left at his death the patri- 

 mony he had received from his anceilors, without having 

 augmented it, fays Plutarch, by a fingle drachma. One of 

 -his two fens, by his firft marriage, was adopted into the fa- 

 mily of the Scipios, and called ylfricamis Minor, and the 

 other into another family ; and of the two others by his 

 fecond wife, who were the hopes of his family, one died 

 five days before his triumph, and the other three days after 

 it. " Fortune, fays he, on this occafion, by placing my 

 triumph between the funerals of my two children, as 

 thougli file meant to divert herfelf with human events, over- 

 whelms me indeed with trouble and forrow, but alcertains 

 a full iccurity to my country-, having emptied her whole 

 quiver upon me. She has taken a pleafure in expofing the 

 conqueror and the conquered alike, as a fpeftacle to all 

 mankind ; with this difference indeed, that the conquered 

 Perfeus has ftill his children, but thofe of the conqueror 

 Paulus iEmihus are now no more. But the public happi- 

 nefs alleviates my grief for my domeftic misfortunes." His 

 character, fays a judicious biographer (See Aikin's Gen. 

 Biog.) was that of a genuine Roman, adorned with letters, 

 and humanized by philofophy. As a military man he may 

 be eflimated by the maxim dehvcred by him to his fon 

 Scipio ; " A good general never gives battle but when led 

 to it by abfolute neceffity, or by a ver)- favourable oppor- 

 tunity." He was twice married, firll to Papiria, the 

 daughter of Papirius Mafo ; and being divorced from her, 

 he took a fecond wife. In early life his reputation was 

 fuch that he obtained the aedllernip againll twelve competi- 

 tors, who afterwards became confuls. The office of augur 

 he faithfully executed, with a rigid attention to the perfor- 

 mance of ever)- rite enjoined by the religion of his country ; 

 nor was he lefs obfervant of that military difciphnc by 

 which Rome had become viftorious. Plut. in Paul. jEmil. 

 Oper. tom. i. p. 255, &c. edit. Xyland. 



.iEMiLius Macer, a poet of the Augulline age, wrote 

 on the virtues of herbs. There are fevcral editions of his 

 works ; but in general fo altered and interpolated, Haller 

 fays, by the monks, that the genuine lines are fcarccly to 

 be diftinguilhed. Many of his verfes were inferted in the 

 popular work called the Schola Salernitana. 



IP. N A 



.^MiiitK Parthexianus, one of the Latin hifioiianj, 

 flouriihed under the emperor Marcus Aurclius. He com- 

 pofcd a hillory of all thole who attempted to ulurp the 

 fovereign power, and bicught it down at leafc to the year 

 175, for he wrote the life of Avidius Caffius. He is 

 quoted by Vulcatius Gallicaims, who lived under Dioclclian. 

 Voir. Hitl. Lat. hb. iii. 



^Emilius, Paulus, a celebrated hiflorian, was a native 

 of Verona, and gained fuch reputation in Italy, that he 

 was invited into France by Louis XII, in order to write a 

 I-atin hiftoiy of the kings of France> and had a canonry 

 granted him in the cathedral of Paris. He was thirty years 

 in writing this hillory, aud yet it was not completed at his 

 death. Erafmus fays of him, tliat he rciembled the painter 

 Protogencs, who tlujuglit he had never fmiflied his pieces : 

 thus, fays he, I'auhis jlL-intms is never fatislied with him- 

 felf. It was his ufual cullom to revifc and alter his own 

 performances, that they would hardly be known to be the 

 fame ; and this made him fo flow, that elephants could bring 

 forth fooner than he could produce a work. Lipfius fpeaks 

 of his hillory and manner of writing in terms of high com- 

 mendation. It is divided into ten hooks, and extends from 

 Pharamond to the fifth yeaj- of Charles VIII. in 14S8. 

 The tentli book was left uufiniihed ; but the hillory was 

 continued in nine boo.ks to the dole of the reign of Francis I. 

 by Arnoldus Ferronius, and the continuation was publilh- 

 ed at Paris in 1650. .^mihus, as to his private life, was 

 a man of exemplary conducSl and irreproachable reputation. 

 He died at Paris in 1529, and was buried in the catliedral. 

 Biog. Dia. 



iEMiLius Pons, one of the bridges of Rome, called alfo 

 Suliichis, becaufe it was built on piles. 



AMINES Porlus, were fituated in a fmall ifiand of 

 Gaul, now called Eniblez, between Taurocutum on the 

 north-weft and the promontory Cithariftes. 



.lEMINIUM, a town and river in Spain mentioned by 

 Pliny (tom. i. p. 228.), now called Agutda. This town was 

 fituated in the province of Lufitania, near the northern bank, 

 of the Monda, a httle to the fouth of Talabriga. 



^MOBOLIUM, in Antlquhy, the blood of a bull 

 or ram, offered in the facrifices, called tauroboha and 

 criobolia ; in which fenfe the word occurs in ancient in- 

 fcriptions. Rcinefuis and Vandale take it for a corruption, 

 and alter it to .fligobolium. M. de Boze defends the 

 iEniobohum. 



^£MOD^, or Emod.^, \n Ancient Geography, iflands of 

 the Ocean to the north of Great Britain. 



yliMONA, Lanlach or Lnybach, a Roman colony and a 

 fortified place in Italy to the eaft of the Julian Alps. 



-(Emonia, one of the ancient names given to Thelfalv. 



iEN, or AiN, a village of Judxa, belonging to 

 the tribe of Judah, and aftenvards comprehended in 

 that of Simeon, and alTigned to the Levites of this 

 tribe. 



jENA, or AiNA, a town of Arabia Felix ; and alfo a 

 town of Macedonia. 



^:NEIA. See^NiAD^E. 



jENARIA, an ifiand in the hay of Cumas, or oppofue 

 to Ciunae in Italy. It derived its name, fays Pliny (1. iii. 

 c. 6. tom. i. p. 160.) from its being the llation of the 

 lliips of yEneas. It is called Inarine by Virgil (jEn. ix. 

 v. 716.), by Ovid (Metam. 1. xiv. v. 89. t. ii. p. 939. Ed. 

 Burm.), and by Silius Italicus (1. viii. v. 543. p. 436. Ed. 

 Drakenb.), and it is now Ischia. It has not been im- 

 probably conjcdlured, that this illand was, at fome fonner 

 period, violently feparated from the continent by an earth- 

 quake. The evidences of fuch a difruption are calcined 



rocks. 



