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arc alfo very curious, of which there are three fcated on 
■a branch of the l iver Lech, which runs through the city 
in fucli a torrent as to drive many mills, which work a 
number of pumps that raife the water in large leaden 
pipes to the tops of the towers; one of thefe fends water 
to the public fountains, and the relt to near 1000 houfes 
in the city. 
The Lutherans have a college here, which is a vaft 
fquare building, with rooms for feven different clafies, a 
hall for public deputations, and a theatre for dramatic 
reprefentations. The inhabitants confider Auguftus Cae- 
far as the founder of the place; it is true, that emperor 
fent a colony there; but the town was already founded, 
though he gave it the name of Augujia Vindclicorum. Augf- 
burgh, indeed, is one of the oldeft towns in Germany, and 
remarkable for the many important diets of the empire 
held here. In 952, its council confirmed the order for the 
celibacy of priells; in 1530, the confeflion of faith of the 
Proteftants was laid before the emperor and other eflates 
of Germany at this place; and here, in 1555, was figned 
the famous treaty of peace, by which religious liberty was 
fecured to Germany. 
This city, which is nine miles and a half in circumfe¬ 
rence, contains, according to Mr. Riefbeck, 30,000 inha¬ 
bitants: but Mr. Nicolai makes them about 35,000, ar.u 
fays there are 28,000 houfes. Augfburg is thirty-five 
miles north-weft of Munich. Lat.48.2i.N. Ion. 28.31. 
E. Ferro. 
Augsburg Confession, a celebrated confeflion of 
faith drawn up by Luther and Melan&hon, on behalf of 
themfelves and other ancient reformers, and prefented in 
1530 to the emperor Charles V. at the diet of Augfburg, 
in the name of the evangelic body. This confeflion con¬ 
tains twenty-eight chapters; of which the greateft part is 
employed in repref'enting, xvith perfpicuity and truth, the 
religious opinions of the Proteftants, and the reft in point¬ 
ing out the errors and abufes that occafioned their repara¬ 
tion from the church of Rome. 
AUGST, a village of Swiderland, near the Rhine, Once 
a celebrated, city, called Ausvlla Rauracorum : two leagues 
below Bafle. 
AU'GUR,/! [augur, Lat.] One who pretends to predidt 
by omens, as by the flight of birds, &c. 
At Rome there was a college or community of augurs, 
conlifting originally of three members with refpedl to the 
three Luceres, Rhamnenfes, and Tatienfes: afterwards 
the number was increafed to nine, four of whom were pa¬ 
tricians and five plebeians. They bore an augural ftaflf or 
wand, as the enfign of their authority; and their dignity 
was fo much refpedted, that they were never depofed, nor 
any fubftituted in their place, though they fnould be con- 
vitfted of the moft enormous crimes. 
To Augur, v. n. To guefs; to conjedhire by figns: 
The people love me, and the fea is mine, 
My powr’s a crefcent, and my aug'ring hope 
Says it will come to the full. Shakefpeare. 
My aug'ring mind allures the fame fuccefs. Drydcn. 
AU'GURAL, adj. Something relating to the augurs. 
The augural inftmments are reprelented on feveral an¬ 
cient medals. The augurq .1 J'upper was that given by a 
prieft on his firft admiliion into the order, called alfo by 
Varro adjicialis. Augural books , were thofe wherein the 
difeipline and rules of augury were laid down. 
AlJGURA'LE,yi The place in a camp where the ge¬ 
neral took aufpicia. This anfwered to the auguratorium in 
the city. 
Aug urale is alfo ufed in Seneca for the enfign or badge 
of an augur, as the lituus. 
To AU'GURATE, v. n. [ auguror, Lat.] To judge by 
augury. 
AUGUR A'TION,/! The practice of augury, or of 
foretelling by events and prodigies. 
AUGURATO'RlUM,yi A building on the Palatine 
mount, where public auguries were taken. 
VoL. II. No, 89. 
