ALB 



19. Ed.Xylandr. Strabo 



Plut. ill Romul. Oper. torn. i. p 

 Geog. torn. i. p. 350 — 3J3. 



Alda Maritima, a city of Dalmatin. 

 Alca Pompcia, a eity of Italy in Liguria, ncav the river 

 Ctba or Ctva, where the empiror PcrtiiiaK was born. It 

 was a colony either ellabliflitJ at full by Ptolemy, or re- 

 ilored, after having been firll fettled by Scipio. The inha- 

 bitants were called Alhenfes Pompcianl. It is now tailed 

 Alba, without any epithet. 



A\.v\ liegalis. See Stuhl-WeisstmburG. 

 Alba Terra, in /llchnny, one of the many names that 

 were anciently given to the philofopher's Rone. 



ALDACETE, or Albazete, in Geo'^niphy, a fmall 

 town of Spain, in the canton of I.a Sierra, in tlie eattern 

 part of New CafUle, fituate in a fertile vale not far from 

 the mountains that fcparate I.a Mancha from the country 

 called the Defeit. W.long. !=■ 46'. N. lat. 38^ 55'. 



ALBACHSEN, or Albasln, a town ot Germany, 

 in the circle of Wcllphalia, three miles north of Corvty. 



ALBACK, a town of Perha, in the province of Aider- 

 beitzan, 55 leagues fouth-well of Tauris. 



Alback, is fitnated on the weftern coaft of Africa, 

 in N. lat. about 27° 15'. and about 35 leagues fouth-fouth- 

 well from the river Orodus. It has a bay fo called, and a 

 cape denominated Chabi, 



ALBAN, (St.), m Biography, the firft Chriftian mar- 

 tvr in England, and ufually called the protomartyr of Bri- 

 tain, was born at Verulam, of Pagan parents, and flouriflied 

 in the third century. In his youth, he went to Rome, with 

 Amphibalus, a monk of Caerleon, and ferved fcven years 

 in the army of Dioclefian. On his return to England, he 

 was inftrutled by Amphibalus in the Chriftian faith, be- 

 came a convert, and lived in the profefllon of Chriftianity 

 till the year 303, when the Dioclefian perfecution com- 

 menced ; but being cited before the Roman governor, for 

 havir.^ afforded an afylum to his preceptor, vi'ho was a 

 Chrililan, and avowing his own converiion, lie was ordered 

 immediately to be beheaded. The traditionary tales of the 

 times report many miracles which happened on oceafion of 

 his death. Bede, and other ancient writers, relate, that in 

 his way to execution, a ftream was miraculoudy divided to 

 afford a paffage for him and a thoufand perfons who ac- 

 companied him ; that the executioner was converted by the 

 miracle ; that a fountain opened at the feet of St. Alban, 

 which afforded water in anfwer to his prayer for allaying 

 his thirft ; and that the eyes of the executioner dropped 

 out of his head at the inftant of his giving the fatal ftroke. 

 We learn from the fame authority, that many of the fpec- 

 tators were converted by thefe miracles. But the teftimony 

 of thofe who report them deferves little credit ; and they 

 feeni to be duly appreciated by Milton, who, in his Hiiloiy 

 of England, fpeaking of St. Alban, fays : " The ftory of 

 whofe martyrdom, foiled and worfe martyred with the fabling 

 zeal of fome idle fancies, more fond of miracles than appre- 

 henfive of truth, deferves no longer digreffion." \Vhen the 

 eaft end of the church of St. Alban's was repaired, in 

 1257, the labourers found fome leaden chells, containing 

 relics ; and on a plate of lead, the following infcription : — 

 " In hoc maufoleo, inventum eft venerabile corpus Sanfti 

 Albani, protomartyris Anglorum ;" i. e. " In this maufo- 

 leum is found the venerable body of St. Alban, the proto- 

 martyr of the Englilli." Part of the hymn formerly fung 

 on the fcllival of this faint, is as follows : 

 " Ave protomartyr Angloi-um, 

 Miles regis angelorum, 

 O Albane, floi martyrorunj." 



