A supplement to The great historical, geographical, genealogical and poetical dictionary: being a curious miscellany of sacred and profane history / Collected especially out of Lewis Morery, D. D., his 8th ed. cor. and enl. by Monsieur Le Clerc; in two volumes in folio. By Jer. Collier. Together with a continuation from the year 1688, to this time, by another hand.
- Louis Moréri
- Date:
- 1705
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: A supplement to The great historical, geographical, genealogical and poetical dictionary: being a curious miscellany of sacred and profane history / Collected especially out of Lewis Morery, D. D., his 8th ed. cor. and enl. by Monsieur Le Clerc; in two volumes in folio. By Jer. Collier. Together with a continuation from the year 1688, to this time, by another hand. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![MP Y- MtfpannqM MA Habit, took care to hq> up his Quality, /vd //re ^z> and Mien of a Prince, had a noble and lofty manner in his Elocution, W »w no infgnificant Commonwealth’s Man. He was Father to Antoninus Her us, who was adopted by the Emperor Marcus. * Spartian, cap. 2, 3 <. Et in Adrian, t/rp. 23. jEMYLIA LT?, or the Mimylian Road, fo call’d from the Conful Mimylius, It began at Placentia, and reach’d to Ariminum or Rimini. Terr arms, makes three of thefe Mimylian Roads. * Hoffman Le.vic. Univerj. .EMYLlUS (Paulas) was Conlul with Teren- tius Harro, and being oblig’d by the ralhncls of- his Collegue, to Fight Hannibal at Cannes, loft his Life 111 the Battel, and was honourably bury’d by the Enemy : His Son Lucius Mmylius Paul us, having gain’d the Confulfhip, after three times milling the Blech on, Triumph’d for defeating the Ligurians. * Livy,lib. 5. Dec. <5 Hoi at er ran &c. .EMYLlUS, (Regillus) a Roman Admiral. Livy informs us, that he defeated Antiochus's Fleet, and that the Senate, being met in Apollo’s Temple without the Walls, receiving Advice what a great Force he fought again!!, and how many Men of War he had taken and Sunk, voted him a Naval Triumph, Nomine con- tradicente. The Triumph w as kept upon the Hr(f of February, in which, there were Nine and forty Crowns made of Gold carry d, for a Show, rn the Cavalcade. * Livy, lib. 7. Dec. 4. .EMYLlUS (Paulus). See Emilias. jENARIA. An Eland in the Bay of Puteoli, now call’d IJchia, becaufe the Town in it relembles a Thigh. This Illand was call’d Minaria, from the plenty of Copper Mines in’t. There were likewifc Gold and Silv er Mines, and a great deal of Iron, Stone and Salt. It is likewife famous for abundance A Cyprds-Trees and Hot Baths, good again!! the Stone. *Plin. lib. 3. cap.6. Strabo. See APorery,Vcl.l. /ENOS, a Town of Thrace', Apollodorus in Ste¬ phanies calls it Poltymhria. Mela tells us, ’twas built'* by Mac as, and gives it the Latitude of Forty two Degrees and Thirty Minutes. The modern Greeks cal 1 it Eno, and the Turks, Tgnos • but notwithflandittg ■ Aldas Opinion, it was built long before Mneas’$\ time, at the Mouth of the River Hebrus, and in the Trojan War, Lent Auxiliaries to tire Beficg’d: Betides, this Town Minos flourilh’d as long as the Grecian Monarchy la Led, as appears from Ptclomy, but the Town call’d Minea wasdeliroyd by Cajjander, with feveral other Neighbouring Towns, at the building of Theffalomca. * Salmaf. ad Sol in. pag. E O L IE. Seven Elands between Italy and Sicily. The old Names of ’em are, Hiera, Strongyle, Didyme, Ericafa, Phornicaja, & Euonymos. They are iiow call'd; Lipari, Hole am, Stromboli, Saline, Panari,■Alicar, Fe- licur,and XJjlica. The Epi!copal See Hands in the Eland of Lipari, and is well Fortify’d. Strongyle -is gene¬ rally- fmoakmg; byobferving of which Exhalations, the Mariners can give a gueis which way the Wind will lit. * Strabo, lib. 6. Pliny, lib. if. cap. 8, & 9. it aver., lib. 2..'cap. 14. &c. A.O L LU M Injirumentum: An Inftrumcnt which, without being touch’d by.any body, makes admira- bje Mufick, only -by the Winds playing upon the Strings; for at fir!!. People fancy that they hear a Ring of Bolls at a dillance; foon after, they imagine ihcmlclvcs entertain’d with the Mufick of an Organ: this Mufical Inllrument is kept in the Mufaum Kir- cherianum. The way of making of it is likewife men¬ tion d bv‘ Kircker, in his Magi a Phonotacficaj and in his Phonurgia. * Hoffman. Le.vic. Univerf. * .E P T U S, King of the Meffemans, and Son of Chteifihontes and Merope.