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ALL 



Cantal, nnd diftrift of Murnt, fituato in a valley, and havincj 

 a conf-Jcrable coiiiiv.eri^(;f cattle ; four Icag^K•^ aiul :i half 

 lurlh north-\vtit of St.rloiir. N. lat. 4.5^ 12'. E, long. 



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ALL ANT A, in Ancient Ccograp<\-y,z. town of Arcadia. 



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ALLANTA, or Allantium, a town of Macedonia, 

 luppufed to be inhabited by the Allnntier.fes of Plinv. 



ALLANTOIS, ALLANTOiDF.s,calltd alfo Farcimtunlis, 

 ir. Compilative /Inatomy, is a thin traiifp;;rL'nt fac or bag, 

 iLiiiad amongft the membranes, inverting the fj'tiis of qna- 

 '■•npcdj ; it is connected with the nrinar)- bladder of the 

 \ n.iig animal, by means of the iirachus, and is fuppofed to 

 . 've the purpofe of a refervoir for the urine. 



Malpighi, Halltr, and others have attributed this mem- 

 b/.uie to the chick during the period of incubation. 



The word is derived from a.\>.a;, fat\-imcn, a gut : and 

 i.''r.:,Jhrnui,JJMpe; beeaufe, in many brutes, it has fomewhat 

 the appeai-anee of an inflated intelline. — For a further 

 account, fee ALvmmalia, in Comparative Anatomy. 



ALLARD, Guy, in Bio;^raphy, was born at Dau- 

 phine, about the middle of the 17th centvuy, and acquired 

 reputation by feveral works relating to the hillory of that 

 province. His " Nobiliaire du Daupliine avec Its Armoi- 

 ries," l2mo. Grenoble, 1714, and " Hiiloire des Maifons 

 IXiuphinoiies," are his principal and moit elteemed works. 



ALLAT, in Mytholcgy, derived from Alia, Goil, is the 

 r.:ime of an idol among the Arabians and idolatrous Jews. 



ALLATA, in Ancient Geography, a town of Arabia De- 

 ferta, according to Ptolemy. 



Allata, a town of Dalmatia, in the itinerary of An- 

 tonin. 



ALLATIUS, or Allacci, Lto, in Biography, a volu- 

 minous writer of the 17th centuiy, was born in the ifland 

 of Chios, and at the age of nine years, after having 

 been educated in the Greek church, removed to Calabria, 

 where he enjoyed the patronage of the noble family of Spi- 

 piclli, and embraced the Catholic religion. At Rome he was 

 admitted into the Greek college, where he acquired reputa- 

 tion by the iludy of polite learning, philofophy, and di- 

 ' 'nity. From Rome he went to Naples, and was made 

 !-reat vicar to the bifliop of Anglona ; and having fettled 

 K)r fome time in his native country, he returned again to 

 Rome, ftudicd phyfic, and took his degree of doftor in that 

 fcience. But the belles lettrcs beft fuited his tafte and en- 

 c::iged his principal attention ; and, inftead of purfuing the 

 ;radice of phyiic, he taught the Greek language in the 

 I'lie^e of his own nation. About the year 1622 he was 



< 'iiployed by Gregory XV. in removing to Rome the library 

 of Heidelberg, which the eleftor of Bavaria had prefentcd 

 'o this pontiff; he was afterwards librarian to Cardinal 

 "arberini ; and at length pope Alexander VIL appointed 

 him librarian of the Vatican. His publications, which con- 

 filted of editions of old MSS, tranflations from Greek 

 authors, and original compofitions, are very numerous. 

