iE S P 



Aulus Gellius (NoA. Att. l.ii. c. 20. ) obferves, that JECop, 

 tiie fahulift, was dcfcrvcdly cUccmoJ wife, fince he did not, 

 aittr the raaiincr of the philofophcrs, rigidly and imperi- 

 oiiily diiftate fiich things as were proper lubjccts of couiifel 

 and p'-rfiiafioii, but by fonniiig amufirtp and a<jreeable apo- 

 Unjucs he charms and coinmaiids attention, and tliua infinu- 

 8tc3 into the mind fuhjccts that defcrvc conlideration. 

 Many of yi-Lfdp's fables have been afcribed to Phniides, 

 who li.-ed in tlie i+th century, and wrt>te a Vie of hi;n, 

 whicli abonnds with anachronifms and irtrediWe relations. 



Plato (in Pha-do. Opcr. torn. i. >p% 60. Ed. Sen-ani.) 

 Plutarch (dc Aud. Poet. Op. torn. ii. p. 16.) Suidas in 

 Iiix;^!;;, and otliers, inform us, that Socrates, a little before 

 his death, tranilatcd fomc of j'Efop's FabliiR into verfc ; and 

 Plato (1. ii. de R.-publica. torn. ii. p. $1^) recommends it 

 to nurfcs to inilruift children in tliem tetimes, in order to 

 finii tlieir manners, and to inipirc them at an early age 

 vith the love of wifdom. Among many editions of iBfop's 

 Tables, by Aldus, Rob. Stephens, Plaiitin, Sec. we may 

 mention Hudfon's, 0.\oii. 17 18, 8vo. which has been the 

 foundation of fevcral others. 



Fabricius (Bibl. Gntc. torn. i. p. 39 1.) has enumerated 

 nine other pc rfo!is under the name of ^fop. Of thefe, one 

 was a Greek iin\«^ian, who wrote a romantic hillory of 

 Alexander the Great ; but it is not known at what time he 

 «ved. 



Another of them «-as, 



^so? (Clodius,) a celebrated tragic after, who lived 

 about the 670th year of Rome, and amaffed great wealth 

 by the exercife of his proreffion. Plutarch (in Ciceron. Op. 

 torn. i. p. S63.) infonns us, that Cicero lludicd action under 

 the inilruftion of /Cfop, as well as that of Rofcius, and in 

 fpeaking of this perforaier, he fays, that h; entered into 

 Lis pait to fuch a degree as to be fometinies tranfported 

 beyond the power of felf-government. Accordingly, 

 whilit he was reprefcnting the delibei-ation of Atreus, who 

 wilhed to revenge himfelf on Thyefles, he fmote one of the 

 fervants tliat happened to crofs the ftage, with his truncheon, 

 and laid him dead at his feet. iEfop lived in the moll 

 luxurious and extravagant manner; and Pliny (N.H. 1. x» 

 C. 51. tom. i. p. 571. Ed. Hard.) fays, that at one en- 

 tertainment he had a di!h, which coll ico fefterces, or about 

 872 pounds fterling, and the difli confifted of finging and 

 fpeaking birds, fome of which coil fix fellcrces, or about 

 52/. each. At the dedication of Pompey's theatre, U. C. 

 i()^, Afop, when he was attempting to amufe the fpefta- 

 tors in his ufual manner, was obliged to ftop ihort in a fen- 

 tence on account of the failure of liis voice ; fo that he 

 was, probably, then in the deehne of life. The fon of this 

 TEfop was more luxurious than his father ; for he is faid, 

 or. a particular occafion, to have diffolved pearls for his guells 

 to fwallow. See Val. Max. l.ix. c. i. num. 2. Pliny N. H. 

 1. ix. c.lix. tom. i. p. 524. i:.d. Hard. Horace (Sat. iii. lib. ii. 

 ■"• ?39, &c.) fpeaks only of one pearl of great value, 

 which he diffolved in vinegar and drank : 



" Filius ^fopi detraftam ex aure Metellx, 

 Scihcct ut decies folidum abforberct, aceto 

 Diliiit infignem baccam : qui fanior, ac fi 

 lUud idem in rapidum fiumen, iaceretve cloacam >" 

 ^'.op, notv.'ithftauding his profulion, is faid to have died 

 wt.rth above a hundred and iixty thoufand pounds. Macrob. 

