AGO 



AGO 



in liij 25th year. — The malady of whick lie died was very 

 cxlnovdiiiaiy ; the blood gulhtd out of all his pores." This 

 accident, of which there are ioine iiiilances, was owing 

 cither to execfllve fear, to violent padioii, or to a warm and 

 niclancholy conllitution. 



jVGONYCLITjli, or Agon YCLiTEs, compounded of 

 the privative a., ymv, knee, and x,\»»», to beml, in F.cclefiajlical 

 JH'tjlnry, a fed, in the feventh century, whofe dillinguilhing 

 piinciple it was never to kneel, but to pray Handing, ijec 

 Genuflexion. 



AGORiEUS, formed of ayofx, nmrlet, in Antiquity, an 

 appellation given to thofe deities who had ilatues tii the public 

 market-places, or forti. Mercury, whofe ilaluc was ereded 

 in almoll every public place, was diilinguidied by this ap- 

 pellation. 



AgoR/Itus was alfo the name of a fubordinate magiftratc, 

 in the cities of Afia, whofe bufmcfs it was to adniiniller 

 jullice to artlfans and the people. 



AGORAH, Maliigra, in Ancient Geograpb\', a city of 

 the Thracian Cherfonefus, which ftood on the gulph of 

 Melas. 



AGORAH, an ancient money of Egypt and Afia. 

 See Gerah. 



AGORANIS, in jincient Geography, a river of India, 

 mentioned by Arrian, Indie, cap. 4. which flowed into the 

 Ganges. 



AGORANOMUS, compounded of afofoc, marlet, and 

 i'jijioi, law, in Antiquity, a magithate of Athens, eilablilhed 

 for the maintenance of good order and policy in the maAets, 

 fettling the prices of provifions, excepting corn, and deciding 

 difputes relating to buying and felling, infpefting the weights, 

 meafures, and the like. 



The agoranomus, among the Greeks, was much the fame 

 with the curuJe -tdile among the Romans. 



Ariflotle diilinguillies two kinds of magiftrates, the ago- 

 ranomi, who had the fuperintendance of the markets ; and 

 the ajlynomi, who infpeftedthe buildings of the (a,-!a) c'tties. 

 The agoranomi, at Athens, were ten in number, live be- 

 longing to the citv, and as many to the Pirxus : though 

 others make them fifteen in all, of whom thev affign ten to 

 the citv. To thefe a certain toll or tribute was paid, by all 

 who brought any thing to fell in the market. 



AGORIT^'E, in Ancient Geography, a people of Afiatic 

 Sarmatia. 



AGORO, in Geography, a town of Italy, fituate on the 

 river Cordevol, on the frontiers of the Tyrolele ; 21 miles 

 weft north-weft from Belluno. 



AGOSTA, a town of Sicily on the eaft end of the idand, 

 to the fouth of Catania, with an excellent harbour. The 

 greateft part of it was deftroyed by an earthquake in 

 1693 ; but has been fince rebuilt. N. lat. 37° zc/. E. 

 long. 15° 15'. 



AGOSTA ijlaml, in the Gulph of Venice, is nearly 

 fouth from the weft end of Carzola and LetTina ifland;t, and 

 weft of Auguftina Ihoals and rocks. It affords a good road 

 for ftiipK, in N. lat. 42" 40'. E. long. 18" 52'. 



AGOSTINO, Paulo, da V'alerona, in Biography, an 

 eminent mulical compofer, was born in i 593, educated in the 

 Roman fchoolof mufic, under Bernardo Nanini, and fueceeded 

 Soriano, as mafter of the pontifical chapel at St. Peter's. 

 He is reprefented as one of the moll fcientilic and inventive 

 compofers of his time in every ipecies of muiic ; and his 

 produftions for four, fix, or eight choirs or choruffcs were 

 the admiration of all Rome. Padre Martini has preferved 

 an agnus dei, in eight parts, ot this compofer, which is a 

 very extraordinary performance. He died in 1629, at the 

 age of 36 years. Burney Hift. Mulic, vol. iii. Hawkins 

 Mufic, vol. iv. 



