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Totigues, fornifily giving name to a vifcoimt. Its pro- 

 diMtions are grain, fla:;, and apples. Tiie palhirts are rich, 

 aiid fatten ihe cattle that are brought hitlier from Poidoii 

 and Britanny. 



AUGEiE, in ylncisnt Geography, a town of Greece, in 

 the Pcloponncfiis, written AvyuM, Augeia;, by Homer, and 

 fuppoftd by Panfanias to be the lame with the I'mall town 

 of iEgix, iitiiate on the coall of Laconia, and at the dif- 

 tance of thirty ftadia from Githium. It had 'a temple con- 

 fecrated to Neptune. 



AUGELA, AuGUELA, or Acuila, in Geography, 

 one of the Oafes, or illands, in the eaRtrn divifion of that 

 ocean of fand, ciilled the Great Defeit, or Sahara, in Africa. 

 It lies on the wellern part of the dcfrt of Barca, and is 

 feparated from the kingdom of Tripoli by mount Meys. 

 Altho\igh it is generally fandy and barren, it has fome fpots 

 fo well watered as to affoid plenty of dates ; and mount 

 Meys has excellent paflnre. In this territory, befides the town 

 of Auglla, or Angela, from wlucli the canton takes its name, 

 and which was one of the Ration- of thecaravans that formerly 

 carried on the inland trade of Africa, is-;\nother, feated at the 

 foot of that mountain, called Siwah, Siouah, or San-Rey, 

 which is the la(t on that lide that belongs to the government 

 of Tripoli. Angela lies in N. lat 30^. and E. long. 22" 30'. 



AUGENIO, Horace, De Monle Sanclo, in Ancona, 

 in Biography, proftffor of medicine, born about the year 

 1527. He was early initiated into the knowledge of medi- 

 cine by his father, I^ewis Augenio, phyfician to pope 

 Clement VII. Horace was firft advanced to the chair of 

 profcffor at Rome, which office he hlltd five years. He 

 afterwards gave leclures with fuccefs at Turin ; and in the 

 year 1592, he was appointed profeffor at Padua; where he 

 continued to the time of his death in 1603. Hallcr is dif- 

 fufe in his account of his works, which however were prin- 

 cipally controverfial, and not now much noticed. In his 

 " Epift. et Confult. Med." fol. Ven. 1580, he recommends 

 millepedes, in calculous cafes, by which, he fays, he faw a 

 boy cured, after he had been condemned to the knife ; he 

 forbids injefting the bladder in thefe cafes, as frequently 

 mifchievous. He gave water, in which quickfilver had 

 been boiled, for the cure of worms in the bowels ; and in 

 diabetes, he gave, he lays, narcotics, with advantnge. 



His works were colkfted and publilhed under the title of, 

 •' Opera Omnia," at Venice, in 1597, — 1602, and 1607, in 

 foho. His treatifes, publifhed feparately were, "Epift. Medi- 

 cinal." torn. I, 2, 3, fol. " De Modo prefervandi a Pefte," 

 lib. iv. 1577, 8vo. "De Medendis Calculofis," 5:c. 1575, 4to. 

 " Qiiod Homini non fit certum naftendi Teaipus," lib. ii. 

 Ven.^iy95, 8vo. Haller. Bib. Med. Praft. 



AUGER, Edmund, a French jefuit, was born of poor 

 parents, in 1530, at Alleman near Sazanne, in the dioccfe 

 of Troyes ; and having received the rudiments of education 

 under an uncle who was a clergyman, was fent by his 

 brother, a phyfician at Lyons, to Rome, with a recommend- 

 ation to the celebrated father Le Fevre ; but with a fupply 

 of money to fcanty, that he was obliged to beg alms before 

 he arri\i:d to the end ot his journey. Le Fevre was dead 

 before he reached Rome ; and he was obliged to hire him- 

 felf as a domeilic fervant to a jefuit. In this humble fitua- 

 tion his talents and conduft attrafted the notice of his mafter, 

 who procured for him, as a novice, the means of further 

 inllruclion. In the order of jefuits, to which he was ad- 

 mitted, he taught rhetoric and poetry, and manifelted great 

 powers of eloquence. His talents recommended him to a 

 miffion, employed by father Laynez, the general of the 

 fociety of jefuits, and difpatched to France, in the year 1559, 

 for ftopping the progrefs of the reformation. On this oc- 

 cafion he dilhnguilhed lumfelf by his zeal and fuccefs in the 



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converfion of ".k relics ; and he was appointed preacher jiud 

 confellor to Henry III. His attachment to the king ren- 

 dered him odious to the cathohcs who had entered into the 

 league, and by an order of the general heretuiTicd to Rome, 

 where he was treated as an excommunicated perfon, and' 

 obliged to travel on foot in the midft of winter. In the 

 year 1591, he died in confequence of the fatigue and vexa* 

 tion which he endured, in the fixty-firft year of his age. 

