Its literary history is rather curious

Eight editions of it appeared in half a century from the date of the first, and then, with other books of its time, it dropped out of notice except by the learned. Early in the present cen tury it was revived and reprinted with certain modern is a tions, and four or five editions succeeded each other at no long interval. The copies thus circulated seem to have satisfied the demand for many years, and have been followed without alteration in a finely-printed i ue of re Saints bury , Hist. of Elizabeth an Lit., p. 429. cent date. Anaxagoras (an-aks-ag'ō-ras). [Gr. Αναξαγό ρας .] Born at Clazomenæ, Ionia, about 500 B. C.: died at Lampsacus, Mysia, about 428 Anasitch (ä-nä-sich'). A tribe of the Kusan stock of North American Indians. It formerly had a village on the south side of Coos Bay, Oregon. The survivors are on the Siletz reservation, Oregon. See B. C. A Greek philosopher, for a long time res i Kusan . An astasia (an-as-taʼshi-ä), Saint. 1. A Christian martyr slain during the reign of Nero (54 68 A. D.). She is said to have been a pupil of St. Peter and St. Paul. Her martyrdom is commemorated on April 15. 2. A Christian martyr who perished in the persecution by Diocletian 303 (1) A. D. The date of her commemoration in the Latin Church is Dec. 25, in the Greek Dec. 22.-3. Died 597. A Greek saint who lived in Alexandria disguised as a monk for 28 years. An as tas i an Law. A law of the emperor An as tas i us I. (506), directed against usurers. An as tas i us (an-as-ta's hi-us) I., Saint. [Gr. Ἀναστάσιος.] Bishop of Rome 398-402. He condemned the writings of Origen, and excommunicated Ru fin us, the antagonist of Jerome and advocate of Origen, although he to have acknowledged that he did not understand the controversy. An as tas i us II. Pope 496-498. He endeavored to put an end to the schism between the sees of Constant i. nople and Rome arising from the dispute concerning precedence, and wrote a letter of congratulation to Clovis, king of the Franks, on his conversion to Christianity. An as tas i us III. Pope 911-913. dent in Athens where he became the friend and teacher of Pericles, Thucydides, and Euripi des, and whence he was banished on a charge of impiety. He is reckoned as a disciple of Anaximander and is famous as the first of the old Greek natural philosophers to introduce intelligence or reason ( νοῦς ) as a metaphysical principle in the explanation of the world. He regarded it not as creative but as regulative, as that which brought order out of the original chaos. Fragments of his writings have been preserved. Anaxarchus (an-aks-är'kus). [Gr. Ἀνάξαρχος .] A Greek philosopher of Abdera, a disciple of Demo crit us, who flourished about 350 B. C. He attended Alexander in his Asiatic campaigns, and is said used in this sense) of things is a substance of indeterminate quality and limitle quantity ( ἀπειρον ), “immortal and imperishable," out of which all things arise and to which all return. This substance, according to some accounts, he regarded as having a nature intermediate between that of water and air. He was probably the author of the first philosophical treatise in Greek prose. Anaximenes (an-aks-im'e-nez). [Gr. Ἀναξιμένης.] Born at Miletus: lived in the 6th century B. C. A Greek philosopher, the third of the Ionian school, a contemporary and friend of Thales and Anaximander, and usually reckoned as a disciple of the latter. He regarded air as the principle ( ἀρχή ) of things. Anaximenes. Born at Lampsacus: lived in the 4th century B. C. A Greek rhetorician, his to rian, and companion of Alexander Great: the probable author of an extant treatise on rhetoric (' Ρητορικὴ πρὸς Ἀλέξανδρον), the only existing work on the subject prior to Aristotle. Anaya (ä-nä'yä), Pedro Maria. Born at Huichapan, 1795: died at Mexico, March 21, 1854. A Mexican general. He joined the Spanish army as a cadet in 1811, followed the defection of Iturbide in 1821, and was a captain under Filisola in Nicaragua, 1823. In 1833 he became brigadier-general. Adhering to the federalist party, he was forced to leave the country. He invaded Tabasco in Nov., 1840, with federalist forces from Texas and Yucatan, but was defeated at Cometan, May 15, 1841, and fled to Yucatan. Under Herrera (1845) he was minister of war. He adhered to Santa Anna, and while the latter was resisting the advance of Scott, was acting president April 2 to May IMG:content-0074.png:[ocr errors] which defended the convent of Churubusco, and only sur rendered after his ammunition was exhausted (Aug. 20, 1847). In 1852 he was secretary of war under Arista, served three days in the administration of Ceballos, and on Santa Anna's restoration (1853) was made postmaster-general, a position which he held until his death. Ancachs (än-kächs'). A maritime department of Peru, north of Lima, corresponding to the colonial in ten den cia of Huaylas. Ancæus (an-sē'us). [Gr. Ἀγκαῖος .] In Greek cla ical legend: ( a ) A son of Poseidon. He was told by a seer that he would not live to enjoy the wine from a vineyard which he had planted. He, however, lived to have wine of his own growth and, in scorn of the prophet, raised a cup of it to his mouth. The seer re plied, "There is many a slip between the cup and the lip," and at the same instant a tumult arose over a wild boar in the vineyard. Ancæus put down the cup, and was killed in an attempt to destroy the animal. (b) A son of the Arcadian Lycurgus, and one of the Argonauts. He was killed in the Calydonian hunt. Ancelot (ons-lo'), Jacques Arsène François Polycarpe. Born at Havre, France, Feb. 9, 1794: died at Paris, Sept. 7, 1854. A French dramatist, elected a member of the Academy in 1841. He was the author of "Louis IX." (1819), "Le maire du palais" (1823), "Fiesque" (1824), "Olga" (1828), "Elizabeth d'Angleterre" (1829), "Marie de Brabant" (1825), "Epitres familières," etc. Ancelot, Mme. (Marguerite Louise Virginie Chardon). Born at Dijon, France, March 15, 1792: died at Paris, March 21, 1875. A French dramatist and novelist, wife of J. A. Ancelot. Her "Théâtre complet" (1848) contains twenty plays, of which "Marie ou trois époques" is her chief work. Among her novels the most popular were "Renée de Varville" (1853) and "La nièce du banquier" (1853). Ancenis (on-se-ne'). A town in the department of Loire-Inférieure, France, situated on the Loire 17 miles northeast of Nantes. Population (1891), commune, 5,141. Anchieta (än-shy a'tä), or Anchietta, José de. Born in Teneriffe, Canary Islands, 1533: died at Beritigbá, Espirito Santo, June 9, 1597. A Jesuit mi ionary, called the "Apostle of Brazil." He became a Jesuit in 1551, and in 1558 was sent as a mi ionary to Brazil, where he spent the remainder of his life in arduous labors and travels, often among savage tribes of Indians. From 1578 to 1585 he was provincial of his order in Brazil. Anchieta wrote an Indian grammar, and various letters on Brazil which have been published in modern times. Anchises (an-ki'sēz). [Gr. Αγχίσης .] In Greek legend, a prince of the royal house of Troy, son of Capys and father (by Aphrodite) of Æneas. l'Ancienne- Comédie . maintaining that a king can do no wrong. to have consoled the king after the murder of Cleitus by Ancienne-Comédie, Rue de l'. See Rue de Anaxarete (an-aks-ar'e-tē). [Gr. Ἀναξαρέτη.] In Greek legend, a maiden of Cyprus whose lover Iphis in despair hung himself at her door.