 Some of the principal of the latter clafs are the following : 

 " De Ecclefiae Occidentahs et Orientalis perpetua confen- 

 fi ine," 4to. Cologne 1648 ; " On purgatory," 8vo. Rcmie, 

 1655; " De patria Homeri," 8vo. Lyons, 1640; " De 

 .'''eptem orbis Spedlaculis," 8vo. Rome, 1640; " Confuta- 

 tio Fabula: de Joanna papiffa ;" " De PfeUis ;" " De 

 Georgils ;" " De Simeonibus." His retentive memory 

 and application qualified him for compiling catalogues ; ac- 



< ordmgly he publifhed a work of this kind under the title, 

 " Apes UrbanK," in allufion to the bees bofne in the arms of 

 jpope Urban VliL which contained a hiilory of the learned 



men of Rome for the years i6p, 1631, and ifi:;:, with a 

 catalogue of their works : and another Iradt of a finular 

 kind, entitled, " Dr.imaturgia," giving an account of 

 dramatic authors and their works, printed at Rome in 1636, 

 and reprinted at Venice in 1755. Allatius alfo wrote feve- 

 ral Greek poems, one upon the birth of Lewis XIV. in 

 which he introduced Greece fpeaking. Allatius was a dili- 

 gent and rapid writer ; and he is faid to have written 

 Greek 40 years with the fame pen, the lofs of which he 

 lamented with tears. His erudition and induftry are more 

 commended than his judgment ; and he is generally re- 

 proached tor want of liberality and candour. His criti- 

 cifins were harrti and ill-natured ; his refleftions on tliofc 

 who differed from him were coarfe and vulgar, as well 33 

 fevere ; and his animofiiy and intolerance, in his conduct 

 towards thofe who were not comprehended within the pale 

 of tlie Romifh chiircli, to which he was a profelyte, and for 

 which he was an ardent advocate, were fuch as led him to 

 denounce agaiufl them the moll cruel penalties. The Ro- 

 man pontiff, as he maintained, was independent ; judged 

 the w orld without being accountable to any ; his unjuft 

 commands were to be obeyed ; and he had an abfolule au- 

 thority as legillator and judge, and was incapable ofillufion 

 and error. As for heretics and fehilmatics Allatius was of 

 opinion, that they ought to be proferibed and exterminated,, 

 and if they periilled in their herefy, put to death and con- 

 fumed in the flames. Li his zeal for uniting the Greek 

 church to the Latin, and with this view fur infinuating 

 himfelf into the favour and confidence of pope Urban VHL, 

 he is charged by F. Simon with iiifincerity and mifrepre- 

 fcntation. The gentlemen of Port Royal have attempted 

 a vindication of Allatius, particularly againft the attacks o£ 

 Mr. Claude. 



Allatius was neither mairied nor took orders ; and in 

 accounting for this part of his inde'cifive conduft, when h? 

 was afked by pope Alexander VH. " why do you not en- 

 ter into orders ?" he replied, " Bccanfe I would be free to 

 many." " Why then," laid the pope, " do you not 

 maiTy ?" " Beeaufe," replied Allatius again, " I would be 

 at liberty to take orders." He died at Rome in the year 

 1669, at the age ef 83 years. 



ALLAY. Sec Alloy. 



ALLAZONIUM, in Ar.eient Geography, a town of 

 Alia in Myfia, north call of Scepfis. 



ALLBURG, in Geography, a townlhip of America, in 

 Franklin county, Vermont, iituate on MilTifque Bay, and 

 containing 446 inhabitants. 



ALLCHURCH, a viUage of War\vickfhire, faid to 

 have been formerly feveu miles in circumference, and hav- 

 ing the Roman Icknild ilrcet pafTing through it. It was 

 once a borough, with a market and feveral flrects. The 

 bifhop of Worcefter had a palace in it, and the church, 

 parti of which are of Saxon architefture, contains many 

 ancient monuments. It is fituated five milts from Brorai- 

 grove, in the road to Leiceiler. 



ALLECTUS, in A luient Biography Vi.n^ Hi/lory, the con- 

 fidential friend and prime minifler of Caraufius, emperor of 

 Britain, apprthendiug punithmeiit for feveral crimes with 

 which he was chargeable,murdered his mailer, A.D. 294, and 

 ufurped the imperial dignity, which he maintained for three 

 years. During this period Conftantius was preparing for 

 the recoveiy of Britain ; and at length the principal fqua- 

 dron, deftined for this enterprife, and affembled in the 

 mouth of the Seine, was intrulled to the command of the 

 prsefcft Afelepiodotus. The weather proved favourable, 

 and under the cover of a thick fog, the invaderj efcaped 



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