AUG S (h 
AL r 'GURER,yi The fame with Augur. 
AUGU'RIAL, adj. Relating to augury.-—On this foun¬ 
dation were built the conclulions of foothfayers, in their 
augurial and tripudiary divinations. Brown. 
To AU'GURISE, v.n. To pradtife divination by augury. 
AUGURIS'TA,yi [from auguro, Lat. to foretel.] A 
perfon who who by fuperftitious figns foretels the event 
of difeafes. 
AU'GUROUS, ad). Predicting; prefeient; foreboding. 
AU'GURY, f. [ augurium , Lat.] The act of prognefti- 
cating by omens or prodigies: 
Thy face and thy behaviour. 
Which, if my augury deceive me not, 
Witnefs good breeding. Shakefpeare. 
An omen or prediction : 
The pow’rs we both invoke 
To you, and yours, and mine, propitious be, 
And firm our purpofe with an augury. Dryden. 
AUGUST', adj. [auguftus, Lat.] Great; grand; royal; 
magnificent; awful.—There is nothing fo contemptible, 
but antiquity can render it augujl and excellent. Glanville. 
Au'gust ,f. The eighth month of the year, contain¬ 
ing thirty-one days. In the ancient Roman calendar this 
was called fexlilis, as being the fixth month from March, 
with which their year began ; but changed to its prefent 
name by the emperor Auguftus, calling it after his own 
name on account of his having obtained many victories 
and honours in that month. 
August is painted like a young man, with a fierce 
countenance, drefled in a flame-coloured robe, having his 
head adorned with a garland of wheat, and having a baf- 
ket of fuminer fruit on his arm, a fickle at his belt, and 
bearing a victim. 
AUGUS'TA, the capital town, and prefent feat of go¬ 
vernment, of the ftate of Georgia, in North America. It 
ftands on the fouth-weft bank of the Savannah river, which 
is here about five hundred yards wide, about 144 miles 
from the fea, and 127 north-weft from Savannah. The 
town, which fo recently as 1782 contained but. three or 
four houfes, is now a very populous place. It is (ituated 
in a large plain, at the foot of the firft falls in the river, 
which in a dry feafon are four or five feet in height; and, 
as it enjoys the beft foil, and a central (ituation, it advan¬ 
ces rapidly in its trade and commerce. 
Augusta, a county of Virginia, in North America, 
which fent 1375 men to the national militia in 1781. 
Augusta, or Austa, an ifland in the Adriatic fea on 
the coaft of Dalmatia, near Ragufa. Lat. 42. 35. N. Ion. 
17.50. E. 
Augusta Auscio'rum, a town of Aquitania, fo na¬ 
med in compliment to Auguftus, being originally called 
C/imberrum, which name it afterwards refumed. In the 
middle age, it took the name of the people, AuJ'ci-, and is 
now called Auch. 
Augusta Emeri'ta, a town of Lufitania, on the ri¬ 
ver Anas, the capital of the province; a colony of the 
Emeriti, or fuch foldiers as had ferved out their legal time, 
were men of experience, or had received marks of favour. 
The colony was founded by Auguftus ; and is now called 
Merida, a city of Spain, in Eftremadura, on the river Gua- 
diana. 
Augusta Pr^jto'ria, a town and colony of Gallia 
Cifalpina, and capital of the Salaffi; feated at the foot of 
the Alps Graiae on the Duria. Now Aoujte in Piedmont. 
Augusta Rauraco'rum, a town of Gallia Belgica; 
now a fmall village called Augf. 
Augusta Suesso'num, a towm of Gallia Belgica, on 
the Axona; fo called from Auguftus, and with great pro¬ 
bability fuppofed to be the Noviodunum Suelibnum of 
Ctefar. Now SoiJJvns, on the river Aifne, in France. 
Augusta Taurino'rum, a town of the Taurini at 
the foot of the Alps where the Duria Minor falls into the 
Po ; now Turin, the capital of Piedmont. 
Augusta 
