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IS fiid to havf come from a far co\infry to Tarq»i:iii!» Rii. 

 J erbus. and to liavj oftci-td for fait iiiiii'' books of Sihylllue, 

 or prophetic onuks. Upon Tarqiiin's ivfiiial to pive her 

 the price fho aftcul, flic went away and burnt three of 

 t!iem. Returning foon after, {he demanded die fame price 

 for the remaining fix. Tlie king ridiculed her for lier folly, 

 upon which flie went and burnt other three ; and returning 

 Hiked the fame price for the three which remained. A. 

 Gclhus (I. 19.) fays, that the books were burnt in the 

 prcfence of the king. Tarquin, furpiiftd by this ftrange 

 condud, conlulted the augurs, who, regrettin"- the lofs of 

 the books which had been dt-ilroved, advifed the king to 

 give the price, wliich the woman required. Amalthxa, hav- 

 ing furrendend the books, with a defire that they might 

 be carefully kept, difappeared, and was never afterwards 

 fcen. Dionyf. iv. 62. Ladantius, i. 6. GtU. i. 19. Pliny 

 (xiii. 13. f. 27.) fays, that (lie burnt two books, and only 

 prefcrved one. See Sibyls. 



AmaltH/'EA, the daughter of Meliffiis, king of Crete, 

 and nurfe of Jupiter, whom file is faid to have fed with 



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very ronrukrRble ucpiaintance witli tKe orimtal lar.f^uaprt, 

 ^Vood (Alluii. Oxoii. n. 612.) fays, that about the ycur 

 161?, he vifitcd Oxford, refidtd in Kxettr college, ■iid 

 taught Hebrew in the uiiiverfuy- l^poii liis return to hif 

 native country, he wa» appointed proielfor of the Hcbicw 

 language in the univerlity of Fraiitker, where lie ronlinurd, 

 notwithllanding earnell folicitatloiu for his removal to 

 Leyden, in oiilcr to fucceed Erpenius, till lli^ death, whitli 

 happened in December 1620. Hi» firlt work was a crili- 

 cifm on the Vulgate tranllation of the Pentateuch, printed 

 in 4to. in 1620, at Franeker, and tntilled, " Crnfiira Vul- 

 gatx- I.atiiia- Editionis Pcntatcuchi." Tliis Wii-; part of a 

 plan wliich he had formed with a view to n *' (jcncral 

 Ccnfure of the Vulgate Verlion of the Scriptures," which 

 the council of Trent had declared authentic. But hi» at- 

 tention was diveitcd from the completion of Iii9 dcfign by 

 a collation of the Dutch veriion of tlic Scripiurcf, with 

 the originals, and the moll approved tranllations. 'I'he re- 

 fult of this collation was jiublifltcd in 1603, in the Dutch 

 language, under the title of " Hybelfche Confertiitir." 



goal's milk and honey. According to others, Amalth?_-a Wliilft he was thus engaged, he received information that 



was a goat winch nourldied Jupiter, and whom, in recom 

 jience for her attention, he trandatcd into the heavens, and 

 thus {he became the conllell.uion which bears this name. 

 It is added, that one of the horns of this goat was given to 

 the daughter of Melifl'us, as a reward for their kindntfs, 

 and that it had the [;cculiar property of funiilhing them 

 with wliatever they widied tor : and hence the Greeks for- 

 med of it their ronmcopia, or horn ot aluindance. 



AMAl/l'HEO, mllio^riiphy, the name of a family of the 

 1 6th century, celebrated for literature originally from Porde- 

 none in Friuli, and branched out into fcveral places in that 

 province. In this family there were poets, phylicians, and 

 profcflors of belles Icttrcs. The molf dirtiiiguidied were the 

 tons of Fraiicefco Amaltheo, profclTor of belles Icttrcs in 

 Sacile ; viz. Girolamo, or Jerom, born in 1 507, at Oder- 

 •/.o in the Trevifan, who was iolicited by the queen of Po- 

 land to be her phyfician, but declined it. He taught me- 

 dicine at Padua, and praiftifed as a phyfician in feveral 

 towns of Friuli, till 1574, when he died at Oderzo highly 

 honoured by his townimen. He fo much excelled in La- 

 tin poetry, that he is placed by Muretus at the head of 

 all the Italians who cxercifed their talents in this way. 

