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years, being the fame as the Golden Number, and Lunar 
Cycle, or Cycle of the Moon. See Chronology. 
ENNEA'GON, /. [ of uvea, nine, and yuna, Gr. an 
angle.] A plane geometrical figure of 9 Tides and angles ; 
and is otherwife called a nonagon. If each fide of this 
figure be 1, its area will be 6 -i8iSz 42=-£ of the tang, of 
70 degrees, to the radius 1. 
ENNEAHE'DRIA f. In natural hidory, a fpecies of 
columnar double pointed fpars. 
ENNE'ALOGUE/i [from ewca, nine, and Xoyo;, Gr. 
a word.] A difccnrfe of nine parts. Cole. 
ENNEA'LOGY/i [from evvece, and Aoyo;, Gr. a word.] 
A difcourfe confiding of nine points; a treatife divided 
into nine parts. Scott. 
ENNEAND'RlA, f. [from smtz, nine, and uve%, a man 
orluifband.] In botany, the name of the ninth clafs in 
Linnaeus’s fexual fydem, confiding of plants which have 
hermaphrodite flowers with nine flamina or male organs. 
See Botany, vol. iii. p. 256.—It is alfo an order in the 
clafles Monadelphia and Dioecia. 
ENNEAPE'TALA Corolla , f. In botany, a nine- 
petalled corolla ; or, a flower of nine petals: as in Thca 
viridis, Magnolia, and Liriodcudron. 
ENNEA'TICAL, adj. [from cma, Gr.] Enneaticaldays, 
are every ninth day of a (icknefs; and enneatical years, every 
ninth year of one’s life. 
ENNEBACK'A, a town of Norway : twenty-fix miles 
fouth-ead of Chridiana. 
EN'NEL LOUGH, a lake of Ireland, in the county of 
Wedmeath : two miles fouth of Mullengar. 
EN'NERIS,^ in the naval architecture of the an¬ 
cients, a galley with nine tires of oars. 
ENNEZA'T, a town of France, in the department of 
the Puy-de-Dome, and chief place of a canton, in the dif- 
trift of Riom : one league and a half ead of Riom. 
EN'NIS, a town of Ireland, in the county of Clare, 
large and populous, fituated on the Fergus, which is na¬ 
vigable for large boats from the Shannon,, which adds 
greatly to the trade of the town : feventeen miles north- 
wed of Limerick. Lat. 52.49. N. Ion. 8.54. W. Greenwich. 
ENNISCOR'THY, a town of Ireland, in the county of 
Wexford ; where is a manufacture of coarfe woollen 
cloth, and fome confiderable iron works: ten miles north 
of Wexford, and twenty-feven north-ead of Waterford. 
ENNISKIL'LEN, a town of Ireland, in the county of 
Fermanagh, fituated on an ifland in the river Erne, be¬ 
tween the two parts of Lough Erne. The linen manu¬ 
facture fiouriflies here, and produces its principal wealth : 
thirty-three miles wed of Armagh, and forty-one fouth of 
Londonderry. 
EN'NIUS (Quintus), an early Roman poet of great 
fame, a native of Rudise in Calabria, born about the year 
of Rome 514, before Chrid 237. He boaded a defcent 
from king Meffapus, but he appears to have been in an 
humble condition of life. According to Silius Italicus, 
he ferved as a centurion in Sardinia when that ifland was 
fubdued by T. Manlius, and didinguiflied himfelf by his 
valour. He probably remained in Sardinia after the war ; 
for we are told by Corn. Nepos, that Cato the cenfor, 
when praetor, brought back with him from his govern¬ 
ment of Sardinia, the poet Ennius. He lived on terms 
of great intimacy with Scipio Nafica, as we learn from a 
jed recorded by Cicero (de Orat. 1 . ii.) Fulvius, pro¬ 
cured for him the citizenfiiip of Rome. From the affec¬ 
tion borne him by thefe emihent perfons, we may judge 
favourably of the character and manners of Ennius; 
though it is probable that his convivial talents carried 
him beyond the bounds of drift fobriety, fince Horace 
(Epid. 19. 1 . i.) reprefents him as warming his heroic 
vein by liberal potations. The gout, which tormented 
his old age, was probably the confequence of his intem¬ 
perance ; as, perhaps, was alfo his poverty ; which evils, 
however, he bore with great- equanimity. He lived to 
the age of feveaty. A flatue, fuppofed to be of him, was 
extant in the monument of the Scipios, in the time of 
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Livy. Ennius is regarded as the father of Latin epic or. 
heroic poetry, and he appears to have been didinguiflied 
by that force and vigour, accompanied with rudicity 
and negligence, which is generally the character of genius 
in an unpoliflied age. This is the idea given of him by 
Ovid: 
Ennius ingenio maximUs, arte rudis. 
