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In Venice, the council of ton, and the officevs of pomp, 

 reftrain tiiolc who luiglit he too powerful ; and thcfc two 

 orders in a common wialtli, where the genci") liavc but fmall 

 eflates in land, are as much as needs be in lieu of an agrarian. 



Some German republics iiave no more to fiipply the place 

 of this law ihan that eilates defcending are divided among 

 the childien. — And tlie fame law would ellabhih an agrarian 

 in England. 



Agrarian laws *iay be framed different ways, as by en- 

 tailing the lands upon certain families, without power of 

 alienation in any cafe, as in Ifracl and Laceda;mon : or, 

 except with leave of the magiftrate, as in Spain. But 

 tJiis, by uiaking iome families too fecure, as thofe in pof- 

 feffion, and others too defj: airing, as thofe not in poffeflion, 

 niay render the whole people Icfs induftrious. 



Therefore Harrington prefers a law regulating eftatcs, fo 

 that no man (hall have above two tlioufand pounds a year in 

 land ; and that the eltates of thofe who exceed tiiis propor- 

 tion (hall be divided in defcending to their children, till the 

 greateil (liare do not exceed 2000/. fsr annum. This is the 

 rule he lays down for his commonwealth of Oceana, by 

 which he means his fchemc for the government of England. 



By this law, Harrington intended that the property of 

 land in England fliould never fall into fewer hands than 

 5000 ; as he computes the rents of this country to be ten 

 millions. But if thefe rents, as is probable, amount now to 

 twenty millions, it would follow that, by our author's ru'.e, 

 the land could never be in lefs than 10,000 hands, which, 

 according to his fyfteni, mull effectually fecure the liberties 

 of the people. 



It would exceed the limits of our defign, to enter into 

 the full detail of all the reafonings of this ingenious author 

 on the lubjefl of agrarian laws ; we therefore refer to his 

 works: Toland's Edition, 4to. 1771. See alfo Govern- 

 ment, Property, &c. 



AGRARIUM. See Agistment. 



AGREDA, in Geography, a town of Spain, in Old Caf- 

 tile, at the foot of Mount Cayo, where the ancient Grac- 

 churls ftood ; three leagues louth-weft from Tarazona. 

 N. lat. 41° 53'. W. long. 2°. 



Agreda, is alfo the name of a town in the kingdom of 

 Popayan, in South America j forty miles north from 

 Quito. 



Agreda, Mary of, in Biography, a deluded fanatic, or 

 a bold impoftor, was born at Agreda, in Spain, in 1602, 

 took the veil in 1620, in a convent founded by her father 

 and mother, was elefted fuperior in 1627, and died in 1665. 

 In 1637, (he began to write the hfe of the Holy Virgin, in 

 confequence, as fhe pretended, of orders received from God 

 and the Virgin ; and when it was finiflied, (he annexed to it 

 an attellation, that its contents had been communicated to 

 her by divine revelation. This fanciful work was trandated. 

 by Father Crozet, and formally condemned by the doftors 

 of the Sorbonne. The tranflation, in three volumes, ^.to. 

 was publillied at Bruffels, in 17 17. Gen. Dift. 



AGREEMENT, Agreamentum, in /.ntw, a joining, 

 or putting together, of two or more minds in any thing 

 done or to be done. 



Of this there may be three forts. — The firft, an agree- 

 ment executed at the beginning, mentioned in the ftatute 

 of 25 Edw. III. cap. 3. which fays, " That the goods 

 " bought by foreftallers, being thereof attainted, (hall be 

 •' forfeited to the king ; if the buyer thereof have made 

 <' gree with the feller :" where the word gree other wife call- 

 ed agreement executed, figmlies payment for the things, or 

 fatisfadion. 



The fecond is an agritment after an alt, that is, where one 

 does an i\&, and another agrees and adents thereto after- 

 wards. — The third is an agrcemerl executory, which is, when 

 hotli parties at one time are agrea/ ihM fueh a thing (li;>ll be 

 done in time to come. It is called executory, becaufe the 

 thing is to be done afterwards. 



