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192. Eblis, Hall of. See the extract. In the midst of this immense hall, a vast multitude was ince antly pa ing, who severally kept their right hands on their hearts [which were on fire], without once regard ing anything around them. They had all the livid palene of death. Their eyes, deep sunk in their sockets, resem bled those phosphoric meteors that glimmer by night in places of interment. Some stalked slowly on, absorbed in profound reverie; some, shrieking with agony, ran furiously about, like tigers wounded with poisoned arrows; whilst others, grinding their teeth in rage, foamed along, more frantic than the wildest maniac. Beckford , Vathek, p. 191. Eboli (a'bō-lē). A town in the province of Salerno, Italy, 45 miles east-southeast of Naples. Population (1881), 9,089. Eboli, Prince of (Anna de Mendoza). Born in June, 1540: died at Pastrana, Spain, Feb. 2, 1592. Daughter of Don Diego Hurtado de Mendoza, viceroy of Peru, and mistre of Philip II. of Spain. She married in 1559 the favorite Rui Gomez de Silva, prince of Eboli. While mistre of the king she sustained similar relations to the minister Antonio Perez. She was, in consequence of a political intrigue, betrayed by Escovedo, the secret agent at the court of Don John of Austria. Escovedo being murdered soon after by Perez, she was suspected of complicity in the crime, and was banished from court in 1579. She figures as one of the characters in Schiller's "Don Carlos." Eboracum (ē-bor'a-kum), or Eburacum (ē-bur'a-kum). The Roman name of York. Eburacum is the spelling given in the Itinerary of Ant on in us, in Ptolemy, and in the geographer of Ravenna, while an inscription formerly found in York, but not served, as well as the Roman historians who mention this place, call it Eboracum. The weight of authority, how