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lie, (the two Aivabis,) are the fymbols of two bemifpberes 
which environ the terreftrial globe. He adds in another 
place: Others pretend that thefe animals, the faithful 
-guardians of men, indicate the tropics, which guard the 
inn on the fouth and on the north like porters. It is how¬ 
ever, reafonable to imagine, that Anubis at firft was only 
a fymbolical image, invented by aftronomers to give a 
fenlible expreflion of their difeoveries; that afterwards, 
the people, accuftomed to fee it in their temples, which 
were the depofitories of fcience, adored it as a deity; and' 
that the priefts favoured their ignorance by connecting it 
with their religion. The worfnip of Anubis being intro¬ 
duced, that of the dog became his emblem. Almotl all 
the gods of the Gentiles have originated in this manner. 
A'NUS,/ in anatomy, the lower extremity of the in- 
teftinum rectum, or orifice of the fundament. 
Anus, in botany, lignifies the pofterior opening of a 
moncpetalous flower. 
AN'VIL,/! \_cevfille , Sax.] The iron block on which the 
fmith lays his metal to be forged. Any thing on which 
blows are laid. Figuratively, to be upon the anvil , is to be 
in a ftate of formation or preparation.—Several members 
of our houfe knowing what was upon the anvil, went to 
the clergy, and detired their judgment. Swift. 
ANXI'CO or Anri'co, a kingdom of Lower Guinea, 
the country of the Jagas. The inhabitants are ftrong, 
nimble, and very intrepid; rather fierce, but veryfincere. 
They do not till the ground, but, like the Arabs, wander 
from place to place. They feem to pay fome reverence to 
the fun and moon, and have other idols; and they carry 
off fiaves from their own country and Nubia, to barter at 
Angola for the toys and trifles of Europe. 
ANXI'ETY,y. [anxietas, Lat. ] Trouble of mind about 
fome future event; fufpenfe with uneafinefs; perplexity; 
folicitude.—To be happy, is not only to be freed from the 
pains and difeafes of the body, but from anxiety and vex¬ 
ation of fpirit; not only to enjoy the pleafures of fenfe, 
but peace of confcience, and tranquillity of mind. Tillot- 
fon .—In the medical language, lownefs of fpirits, with 
uneafinefs of the ftomach.—In anxieties which attend fe¬ 
vers, when the cold fit is over, a warmer regimen may be 
allowed; and, becaufe anxieties often happen by fpafms 
from wind, fpices are ufeful. Arbuthnol. 
ANX'IOUS, adj. \_anxius y Lat.] Difturbed about fome 
uncertain event; folicitous; being in painful fufpenfe; 
painfully uncertain: 
With beating hearts the dire event they wait, 
Anxious , and trembling for the birth of fate. Pope. 
Careful;- full of inquietude ; unquiet: 
In youth alone unhappy mortals live; 
But, ah! the mighty blifs is fugitive; 
Difcolour’d ficknefs, anxious labour, come. 
And age, and death’s inexorable doom. Dry den. 
Careful, as of a thing of great importance.—No writings 
we need to be folicitous about the meaning of, but thofe 
that contain truths we are to believe, or laws we are to 
obey: we may be left anxious about the fenfe of other au¬ 
thors. Locke .—It has generally for or about before the ob¬ 
ject, but fometimes of\ left properly. 
ANX'IOUSLY, adv. In an anxious manner; folici- 
toufly; unquietly; carefully; with painful uncertainty. 
ANX'IOUSNESS,y. The quality of being anxious; 
fnfeeptibility of anxiety. 
ANX'UR, anciently a city of the Volfci, in Latium; 
vailed Tarracina by the Greeks ami Latins: now Terraci- 
71a ; fituated on an eminence. Lat. 41.18. Ion. 14. 5. E. 
A'NY, adj. [anig, enig , Sax.] Every; whoever he be; 
whatever it be. It is, in all its fenfes, applied indiffe¬ 
rently to perfons or things.—How fit is this retreat for un¬ 
interrupted ftudy! Any one that fees it will own, I could 
not have chofen a more likely place to converfe with the 
dead in. Pope. —Whofoever; whatfoever; as difringuifhed 
from fome other.—What warmth is there in your affection 
A O R 
towards any of thefe princely fuitors that are already come ? 