AGOSTUS, ocyi:,')^, in Anatomy, fignilics the part of the 

 arm from the fingers to the elbow ; alio the palm or hollow 

 of the hand. 



AGOUT, in Geography, a river of France, which rifes 

 in the Ccvennes, and runs into the Tarn, near Montauban. 



AGOUTI, in Zoology. See Act'Ti. 



ACJOWS, in Ceoi^raphy, the inhabitants of a province of 

 Ahyllinia, which is bmiiuled by the mountainsof Amid Amid 

 on the eaft ; by Dure and Ihubarma, and the country of the 

 Goiigas, on the well ; by Damot and Gafat on the fouth ; 

 and by Dingleber on the north. Of the Agows there arc 

 two nations ; the one near the fountains of the Nile, called 

 the Agows of Damot, from their vicinity to that province ; 

 the other near the head of the Tacaz/.c, in the piovince of 

 I.afta, called the Teheratz Agows, from Tcheia, a prin- 

 cipal town, tribe and diftri^t, near Lafta and Begemder. 

 The counti'y of Agows lies in a very elevated fituation, and 

 fonns a kind of amphitheatre of lofty mountains ; and the 

 climate of courfe is temperate and wholefomc. In the (hade, 

 or in a houfe, the air is cool, as there is a conftant breeze 

 which mitigates the fcorching heat of the fun, even at noon- 

 day, though the latitude is not much greater than 10". But 

 notwithftandlng the moderate temperature of the climate, the 

 Agows do not live to any great age, which is probably 

 owing to the opprefiion they iufter. Their country abounds 

 witli all the necelfarics of hfe ; and yet their taxes, tribute» 

 and ierviees are fo numerous, and their dependent condition 

 fo diftreHing, that tliey are only the manufafturers of the 

 commodities they fell, in order to fatisfy the exorbitant de- 

 mands of their opprelfors ; and arc cuullrained to live in a 

 ftate of penuiy and milei-y, that is fcarcely conceivable. Mr. 

 Bruce informs us, that he faw a number of women, wrinkled 

 and lun-bunit fo as hardly to appear human, wandering about 

 under a burning lun, each of whom had one and fometimes 

 two children upon their back, and gathering the feeds of 

 bent grafs to make a kind of bread. The Agows, in whofe 

 country the Nile rifes, are one of the moft coniiderahle 

 nations, with relpect both to power and wealth, in Abylfinia. 

 When their whole force is raifed, tluy can bring into the 

 field 4000 horfe, and a great number of foot ; but their power 

 has been much reduced by the incurfions of the Gallas. Their 

 riches, however, are ftill greater than their power ; for 

 though their province is hardly 60 miles long, and 30 miles 

 broad, yet Goiidar and the whole neighbouring countr)' de- 

 pend for the neceffarics of life, cattle, honey, butter, wheat, 

 hides, wax, and a number of fuch articles, upon the Agows, 

 who frequent the capital to the amount of a 1 000 and 1500 

 at a time, in order to difpofe of thefe commodities. The 

 Abyffinian princes have therefore compounded with them for 

 an increafe of tribute, in lieu of militaiy fcnice ; but when 

 they have deviated from this prudent practice, the Agows 

 have been great fuff^irers. The butter, which they carry to 

 a great diftance in this hot climate, is prevented from putre- 

 faftion by a rout called moc-moco, lefembhng a carrot ; 

 which they bruife and mix with it, and thus they preferve 

 it frcfh for a confiderable time. This root anfwers the pur- 

 pole more certainly than fait, which could not be con- 

 veniently appropriated to this ufe, as it ferves for money, 

 and is ufed inftead of filver coin as change for gold. Brides 

 paint their feet, the palms of their hands, and their nails^ 

 with this drug. Mr. Bruce brought a confiderable quantity 

 of the leed, refembling that of coriander, into Europe - 

 The Agows difpofe of their coinmoditier., not only at the 

 market of Gondar, but to the neighbouring black Savages, 

 the woolly-headed Shangalla, and receive in exchange ele- 

 phants' teeth, horns of tlie rhinoceros, gold and line cotton. 

 This trade, which might be materially beneikial, is vciy 

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