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line poffing throngk A and through another given point L.—> 
p L From L as a centre, with an 
arbitrary radius, as LP, de- 
fcribe an arc which ihall in- 
terfe^l the arc BCD in P 
and in Q. Divide the arc 
PQ in two equal parts, 
at the point ?« (Art. 12); 
find the femi-circumference 
in Dn ; and the points m and 
n are tlie two points fought. 
;6. Two points. A, B, <2 right line, and two points C, D, 
en another right line, being given, to find the point S where they 
will cut each other .—From two points oh one of the right 
A 
lines, e. g. the points A and B, taken as centres, and 
with the refpedlive diftances, AC, AD, from thofe 
points; and BC, BD, of the two points C and D 
on the other right line, taken as radii, defcribe four 
arcs, two of which fhall interfeft at the points C and c, 
and the other two at the points D and d. Find the 
fourth point ^ of the parallelogram CD(/^, by making 
Di^=C^, and DC=:^^. Find the fourth proportional 
to the three lines c^, CD, Cc. With this diftance taken 
for a radius, and from the centres C and c, defcribe two 
arcs cutting one another in S ; and S will be the point 
of interfedlion of the two right lines AB, CD. 
17. To find the centre of a given circle MAB.—Take for 
a centre any point on the circumference, as A, and with 
a radius at pleafure, 
AB, but lefs than the 
diameter of the given 
circle, and greater than 
the fourth part of that 
diameter, defcribe the 
femicircle BCDE, and 
make AB=BC=CD=: 
DE; let M be the point 
where it cuts the given 
circle. From the cen¬ 
tres E and A, with the radius EM, defcribe two arcs 
interfedling in L; from the centre L, with fame radius 
LA, cut the femicircle BMC in Q. From B and A as 
centres, with a radius BQ, defcribe two arcs, which fhall 
cut each other at O; the point O will be the point fought. 
18. To find the centre S, 
of a circle which goes through 
three given points, P, Q, R. 
From the points P and Q 
as centres, with a radius 
\ Q at pleafure,. 'defcribe two 
\ 3rcs interfefting in C and 
..-'V D. The point S, where 
\ the lines AB, CD, crofs 
\K. each other, (Art. 16.) will 
be the centre,req^uired. 
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GE'ON, the name of a place celebrated on account 
of its excellent vintage. Ecclus, xxiv. 27. 
GEOPON'ICAL, adj. \^geoponique, Fr. yzsireovwJ^, of 
yn, the earth, and trov®^, Gr. labour.] Relating to agri¬ 
culture; relating to the cultivation of the ground.— 
Such expreflions are frequent in authors geoponical, or 
fuch as have treated de re rujlica. Brown. 
GEOPON'ICS, y. \_yo and wovo?, Gr.] The fcience 
of cultivating the ground ; the dotlrine of agriculture. 
GEORGE, a proper name of men. 
GEORGE, furnamed the Cappadocian, a famous bifhop 
of Alexandria. He was born at Epiphania in Cilicia^ 
■where his father purfued the employment of a fuller. 
From this obfeure and fervile fituation, George with¬ 
drew to Alexandria, where he profeffed great zeal for 
the principles of Arius, and acquired confiderable in¬ 
fluence with his difciples in that city. He likewife, ei¬ 
ther from the love or oftentation of learning, collefled 
a large and valuable library of hiftory, rhetoric, philo- 
fophy, and theology, wdiich the emperor Julian after¬ 
wards made the foundation of the noble library efta- 
blifhed by him in the temple eretled in honour of the 
emperor Trajan at Antioch, but which, to the great 
lofs of the republic of letters, was malignantly per¬ 
mitted to be burnt by the emperor Jovian. When 
about the year 356 Athanafius was obliged to abfeond 
from the fury of the favage military, who had received 
direiftions from the emperor Conflanlius to expel him 
from his fee, George was eledled bifliop by the pre¬ 
vailing party. His conduft in this ftation was in the 
highell degree oppreflive and cruel. The catholics he 
perfecLited with unrelenting rage; the merchants of 
Alexandria were impoveriflied by an unjuft, and almoft 
univerfal, monopoly; and he incenfed the inhabitants 
in general, by fuggefting an invidious tax upon all the 
houfes of that city. The refentment of the people at 
length rofe to fury, and he was for a time expelled from 
the city ; nor was it without a violent ftruggle that the 
civil and military powers were able to reftore his au¬ 
thority. When, however, in 362, information arrived 
at Alexandria of the accellion of Julian to the empire, 
the public rage againfl the bifhop again broke forth, 
and after he had been feized, together with two of the 
minifters of his atrocities, they were ignominioufly drag¬ 
ged in chains to tlie public prifon. When they had 
been confined for fome days, the pagan populace, fear¬ 
ful left they Ihould efcape their vengeance, forced open 
the prifon doors, and with cruel infults maffacred them. 
Alter their lifelefs bodies had been carried in triumph 
through the ftreets, according to fome accounts they 
were burnt, but according to others, thrown into the 
fea; “and the popular leaders of the tumult (fays 
Gibbon) ^declared their refolution to difappoint the 
devotion of the Chriftians, and to intercept the future 
honours of thefe martyrs, who had been puniftied, like 
their predeceffors, by the enemies of their religion. 
The fears of the pagans were juft, and their prfcau¬ 
tions inetfeftual. The cruel death of the archbifhop 
obliterated the memory of his life. The memory of 
the rival of Athanafius became facred to the Arians, 
and the feeming converfionof thofe fedlaries introduced 
his worfhip into the bofom of the catholic church. 
The odious ftranger, difguifing every circumftance of 
time and place, alfumed the malk of a martyr, a faint, 
a Chriftian hero ; and hence the famous George of Cap-, 
padocia has been transformed into the renowned 
St. George of England, the patron of arms, of chivalry, 
and of the Garter.”' 
GEORGE, called alfo Amira, a learned Maronite, 
who flourilhed towards the latter end of the fixteenth 
and the beginning of the feventeenth century, came to 
Rome under the pontificate of Clement VIII. He 
there publiftied A Syriac and Chaldee Grammar, 1596, 
4to. which is much efteemed in the learned world. On 
his return to his native, country^ he was ekfted patri¬ 
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