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5ome authors ^fo fpeak of tl kind of metalline /ignus 

 Dfi'u hung to cl>;ii)lets, oi- patcr-noRcrs. 



The ylgiiiis D<:i is forbidJcii to be brought into England, 

 Und(;r tlic pain of inclining a prtmunire. 13 Eliz. cap. 2. 



Agnus Dei is alfo a name popularly given to that part of 

 the mafs, wherein the pricll, linking his bread three times, 

 vehearfcs, witli a loud voice, a prayer bc-jinning with the 

 words ^'/fHw /)<■;. It is faid to have been lidl brought uito 

 the milTal by pope Sergius I. 



Agnus Sryliiats, in Natural Hiftcry, a kind of ■snnphytt, 

 pr plant-animal, faid to grow in Tartar)-, rcfcnibling the 

 figure and llruclure of a lamb. 

 " The Scythian lamb is alfo called agnus •vt-getabilis, agnus 

 Tarlartiu-t, and by the people of the country, borometz, 

 ioramflz, or ioramlz. 



The iifnal account given of this extraordhiary produftion 

 a«, that the Tartars fow in their ground a feed refcmbling 

 that o*' melon, but Icfs oblong ; from whence arifes a plant 

 ealled by them boromelz,, i. e. lamb, grownig almoft to the 

 height of three feet, and having feet, hoofs>, ears, and the 

 whole head, excepting horns, refembling that animal. In 

 lieu of horns, it has a peculiar fort of hair, not unhke 

 horns ; it is covered with a fine thin flcin, which being 

 pulled off, is worn by the natives as a cover for the head. 

 The pulp witliin refembles that of the gammarus ; and 

 when wounded, a liquor ouzes out like blood. It lives as 

 long as there is grafs and herbage around it :■ but when thefe 

 are confumed, it wafles and dies. They add, that wolves 

 xre fond of it, while no other beafts will feed on it. 



Deufingius feems to have been the firft who fufpefled 

 this account to be fabulous : and Ksempfer, when in the 

 country, made diligent inquiry concerning it, but could 

 hear of nothing like it. 



As to the plants (hewn under this denomination, in fonie 

 repofitories of rarities, they appear to be originally the roots, 

 or llalks, of certain vegetables, probably of the capillary 

 or fern kind, and fuppofed by fome to be the polypoditim 

 »ureum, covered with a woolly mofs, which naturally beat- 

 ing refemblance to the figure of a lamb, have been helped 

 out and brought near to it by art, and the addition of new 

 parts. 



Sir Hans Sloanc, and Breynius, give us the figures and 

 defcriptions of fuch borometzes in their coUeftions. It is 

 from thefe plants that the Indian mofs is gathered, famous 

 for its ufc in {launching blood. Breynius and Libavius have 

 written exprefsly on the ylgnus Scythkus. Phil. Tranf. 

 N° 287. and N" 390. Abr. vol. ii. p. 646. vol. vi, pt. 2. 

 p. 317. See Botany, pi. vi. fig. 7. 



AGOAS Bellas, in Geography, a town of Portugal, in 

 the province of Eflramadura ; three and a half leagues north- 

 eaft from Thomar. 



Ago AS lis Moura, a town in the fame kingdom and 

 province ; four and a half leagues north-ea(l of Setuval. 



Agoas Ovenlas, a town in the fame province of Portugal, 

 feven leagues eaft-north-cafl: from Abrantes. 



AGOBARD, in Bvigraphy, archbiftop of Lyons, was 

 one of the mofl learned and celebrated prelates'of the 9th 

 centur)'. He was born in the year 779, removed from 

 Spain into France in 782, ordained pried in 804, and, 

 having been nine years coadjutor to Leidrade, archbifhop of 

 Lyons, was appointed his fucceffor in 816, upon his re- 

 tiring to a monadeiy, with the confent of the emperor and 

 the whcjle fynod of the French bifiiops. From this fee he 

 was expelled by Lewis the Debonnaire, becaufe he efpoufed 

 the party of his fon Lotharius, and was one of the chief 

 indruments in dcpofing him in the afiembly of bilhops at 

 Compiegne in 833. But the fons of Lewis, having made 

 their peace with him, reftored Agobard to the favour of 



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the emperor, and alfo to his fee, in the pofTenion of whicK 

