HrEth 
the ang! eP Rg, toppers the line P g to be perpendicular 
to the a of the ecliptic 
+ This ee latitude will be contiually: increafing, 
till it come to the point A, which they call the limit of ut- 
moft extent of it ; and cheat it will a ie till it _ 
to nothing in N; which it will- in gain till 
come be. = ‘and aly = my be* decrealing again, ell the 
es tobe in in 
HE IOCENTROS, j in n Matur al Hiflory, a name given 
to vo an ah of the poifonous kind, called by seee Pha- 
langium de€ticum, and by the Latins Solipug 
HELIOCOMETES, comet of the fun, 
fometimes obfer ved the fetting of the fun yithus ee 7079 
nated by Sturmius and Pylen, who had feen it, becayfe i 
omake a comet of the fun, being a large tad or 
colui | of light, fixed or hung to that luminary, and drag- 
ging after it at its fetting, much in the manner of a tail of a 
comet. 
In that obferved by M. Pylen, at Grypfwald, March 15, 
1702y at five o’clock in the afternoon, the end which touched 
the fun was only half the fun’s diameter broad, but dae other 
end, oppofite to the fun, was much > 3 its length was 
in the fame 
only feen 
higher clouds ; a Resle't elttone agin ibeowered that there 
and lowe eevee thou ugh 
alte sll in = 
tury. 
ova a romance entitled ZEthiopia, and relating the loves 
Theagene es and Chariclea, which is faid to be a very in- 
nious and pleafant aa ag ae has-ferved asa model 
put it to his choice. inches he would. burn his rolnatite ‘or 
Fenounce his bifhopric, he preferred the latter, and was in 
confequence dépaied. fa& is ftated, as the current 
ai by Bayle, who gave no credit to it himielli Moreri. 
y: 
_ HeLtioporus of Lariffa, a Greek carriage — 
flourithed foon after the reign of Tiberius, was autho a 
Pao re yh per a fragment only was publifhed 
tranflation ae the fame by Ignatiu 
Euclid’s O tics. =e moit sated edition of oa Optics 
ef Heliodorus was ed at Paris, in Gree Latin, 
with notes by 
the MS f Ifaac Voffius. Gen. Bio 
y HEL lOGABALUS, 
Bd te: 
to age 
rons that he 
aS 7 
“a “phenomenon 
He is fuppofed to san written a co 
treatife on =e and meéafures, which was found among 
an 
guar s {wo 
, fo Sued dithonoured and polluted ‘shi elty of ay throne, 
HEL 
17. He now affumed, as he ee 
to 
at mofr 
d win the favour and 
ignified name of Antonius oe 
ni of é ae Th oF hi préten 
ining virt 
hould ever be confidered as the ear of his life, and the 
Sins of his berration. he afi ry: to nace with a fort 
Nicomedia he Pans with his own wig te n 8, his precep- 
tor, to whofe exertions he had been oe healy indebted: for 
his vi€tory. He now fhewed his charaéter in its true light, 
and in a very fhort time the mott luxurious saan was 
united to faghe ferocity, and his garb an 
“hs 
scrape on mount 
a. 
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is 
2 
at 
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me 
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an 
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tonal 
° 
which was only a bloc 
Palatine, which he had made the centre of all that was facred 
mothe 
his colleagues on be3 imperi 
women, over which his mother prefided, and prelir 
the modes and ,fafhions which prevailed in his empire. 
liogabalus feemed to have no other ambition than to rat “asd 
in folly and werent the very worlt of his predeceffors. 
Corrupted by his youth, his country, and his fortune, he 
abandoned himfelf to the ‘groffelt pleafures with ungoverned 
ury, oon found difguft and fatiety in the midit of his 
enjoyments. A capricious prodigality a ey the want of 
tafte and elegance. He confounded the order of feafons and 
climates to fport with the alliage a seme i of hia 
fubje&ts, and he fubverted every law of nature and decency: 
be train of concubines, and a rapid fucceflion of wives, 
were infufficient to fatisfy the impotence of his haphare He 
title and aes of the emperor’s; or, as he ityled. himf 
of the emprefs’s hufband. His Sehtcrigas. were felected frond 
the loweft rank and moit infamous character. At 
men 
ftate were onal at their own tame- 
oO 
length all orders of the 
nefs, folly, and difgrace 
his coufin 
ror would 
fot ri is own Con. 
lotted 
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