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ant faith. Encouraged by the national change of religion, 

 which took place on the marriage of Henry VIII. with 

 Anna Bullen, lie removed to I^ondon in 1535 : and here he 

 was highly clleemedbyCranmcr, Latimer.andThomasCrom- 

 well. Wi'.en thefe favourites loft their interell at court, 

 Ales retired to Germany, and was appointed profeflbr of 

 divinity by the elector of Brandenburg, at Frankfort upon 

 the Oder, in l J-).0. Upon foine difguft he withdrew to 

 Leipfic, where he was ehofen profefTorof divinity, and where 



he died in March i 



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He was much eftcemed bv Mc- 



laiifihon, and is extolled by Cainerarins as a very great di- 

 vine, a fubtle dilputant, and a man of dillinguiflied wojth 

 and learning. He wrote Commentaries on the Goipel of St. 

 John, and the Epiftles to Timothv ; an Expofitiun of tlie 

 Pialms ; a Juftification againll Ofiander ; on the Trinity ; 

 and an Anfwer to the thirty-two Articles of the Louvain 

 X)ivines. Gen. Diifl. 



ALESA, Aloesa, orHALESA, \n /Indent Geo^^npl.'Vf a 

 very ancient city of Sicily, built, according to Diodorus Si- 

 culns (lib. xiv. c. 16. torn. i. p. 651.), by Archonider. of 

 Herbita, about the 2d year of tlie 9-fth Olympiad, or 40^ 

 years before Chrift. It llood, he fays, upon an eminence, 

 about eight ftadia from the fea ; near the place, as Fazellus 

 conjeftures, where the city of Caronia now ftands, on the 

 river Alxius, or Fiumi di Cafonia. The inhabitantr, were 

 called Alefini and Helefini, and, as Diodorus and Cicero in- 

 form us, were exempted by the Romans from taxes. Near 

 Alocfa was a fountain, which, as Solinus pretends, ufeu to 

 bubble up at the found of a flute, fo that it coold not be 

 kept within the b.ifon, 



ALESBURY, mGeography. See Avlesburv. 



ALESENI, in Ancient Geography, a people of Arabia, 

 ■whom Strabo places in Babylonia towards the Perllan gulf. 



ALESHAM, or Aylsham, in Gengraphy, a town of 

 England, in Norfolk, near the river Thyrn ; 12 miles north 

 from Norwich, and 121 north-north-ealt from I^ondon. 



ALE.SIA, or, as it is fometimes written. Alexia, in 

 Ancient Geography., a confiderable town of Celtic Gaul, be- 

 longing to the Mandubii, iituated, according to Csefar, 

 (Bell. Gall. lib. vii. c. 6S.) on a high hill, walhed on two 

 fides by two rivers, and of fuch antiquity, that Diodonis Si- 

 culus (lib. V. c. 24. torn. i. p. ^49.) afcribes the building of 

 it to Hercules in his war againil Geryon. It was fo llrongly 

 fortified, that when Ca:farbcfieged and took it, Velleius Pa- 

 terculus reprefents the undertaking as more the work of 

 a god than of a man. After Cxiar deltroyed this city, 

 it was rebuilt, and maintained a confuleraljle rank imder 

 the Roman emperors. Pliny (H. N. tom. ii. p. 669.) 

 fays, that the art of filvering the ornaments of horfes was 

 invented in this city. It is f\ippol"ed to be the prefent Alife. 

 The mountain on which it Hood is faid to be Mount Auxois, 

 which is 150 toifes high, and the foot of it is wallied by two 

 rivers, viz. the Oze and the Ozerain. 



ALESIAS, a village of Laconia, in the road from The- 

 rapnes to Taygetas, where, as Paufanias informs us (lib. iii. 

 Lacon. c. XX. p. 2fio. ), Myles, t:he fon of Lelex, firft 

 taught the art of grinding corn by a mill ; and where an he- 

 roic monument was erected to Latedoemon, the fon of Tay- 

 getas. 



ALESIE^M, a towji of Greece, in the interior of the 

 country, at fome dU-lance fouth-eall from Elis. 



ALESONE, in Geo^-jraphy, a town of European Tur- 

 key, :o miles north-well of Larifia. 



AEESONNE, a town of France, in Languedoc, in the 

 generahtv of Touloufe and diocefe of Lavaur. 



ALESSANDRIA. See Alexandria. 



ALESSANO, a finull town and biSiof 's fce of Naples, 



in Italy, in tlie diftriiSl of Otranto ; t2 miles foiith-foutli 

 wed of'Oti-into. N. lat. 40° 12'. E. long. 18° 14'. 



