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learned have puzzled their heads. There are two exemplars of it:one found 140 years ago, on a marble, near Bologna: the other inan ancient MS. w ritten in Gothic letters, at Milan. It is contro-verted between the two cities, which is to be reputed the moreauthentic.

The Bolonian jEnigma.

D. M.

zElia Lzelia Crjspis,

NEC VIR, NEC MUI1ER,

NEC androgyna;

s NEC FUEI.LA, NEC JUVENIS,

NEC anus;

NEC CASTA, NEC MERETHIX,

NEC fudica;

SED OMNIA:

Suulata

NEQUE FAME, NEtiUE FERRO,

NEQUE VENENO;

SED OMNIUUS:

NEC CXI.O, NEC TERRIS,

NEC AQU1S,

SED UBIQUE JACET.

Lucius Agatho Priscius,

NEC MARITUS, NEC AMATOR,

NEC NECESSARIUS ;

NEQUE M IE RE NS, NEQUE G AUDENS,

NEQUE FLENSJHANC,

NEC MOEEM, NEC FYRAMIDEM,

NEC SEPULCHRUM,

SED OMNIA,

SCIT ET NESCIT, CUI POSUERIT.

That is to say, “To the gods manes. zElia La-lia Crispis, neitherman, nor woman, nor hermaphrodite ; neither girl, nor youngwoman, nor old; neither chaste, nor a whore, nor a modest woman;but all these: killed neither by hunger, nor steel, nor poison ; butby all these: rests neither in heaven, nor on the earth, nor in thewaters; but every where. Lucius Agatho Priscius, neither herhusband, nor lover, nor friend; neither sorrowful, nor joyful, norweeping; certain, and uncertain, to whom he real's this monument;neither erects her a temple, nor a pyramid, nor a tomb; but allthe e.” In the MS. at Milan, instead of D. M. we find A. M. P.P. D. and at the end the following addition:

“ Hoc est sepulchrum intuit cadaver non habeas,

Hoc est cadaver sepulchrum extra non habeas,

. St'd cadaver idem est et sepulchrum .”

i Which signifies, “This is the giave that has no corpse within:

f this the corp-e tiiat has no grave without: but the corpse and thegrave are. the same.” We find near 50 several solutions of thisanvgina advanced by learned men. Marius Michael Angelosmaintains /Elia Ladia Crispis, to signify rain water falling into thesea. lii. Vitus first explained it of Xiobe turned to a stone, after-wards of the. rational soul, and afterwards of the Platonic idea ;Jo. Turriu.s, of the maitria prima; Fr. Schottus, of an eunuch;Nic. Bernardos, of the philosopher’s stone, in which he is followedby Borrichius ; Zach. Ponlinus, of three human bodies in the samesanation, and buried by three different men at the same time;Nehnondius, of a law-suit; Jo. Gas. Gerartius, of love; ZnBuxhornius, of a shadow; P. Terromo, of music; Fort Lycetus,of generation, friendsh p, and privation; M. Ov. Montalbanus,of hemp; Car. C;es. Nlalvasia, of an abortive girl promised inmarriage. Pet. Menguliw, of the rule of chastity, prescribed bythe founder of the military religion of St. Mary; M. de Cieonia,of pope Joan; Ikumannus, of Lot’s wife; and lastly, J. C. S. ananonymous writer in the Leipsic Act-, of the Christian church.

zENI l liOLOGICUS, a kind of verse, consisting of two dac-tyls, and three trochai; as

Praha dira plac.cnt truci juveutec.

.EX OX A, a city of Liburnia, called Civitus Prasint; alsoEmma and now Serna; on the Adriatic. Long. 16. 0. E. Lat.as. 0. X.

zEOLLE IXSUL/E, now I sole di I.ipari, seven islands,between Sicily and Italy , so called from zEolus, who reigned thereabout the time of the Trojan war.

zEOLLVN, or JEOLIC, one of the five dialects of the Greektongue. It was first used in llu-ulia; whence it passed into

zEolia, and was that in which Sappho ami Alcaius wrote. Itagrees in most things with the Doric .

