The Won}, .^o>o;, aiiJ Life, Zin, begat ten other «ons ; 

 Mitn and tlic Church, hegat twelve inorc ; among whom 

 wore, the I'anu'eh; Fnilh, Hnpc, Charily, the Pfifiii, TfAsio;, 

 and /yi/./'im, il^yiK. Am! thus wci-e thirty 3:011s made up ; 

 v.hich, altogether, made the Pleroma, TWrfufjux, ox fjitritunl 

 ami mviflle plfiilluJe. See Gnostics, and VALnKTiNMANS. 

 /Sm-h likewife, in the Pbcenician Tk-ology, was the lirll 

 ci tattd \\ I'.ran. 



^011 A, in the Medical Wiitings of the ylncients, is iifed 

 for gellalion ; which fort of excrcii'c was often prcfcribed 

 bv tiic phvficiar.s of thofe days. Other excreifes confiiled 

 principally in the motion of the body ; hut in the a'ora the _ 

 limhs were at rel^, while the body was carried about and 

 moved front place to place, in fuch a manner as the phyfician 

 prcfcribed. It had therefore the advantages of exercilc,' 

 without the fatigue of it. 



This exercife was promoted feveral ways : fometimes the 

 patient was laid in a fort of hamuioc, fupportcd by ropes, 

 and moved backward and forward ; fometimes his bed run 

 nimbly on its feet. And belide thefe, the feveral ways of 

 travelling were accounted fpecics of the xora, whether in 

 the litter, in a boat or fliip, or on even ground in a chariot. 



Afclepiades was the firft who brought geftation into 

 praftice, which was ufed as a means to recover ftrength 

 after a fever, &c. 



yEPEA, in Ancient Geography, a city of Laconica, ac- 

 cording to Steplianus (de Urb. p. 46.), and of MelTenia, 

 according to Strabo (t. i. p. 553-)' '*^'''° calls it Thuria, and 

 deduces its name from its fituation on the top of a hill. It 

 is one of the feven cities promifed by Agamemnon to 

 Achilles, and is mentioned by Homer, II. ix. v. 152. 

 *' KxXy.v t' Acrsiav x'/a n\ox7ov aix7r£}.o'c-<7y,v. 

 Pulchramque jEpcam, Pedafumquc vitifcram." 

 Stephanus mentions another city of this name in Cvprus, 

 built by Demophoon, the fon of Thefeus, on mount Cla- 

 rius, whicii was afterwards called Solos in honour of Solon ; 

 3nd another in Crete. 



jEPOLIUM, a place fituated, according to Pliny, be- 

 tween the Danube and Tvras. 



^PY, a city of Meflenia, fo called, fays Stephanus, 

 from its being fortified ; but more probably from its elevated 

 fituation, to which Statins refers (Thcb. 1. iv. p. 421. Ed. 

 Varior. 



" Et fummis ingeftum montibus iEpy." 



JEQJLTABONA, a town of Lufitania, to the fouth of 

 the Tagus, near its mouth, and in view of Ohflipo or 

 LiRion. 



jEQ_UANA jiiga, mountains of Picenum, in Naples, 

 now called Mnntag7ui t/i Sorrento, denominated from the 

 town JEqua, which, being deftroved, was replaced by 

 Victis, now Vico di Sorrento, called alfo iEquana. Thus, 

 Silius Italicus, Punic. 1. v. p. 276. Ed. Drakenb. 



" Ac felicia Baccho 



^quana, et Zephyro Surrentum moUe fahibri." 

 JEQJJ AT A SuJ>er/icies, in Botany, denotes a furface 

 devoid of all inequality ; and differs from planus in not re- 

 quiring the part to be level, or in a redilinear direction, but 

 often occurs in round bodies, as in the pedicles of Jxiit. 



-^QUI, A'q^iicoli, or^QincuLi, \\\ Ancient Hijlory, 

 inhabitants of Italy, who were fituated between the Sabinos 

 and Latins, and v/hofe capital city was Bola. M. d' AnviUe 

 places them on the banks of the Anio, with the Samniles 

 to the north and the Marrucini to the eaft ; but others ap- 

 prehend that their territory extended farther fouth, fo as to 

 -comprehend Algidum. They are mentioned under the dif- 

 ferent ajjpellations above-ftated, by the hillorians and poets ; 

 aud are defcribed as a hardy and valiant people, who were 



JE R A. 



irmoh employed la agriculture, aiid alfo in militaiy exerclfes. 

