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EUDOCIA AUGUSTA (c. 4oi-c. 460), the wife of Theodosius II., East Roman emperor, was born in Athens, the daughter of the sophist Lcontius, from whom she received a thorough training in literature and rhetoric. Deprived of her small patrimony by her brothers' r ...

AUGUSTA, a city and the county-seat of Richmond county, Georgia, U.S.A., at the head of steamboat navigation on the Savannah river, 132 m. N.W. of Savannah by rail and 240 m. by river course. Pop. (1890) 33,300; (1900) 39,441, of whom 18,487 were negroes and o ...

AUGUSTA BAGIENNORUM. the chief town of the Ligurian tribe of the Bagienni, probably identical with the modern Bene Vagienna, on the upper course of the Tanaro, about 35 m. due south of Turin. The town retained its position as a tribal centre in the reorganizat ...

EUDOCIA MACREMBOLITISSA (c. 1021-1096), daughter of John Macrembolites, was the wife of the Byzantine emperor Constantine X., and after his death (1067) of Romanus IV. She had sworn to her first husband on his deathbed not to marry again, and had even imprison ...

... handed down to us is that of Julius Capitolinus, one of the Scriptores Histonae Augustae. See BossartMuller, Zur Geschichte des Kaisers A. (1868); Lacour-Gayct. A. le Pieux et son Temps (1888); Bryant, The Reign of Antonine (Cambridge Historical Essays, 1895); ...

AOSTA (anc. Augusta Praetoria Salassorum), a town and episcopal see of Piedmont, Italy, in the province of Turin, 80 m. N.N.W. by rail of the town of Turin, and 48 m. direct, situated 1910 ft. above sea-level, at the confluence of the Buthier and the Dora Balt ...

... roads leading to the north-eastern portion of the empire — the road (Via lulia Augusta) by lulium Carnicum to Veldidena (mod. Wilten, near Innsbruck), from which branched off the road into Noricum, leading by Virunum (Klagenfurt) to Lauricum (Lorch) on the Da ...

... vertine, now converted into a church, erected by Gaius and Titus Caesius in the Augustan era. It fronted on to the ancient forum, part of the pavement of which, with a base for the equestrian statues of Castor and Pollux (as the inscription upon it records) ha ...

... nna and Leon-Astorga railways. Pop. (1000) 5573. Astorga was the Roman Asturica Augusta, a provincial capital, and the meeting-place of four military roads. Though sacked by the Goths in the sth century, and later by the Moors, it is still surrounded by massiv ...

... ubjugated the district south of the Cantabrians, to which they gave the name of Augustana. Their capital was Asturica Augusta, the modern Astorga, in Leon. The warlike mountaineers of the northern districts, known as Transmontana, never altogether abandoned th ...

... ich is here crossed by a bridge, lies the township of Lechhausen. Augsburg (the Augusta Vindelicorum of the Romans) derives its name from the Roman emperor Augustus, who, on the conquest of Rhaetia by Drusus, established here a Roman colony about 14 B.C. In th ...

... y a rule, as, for example, that it was unlucky for a person leaving his AUGUST— AUGUSTA house to meet a raven, that the sudden death of a person from epilepsy at a public meeting was a sign to break up the assembly. Among the other means of discovering the wil ...

... dern railway. The name was transferred to the district (which formed the eighth Augustan region of Italy) as early as the time of Martial, in popular usage (Epigr. vi. 85. 5), and in the 2nd and 3rd centuries it is frequently named as a district under imperial ...

... y with him; yet he testifies to the high esteem in which he was held during the Augustan age. Ovid expresses the grounds of that esteem when he characterizes him as " Ingenio maximus, arte rudis." A sentence of Quintilian expresses the feeling of reverence for ...

... appear to have been introduced before imperial times, when she is often called Augusta and invoked on behalf of the emperor and the imperial house. Her chief function, however, was to see that the beasts of burden were duly fed, and to protect them against ac ...

... had been born with the hopes of the Renaissance, with its anticipation of a new Augustan age, and had seen this fair promise blighted by the irruption of a new horde of theological polemics, worse than the old scholastics, inasmuch as they were revolutionary i ...

... der kriegsekirurgischen Technik was written for a prize offered by the empress Augusta, on the occasion of the Vienna Exhibition of 1877, for the best handbook for the battlefield of surgical appliances and operations. This book is illustrated by admirable di ...

... rceives not the matter of the sacrament, whence is life and salvation. ..." The Augustan Confession presented by the German electors to Charles V. in the section on the Mass merely protests against the view that " the Lord's Supper is a work (opus) which being ...

... with 300 men into a fortress and was besieged. But at last he beat EUDAEMONISM— EUDOCIA MACREMBOLITISSA Demetrius, and conquered a great part of western India. According to ApolKxlorus of Artemita, the historian of the 1'arthians, he ruled over 1000 towns (Str ...

... ing is known. After his death his doctrines obtained the support of the Empress Eudocia and made considerable progress in Syria. In the 6th century they received a new impulse from a monk of the name of Jacob, who united the various divisions into which the Eu ...

... to the strategic importance of the place the provincial government erected Fort Augusta here in 1756; during the War of Independence many of the fugitives from the Wyoming Massacre tame to this fort. Sunbury was first surveyed in 1772 and was incorporated as a ...

... account of which is to be found in the fifth book of Vitruvius (written in the Augustan period). Its three main divisions were the auditorium (Lat. cornea; it had no technical name in Greek), the orchestra, and the stage buildings ((Txrivfi, literally " tent ...

... i. The origin of Udine is uncertain; though it lay on the line of the Via lulia Augusta, there is no proof of its existence in Roman times. In the middle ages it became a flourishing and populous city; in 1222 or 1238 the patriarch Berthold made it the capital ...

... . Ohio. Pennsylvania. Maryland. 4. Kaskaskia or Chester 3. St Louis 2. Osage or Augusta (including the Burlington, Keokuk and Warsaw) I. Kinderhook or Chouteau 7. Maxville 6. Logan 5. Black Hand 4. Cuyahoga 3. Sunbury 2. Berea grit I. Bedford 2. Mauch Chunk I. ...

... Hadrian it became a colonia romana, with the title Colonia Julia Aelia Hadriana Augusta, Utica (Aul. Cell. Noct. Attic, xiii. 4; C.I.L. viii. 1181 and 1183). UTICA— UTILITARIANISM Septimius Severus conferred upon it the I us Halicum (Digest. 50. 15; 8. n). We ...