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and Euthymus the Locrian. The fecond is faid to have 
carried a Dull on his back a confiderable way, and then to 
have knocked him down with a blow of his fill. 
ATHLIP'TUS f. [from a. neg. and to afflift.] A 
fever, proceeding without the ufual uneafy fymptoms, is 
fo called. 
ATHLO'NE, a town of Wedmeath in Ireland. It is 
fituated on both Tides of the Shannon, and united by a 
firong well-built bridge, in the middle of which (lands a 
monument, with queen Elizabeth’s arms, and fonte in- 
fcriptions declaring the time and founders of the building. 
The callle was founded by king John. It is built on a 
high-railed round hill, refembling one of the Danifh raths 
or forts. Athlone was formerly drongly fortified, and 
confidered as of very great importance. In the year 1691, 
a part of the Englilh army under general Ginckle, in the 
very face of the Irifh, who were itrongly entrenched on 
the oppolite (liore, fording the river, formed, and took 
pod’efiion of the town, not lofing more than fifty men in 
the attack ; which is edeemed as bold and fuccefsful an 
enterprife as any recorded in hi (lory. This town, there¬ 
fore, gives title of earl to the family of Ginckle, as a re¬ 
ward for the noble (ervices performed by the general. It 
is a borough, and fends two members to the lrifli parlia¬ 
ment. I,at. 53. 23. N. Ion. 7.50. W. Greenwich. 
A'THOL, the mod northern didriCt of Perthlhire in 
Scotland, extending in length forty-three miles, and in 
breadth thirty. It is bordered on the north by Badenoch, 
on the weft by I.ochaber, on the ead and fouth-ead by Mar 
and Govvrie, on the fouth by Stratherne and Perth Pro¬ 
per, and on the fouth-wed by Braidalbane. The country 
is very rough and mountainous, and contains part of the 
ancient Caledonian fored ; but thefe mountains are inter- 
fperfed with fruitful valleys. Here are feveral villages, 
but no towns of any confideration. The mod noted place 
is Blair Cadle, feated on the river Tilt, near its influx in¬ 
to the Gurry, a pleafant limpid dream that falls into the 
Tay. This cadle belongs to the duke of Athol, who de¬ 
rives his title from this didrift, and lives here with great 
magnificence. In the fame neighbourhood we fee the pafs 
of Gillicranky, rendered memorable by the battle fought 
in the beginning of king William’s reign, between gene¬ 
ral M‘Kay and the Highlanders adhering to king James. 
See Gillicranky. 
ATHOREC'TUS,yi [from a priv. and feed.] Not 
given to venery ; unable to procreate from a defeft of feed. 
A'THOS, a celebrated mountain of Greece, in Mace¬ 
donia, fituated lat.40. 10.N. Ion. 26.20. E. The anci¬ 
ents entertained extravagant notions concerning its height. 
It was a received opinion, that its lummit was above the 
middle region of the air, and that it never rained there ; 
becaufe the afltes left on the altars erefted near its top were 
always found as they were left, dry and unfcattered. But, 
if on many accounts it was famous among the ancients, it 
is no lefs fo among the moderns. The Greeks, flruck 
with its Angular (ituation, and the venerable appear¬ 
ance of its towering afcent, erefted fo many churches, mo- 
naderies, hermitages, &c. upon it, that it became in a 
manner inhabited by devotees, and from thence received 
the name of the Holy Mountain ; which name it dill retains, 
though many of thofe confecrated works are now decay¬ 
ed. According to the accounts of modern travellers, this 
mountain advances into the Archipelago, being joined to 
the continent by an idhmtis about half a league in breadth. 
It is about thirty miles in circumference, and two in per¬ 
pendicular height. It is faid to call its (hadow as far as 
ifland of StalimCne, or Lemnos, upwards of forty miles. 
There is a fine profpeft from the top ; but, like all other 
high mountains, the cold on its fummit is excedive. It 
abounds with many different kinds of plants and trees, 
particularly the pine and fir. In the valley grows a plant 
called elegia, whofe branches ferve to make pens for wri¬ 
ting. It is now inhabited by Caloyers, a fort of Greek 
monks, of the order of St. Bafil, who never marry, tho’ 
others of that church do. They abflain from flefh, their 
ordinary meal being olives pickled when they are ripe. 
