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" Hoc cil fcpulchnim iiUus cadaver non habcns, 

 Hoc cil ciidavcr fcpulchrmn extra non habcus, 

 Std cada\cr idem ell et fcpulchnim fibi." 



i. r. " Here is a fepulchrc without a corpfe : licrc is a corpfc 

 without a ftpulchre ; the corpfe and fepulchrc are one and 

 the fumr." 



Of this retiigma the fohitions have been verv numerous. On 

 the four lides of the llono, on which it is infcribtd, there arc 

 twelve different explanations, wltli the names of their faga- 

 ctous authors. Mario Michael Angelo will have it to be 

 rain ; LicctU';, t!ie beginning and ending of fricndfhip ; 

 Gevartius, love ;_Pontinus, the remains of three diiFcrcnt 

 perfons : Turrius, the ma/.TM/'r/'ma ; Barnaud, an eunuch, 

 or the philofopher's ilone : Agathias Scholaflieus, Niobe ; R. 

 Vitii.-, thv- r.itional foul, or the /V/m Pl.nlor.h ; Boxhornius, 

 a (liadow; Ovid Mo:'.t.dbanu5, hemp ; M. de Cicogne, pope 

 Joan ; Heumannu?, Lot's wife ; another anonymous perfon, 

 the Chriilian church ; Terronus, niufic ; Vefmondius, a law- 

 fuit ; and, to add no more, Count Malvafia, in a treatife 

 intitled JElla Lf'ia Cr'<fp'is non mjla refurs^cii: , interprets it 

 of a daughter promifed to a perfon in marriage, who died 

 pregnant witli a male child before the celebration of her 

 nuptials. Sec Keydcr's Travels, vol. iii. 264, &c. 8vo. 



^ENIGMATICAL, fomething that relates to, or par- 

 takes of the nature of enigmas. 



The philolopiiy of the DRUIDS was altogether aenigmati- 

 eal. 



The ancient fages in general aflPefted an senigmatical way 

 of writing, to conceal their doftrines from the populace. 

 The Romans in Nero's time were obliged to have recourfe 

 to the like method, though for different reafons. The a;nig- 

 matical charatlers of the Egyptians were a fpecies of hie- 

 roglyphics, confifting of fuch as bore no natural refem- 

 blance to the things they reprefented. Such was the beetle, 

 ufcd to exprefs the fun : the ferpent, to reprefent the liars. 



We read of an oenigmatica! modal prefented by the Hu- 

 guenots to Henry III. Schott has publiibed an explication 

 of an ;Er.igmatical coin of the emperor Auguftus, concern- 

 ing which antiquaries have been long divided. 



^NrOMATOGRAPHER, or .Enigmatist, a 

 maker or explainer of lenigmas. 



Hnrdouin, Vander Hardt, &c. are great snigmatifts. 



jENIGMATOGRAPHY,.«nio-.,atographia, com- 

 pounded of a.;»>u» and ypa^-iy, to defcribs, the art of making 

 aiid refolving, or collecting enigmas. 



_ .^nigmatography, otherwife called anigmatology, may be 

 divided into general and particular. The firil gives rules 

 concerning the nature, kinds, compofition, and ufe of 

 enigmas ; the fecond confiders the asnigmas in particular 

 fcionces, or languages, Greek, Latin, Hebrew, philologi- 

 cal, philofophical, theological, &c. 



Nic. Reufner has a treatife, under the title of Mmgmato- 

 grapLia. 



^NIPPE, in Entomology, a fpecies of Papilio, with 

 roundilh yellow wings, all of which are marked beneath 

 with ocellated points ; the fore wings with fix, and the 

 liinder with leven. It is found in China. 



^NITTOLOGIUS, in Poetry, a kind of verfe con- 

 •nhng of two daByls, and three trochxL Such is, 



Pralia dira placent true} ju-veniit. 



A,NIUM, in Ancient Geography, a promontory near 

 .^Inia, on the Thermaic gulf. 



^Mv-'*'' ^ '^^^*" "^*'' °^ Dardania in Afia. 

 .A;NMTM, a fmall town of Egypt, mentioned by Phny 

 ^'■'^-vn^'i^ galled by others PA,/o/^,-a, and now A/^a^/r. 

 ^NULA, in Ctigraphy, a market town gf Naples, in 



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the province or jurlfdiciion of Terra dl Lavora. N. lat. 

