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  • THE PREFACEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/preface

    In effect, Harmony and Rapture, make two of the principal Branches in his Division of Enthusiasm, or Inspiration. And Plutarch, though he divides Enthusiasm somewhat differently from Plato; yet clearly agrees with him in making Poetry a Species of it....

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Introduction

  • ARGEAhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/chronology/ARGEA

    by the priests: Unless, by Sacerdotibus, we suppose he meant priestesses. He adds that the number of figures was thirty—Plutarch, in his Roman Questions, enquires, Why were they called Argea? There are two reasons assigned: The first, that the barbarous...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Chronology

  • ARIEShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARIES

    on Wheels, at the Siege of Byzantium, under Philip of Macedon. The Engine opposed to the Ram, was called Lupus, the Wolf. Plutarch tells us, that Mark Antony, in the Parthian War, used a Ram of 80 Foot long; and Vitruvius assures us they were sometimes...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Unclassified

  • ALMONDhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ALMOND

    Obstructions of the Liver, Spleen, Uterus, &c.—Some esteem them good to take off the Effects of Drunkenness.Accordingly, Plutarch relates, that Drusus’s Physician, a stout Drinker, took down at every Cup five Bitter Almonds, to allay the Heat and Fumes...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Unclassified

  • AMAZONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/chronology/AMAZON

    others, absolutely deny it: on the contrary, Herodotus, Pausanias, Diodorus Siculus, Trogus Pompeius, Justin, Pliny, Mela, Plutarch, etc. expressly assert it. Hippocrates mentions a Law among them, whereby they were doomed to remain Virgins, till such...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Chronology

  • ANCYLEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/chronology/ANCYLE

    Varro derives it ab Ancisus as being cut or arched on the two Sides, like the Bucklers of the Thracians, called Pelta. Plutarch thinks the Word may be derived from the Greek ἀγκών, Elbow, this Weapon being worn on the Elbow: But the Opinion of Varro is...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Chronology

  • AMNESTYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AMNESTY

    upon the Expulsion of the thirty Tyrants out of Athens.—Andicides, an Athenian Orator, whose Life is written by Plutarch, and of whom we have an Edition, of the Year 1575; gives us, in his Oration upon Mysteries, a Formula of the Amnesty, and the Oaths...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Unclassified

  • ADULTERYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ADULTERY

    in nunneries. The Lacedemonians, instead of punishing adultery, permitted it, or at least tolerated it; as we are told by Plutarch. See CONCUBINE. According to some of the Papal decisions, adultery renders marriage between the two criminals unlawful;...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Unclassified

  • ANTIPODEShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/geography/ANTIPODES

    disputed the Truth of Antipodes. Lucretius had done it before them at the end of his first Book, v.10, 63, etc. See also PLUTARCH, lib. de Facie in Orbe Lunae, and Pliny, who refutes the Opinion, lib. ii. c. 65. ANTIPODES

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Geography
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