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the-ardour with which thq work was carried on, and ha¬ 
ving felt the effects of the milTile weapons of the. Mace¬ 
donians, they fent deputies to propofe terms of capitula¬ 
tion. Alexander, fulpedting that their defign was only to 
amufe him till they made their efcape, withdrew his guards 
front the avenues. As loon as he knew the enemy were 
defcended, he took pofleffion of the deferted rock, and 
then made a fignal for his forces to fall upon the flying 
Indians, the greateft part whom were killed in the roads. 
AO'RTA,_/'. [of cofw, Gr. to lift up.] In anatomy, the 
great artery which rifes immediately from the left ventri¬ 
cle of the heart, and is from thence diffributed to all parts 
of the body. It is divided into two grand trunks, diftin- 
guifhed by the terms afcencling and defccndivg. See Ana- 
MOMY, p. 624. 
AOUS'TA, a town and diftricl of Piedmont. Here 
are feveral antiquities of the Romans, who, under their 
general, Terentius Varro, reduced its ancient and hardy 
inhabitants, the Salafiii, a people of Celtic extraction. 
It is feated at the foot of the Alps, on the river Doria, 
fifty miles north-weft of Turin. Lat. 45.48. N. Ion. 7. 30. 
E. The valley of Aoufta is thirty miles in length, and 
abounds in pallures and all forts of fruits. The prefent 
inhabitants have moftly the krope (fwoln throats), and are 
accounted the mofit Ample people among the Piedmontefe. 
AOU'TA, the name of the paper mulberry-tree at Ota- 
heite, in the South Sea, from which a cloth is manufactu¬ 
red, that is worn by the principal inhabitants. See Bark. 
APA'CE, adv. [front a and pace-, that is, with a great 
pace.] Q_nick 5 fpeedily: ufed of things in motion.—Is 
not he imprudent, who, feeing the tide making hafte to¬ 
wards him apace, will fleep tili the fea overwhelm him. 
Tillotjon. 
Ay, quoth my uncle Glo’fler, 
Small herbs have grace, great weeds do grow apace. 
And lince, methinks, I would not grow fo fall, 
Becaufe fvveet flow’rs are flow, and weeds make hade. 
Shahefpeare. 
With hade; applied to fome aClion. Haftily ; with fpeed : 
fpoken of any kind of progreflion front one flate to ano¬ 
ther.— If fenfible pleafure, or real grandeur, be our end, 
we fir a 11 ptrocced apace to real liiifery. Watts. 
This fecond courle of men, 
With fome regard to what is juft and right, 
Shall lead their lives, and multiply apace. Milton. 
APA'CHES, or Apa'ci, unpeople of New Mexico in 
North America. They are brave, refolute, and warlike, 
fond of liberty, and the inveterate enemies of tyranny and 
oppreflion. Of this difpodtion the Spaniards found them 
towards the end of the laft century, when they revolted 
againd the Catholic king, malfacred feveral of his officers, 
and committed'the greated devadations. Ever lince, they 
have remained the allies, not the fubjeCls, of the Spa¬ 
niards;; and the viceroy of Mexico has been obliged to 
maintain a more formidable garrifon, and a greater num¬ 
ber of troops. They have feveral drong holds in the 
mountains, and live under the government of their own 
cacique. 
APAC'TIS, f. Gr. abduHus, from uTru.yu.~\ 
In botany, a genus of the dodecandria monogynia clals. 
The generic characters are—Corolla: four-petalled ; pe¬ 
tals roundiflt, crenate, concave, unequal; two oppodte 
broader. Stamina: filaments from llxteen to twenty. 
Pidillum : germ fuperior; fryle one.— EJfcntial CharaBcr. 
Corolla, four-petalled. 
There is but one fpecies, known by the name of apac- 
tis Japonica. It is a tree erect and very brandling; the 
branches are alternate, round, fcabrous with dots, ereft; 
branchlets fimilar, the lad frequent. Leaves on the branch- 
lets alternate, petiolate, ovate, acute, ferrate, entire at the 
bafe, nerved, fmooth, paler underneath, an inch long. 
Petioles half round, furrowed, a quarter of an inch in 
length. The flowers in racemes at the end of the branch- 
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lets. Racemes ufually ovate, as they advance becoming 
more oblong. Peduncle and pedicels villofe-fcabrous. 
