OCT 
them to Athens. Here fhe’ debt the sphagd : and dif- 
anc efpairing now of 
a 
liberally entertained all her h 8 
fent to Rome on ages = ufed her beft sane . 
promote his inte tachment, however, to Cleo- 
patra rendered him infenfible . her — - folemnly 
divorced her and married Cleopatra. man people 
were not lefs indignant than her brother A this profligate 
conduét, which Odavia herfelf, we are informed, chiefly 
lamented on this account, that fhe fhould become one of 
vered. The effe 
in seri fixth Afneid, in commemoration o 
youth, is highly characteriftic of a mother’s feelings. When 
the poet, reciting them in her prefence, came to tHe name, of 
Marcellus, artfully fuppreffed, to make the clofe and climax 
n her recovery, 
that lamente 
extraordinary ho onours were pai ve er memory by 
rother and the fenate. See the article ANTony. ie. 
nius. Plutarch 
OCTAVIER, Fr. in Mufic. When a wind inftrument 
is over blown, the tone inftantly breaks into the otave. 
This is what the Fren oGtavier implies. In thus 
forcing the infpiration, the air inclofed in the tube, and 
conttrained by the outward air,,is oblige e way 
e bow is too violent, 
t is one . the defeéts of an 
00 paras a wind’ to 
a eafily m row eyS, 
hofe not to the ufual n cine, perhaps ag more than ties 
: e ean ones extendin 
OCTELINE, aes coesllenss ae oe fame diminu- 
tive kind . ba 
OCTE 
iliomecres, in 17 C nes. 
OCTILE, in Afrrology. See OcTANT. 
OCTO, ‘Ad Octo. eg = CTO. 
Ocro Talks. See Tar 
OcT 
OCTOBER, the oon month of the year in Romu. 
lus’s calendar; though the tenth in that of Numa, Julius 
Cefar, &c. confilting of thirt -one days. 
Odober has ftill Slaps its fir name in ite : all the 
different names the fenate and Roman emperars w 
Commodus would ha 
and Domitian made it be called Domitianus, after his own 
name. 
OCTOBLEPHARUM, in Botany, fo named = 
e Bryun albidum of Linneus, 
only known re as of Hedwig's fyftem 
pacha the eftablifhment of this a and it ‘hae: that 
nature here confirms his artificial ae (See FRinGE of 
Moffes, and Hepwic.) Hedw. Sp. go. Crypt. 
v. 3-15. Bridel. Mufc. v. 2. 50. Ostoephaces Schreb. 
758.) Clafs and eee " Cryptogamia Mufe. t. Ord. 
Ufc. 
ONT Ch. Fringe of a fimple equidiftant teeth. Cap- 
fule without anu apophyfi 
1. O. albidum hae Crypt. fafc. 3. t. 6. f, A. 
(Bryum albidum; Linn. Sp. Pl 1583. Swartz Obf. t.11. 
B. nanum, larignis foliisalbis; Dull. Mufc. 364. t. 46. £21.) 
—Dillenius received this mofs from ‘* Providence ifland in 
America,” but from which of the two iflands fo named does 
not appear. Dr. Swartz found it in i and we have the 
fame from the Eat Indies, gathered by - Buchanan. 
he frequent Kise etween the eens vege- 
tables of the two Indies, is a curious circumftance in the 
philofophy of faay ; as well as that between the aquatic 
plants of widely diftant, and even different, climates. This 
ing tufts on the trunks of 
markable for its white, rather opaque, though 
glittering, esi with pons a of green, in which 
refpects it oo with our glaucum, and” the 
Sphagnum, or -Mofs, shone vmoitture e, like them, 
with the greateft Fey, though ever fo long dried. The 
caves are linear, fomewhat {patulate, entire, fpongy, without 
any rib, {preading in every direction, {carcely half an eae 
ong. Anthers red, a axillary tufts, ed ded by fo 
leaves. Capfules on the fame plant, axillary, elliptical, 
a pale brown, i flalks a“ ut Half an inch long, 
Lid conical, than the capfule. 
Fringe rr ee eth broad at the bafe, on. 
pe 
Q 
Sc 
TOGON, or a hoa in Geometry, a figure of 
eight _ and eight angle 
hen all the fides and ails are equal, it is called a 
regular paagan: or an otogon that may be infcribed in a 
ir 
rcle. 
To make an octogon ona given = AB. re 
and BE (Plate X. Coa jg. 8.) perpendicular to 
B: produce b ways, spi bife& the les 
mA F and 2DE aie the lines A » each equal 
o AB: draw C D and H G parallel s AF or BE, and 
an equal toA on the radius A B, and on the centres 
and D, deferibe arcs interfeGting A F and D E in F and 
E: th in ; E D, an DCB is 
e 
the figure required. In or and a given circle, to defcribe ' 
a {quare, or an o€togon two diameters, AB, CD 
perpendicular to each other 
all have the infcri 
through their extremities draw tangents parallel to eta: 
and they will form the outer fquare mnop. If any quad- 
rant, as A C, be bifected in g, it will give oneweighth of the 
cir cume 
