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AGEEG, a fmall ifland on the coal\ of the Red Sea. 

 N. lat. iS^ 5'. E. loupf. 38" 30'. which gives name to a 

 nation inliabitinj,( the adjoining dillrid of the country. 



AGELASTA.in /Inliquily, formed ofa/>r;r.and 7i>ji^a<i 

 to laiigl), and <\i:noi\ag forroivj'u!, a famous tlone in Attica, 

 near the well called Callichoras, upon which Ceres relied, 

 vhcn flie was fatigued in t!ie fcarch for her daughter. 

 Here, accordinp; to Paufanias, (Attic, p. 93) they commen- 

 ced the Elculniian fealls, 



AGELNOTH, or yEcELNOTH, /Ichehotus, in Bio- 

 graphy, fuccecdcd Eivingiis, in the fee of Canterhury, in 

 the reign of Canute the Great, A. D. ro2o; he was the 

 fon of carl Agilmer, and obtained the appellation of t^ood, for 

 his ads of piety and henevolenee. liy his interell and in- 

 fluence with Canute, he rellrained fome of his e>cce(les, and 

 induced liim to beiiow large fums of money for the iupport 

 of the forcii^n churches. In his way to Rome, for re- 

 ceiving his p;ll from pope Benedicl VIII. he pnrchafed 

 at Pana, with a large fnni, a relic, which was the arm 

 of St. Auguilin, and, tranfmitted it to England as a prefent 

 t9 I-eofiic, earl of Coventi-y. By other more important 

 fervices he is faid to have given luflre to the Archiepilcopal 

 fee. Upon CaTiute's death, he refuUd to crown his Ion 

 Harold ; alledging a promife which he made to the late 

 king, that he would place the crown only upon one of the 

 iliue of queen Emma. Neither threats nor promiles could 

 prevail with him to violate his engagement ; and he laid the 

 crown upon the altar, with an imprecation agalnll thole 

 biihops who fliould dare to perform the ceremony. He died 

 in the year 103*^. His writings were "a Panegyric on the 

 )ile(rcd Virgin Mary," — "a Letter to earlLeofric, concerning 

 ■St. Augullin," — and " Letters to fevcral perfons." Biog. 

 Brit. 



AGEM, in Botany, is a name given to the Perfian 



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AGEMA, in the /Irir'nnI Alililarv jirl, a kind of foldieiy, 

 chiefly in the Macedonian armies. 



The word is Greek, and literally denotes vehemence ; to 

 esprefs the ftrength and cagernefs of this corps ; or it may 

 be derived from a-y^, to lead ; becaufe it confifted of ele- 

 phants, horfe and foot, which preceded the king, and 

 formed, as it were, the royal guard. 



Some will rather have agema to hawe denoted a certain 

 number of picked men, aniwering to a legion among the 

 Romans, which is authorifed hv a paflage in Livy, (1. xlii, 

 C. yi. c. 5!*. torn. V. p. 673. 6S2. Ed. Drakenb. Not.); 

 Arrian (De Exped. Alex. 1. vii. p. 287. Ed. Gronov. ) on 

 the contrarj', fpeaks of the agema as a wing of horfe ; but 

 the term is alfo applied to foot. This body of troops is 

 alio mentioned by Q^ Curtius, (1. iv. c. 13. tom. i. p. 271. 

 Ed. IV.ikenb.) and by Polybius, (1. v. p. 372. 408. Ed. 

 Cafaub.) vid. Suidas in voc. 



AGEMOGLANS, or Azamoclass, children of tri- 

 bute, railed ever)- third year by the Grand Seignior, among 

 the Chriltians whom he tolerates in his dominions. 



The word, in its original, fignifics a barbarian's child ; 

 that is, a child not a Turk. — It is compounded of two 

 Arabic words, I. DjfJ, a^^cm, which among the Turks 

 fignifies as much as barbarous among the Greeks ; the for- 

 mer people dividing the world into Arabs or Turks, and 

 agem ; as the latter divided it into Grecians and barbarians. 



