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tujfat't, albat'i, pfiifmi, and vtndi, wliiili gave rife and deno- 

 mination to fo many fadions. Dil'idcs whieli, tluy had 

 other marks or enligns of their family, correfponding to 

 nhat we call antis. 



The conquerors, befidcs the ordinary rewards, bravia, as 

 crowns, &c. had llatiies ereded to them in the circus ; on 

 the bafes whereof, their titles, atchie\ ements, &c. were in- 

 fcribed ; feveral of wliith are ftill found among ancient m- 

 fcriptions, drawn in the following formulx : Vidt frji'set 

 Jeplejuge, h'tgas, tngoi, uno iiii/io, aliiiio priiicipio, duolus iu- 

 Irojiig'u, &c. 



It has been difpiitcd, whether the agilntors were on the 

 footing of mimes and pantomimes, and by law held infamous ? 

 BrilTon. Select, ex Jiir. Civ. Ant. lib. i. cap to. 



Ac iTATOR s, miliar'uw, ag'rlatores milinrii, were tliofe who 

 drove in tiie forum at Conllantinople, a place adorned with 

 Uatnes, Sec. after the manner of the circus at Rome, having 

 a iiiiHum, or mi/itirium, in tiie middle. 



Agitators, in Englijh NiJIary, were certain officers, 

 created by the army in 1V147, to take care of its intcrefts. 

 Each troop or company furnilhed two private men or inferior 

 officers, under this title, who reprefented the army ; whilft 

 a council of the principal ofBcers was appointed after the 

 model of the houfe of peers ; and thus a mihtary parliament 

 vas formed in oppofition to the parliament at Weilminfter. 

 Cromwell leagued himfelf with the agitators, whom he found 

 to have greater intereft than the council of war ; and who 

 undertook to make propofals relating to the reformation of 

 religion, and the Hate. 



The agitators as well as the council of officers were alto- 

 gether moved by his direftion, and conveyed his wilh to the 

 whole army. By means of thefe initruments he overawed 

 the parliament, and reduced it to fubmiffion ; and having 

 gained poflcffion of the king's perfon, to whom for fome time 

 he and his officers paid attention and refpeft, he contrived 

 to terrify him by the menaces of the agitators, and thus in- 

 duced him to make his efcape from Hampton Court, and to 

 take refuge at Carifbroke Caftle, in the Ifle of Wight. 

 Cromwell, being entirely mailer of the parliament, and free 

 from all anxiety with regard to the cuftody of the king's 

 perfon, applied himfelf ferioufly to quell thofe diforders in 

 the army, which he himfelf had artfully raifed and fuccefs- 

 fuUy employed, againft both king and parliament. With 

 this view, befides other meafures which he adopted, he iffued 

 orders for difcontinuing the meetings of the agitators ; and 

 he pretended to pay entire obedience to the parliament, whom, 

 being now fully reduced to fubjedlion, he propofed to make, 

 for the future, the inftruments of his authority. But the 

 Levellers, for fo that party was called, becaufe they wifhed 

 to abolifh royalty and nobility, to level all ranks of men, to 

 introduce an univerfal equality both of property and of 

 power, and who maintained that the meancil fentinel, if en- 

 lightened by the fpirit, was entitled to equal regard with the 

 greateft commander, having tafted the fweets of dominion, 

 would not eaiily be deprived of it. They fecretly continued 

 their meetings ; they afferted, that their oflicers, as much as 

 any part of the church or ftate, needed reformation ; and 

 feveral regiments joined in feditious remonftrances and pe- 

 titions. Separate rendezvoufes were concerted ; and every 

 thing tended to anarchy and confufion. But this diftemper 

 was foon cured by the rough, but dextrous hand of Crom- 

 well. He chofe the opportunity of a review, that he might 

 difplay the greater boldnefs, and fpread the terror the more 

 widely. He feized the ring-leaders before their companions ; 

 held in the field a council of war ; (hot one mutineer inftantly, 

 and ftruck fuch dread into the reft, that they prefently 

 threw down the fymbols of fedition, which they had dif- 

 played, and thenceforth returned to their difcipline and obe- 

 dience. Hume's Hill. voL vii. p. 109. 8vo. 



