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as a topical ftlmiilant with equal energy as the lunar cauftic, 

 or nitrate of filvtr, but it does not appear that gold would 

 in any cafe be preferabie to the other niietals. It is now, 

 therefore, entirely rejetted from the Materia Mcdica. 



AuRUM, Problemaltcum, ParaJoxum, and Graphiciim, in 

 M'mcralosy. See Gold, Ores of; and Titanium, Ores 

 of. 



AuRUM, Regiiia, in jdntiquity. See Queen Gold. 

 AuRUM Coronarlum. See Coronary Gold. 

 AuRUM Sophtflicum, m'imic gold, in Chemijlry, a prepara- 

 tion made as follows: take Hne dillilLd verdigris, eight 

 ounces; crude Alexandrian tutty, four ounces; borax, 

 twelve ounces; falt-petre, one ounce and a half; pulverize 

 and mix them all together, tempering thcni with oil to the 

 confiftence of a plalU-r; then put a German crucible into a 

 wind-furnace, heat it red-hot, and putting your mafs into it, 

 let it be covered, and the furnace tilled with coals over tlie 

 crucible. When the mafs is melted, let it cool of itfelf, 

 then break the crucible, and you will find at the bottom a 

 fine regulus, like gold, vreighing about four ounces, which 

 being malleable, may be wrought into any form. 

 AuRUM Vcgdnbilc, a name given to faffron. 

 AURUNCl, in ylncieul Gmgraphy, a people of Italy, in 

 Latium. Tliey have been often confounded with the 

 Aufones; though Phny diftinguifhes them. They appeared 

 in a war againll the Romans, in the year of Rome 25H; 

 but were entirely defeated in 408. 



AURUNGABAD, Auringabad, or Aurencabad, 

 in Geo'rrapby, a modern city of India, owing its rife from a 

 fmall town to the capital of the province of Dowlatabad, ui 

 the Deccan, to Aureng-Zebe; from whom alfo it had its 

 name. When the Deccan became a province of the Mogul 

 empire, this city became the provincial capital, and continued 

 to retain its rank after the Nizams became independent of 

 Delhi ; and until the encroachments of the Poonah Mah- 

 rattas, of late years, made it an uncomfortable refidence to 

 the Nizam. It is fituated on a plain, almoft furrounded 

 vith mountains; it is large and populous; and was encom- 

 pafTed, by Aureng-Zebe, with walls and baftions. His 

 palace, in which he rcfidcd, was alfo furrounded by walls 

 and gates of entrance. The country about is fertile, and 

 produces millet, wheat, and other provifions, but not fuffi- 

 cient for the immenfe number of its inhabitants, as it is one 

 of the largtll and mod populous cities of India. N. lat. 19° 

 45'. E.long. 7C° 2' 30". 

 . ADRUNGZEBED. See Aurengzeeed. 



AURUSPI, in jindent Geography, a people of Africa, 

 in Ethiopia, whofe capital, according to Pliny, was not far 

 from ti'e Nile. 



AURUSULIANA, an epifcopal city of Africa, in 

 Numidia. 



AUSA, in the middle ages called Aufonn, a town of 

 Hifpania Citerior or Tarraconenfis, fouth-weft of the In- 

 digete?, between Gerunda and Mandrcfa. The inhabitants 

 were called Aufetani and Authetani. It is now Vie or 

 Vkb de Ojcna, in Catalonia. N. lat. 41° 50'. E. long. 2". 



AUSANA^a village of Belgic Gaul, where the twelfth 

 legion had its winter quarters. — Alfo, an epifcopal fee of 

 Africa, in the proconfular province. 



AUSANCALI, a town of Italy, in Liburnia. Pto- 

 lemy. 



AUSA R A, a town of Arabia Felix, in the country of 



the Sachalites, near the fea Alfo, a town in the interior 



part of Arabia Fehx. Ptolemy. 



AUSCHE, in Ge graphy, a town of Bohemia, in the 

 circle of Leitmeritz, eight miles^E.N. E. of Leitnicritz. 

