INDEX.

INDEX

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ACERRA, an emblem in the hand of Piety, 371.
Achæmenides, left in the island of the Cyclops, 47.

Achaia, medal of, 424, 426.

Achelous, the horn of, 290.

Acætes, story of, 160. Note respecting, 187.

Acteon, transformed into a stag, 147. Hunted to death by his own
dogs, 149.

Addison, character of his poetry, 3, note. His translations from
Ovid highly finished and laboured, 113, note. Wrote his essay on
the Georgics in his one-and-twentieth year, 188, note. Disinge-
nuity in his verses to the Princess of Wales, with the tragedy of
Cato, accounted for, 299, note. His reputation owing chiefly to
his prose-writings, 339, note.

Adrian, compliment to, in a medal respecting time, 377. Medals
struck on his progress through the empire, 422. Achaia and Sicily
represented kneeling before him, 426, 427.

Eneid, comparison of its beauties with those of the Georgics, 197.
Eneid III. translation of a story in it, 46.

Esculapius, his birth 130.

Etna, its eruptions described, 46.

Africa, medallic representation of, 415. Emblems of its fertility,
417. Its noxious animals described by the poets, 418. Personified
by Claudian, ib.

Aglauros, story of 136. Transformed into a statue, 139.

Albula, river, described, 37.

Alexandrines, not admissible in pentameter verse, 4, note.

Amalthæa, the horn of, 391.

Amaze for amazement, 277, note.

Amazon, an, said to have founded Smyrna, 430.

Amomum, a production of Arabia, 433.

Anne, Queen, glory of her reign in Marlborough's victories, 53, 65.
Annus magnus, or Platonical year, 377.

Antioch, described on a medal and by the poets, 431.

Antiquarianism ridiculed, 346.

Antonine, the Emperor, presented with a crown of gold by the Par-
thians, 431.

Arabia, represented on a medal, and described by the poets, 432.
Architecture, the history of, to be collected from old coins, 350. Va-
rious branches of knowledge it comprehends, 354.

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