Tears

and wailings they soon dismi : their affliction and woe they long retain. In women it is reckoned becoming to bewail their lo : in men to remember it.” Aletz. Ancient Titans, and fire-worshippers, of Phoenicia (see San chon i a thon in Cory’s Ancient Fragments). Alil. Elil. Hebrew. [A word for an idol (Levit. xxvi, 1), from a root meaning “empty,” “vain” (see Isaiah ii, 20; x. 11).—Ep.] Alita. Alitta. See Alah. Al-mak ah. The ancient Sabean god in Arabia, Almond. A sacred tree among many European and Asiatik races (Hebrew Liz; Arabic Lozeh), perhaps because the earliest leafle flowering tree, the harbinger of spring, in January and February. The nuts and oil were nece ary to many altar and family rites. 98