 he continued till his death in 840. As a fcholar and a di- 

 vine, Agobard was much more diftingnillied than as a 

 politician. He zealoufiy oppofed the worfiiip and ufc of 

 images in a treatife " de Piduris et Imaginibus ;" he wrote 

 another treatife to prove lluit Chrid was not merely the 

 adopted, but the true and nat\iral fon of God ; and a tratt 

 on the Priedhood, recommend-ng attention to the character 

 of thofe who were appointed to this office, afTerting their 

 privileges and inculcating their duty. His work concerning 

 hail and thunder, was a direft attack upon fuperdition, 

 and defigned to expofe a prevailing error, that it was in the 

 power of forcerers to raife tempeds. During an epidemic 

 difeafc, which occafioned large donations to the church, in 

 hopes of preventing the infection, he wrote a trail to expofe 

 the avarice of the clergy, who, in a feafon of public ca- 

 lamity, took advantage of the fears and creduhty of the 

 people. He alfo oppofed the pradlice of duelling, and 

 wrote to the emperor foliciling the repeal of the law of 

 Gondebaud, which allowed the decifion of difputes by fingle 

 combat, or by the ordeal of fire and water. He alfo wrote 

 feveral trafts againd the Jews. His manner of writing 

 was fimple and eafy ; his reafoning was commonly jud ; and 

 he manifeds an extenfive acquaintance with the dodlrines of 

 the fathers and the difcipline of the church ; fo that con- 

 fidering the period in which he hved, he deferves to be 

 regarded as a man of talents and learning. His works, after 

 having been long buried in obfcurity, were publidied by 

 Maflb in 1605; and a more corredl edition of them by 

 Baluzze at Paris in 1666, in two volumes, 8vo. This edition 

 has been reprinted in torn. xiv. of the Bibliotheca Patrum. 

 Gen. Dicl. Dupin. Cave's Hid. Liter, tom. ii. p. 1 1- 

 Ed. Oxon. 



AGOBEL, in Geography, a town of Africa, in the 

 kingdom of Tremecen ; four leagues from Oran. There is 

 another town of the fame name in the province of Hea, and 

 empire of Morocco. 



AGOGA, arjyn, duBus, of ayx, duco, I draw, in 

 Natural H'ljlory, a ditch or drain for can-ying off the water 

 from a mine. 



Agog A, in Geography, a town of Africa on the Have coad. 



AGOGE, afajyn, in the Ancietit Mufic, a fpecies of mo- 

 dulation, wherein the founds or notes proceed by continu- 

 ous degrees of the fcale, both rifing and falling. As when 

 we fing re, mi, fa, fol, la : la, fol, fa, mi, re. 



Agoge anfwers to what the Latins call ituHtis, and the 

 Italians conduchnento, and d'l grado : it Hands contradidin- 

 guidied from place, petteia, &c. 



Agoge makes the fird part of the meloptt'ia, or art of 

 modulating. 



There are three fpecies and cafes of this modulation ; firft» 

 when the founds follow each other from grave to acute, 

 i. e. rifing as in finging, BCDE. This the Latins call 

 diiHus reSus, and the Italians condudmento rctlo. 



The fecond, when they go from acute to grave, i. e. falling, 

 as in the notes E D C B, called by the ancients duBus rever- 

 Uns, and by the modem Italians conduchnento ritoniante. 



The third, when they rife by flats and fall by (harps, as 

 m D, E, F, Jharp, G, or, nnce verfa, as in G, F, natural, 

 E Jlat, D. This the ancients call duSus circumcurrens, and 

 the Itahans conduchnento circoncorrente. Euclid. Introd'. 

 Harm. p. 22. Aridid. Qiiintil. de Melop. hb. i. Mem. 

 Acad. Infer, tom. vii. r*Ialcolm on Muf. chap. xiv. 

 fee. 4. In the ancient Greek mufic, agoge is of llmilar im- 

 port with the Italian word mrmunento, motivo, and the 

 Englifli, movement ; of which, in compofitions of two parts, 

 there are three kinds ; viz. moto retto, moto conlrario, and 

 mote tbliquo, i. e. equal, contrary and oblique. 



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