In  the  present  edition  the  work  has  been  further  augmented  by
the  addition  of  some  thousands  of  new  articles ;  and  the  student  may
now  refer  to  it,  with  confidence,  for  any  word  occurring  in  Virgil,
Horace,  Ovid,  and  other  poets  of  the  best  authority,  and  the  safest
models  for  imitation.  The  prosody  has  been  carefully  revised,  and
the  usage  of  all  previous  editions,  in  many  instances,  departed  from,
more  particularly  in  the  terminations  wm,  am,  em,  which  are  now  in-
variably marked  short,  except  in  cases  of  crasis  or  syncope.  Also,
to  remove  a  difficulty  hitherto  in  the  way  of  young  versifiers,  tables
have  been  supplied  of  the  quantities  of  final  syllables  of  nouns  and

verbs  in  inflexion.
J.  H.
GRADUS


AD


PARNASSUM.
A,  preposition,  which  has  various  meanings. — Bij,  after,  with,  from,  from  above,  near,

against,  since,  of,  for,  on,  hard  by,  as  to.     Dulces  a  fontibiis  undae,  Virg.     Syn.
Ab,  abs,  de,  e,  ex.
Aii,  ae,  m,,  a  river  of  France,  famous  for  a  battle  between  the  French  and  Bur-

gundians.     Syn.  Agnio,  Euneno.     Epith.  Picardiis,  BelgTciis.     Vide  Fluvius.
Aaron,  or  Aaron  dissyllable,  m.  indecl.,  son  of  Amram,  brother  of  Moses,  and  first

Jewish  high-priest.    Sceptrl  gestamSn  Aaron,  Prud.    Moses,  Aaronque  sacerdos,

Fort.     Syn.  Amramides,  or  Amramiades,  se,  m.     Epith.  Magnus,  pius,  sacer,

sanctus,  clarus,  facundiis,  sacratus,  Inclytus,  optimiis,  verendiis,  venSrabilis,  ve-

nerandus,  sacrificiis,  Infulatiis.     V.  Pontifex,  Sacerdos.
ab.    V.  a.
abactor,  oris,  m.,  Apul.,  a  sheep- stealer.     Epith.  Occultiis,  scelSratiis,  nocturnu^.
abactus,  a,  lim,  pt.  (from  abigor)  carried  away.       Medio  jam  noctis  abactas,  Virg.
Syn.  Abductiis,  ablatiis,  or  dejectiis,  expulsiis,  pulsus,  remotus,  rejectiis,  fugatus ;

actus,  exactiis.     V.  Exul.
abactus,  us,  m.,  action  of  carrtjing  away.     V.  Furtum.