 41'= I 5'. E. long. \7i° 22'. 



yEN'ONA, in ylncknt Geography, a city of Liburnia, 

 called by Pliny (t. i. p. I'i^-) Civitiu Pnfini, now Nona. It 

 hes on the Adriatic, by which it is almoil furrouuded, over 

 againll the iiland Giffa, and dillant from it about four miles 

 to llic well. M. d'AnviUe places it to the fouth of Jadera 

 in Dalmatia. 



/ENUS, a river of Vindtlicia, in Germany, which rifes 

 in the Rhoetian Alps, and difcharges itfelf into the Da. 

 nube. It is now the Inn. Near this river was the town 

 called JEni pons of Antonine, from a bridge that connected 

 Norlcum with that part of VindeUcia, inhabited by the 

 Boil. 



JEsvs was alfo a river of the Cimbric Cherfonef\u. 



^Nus was alfo a mountain of Cephalenia, one of the 

 Greek iflands, where was a temple of Jupiter. 



yExus, /Enos, or JE.sv\js, a town of Thrace, built, 

 fays Strabo, cited by Stephanas (de Urb. p. 45.) by the 

 Cuimans, but according to Mela, who feems to miftake 

 this town for ^nia, by the exile jEneas. If it was founded 

 by the Trojans, it was enlarged by the Cumxans. It is 

 fituated on one of the two mouths of the Hebrus. It was 

 a free town, fays Phny (t. i. p. 204) in which was the 

 tomb of Polydorus ; and was one of the towns, Maronea 

 being the otlier, on the ^gean Sea, conquered by Philip, 

 the father of Perfeus, and upon the defeat of the latter 

 by the Romans, promifed to Eumenes, king of Pergamus ; 

 but afterwards declared by the fenate free and independent. 

 Livy, 1. xxxi. c. 16. c. 31. t. iv. p. 534, 557. Ed.Drakenb. 

 Polybius, p. 380, 854. Ed. Cafaub. The epithet derived 

 from it is ^nius. It was alio called Ajifynthus. Here, 

 according to Plutarch, (t. i. p. 76^. Ed. Xylandr. ) the 

 brother of Cato of Utica died, and was honoured with a 

 monument of marble in the forum of the JEnVi. This 

 town is now Eno. 



Stephanus mentions four other towns of this name ; 

 one built by ^uus, the brother of Guneus ; annother, a 

 city of Theffaly ; a third, of the country of the Locrians ; 

 and a fourth, between Thapfacus and the Euplirates. 

 There is alio an ifland of this name adjoining to Arabia 

 Ecllx. 



yEoLiAN Islands are feven iflands, fituate between 

 Sicily and Italy, in the Tyn-henian or Tulcan fea ; fo 

 called according to Phny, (t. i. p. 164. Ed. Hard.) be- 

 caufe iEolus reigned there in the time of the Trojan war. 

 They were denominated by the Greeks Hiph,tjliades, and 

 by the Romans Vulcaniit, from their aeiy eruptions. They 

 were alfo called by Strabo, (t. i. p. 394-) Airxfsui' ^o-oi, 

 i. e. Liparenjuim ir.fuhr, from Lipara, the chief of them. 

 Their names, according to PHny, with whom Diodorus 

 Siculus, (1. v. c. 7. t. i. p. 335. EdAVeffeling.) agrees, arc 

 I.ipara, Hiera, Strongyle, Didyme, Ericufa, Phccnicufa, and 

 Euonymos. They are now called, T/iZ? <//' /w/iir/v. Ptolemy 

 mentions fifteen of thefe iflands ; but he includes in the 

 number feveral other little iflands, which are too far dillant 

 to be properly included under the denomination of the 

 .^olian iflands. 



TEoLic, in a general fenfe, denotes fomething belonging 

 to iEoLis. 



^OLic, or jEolian, in Grammar, denotes one of the 

 five dialefts of the Greek tongue. It was firll uftd in 

 Boeotia ; whence it paffed into jEolia, and was that in 

 which Sappho and Alcarus Vv-rote. We find alfo a mixture 

 of it in the writings of Theocritus, Pindar, Homer, and 

 many others. The ^ohc dialecl generally throws out the 

 afpiratc or Iharp fpirit, as r-fj='p for ^/^£f », day ; draws ba;k 

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