AP^EDU'SI A,yi denotes ignorance or unfkilfulnefs in 
w hat relates to learning and the fcicnces. Hence alio per- 
fons unindrufted and illiterate are called apcedeula’. The 
term apaedutae was particularly ufed among the French in 
the time of Huet; when the men of wit at Paris were di¬ 
vided into two factions, one called bv way of reproach 
apiedeutse, and the others eruditi. The apaedeutse in ef¬ 
fect were the men of pleafure; the eruditi thofeof dudy. 
( APAGO'GE,yi in logic. See Abduction. 
Apagoge, in the Athenian law, the carrying a crimi¬ 
nal taken in the fa£t to the magidfate. If the accufer was 
not able to bring him to the magidrate, it was ufual to take 
the magidrate along with him to the houfe where the cri¬ 
minal lay concealed, or defended himielf. 
Apagoge, in mathematics, is'fometimes ufed to denote 
a progrefs or paffage front one propoflticn to another; 
when the fird, having been once demOndrated, is afterwards 
employed in the proving of others. , 
APAGO'GICAL, adj. [from u.'rra.yayy Gr. compound¬ 
ed of «7ro 3 from, and uyu, to bring or draw.] An apago- 
gical demondration is fitch as does not prove the thing di¬ 
rectly; but fhews the impoffibility, or abfurdity, which 
arifes front denying it; and is alfo called reduclio ad impof- 
fibile, or ad abjurdum. 
APAI.A'CHIAN MOUNTAINS, more properly call¬ 
ed the Allegany Mountains, which fee. 
APALATO'A,/! in botany. SeeCrcLAS. 
APAME'A, or Apa'mia, the name offeveral ancient 
cities. One of Bithynia, formerly called Myrlca , from/ 
Myrlus, general of the Colophonians : dedroyed by Phi- 
lip, father of Perfeus; and given to his ally Prufius,' who. 
rebttilt it, and called it Apamea, from the name of his. 
queen Apama. Another Apamea, called Cibvtos, of Phry¬ 
gia, on the Meander, The name is from Apatite, mother 
of Antiochus Soter, the founder, and the daughter of Ar- 
tabazus. The rife, or at lead the increafe, of Apamea,. 
was owing to the ruins of Celente. A third, on the con¬ 
fines of Parthiaand Media, furnamed Raphane. A fourth 
Apamea, a town of Mefene, an ifland in the Tigris; where 
a branch of the Euphrates, called the Royal River, falls- 
into the Tigris. A fifth in Mefopotamia, on tlie other fide 
the Euphrates, oppofite to Zeugma, both founded by Se- 
leucus, and joined by a bridge, from which the latter takes 
its name. A fixth Apamea, now Famia, in Syria, below 
the confluence of the Orontes and Marfyas ; a drong city,. 
and fituated in a peninfula, formed by the Orontes and a 
lake. “ It was here (lays Strabo) that tire Seleucidte had 
edabliflied the fchool and nurfery of their cavalry.” The 
foil of the neighbourhood, abounding in padurage, fed no 
leIs than 30,000 mares, 300 dallioris, and 300 elephants;, 
indead of which, the marflies of Famia at prefent icarcely 
afford a few buffaloes and Iheep. To the veteran fcldiers- 
of Alexander, who here repofed after their victories, have 
fticceeded wretched peafants, who live in perpetual dread 
of the opprellioils of the Turks and the inroads of the 
Arabs. Apamea was alfo the ancient name of Pella, in 
the Decapods. 
APANA'GE, or Appen-'kage,/ in the French cuf- 
toms, were lands afligned by the loyereign for tlie fub- 
fidence of his younger Tons, which were to revert to the 
crown upon the failure of male iffue in that branch to which 
the lands were granted. 
APANO'MIA, a town of Santorin, an ifland in the 
Mediterranean Sea, called by fome the Sea of Candia. It 
has a fpaeious'harbour, in the form of a erefeent. Lat, 
36.18. N. Ion. 25. 59. E. 
APAN'THROPY,y. [from astro, from, and 
Gr. a man.] A love of folitude, and averflon from the 
company of mankind. It is by fome reckoned among the 
fprnptoms, by others among the fpecies or degrees, of me¬ 
lancholy. 
APAR'GIA,yi [«§yi©-, Gr. white.] In botany, a ge¬ 
nus of the fyngenefia polygamia cequabs clafs, ranking in 
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