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probably have rivalled the great names of antiquity. His 
poetic and fancy subjects are treated with originality, variety, 
taste, and sentiment. 
We shall conclude our account of this great and valuable 
man, by quoting part of an eulogium written by his friend 
Mr. E. Burke a few hours after the melancholy event which 
it commemorates had taken place. 
“ In full affluence of foreign and domestic fame, admired 
by the expert in art, and by the learned in science, courted 
by the great, caressed by sovereign powers, and celebrated 
by distinguished poets, his native humility, modesty, and 
candour, never forsook him, even on surprise or provocation ; 
nor was the least degree of arrogance or assumption visible 
to the most scrutinizing eye, in any part of his conduct or 
discourse.” 
REYNOLDSBURG, a post village of the United States, 
in Humphrey county, Tennessee. 
REYNOSA, a small town of Spain, situated among the 
lofty ridge of mountains called La Montana, on the road to 
Santander; 35 miles north-west of Frias. Population 1500. 
Near this were defeated by the French, on 11th November 
1808, the remains of the Galician army, under general 
Blake. 
REYS, Point or Cape de los, a very conspicuous pro¬ 
montory on the west coast of North America, which when 
seen from the north or south, at the distance of five or six 
leagues, appears insulated, owingto its projecting into the sea, 
and the land behind it being less high than usual near the 
coast. Its highest part terminates in steep cliffs, moderately 
elevated, and nearly perpendicular to the sea, which beats 
•against them with great violence. Lat. 38. 36. N. Long. 
237. 24. E. 
REZAT. See Retzat. 
REZBACH, a town of Bavarian Franconia, on the Maine; 
8 miles north of Wurzburg. Population 1000. 
REZUNS, a district of the east of Switzerland, in the can¬ 
ton of the Grisons, to the south-west of Coire. This district 
was the only part of Switzerland that remained to Austria, 
and was ceded by her only in 1809. 
RHA. See Rheum. 
RHABA'RBARATE, adj. [from rahaharbara , Lat.] Im¬ 
pregnated or tinctured with rhubarb. — The salt humours 
must be evacuated by the senate, rhabarbarate, and sweet 
manna ( purgers, with acids added,' or the purging waters. 
Flayer. 
RHA’BDOMANCY, s. [oa/38o?, and yavhial] Divination 
- by a wand.—Of peculiar rhabdomancy is that which is used 
in mineral discoveries, with a forked hazel, commonly called 
Moses’s rod, which, freely held forth, will stir and play if any 
mine be under it. Brown. 
RHABDONALEPSIS, [Pa£§ ov Ava\?jxpi<;.] Among the 
Greeks, the Reception or Elevation of the Rod, a festival 
kept every year in the island of Cos, at v'hich the priest 
carried a cypress-tree. 
RHABDOPHORI, [P aSSopopoi.] Among the Greeks, offi¬ 
cers appointed to preserve peace and good order, and to cor- 
lect the unruly at their public games 
RHABDUS, [Pa£8os.] Among the Ancients, the iron rod 
with which the boys rolled the troehus. 
RACHITIS. See Pathology. 
RHACOMA, in Botany, a name adopted by Linnaeus 
from Pliny, and applied to the genus called by Browne 
C.rossopetalum, but which proves not distinct from My- 
ginda ; see that article. The real Rhacoma of Pliny ap¬ 
pears, by his copious account of its character and qualities, 
to be some kind of rhubarb. 
RHACOSIS, and old surgical term for an excoriated state 
ef the scrotum. 
RHADAMANTHUS, in mythology, one of the three 
judges or sovereigns of Hades, or the invisible world, to 
whom was assigned Tartarus, as Erebus was to Minos, and 
Elysium to iEacus, He was the brother of Minos, and the 
son of Jupiter and Europa; and is said to have been pre¬ 
ferred to the honour of presiding over Tartarus, on account 
of the distinguished wisdom and justice of his administration. 
