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ANACON'DO,yi in natural hiftory, is a name given in 
the ifland of Ceylon to a very large and terrible rattle¬ 
snake, which often devours the unfortunate traveller alive, 
aiid is itfelf accounted excellent and delicious food. 
ANA'CREON, a Greek poet, born at Teos, a city of 
Ionia, flourilhed about 53 2 years before the Chriftian sera. 
Polycrates, tyrant of Samos, invited him to his court, and 
made him fliare with him in his bufinefs and Ins pleafures. 
He had a delicate wit, as may be judged from the inex- 
•preffible beauties and graces that fliine in his works: but 
he was fond of pleafure, was of an amorous difpolition, 
and addicted, to inebriety; yet, notwithftanding his irregu¬ 
larities, he lived to the age of eighty-five; when, we are 
told, he was choaked by a grape-ftone which fiuck in his 
throat as he was regaling on fome new wine. 
There is but a. final 1 part of Anacreon’s works that re¬ 
main; for, betides his odes and. epigrams, he compofed 
elegies, hymns, and iambics. His poems which are extant 
were refeued from oblivion by Henry Stephens, and are 
univerfally admired. The verfes of Anacreon are Tweet¬ 
er, fays Scaliger, than Indian fugar. His beauty and 
chief "excellence, fays Madam Daeier, lay in imitating 
nature, and in following reafon; fo that he prefented to 
the mind no images bdt vvhat were noble and natural. The 
odes of Anacreon, fays Rapin, are flowers, beauties, and 
.perpetual graces; it is familiar to him to write what is na¬ 
tural and to the life, with an air fo delicate, fo eafy, and 
graceful, that among all the ancients there is. nothing com¬ 
parable to the method he took, nor to that kind of wri¬ 
ting, he produced. None has given a jufter character of 
jhis writings than Mr. Cowley, in the fpeech of Cupid: 
All thy verfe is fofter far 
Than the downy feathers are 
Of my wings, or of my arrows,- 
Of my mother’s doves and fparrows: 
Graceful, cleanly, fmooth, or round, 
All with Venus’ girdle bound. 
ANACREON'TIC VERSE ,f in ancient poetry, a kind 
of verfe, fo called from its being much ufed by the poet 
Anacreon. It confjfts of three feet and a half, ufually 
fpondees and iambufes, and fometimes anapefts. Such is 
that of Horace, Lydia, die per omnes. 
ANACRI'SIS, among the ancient Greeks, was a kind 
of trial or examination, which the archons, or chief ma- 
giftrates of Athens, were to undergo before their aamiflion 
’into that office. The anacrifis Hands diftinguifhed from 
the docimafia, which was a fecond examination, in the forum. 
Anacrisis, among civilians, was an inveftigation of 
truth, interrogation of witneffes, and enquiry made into 
any faft, efpecially by torture. 
ANACRO'SIS, f. in antiquity, denotes a part of the 
Pythian fong, wherein the combat of Apollo and Python 
are deferibed. The anacrofis was the firft part, and con¬ 
tained the preparation to the fight. 
ANACY'CLUS, f. [ xi/xxvy.^ov, to encircle.] In bota¬ 
ny, a genus of the fyngenefia poiygamia f’uperflua clafs, 
ranking in the natural order of compofitpe difeoideae. The 
generic characters are—Calyx : common, hemifpheric'al, 
imbricate : with many ovate, flat, fharp feales. Corolla: 
compound, radiate ; with numerous hermaphrodite corol- 
lets in the difk; from five to ten females in the ray, fcarce- 
ly higher than the difk ; hermaphrodites funnel-fhaped, 
with a quinquefid fpreading border ; females with a flat¬ 
ted tube, and an ovate entire border. Stamina: in the 
hermaphrodites ; filaments five, capillary, very fhort; an- 
therce cylindric. Piftillum : germ flatted, ftigma bifid, 
jn the hermaphrodites ; with a inembrane on each fide ; 
ftyle filiform, the length of the corollet; and two (len¬ 
der reflex ftigmas in the flofcules. Pcricarpium : none ; 
calyx unchanged. Seed : in the hermaphrodites, folitary, 
oblong, compreffed, naked, or without down; in the fe¬ 
males with a very broad membranaceous wing on each 
fide, and emarginate at top, but without down. Recep- 
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taculum : chaffy; chaffs obtnfe, with a point .—EJfauiai 
Character. Receptacle chaffy; down emarginate. Seeds 
in the ray membranaceous. 