ALESSI, Gaifaz/.o, in Biography, a famous arclif- 

 teft, was born at Perugia, in 15CO, and anivcd at fuch emi- 

 nence, that he wa'i applied to from France, Spain, and Ger- 

 many for plans of jniblic buildings. His plan for the monaf. 

 tery and church of the Efcuiial was preferred to lliofe of the 

 ablell architeds in Europe. Genoa has acquired the deno- 

 mination o( f:ipcrh, partly from the buildings which he has 

 eredVed in it. He died in 1572. Nouv. Dift. Hill. 



ALESSIO, Am ssis, or Lissus, in C'ogmfihy, a tovrn 

 of European Turkey, in Albania, on the Adriatic gulf, near 

 the mouth of the Driii, and 16 leagues f(mth-weft of Alba- 

 nopolis. This is the fee of a bilbop, fuffragan of Durav.7.0 ; 

 and it is famous for having the tomb of Scandeiberg, king of 

 Albania, wlio died in 1467. N.lat. 41° 48'. E. long. 29'^ 29'. 



ALESUS, in Ancient Geography. See Alfsa. 



Alf.sus, Sanguinaria, a river of Italy, in Etruria. 



ALET, Lat. Alecta or Electa, in Geograph, a 

 city of France, in the department of the Aude, and dillriot 

 of Limoux, fituate at the foot of the Pyrenees, on the ri- 

 ver Aude. Before the Revolution it was the fee of a bifhop, 

 fuflragan of Narbonne, and the diocefe contained 80 pa- 

 ridies. It is 15 leagues fouth-wcil of Narbonne, and 17J 

 fouth of Paris. N. lat. 42" 59'. E. long. 2° C. 



ALETA, in Ancient Geography, a tow n of Dalmatia. 



ALETON, fignihes meal, as Erotian and Hefychius ex- 

 plain it. It fecms derived from a.\'ii, to grinJ, and to import 

 the meal of any fort of corn. The word is frequently ufed by- 

 Hippocrates. 



ALETRIS, formed from oAtTp'ua or aXm, to grinJ, in 

 Botany, a genus of the hexnndria monogynia clafs and order, of 

 the natural order o( li/ia or /i/iacea, the coronaritt of Linn, and 

 afphodeli of Juff. Its charadlers arc, that it has no calyx ; 

 that the corolla is one-pctalled, ovate-oblong, hexanguiar, 

 Ivmnel-fliaped, femifexiid, very much wrinkled, the divifion* 

 lanceolate, acuminate, fjjreading, ereft, and permanent ; the 

 {lamina have awl-(hnped filaments of the length of the co- 

 rolla, iiiftrted into the bale of the divilions, the anthers ob- 

 long and ereft ; the piflillum is an ovate germ, the llyle fu- 

 bulate, of the length of tlie ilamens, and (ligma trifid ; the 

 pericarpium is an ovate, three-cornered, acuminate, three- 

 celled capfule -, and the feeds are veiy many. ProfefTor Mar- 

 tyn enumerates eight, and Gmelin nine fpecies, -viz. \, A. /a- 

 rinofa, American A, ftemlels, leaves lanceolate, membra- 

 naceous, flowers alternate, which grows in North America, 

 and was cultivated here in i 76S, by Mr. Miller. The natives 

 frequently ufe it as a beehic and ineifive in coughs and in the 

 pleurify. 2. A. capenju, waved-leaved A, veltheimia of 

 Gleditteh, tleinlefs, leaves lanceolate waved, fpike ovate, 

 flowers nodding; a native of the Cape of Good Hope, flow- 

 ering with us from November to April, and brought here in 

 1768, by Mr. W. Malcolm. 3. A. glauca, ftemlcfs, leaves 

 lanceolate glaucous, flowers nodding witli a fjjreading bor- 

 der ; a native of the Cape of Good Hope, flowering in Ja- 

 nuary, and introduced in 1781, by Mr. G. Wynch. 4. A. 

 wraria, aloe uvaria of others, great orange-flowered A, ilem- 

 Icfs, fe.ipc longer than the fword-fliaped keeled leaves ; a na- 

 tive of the Cape of Good Hope, cultivated at Chelfea in 

 1 707, and flowering in Augufl and September in large fpikes 

 of a fine aj)pcaiancc. There is a variety with narrower leaves, 

 and longer fpikes of flowers. 5. A. ptimi/a, fmall orange- 

 flowered /\, ilemlcfs, fcape fliorter than the linear ftiai-ply- 

 keeled leaves ; a native of the Cape, introduced in 1774, and 

 flowering from September to November. '•. A. hvacin- 

 tholJe/, ilemlefs, leaves lanceolate, flefliy, flowers germinate ; 

 having tvro varieties, reckoned by LaMarck asdiftinft fpecies, 



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