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rocks, numerous caverns, and the nature of the foil, which 

 yields a great quantity of alum. About the year 14S9, 

 Bartholomew Perdix, a Gcnoefc merchant pafling by this 

 ifland, obffrved feveral aluminous rocks along the coaft ; 

 fome of whicli he calcined in a furnace, and thus obtained 

 excellent alum. By tliis dilcovery he was enabled to revive 

 the art of making alum, which had been nededted in Italy 

 for many centuries, and which he brought from Rocca, in 

 byria, where he traded for many years. 



About 163 years before this period, it is faid that the 

 moll pleafant and fruitful part of this ifland was delhoyed 

 by a volcano, and that a fmall town was confumed by the 

 flames which iflucd from it, and afterwards fwallowed up. 

 Grxvii Thcfaur. Antiq. ct Hilt. Italix, vol. ix. p. 3. p. 88. 

 For other autliorities to the fame purpofe, fee Beckman's 

 Hift. Invent, et Difcov. vol.i. p. 303, &c. 



iENARIUM, a grove of Achaia confecnited to Jupi- 

 ter, where, as Strabo (torn. i. p. 593.) informs us, the 

 Achscans held their public affembhes. 



yENEA, or ^NiA, a city of Mygdonia in Macedonia, 

 at the fouthcrn entrance of the Thcffalonian Gulf near the 

 ifland Pdlcne, is faid to have been founded by jEneas. On 

 the promontory adjoining to this city there was a temple 

 of Venus, according to Dion. Halicarn. the foundation of 

 which is attributed to the fame perfon. See Dion. Hali- 

 carn. 1. i. t. i. p. 39. Ed. Oxon. Livy, 1. xl. c. 4. t. v. p. 

 432. Ed. Drahenb. Stephan. de Urb. p. 44. Livy,(l. xliv. 

 c. 10. t. V. p. 752.) places ^nia in a fruitful country, 

 about fifteen, miles from Theffalonica and oppoiite to 

 Pydna ; bat this mud be laxly interpreted, as Pydna was 

 near the river Aliacmon, and jEnia was probably near the 

 upper part of the Thermian bay. ^nia has been fometimes 

 erroneoufly confounded with jEnus. 



-■ENEAS, in Entomology, a fpecies of papilio, with 

 black wings, a green fpot on the upper part of the pri- 

 mores, and a fanguineous fpot on the poftici. It is found in 

 India. 



>Eneas, in Fabulous Hiflory, was a Trojan prince, the 

 fon of Venus and Anchifes, who, at the dellruftion of 

 Troy, is faid, probably by poetical fiftion, to have carried 

 away his aged father and his houlhold gods on his back. 

 Hence, it is alledged, Virgil diftinguiflies him by the epi- 

 thet Pius. See ^lian, Var. Hift. ti<m. i. p. 264. He alfo 

 led his fon Afcanius by the hand, and thus faved his father 

 and fon, &c. from the Greeks ; but he loft liis wife Creula 

 in the efeape. Some fay that he and Antenor betrayed 

 the city of Troy. But Virgil, defirous of maintaining his 

 refemblancc to Ulyfies in all his adventures, excufes him. 

 After the fiege of Troy he landed in Africa, and was 

 kindly received by Dido ; b\it quitting her coaft, he ar- 

 rived in Latium or Italy, where he married Lavinia, the 

 daughter of king Latinus, who thus fecured to liim the 

 throne of Latium. The ftory of the loves of Dido and 

 ^ncas, though an interefting part of the jEneid, is .il- 

 Icwed to be a mere poetical ornament, introduced by a grofs 

 anachronifm. jEneas, as a teftiniony of his gratitude to 

 Latinu? and affettion for Lavinia, gave her name to the 

 camp he had pitched, and, inftead of Troy, called it Lavi- 

 nium. The Trojans followed the example of their leader, 

 raid by marriages, forming alliances with the Latin families, 

 became, in a fliort time, one and the fame pecspk with the 

 Latins. In the mean time Turnus, who had been con- 

 ti-afted to Lavinia, and who was difappointed in his expec- 

 tations by her marriage with jEneas, went over to the Rutuli ; 

 and excited a battle between them and the Latins, in which 

 both. he aod. Latinus were killed. Thus iEneas, bv the 

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death of his fatlit:r-in-law, and of his rival, obtained the 