Species. 1. Anacyclus creticus, or trailing anacyclus:' 
leaves decompound, linear; diviiions fubdivided, flat. 
2. Anacyclus orientaiis, oreaffern anacyclus: leaves com¬ 
pound, briftly, acute, ftraight. The two firft forts grow 
naturally in the iflands of the Archipelago, from whence 
Tournefort fent their feeds to the royal garden at Paris. 
They are low plants, whole branches trail on the ground. 
The firft fort has fine-cut leaves, like thole of chamomile ; 
the flowers are fmall, white, and grow tingle, with their' 
heads declining ; thefe are like thofe of the common May¬ 
weed. The fecond has leaves like thofe of the ox-eye; 
the flowers are white, like thofe of chamomile. 
3. Anacyclus aureus, or golden-flowered anacyclus: 
leaves bipinnate, roundiffi, hoary, hollow-dotted. Native 
of the fouth of Europe, and the Levant. Cultivated here 
in 1570. 
4. Anacyclus valentinus, or fine-leaved anacyclus: leaves 
decompound, linear; divifions fubdivided, roundifh, acute; 
flowers flofeuiofe. Grows a foot and a half high, fend¬ 
ing out many fide branches; the leaves are finely divided 
like thofe of chamomile, and are hairy; the flowers grow 
fingle at the extremity of the branches, and are of a bright 
yellow colour, with a iilvery fcaly calyx. Thefe are as 
large as thofe of the ox-eye. A native of Spain and Italy. 
Cultivated in 1656, by Tradefcant. It flowers in June 
and July. 
Propagation and Culture. All thefe plants are annual ; 
the feeds fliould be fown early in the fpring in a border 
of light earth, where they are defigned to remain, and re¬ 
quire no other care but to keep them clean from, weeds, 
and to thin the plants where they are too clofe. As they 
have no great beauty, a few plants only may be left for 
the fake of variety. They flower in July and Auguff, and, 
their feeds ripen in September. 
AN AD A V ADdE'A, f. in ornithology, a barbarous 
name fora fpecies of birds. See Ai.auda. 
ANADE'MA,yi among the ancients, denotes an orna¬ 
ment for the head, wherewith victors at the facred games 
had their temples bound. 
ANADIPLO'SIS, f. [ a.vci^isrXujcriCj of ccvx^ 7 r\oi 3 , Gr. 
to redouble.] Reduplication ; a figure in rhetoric, in 
which the laft word of a foregoing member of a period 
becomes the firft of the following ; as, He retained his vir¬ 
tues amidjl all his misfortunes, misfortunes which only his 
virtues brought upon him. 
ANADRO'MOUS, f. among ichthyologifts, a name 
given to. fitch fiflies as go from the fea to the frefh wa¬ 
ters at Hated feafons, and return back again ; fuch as the 
falmon, &c. 
ANADUOME'NE VENUS, in the Grecian mytho¬ 
logy, anfwered to the Sea Venus in the Roman, arid tvas 
the appellation given to one of the chief deities of the fea. 
The moft celebrated picture in all antiquity was that of 
tlus goddefs by Apelles ; and the famous Venus of Me- 
dicis is a Sea Venus. 
ANADYOME'NE, a name of Venus, who is faid to 
have emerged from the waters of the fea. 
ANJEDEI'A* / in antiquity, a denomination given to 
a fifver ltool placed in the Areopagus, on which the de¬ 
fendant, or perfon accufed, was feated for examination. 
The word is Greek, atxthix, which imports imprudence; 
but, according to Junius’s correction, it fliould rather-be 
avocflix, q. d. innocence. The plaintiff, or accufer, was 
placed on an oppolite (tool, called hybris, or injury; here 
lie propofed three queflions to the party accufed, to which 
pofitive anfwers were to be given. The firft, Are you 
guilty of this faCt > The fecond. How did you commit the 
fa£t ? The third, Who were your accomplices ? 
AN.CESTHE'SIA ,_/1 [from «, non, and aic-Gwi;, fenfw , 
• Gr.] Infallibility, or lois of feeling by the touch. A r’e- 
folution of the ncrves> occafioning a lofts of feeling : the 
fame 
