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rand affaffination him whom he Sor ft not meet in the ficl sa 
mperors and enieiear 
hehe ny — a S a ufe of him as the 
initrument of his mafter’s death. Longinus preferred the life 
and by poifon freed himfelf from 
. Trajan now built his celebrated 
bridge over the Danube, completely conquered Dacia, and 
took poffeffion of its capital. Decebalus, et no chance 
of efcaping from the hands of the emperor, put an end to 
his own life; and with him terminated the independence of 
Dacia, which was aftewards a mere Roman province. He 
had concealed the vaft treafures which he had accumulated, 
but thefe were difcovered to the an and were found 
more than equal to the expence of the war. In the early 
part of life ie pert mae the chanel of being cata: 
wife in council, rompt in ation; fkilful in all the 
maneeuvres of war, " polfeffed of vigour to aa a victory, 
and conftancy to repair a defeat. niv. 
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covin, collufion, and praétice ufed to Becee another by 
any means, 
Deceit is an offence both by common law and by -ftatute. 
All pradtices of defrauding, or endeavouring to defraud, an- 
other of hi able by fine and imprifonment, 
called oe that lies for one who receives injury, or 
damage, 
Screants, counfellors, attornies, and others, chargeable 
with deceit are to mprifoned a year and a day; alfo 
pleaders 7 deceit fall be expelled te court: ftat 
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ation co deceit will give —— in = bagel 
eu: of fraud; and ai on hase 
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lands. acme or chattels, to the rejudice of him that 
hath right. As when by collufion the attorney of the te- 
nant makes default in a real aGion ; or where the fheriff ree 
turns that the tenant was f{ummoned when he was not fo, 
and in cafe he lofes the land, the writ of deceit lies againt 
the demandant and alfo the attorney, or the fheriff and his 
es, In nature o 
of deceit, is more ufually brought on thefe occafions. 
indeed it is the only remedy for a lord of a manor, in or 
out of ancient cae to reverfe a fine or recovery had in 
the king’s courts of lands lying within his furifdi@ion, 
which would otherwife be thereby turned into frank fee. 
And this may be brought by the lord againft the parties, and 
.ceftuy que ufe of fuch fine or recovery 3 and thereby he tha 
obtain judgment not only for damages (which are ufually 
eee but alfo to recover his court and jurifdiGtion over 
the lands, and to annul the former proceedings. 
deceit lies not only againft attornics, for loffes 
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ab in all w 
eas ftatute. lisble o penalties in proportion to their 
on SECEIVED, in the JManege, is ufed when a horfe upon 
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a demi-volt of one or two treads, working, for inftance, to 
te right, and not having yet finifhed above half the demi- 
volt, 1s preffed one time or motion forwards with she inner 
leg, and then 3s put to a reprife upon the left, ia the fam 
cadence with which he began. He thus regains the oe 
where the demi-volt had been begun to the right, and works 
to the left. A horfe may in this manner be deceived on 
Guillet, Gen. DiG. 
EA, or DEcELIA, in Ancient Geography, a town 
of Greeee, in Attica. It was taken and fortified by the 
year; wherein the fun 
makes the winter folitice. 
In Romulus’s year, December was the tenth month ; 
whence the une VIZ. ae decem, ten: for the Romans 
began their has in Mar 
e month of Dec abe was under ane Dalai tad of 
Vefta: Rom sal ieee it thirty days; uced it 
to aa which Julius Cefar areel eG thirty- 
enters the tropic of Capricorn, and 
ei der the reign of Commodus, ed month was called, 
way of flattery, Amazonius, in our of a courtefan, 
whom that prince paffionately red, om had got painted 
like an Amazon; but it only kept the name during that 
emperor’s life 
At the latter end of this month they had the Juveniles 
ludi, and the country people kept the feaft of the goddefs 
oo in the fields, having then gathered in their fruits, 
and fown their corn; whence feems to be derived our po- 
puler “feltival called harveft-home. 
DECEMBI a Pierro Canpipo, in Biography, alearn- 
at Pa avia,in 1 3¢ 
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arms of Francis Sforza, he refufed to accept the ee 
office of furrendering the city to the conqueror. When the 
caufe of Milan was hopelefs, he became apoftolic feeretary 
holas 
pian’s Hiftory ;”? ‘ Quintus Curtius,” and the 
books of Livy’s Hiftory. This was by the command of 
king Alphonfo. He tranflated into Latin profe, the hif- 
tory of Dindoras Siculus, and various other works of the 
ancients, and was author of many mifcellaneous pieces in 
profe and verfe, in the Latin and Itahan langua ages He 
died at Mi‘an in the year ely Bog was buried in the cas 
thedral of St. Ambrofe. 
M-PAGI, in Ae an Dieaze, a place 
f Gaul, in Belgica Prima, belonging to the Mediomatrici, 
0] ons aravi. 
A, Seamus, ten-feet rod; an inftrument 
ufed oF abs eae mealuring. 
The a was a rule or i divided into - feet 
whence i i nae hom decemy, ten, and pes, pedis, 
The foot was fubdivided into twelve inches ; md each 
inch into ten digits. : 
The 
