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efdeft fon of Clovis. At length, however, Ch^'tlehert, the 

 king of Paris was tempted by the neighbourhood and be;uity 

 of Auvergne ; and on the h\(e report tliat their lawtul 

 fovereign wad flaln in Germany, tlie city and diocefe were be- 

 trayed by the grandfon of Sidoniii? Apulhnaiis. Childebert 

 enjoved this clandelline viaory. Thcodoric having promit- 

 ed to the Franks of Auftrafia the potrtiVioii of thu rich 

 and prodnftivc country, forfeited tlie allegiance of the inha- 

 bitants, and devoted them to dcftriidion. His troop^, rein- 

 forced by the tiercell barbarians of Germany, fpreaJ dcfo- 

 lation over the fruitful face of Auvergne, and two places 

 only, the ftrong caftlc of Mcroliac, and the holy ihrine of 

 St. Julian at Brivas oi- Brioude, were faved or redeemed 

 from their licentious fury. Before the Aullrafian army re- 

 treated from Auvergne, Theodoric exacted fome pledges of 

 the future loyalty of a people, whcfe jull hatred could only 

 be retrained by their fear. A ftleft band of noble youths, 

 the fonsof the'principal fenators, were delivered to the con- 

 queror, as the lioilages of the faithof Childebert and of their 

 countrymen ; and, on the firft rumour of war, or confpiracy, 

 thefe guiltlefs youths were reduced to a Hate of fcrvitudc ; 

 and one of them only, whofe name was Attains, efcaped 

 by a fingular adventure. See Gibbon's Hift. vol.vi. p. 362 — 



369. 



AUVERGNIE, a town of Swiffeiland, one league fouth 



of Neufchatcl. 



AUVERNAS, a very deep-coloured heady wine, made 

 of black railuis fo called, which comes from Orleans. It is 

 not fit to drink before it is above a year old ; but if kept 

 two or three years, it becomes excellent. 



AUVIGNY, N. Castres d', in Biography, a French 

 hiftorian, was born at Hainault in 171 2, and in his youth 

 refided with La Fontaine. But engaging in the military 

 profefiion, he entered into a company of hfe-guards, and 

 was killed in the battle of Dettingen, in 1743. In the 

 province of literature, he diilinguiihed himfelf by feveral 

 works, the principal of which was " The Lives of Illullri- 

 ous Men of France, from the commencement of the Monar- 

 chy to the prcfent time." Of tiiis work, 8 volumes in 

 l2mo appeared in the author's life-time ; two poflhumous 

 volumes were pubhflicd by his brother ; and the pubiicatioa 

 has been fincc continued by the abbe Pereau and M. Turpin. 

 The biographical llcetches of Aiivigny are written with ani- 

 mation and elegance, but they approach fo much to fiftion 

 that they cannot be implicitly relied on as hillorical truth. 

 An abridged hilloi-y, written by Auvigny, and publilhed in 

 two volumes i2mo. is intitled " An Abridgment of 

 the Hiftory of France, and of the Roman Hillory, in quef- 

 tion and anfwer. ' In 1735, he publilhed, in five volumes 

 l2mo. " An Hillory of the City of Paris ;" but part of the 

 fourth and the whole of the fifth, were written by M. de la 

 Barre. The prir.cipal of Auvigny's works of imagination 

 is " Memoirs of Madame de Barneveldt." Nouv. Did. 

 Hift. 



AUVILLARD, in Geography, a town of France, in the 

 department of the Lot and Garonne, and chief place of 

 a canton, in the diftridl of Valence; 13 miles foulh-eall 

 of Agen, and two fouth of Valence. N. lat. 44*^ 3'. E. long. 

 d" 48'. 



AUVILLERS-LES-FORGES, a town of France, 

 in the department of the Ardennes, and chief place of a 

 canton in the dillrid of Rocroi, ten miles W. N. W. of Me- 

 zieres. i 



AVUS, in Ancient Geography, a river of Spain, in the 

 territory of the Callaici, whofe courfe lay from eaft to 



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itfelf into the fca towards the 



weft, and which difcharged 

 north. 



