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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 ...

TIRIDATES, or TERIDATES, a Persian name, given by Arrian in his Parthica (preserved by Photius, cod. 58, and Syncellus, p. 539 seq.) to the brother of Arsaces I., the founder of the Parthian kingdom, whom he is said to have succeeded. But Arrian's account seem ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

... afraid that the father would avenge him; according to Ctesias, Pers. 29, Justin iii. i, Died. xi. 69, he killed Xerxes first and then pretended that Darius had murdered him, and instigated his brother Artaxerxes to avenge the parricide. At all events, during t ...

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.

... (as expression of regret for a fault) has tipped many a sarcasm besides George III.'s on the occasion of Bishop Watson's book, " I did not know that the Bible needed an apology 1" II. Apologetics in the BibU.—Tbe Old Testament does not argue in support of its ...

APOSTLE (aw6(rTO\os, one sent forth on a mission, an envoy, as in Is. xviii. 2; Symmachus, a.iro<jTt\\tiv cbrocrToXow; Aquila, irpetr/Seuras), a technical term used in the New Testament and in Christian literature generally for a special envoy of Jesus Christ. ...

... ulf between himself and apostles like Peter and Paul in claim to authority (ib. iii. 3, ad Rom. iv. 3). The like holds of Polycarp, who, in explaining that he writes to exhort the Philippians only at their own request, adds, " for neither am I, nor is any othe ...

... zeal in seeking the conversion of the heathen. It was renewed by Pope Clement XIII. in 1758 hi favour of the empress Maria Theresa and her descendants. The emperor of Austria bears the title of apostolic king of Hungary.

... r than the compiler of the spurious Ignatian epistles (Epp. Polyc. et Ign. p. briii. i., Oxon. 1644). The Apostolical Constitutions, then, are spurious, and they are one of a long series of documents of like character. But we have not really gauged their signi ...

... in 1 146 by Everwin, provost of Steinfeld, to St Bernard (Mabillon, Vet. Anal. iii. 452). They condemned marriage (save, perhaps, first marriages), the eating of meat, baptism of children, veneration of saints, fasting, prayers for the dead and belief in purg ...

... eared at Leiden, " Curante Hcinsio," in 1619; " Oratio Panegyrica ad Fredericum III." in Freher's Scriptores Rerum Germanicarum, vol. ii. (Frankfort, 1624); Gcorgii Gemisthi Plethoras et Mich. Apostolii Oraiiones funebres duae in quibus de Immortaliiate Animae ...

... he medical profession were not regularly distinguished till the reign of Henry VIII., when separate duties were assigned to them, and peculiar privileges were granted to each. In 1518 the physicians of London were incorporated, and the barbersurgeons in 1540. ...