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AGLA, formed of the initial letters of the four following 



Hebrew words ♦J-TK tD^I^'? "^3-1 nDiS g- '^- "'■'»" art 

 Jirong in llje ettnial G'.il, was a name given by the fupcr- 

 ftitions Jews in the Middle Age, to the Deity ; and which 

 they difpofed of in the three angles, and in the middle of two 

 triangles laid one over the other. This figure they called 

 the Ihield of David, and pretended, that it was a fecurity 

 againll wounds, would extinguifl\ fire, and was able to 

 perform other wonders. Fabr. Cod. Apocr. V. T. tom. ii. 

 p. looC. tom. iii. p. 143. 



AcLA, or Aguila, in Ge'jgrnfihy, 'a town of Africa, ill 

 the kingdom of Fez, near the river Guarga. 



Agi.a Minor, a diftrift of Spain, affigned by Pliny tOr 

 the Ballitani. 



AGLABITES, in Hijlory, one of the Arabian inde- 

 pendent dynailies, which fubfilleJ in Africa in the ninth 

 century, and which derived its name and power from Ibra- 

 him, foil of Aglab, the lieutenant of the famous Harun al 

 Radiid. 



AGLAIA, in Mythology, the name of the youngeft of 

 the three Graces, efpoufed to Vulean. 



Aglaia, in Natural Hijlory, a fpecies of PapiliO' 

 Nymphalis, with dentatcd yellow wings, fpotted with black f 

 the under part having filvery fpots. It is found on the violet 

 in Europe. The larva is foUtary, fpinofe and black, with 

 ferruginous fpots difpoled on the fides of a fquare j the 

 pupa is brown. 



AGLAOPHAME, one of the Sirens. 



AGLAOPHOTIS, in Botany, a name ufed, by fome, 



for PIONY. 



AGLASOUN, in Geography, a town of Afiatic Turkey } 

 eight miles fouth weft from Ifbarteh. 



AGLAURA, or Agraula, in Mythology, the daughter 

 of Cecrops, founder and king of Athens. She had two fillers^ 

 Herfa and Pandrofa. Miner\-a having concealed Erich- 

 thonius, after his birth, in a badcet, committed him to the 

 cuftody of thefe three princeftes, forbidding them to opea 

 the bailcet. Herfa and Pandrofa obferved the order ; but 

 Aglaura, unable to reftrain her curiofity, opened the bafl^et 

 and found the infant with feet like thofe of a ferpent. Mi- 

 nerva puniftied lier by means of Envy, who made her Jealous 

 of Herfa, the favourite of Mercury. When ftie attempted 

 to prevent the accefs of this deity to his miftrefs, he ftruck. 

 her with his caduceus, and converted her into a rock. Never- 

 thelefs (he was honoured after her death in a temple at Sala- 

 mina, with a yearly facrifice of a human victim, which De- 

 phalus, king of Cyprus, in the time of Seleucus, changed 

 into an ox. See Agraulia. 



AGLECTS, Agleets, orAcLEEDs, among Florins, 

 the APICES, or pendants hanging on the tip-ends of chives, 

 or STAMINA ; as in tufips, rofes, fpike-grafs, &:c. 



AGLIA, in Geography, a fmaU town of Italy, in the 

 marquifate of Jvrea, and principality of Piedmont, to which 

 belongs a diilridl and earldom ; feven miles fouth from 

 Jvrea. 



Aglia, among Ancient Surgeons, a whitilh cicatrix, or 

 fpot in the eye, formed by a congeftion of humours. 



AGLIBOLUS. The Palmyrenes worlhipped the fun 

 under this title. 



AGLIONBY, John, m Biography, an Englilh divine, 

 was born in Cumberland, and admitted a ftudent at Oxford 

 in 1583. He was diftinguiflied as a polite and learned 

 preacher. After his return from his travels, he was made 

 chaplain in ordinary to queen Elizabeth, to which office 

 he was alfo appointed by king James I. ; and he is faid to 

 have had a concern in the tranflation of the New Teftament, 

 ordered by that king in 1604. He died at Iflip near Oxford, 

 where he was reftor, Feb. 6th, 1609-10, at the age of 43, 

 He was eminently accomphlhed in various kinds of learning. 