 Sjivirn. 1. ii. c. X. 



jliSOPUS, in Enlomology, a fpecies of Papilio, with 

 the wings brown or, the upper part, a white fpot, and under- 

 neath white and 'imfpotted ; the Papillo Thuys of Drury ; 

 foimd in India. ^ 



jLSPING, in Zoohsy, the colukr clurfia of LinoKue, 



JE S Y 



a fpecies of viper, found in Sweden, fefembling the Aspis». 

 but fnialler than that fpecies. Liiinxus qucllions whether 

 it mav not be the fame. Its bite is venomous, and in fome 

 cafes has proved fatal. Count de la Cepede, in trie fecor.d- 

 volume of his liilloire Naturcllc des Serpens, &c. recom- 

 mends the juice exprelTed from the leaves of the afii as a 

 fpeeiiic againft it. 



./ESTII, in ylnr'ient Geography, a people of Germany, 

 near the borders of Pruffia and Poland. T'liev are repre- 

 fented by Tacitu,; (De Mor.Gennan. apud Op. t. ii. p.680* 

 Ed. Gronov.) as refembling the Suevi in their culloins and- 

 manners, and the Britons in their hngimgc. 



jESTIMATIO CnpUis, in our aiK-ejit bw-books. Sec 

 Were, and Wkrelade. 



King Athelltan, in a great aiTembly held at Exeter, de- 

 clared what mulcts were to be paid p'-o ttflhim'.hne cap'iSls, 

 for oflence committed againft; feveral peifons according to 

 their degrees : the ejVtmat'wn of the king's head to be 300a 

 thrymfa; ; of an archbilhop, or fatj-apa, or prince, 1 5000 ; 

 of a bifhop, or a fenator, 8000 ; of a priell, or a thane, 

 2000, &c. 



jESTIVAL, or EsTivAL, of or belonging to fummer. 



Thus, we fay, the (rjTival s.olstice, &c. in oppolitioa- 

 to I'rumal. 



M.%T\y Ki. point is that whereby the fun's afcent above the- 

 equator is determined. 



&iTivh\.figns arethofe extended from the fummer folfti- 

 tial point, /'. e. the iun's greatell declination northward, 

 to the interfeftion of the echptic and equinotllal fouthward, 

 including Cancer, Lc-o, Virgo. 



^Sf n^ATION, in Botany, a term expreffing tho 

 ftate of the bud in fummer, and ufed by Linnxus to denotes 

 one of thofe circuttiftances which conftitute the h.\bit of 

 plants. 



iESTRIANS, in Ancient Geography, the inhabitants 

 of a diftrlct of Macedonia, the chief city of \\hich was for- 

 merly called ^^/frium. 



.SSTUARIUM, a town of Spain, between Noejra and 

 Salia. 



jESTUARY, .(EsTUARiUM, in Gcograpliy, an arm of 

 the SEA, running up a good way into the land. 



Such is" Brillol channel, many of the friths of Scotland, 

 &c. See Bay. 



^STUARV" is fomctimes alfo ufed in. Pharmacy, for a va- 

 pour bath, balneum •vaporofiim. 



^STUARV, in the Ancient Bath.', was applied to the oe- 

 ctdt paflages, or openings from the hypocanflam, or ftove, 

 penetrating into the chambers. Pitifc. Lex. Ant. 



To fuch a pafla"e in the houfe of Pompeia, Statius refert- 

 (Sylv.lib. i. i^. 5. v. 58.) 



•— — — " Ubi languidus ignis inerrat 

 jEdibus, et tenuem volvunt hypocaufta vaporem." 

 jESYMNETIC monarchy, among Ancient Writers on 

 Government, denotes a limited eleftive monarchy. Arifl. 

 Pol. c. 10. The word is formed from atropaiiu, regno, T 

 govern. — An xfymnetic ftate ftands oppofed to a barbaric, or 

 hereditary one. 



jESYMNIUM, in Antiquity, a monument erefted to the 

 memory of the deceafed heroes, by ^fymnus the Megarean. 

 Upon confulting the oracle at Delphos, how the country 

 might profper and enjoy the moil aufpicious government, 

 lie received for anfwer, that it would be moil likely to 

 profper if it followed the coimfel of the moil numerous r 

 and underilanding the oracle to refer to the dead, he built 

 this monument and encompaiTed it with a council-houfe ; 

 and thus the Megareans hoped to obtain wife and falutary 

 eounfd. See Panfjaiix Attic, i. i. p. 104. Kuhnii. 



