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elude, that Alon istlie fame pcrfonwho is called Olcii, Olcnus, 

 Ailiiius, or Linus, among the different people of Greece 

 and the adjoining countries, and even in Egypt ; for it is 

 remarkable that limilar attributes are aferibed to him by 

 thofc ancient nations, as in our Ti iads : according to Pau- 

 fanias, Olen the hyperborean is faid to have been the full 

 prophet of Delphi : Bcco the female liierophaut is made to 

 ilng of Olen, as the inventor of verfe, and the moll ancient 

 pricfl of Phosbus ; and, indeed, all Greece chaunted the 

 iong of Olen ; and this more particularly occurred in cele- 

 brating the completion of the vintage ; for thus it is faid by 

 Homer, (II. lib. xviii. v. 570, &c.) in the defcription of the 

 fliicld of Achilles :— 



" In the proceffion of the vintagers were groupes of 

 young damfels and youths, carrying bafl<ets curioully en- 

 twined, filled with prefents of the moft delicious fruits. In 

 the midll of thefe was feen a young man ilriking from his 

 lyre harmonious founds ; he fang the fong of Linus, with a 

 voice moft fweet; and the company joined with chaunts and 

 fhouts of joy, beating the earth in cadence with lively fleps." 



Alon, in Anc'iinl Gengraphf, a river of Cilicia, near 

 Sebafte or Eleufa, a fmall ifland. 



ALONA, or- Alone, a town on the eaftern fide of 

 Spain, louth of the mouth of the Tuder. 



ALONE, or Halone, one of the jEolian iflands. 



Alone, or Halone, a fmall ifland of the Propontis, 

 fouth of the ifland of ProconeiTus, and north-weft c/f Cy- 

 y,ic\UTi. The name was given to it, fays Steph. Byz. bccaufe 

 its inhabitants had found out the art of making lalt. This 

 author fays, that it was alfo called Neuris and Procona ; but 

 Pliny diflinguiflies the lafl of thcfe two iflands. 



Alone, a town placed by fome writers in Paphlagonia. 



ALONG-SIDE, in Sca-la-.guage, exprtffes fidc-by-fide, 

 or joined to a fliip, wharf, cS:c. 



ALONG-SHORE, a nautical phrafe exprcffing along the 

 coaft, or a courfe which is in fight of the fhore, and nearly 

 parallel to it. 



Along, Ly'ing, denotes the flate of a fhip that is prtffcd 

 down fideways by the weight of fail. 



A.LONI, in Ancient Geography, a town of AfTyria, 

 fituate on the eaftern banks of the river Zabus, near its en- 

 trance into the Tigris. 



Aloni, a people joined by Pliny to the Gordlans, and 

 placed near the Tigris. 



ALONIS, a town and ifland of Gaul, which Martin 

 imagines to have been the town and ifland of Magdelona, 

 formed by the retrenchment of the fiift Celtic fyllable Mag. 



ALONIUM, a place of the ifland. Crete, in the territory 

 of Gortyna. 



ALONSO, in B'wgraphyawA Hi/lory. See Alphonso. 



ALONTA, a river placed by Ptolemy in Afiatic Sar- 

 iratia. 



ALONTIGICELLI, a people of Boetica, near the 

 river Menabas. 



ALONTiUM, Aluntium, orHALUNTiuM, a town 

 of Sicily. 



ALOOF, in Sia-Latiguage, denotes at a diftance. See 

 Luff. 



ALOPE, in Entomology, a fpecies of the Sphinx, with 

 dentattd brov^'n wings, the pofterior being yellow and black 

 at the apex, -black abdomen, and intci'rupted pale-coloiued 

 bands, found in India. 



Alope, or Alopa, in Ancient Geography, a name given 

 to feveral towns. Alope was a town of Theftaly. Homer 

 mentions a town of this name, fuppcfcd to be the fame 

 place, as he names it after Aks, a town of Phti«tis : it is 

 fuppofcd to have been fo called after Alopa, the daugliter 

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of Ccrcyon, or of Aftor. Alope was alfo a town of Attica, 

 and alio of Pontus, between Myfla, Caria, and Lycia ; ano- 

 ther in Phocis, and another among the Locrians. 



