Archil

or OrcniL, a purple dye obtained from The colouring matter of Archil is soluble water and alcohol, but has no reputation for Archil och us, of Paros, a famous lyric poct of flourished at the beginning of the seventh B.c. Urged by poverty, he is said to have his native place, and settled with a colony at but his vein of sarcasm made him so that he had to migrate once more. Little known of his subsequent career, but tradition that he was killed in a war between the and Naxians, and buried by the sea-shore. verses—chiefly iambic—breathed, we are told, bitterne of his spirit, and attacked friend foe alike. His Hymn to Hercules won the at Olympia. ‘The few fragments handed down confirm manly, fatalism. of Greek natural matician about relative the is Euclid, draining Nile. show with volumes ment cumference conic of and ciple by “Give to Romans 212 means fleet gla es. town, that principle on weight fore, fluid move to at greater, GRAVITY trivance vent or. spiral end enters Arch i me des’ Screw. ee to us give no iden of his yenius, and scarcely adverse criticisms, They reveal rather a vigorous nature, influenced by theistic Archimandrite (Gk. ruler of the fold) the title the highest order of superiors of convents in the Church.