B O E 
6 . Boerhaavia anguftifolia: leaves linear, acute. The 
native place not known. 
7.. Boerhaavia tetrandra : flem creeping, flowers fonr- 
flamened. Native of the Society Kies ; found in the ifland 
of Htutheine, May 1 Sth, 1774. 
Propagation and Culture. The fil'd:, fecond, and third, 
forts are annual plants, which decay in autumn, but the 
fourth fort is perennial: they are all tender plants, and 
will not thrive in the open air in England ; they are pro¬ 
pagated by feeds, which mud be fown on a hot-bed in the 
ipring; and, when the plants are fit to be removed, they 
fliould be each planted in a frnall pot and plunged into 
the hot-bed, and treated as other tender exotic plants. 
When they are grown too tall to remain under a common 
frame, a plant or tw o of each fort fliould be placed in the 
dove; the others may be turned out of the pots, and 
planted in a warm border, where, if the feafon proves 
warm, they will perfect their feeds ; thefe however are 
fubjecd to fail in cold feafons, but thofe in the flove will 
always ripen their feeds in autumn; the fourth fort may 
be preferved in a warm dove two or three years. 
BOES'CHOT, a town of Brabant, feated on the river 
Nethe twelve miles north-ead of Malines. 
BOETHB 1 MA'TICA, J. [i 3 on 9 s/ to aflifl.] In medi¬ 
cine, it is applied to the fighs or fymptoms of a difeafe 
which prognodicate a cure. 
BOE'TH IE(Etienne de la), of Sarlat in Perigord, con- 
feiller au parlement de Bordeaux, cultivated both Latin 
and French poetry with fuccefs. He was an author at the 
age of fix teen, and died at thirty-two in 1563, at Germig- 
nan, two leagues from Bordeaux. Montaigne, his friend, 
to whom he left his library, collected his works in Bvo. 
in 1571. They confid of tranflations of feveral works of 
Plutarch and Xenophon, of political difeourfes, pieces of 
poetry, &c. His Aul/ienolicon, or Voluntary Slavery, was 
publidied in 1575, at the time of the bloody didenlions 
about religion in France. 
BOE'THIUS, or Boetius (Flavius Anicius Manlius 
Torquatos Severinus), a profe and poetical writer of the 
dxth century, born of one of the nobleft families in Rome. 
His father dying when he was an infant, he was feat to 
Athens, where iie not only attained to a perfect knowledge 
of the Greek tongue, but alio of philofophy, and all other 
kinds of fcience. Returning to Rome, lie lbon became 
univerfally edeemed, and was advanced to the chief dig¬ 
nities of his country. 1111523, having remondrated with 
great fpirit againd the conduit of Theodoric, who began 
every day to exert new indances of tyranny, he fell under 
his refentment ; and foon after was accufed of having car¬ 
ried on a coafpiracy with the emperor jhdin againd the 
Goths. Theodoric brought the canfe before the fenate, 
where the accufer.s producing fuborned evidence, who ex¬ 
hibited forged letters to Judin in the name of Boethius, 
though abfent, unheard, undefended, he was condemned 
to death : but the king, fearing the confequence of Inch 
injudice and inhumanity, changed his fentence from death 
to banifhment. He was banidied to Milan, or, as others 
fay, confined to Ticinum, now Pavia ; and all his friends 
forbidden to accompany him on his way, or to follow him 
thither. During his exile, he wrote his books of the con- 
folation of philofophy, and that upon the trinity. The 
year following, or fomewhat later, according to fome 
writers, he was beheaded in prifon by the command of 
Theodoric. The tomb of Boethius is to be feen in the 
church of St. Augudine at Pavia, near to the deps of the 
chancel, with the following epitaph : 
Matonia et Latia lingua clariflimus, et qui 
Conful eram, hie perii, miiltis in exilium. 
Et quid mors rapuit ? Probitas me vexit ad auras ; 
Et nunc fama viget maxima, vivit opus. 
