Nae: 
‘ difpirited and divided people. 
”.-of fovereignty. 
the Old Teltament 
= Gane 8 pall 
HER 
of — whats much inferior in extent to Mercia, was 
fent an army i 
soe of PEthelwolpis, his eldeit fon, and made_himfelf 
matter of that country, by the expulfion of Baldred, the tri- 
reg king « Lhe Regd of Et ex was Sovquered:: with 
calamities facilitated the enterprifes of Bee who, advanc- 
ing to the centre of the Mercian territories, eafily fubdued a 
That they might the more 
readily fubmit, he allowed Wi glaf, their countryman, to 
retain the title of king, whilit he exercifed the real powers 
The anarchy of Northumberland afforded 
him the opportunity of an eafy conquelt ; but he allowed to 
Northumberland, as he had done to Mere and Eaft-Anglia, 
the power of electing a king, who was to be his dependent, 
andto ay him tribute. The territories of Egbert, after the 
incorporation and union of thefe feveral ftates, were nearly of 
_ the fame éxtent with what is now properly called England ; 
anda favourable profpect was afforded to the Anglo-Saxoni 
of eftablifhing a civilized monarchy, poffefling tranquillity 
within itfelf, and fecure againit any foreign invafion. This 
reat event naawes inthe year 827. Rapin’s Hilt. vol. i. 
ume’s Hitt. v 
HEPTA ASTADIUM, q. d. feven ftadia, in. Aucient Geo- 
graphy, a country, or mole, which gy the ifle of Pharos 
ne to the continent. See A ALEXANDRIA and 
Le 
HEPTAT EUCH, in Manet of Literature, a volume, or 
work, confilting of feven b 
he word is ARISES oy ote ixTz, feven, a and TOK I do, 
I work; whence tux, a work, book; andi imrurivySvy be 
tateuch, a work of feven parts, or faven different shai joined 
in one ecbiines 
Heptateuch is chiefly applied to the firt feven books of 
3 wiz. Gayeie, Exodus, Leviticus, Nun. 
bers, Deuteron nomy, d Judges; that is, the five 
books of Mofes, called ae Sa and the two following 
ones, which are ufually joined with the ot 
HER, Ex, in Geograph bys a town of ie. defert of Syria; 
18 miles E. of Taib es 
HERA, meena of oh to which Mahomet often 
retired before h appeared in ise world as a prophet ; three 
miles from. Mask: 
ies 
mo 
the place now called 
a to own of the’ ifland of Sardinia, 
- It was afterwards 
= ban recovered its liberty by the exertions of Nym 
HER 
named Ad Herculem in the Itinerary of Antonine—Alfo, a 
town of 'T “yrr rrhenia.— oe a town of ‘Triphylia, almott N 
of Olympiai—Alfo, a 
a sadirs “ef Mace outs called by Pliny Heracla Sintica.— 
Alfo, a town of Macedonia, on the coait, N. of the iithmus 
of mount Athos.—Alfo, a town of Greece, in the Phthiotide, 
a country of Theflaly.—Alfo, a n of Acarnania, accord. 
ing to Play, who fays that it was fituated on the fea coalt, 
on the confines of Etolia.—Alfo, a town 1 of Afia, in the 
e Maryandenz, and a colon 
—Alfo, a town of 
the Peloponnefus, in the Elide, near beat hoe 
to Strabo it was fituated on the river Cytherius, about 
{tadia from Olympia.—Alfo, a town of the Thracian Cher. 
fonefus, fituated at the mouth of the —— and at the 
ithmus of the Cherfonefus.—Alfo, a to Tracey 
placed by Pliny at the - of mount flies rshlies a town 
of Thrace, near Calatis, towards the mouth of the Danube, 
which did not fubfiit in An time of Pliny.—Alfo, a maritime 
town fituated on the northern coaft of the ifle of Crete, N. 
of Gnoflus, of which, according | to Strabo, it was the fea. 
port. Pliny fays that it was oppofite to the ifland of Dia; 
and it " fuppofed to have ftood on the fame {pot where the 
town of Candia, which gave name to the whole ifland,. was 
built in after ages. (See Caypra.)—Alfo, an ifland of the 
‘Sarpatinaa, fea. Steph. me 7.—Alfo, a town of Afia Minor, 
y called Latmos, fituated at the 
Latmus remained under the dominion of « 
her death, -but pak ane =e its ib 
was long 
Id in veneration —Alfo, a town of Afian in Syria fituated 
ona peninfula formed on the coaft,—Alfo, a 
Minor, in Caria.—Alfo, a village of Afia Mino: ae before the 
gulf of Adramy ttium, over-againit the ifland of paar oh 
rice. —Alf{o, a town of Afia, in oS beraea t — 
fea, in the country of the sarin according to Phinys 
who fays that it was built by Alexander, and, i — 
1 
been deitroyed, rebuilt by Atioehis who gave it t nd 
a Achaide.—Allo, atown of Egypt, between Pelufium a 
muis, according to ileus oat a town of Africa; } 
Lib a. Steph. sme . 
: oh ACLEA Pontica, a town of Afia tage fituated 0” 
{mall ulf formed by the. Euxine oe This c ty maintained 
ee rned bp = own magi 
Mithridates 
ommon rier. 
ao 
d and Panteces aes that it was ig by a ret 
Megara, to which were jomed Becotians, mee of Tai a 
expofed to the inyafior ge 
itorian, a pative of the place, who devi ce 
livering his country. Heraclea furnifhed fuccours to*"" 
againit tance > 
marine to Rome, twithitanding a ares 
offenfive and Setenkee. | Seles Rome an Heracleay 
pillaged by Cotta, under a pretext of i its svaiieg the ¢ 8 
wn of Greece, in the Sintic territory, _ 
Antiyonus, ae though it afforded seh f liane 
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