NUM 
eal is fuppofed to be divided into, are expreffed by the 
fractio 
umerator is that part of a fraGtion which is placed 
over the little ri by which it is feparated from the under 
number called the ana and which fhews into how 
many Parts the integer is divided 
v. gr. 5 exprefies feven tenths ; where feven is 
€ 
the numerator and ten the denominator. FRACTION 
NUMERIA ; AURELIUS, in Biography, an 
emper f Ro in conjun@ion with Carinus, (fee hi 
article,) was fecond fon of the emperor Carus. _ On the 
companied in his expedition into Perfia. This young prince 
was diftinguifhed by Lagat ble of his temper 
and underftandin affable, and had from 
a very early period cultivated literature with fuccefs. Bein 
in his youth, i » he had ex reifed = hati 
v 
c 
well as adorn, ices humbleft and the moft 
exalted ftations. But the talents of Numerian were me 
of the contemplative, than of the active kind.”” When his 
father’s elevation relu€tantly forced him from the fhade of 
retirement, neither his temper nor his purfuits had qualified 
conftitution was 
a long retreat, to 
confine himfelf to the folitude or darknefs of a tent or litter. 
The adminiftration of all affairs, civil as well as military, 
was —— on Arrius Aper, the Pretorian prefe&t, who, 
to the power of his important office, adde . the honour of 
— fatherindaw ¢ to Numerian. my was eight 
onths on march from the banks of ce Tigris to ‘the 
Thracia n Bolphor us, oe dong ja . the peace 
authority was exerci n the na mperor, w 
never appeared to his ce. eee at es rae 
among them that. their emperor was no longer living, and 
they could not be prevented from breaking into the imperial 
tent, where they difcovered only the corpfe. How or what 
time he died was never afcertained, but te general voice ac- 
cufed Aper of being his murderer ; his was inter- 
preted as an evidence.of ae and the meafures which Aper 
— en aes his eleGtion the immediate 
c 
to fufpicion, he 
is th cided of Numerian,’’ and without giving re 
time to ente a juftific tion of his condu&, drew his 
alt of a unfortunate pre- 
{word, and cued: it in the brea 
fe&. (See - Drocrestan. ) Gibbon’s Roman Jaltery, 
NUM 
NUMERI ICAL, NuMEROus, or Numeral, fomething 
that sons to number 
NUMERICAL Algebra i is that, which makes ufe of numbers, 
ao of lets of the alphabet. 
L Difference, is ae difference ety one in- 
vial is i didingiathed from another 
nce a thing i is faid to be sanencdly the fame, idem n 
ee or numerice, when it is the ae ein the ftriGeft fenfe of 
the word. See Unt NITY and os ENT 
N 
in Commerce refixed to any 
he, number of things ; 3 marked or “abbreviated thus, N°. See 
B 
c¢] 
“De Numero, i.e. by tale, is ufed in ancient authors for 
the payment e. gr. of a pound ina certain number of pieces, 
viz. twenty fhillings. 
a contradiftinGtion to libra penfa, or a pound weighed 
ut. 
* NUMEROUS ARITHMETIC. a ARITHMETIC. 
Numerous Exegefis, See Exz 
U » in Ancient Gingraphys a agin of Africas 
comprehended, according to Strabo, the kingdoms of the 
Maffyli and Matfefyli, the laft of hich was bounded on 
was on the E. by the T 
the Mediterranean ; on the S. by 
interior ; on the 
rom Mauritania, and on 
which it had in common with Africa Pro Its length 
= arene allowing a va to be oi Sete Mullooiah 
o be Zaine, above Boo miless 
ever, if 
Maffyli, and Mauritania | Cefarienfis, or that of the Maf- 
fefyh, os from 34° 5' to 37° N. lat., and from 1° 15? 
7 of Lond a 
ria, or as. it is fometimes called, Terra 
re territory of 
ver Tufca, and 
Numi dia os 
Metagonitis, a feparated from the 
arthage by its eaftern boundary, the 
from the kingdom of the Maffefyli, or Mauritania Cafe 
rienfis, according to Pliny, by the Ampfa ga. This feem 
to correfpond with that part of the province of rey eee 
lying between the Zaine and the Wed el Kibeer, which is 
above 130 miles long and more than 100 broad. On the 
fea-coaft this province is, in general, mountainous and rocky, 
dwah,” the high or lofty. The principal places in this 
province were Cirta Azama,. . p agnus, 
ippo Regius, Tabraca, Naragara, Sicca, Thi 
Thambes, ane to Tabrace, the Mampfarusof Ptolemy,. 
which feparated the Sahara from Mauritania Stifenfis, and 
udus of Ptolemy, or the Mons -Aurafius of 
the middle ages, known among the Turks by the name of, 
Jibbel Aurefs. The rivers are the faga, the Armua 
of Pliny or modern Sei-boufe, the Rubricatus of Ptolemy. 
or pe of the Algerines, and the a now called 
the Zai ee 
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