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continued to fill by an uncommon felicity, Mailer fays, for 

 50 yean, aad acquired :i greater degree of rtpulation, a3 

 teacher, or dcmonlhntor in anatomy, to which he cxclu- 

 fivcly dedicated himfelf. than had been enjoyed by any of 

 his predecellors. lie died, Sept. Qlh, 1770, aged 73 years.^ 

 His fnll work, entitled, " HiiUnia nuifeulorum homuiis, 

 4to. appeared in 1734. In compofing this, he took great 

 pains to ineafure and'defcribe all the infertions of tlie_niut- 

 cles in the bones, and to mark them in with aqua fortis, 

 which he afterwards caufed to be drawn by an excellent 

 artill. In 1737, '"= K»*'<^ f^'"™ coloured plates of the arte- 

 ries and veins of the inteftines, and fomc elegant figures of 

 the bones of the foetus. An analomienl explanation of the 

 plates of Euftachius, with a new edition of liie plutes them- 

 fclves, was pnbliflied by him in 17+3, and repnWillwd wjth 

 improvements in 1761.' His own large tables oi the ikele- 

 ton and mufeles appeared in 1747; and about tlie fame 

 time, feven tables of the gravid uterus. His great tables of 

 the bones was edited in 1753; and again, in an improved 

 ftate, in I -Ol. Eight volumes, 410, of " Anatomical 

 Annotations," replete with curious matter, but too much 

 occupied with controverfy, appeared fuccefGvcly from 1 754 

 to 1768. 



Betides his original works, which are numerous, and 

 highly illufti-ative of the fcience, he publifiied in 1725, an 

 edition of the works of Vefalius, with an account of his 

 life ; in the fame year, " Index fuppelkailis Ravinn;ie ;" and 

 in the year 1737,' " Clnlielmi Har.cii Opera, et Hierouimi 

 Fabricii ab Aquapendente." Sec Haller's Bibliotheca Ana- 

 tomica, vol. ii. 



Ai.BiNUS, Christian Bi^rnard, though eclipfed by 

 tfle fnperior famj; of his brother, was fo much ellecmed fur 

 his ll<ill and diligence, as to be raifed to the chair of profef- 

 for of anatomy, at Utrecht. He died April 5, 1 7 J2, aged 

 56 years. He publillied, in [722, " Specimen Anatomiciim, 

 exhibens novam tenninnihominis iiiteftinorum defcrlptionem," 

 410. ; and the next year, " l)c auatome crrores detegente in 

 Medicina," alfo in 410. 



Two other authors of the fame name are noticed by biblio- 

 graphers ; James, a native of Hamburgh, who publlflied in 

 1720, a " DiflerlLition on the Scui-vy ;" and Eleazer, who 

 publillied natural hillories of Birds and of Infeifts. 



Albinus, Peter, or Weiss, a celebrated hiftorian and 



food poet of the i6th century, was born at Siiecberg in 

 lifnia, and became profelTor of poet!7 and mathematics in 

 the academy of Wittemberg, and then fecretary to the 

 eleflor at Drefden, where he publillied a fecond enlarged 

 edition of the " Chronicles of Mifnia," which he had 

 printed at Wittemberg in 1580. His other works, princi- 

 pally hillorical, were much efteemed. Biog. Didt. 



Albinus, Decimus Clooius, was born at Adrume- 

 tum in Africa, and called Albinus, on account ot his fair 

 complexion at his birth. In his yonth he was inilrnited in 

 the Greek and Latin languages, and he is faid to have 

 written a trealife on agrieiJturc, and a collet^ion of Miltllan 

 talcs, which was a licentious performance ; but his prevail- 

 ing tafte inclined to a milltai-y lite, and he was accudomed at 

 fchool to repeat frequently, and with jicculiar plcafure, the 

 following verfes from Virgil : 



" Arma amens capio, nee fat rationis in armis," 



JE.tiv.1T>, ii. V. 314, 

 " With frenzy fcii'd, I run to meet th' alarms ; 

 " Refolv'd on death, rtfolv'd to die in arms !" 



Drvden. 