Boethius wrote many philofophical works, the greater 
part in the logical way : but his ethic piece, De Conlola- 
tione Philofophiae, is his chief performance, and has al¬ 
ways been juftly admired both for the matter and for -the 
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dyle. It is a fuppofed conference between the author and 
philofophy, who as a petTon endeavours to comfort him ; 
and is partly profe, and partly verle. It was. rendered 
into Englidi by our Chaucer; and Camden tells ns, that 
queen Elizabeth, after having read it to mitigate grief, 
trandated it alio into very elegant Engliflt. A writer of 
didindtion obferved, that “ with Boethius the Latin 
tongue, and the lad remains of Roman dignity, may be 
faid to have funk in the weftern world.” The bed edition 
of his works is that of Leyden, 1671, in 8vo. 
BOF'FIN LOUGH, a lake of Ireland, formed in the 
river Shannon, eight miles north-north-wed of Langford. 
BOF'FRAND (Germain), a celebrated French archi- 
terit and engineer, was born at Nantes in Bretagne in 1667. 
He was brought up under Harduin Manfarad, who en- 
trufled him with conducing his greated works. Bofirand 
was admitted into the French Academy of Architecture 
iu 1709. Many German princes chofe him for their ar¬ 
chitect, and railed confiderable edifices on his plans. His 
manner of building approached that of Palladio; and 
there was much of grandeur in all his deligns. As engi¬ 
neer and inlpeftor-general of bridges and highways, he- 
direfted and conflruCted a number of canals, fluices, 
bridges, and other mechanical works. He publidied a. 
curious and ufeful book, containing the general principles 
of his art; with an account of the plans, profiles, and 
elevations, of the principal works, which he 'executed in 
France and other countries. BofFrand died at Paris in 
1755, dean °f t * ie Academy of Architecture, fird engineer 
and infpeitor-general of the bridges and highways, ar¬ 
chitect and adminidrator of the general hofpital. 
BOG,/ [fome derive it of baagen, Dut. to be.id, be- 
caule it gives way when it is trod upon, or quayg, Eng. 
or rather gweeg, and guac, Sax. armoric, tender, and foft; 
bog, foft, Irifli. bague, Fr.] A mardi, a morals, aground 
too foft to bear the weight of the body.—Through fire 
and through flame, through ford and whirlpool, o’er bog, 
and quagmire. Shahefpcare. 
BOG, a river which rifes in Podolia, and joins the 
Dnieper a little above Otchakov. 
BOG, or Bog of Gight, a fmall town of Scotland, 
feated near the mouth of the river Spey. 
BOGANEU', a town of Bohemia, in the circle of Ohru- 
dim : fix miles fouth of Chrudim. 
BOG AROV'SKOI, a town of Siberia, 136 miles north 
of Tobollk. 
BO'GAS, a town of Egypt, at the mouth of the Nile : 
three miles north of Damiettta. 
BOGATO'I, a town of Ruflia, in the government of 
Knrfk : forty-eight miles fouth-fouth-wed of Kurlk, and 
532 fouth-fouth-ead of Peterlburg. 
BOGA'ZI, a town of Adatic Turkey, in the country 
of Diarbekir : fifty miles wed of Diarbek. 
BOGDA'NA, a town of European Turkey, in Mol¬ 
davia, on the borders of Tranfllvania : dxty miles fouth 
of Niemecz. 
BOG'DJKOTZ, a town of Ruffian Siberia, on the- 
Tchulim : fix miles north-wed of Atchinfk. 
BOG'DOI, a country or nation of Ada, in Tartary, 
fituated to the north of China ; of great extent, and po¬ 
pulous, and fubjeCt to the Chinefe. 
BOGENSE'E, a town of Denmark, on the ifland of 
Funen : twelve miles north-wed of Odenlee. 
BOGESUND', a town of Sweden, in Wed Gothland : 
four leagues fouth of Falkioping. 
BOGG 1 LCUND', a diflriCt or circar of Flindoodan, in 
the country of Allahabad, lying to the wed of Benares. 
To BOG'GLE, v. n. [from bogil, Dut. a fpeclre, a 
bugbear, a phantom.] To dart; to fly back j to fear to 
come forward; tohefitate; to be in doubt : 
Nature, that rude, and in her fird effiiy, 
Stood boggling at the roughnefs of the way ; 
Us’d to the road, unknowing to return, 
Goes boldly on, and loves the path when worn, Dryden, 
To 