 Thus Virgil, iEn. 1. ix. v. 60S. 



" Juventus 



Aut ralhis tenam domat, atit quatit oppida bello." 



And Virgil's dcfci'iption i'eems to be bon-owed by Siliua 

 Italiei'.s, when fpeaking of thefe people, Punic. 1. 8.371, p. 

 419, he fays — 



" Raftrifque domant /Fquicula mra." 



The etymology of their i;ame has been aferibed by 

 M. Gebelin to the word arjua, or awa, <u.<ater, cxprefling 

 their fituation near the fources of the Anio, Tolonius, &c. 

 which was more aquatic than any part of Latium. Others 

 have fuppofed, that the Equi, who were didinguiflied by 

 their love of jullice, fnrniflied the epithet erjuus, jiift. Livy 

 dilcriminates tl'.em from the Latins, when hereprefents them 

 (1. ii. c. 30. t. I. p. 369. Ed. Drakenb.) as invading their 

 territory. They had frequent wars with the Romans, as 

 I^ivy has informed us (1. 2 — 10.) but were at length fub- 

 dued by them. Their capital Bola was t?ken by Camillus 

 in the year of Rome 369, and their country was foon after 

 laid walle, in order to deprive them of the power to revolt. 

 They ttill, however, retained their enmity againft the Ro- 

 mans ; and, when occafioji offered, .joined the other ene- 

 mies of Rome. Al^out the year U. C. 449, they united 

 with the Samnites ; but they were no more that formidable 

 nation, which had often ftruck terror into the Roman 

 legions ; inaftion had enervated them ; and they were uni 

 able to maintain the field in their conteft with the difci- 

 plined armies of Rome. At this time their country was 

 overrun and laid wafte. The conquerors took poficirion of 

 forty-one towns in fifty days, moil of which they razed 

 or burnt, and thus they almoft exterminated the whole na- 

 tion of the iEqui. Anc. Un. Hift. vol. x. p. 304. The 

 cities Cliternum, Carfeoli or Carfula, Valeria, Sublaqueum, 

 Algidum, Vicovaro, Treba, Vitellia, Corbio, and Subiaco 

 belonged to the jEqui. , 



iEQJ_TIM/ELIUiM, in Roman Antiquit\\ a name given 

 to that part of the city of Rome on which flood the houfe 

 of Sp. Melius, who attemipted to ufurp the fupreme power 

 by bribing the people, and who, refufing to appear before 

 the diftator Cincinnatus, was put to death by Servilius 

 Ahala, mailer of the horfe. His houfe was dcmoliflied, and 

 the region of the city where it flood was called Area JEqxti- 

 mslii. Livv, t. i. p. 919. Ed. Drakenb. 



^QUINOCTIUM, in Ancient Geography, a town of 

 Upper Pannonia, which is placed by M. d'AuviUe on the 

 Danube, fouth-eail of Vindobona. 



^(^TUM, a Roman colony of Dalmatia in Illyria, 

 placed by M. d'Anville north-eail of Scardona. 



./EQT-TUS Tuticiis, a place of Italy in the Sacmium, 

 north-eafl of Beneventum : the terin Tuticus in Samnite 

 being fynonymous with magriis. A Roman way, called 

 ./tquotutican, paffed by this place towards Canulium. The 

 ruins of it may be feen near Buon-Alhcrgo. 



./ERA, in Chronology, a fixed point of time, from whence 

 to begin a computation of the years enfuing. 



The word is alio fometimes written in ancient authors, 

 era. Its origin is conteiled, though it is generally allowed 

 to have had its rife in Spain. Sepulveda fuppofes it formed 

 from A. ER. A. the notse or abbreviatures of the words, 

 annus erat Augn/li, occafioned by the Spaniards beginning 

 their computation from the time their country' came under 

 the dominion of Augufl;us, or that of their receiving the 

 Ronaan calendar. This opinion, however ingenious, is re- 

 jected by Scaliger, not only on account that in the ancient 

 abbreviatures A never flood for annus, unlefs when preceded 

 by V for I'ixit ; and that it fecms improbable they fliould 



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