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THEODOSIUS III., emperor of the East (716-717), was afinancial officer whom a Byzantine army rebelling against Anastasius III. unexpectedly proclaimed monarch in his stead. He captured Constantinople after a six months' siege and deposed Anastasius, but in the ...

THEODOSIUS II. (401-450) succeeded his father Arcadius as emperor of the East in 408. During his minority the empire was ably ruled by the praetorian prefect Anthemius and Pulcheria, who became her brother's guardian in 414. Under his sister's care the young e ...

THEODOSIUS I., " the Great," son of Theodosius, Valentinian's great general, who in 368-69 drove back the Picts and Scots from the Roman territories in Britain and suppressed the revolt of Firmus in Mauretania (372). Shortly after (376), the elder Theodosius w ...

THEODOSIUS, the name of three Roman emperors of the East.

THEODORE II. (1580-1605), tsar of Russia, was the son of Tsar Boris Godunov and one of the daughters of MalyutaSkuratov, the infamous favourite of Ivan the Terrible. Passionately beloved by his father, he received the best available education for those days, a

III. Races of Mankind. — The classification of mankind into a number of permanent varieties or races, rests on grounds which are within limits not only obvious but definite. Whether from a popular or a scientific point of view, it would be admitted that a Negr ...

TIRIDATES III., grandson of Phraates IV., lived as a hostage in Rome and was educated there. When the Parthians rebelled against Artabanus II. in A.D. 35 they applied for a king to Tiberius, who sent Tiridates. With the assistance of L. Vitellius Tiridates ent ...

URBAN III. (Uberto Crivelli), pope from the 25th of November 1185 to the 2oth of October 1187, was a Milanese, and had been made cardinal-priest of St Lorenzo in Damaso and archbishop of Milan by Lucius III., whom he succeeded. His family had suffered greatly ...

ARCADIUS (373-408), Roman emperor, the elder son of Theodosius the Great, was created Augustus in 383, and succeeded his father in 395 along with his brother Honorius. The empire was divided between them, Honorius governing the two western prefectures (Gaul an ...

... reputation for his knowledge of Greek and Roman literature. He was appointed by Theodosius the Great, tutor of the young princes Arcadius and Honorius, but at the age of forty he retired to Egypt, where for forty years he lived in monastic seclusion at Scetis ...

... covered on the sites were published by W. M. Leake (Travels in N. Greece, 1835, iii. 140) and Kinch. The legends of the monks attribute the first religious settlements to the age of Constantino (174-337), but the hermitages are first mentioned in historical do ...

... he fourth gospel, which sets the Last Supper before the feast of the Passover (xiii. i), and pointedly omits Christ's institution of the Eucharist, substituting for it the washing of his disciples' feet. The blessing of the Bread and Cup, as an incident in a f ...

... hin different limits, are given in Behm and Wagner's Bevdlkerung der Erde, No. viii. (Gotha, Justus Perthes, 1801), p. 53: — Europe, within the narrowest physical limits (to the crest of the Urals and the Manych depression, and including the Sea of Azov, but e ...

... the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, respectively, both on the Sachs system (see PI. III.). A small general plan and section of the Covent Garden stage are also shown (see fig. 6), and another illustration (see PL IV.) presents the " gridiron " at Covent Garden on ...

FIG. 59. — Schizomus crassicaudatus, one of the Pedipalpi. Lateral view of a male. II to VI, the prosomatic appendages, the first being concealed (see fig. 58) ; 5, the fifth, and 1 1 , the eleventh tergites of the opisthosoma; pa, the conical post-anal lobe.

... year, commended him to the care and favour of his brother and successor, Henry III., who faithfully fulfilled the charge. His mother married Francois de Balzac, marquis d'Entragues, and one of her daughters, Henriette, marchioness of Verneuil, afterwards beca ...

... arden of the east marches, but the next year he joined the league against James III. and his favourite Robert Cochranc at Lauder, where he earned his nickname by offering to bell the cat, i.e. to deal with the latter, beginning the attack upon him by pulling h ...

... -Dessau. Ernest I. of Anhalt-Dessau (d. 1516) left three sons, John II., George III., and Joachim, who ruled their lands together for many yean, and who, like Prince Wolfgang, favoured the reformed doctrines, which thus became dominant in Anhalt. About 1546 th ...

... ," "the perfection of the art." His medals of Henry II. of France and Pope Paul III. are greatly valued.

ANILINE, PHENYLAMNE, or AIIINOBENZENE, (C«H»NHi), an organic base first obtained from the destructive distillation of ndigo in 1826 by O. Unverdorben (Pogg. Ann., 1826, 8, p. 397), who named it crystalline. In 1834, F. Runge (Pogg. Ann., 1834, 31, p. 65; 32, p ...

