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tullus and Sylla, and was declared commander in chief. 
The Roman army confilted of 52,300 men. The cavalry 
of the Cimbri were no more than 15,000, but their foot 
feemed innumerable; for, being drawn up in a fquare, 
they are faid to have covered thirty furlongs. The Cim¬ 
bri attacked the Romans with the utmoft fury, but were 
in the end totally defeated. An hundred and twenty 
thoufand were killed on the field of battle, and fixty 
thoufand taken prifoners. The viftorious Romans then 
marched to the enemy’s camp, where they had a new bat¬ 
tle to fight with the women, whom they found more fierce 
than even their hufbands had been. From their carts and 
waggons, which formed a kind of fortification, they dif- 
charged fhowers of darts and arrows on friends and foes 
without diftinftion. They then fuffocated their children 
in their arms, and put an end to their own lives ; the 
greateft part hanged themfelves on trees. Many of the 
men, for want of trees and flakes, tied firings in running 
knots about their necks, and faflened them to the tails 
of their horfes, and the horns and feet of their oxen, in 
order to ftrangie themfelves; and thus the whole multi¬ 
tude was deftroyed. 
The country of the Cimbri, which after this cataftrophe 
was left a mere defert, was again peopled by the Scythians; 
who, being driven by Pompey out of that vaft fpace be¬ 
tween the Euxine and the Cafpian fea, marched towards 
the north and weft of'Europe, fubduing all the nations 
they met with in. their way. They conquered Ruflia, 
Saxony, and Weftphalia, and other countries as far as 
Finland, Norway, and Sweden. It is pretended that Wo- 
din their leader traverfed fo many countries, and endea¬ 
voured to fubdue them, only with a view to excite the 
people againft the Romans; and that the fpirit of animo- 
fity which he had excited, operated fo powerfully after 
his death, that the northern nations combined to attack 
it, and never ceafed their incurlions till it was totally 
i'ub verted. 
CIMBRISHA'MN, or Cimbrishaven, a fea-port of 
Sweden, in Weft Gothland, and province of Schonen s 
twenty-four miles fouth of Chriftianftadt. 
CIME'GES, a town of France, in the department of 
the Dordogne, and chief place of a canton, in the dillridl 
of Bergerac : feven miles fouth-weft of Bergerac. 
CIME'LIARCH,/. [from Gr.] T. he chief 
keeper of plate, vellments, and things of value, belonging 
to a church; a church-warden. 
CI'METER, f. [ cimitarra , Span, and Port, from chi- 
Tneteir, Turki-lh. Bluteau's Portuguefe Dictionary. ] A fword 
ufed by the Turks, fhort, heavy, and recurvated, or bent 
backward. This word is fometimes erroneoufiy fpelt fei- 
mitar , and fey miter as in the following examples; 
By this feimitar. 
That flew the fophy and a Perfian prince. 
That won three fields of fultan Solyman. Shakefpeare. 
Our armours now may ruft, our idle feymiters 
Hang by our fides for ornament, not ufe. Dryden. 
CPMEX, f . [from xsi/^ai, to inhabit.] The Bug; in 
entomology, a genus of infefts belonging to the order of 
hemiptera. The roftrum is inflefted ; the antennae are 
longer than the thorax ; the wings are folded together 
croifvvife 5 the upper ones are coriaceous from their bate 
towards their middle; the back.is flat; the thorax mar¬ 
gined ; the feet are formed for running. This genus is 
divided into differe'nt fe&ions, as follow : 1. Thofe with¬ 
out wings, z. Thofe in which the efcutcheon is extended 
fo far as to cover the abdomen and the wings. 3. The 
coleoptrati, whole elytra are wholly coriaceous. 4.. Thofe 
whole elytra are membranaceous; thefe are very much 
deprefled like a leaf, 5. In which the thorax is armed on 
each fide with a fpine. 6. Thofe which are of an oval 
form, without fpines on the thorax. 7. In which the an¬ 
tennae become ietaceous towards their point. 8. Thofe 
of an oblong form. 9. Thofe whole antennae are fetace- 
©usj and as long as the body, 10. Thofe which have their 
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thighs armed with fpines. it. Thofe whole bodies are 
. long and narrow. Of this prolific and abundant genus. 
