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of ten black fegments edged with white, befides the head 
and tail. Of the ten fegments, the firft feven are broad, 
and the Lift three fliort. Thefe lafl; fliort fegments, with 
that of the tail, form the extremity of the animal's body, 
which is round, without any appendix, and conftitutes 
the fpecinc character of this inledh This animal, when 
touched, royvitfelf up into a ball, bringing its head and 
tail together, like the animal called armadillo, and neither 
its antennas nor feet are feen. It might then be taken for 
a round lliining pearL; and Swammerdam relates a ludi¬ 
crous miftake of a fervant-niaid, who, finding in the gar¬ 
den a great many in this globular date, imagined fhe had 
discovered fome handfome materials for a necklace, and 
betook herfelf to ftringing them with great care 5 but, on 
fuddenly perceiving them unfold, was ieized with a panic, 
and ran lhrieking into the houfe. 
Though conlider.ed but of flight importance in the pre- 
fent practice of phyfic, thefe animals once maintained a 
very refpedtable ftation in the materia medica, under the 
title of millepedes; being regarded as aperient, refolvent, 
&c. &c. They were ordered in cafes of jaundice, afthma, 
and many other diforders, and were either taken living, 
being fwallowed, like pills, in their contradted ftate, or 
varioufly enveloped in fyrups and marmalades; but were 
more generally reduced to a powder, and thus mixed with 
other ingredients. This is fhown at fig. 23. and rolled-up 
at fig. 24. 
ONISI'ON, a town of Perlia, in the province of Irak : 
twenty miles north of Confar. 
O'NIUM. See On. 
O'NIUM, a place in the Peloponnefus, near Corinth. 
ONIX'TY, a town of Lithuania, in the palatinate of 
Troki: fourteen miles north-north-eaft of Wilkomiers. 
ON'KELOS, a celebrated rabbi, who flourifhed in the 
firll century, and was the author of the Chaldee Targum, 
or tranflation of the Pentateuch, which is called after his 
name.. The Jewifh writers agree that he was, during a 
part of his life, contemporary with. Jonathan Ben Uzziel, 
author of the Targum on the Prophets; but they make 
him confiderably the youngeft of the two : for they tell 
us, that Jonathan was one of the principal fcholars of 
Plillel, who died about the time of our Saviour’s birth ; 
while Oukelos furvived Gamaliel the elder, St. Paul’s 
mafter, who was the grandfon of Hillel, and who lived 
till within eighteen years of the deftrucHon of Jerufalem ; 
and the Talmuaifts relate, that he abided at the funeral 
of this Gamaliel, and contributed largely to the expenfe 
which attended the celebration of his obfequies. The 
learned Prideaux, however, is of opinion, that Onkelos 
mull have been of older handing than Jonathan ; alleging, 
as one of his principal reafons, the purity of ftyle in which 
our author's Targum is written. This will appear, from 
comparing it with thofe parts of the books of Daniel and 
Ezra which are in Chaldee, and are allowed to be the trued 
ftandard of that language. The more nearly, therefore, 
the ftyle of any writing approaches to that ftandard, the 
more ancient we may conclude it to be; and the farther 
it differs from it, the later is the date to which the flux 
of all languages will warrant us in afligningit. The doc¬ 
tor adds, that he could fee no other reafon why Jonathan 
Ben Uzziel, when lie undertook to write his Targum, 
fliould pafs over the Law, and begin with the Prophets, 
than that Onkelos had already performed this talk before 
him. With regard to the Targum of Jonathan, and 
other Targums of a later darte, they are properly called 
Chaldee paraphrafes, on account of the additions and 
globes to the text which they contain ; but the Targum 
of Onkelos is, ftridtly fpeaking, a .Chaldee verfion of the 
books of Mofes, in which the Hebrew text is tranflated 
word for word, and, for the moftpart, faithfully and accu¬ 
rately. On this account, it has been always held by the 
Jews in higher eftimation than the other Targums, and 
read 1 by them in their public afiemblies. This we learn 
f rom rabbi Elias Levita’s preface to his Chaldee Lexicon, 
who informs us, that the Jews, “holding themfelves 
obliged, every week, in their fynagogues, to read twice 
(i.e. the Hebrew text firft, and afterwards the Chaldee 
interpretation) that Parttjha, orfection of the Law, which 
was the leflon for the week, made ufe of the Targum of 
Onkelos for that purpofe ; and that this praftice conti¬ 
nued to his time, in the early part of the fixteenth century. 
