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ARVAL BROTHERS (Fratrcs Arvales), in Roman antiquities, a college or priesthood, consisting of twelve members, elected for life from the highest ranks in Rome, and always apparently, during the empire, including the emperor. Their chief duty was to offer annua ...

... to Olybrius and Probinus, consuls for the year 395. It contains an alphabetical ARVAL BROTHERS— ARYAN list, chiefly of verb* admitting more than one construction, with examples from each of the four writers, Virgil, Sallust, Terence and Cicero. Cassiodorui, th ...

... some cases a specie* of gall is produced in hydroids by the penetration of the larval Pantopod into the tissues of the polyp. Sub-Class n. (of the Nomomeristic Arachnida). EU-ARACH-

... IER, FRANCOIS (c. 1604-1669), and MICHEL (16121686), French sculptors, were two brothers, natives of Eu in Normandy. Their apprenticeship was served in the studio of Simon Guillain. The chief works of Francois are the monument to Cardinal de Berulle, founder o ...

... arldoms of the Pictish kingdom of Scotland, said to have been occupied by seven brothers of whom Angus was the eldest. The Critic line ended with Matilda (fl. 1240), countess of Angus in her own right, who married in 1243 Gilbert de Umfravill and founded the N ...

... reformed doctrines, which thus became dominant in Anhalt. About 1546 the three brothers divided their principality and founded the lines of Zerbst, Plotzkau and Dessau. This division, however, was only temporary, as the acquisition of Cdthen, and a series of ...

... lled Khicha Puja. Among the Harranians dogs were sacred, but this was rather as brothers of the mystae. Elephant. — In Siam it is believed that a white elephant may contain the soul of a dead person, perhaps a Buddha; when one is taken the capturer is rewarded ...

... enous in England. Strictly speaking, however, the term ant-lion applies to the larval form, which has been known scientifically for over two hundred years, on account of its peculiar and forbidding appearance and its skilful and unique manner of entrapping pre ...

... trikingly displayed at once his knowledge and his ignorance. He was one of five brothers — the sons of Stephanos, a physician of Tralles — who were all more or less eminent in their respective departments. Dioscorus followed his father's profession in his nati ...

... distinguishable, are so feebly developed that there are no musclebanners. The larval forms of the type genus Cerianthui float freely in the sea. and were once considered to belong to a separate genus, Aracknactis. In this larva four pairs of mesenteries havin ...

... in the island of CuricU and forced to surrender. In 44 he was city praetor, his brothers Marcus and Lucius being consul and tribune respectively in the same year. Gaius was appointed to the province of Macedonia, but on his way thither fell into the hands of M ...

... living animals, but for purposes of research it is often desired to keep alive larval and other surfaceswimming animals (plankton). In this case a further difficulty is presented, that of helping to suspend the animals in the water, and thus to avoid the exhau ...

... Perpignan, in the department of the eastern Pyrenees. He was the eldest of four brothers. Jean (17881836) emigrated to America and became a general in the Mexican army. Jacques Etienne Victor (1799-1855) took part in L. C. de S. de Freycinet's exploring voyage ...

... us, ascribed to the Fir-bolg or Belgae; or, individually, to the first of three brothers, Aengus, Conchobar and Nil, who reached Aran Islands from Scotland in the ist century A.D. There are seven other similar structures in the group. Inishmore also bears the ...

... ghout the reign of Arcadius there was estrangement and jealousy between the two brothers or their governments. The principal ground of this hostility was probably dissatisfaction on both sides with the territorial partition. The line had been drawn east of Dal ...

... ahpuhr, Sapores), Ardashir made himself king (probably A.D. 212), put his other brothers to death and began war against the neighbouring dynasts of Persis. When he had conquered a great part of Persis and Carmania, the Parthian king Artabanus IV. interfered. B ...

... as destroyed during the inroad on the defeat of the king of Ulster by the three brothers Colla, cousins of Muredach, king of Ireland. Armagh itself fell before the king Brian Boroime, who was buried here; and before Edward Bruce in 1315, while previous to the ...

... uced the father by a series of intrigues to condemn to death three of his older brothers, who stood in his way. Shortly afterwards, Artaxerxes II. died. In this reign an important innovation took place in the Persian religion. Berossus (in Clemens Alex. Protre ...