Dr, Ginelin enumerates no lefs than fix hundred and 
eighty-eight fpecies, in his laft edition of the Syllema 
Naturae of Linnaeus. A very peculiar fpecies was dilco- 
vered by Dr. Sparman at the Cape, which he has named 
eimex paradoxus. He obferved it as at noon-tide he fought 
for fhelter among the branches of a Ihrub from the into¬ 
lerable heat of the fun. “ Though the air,” fays he, 
“ was extremely ftill and calm, fo as hardly to have fhaken. 
an afpen leaf, yet I thought I law a little withered, pale, 
crumpled, leaf, eaten as it were by caterpillars, flittering 
from the tree. This appeared to me fo very extraordi¬ 
nary, that I thought it worth iny while fuddenly to quit 
my verdant bower in order to examine it: and I could 
fcarcely believe my eyes, when I faw a live infedl, in 
lhape and colour refembling the fragment of a withered 
leaf, with the edges turned up and eaten away, as it were, 
by caterpillars, and at the fame time all over befet with 
prickles. Nature, by this peculiar form,'has certainly well 
defended and concealed, as it were in a mafk, this infe£t 
from birds and its other foes; in all probability with a 
view to preferve it, and employ it for fome important 
office in the fyftem of her economy.” 
The larvae of bugs only differ from the perfect infeft 
by the want of wings ; they run over plants, grow and 
change to chryfalids, without appearing to undergo any 
material difference. They have only rudiments of wings, 
which the laft transformation unfolds, and the infefl is 
then perferi. In the two firft ftages they are unable to 
propagate their fpecies. In their perfeft ftate, the female, 
fecundated, lays a great number of eggs, which are often 
found upon plants, placed one by the fide of another; 
many of which, viewed through a magnifier, prefent lin¬ 
gular varieties of configuration. Some are crowned with 
a row of finall hairs, others have a circular fillet, and 
mod have a piece which forms a cap ; this piece the larva 
pufhes off when it forces open the egg. Releafed by na¬ 
ture from their prifon, they overfpread the plant on which 
they feed, extrafting, by the help of the roftrum, the 
juices appropriated for their nourifhmenteven in this 
llate, the larvae are not all fo peaceably inclined ; fome 
are voracious in an eminent degree, and fpare neither fex 
nor fpecies they can conquer. In their perfe6l ftate they 
are mere cannibals, glutting themfelves with the blood 
of animals; they deltroy caterpillars, flies, and even the 
coleopterous tribe, whole hardnefs of elytra one would 
imagine was proof againft their attacks; yet they have 
fallen an eafy prey to the Iharp piercing nature of the 
roftrum of the bug, and the uncautious naturalift may 
experience a feeling feverity of its nature. The eimex 
ledtulafius, or houle-bug, is particularly acceptable to 
the palate of fpiders, and is even fought after by wood- 
bugs, which is not indeed furprifing, when the general 
voracity of this genus is confidered. 
The methods of expelling lioufe-bugs are various; as 
oil of turpentine, the fmoke of corn-mint, of narrow¬ 
leaved wild crefs, of bugbane, herb-robert, -the reddifh 
agaric,' muftard, Guinea pepper, peat or turf. &c. but 
for the mod effectual method of dellroying them, ice the 
article Bug, vol. iii. p. 493. 
To illuftrate this article more fa tisfadlorily for the na¬ 
turalift, we have given figures of many of the moll rare 
and curious fpecies, which are delineated in the annexed 
engraving. Fig. 1. reprefents the eimex leftularius, or 
common houle-bug, magnified. It is laid to be the only 
one of this genus that is for'ever deftitute both of elytra 
*and wings. Its offenfive appearance and nauieous fmeil 
are fufficiently experienced in thole houfes where they are 
luffered to intrude. Their fling is- attended with a flight 
inflammation, and very painful. 2. Cimex annulatus, of 
a light brown colour, and oval fhape. This is magnified; 
being in nature about the fize of a large cherry.-ftone. 
The thorax has two annular black bands crofting it from 
fide to fide; dole to which the efcutcheon joins, which 
