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thefe laft hundred years, has be«n thrice rebuilt, hav¬ 
ing been as often thrown to the ground by earthquakes. 
In order to fecure a retreat in cafe of future accidents, 
thefe fathers have conftrufted a filial 1 building of wood, 
the parts of which being joined together with ftrong iron 
-chains, are contrived fo as to have a proper play, and by 
-yielding to the ofcillatory motion of the earth, return ea- 
fily to their equilibrium. Lat.41.8-N. Ion. 15. 19. E. 
A'RIANS, the followers of Arius, a prelbyter of the 
church of Alexandria, about the year 315; who main¬ 
tained, that the Son of God was totally and elfentially 
diHindi from the Father; that he was the firft and nobleft 
of thofe beings whom God had created, the inftrument by 
whofe fubordinate operation he formed the univerfe; and 
therefore inferior to the Father both in nature and dignity : 
alfo, that the Holy Ghoft was not God, but created by the 
power of the Son. They owned that the Son was the 
word, but denied that word to have been eternal. They 
held, that Chrift had nothing of man in him but the fifth, 
to which the Aoyo; or word was joined, which was the fame 
as the foul in us. See Lardner'sC?edibi/ity,Vo\.lX. b.i. c.69. 
The Arians were firft condemned and anathematized by 
a council at Alexandria, in 320; and afterwards by 380 
fathers in the general council of Nice, affembled by Con- 
fhmtine in the year 325. But, notwithllanding that, it was 
not extinguiflied : on the contrary, it became the reigning 
religion, efpecially in the eaff, where it obtained much 
more than in the weft. Arius was recalled from banifli- 
merrt by the emperor Conftantine in two or three yeSrs af¬ 
ter the council of Nice, and the laws that had been enact¬ 
ed againft him were repealed. In the year 335, Athanafius, 
his zealous opponent, was depofed and banifhed into Gaul, 
and Arius and his followers were reinftated in their privi¬ 
leges, and received into the communion of the church. 
In little more than a year after this, lie fell a viftim to the 
rc-fentment of his enemies, and died a tragical death, oc- 
cafioned by poifon, or fome other violence. The Arian 
party found a proteftor in Conftantius, who fucceeded his 
father in the empire of’the eaft; and the zeal with which 
he abetted them produced many animofities and tumults 
to the time of his death in the year 362. They underwent 
various revolutions, perfecuting and oppreired, under fuc- 
ceeding •emperors, according to the degree of intereft they 
had in the civil power, till at length Theodofius the Great 
exerted every poflible effort to fupprefsand difperfe them. 
The Arians were divided into various fefts, of which 
ancient writers give an account under the names of Semi- 
Arians, Eufebeans, Aetians, Eunomians , Acacians, Pfathyrians, 
and others. But they have been commonly diflributed in¬ 
to three claffeS, viz. the Genuine Arians, Semi-Arians, and 
Eunomians. Arianifm was triumphant in many parts of 
Afia, Africa, and Europe ; but funk when the Vandals 
were driven out of Africa, and the Goths out of Italy, by 
the arms of Juftinian. However, it revived again in Italy 
under the proteftion of the Lombards, in the feventh cen¬ 
tury. The appellation Arian has been indifcriminately 
applied, in more modern times, to all thofe who confider 
jefus Chrift as inferior and fubordinate to the Father; and 
whofe fentiments cannot be fuppofed to' coincide exadtly 
with thofe of the ancient Arians. 
A'RIAS MON'T ANUS, a learned Spanifh divine, em¬ 
ployed by Philip II. of Spain to publifh another edition of 
the Bible, after that of cardinal Ximenes; which he finifh- 
-ed with applaufe, and died at Seville in 1398. 
ARI'CA, a fea-port town of South America, in the 
province of Peru, with a good harbour, open to the Paci¬ 
fic ocean. This place was almoft deftroyed by an earth¬ 
quake in 1605, and here the filver from the mines of Po- 
tofi is fhipped for Europe. In the beginning of the year 
1378, Sir Francis Drake entered the bay, and made a prize 
of upwards of forty bars of filver, each weighing twenty 
■pounds. It fcarcely ever rains here ; and many farms are 
employed in the cultivation of Guinea pepper, in which 
they have a great trade to Lima, from which it is 330 miles 
jfouth-eaft. Near it is a mountain of rock-falt, great quan- 
Voi. II- No. 63. 