ARVALS. ARVCLS or ARTHELS (0. None Arfr, inheritance, and ol, A.S. Ale, a banquet), primarily the funeral dinner, and later, especially in the north of England, a thin, light, iweet cake, spiced with cinnamon and nutmeg, served to the poor at Mich feasts. The ...

... e held as a dependent province of his empire. A civil war broke out between the brothers, and, about the time when the Spanish conqueror Pizarro was beginning to move inland from the town of San Miguel, Huascar had been defeated and thrown into prison, and Ata ...

... from 6000 to 7000; about 3000 are monks (jcaXiyytpoi), the remainder being lay brothers (nxrpucot). The monasteries, which are all fortified, generally consist of large quadrangles enclosing churches; standing amid rich foliage, they present a wonderfully pic ...

... (1831-1887), lieutenant-governor of Bengal. The ist baron had two distinguished brothers — Morton Eden (1752-1830), a diplomatist, who married Lady Elizabeth Henley, and in 1799 was created ist Baron Henley (his family, from 1831, taking the name of Henley ins ...

... a municipal library with 200,000 volumes. The " Fuggerei," built in 1519 by the brothers Fugger, is a miniature town, with six streets or alleys, three gates and a church, and consists of a hundred and six small houses let to indigent Roman Catholic citizens a ...

... y putting to death the son of Merodach-baladan, but was himself murdered by his brothers Urtaki and Teumman (681 B.C.), the first of whom seized the crown. On his death Teumman succeeded and almost immediately provoked a quarrel with Assur-bani-pal by demandin ...

... rated by the laying of an insulated conductor across the English Channel by the brothers Brett, and their temporary success was followed by the laying in 1851 of a permanent Dover-Calais cable by T. R. Crampton. In ' the project for an Atlantic submarine cubic ...

... suaded to undertake the famous expedition against Thebes on his behalf. The two brothers met in single combat, and both were slain. The Theban rulers decreed that only Eteocles should receive the honour of burial, but the decree was set at naught by Antigone ( ...

... ugh training in literature and rhetoric. Deprived of her small patrimony by her brothers' rapacity, she betook herself to Constantinople to obtain redress at court. Her accomplishments attracted Theodosius' sister Pulcheria, who took her into her retinue and d ...

... oup of poets and writers, of whom the best-known were Johann Heinrich Voss, the brothers Stolberg, and Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi. In the neighbourhood is a beautiful tract of country, rich in beech forests and fjords, known as " the Holstein Switzerland," larg ...

... ambitious dream of Pontiac. With some scattered Shawnee clans as a nucleus, the brothers proceeded to organize, first near Greenville, Ohio, and later on the White and Tippecanoe rivers in Indiana, " the Prophet's town," which was based on a sort of communism ...

... aries between six and nine degrees. The " slack indicator " _ of Messrs Siemens Brothers & Co. yields a continuous indication and record of the actual slack paid out. It consists of a long screw spindle, coupled by suitable gearing with the cable drum, and thu ...

... ed from being members of the order of Friars Minor. At first they were called " Brothers and Sisters of the Order of Penance "; but later on, when the Friars were called the " First Order " and the nuns the " Second Order," the Order of Penance became the " Th ...

... ama rather earlier than in England. In the reign of Louis XL, about 1467, the " Brothers of the Passion " had a theatre which was partly religious and partly satirical. In the i6th century Catherine de' Medici is said to have spent incredible sums on the dress ...

... ather's coachman on an expedition to one of the neighbouring towns, or with his brothers running in and out of the stables and coach-houses. The tedium of the schoolroom and the reproofs of his tutor made a reverse side to the picture, but did not prevent this ...

... e the town-hall, a large theatre, a school of arts and a library; the Christian Brothers College and several handsome churches. The industries are brewing, tanning, soap-boiling, flour-milling, malting, ironfounding, saw-milling and jam-making. Vineyards are c ...

... es of branches overhanging water, into which the tadpoles drop and spend their larval life.

... ing of the Roman period. A number of Etruscan tombs were found by the Campanari brothers in the igth century, and their valuable contents are in various European museums.

... either of them. If neither father nor mother survives, their share goes to the brothers and sisters of the deceased or to their descendants. If there are no descendants, the whole goes to the surviving husband or wife. If a husband or wife and one child survi ...