... ectures, Lancet, London, 1897; Pembrey and Nicol, Journal of Physiology, vol. xxiii., 1898-1899; H. M. Vernon, "Heat Rigor," Journal of Physiology, xxiy., 1899; H. M. Vernon, "Death Temperatures,' Journal of Physiology, xxv., 1899; F. C. Eve, " Temperature on ...

... i.) the influence of other individual cults, (ii.) anthropomorphic tendencies, (iii.) the influence of chieftainship, hereditary and otherwise, (iv.) annual sacrifice of the sacred animal and mystical ideas connected therewith, (v.) syncretism, due either to u ...

ANIMISM (from animus, ur anima, mind or toul), acn.r.ln^ to thetleiuiiiiimni 1'r K.H.Tylor, the <1<H I rine of spiritual beings, including human souls; in practice, however, the term is often extended to include panlhclism or animalism, the doctrine that a gre ...

... , and from its fruit spreading out like a star. The anise of the Bible (Matt, rxiii. 23) is A nethum or Peucedanum frovcotens, i.e. dill (?.».).

... the end of the Republic. See T. Ashby in Papers of the British School at Rome, iii. 14.

... of Troy, or settled at Cyrene, or became the founder of Patavium. Homer, Iliad, iii. 148. vii. 347: Horace. Epp. i. a. 9; Livy i. I ; Pindar, Pytkio, v. 83; Virgil. At*, i. 343.

... nto a medullary ix>rt ion and a cortex. The latter contain* the proximal mi piftiii) of the zooid* and numerous but separate spicules. The meduMary portion is densely crowded with spiculea of different shape from those in the cortex, and in some forms the tpic ...

... rax as if it were the only cattle disease worthy of mention (see Virgil, Georg. iii.). It figures largely in the history of the early and middle ages as a devastating pestilence attacking animals, and through them mankind; the oldest AngloSaxon manuscripts con ...

... paigns he dropped significant hints in this sense (Busch, Bismarck, u. 453-454, iii. 16). He even spoke of a new Kulturkampf against the Jews (ibid. ii. p. 484). How these hints were acted upon has not been revealed, but it is sufficiently instructive to notic ...

... py or likeness the word occurs in the Greek New Testament (Heb. ix. 34; i Peter iii. ai), English " figure." By theological writers antitype is employed to denote the reality of which a type is the prophetic symbol. Thus, Christ is the antitype of many of the ...

... v. 47; Plutarch, Marius, 44; Cicero, Orator, 5, Brutus, 37; Quintilian, Instil, iii. I, 19; O. Enderlein, De M. Antonio oratore (Leipzig, 1882). 2. MARCUS ANTONIUS, nicknamed CRETICUS in derision, elder son of Marcus Antonius, the " orator," and father of the ...

... nd emigrated in 1700. He was the secret agent of the comte de Provence (Louis XVIII.) at different courts of Europe, and at the same time received money from the courts he visited. He published a number of pamphlets, Des monstres ravagent partoul, Point d'acco ...

... he range runs north and south, and, following this direction 1 Life of Ormonde, iii. 509 ; see also Cal. of State Papers, Ireland, 1660-1662, pp. 294, 217; Cal. of Clarendon St. Pap., ii. 69, and Gardiner's Commonwealth, i. 153. 2 Hallam, Const. Hist., iii. 39 ...

... uare mile. '55 ANTWERP (Fr. Anvrri). capital of the above province, an ini|Mirt.iii( city on the right bank of the Scheldt, Belgium's « liii-i centre of commerce and a strong fortified position. Modern Antwerp is a finely laid out city with a succession of bro ...

... n of the gods. Anubis was the principal god in the capitals of the XVIIth and XVIIIth nomes of Upper Egypt, and secondary god in the XIII th and probably in the XII th nome; but his cult was universal. To begin with, he was the god of the dead, of the cemetery ...

... violently attacked the Jews. See C. Miiller, Fragmenta Historicorum Graecorum, iii. ; E. Schiirer, History of the Jewish People, iii. (Eng. tr. 1886).

... violently attacked the Jews. See C. Miiller, Fragmenta Historicorum Graecorum, iii. ; E. Schiirer, History of the Jewish People, iii. (Eng. tr. 1886).

... in, Leipzig, 1 889) . Halley added in his edition (1710) a restoration of Book viii., in which he was guided by the fact that Pappus gives lemmas " to the seventh and eighth books " under that one heading, as well as by the statement of Apollonius himself that ...

... w who after Paul's first visit to Corinth worked there in a similar way (i Cor. iii. 6). He was with Paul at a later date in Ephesus (i Cor. xvi. n). In i Cor. i. 10-12 we read of four parties in the Corinthian church, of which two attached themselves to Paul ...

... n," but here personified). The identification with the Asmodeus (q.v.) of Tobit iii. 8 is erroneous.