ALB 



" Hall, protomartyr, of the Engljfli, 

 Soldier of the King of Angels, 

 O Alban, flower yf the martyrs !" Biog. Brit, 

 See Amphiballus- 



Alsan, John de St. in Biogrnphy, fo cidled from tlie 

 place of his birth, and de St. Qiiiatrie, a chureli of that 

 name in Picardy, where he was made a dean (duyen), 

 taught philofophy and medicine at Oxford, towards the end 

 of the twelfth ccnniry. lu this (lation he acquired fo 

 much celebrity that he was invited to Paris by Philip Au- 

 gullus, and made his phyfician. After refiding fome years 

 at Paris, he went to Montpclier, to hear the profeffors of 

 that place, then famous for its I'ehool of phyfie. Being 

 dillinguilhed for his great learning and abilities, he was foon 

 invited to fill a piofeffor's chair. In 1223, he returned to 

 England, Mathcw Paris fays, to attend Robert Groffette, 

 bifhop of Lincoln. The time of his death is not known. 

 He was dodor and profeflbr of theology, as well as of 

 medicine, a jnnftion at that time by no means uncommon, 

 Alban, in Geography, a town of France, in the depart- 

 ment of Tarn, and dillricil of Alby, five leagues eaft-fouth- 

 caft of Alby. 



ALBANA, in jliiaent Geography, a fea-port town of 

 Albania, on the Cafpian fea ; now called Bachu or Baka, 

 whence this fea is called iiier de Bachu. N. lat. 40°. E. 

 long. 49°. 



ALBANELLA, in Geography, a town of Naples, in 

 the Principato Citra, 20 miles fouth-caft of Salerno. 

 ALBANENSES. See ALSiGENsiis. 

 ALBANESIUS, Guy Anthony, in 5/o^r^//'_y, taught 

 medicine in the univerfity of Padua, from 1632 to 165 7-, in 

 which year he was afTailinated by one of his pupils. He 

 pubUfhcd, " Aphorifmorum Hippocratis expofitio peripa- 

 tetica." Patavii, 1649. 4to. 



ALBANI, in Middle Age ivrlters, denote ftrangers or 

 foreigners ; correfponding to thofe whom we call aliens. 



Albani, in /liUiquity, a college of Salii, or priefts of 

 Mars, inilituted by Tarquin, and denominated from mount 

 Albanus, the place of their refidence. 



Albani, or Albano, Francis, or Francesco, in 

 Biography, an eminent painter, was born at Bologna, in 

 1578, and educated with Guido, who afTifted his early 

 lludies, firft at the fchool of Dennis Calvart, and afterwards 

 under the Caracci. He completed his ftudies at Rome, 

 working after the beft models, and became one of the moft 

 agreeable painters of the Roman fchool. At Rome, where 

 he refided 1 8 years, he was employed in fome great works, 

 and where he married his firft wife, who died in child-birth. 

 From hence he removed to his native town, and married a 

 beautiful woman, by whom he had 12 children, who ferved 

 him for models in the pradlice of his art. Albani converted 

 his children, who were very beautiful, and who were placed 

 in different attitudes, into Cupids, and the mother into a 

 Venus or grace ; but, graceful as were his models, by con- 

 ftantly painting after them, he preferved too great a fimili- 

 tude in his figures, and in the airs of his heads. His man- 

 ner, however, may be thus eafily diftinguiflied. In the 

 fummer months he retired to one of his country houfes, 

 which was adorned with fountains and groves, and here he 

 was fnrniftied with landfcape fcenery, in his favourite fub- 

 JeCi^s of loves and graces, which he treated with an elegance 

 of defign, harmony of colouring, and delicacy of finifh, 

 that are the charafteriftics of liis pencil. All his piftures, 

 indeed, have not the fame force of colour, but though 

 fome are weaker than others, they are all delicate and plcaf. 

 ing. His boys and female forms were lovely and graceful ; 



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