zEOLIC VERSE, a verse consisting of an iambus, or spon-dee; then of two anapests, separated by a long syllable; and,lastly, a syllable common ; as O steUifer cmulilor orths.

zEOLlPlLA, or zEOLlPILK, [i.al. the ball of /Eolus,] ahollow ball of metal, with a slender neck, or pipe, having a narroworifice inserted into the ball by means of a screw'. 'Phis pipe beingtaken out, (he ball is filled almost full of water, and the pipe beingagain screwed in, the ball is well heated, and there issues from theorifice a vapour, with great violence and noise: care must betakenthat the orifice be not, by any' accident, stopped up; because theinstrument would in that case infallibly burst in pieces, and greatlyendanger the lives of the persons near it. Another way'of intro-ducing the w ater is to heat the ball when empty; and then suddenlyto immerge it in water. lies Cartes and others have used this instru-ment to account for the natural cause and generation of the wind.Chauvin thinks it might be applied, instead of bellows, to blowthe fire, where a very intense heat is required. It might serve toscent or fumigate a room, if filled with perfumed, instead of com-mon water. An Aiolipile has been sometimes placed in a chim-ney, where it can be heated, the vapour of which serves to drivethe smoak up the chimney. Dr. Plott gives an instance wherethe Aiolipile is actually used to blow the fire: the lord of themanor of Essington is bound bv his (enure to drive a goose everyNew-year’s day three times round the hall of the lord of Hilton,while Jack of Hilton (a brazen figure having the structure of anAiolipile) blows the lire. In Italy it is said, that th c jholipilcis commonly' made use of to cure smoky ehimuies. Someauthors think the heathen priests applied the Aiolipile to performsham miracles. 'Flic zEolipile is sometimes placed on a smallcarriage, and a cork thrust into the extremity of the pipe. Whenthe vapour is sufficiently healed, it ru-hes out with the cork inone direction, while the carriage moves the contrary way. Inthe side of the Basingstoke canal, wa- lately dug up and presentedto the Antiquarian Society in London , an aiolipile, of great an-tiquity, made of bras-, in the form of a grotesque human figure,the blast proceeding from the mouth.

zEOLlS, or zEO 1.1 A, in ancient geography, a country inAsia , settled try colonies of /Eolian Greeks. It was situatedbetween Troas to the north, and Ionia lo the south.

TO LUS, in heathen mythology, the god of llie winds, said to hethe son of Jupiter, by Acasta, or Sigesia; ai cording to others, theson of Ilippotus by Meneclea, daughter of Ilyllus King ot Li para.'I’lie Lipari islands were under his dominion about the time of theTrojan war. lie is represinted as having authority over thewinds, which he held enchained in a vast cavern, to prevent thedevastations they had been guilty of producing. My Biologistsexplain these fables, by saying, that lie was a wise and good prince;anil, being skilled in astronomy, was able to foretel storms andtempests.

Tolus, in mechanics, a portable machine, invented by Mr.Tidd, for refreshing and changing (he air in rooms. This ma-chine supplies the place of a square of glass in a sash window'.

zEolus’s Hake, a musical instrument, producing an agree-able harmony by the mere action of the wind, whence its name.See z\cousxics.

zF.OX, [akin, age, or the duration of anything,] among thefollowers of l’lato, w'as -used to signify any virtue, attribute, orperfection: hence they represented the deity as an assemblage ofall possible irons; and called him 3j>.>qa>|a«, a Greek term signify-ing fulness.

zF.on, in anatomy, the spinal marrow.

/ERA, a fixed point of time from whence any number of yearsis begun to be counted. See Chronology.

zF.RARIUM, the public treasury of the Roman state. Thetemple of Saturn at llomc, being the. great treasury of the state,was first called icrarium ; from a s, irris, copper; that being the onlymoney in use before the year of Rome 485, when silver began to hecoined, zl'.rarium and fisc us are sometimes used in a synonymousseme; though the latter, strictly speaking, contained only themoney belonging to thu emperor. Historians mention severalother treasures, as the arrarium sanctiu.-, privatum, vicesiiuarum,Ililhya’, Veneris, &c.

zl.RARILS was used by the Romans for a degraded citizen,wboi>e name hud been struck ufi’ the list of his century. The

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