Wolfius obferves, that the name of Onkelos is certainly 
not of Hebrew origin ; and feems to countenance the opi¬ 
nion of thofe Jewifh writers who reprefent him to have 
been a profelyte to their religion from the Gentiles. On 
the contrary, Prideaux maintains, that, uulefs he had 
been a native Jew, and bred up from his birth in the Jew¬ 
ifh religion and learning, as well as thoroughly fkilled in 
the Hebrew and Chaldee languages, he could fcarrely 
have been equal to the performance which he executed. 
The reprefentation of him as a profelyte, he confiders to 
have proceeded from the miftake of confounding him 
with Aquila of Pontus, who was indeed a Jewifh profe¬ 
lyte, and wrote a Greek Targum, which has been clearly 
fhown by the learned Montfaucon, in his Praeliminaria in 
Hexapla Origenis, to bear no affinity to the Targum of 
Onkelos. The firft Latin verfion of this work was made 
,by Alphonfus de Zamora; and publiflied in the complu- 
tenfian edition of the Polyglot, in 1517; whence it was 
adopted into the Antwerp, in 1572 ; that of Le Jay at 
Paris, in 1645; and into our countryman Walton’s, in 
1657. See Wolfii Bill. Hebra. vol.ii. Pride mix's Connect. 
vol. iii. and the article Targum. 
ON'NA, a town of Thibet: fifteen mile's north-north- 
weft of Moron Co rig he. 
ON'NEY, a river of England, in the county of Salop, 
which runs into the Temd two miles north-weft of Lud¬ 
low. 
O'NLY, adj. [from one, oncly, or one like ; asnllc, Sax.] 
Single; one and no more : 
Of ail whom fortune to my fword did bring, 
This oidy man was worth the conquering. Dryden. 
This and no other.—The only child offhadeful Savernake. 
Drayton. —The logic now in -ufe has long pofiefled the 
chair, as the only art taught in the fchools for the direc¬ 
tion of the mind in the ftudy of the fciences. Locke .— 
This above all other: as, He is the only man' for mufic. 
•—His only heart-fore, and his only foe. Spenjer. 
Whofe only joy was to relieve the needs 
Of-wretched louls. Spenjer. 
Alone.— The only found of leaves and fuming rills. Milton. 
With the only twinkle of her eye 
She could or fave or fpill. Spenjer. 
O'NLY, adv. [fuppofed by fome to be an abbreviation 
of alonely, which lee, vol. i.] Simply ; lingly; merely; 
barely.—I propole my thoughts- only as conjedhires. 
Burnet. —The prafiice of virtue is attended not only 
with prefent quiet and fatisfadfion, but with comfortable 
hope of a future recompence. Nelfon. 
All who deferve his love, he makes his own ; 
And to be lov’d himlelf, needs only to be known. Dryden. 
So and no otherwife.—Every imagination of the thoughts 
of his heart was only evil continually. Gen. vi. 5. 
O'NLY-BEGOT'TEN, adj. Diftinguilhed in a peculiar 
and myfterious manner from all other created beings.— 
The Word was made belli, and dwelt among us, (and we 
beheld his-glory, the glory as of the only-begotten of the 
Father,) full of grace and truth. John i. 14.—Mr. Wm. 
Ludlam’s viith Eflay relates to the title only-begotten, 
given in Scripture to Chrift. Had we never feen it, we 
fliould have fuftained nolofs, flnee the term only-begotten, 
which only occurs in St. John’s Gofpel, receives nofatis- 
fadfory illuftration. Monthly Ilev. for June 1809. - 
ONO'BA, or Onuba, now Mogitcr, a town of Spain, 
in Bcetica, towards the fouth-welt, at the bottom of ,a 
fmall bay. Pliny places it at the confluence of the Luxia 
and the Unrium, and gives it the furname of JE/tuarium , 
indicating 