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According to Plato, JSacus judged the Europeans; and 
Rhadamanthus, who had left Crete, and fixed his residence 
in Asia, had the Asiatics for his lot, among whom were also 
comprehended the Africans. The stem Rhadamanthus su¬ 
perintends in Tartarus the execution of the sentences which his 
brother Minos pronounces ; after shaking the fatal urn in 
which are contained the destinies of all mortals. The 
office of Rhadamanthus is describd by Virgil, iEneid, 
lib. iv. 
“ Gnossius haec Rhadamanthus habet durissima regna 
Castigatque auditque dolos, subigitque fateri, 
Quae quisque apud superos, furto 1 status inani 
Distulit in seram commissa piacula mortem.” 
RHADAMISTUS, a species of Scarabaus; which 
see. 
RH2ETEUM, or Rheteum, a promontory in the vici¬ 
nity of Troy, on which was erected a tomb to Ajax, men¬ 
tioned by Strabo (1. 13.) and other ancient writers. Horace 
indeed says (Sat. 1. 2.) that this hero remained without bu¬ 
rial ; but he deviates from the truth, in allusion to that in¬ 
cident in the tragedy of Ajax, where Sophocles feigns that 
Agamemnon was unwilling to allow the honours of burial 
to be conferred upon him, but that he yielded at length to 
the importunate entreaties of Teucer. 
RHiETIA, a country of Europe, which occupied part of 
the Alps, and was situated to the north of Italy, and to 
the east of Helvetia. It is not easy to ascertain its limits to 
the north, but we may say that it was bounded in that quar¬ 
ter by Vindelicia; and, in general, it corresponded to the 
country of the Grisons, and to the cantons of Uri, Glaris, 
&c. as far as the “ Brigatinus lacus,” or lake of Constance: 
it extended also over the Tyrol. This country was called 
Western Illyricum, and was divided into Rhaetia Prima or 
Propria, and Secunda, extending towards Swabia, Bavaria, 
and Austria. This district was subjected to the Romans by 
Drusus, under the reign of Augustus. Soon afterwards 
Vindelicia took up arms in their favour, and Tiberius was 
sent against them, and reduced their country, so that the pos¬ 
sessions of the Romans extended as far as the Danube. The 
whole of this extensive territory had borne the name of 
Rhaetia; but under Dioclesian it was divided, as we have 
said, into Rhaetia Prima and Secunda, the latter of which 
divisions was Vindelicia. Rhaetia, Noricum, and some 
other territories, became a Roman province, and be¬ 
longed to the kingdom of the Ostrogoths in Italy; but 
upon the declension of it, they fell under the dominion of 
the Franks, about which time the name of Bavarians first 
became celebrated in history. The principal rivers of Rhae¬ 
tia were the Rhenus or Rhine, the Athesis or Adige, the 
Oenusorlnn, theTicinus or Tosin, and Addua. The most 
considerable places were Curia or Coira, at a small distance 
east of the Rhenus, and Tridentum or Trent, on the Athesis. 
Ptolemy, in his geography of Rhaetia, reckons upon the 
Danube the following towns, viz. Bragodurum, Dracuina, 
Viana, and Phaeniana; and towards the source of the Rhine, 
Tagahum, Brigantium, Ebodunum, Drusomagus, and Ec- 
todurum. 
RHAGADES, [Gr.] Fissures. An old medical term. 
RHAGADIOLUS. See Lapsana, species 5. 
RHAGE, a word used by medical writers for a fissure 
or chap in any part. The stones of grapes are also by some 
called rkages ; and by others the same word is made to ex¬ 
press the extremities of the fingers or toes. 
RHAGODIA, [from paf, a berry, because its little pulpy 
fruit affords a principal mark of distinction between this 
genus and several others, to which it is nearly related.] in 
botany, a genus of the class polygamia, order monoecia, 
natural order, holeraceae, atriplices. ( Juss .) —Generic Cha¬ 
racter. Calyx: perianth inferior, of one leaf, concave, per¬ 
manent, in five deep ovate segments. Corolla none. Stamen : 
filaments five, awl-shaped, opposite to the segments of the 
calyx, and about as long; anthers roundish, two-lobed. 
Pistil: germen orbicular, depressed; styles two, divaricated, 
short; stigmas simple. Pericarp: berry orbicular, depressed, 
encompassed 
