RUB 



RUB 



comprehended by Schreber under Callicocca ; Morinda ; 

 Nauclea ; and Cepbalaulhus. 



Seft. 10. Rubiaceous genera, -with the nature of luhofe 

 fruits JuJJleu tvas not, as yet, fujficiently acquainted. 



Seriffa of Commerfon, Lamarck Illullr. t. 151, which 

 L'Hentier named Buchozia ; and found to have a berry with 

 two feeds ; Pagamea of Aublet, Lamarck Illufti. t. 88 ; 

 Faramea of the fame, ibid. t. 63 ; and. Hydrophylax of 

 Linn. Suppl. 



RUBICAN, in the Manege. A horfe is faid to be of a 

 rubican colour, that is a bay, forrel, or black, with a light 

 grey or white upon the flanks, but fo that this grev or white 

 is not predominant there. 



RUBICILLA Americana, in Ornithology, a name 

 given by Mr. Ray to the guirntirica, a Brafilian bird, of the 

 bull-finch kind, very beautifully variegated with red, black, 

 and grey. 



RUBICOLA, a fpecies of Motacilla ; which fee. 



RUBICON, in Geography, a river of Italy, famous in 

 Roman hiftory, now a diminutive ftream, and called by 

 fome Fiumefino, and by others Pifatello (which fee), which 

 enters the Adriatic about eight miles N. of Rimini. — Alfo, 

 a department of Italy, compofed of part of the Romagna. 

 It contains about 105,000 inhabitants, who eleft 12 deputies. 

 The capital is Rimini. 



RUBICULUS, in Ichthyology, a name given by Fi- 

 gulus and fome others to that fpecies of fi(h which we call 

 the roach. It is of the cyprinus kind, and is diftinguifhed 

 by Artedi under the name of the red-eyed cyprinus, with 

 the tail and belly-fins red. See CypRiNus. 



RUBIELOS, in Geography, a town of Spain, in Ars- 

 gon ; 22 miles S.E. of Teruel. 



RUBIERA, a town of Italy, in the department of the 

 Panaro ; five miles W. of Modena. 



RUBIFYING, formed of rulens, ruddy, and fo, I be- 

 come, in Chemiflry, &c. the aft of turning a thing red by 

 force of fire, &c. 



Red arfenic is common white arfenic rubified by a mix- 

 ture of fulphur and copper. 



RUBIGALIA, or Robigalia, in Antiquity, a feaft 

 celebrated by the Romans, in honour of the god Rubigus, 

 or the goddefs Rubigo ; to engage thofe deities to preferve 

 the corn from blading and mildews. 



The Rubigalia were inftituted by Numa in the eleventh 

 year of his reign ; and were held on the feventh of the 

 calends of May, which is our twenty-fifth of April; being 

 about the time when the blight or mildew, called by the 

 Latins rubigo, ufes to attack the corn. 



Varro fixes it to the time when the fun enters the 16th 

 degree of Taurus. Indeed the true time feems rather to 

 have been on the 18th day before the equinox, and the true 

 reafon. becaufe then Canicula, or the Little Dog, fets ; 

 which is elleemed a malific conltellation. 



Hence they facrificed a dog to Rubigo : Ovid fays, the 

 entrails of a dog, and thofe of a fheep ; Columella, only 

 3. fucking puppy. Feftus infinuates, that the viftim mull 

 alfo be red, 



RUBIGO, or Robigo, a difeafe incident to corn, po- 

 pularly called mildew. 



The rubigo is a fpecies of blight. See Blight, and 

 Rust of corn. 



RUBIN of Antimsny, in Chemiflry, a kind of liver of 

 antimony, made with equal parts of nitre and crude anti- 

 mony detonated together, to which is afterwards added an 

 equal quantity of common fait. It is alfo called magnefia 

 Qpalina. 



RuBI.v, or Roboan, in Geography, a fmall ifland near the 

 coaft of Arabia, at the entrance of the drafts of Babel- 

 mandeb, near a projecting cape of the continent,. and accef- 

 fible by fording at low-water. Pilots are obtained here to 

 navigate veffels through the llraits, and to different ports in 

 the Red fea. 



RUB1NELLI, Giovanni, in Biography, an Italian 

 opera finger of the firft clafs for voice, figure, aftion, and 

 knowledge, arrived in England, from Florence, in April, 

 1786. His journey hither from Rome, where he fnng 

 during the carnival of this year, was not very propitious, as 

 the weather was uncommonly inclement ; and he was not 

 only overturned in his chaile at Macon, in France, but 

 after quitting the (hip, in which he failed from Calais to 

 Dover, the boat that was to have landed him was overfet 

 near the (liore, and he remained a considerable time up to 

 his chin in water, to the great rifle of his health, his voice, 

 and even his life. The firll time we meet with his name in 

 the dramatis perfonx of an opera is in " Caliroe," fet by 

 Sacchini, for Stutgard, in 1770, where he performed the 

 part of fecond man. He feems to have continued at the 

 court of Wirtemberg, in no higher ftation, feveral years, as 

 Grafll and Muzio are named before him in the " Indice de' 

 Spettacoli Theatrale." His name does not appear as firft 

 ferious man in Italy till 1774, when he fung at Modena, in. 

 Paeficllo's " Aleffandro nell' Indie," and Anfofli's " De- 

 mofoonte." After this, he appeared as principal finger in 

 all the great theatres of Italy, till his arrival in London, 

 The firft opera in which Rubinelli appeared in England was 

 a palticcio, called " Virginia," May the 4th. His own 

 part, however, was chiefly compofed by Angiolo Tarchi, 

 a young Neapolitan, then advancing into eminence with 

 great rapidity. Rubinelli is in figure tall and majeftic, in 

 countenance mild and benign. There is dignity in his ap- 

 pearance on the flage j and the inflant the tone of hie voice 

 is heard, there remains no doubt witli the audience of his 

 being the firft linger. It is a true and full contralto from 

 C, in the middle of the fcale, to the oftave above. He 

 fometimes, however, goes down to G, and up to F ; but 

 neither the extra low notes nor the high are very full. All 

 above C is falfet, and fo much more feeble and of a different 

 regifler from the reft, that we were uneafy when he tranf- 

 cended the compafs of his natural and real voice. His 

 fhake is not fufficiently open ; but in other refpefts he is an 

 admirable finger. His flyle is grand, and truly dramatic. 

 His execution is neat and diftinft. His tafte and embellifh- 

 ments are new, feleft, and mafterly. His articulation is fo 

 pure and well accented, in his recitatives, that no one who 

 underftands the Italian language can ever want to look at 

 the book of the words, while he is finging. His cheft is 

 fo ftrong, and his intonation fo perfeft, that we have very 

 feldom heard him fing out of tune. His voice is more clear 

 and certain in a theatre, where it has room to expand, than 

 in a room. He had a greater variety of embelli fitments 

 than any finger we had heard, except Pacchierotti, who 

 not only furpaffes him in richnefs of invention and fancy, 

 but in the native pathbs, and touching ex predion of his 

 voice. Yet Rubinelli, from the fulneis of his voice, and 

 greater fimplicity of ftyle, pleafes a more coniiderable num- 

 ber of his hearers than Pacchierotti, though none perhaps, 

 fo exqtiifitely, as that finger ufed to pleafe his real ad- 

 mirers. Rubinelli finding himfelf cenfured on his firft ar- 

 rival in England for changing and embellifhing his airs, fung 

 " Return, O God of Hofts," at Weftminder Abbey, in 

 fo plain and unadorned a manner, that thofe who venerate 

 Handel the mod, thought him bald and infipid. Indeed, 