 AUSCHlSiE, in Antient Geography, a people of Africa, 



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in Libya, to the wed; of the A(byll«, and eaft; of the Nafa- 

 mons. Herodotus. 



AUSCII, a people of Europe, in that part of Gaul 

 called Aquitania. Their capital was Chmberris, which 

 afterwards alTuined the name of the people. They occupied 

 the country correfponding to the territory of Auch, weit of 

 the Tolofates. See Auch. 



AUSCULTARE, in Ancient C;//7o?w.— Becaufe the 

 reading of prayers with a graceful tone or accent, makes fomc 

 imprefiion on' the hearers; there was anciently a perfx^n 

 appointed, in mhnalleries, to hear the monks read and 

 'fing, who inftrufted them how to perform, before they 

 were admitted to read or chant publicly in the church, or 

 before the people. — This was called aufcultare, q. d. to hear, 

 or lyien. 



AUSER, or Ausar, in Ancient Geography, now Serchio, 

 a fmall river of Italy, in Etruria, "A'liich difcharges itfelf 

 into the fea, about fjx miles north of the mouth of the 

 Arnus. 



AUSI, a people of Africa, on the fea-coaft of Libya, 

 encompafiing the lake of Tritonis, and feparated by the 

 river Triton from the Machlyes. Herodotus relates, that 

 thefe favage people celebrated a fealfin honour of Minerva, 

 at which the young women feparated into two companies, 

 and fought againll one another with clubs and ftonts; thofe 

 who fell in the combat, or died of their wounds, were deemed 

 nut to have been virgins. They paid no refpeCt to marriage, 

 but poflefltd their women in common. Their children were 

 nurfed by their mothers till they were able to walk; and 

 they were then introduced to an afiembly of the men, who 

 met every three months, and the man to whom any child firll 

 fpoke, was acknowledged as its father. 



AUSIGDA, a town of Africa, in the Pentapolis, 

 watered by the river Ciiuiydhius. An ifland of the fame 

 name is mentioned by Stephanus. 



AUSILINDUM, a place of Africa, in the province of 

 Tripoli, on the road from Tacape to the greater Leptis. 



AUSIMUM, or AuxiMUM, an ancient Roman colony, 

 in the Picenum ; now Ofmo, or OsiMO. 



AUSINZA, a town of Afia, in Perfia Propria. Pto- 

 lemv. 



AUSIT^. Sec ^siTJE. 



AUSONA, a town of the Aufones, reckoned among 

 the moft ancient people of Italy, who occupied that part of 

 Italy, which extends from the promontory of Circa;um to 

 the llraits of Sicily; but they were afterwards reduced to a 

 more limited territory between the montes Circaei and Maf- 

 fici. They were extirpated before the time of Pliny. Vir- 

 gil reprefents them as a colony of Trojans. 



ALFSONIA, a name firll rellrictcd to the territory 

 of the Aufones, and afterwards applied to the whole 

 of Italy. 



AUSONIUM Mare, denotes that part of the Mediter- 

 ranean now called the fea of Sicily. It was formerly a part 

 of the fea called Ionian, extending fouthwards from the pro- 

 montory of Japygium to Sicily, which it walhes on the eaft, 

 as it does the Brutii and Magna Graecia on the fouth and eaft. 

 It is feparated from the Tufcan fea by the ilrait of Mef- 

 fina. 



AUSONIUS, Decius, orDECiMUS Magnus, in Bio- 

 gr.nphy, a Roman poet of the fourth centMry, was a native of 

 Bourd?aux, where his father Julius Aufonius was an emi- 

 nent phyfician. Having enjoyed the advantages of an ex- 

 cellent education, under his grandfather Afborius at Tou- 

 loule, and alfo under other eminent profelTors of grammar 

 and rhetoric, he became himfelf profcffor in thefe depart- 

 ments of literature in his native city. Such was his reputa- 

 tion, 