 He -commenced his career under the emperor Antoninus, 

 %Ljfe eilceja lie actjuired j and after foinc previous giada- 



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tions of advancement, he comn.anded (lii arrry in riithynij, 

 when Avidius Craffus revolted againit Marci:s Aurelius. On 

 this occalion he diiLinguiihed himfelf by his fidelity to ]:\i 

 prince, and by his aClive feivice, for wiiieii he was rewardej^ 

 as it is faid, with the confullhip. Under Cor.modu.s he ac- 

 quired reputation in fcver:d battles on the Rhine and on the 

 Danube, and he was at length appointed commander of tlic 

 legions in Liitain. Wliilll he governed Britain, Commodu.;, 

 by the account of Capitolinus, which is net generally cre- 

 dited, indulged him with permifiion to aiiume the title of 

 Cxfar, with all the enfigns appropriate to that dignity. 

 However this be, Stverus, as we are informed by Dion 

 Caifins and Ilerodian, foothcd his ambition and engaged his 

 attachment, by giving liini this title. Albinus was deluded by 

 this honour, and by the expectation -vvhich the emperor led 

 him to entertain of (liaring with him in the Imperial govern- 

 ment. Severus alfo appcintcd him his colleague in the con- 

 fulfliip in the year 194, ordered (latues to be erefted to him, 

 and conferred upon him other dillln(?tioiis, which afforded ait 

 opportunity ultimately ot deftroyiiig him. Having defeated 

 and killed Niger, whom he had ainuled and deceived by the 

 fame kind of diirunulation which he was pradlifmg on the ere. 

 dulous Albinus, he determined to get rid of this rival, whofe 

 charadler, contrafled with his own, induced the fenate to 

 exchange one mailer for another. Some fay that, before 

 he had recourfe to open force of arms, lie tried the bafe and 

 perfidious means of airallination ; but Dion Caflius's account 

 is more probable, who f«ys, that Severus, after his viclory 

 over Niger, deprived Albinus of the title and prerogatives 

 of Csfar ; and that Albinus, on the other hand, pretended 

 even to the title of Auguftus. Accordingly Albinus was 

 proclaimed under this nppellatlon, engaged Gaul and Spain 

 in his intereft, and hallcned with a po.vtrful force to meet 

 Severus, who had proclaimed him a public enemy. The 

 two rivals, after- fomc previous fliirmiilies, decided the conteft 

 for the empire in the plain between Lyons and Trevoux. 

 Their t«'o armies were equal in number, each of them con- 

 fifting of 150,000 men, and they were led on by the two 

 emperors. The troops on each fid.? fought v.ith great 

 valour. The Britifh legions under Albinus were nut 

 inferior to thofe of Illyricum ; but Severus was thought 

 to be an abler general than his competitor. The 

 victory was long doubtful, but at length Severus pre- 

 vailed ; and Albinus was compelled to fly with the (nat- 

 tered relics of his army, firft to Lyons, and then to a houfe 

 near the Rhone, where he either dcllroycd himfelf with his 

 own fword, or made one of his Haves perform the fatal of- 

 lice for him. He was not quite dead, when a detachment 

 of the enemy arrived, cut off his head, and carried it to 

 Severus. His wife and children were at firft pardoned ; 

 but afterwards inhumanly maiTacred, and their bodies 

 thrown into the river. The whole family of Alhinns, all 

 his friends, and moll diilant relations, without dlilinflion oi' 

 age or fcx, were, by the orders of Severus, barbaroutly 

 flaughtered, and their cfhites confifcated. Moft of the 

 great men of Gaul and Spain, who had manifetled any at- 

 tachment to Albinus, underwent the fame fate. By means 

 of tliefe murders and confifcations, Severus amaffed an im- 

 luenfe treafure, enrielied his foldiers, and, at his death, left 

 incredible wealth to his children. This event liappened on 

 the 19th of Fcbruap,-, accordirg to Til'emont, A. D. 197, 

 the 4th year of Severus's reign. 



Of the charadler of Albinus, different accounts have 

 been given. Capitolinus, on whofe report we cannot much 

 depend, reprefents him as item, ref.ivcd, unfoci.il, rigid to 

 cruelty in his difciplinc, gkirtcnou.; and brutal. But thia 

 account is not very credible, when jt is confidercd that his 



foldiers 



