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 AGO A G .O ( s9 ) of father a part of it, in march : Thus we read of the AGOGE, among ancient muficians, a fpecies of moduprinntm agvicn, or van-guard ;. medium agmen, or lation, wherein the notes proceeded by contiguous demain body; and the pojlremum agmen, or rear-guard. grees. AGMONDESHAM, in geography. See Amersham. AGON, in the public games of the ancients, a term ufed AGNABAT, a town of Tranfylvania, fubjeft to the indifferently for any conteft or difpute, whether rehoufe of Auftria, fituated about ten miles north-eaft fpedting bodily exercifes, or accomplilhments of the of Hermanftadt. mind. Thus poets, muficians, fac. had their agones, AGNANO, a lake of the kingdom of Naples, in the as well as the athletse. It was alfo ufed for one of province of Lavoro. the minilters employed in the heathen facrifices, whofe AGNANTHUS, in botany, a fynonime of the cornu- bufinefs it was to ftrike the virilim. Agon, in Roman antiquity, a place near the Tiber, tia. See Cornutia. AGNATE, in Scots law, any male relation by the fa- where the curule games were celebrated, otherwife. ther’s fide. See Law, title, Minors, and their tu- called circus Flammineus. tors and curators. Agon, among phyficians. See Agony. AGNEL, an ancient French coin, otherwife called mou- AGONALIS, in Roman antiquity. See Salii. ton d'or. See Moot on AGONALIA, in Roman antiquity, feftivals celebrated AGNELET, an ancient French coin, worth about twen- in honour of Janus, or of the god Agonius, whom the ty fols. Romans invoked before undertaking any affair of imAGNO, a river of Naples, which, taking its rife in the portance. mountainous parts of Terra di Lavoro, walhes the AGONENSES. See Salit. town of Acerra, and, palling between Capua and A- AGONISMA, in antiquity, denotes the prize given to^ verfa, falls into the Mediterranean, about feveri miles the vidtor in any combat or difpute. AGONISTARCHA,-in antiquity, the officer who diN. of Puz^oli. AGNOETiE, in church-hiftory, a feA of heretics, fo redted the preparatory exercifes of the athletse ; tho’’ called on account of their maintaining, that Chrill, fome make him the fame with the agonotheta. See with refpeft to his human nature, Was ignorant of Agonotheta. many things, and particularly of the day of judgment, AGONISTICA, a term ufed to denote the fcience of an opinion which'they built upon the text, Mark whatever belonged to the agones, or public exercifes of the ancients. xiii. 32. AGNOMEN, in Roman antiquity, a kind of fourth or AGONISTIC!, in church-hiftory,1 a name given by honorary name, given to a perfon on account of fome Donatus to fuch of his difciples as he fent to fairs,, extraordinary addon, virtue, or other accomplilhment. markets, and other public places, to propagate his Thus, the agnomen Africanus was bellowed upon dodtrine. Publius Cornelius Scipio, on account of his great at- AGONISTICON, a term ufed by phyficians for cold chievements in Africa. water, as being fuppofed to combat the febrile heat..; AGNON, a fmall river of Bourgogne in France, other- AGONIUM, in Roman antiquity, was ufed for the day wife called Ignon. on which the rex facrorurn facrificed a victim, as well; AGNONE, a city of the kingdom of Naples, in the pro- as for the place where the games were celebrated, vince of the Hithet Abruzzo, called by fome Anclone. otherwife called Agon. AGNOS, in ichthyology, an obfolete name of the ura- AGONOTHETA, or Agonothbtes, in Grecian nofcopus. See Uranoscopus. antiquity, was the prefidenu or fuperintendant of the AGNUS, or Lamb, in zoology^ the young of the ovis facred games.; who not only defrayed the expences or Iheep. See Ovis. attending them, but infpedted the manners and difAgnus cajltts, in botany, the trivial name of a'fpecies ci-pline of the athletse, and adjudged the prizes to tile of the vitex. See Vitex. victors. Agnus Dei, in the church of Rome, a cake of wax AGONUS, in ichthyology, a. fynonyme. of the clupea llamped with the figure of a lamb fupporting a crofs. alofa. See Clupea.Thefe being confecrated by the pope with great fo- AGONY, any extreme pain. It is alfo ufed for the pangs lemnity, arid diftribated among the people, are fup- of death. pofed to have great virtues ; as, to preferve thofe who AGONYCLITiE, or Agonyclites-, in church-htcarry them worthily,- and with faith, from all manner ftory, a fedt of chriftians, in the fevqnth century, who of accidents; to expel evil fpirits, &c. It is alfo a prayed always Handing,, as thinking it unlawful to popular name for that part of the mafs, where the kneel. prieft ftrikes his bread thrice, and fays the. prayer be- AGGR/EUS, in heathen antiquity, an appellation given ginning with the words Agnus Dei. to fuch deities as had ftatues in the market-places ; AGNUS Scythicur, in botany, the name of a fidlitious particularly Mercury, whofe ftatue was-to be feen in plant faid to grow in Tartary, refembling a lamb. almoft every public place. AGOBEL, a fmall town of Africa, in the empire of AGORANOMUS, in Grecian antiquitv, a magifirate of Morocco, and province of Hea. Athens, had the regulation of weights and meaAGOGA, among ancient naturalifts, denoted a drain for furesj ofwho the pnees of proviuons, carrying eft water from a mine. AGGUGE3,