S/iakfpeare .—It is ufed in oppofition to none .—J wound and 
I heal: neither is there any that can deliver out of my 
hand. Dent, xxxii. 39. 
ANZER'MA, a town and province of Popayan, on the 
river Coca, in South America, where there are mines of 
gold. Lat.4.58. N. Ion. 75. 25.W. 
A'ON, a ion of Neptune, who came from Apulia to 
Bceotia, where he colleffed the inhabitants, and reigned 
over them. They were called Aones, and the country 
Aonia, from him.. 
AO'NIDES, a name of the Mufes, becaufe the country 
Aonia was more particularly frequented by them. 
AORA'SIA,yi [aopatria., Gr. from a. priv. and opetv , 
to fee.] In antiquity, the invifibility of the gods. The 
opinion of the ancients with regard to the appearance of 
the gods to men, was, that they never (hewed themfelves 
face to face, but were known from their backs as they 
withdrew. Neptune affumed the form of Calchas to fpeak 
to the two Ajaxes; but they knew him not till he turned 
his back to leave them, and difeovered the god by his 
majeftic Hep as he went from them. Venus appeared to 
.ZEneas in the chara&er of a huntrefs : but her fon knew 
her not till (he departed from him; her divinity was then 
betrayed by her radiant head, her flowing robe, and her 
majeftic pace. 
A'ORIST,y. [aogir©q Gr.] A tenfe peculiar to the 
Greek language, comprehending all the tenfes ; or rather, 
exprefling an action in an indeterminate manner, without 
any regard to paft, prefent, or future. 
AORIS'TIA, f. in the fceptic philofophy, denotes that 
ftate of the mind wherein we neither affert nor deny any 
thing pofitively, but only fpeak of things as feeming or 
appearing to us in fuch a manner. The aoriftia is one of 
the great points or terms of fcepticifm, to which the phi- 
lofophers of that denomination had continual recourfe by 
way of explication, or fubterfuge. Their adverfaries, the 
dogmatijls, charged them with dogmatizing, and afferting 
the principles and polltions of their fe£t to be true and 
certain. 
AOR'NUS, a very high rock of India, having its name 
from its extrordinary height, as being above the flight of 
a bird. Its circuit is about twenty-five miles, its height 
eleven furlongs, and the way leading up to the top arti¬ 
ficial and narrow; the bottom wafhed by the river Indus; 
and on the top a fine plain, part of which was covered 
with a thick wood ; the reft arable land, with a fountain 
furnifhing abundance of excellent water. This rock was 
taken by Alexander the Great, in whofe time there was a 
report that Hercules had attempted it in vain: however, 
according to Arrian, this was a mere report, raifed to mag¬ 
nify Alexander’s exploit. While the Macedonian mo¬ 
narch was preparing for the liege, an old man, who had 
long lived in a cave near the fummit, came and offered to 
Ihew him a private way up. This being readily accepted, 
Ptolemy, with a conliderable body of light-armed troops, 
was aifpatched, with orders, in cafe they fucceeded, to 
entrench themfelves ftrongly upon the rock, and to give 
notice, by a lighted torch, that he had got fafely up. Up¬ 
on this, Alexander gave orders for a body of troops to 
attempt the paffage by which the rock was commonly af- 
cended; but they were repulfed with great (laughter. He 
then fent an Indian to Ptolemy, defiring him, in the next 
attack, to fall upon the enemy behind. But in the mean 
time, thofe who defended the rock attacked Ptolemy with 
great vigour; but were repulfed, though with much dif¬ 
ficulty. The next day Alexander renewed the attack; 
and, though Ptolemy attacked the Indians in the rear, the 
Macedonians were repulfed on both fides. At laft, the 
king perceiving that the ftrength of the Indians lay in the 
ftraitnefs and declivity of the way, he caufed a great quan¬ 
tity of trees to be felled, and with them filled the cavities 
between the plain on which the Indians were encamped 
and the higheft of his own advanced pofts. The Indians 
at firft derided his undertaking; but at length perceiving 