- He was Educated in Ar¬ cadia, at1 Cypjelus, his Mothers Fathers Court : Being grown up, lie kill’d Polyphontes, who marry’d his Mo¬ ther agarnl! her will', and thus he recover’d liis Fa¬ thers Kingdom. In his time, Agis, EuryjfEttifdcs)gird Sous PiMiides, Reign’d in Sparta, a.nd Laius ln Arcadia. Glaucus.'Raign’d aftfr him. From this Mpytus, hts; Succdlors were call’d Mipytida, and when the firl! War .broke out between the Meffenians and Lacede¬ monians, a Virgin of this Royal Family was- order’d to be Sacrific'd by the Delphian Oracle; and it falling1 to the Lot of Lycifcuss Daughter to be the Perfon, ibe made a lhift to get out of*the way; upon which, Arijlodemus made a Prefent of his own Daughter to the Altar: Olymp. 3. *Paufan. lib, 4. &c. Sec Arijlo¬ demus, Engl. Mar. Yol. I. -EQ.U 1M E LI U M. A void Space in Rome, be¬ fore the Temple of the Goddels Tellus, at the End of the Street call’d Execrable. This Place was lo call'd from Septimus Melius a Roman Knight; who had a Houle there, which was raz’d Lay the Order of L. Quintiies Cincinnatus, becaulc he leem’d to aim at the Government by his Extraordinary Liberalities to die People. L. Mimtius, Couimillary of the Stores, dif- covcring Melius's Plot, gave Notice of it to die Se¬ nate, who look’t upon it as an Affair of lo great Comcqueiice, that they immediately apply’d to die Ldi Expedient of a Did at or, and pitch'd upon Cincin¬ natus for their Man. The next Day, Melius was Sum¬ mon d to Anlwer to the Indidlment; but he refus’d to Appear, and endeavouring to make his Elcape, was purlud, and kill’d by Servitius. The Dictator or¬ der’d his Houle fhould he raz’d, and that no Perfon lhould ever have the Liberty to build where it Ifcod : And to Perpetuate the Memory of the Trealon the better, the Place was call’d MLquimelinm, quafi ab aquata Domo Ale hi• which agree’s with Cicero's Ac¬ count ot it, Melii regnum appetentis, domus eft compla- nata. * Cic. pro Domo fua, Livy, lib. 3. Dec. 1. &c. EQUIN OX. The Migyptians, in their Hiero- glyphicks, us’d to Rcprelent it by a Cyncceploalm in a fitting Pollute * it being the Nature of this An- nimal, to Urine Twelve times a Day at the Mtqui- no.ycs, at equal Dillances of Time ; which lie like¬ wife did Two Nights together at die fa'tuc Seafon : Wherefore when Trijmegtjtus, had divided the .Equi- noxial Day into Twelve Parts for the Egyptians, thev afterwards had a Cynocephalus cut' upon'their Water Hour-glafies: The Egyptians found out the Solfices and MLqumoxe's by their Oblcrvation of the Shadow which they reduc’d to the Art of Dialling. ThS Solfices and MLquinoxes were thus found cut by Anaximander for the Greeks, and tliusthe Lacedcmdni- \ans bad a Dial, by which they knew, when die Days and Nights were of an equal length; and when the Sun enter’d Cancer and Capricorn: AT to ithe Famous Allronomer, made his Helioiropum Mtfi- ] ■vum in Athens for this purpalc, which, to fpeak pro¬ perly, were Mquimxul Dials; However, the Lines .and Diftindlions of ’em, being only Underliood by Mathematicians, they lignify’d ijo more in Com- mon Ule, but only to Inform the People, when' the Solfices and Mtquitioxes came up : ’Tis true, the Undeidanding of this vvas very ul’etul in Husbandry, and therefore in the Square?, and other Pubhck Pla¬ ces in Towns, the Ajlronomers ule to fix Dials, to a 1'certaih the Mbqninoxes and Solfices, .and to mark how many Days -they were pal! or to come: But then, as to the Diyiiion of the Day, to know what time they were to go to'Dinner or Supper, to be up¬ on the Change, or to-keep the time of their Appoint¬ ment with' a Freind; to do this, they went another way to Work, L e. by Mealuring the length of the Shadow with their Feet: Concerning which Matter, the Reader may lee more in Salmafms upon Solinus, pag. 732. & deinc. ERA. A Term in Chronology,made ufeof by Spanilli Authors, to flrew the beginning of lome^e- markable Change, as that of the beginning of the Princes Reigns' for the purpole; ’Tis generally be¬ liev’d,that the Spanilli Mr a was fettled^,and fo call’d, from a certain Tribute laid upen the Spaniards by the Emperor Augujlus. The Edid! for this Tribute, was drawn up at Rome Thirty nine Years before the In¬ carnation of our Lord, in the Conlullhip of L. ATa'rcus Cenforius or Cenjorinus, and of C. Calvifms Sa- binus in the 715^ Year of Rome; and was Publilli’d at Tdrragdh in Spain the Year following, from wlience the beginning of x[\\s*M.ra is dated. Thole who-' are defirous to emiuire further into the Name, .Original and Sethn’g of this Mira, may Conlult the Authors, cited at Yfe bottom of the Article. In the Imean time we may oblerve, tliatallPeopIe arc agrec’d that this Mira colhmcnces Thirty eight Years before the Birth of our Saviour, anti that it has been all a- Iqng made ufe of iir Spain till- 1351, in which they bdgan to Compute from the Incarnation. I think th’err Opr-](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30457750_0041.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