The commiffioners appomted for this le%y take them by 

 force even out of the houfes of ChrilHans ; always claiming 

 one in three, and pitching upon fuch as feem the handforacft, 

 and promife to be the moll fer^ieeable. 



Thcfe are iraraediately conveyed to Gallipoli, or Conftan- 



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tinoplo ; where they are fn-ft circumcifed, then iuftrucled m 

 the Mahometan faith, taught the Turkifn' language, and 

 the cNercifes of war, till iuch time as they become of age 

 to bear anus : and out of thefe the order of Janizarii;s is 

 formed. 



Such as are not judged proper for the army, they employ 

 in the lowell and moll fcrvile offices of the fcraglio ; as in 

 the kitchen, ftables, &c. 



The agemoglans only differ from the ichoglans, as the 

 foniier are bred up for the lower, and the latter referred 

 for the higher offices of the empire. Their pay does not 

 amount to more than feven afpers and a half, or threepence 

 halfpenny, a day. 



AGEN, in Geography, an ancient large and well inhabited, 

 but ill built, city of Trance, the capital of Agenois, in 

 the late province of Guienne, and new department of the 

 Lot and Garonne, and the epifcopal fee of the department 

 of Aveiron. Its fituation in a fertile country on the banks 

 of the Garonne, is favourable fur trade ; but the indolence 

 of its inhabitants deprives them in a degree of the ad- 

 vantage of it. Prunes are a conlidcr.ible article of com- 

 merce ; and the hemp which grows in the neighbourhood 

 is manufactured into table linen, and fent from hence to 

 Cadiz, and afterwards exported to the Spanilh idands. 

 Here are alio manufaftories of caniblets, Icrges, and fail- 

 cloth. The gates and old walls, which remain, mark the 

 antiquity and extent of this town. The palace, which was 

 formerly the cafiile of Montravel, and where the fejjionp is 

 held, is ikuated without the walls of the old city ; and there 

 is another caflle, called La Sagne, of which the ruins only 

 exift. Agen is 108 miles fouth-eall of Bourdeaux. N. lat. 

 44° 12' 7^ E. long. 0° 35' 49". 



AGENABAT, a town of Tranfylvania, ten miles north- 

 eall of Hermanftadt, N. lat. 46° 32'. E. long. 24° 50'. 



AGENDA, in a general fenfe, denotes things to be 

 done or performed, in confequence of a man's duty. 



The word is Latin, foimed from ogirc, to do ; and di- 

 vines Ipeak of the agenda of a Chrlilian, meaning the things 

 to be pi'aclifed, by way of contradiftinclion from crcdencJn, 

 or the things to be believed ; the tonner imports the arti- 

 cles of obedience, the latter of faith. 



Agenda is alfo ufed for a book containing notes or me- 

 morandums of things ncccfTaiy to be done; in which fenfe 

 agenda amounts to much the lame with table-book, &c. 

 An anonymous French author has publiilied the agenda of 

 a man of the world, containing maxims, or rules, proper 

 for the conduCl of life. Tablcttes de I'Komme de Col- 

 mop. 1715. 



Agenda is more particularly ufed, among Ecrhfioflical 

 Writers, for the fervice or office of the church. We meet 

 with ngerida nwtiitina cf •vefperlir.a, moriimg and cvtii'mg 

 prayers ; agenda die'i, the office of the day, whether feail or 

 fall day ; agenda moriuonim, called alfo finiply agenda, the 

 fervice for the dead, 



AcrxDA is alfo applied to certain church-books, com- 

 piled by public authority, prefcribing the order and manner 

 to be obfer\-ed by the minillers and people, in the principal 

 ceremonies and devotions of the church. 



In which fenfe agenda amo\ints to the fame with what is 

 otherwife called ritual, liturgy, acalouthia, vi'ffal, formulary, 

 direitory, ifjc. 



AGENDICUM, in /Indent Geography, the chief city of 

 the Senones beyond the Alps, thus written by Ca-far, but 

 called Agediaim by Ptolemy, and by others /igradicum. 

 See StNS. 



AGENFRIPA, in Ancient Cuflams, denotes own lord, 



or one who has the abfolute property and dominion of a thiiig. 



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