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treatifes ; a corrected edition of " Ariftotle's Poetics," 

 together with a paraphrafe on ''Horace's Art of Poetry ;" 

 an edition of the " Tragedies of iEfchylus ;" of " iElian's 

 Tactics," with a Latin wrfion ; and of " Longinus de 

 Sublimitatc," with annotations. He alfo puhlillied a valuable 

 work " De Vita et ViCln Populi Romani fub Imperatori- 

 bus Csefaribus Auguftis," with ten other di(fertations on 

 fubjects of Roman antiquity. 



ROBUR CaROLINUM, in AJlroncmy. See RoYAL 



Oak. 



ROBUSTI, Giacopo, in Biography. See Tinto- 

 retto. 



ROC A, or Rocca, in Geography, a clufter of iflands in 

 the Caribbean fea, near the coait of South America. N. 

 lat. 12° 20'. W. long. 66 D 6\ 



Roca, Cape, a cape on the W. coaft of Portugal, ge- 

 nerally called by the Englifh failors the " Rock of Lifbon." 

 N. lat. 38° 45'. W. long. 90' 34'. 



Roca Point, a cape on the E. coaft of England, in the 

 county of Durham. N. lat. 55° 1'. W. long. 1° 21'. 



ROCAB, a town of Arabia, in Hadramaut ; co miles 

 S.S.W. of Sahar. 



ROCABERTI, JOHN Thomas DE, in Biography, a 

 Spanifh prelate in the feventeenth century, was defcended 

 from a noble family, and born at Pefelada, or. the frontiers 

 of Catalonia, about the year 1624. He entered into the 

 order of St. Dominic ; was made provincial of Aragon in 

 1666; general of his order in 1670 ; archbifhop of Valentia 

 in 1676; inquifitor-general in Spain in 1695; and twice 

 appointed viceroy of Valentia. By his authority as general, 

 he feleifled from the mafs of manufcripts belonging to his 

 order, the molt valuable unpublilhed labours of feveral of its 

 members, which he directed to be printed, but at his own 

 private expence. Befides fome devotional tra&s, he pub- 

 lished a treatife " De Romani Pontificis Auftoritate," 

 1693, in three vols, folio. This work was very favourably 

 received in Spain and in Italy ; but the fale of it was pro- 

 hibited in France, by a decree of the parliament of Paris. 

 He fpared no pains in procuring all the treatifes which had 

 been compofed by different authors in defence of the pope's 

 authority and infallibility, and made provifion for their 

 being printed in an uniform edition at Rome. This enor- 

 mous collection is entitled " Bibltotheca Maxima Pontiiica," 

 &c, and coniiitsof twenty-one folio volumes. The arch- 

 bifhop died in 1699. 



ROCAIBA, in Geography, a town of Arabia, in the 

 province of Hedsjas ; 120 miles E.N.E. of Mecca. — Alfo, a 

 town of Arabia, in the province of Nedsjed ; 17 miles E. of 

 Mecca. 



ROCAMA, in Botany, an Arabian name, applied by 

 Forlkall, in his FI. iEgypt-Atab. 71, to the Linnaean Tri- 

 anthema petitandra, which he there eflabliihes as a diilintt 

 genus. See TlUANTHEMA. 



ROCAMADOUK, in Geography, a town of France, 

 in the department of the Lot ; 22 miles N. of Cahors. N. 

 lat. 44 48'. E. long. i°42\ 



ROCAMBOLE,^ mild fort of garlic, by fome called 

 Spanifh garlic ; being much of the nature of fhalot ; and 

 well known in cookery, in quality of a fauce. See Al- 

 lium. 



ROCAPARTIDA, in Geography, an iflaiid in the North 

 Pacific ocean. S. lat. i(< . W. long. 92 14'. 



ROCAS, a town of Arabia, in the province of Oman, 

 near the fea ; 30 miles W.N.W. of Oman. 



ROCAVION, a town of France, in the department of 

 the Stura; five miles S.S.W. of Coni. 