Agiecmenls are to be in writing, by (lat. 2y Car. II. 

 cap. 7,. u{ frtiiu/s i\i\d perjuries. 



AGRESSES, or UcRtssEs, m I/cni/Jry, the fame as 

 pellets. 



AGRESTA, m the ATater'm Meil'ua, an unripe grape ; 

 otherwife called omhax, and uva aerrla, by the Trench verjus. 



Agrellx are held cooling, deterdvc, and afti-ingeut; they 

 temper the acrimony of the bile, and chear the heart. Eaten 

 plentifully, they have been found to dellroy worms. The 

 term is fomctimes alfo applied to the juices of this fruit, 

 uiore properly called omphaclum. 



AGRESTi, Livio, da Furli, was a painter of liif- 

 tory, who died in 1580. He was a difclple of Pitrino del 

 Vaga, and is commended by Vafari, for the riehnefs of his 

 invention, the goodnefs of his colouring, and the €orretl- 

 nefs of his delign. Pilkiiigton. 



AGREVE, in Geography, a fmall town of France, in 

 Vivarais, at the foot of the mountains. 



AGRI, in /indent Geography, a people placed by Pto- 

 lemy, in ILuropean Sarmatia. 



AGRIA, a name given to holly ; and alfo to a malig- 

 nant pullule, of which there are two forts. The one is 

 fmall, with a roughnefs, rednefs, and (light corro(ion of the 

 fkin ; it is of a round figure, its centre is fmooth, and it 

 fpreads (lowly. It is cured by rubbing it with falling fpittlc. 

 The other fort ulcerates with a violent rednefs and 

 corrofion, fo as to make the hair fall off; it is of an unequal 

 form, and turns leprous. It is cured by poultices of pel- 

 LITORY of the uiuil. 



Agria, or Eger, in Geography. See Erlace. 



AGRIAMPELOS, formed of aypio,-, luilil; and af/rAo;, 

 a vine; the tuiU vine; and, according to Gerard, the 



black BRIONY. 



AGRI ANA, in /Indent Geography, a town of Cap. 

 padocia. 



AGRIANES, a fmall river of Thrace, which rofe north 

 of Heraclea, and difcharged itfclf into the Hebrus. This 

 was alfo the name of a people near mount Pagius, in Thrace. 



AGRIANIA. SeeAcRioNiA. 



AGRICOIjA, Cn;eus Julius, in Biography, an illuf- 

 trious Roman, was born on the 13th of June, in the fecond 

 confuKhip of Caius Ca;far, A. D. 38. Tacitus dates his 

 birth, in the third confuKhip of Caius ; but as he died in 

 his 56th year, by the fame hiftorian's account, he mull have 

 been born fooner. He was a defcendant of the colony of 

 Forojulii or Frejus, in Provence, the place of his nativity ; 

 and his grandfathers, on both fides, were of the cqueftrian 

 rank. His father, Julius Grxcinus, was of the order of 

 fenators, and diftinguiflitd by his wifdom and eloquence. 

 His charaftcr is mentioned with refpuft by .Seneca, (de 

 Benef. lib. ii.) and he is cited as a writer by Pliny, torn. i. 

 p. 710. Vid. Index Auftorum, torn. i. p.6 1. Ed. Hard. Ca» 

 ligula widied him to accufe Silanus ; and becaufe he refufed, 

 caufed him to be put to death. Agricola being thus de- 

 prived, at an early age, of the inftruttion v.'hich his father 

 was fo capable of giving him, the care of his education, 

 devolved upon Julia Procilla, his mother. By her 1;: was 

 removed, when a child, to Marfeillcs, which was thca 

 deemed the Athen<; cf Gaul ; where the politenefs' e\f 

 Greece was happily blended with the provincial. fimplicr.v 