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titles of which are dug and fent to all parts of the coalt. 
Lat. iS. 26. S. Ion. 71. 8. W. from Greenwich. 
ARl'CIA, a princefs of the blood royal at Athens, imd 
the only remains of the unhappy family of the Pallatides, 
whofe kingdom Thefeus liad ufurped. A fntall town of 
Latium was called after her name, and was built by her 
lmfband Hippolytus in the Appian Way, ten miles from 
Rome. 
ARICI'NA, in mythology, a furname of Diana ; under 
which appellation flie was honoured in the foreft Aricine, 
fo called from Aricia, a princefs off the blood-royal of 
Athens. Hippolytus, to whom this princefs was"married, 
is faid to have erefted a temple to Diana in this, forefl, 
w here he was concealed after his refurreftion by /Efcula- 
pius, and to have cflablifhed a priefl and feftivjfts. 
ARICO'NIUM, a town of the Silurus; novV Hereford. 
Camden. Lat. 32. 6. Ion. 2. 42. W. 
ARICY'MON.y. [from aft, and nvu. to be quickly 
impregnated.] A woman who conceives quickly and often. 
A'RID, adj. \_aridns, Lat. dry.] Dry; parched up — 
My complexion is become adull, and my body arid, by 
vifiting lands. Arbuthnot. 
ARIDA'NA, a town of Arabia, ten miles Couth-weft of 
Mecca. 
A'RIDAS,y. a kind of taffety, manufaftured in the Eaft 
Indies, from a (hining thread which is made from certain 
v herbs, whence they are llyled aridasef herbs. 
ARID'ITY, f. Drynefs; liccity.—Salt taken in great 
quantities will reduce an animal body to the great extre¬ 
mity of aridity, or drynefs. Arbuthnot. —In the theological 
fenfe, a kind of infenfibility in devotion, contrary to unc¬ 
tion or tendernefs.—Strike my foul with lively apprehen- 
fions of thy excellencies, to bear up my lpirit under the 
greateff aridities and dejections, with the delightful prof- 
peft of thy glories. Norris. 
ARIDSONG', a town of Afia, in the country of Thi¬ 
bet, 152 miles north of Catmandu. Lat. 30. 40. N. Ion. 
84.43. E. Greenwich. 
ARIDUL'LAM,y in natural hiftory, a kind of zarnich 
found in the Eaft Indies. See Zarnich. 
ARIDU'RA,/. [from atidus, Lat. dry.] A wafting; a 
withering of any member. 
A'RIEN, a fmall ifland in the Adriatic, near the coaft 
of Italy, three leagues north of Venice. 
ARIEN'ZO, a town of Italy, in the kingdom of Na¬ 
ples, and country of Lavora, fourteen mile's N.E. of Naples. 
A'RIER BAN,y The ban or proclamation of the King, 
for the arraying of his tenants, or their entering into the 
army. 
A'RIES,y. in zoology. See Ovis. 
Aries, the battering-ram. See Battf.ring-ram. 
Aries, or the Ram , in aftronomy, the firft of the twelve 
figns of zodiac; from which alfo a twelfth part of the 
ecliptic takes its denomination. The ftars in the conftel. 
lation Aries, in Ptolemy’s catalogue, are eighteen; in Ty¬ 
cho’s, twenty-one; in Hevelius’s, twenty-feven; in the 
Britannic catalogue, fixty-fix. The fun enters Aries in 
March, and is commonly expreffed by this character, y. 
The poets feign that this ram carried Pyrrhus and Helle 
through the fea. It was alfo immortal, and was given to 
them by their mother'Mcphele. It had a golden fleece, 
as Heftod and Pherecydes write. But, when it carried them 
over that narrow fea, the ram threw her into the fea, and 
loft his horn. But Helle was fared by Neptune, who on 
her begat a foil called Pieon, and Phryxus, efcaping to the 
Euxirie fea, came to Hletes, to whom he gave the golden 
fleece in the temple of Jupiter, that the-memory of it 
might be preferved. But he afeended up among the ftars, 
and is beheld but obfeurely. 
To ARPETATE, v. n. [arieto, I,at.] To butt like a 
ram. To ftrike in imitation of the blows which rams give 
with their heads. 
ARIETA'TION,/ The act of"butting like a ram. 
The aft of battering with an engine called a ram.—The 
ftrength of the percuflion, wherein ordnance do exceed all 
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