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various caufes, &c. This office ruined numbers by its 
expenlivenefs; fo that, in Auguftus’s time, even manyfe- 
nators declined it on that account. 
We alfo read of an adiles alimentarius , expreffed in ab¬ 
breviature by eEdil. alirn. whole bufinefs feems to have 
been to provide diet for thofe who were maintained at the 
ublic charge, though others affign him a different office, 
n an ancient infcription we alfo meet with aedile of the 
camp, adilh cajlrorum. 
AiDlLITIUM EDICTUM,/ among the Romans, 
was that whereby a remedy was given a buyer, in cafe a 
vicious or unfound bead, or Have, was fold him. It was 
called aedilitium, becaufe the preventing of frauds in fales 
and contracts belonged efpecially to the aediles. 
yEDlTUUS,/! in Roman antiquity, an officer belong¬ 
ing to the temple, who had the charge of the offerings, 
treafure, and facred utenfils. The female deities had a 
woman officer of this kind called yEditua. 
/EDOSOPHIA,y. [from atSu( t pudenda , and \J/o (pea, 
jlrepitum edo. ] In the Nofology of Sauvages, alfo of Sagar, 
it is defined to be a flatus palling from the uterus, or from 
the urinary bladder, through the vagina or the urethra; 
hence it is formed into two fpecies, xdofophia urethrcs & 
uterina. This flatus is fometimes very faetid, which cir- 
cumlfance cannot always be accounted for. It fometimes 
happens when women are in labour, and hath been taken 
for a fign that the child is dead, but this cannot be depend¬ 
ed on; an intolerable Itench fometimes attends wheh the 
child is living. 
MG AGROPILA,y aball compofed of a fubftance re- 
fembling hair, generated in the (lomach of the chamois- 
gcat. This bali is of the fame nature with thofe found 
in cows, hogs, &c. 
MGM, or ^g^a, the ancient name«of iEdefla, fo 
called from the following adventure:-—Caranus, the firlf 
king of Macedonia, being ordered by the oracle to leek 
out a fettlement in Macedonia, under the conduct of a 
flock of goats, furprifed the town of .ZEdeffa, during a 
thick fog and rainy weather, in following the goats that fled 
from the rain; which goats ever after, in all his military 
expeditions, he caufed to precede his llandard; and in me¬ 
mory of this he called ^Edeffa Mgaea, and his people y£- 
geeadee. And hence, probably, in the prophet Daniel, the 
he-goatis the fymbol of the king of Macedon. 
AEGEAN SEA, now the Archipelago, a part of the 
Mediterranean, feparating Europe from Alia and Africa; 
walhing, on the one hand, Greece and Macedonia; on the 
ether, Caria and Ionia. 
^EGEIRINON, y [aiyuf©-, Gr. a poplar.] Anoint¬ 
ment fo called, becaufe the fruit of the poplar, or its cat¬ 
kins, are an ingredient in it. 
.fliGEUS, in fabulous hiftory* was king of Athens, and 
the father of Thefeus. The Athenians having bafely 
killed the fon of Minos king of Crete, for carrying away 
the prize from them, Minos made war upon the Atheni¬ 
ans ; and, being victorious, impofed this fevere condition 
on jTgeus, that he Ihould annually fend into Crete feven 
of the nobleft of the Athenian youths, chofen by lot, to 
be devoured by the Minotaur. On the fourth year of this 
tribute, the choice fell on Thefeus; or, as others fay, 
he himfelf intreated to be fent. The king, at his fon’s 
departure, gave orders, that, as the Ihip failed with black 
fails, it Ihould return with the fame in cafe he perilhed; 
but, if he became victorious, he Ihould change them into 
white. When Thefeus returned to Crete, after killing 
the Minotaur, he forgot to change the fails in token of 
his viClory, according to the agreement with his father; 
the latter, who watched the return of the veffel, fuppo- 
fing by the black fails that his fon was dead, call himfelf 
headlong into the fea, which thence obtained the name of 
»he .#£gean Sea. 
.CEGIAS.y among phyficians, a white fpeck on the pu¬ 
pil of the eye, which occalions a dimnefs of fight. 
jEGICERAS,/. [from «t|, a goat, and a horn.] 
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In botany, a genus of the pentandria monogynia .dais. 
The generic characters are—Calyx: perianthium one- 
leafed, bell-fhaped, half-five-cleft, coriaceous, permanent. 