 Such w.-\s the clofing fcene of a man, who is faid to h:ive 

 converted 40,000 heretics. The intolerant fpirit of Aucrer 

 was fufRciently dil'played in his work, intitled " Le Peda- 

 gogue des Armes," defigned to inftruft a Chriuian pri.'ice, 

 how to undertake, arid happily c6mplete a good war, vido- 

 rious over all the enemies of the llatc and the church. 

 Nouv, Dia. Hiflor. 



Auger, in Geography, a fmall town of Ireland, in the 

 county of Tyrone and province of Uifter, which before the 

 union, returned two members of parliament ; but is now 

 deprived of that privilege. It is diftant feventy-five Irifli 

 miles north-weft from Dublin. 



AUGES, in AJlronomy, two points in a planet's orbit, 

 otherwile called apjides. See Ai'sis. 



One of the auges is particularly denominated the apogee, 

 the other perigee. 



AVGHAi^S, in Geography. See Afghans. 



AUGHNACLOY, a poll and and market town of the 

 co\mty of Tyrone in Ireland, ieatcdon the river BluckwatLr, 

 at the dlftance of yoj Irifh miles from Dublin, on the high 

 road to Londonderry. Th>. linen manufacl\ire is carried on 

 briikly in its neighbourhood. N. lat.54°25'. W. long. 6°C3'. 



AUGHRIM. SeeAcHRiM. 



AUGIAN, a town of Afia, in the province of Ader- 

 bigan or A i D 1; R b E i T z A n . 



AuGlAN MS, Co/lex Aiigienfis, in Biblieal Hiflory, is a 

 Greek-Latin MS. of the epillles of St. Paul, which is how- 

 ever defective from the beginning to Rom. iii. 8, and the 

 epittle to the Hebrews is found only in the Latin vcrfion. 

 This MS. is noted F in the lecond part of Wetftein's N. T. 

 It is fuppofed to have been written in the ninth centurj-, 

 and has taken its title from Augia-M.ijor, the name of A 

 monaftery at Rheinau, to which it belonged at the time of 

 the cour^cil of Bafil. It waspurchafed by Benlley in 171S, 

 for 250 Dutch florins, and is at prefeut in the library of 

 Trinity college in Cambridge, where it was depofited in 

 1787, after the death of the younger Bentley, together v.-ith 

 tht? -other MSS. of the celebrated Dr. Richard Bentleyi 

 The Greek text is written in uncial letters and without 

 accents ; there are intervals between tlie words, and at the 

 end of every word there is a dot. The Latin is written in 

 Anglo-Saxon letters ;- whence it is inferred that it muft have 

 been written in the weft of Europe, where that formation 

 of the Latin letters, vulgarly called Anglo-Saxon, was in 

 general ufe between the feventh and twelfth centuries. This 

 MS. has been collated by Vv^ctftein. Marfli's Miehaelie, 

 vol. ii. p. 2 ID. vol. iii. p. 662. 



AUGIAS, orAuGEUS.in /lucient Hi/lory anel Mythology, 

 a king of Elis, who was one ot the Argonauts. labulous 

 hiftory reports that he had a ftable, which contained a great 

 number of cattle, as fome fay 3000 oxen, and which had 

 not been cleaned for thirty years, fo that the exhalations 

 which proceeded from it infelled the country : and to 

 clcanfe it was confidered as a work furpafllng human effort. 

 Hercules undertook the labour, and engaged to perfornt 

 it in one day, on condition that Augias fhould give him a 

 tenth part of the cattle. This work Hercu'es is faid to 

 have accomplilhed by making the river Alphcus to pafs 

 through the liable. Augias withheld the promifed recom- 

 pence ; upon which Hercules flew him, and placed his fon 



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