The bard in genius mighty, rude in art. 
Lucretius fpeaks of him as the fird who brought the 
mufe to Latium; and Virgil proved his edeem of him by 
tranfcribing into his w’orks many whole or half lines from 
Ennius. It cannot be doubted that his poetry was very 
popular in Rome, fince he made the great events of Ro¬ 
man hidory his topic in a large performance entitled 
“ Annals,” which, by the grammarian Vargunteius, 
were afterwards divided into eighteen books. He was ac- 
cudomed publicly to recite portions of this poem on cer. 
fain days; and we learn from Gellius, that recitations 
from the Annals of Ennius were continued to his time. 
He alfo compofed tragedies, comedies, epigrams, and fa- 
tires ; and he is praifed as being the fird who ventured 
to defert the Grecian dramatic dories, and take his argu¬ 
ments from Roman hidory. Some didaftic works of his 
are alfo mentioned. None of his pieces are come down 
to us entire, but fragments of feveral of them. Thefe 
have been publiflied feparately, Amderd. 4to. 1707, and 
alfo in the Corpus Poetar. of Mattaire. 
To ENNO'BLE, v. a. [cnnoblir , Fr.] To raife from 
commonalty to nobility: 
Many fair promotions 
Are given daily to ennoble thofe, 
That fcarce, fome two days fince, were worth a noble. 
Shakefpeare. 
To dignify; to aggrandife; to exalt; to raife.—God 
raifed up the fpirit of this great perfon, and enn'obled his 
courage and conduft with the entire overthrow of this 
mighty hod. South. 
What can ennoble fots, or fiaves, or cowards ? 
Alas 1 not all the blood of all the Howards. Pope. 
To elevate ; to magnify : 
None fo lovely, fweet, and fair, 
Or do more ennoble love. Waller. 
To make famous or illudrious.—The Spaniards could 
not as invaders land in Ireland', but only ennobled fome of 
the coads thereof with fiiipwrecks. Bacon. 
ENNO'BLEMENT, J. The aft of railing to the rank 
of nobility.—He added, during parliament, to his former 
creations, the ennoblement or advancement in nobility of a 
few others. Bacon. —Exaltation ; elevation ; dignity.—The 
eternal wifdom enriched us with all ennoblements, fuitable 
to the meafures of an unredrained goodnefs. Glanville. 
ENNO'DIUS (Magnus Felix), bifliop of Ticinum, now 
Pavia, in the fixth century, defcended from an illudrious 
family among the Gauls, and born in Italy, about the 
year 473. He was ordained one of the deacons by Epipha- 
nius.bifhop of Pavia, with whom he lived in habits of the 
drifted intimacy and friendfhip. Having from his early 
years been much attached to the dudy of rhetoric and 
poetry, he continued to cultivate his tade for them, in 
conneftion with the fubjefts which were more imme¬ 
diately appropriate to his theological profeflion. He was 
employed to draw up a Panegyric upon Theodoric king 
of the Oflrogoths, in which lie difplayed an extenfive 
acquaintance with profane hidory, much eloquence, and 
a fufficient portion of courtly adulation. But his rheto¬ 
rical talents were exercifed with more art, and lefs honour, 
in the Apology which he wrote for the council which 
acquitted pope Symmachus of the accufations laid to his 
charge by Laurentius, his.rival candidate for the pontifical 
chair. In this Apology, the colours of a gaudy rhetoric 
are artfully made ufe of to difguife the truth ; and the 
author’s abilities are profiituted to fupport the foundation 
of that enormous power which the popes of Rome after- 
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