A C H 
Propagation and Culture . All the fpeeies ef Achillea 
may be propagated by parting the roots either in fpring 
or autumn. Many of them ripen their feeds, and may 
therefore be increafed that way by fowing them in March 
or April; and tranfplanting them at Michaelmas. They 
will flower the fummer following. Some alfo will grow 
from flips or cuttings, planted in a ffiady border in fum¬ 
mer. They are mo (Fly hardy, and require little care in 
the cultivation. 
Thofe which are moft commonly feen in gardens are, 
the purple variety of common milfoil, the double variety 
of common fneezewort, called double ptarmica, and wool¬ 
ly milfoil. 
Whatever merit the alpine forts may poftefs as medi¬ 
cines, it cannotanfwer to cultivate them with that view in 
gardens, for they owe their efficacy to their peculiar litu- 
ation. But they, who aredefirous of having them for va¬ 
riety, will find that they are very hardy, and will thrive 
almoft in any foil, but that they love an open expofure. 
Achillea Inodora. See Athanasia. 
Achillea Montana. See Senecio. 
Achillea Tanecitifolia. See Chrysanthe¬ 
mum. 
Achillea, an ifland, in theEuxine, oppofite the Bo- 
ryfthenes, where the monument of Achilles was ereited. 
ACHILLEID, Achilleis, a celebrated poem of 
Statius, in which that author propofed to deliver the whole 
life and exploits of Achilles; but, being prevented by 
death, he has only treated of the infancy and education of 
his hero. See Statius. 
ACHILLES, one of the greateft heroes of ancient 
Greece, was the fon of Peleus and Thetis. He was a na¬ 
tive of Phthia, in Theflaly. His mother, it is faid, in 
order to confume every mortal part of his body, ufed to 
lay him every night under live coals, anointing him with 
ambrofia, which preferved every part from burning but 
one of his lips, owing to his having licked it. She dip¬ 
ped him alfo in the waters of the river Styx : by which 
his whole body became invulnerable, except that part of 
his heel by which (he held him. But this opinion is not 
univerfal, nor is it a part of his charaiter as drawn by 
Homer; for in the Iliad, b. xxi. 161, he is atlually wound¬ 
ed in the right arm, by the lance of Afteropaus, in the 
battle near the river Scamander. Thetis afterwards in¬ 
truded him to the care of the centaur Chiron, who, to 
give him the ftrength neceftary for martial toil, fed him 
with honey and the marrow of lions and wild boars. To 
prevent his going to the liege of Troy, (he difguifed him 
in female apparel, and hid him among the maidens at the 
court of king Lycomedes : but Ulyfles, difcovering him, 
perfuaded him to follow the Greeks. Achilles diftin- 
guiffied himfelf by a number of heroic aitions at the fiege. 
Being difgufted, however, with Agamemnon for the lofs 
of Brifeis, he retired from the camp. But, returning to 
avenge the death of his friend Patroclus, he flew Heitor, 
faftened his corpfe to his chariot, and dragged it round 
the walls of Troy. At laft Paris, the brother of Hedtor, 
wounded him in the heel with an arrow, while he was in 
the temple treating about his marriage with Philoxena, 
daughter to king Priam. Of this wound he died, and was 
interred on the promontory of Sigasum ; and after Troy 
was taken, the Greeks facrificed Philoxena on his tomb, 
jn obedience to his defire, that he might enjoy her compa¬ 
ny in the Elyfian fields. It is laid, that Alexander,feeing 
this tomb, honoured it by placing a crown upon it; at the 
fame time crying out, that “ Achilles was happy in hav¬ 
ing, during his life, fuch a friend as Patroclus ; and, after 
his death, a poet like Homer.” Achilles is fuppofed to 
have died 118-3 years before the Chriftian sera. 
Achilles Tatius- See Tatius. 