AUW, in Geography, a town of Germany, in the arch- 

 duchy of Aullria, fcatcd on the Danube ; ten miles W. S. W. 

 of Gicin. 



AUWAWA, in Ichthyology. See Balistes Klfinii. 



AUX, in AJlrunomy. See Auges. 



Some ufe aux to denote the arch of the ecliptic, intercepted 



between the firlt point of Aries, and the point wherein the 



fun, or a planet, is at its greatell dillance Irom the earth. 



Wolf. Lex. Math. p. 222. 



AUXACIA, in Ancient Geography, a town of Afia, io 

 Scythia, beyond mount Iraaus, and to the welt ot Ifledon 

 Scythica. 



AUXENTIUS, in Biography, an Arian divine, was a 

 native of Cappadocia, and flourilhed in the fourth century. 

 In the contcli betA'cen the Arians and Catholics, he was 

 advanced by the emperor Conftantius to the fee of Milan. 

 By Hilary, bifliop of Poidtiers, he was accufed to the em» 

 ptror Valeiitiiiian, as an enemy of Chrill, and a blafphemer; 

 and ill order to filence his enemies, he made a declaration of 

 his faith, with whicii the emperor was fatisfied. But the 

 Catholics proceeded againil him, and a council, which was 

 held at Rome by pope Damalus, in 368, excommunicated 

 him. He was alfo condemned by Athanafius, and the pre- 

 lates of Gaul at the fame time. However, he retained 

 the fee of Milan to the time of his death in 374, and was 

 fucceeded by Ambrofe. Cave, H. L. tom. i. p. 214. 



AUXERRE, in Geography, a city of France, and ca- 

 pital of the department of the Yoiinc, feattd advantageouliy 

 for trade, on the lide of a hill, near the Yonne, which wafhcs 

 its walls. Before the revolution, it was the fee of a bilhop, 

 and capital of a country called Auxerrois. The epifcopal, 

 palace was one of the moft beautiful in France. N. lat. 

 47" 47' 57"- L. long. 3° 34' 6". _ 



AUXERROIS, a name given before the revolution to a 

 countryof France, in the northern part of Burgundy ; bound- 

 ed on the ealt and north by Champagne, north- well by Niver- 

 nois, and on the fouth by the reft, of Burgundy, about nine 

 leagues long and i\\e broad. Its capital was Auxerre. 



AUXESIS, in Mythology, a goddefs worftiipped by the 

 inhabitants of Egina, and mentioned by Herodotus and 

 Paufanias. 



AuxEsis, aujntj-if, increafe, m Rhetoric, a figure whereby 

 any thing is magnified too much. See Amplification, 

 and Increment. 



AUXILIARY, any thing that is helping or aflifting to 

 another. For an account of the auxiliary troops of the 

 Romans, fee Alliance. 



Auxiliary Verbs, in Grammar, are fuch as help to af- 

 certain or limit the ftnfe of others ; that is, are prefixed to 

 them to form or denote their moods or tenfes. 



Such, in Euglilh, are have, am, or be ; in French, eire 



and avoir ; in Italian, ho, and fnno, &c The auxiliary atn 



fupplies the want of Passives in our language. 



All the modern languages we know of make ufe of aux- 

 iliary verbs. The realon is, that the verbs thereof do not 

 change their terminations or endings, as thofe of the Latin 

 and Greek, to denote the difterent tenfes or times of being, 

 doing, or futfering ; nor the different moods or manners of 

 their lufFering, &c. : fo that, to fupply this dcfeft, recourfc 

 is had to different auxiliary verbs. 



Befi'les the perfcft auxiliary verbs, we have feveral defec- 

 tive ones J ?.s ilo, ivill, Jhall, may, can, and have; which, by 

 charging ;he terminations, fave the neceflity of changing 

 thofe of the verbs to which they are added. Thus, inltcad 



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