ALOPECE, an ifland near the coall of Alia Minor, not 

 far from Smyrna. 



Alopece, or Alopece, was alfo a dillriA of Attica, 

 near Cynofarges, and diftant about li or 12 ftadia from 

 Athens. The Lacedemonian general Anchimolius, who, by 

 the liiggellion of the oracle of Delphos, had been fent to 

 drive the Pifilhatidesfrom Athens,dledandwas buried in tliis 

 place; and Herodotus (lib. v. § 3.) fays, that his tomb was 

 near the temple of Hercules. This was alfo the birth-place 

 of Arillides and of Socrates. Alopecia was alfo an ifland 

 placed by Strabo in the Palus-Mseotis, and by M. d'An- 

 ville, near the mouth of the Tanais. 



ALOPECIA, in Surgery, baldncfs in any part of the 

 body, arifing from difeafe, or from a natural defect of growth 

 in the hair. This deficiency is fometimes produced by ex- 

 ceflive venery, and has been known to be remedied by a per- 

 fon becoming challe in his habits ; but more frequently it is 

 not connected with any evident external canfe, and only indi- 

 cates a faulty ftate of the fluids at the roots of tiie hair, or a 

 want of due nourilhment and moiilure. Alopecia was for- 

 merly a common fyrnptom of the liies 'venerea, but is now very 

 rarely obfcrved to occur in lueli cafes. 



Oily and gently ftimulating applications to the head, with • 

 repeated ihaving, are proper againllthe defcft in queflion. 



Alopecia is alfo ufed by Galen for the change of the 

 hair to another colour. 



ALOPECIAS, in Ichthyology, a name of the viilpcs ma- 

 rina, or fea-fox. 



ALOPECONESUS, in Anchnt Geography, a town of 

 the Tiiracian Cherfonefus, north of and near the gulf of Me- 

 Innos. It v/as peopled by the iEolians, and taken by Philip, 

 king of Macedon. 



ALOPECOPiTHECOS, in Zoology, a name derived 

 from the Greek, and given by Aldrovaud and others to the 

 Opossi'M. 



ALOPECOS, in Ancient Geography, a hill of Bocotia,'. 

 in Greece, called alfo Orchalis. 



ALOPECURO-VERONICA,injSo;a«jr.SeeMENTHA. 

 ALOPECUROS. SeeBETONicA. 

 ALOPECURUS, AXi'TTtKo,- ovfo., fox-tail, 2l genus of the 

 triandria digytiia clafs and order, and of the natural order of 

 gramh'.a, or graffes : its characters are, that the calyx is a 

 glume one-flowered, two valved ; the valves ovate-lanceo- 

 late, concave, compreffed, equal, connate at the bafe; the corol- 

 la one-valved, valve ovate, lanceolate, concave, with the edges 

 united at the bafe, a little fliorterthan the calyx, awn twice as 

 long, with a bent joint, inlerted into the back of the valve near 

 the bafe, no nedtary ; ihejiamina have three iilanitnts, capil- 

 lary, flattifh at the bafe, longer than the calyx, anthers forked 

 at each end ; the p/r/Iillum is a roundilh germ, the ftyles are 

 two, eapillaiy, united at the bafe, longer than the calyx, and - 

 flignias villous ; no pericarpiiim, the coi'olla invelling the 

 feed ; the feed ovate and covered. Martyn and Willdenow 

 enumerate eight, and Gmelin 12 fpecies. i. A. indiciit.j 

 panicum indicum of Miller, panicum alopecuroideum of 

 Linnzus, Spec. pi. 82. Indian fox-tail grafs, with eyliiulrical 

 fpikes, involucres fetaceous, faltlculate, two-flowcri;d, and 

 villous peduuLles, a native of the Ealt Indies. 2- A. Iwlbo- 

 pl.t, A. geniciilatus /3. Hudfon, gramen myofutoides nodo- 

 fum of Dillenins, bulbous fox-tail g. with cukn crcft, fpike 

 cylindrical, (very fimple, atte.vjated, Imooifi, glumes of the 

 calyx diilinft and villous. Smith) and root bulbous. The 

 bulbous ccfpitofe root emits fibres f'.^m its lower part, and' 

 has a hrowu, llriulcd, tunicated membrane. The culm is fo- 



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