They inhabit feveral parts of the mountain, in large old 
monaderies, furrounded with high walls for a defence 
againd banditti. They are fo refpetled, that the Turks 
themfelves will often fend them alms. Thefe monks are 
not idle like others; but labour with the ax, fpade, and 
fickle, dreffing therftfelves like hermits. 
Through this mountain, or rather through the idhnnis 
behind it, Xerxes king of Perfia is faid to have cut a pai- 
fage for his fleet when about to invade Greece. In this 
work he fpent three whole years, and employed in it all 
the forces on-board the fleet. He is alfo faid, before the 
work was begun, to have written the following infolenf 
and ridiculous letter to the mountain : “ Athos, thou proud 
and afpiring mountain, that lifted up thy head to the very 
(kies, I advife thee not to be fo audacious as to put rocks 
and dones that cannot be cut in the way of my workmen. 
If thou maked that oppofition, I will cut thee entirely 
down, and throw thee headlong into the fea.” The di- 
reftors ot this enterprife are faid to have been Bubaris the 
fon of Megabyzus, and Artacheus the foil of Arbeus,. 
both Perfians; but, as no traces of fuch a great work re¬ 
main, the truth of the whole relation has juflly been call¬ 
ed in quedion. 
A'THRIX,/. [fromapriv. and hair. ] Bald; with¬ 
out hair. 
A'THROUS,/ [from afijoi£<y, to collect.] Suddenly 
accumulated ; in oppofition to accumulated by degrees. 
ATHWART', prep, [from a and thwart.^ Acrols* 
tranfverfe to any thing.—Themidocles made Xerxes poll 
out of Grecia, by giving out a purpofe to break his bridge 
athwart the Hellelpont. Bacon. 
Execrable- fliape ! 
That dar’d, though grim ajid terrible, advance 
Thy mifcreated front athwajt my way. Milton, 
Athwart, adv. a tort. In A manner vexatious and per¬ 
plexing; crofsly. Wrong; a t ravers : 
All athwart there came 
A pod from Wales, loaden with heavy news. Shakefpearc , 
Athwart the Fore Foot, is a. phrafe that denotes 
the flight of a cannon-ball from one (hip acrols the courfe 
of another, to intercept the latter, and oblige her to fliort- 
en fail, that the former may come near enough to exa¬ 
mine her. 
Athwart-Hause, exprefles the fituation of a fhipV 
when (lie is driven by wind or tide, or any other accident* 
acrofe the fore part of another. 
A'THY, a town of Ireland, in the county of Kildare, 
It is a borough, and fends two members to parliament; 
and the affizes for the county are held here and at Naas al¬ 
ternately : forty miles wed of Wicklow, and twelve north 
of Carlow. Lat. 52. 59. N. Ion. 7. 1. W. Greenwich. 
ATHY'MlA,y. [ce. 0 vp.iai, Gr.] Dejeftion of the fpi- 
rits; defpondency. 
ATIBAR', f. the name by which the inhabitants of the 
kingdom of Gago in Africa call gold-dud; from which 
word, Europeans, and efpecially the French, have com- 
pofed the word tibir, which alfo (ignifies gold-dud among 
thofe who trade in that commodity. 
ATI'CHY, a town of France, in the department of the 
Oife, and chief place of a canton, in the di drift of No- 
yon: eight miles ead of Compiegne. 
A'l IEN'CA, a town of Spain, in Old Cadile, with an 
ancient cadle, fituated among tiie mountains called Sierra 
d’Atien^a: twenty miles north of Siguenca. 
ATTLT', adv. [from a and tilt. ] In the manner of a 
filter; with the action of a man making a thrud at an an- 
tagonid: 
In the city of Tours 
Thou ran’d atilt, in honour of my love, 
And dol’d away the ladies’ hearts from France. Shake/, 
To run atilt at men, and wield 
Their naked tools in open field. Uudibras. 
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