 quiet pofleifion of the kingdom of J-atium, which lie 

 governed with great wifdom, and tranfinitted to his pof- 

 terity. .ilLneas is faid to iiave reigned three years, in 

 which time he eftablilhed the worftiip of the gods of his 

 own country-, and to the religion of the Latins added that 

 of Troy. The two palladiums, which had been the pro- 

 tectors of that city, became the tutelar deities of Lavinium, 

 and in fucceeding ages, of the whole Roman empire. The 

 worftiip of Veita was likewife introduced by jEneas, and 

 probably by his means Jupiter, Venus, and many other dei- 

 ties, who had"been revered in Troy, became known to the 

 Latins ; from which eircumftancc fome have fuppofed that 

 the poets took occaiion to reprefent him under the charac- 

 ter of a pious hero. The Rutuli, in the mean while, en- 

 tered into an alliance with Mezentius, king of the Tyrrhe- 

 nians, and united with them in their attempts to drive out 

 thefe new adventurers. jEiieas engaged them in a battle, 

 which lafted till night ; when being driven to the banks of 

 tlie Numicus that ran clofe by Lavinium, he was forced 

 into the river, and was there drowned, in the year of the 

 Julian period 3538, ante Chrift 11 76. The Trojans con- 

 cealed his body ; and pretending tiiat he had luddenly va- 

 nilhcd awav, made his credulous fubjefts regard him as a ■ 

 deity ; and they accordingly ereiled a temjjle to him under 

 the title of Jupiter Indiges. Virgil has immortalized this 

 prince, by making him the hero of his ^neid. 



yEneas was fucceeded by his fon Afcanius, fo called 

 from a river of Phrygia of that name, and denominated 

 Julus from Uus, formed from Ilium or Troy, who founded 

 j'llba longa as the capital of his kingdom. See Dion. HaK — 

 car. I. i. p. 34. 51. tom. i. Ed. Oxon. 1704. Livy, 1. j. c.I. - 

 and 2. tom. i. p. iS. — 21. Ed. Drakenb. 



tEneas of Gaxa, a fophift by profelTion, was originally 

 a diieiple of Hierocles, and a Platonic philofopher, but 

 afterwards became a Chrillian, and fiouriftied about the 

 year 487. He himftlf an"ures us, that he faw the Afri- 

 can conftfTors, whofe tongues were cut out by LIunneric 

 king of the Vandals, in 484, under the reign of the emperor 

 Zeno ; and that he heard them fpeak. This fupernatural gift 

 of the African confeftbvs, who fpokc without tongues, fays 

 Mr. Gibbon (Hiilory of the Decline and Fall of the Roman ^ 

 Empire, vol. vi. p. 295, 8vo.), will command the afl'ent of 

 thofe, and of thofe only, who already believe that ■ their 

 language was pure and orthodox. But the ftubborn .mind 

 of an inlidel is guarded by fccrct incurable, lufpicion ; and : 

 the Arian, or Socinian, who has ferioufly rejeded the doc- 

 trine of the Trinity, will not be ftiakea. by the moft plauli- 

 ble evidence of our Athanafian niiniclc. .iEneas >compofed . 

 a dialogue, entitled " Theophraftus,"' on the immortality of 

 the foul, and the refurrcftion of the body ; belides twenty- 

 five epillles, rtill extant. The dialogue was firll tranflated ■ 

 into Latin, and publiftied at: Bafil in 15 16, in Qr..tk and 

 Latin, at Bafil in 1560, with other pieces, atLeipfie in 1658, . 

 with a tranflation and notes by Barthius, in 410. See Bib- 

 lioth. Patrum. tom. viii. p. 664, 665, Cave's HilU Liter. . 

 p. 297, and Fabrieius, Bibl. Gitcc. torn. i. P..427. . 



jEnfas, TactiCUS, one of the moft ancient Greek au- 

 thors who have written on the art of war. He lived about . 

 300 years before the Chriftian acta. Thif age in which 

 he lived is fettled by Cafaubon, who informs us, that • 

 Cineas, who was a difciple of EpLeurus, and an anibaf- 

 fador from Pyrrhus to J<:ome in the 125th Olympiad, 

 compofed an epitome of the works of jEneas. His work 

 was pubhllied by Cafaubon, in Greek and Lati-ii, v.ilh 

 notes, and it is annexed to his edition. .of Polybnj, 



printed . 