Tendo A chi llis, in anatomy, is a ftrong tendinous cord 
formed by the tendons of-feveral mufcles, and inferted in¬ 
to the os calcis. It has its name from the fatal wound 
Achilles is faid to have received in that part from Paris 
the fon of Priam, 
A C H 7* 
ACHILLINI (Alexander), born at Bologna, and doc¬ 
tor of philofophy in that univerlity. He flouriihed in the 
15th and i6th centuries, and by way of eminence wa 3 
fiyled the great philofopher. He was a ftedfaft follower 
and accurate interpreter of Averroes upon Arillotle, but 
moft admired for his acutenefs and ftrength of arguing in 
private and public deputations. He made a furprifing' 
quick progrefs in his ftudies, and was very early promot¬ 
ed to a profeiforfliip in the univerftty; in which he ac¬ 
quitted himfelf w ith fo much applaule that his name be¬ 
came famous throughout all Italy. He continued at Bo¬ 
logna till the year 1506; when the univerftty of Padua 
made choice of him to fucceed Antonio Francatiano in 
the firft chair of philofophy, and his fame brought vaft 
numbers of ftudents to his leitures at Padua: but the 
war, wherein the republic of Venice was engaged againft 
the league of Cambray, putting a (top to the leitures of 
that univerftty, he withdrew to his native Country ; where 
he was received with the fame marks of honour and dif- 
tinition as before, and again appointed profelfor of philo¬ 
fophy in Bologna. He fpent the remainder of his life in 
that city, where he died, and was interred w ith great pomp 
in the church of St. Martin the Great, which belongs to 
the Carmelite friars. He wrote feveral pieces on phiiofo- 
phical fubjeits, which he publiffied, and dedicated to 
John Bentivogli. 
Achillini (Claudius), grandfon of the former, read 
leitures at Bologna, Ferrara, and Parma : where he was 
reputed a great philofopher, a learned divine, an excel¬ 
lent lawyer, an eloquent orator, a good mathematician, 
and an elegant poet. He accompanied Cardinal Ludovi- 
no, who went as legate into Piedmont; but being after¬ 
ward negleited by this cardinal, when he became pope 
under the name of Gregory XV. he left Rome in difguft, 
and retired, to Parma ; where the duke appointed him 
profelfor of law, with a good falary. He publiffied a vo¬ 
lume of Latin letters, and another of Italian poems, w hich 
gained him great reputation? he died in rd-io, aged 66. 
ACHIMKNES/, f. in botany. SeeCoLUMKEA. 
ACHING, J. [from ache.~\ Pain; uneaftnefs.—When- 
old age comes to-wait upon a. great and worfhipful (inner, 
it comes attended with many painful girds and achings, 
called the gout. South. 
ACHIGTTE, or Achiotl, a foreign drug ufed in 
dyeing, and in the preparation of chocolate. It is the 
fame with the fubftance more ufually known by the iume 
of Arnotto ; which fee. 
ACHIROPOETOS, a name given by ancient writers 
to certain miraculous pictures of Chrift and the Virgin, 
fuppofed to have been made without hands.—The moft 
celebrated of thefe is the piiture of Chrift, preferved in 
the church of St. John Lateran at Rome ; faid to have 
been begun by St. Luke, but finilhed by the miniftry of 
angels. 
ACHLAM, a village twelve miles from York, w here 
the body of the emperor Severus, who died at York, w as 
burnt to affies, agreeable to the cuftora of thofe times. 
ACHMET, Ion of Seerim, has left a book concerning 
the interpretation of dreams according to the doctrine of 
the Indians, Perfians, and Egyptians, which was tranflated 
out of-Greek into Latin by Leo Tufcus in ii6q. He liv¬ 
ed in the 9th century. 
ACHMET GEDUC, a famous general under Maho¬ 
met II. and Bajazet II. in the 15thcentury. When Ma¬ 
homet II. died, Bajazet and Zezanbothclaimed the throne: 
Achmet fided with the former, and by his bravery and 
conduit fixed the crown on his head. But Bajazet took 
away his life ; (liining virtue being always.an unpardona¬ 
ble crime in the eyes of a tyrant. 
ACHMETSCHET, q town of the peninfula of Cri¬ 
mea, the refidence of the fultan Galga, who is eldeft fon 
of the khan of Tartary. Lat. 45. o. Ion. 51. 20. 
ACHMIM, a large town of Upper Egypt, fituated on 
the eaftern bank of the Nile. “ One admires there (fays 
Abulfeda, as quoted by Mr. Savary) a temple, which is 
comparable? 
