ANTRUM

(Lat. antrum, a cave.) An old name apI plied to such hoUow fruits as the apple; they are now i_ called Pomes.., H ANTRUSTlONS,otherwisestyledFideles (Faithful) I " APHANIPTEROUS. and Leudes(Leute,Germ.p /e). A cla of people among the Franks, who were the personal va als or dependents of the kings and counts. They were not dependent on them by reason of holding lands by their grant: but rather, in consequence of being such dependents, were favoured with donations of land, or benefices; Vvhich, in proce of time, becoming hereditary, a umed the character of Fiefs. {See Feudai. System.) The original word from which An trust i on is derived, was undoubtedly the same with that from which our word trust, confidence, has its descent. ANUBIS, In Mythology, an Egyptian deity. The seventh, according to the astronomical Theology, of their eight gods of the first cla . The Greeks identified him with Mercury. In Egyptian painting and sculpture be is represented as a man with the head of a dog: ^vhence the lines in the 6th book of Virgil's iEneid, describing the conflict of Egypt with Rome: — Omnigenflmque Defim monstra, et latrator Anubis, Contra Neptunum et Venerem, contra que Minervam, Tela ferunt. [s. 74]