Corolla: petals five. Stamina: filaments five. Piftil-- 
lum: germ oblong; ftyle (ingle. Pericarpium: capfule 
bowed, coriaceous, one-celled, one-valved, gaping on the 
convex fide. Seed : Angle.— F.Jjential CharaEllr. Calyx 
bell-fhaped, half-five-cleft. Capfule bow-fhaped, one- 
celled, gaping on the convex fide. Seed inverted. 
Species, i . iEgiceras majus: leaves ovate quite entire; 
legumes long fickle-fhaped. This fpecies is a fhrub about 
twelve feet in height at the mod, with feveral ftems a foot 
in thicknefs, putting out many twigs and fuckers. It is a 
native of the Molucca Iflands. 
2. yEgiceras minus: leaves ovate fometimes notched; 
legumes Ihort crefcent-fhaped. This is a native of Cey¬ 
lon. 
^iGIDA, now Capo d’lftria, the principal town on the 
north of the territory of Iftria, fituated on a little ifland, 
joined to the land by a bridge. Lat. 45. 50. Ion. 14. 20. 
E. It was afterwards called Juftinopolis, after the empe¬ 
ror Juftinus. 
^TiGIDES,y. [anyone, Gr.J Small white cicatrices of 
the eyes, caufed by a fharp humour there; or fmall white 
concretions on the pupil; called alfo aglia. In inflamma¬ 
tions we fee little white fpecks on the pupil of the eye, 
like a film, if an afflux of humours is confiderable; thefe 
always difappear fpontaneoufly when the inflammation is 
refolved and the humours diverted; but if (harp powders 
are ufed, or collyriums applied, they oft are hardened fo 
as never after to be moved. 
jTIGILOPS, or ^GYLOps,y. [from «i|, a goat, and 
ai}/, an eye, or goat’s eye.] A difeafe in the inward corner 
of the eye; fo called becaufe, according to feme, goats 
are fubjedt to this difeafe. Paulus ^Tgineta calls it an- 
chylops before it burfts, and aegylops after. Avicenna 
calls it garab and algarab. Anchylops and aegylops, are 
but different ftates of the diforder called fiftula lachryma- 
lis. The regylops is the fillula lachrymalis beginning to 
difeharge pus. Dr. Wallis fays, why the diftinCtion of the 
ancients ihould be at prefent neglected with refpeit to the 
anchylops and xgylops, and a general term adopted which 
is in itfelf highly abfurd, will not be eafy to account for. 
Surely to denominate a complaint fiftulous, where no fiftu¬ 
la exifts, muft be ridiculous, and the two different fpecies 
as well as the third are ftyled fiftula lachrymalis by the 
moderns. Some of the ancient phyficians coniidered the 
lachrymal fac in its ftate of tumefaction as an anchylops; 
when ruptured an xgylops; and certainly the diftinCtion 
ought to be preferved. 
It is either fcrophulous, atheromatous, or of the nature 
of a meliceris. Sometimes it is a fymptom of the lues 
veneria. Sometimes it is with, and at others without, in¬ 
flammation. If it is attended with erofton, it terminates 
in a cancer. In opening this abfeefs, we Ihould be care¬ 
ful not to cut the edge of the eye-lid, for thus an incura¬ 
ble waterinefs will there be occafioned. When it is ftnr- 
mous, it proceeds from congeftion, and the tubercle is 
round without difcolouring the ikin. If it is caufed by 
fluxion, pain and rednefs appear, with inflammation all 
over the eye. Sometimes it begins with a weeping, and 
is not fufpected until a rednefs appears in the eye, and 
then, by a gentle preffure on the part, a matter is difehar- 
ged, a part of which refembles the white of an egg. If 
this matter makes its way into the nofe, it acquires a foetid 
fmell, and is difeharged through the noftril. 
As to the cure, if the cafe is recent, we Ihould begin 
with a cautious ufe of bleeding and purging; or, if thefe 
are contra-indicated, give fuch alteratives as are moft ef- 
teemed in fcrophulous diforders. The tumour may be 
refolved by anodyne and difeutient applications; but if 
there is a tendency to a fuppuration it Ihould be haftened, 
and the difeharge of the pus, with all convenient fpeed, 
left the bone underneath Ihould be affefted; the abfeefs 
cleanfed 