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ROCCA, Angelo, in Biography, a learned Italian 

 monk and titular biihop, was a native of Rocca Contrata, a 

 town m the marchc of Ancona, and born in the year 154- 

 When young he took the habit among the hermits of St.' 

 Auguftme, and purfued his lludies at Rome, Venice, Pe- 

 rufia, and Padua. Having dill inguifhed himfclf by his 

 proficiency in the various branches of literature, facrcd and 

 profane, he was honoured with the degree of doctor of di- 

 vinity by the umverfity of Padua, and afterwards acquired 

 much celebrity as a preacher at Venice. His general ap- 

 pointed him to feveral confidential and honourable employ- 

 ments, and at laft made him fecretary to his order. After 

 he had retained this pod fome years, pope Sixtus V. 

 placed him in the Vatican in 1585, and confided to hi-; 

 fupenntendance thofe editions of the bible, the councils, 

 and the fathers, which iffued from the apoftolical prefs dur- 

 ing his pontificate. In the year 1595, pope Clement VIII., 

 by way of reward for thefe fervices, made him apoftolical 

 faenrtan, and titular bifliop of Tagafte in Numidia. He 

 collefted a very large and excellent library, which he left 

 by his will to the Auguftinian monaftery at Rome ; but 

 upon the exprefs condition, that it mould be always open 

 for the benefit of the public. This was the firft library 

 formed in that city to which the public had freedom of 

 accefs, and it was properly called, after the name of its 

 beneficent founder, the " Angelical Library." Rocca died 

 in 1620, at the age of 75. He publifhed " Bibliotheca 

 Theologica et Scripturalis ;" " Notre in Novum Teitamen- 

 tum;" " De Patientia ;" « De Cometis ;" " Obfervationes 

 in VI Libros Elegantiarum Laur. Valla; ;" " Obfervationes 

 de Lingua Latina ;" and other pieces which were collected 

 together, and printed in two vols, folio, in the year 1719. 

 From his manufcripts was alfo publifhed, in 1745, a very 

 enrious collection, entitled " Thefaurus Pontificiarum An- 

 tiquitatum, necnon Rituum ac Casremoniarum ;" in two 

 vols, folio. 



Rocca, in Geography, a town of Iftria ; one mile N. of 



Monfalcone Alfo, a town of Naples, in Lavora ; 19 miles 



N. of Sezza — Alfo, a fmall ifland in the Weft Indies ; 24 

 miles W. of Orchilla. — Alfo, a town of the Ligunan 

 republic; nine miles S.E. of Genoa.— Alfo, a town of 

 Italy, on the eaft bank of lake Maggiore ; 30 miles N.W. 

 of Milan. 



Rocca, La, a town on the S.W. coaft of the ifland of 

 Canary ; 15 miles S.W. of Civdad de los Palmas. 



Rocca Albegna, a town of Etruna ; 28 miles S. of 

 Sienna. 



ROCCA dell' A/pro, a town of Naples, in Principato Citra ; 

 15 miles W.S.W. of Cangiauo. 



Rocca Bruno, a town of France, in the department of 

 the Maritime Alps, near the coaft of the Mediterranean ; 

 three miles E.N.E. of Monaco. 



Rocca Contrada, a town of the duchy of Urbino ; 24 

 miles E. S.E. of Urbino. 



Roi ( a del Efie, a rocky iflet among the Canaries ; eight 

 miles E. of Gratiofu. 



Rocca Gloriofa, a town of Naples, in Principato Citra ; 

 feven miles W. of Policaftro. 



Rocca Lanxont, a town of the duchv of Parma; nine 

 miles W.S.W.of Parma. 



Ron \ del Marino, a town of Italy, in the Tivvifan ; 16 

 miles N. of Trevigio. 



R0C( \ Minolfa, a town of Naples, in the county of 

 Mol fe ; • : 1 lilea S. of Molife. 



Roci \ M nfena, a town of Naples, in Lavora ; three 

 miles N. of Sezza, 



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