 The famous epigram of " Aeon and Leonilla," is by this 

 author. Gimbat'tfia, or foi.n Bapujla, was born at Oder/.o 

 in 152c, educated at Padua, and at the age of 20, calltd to 

 Venice to inftrucl: the youth of the Lippomana family in 

 Dolite literature. His own ftudics comprehended, befidesthe 

 Greek, Eatin, and Ital-ian languages, philofophy, jurifpru- 

 dence, and theology. In 1554 he accompanied the Vene- 

 tian ambaffador, Michele, to England ; he was afterwards 

 fecretary to the republic of Ragufa, and accompanied the 

 cardinals deputed to the council of Trent, as firll fecretary 

 to pope Pius IV. He died at Rome in 1573, much la- 

 mented by the learned men of his time, by whom he was 

 highly ellecmed for Ills genius and erudition. FIls Latin 

 poems, firil printed in 155c, gave him a reputation equal to 

 that of his brother ; and he likewife wrote poems in his 

 own language that ar£ much valued. The Latin poems of 

 thefe two writers, and of another brother named Cnnirliiis, 

 who was a phyfician, are contained in the firft volume of the 

 " Delicia; Poet. Italor." and were publifhcd in a feparate 

 volume, at Venice in 1627, and at Amllerdam, in 1689. 

 Gen. Biog. 



AMAMA, SixTiNus, an eminent biblical critic of 

 the 17th centui7, was born in Weft Friefland, educated un- 

 der Drufius in the uaiverfity of Franeker, and obtained a 



father Mcrfennus, in vindication of the N'ulgate, had writ- 

 ten a refutation of his criticifm on the firft fix chapters of 

 Genefis, and he, therefore, refumed his original dcfign ; 

 and, in 1627, inibliflied a l-.tter to Merfennue, and in 1628 

 a work, entitled, " Arili-liaibanis Publicus ;" or contain- 

 ing a farther reply, tt)gether with a ccnfure of the Vulgate 

 on the hillorical hooks of the Old Tellament, on Job, tlic 

 Pfalms, and the books of Solomon, to which arc added, 

 differtations on particular fubje<its. This book was re- 

 printi<l at Franeker, in 410. in 1656, with a criticifm of 

 the Vulgate upon Ifaiah and Jeremiah. Amama alfo wrola 

 a learned ditfertation, " Oe Nomine Tetragrammato," which 

 was publilhed in Kvo. at Franeker in 1620. So lucctfsfiiUy 

 did he cxpofc the dcfeifts and errors of the Vulgate, and lo 

 earnelUy did he recommend the Ihidy of the r. ,ginal laii- 

 guages of the Bible, that it was decreed by fomc fynt-ds, 

 that tliofe only Ihould be admitted to the minillry, who 

 underlh'iod, at leaft in fomc degree, the Hebrew and Greek 

 texts of the Scripture. Amama alfo evinced his folicitude 

 for the lionBur of the univerfity at Franeker, by his at- 

 tempts to reform fome irregularities of conducft that pre- 

 vailed in it. He was fo much refpected by his countrymen, 

 that, after his death, they tellified their regard for his me- 

 mory bv tiieir liberality to his children. Gen. Diet. 



AMAMASSIUS, in Andatt Gcopaphy, a town of the 

 ifle of Cyprus, in v/hich they worfliipped Apollo HyJalct. 



AMAM-SAMA, a town of Judea, in the tribe of 

 Jud.ih. 



AMAN, in Commerce, a fort of blue cotton cloth, 

 which conies from the Levant by the way of Aleppo. 



A MAN, in yliicitnt Gco_^iaphy, a town of Palellinc, in the 

 fouthern part of the tribe of judah. 



Am AN, ill Gecgraphf, a fea-port town of Africa, on the 

 Atlantic, between Cape Ger and Cape Cantin, in the king- 

 dom of Morocco. 



A MAN, a ditlricl of Sumatra, about the centre of the 

 ifland. 



AMANA.in /Inaenl Geography, ^ mountain of Palcftine, 

 on the other fide of Jordan, in the tribe of ManafTeh. 

 Amana, a town of Afia, in Media, according to Pto- 



lemv. 



.A.MANCE, in Grogrtiphy, a town of France, in the de- 

 partment of the Mcurtc, and chief place of a canton in the 

 diftric^t of Nancv, three leagues fouth-wcft of Chatcau-Sa- 

 hus, and ij north-eall of Nancy. 



Amance is alfo a town of France, in the department 



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