in midwifery, a term applied to children, brought forth with their feet foremost.

AGRIFFA (Herod) son of Aristobulus by Berenice, and the grandson of Herod the Great. He was cast into prison by Tiberius for wishing Cæsars emperor, who gave him a chain of gold, equal in weight to those which he had worn in prison, and afterward made him king of Judea. He put St James to death, imprisoned St Peter, and, for allowing the deifying shouts of the people, was eaten up with worms.

AGRIFFA II., son of the preceding Herod, was made king of Chalcide; but three or four years after, he was deprived of that kingdom by Claudius, who gave him in the place of it other provinces. In the war Vespasian carried on against the Jews, Herod sent him a succour of 2000 men; by which it appears, that, tho' a Jew by religion, he was yet entirely devoted to the Romans, whose affiance indeed he wanted, to secure the peace of his own kingdom. He lived to the third year of Trajan, and died at Rome A.C. 100. He was the seventh and last king of the family of Herod the Great. It was before him and Berenice his sister, that St Paul pleaded his cause at Cæsarea.

AGRIFFA (Marcus Vitianius), son-in-law to Augustus, of mean birth, but one of the most considerable generals among the Romans. Augustus's victory over Pompey and Mark Anthony was owing to his counsel; he adorned the city with the pantheon, baths, aqueducts, &c.

AGRIFFA (Cornelius), born at Cologne in 1486, a man of considerable learning, and by common report a great magician; for the monks at that time suspected every thing of heresy or sorcery which they did not understand. He composed his Treatise of the Excellence of Women, to intimate himself into the favour of Margaret of Austria, governess of the Low-Countries. He accepted of the charge of historiographer to the emperor, which that princess gave him. The treatise of the Vanity of the Sciences, which he published in 1530, enraged his enemies extremely; as did that of Occult Philosophy, which he printed soon after at Antwerp. He was imprisoned in France for something he had written against Francis I.'s mother; but was enlarged, and went to Grenoble, where he died in 1534. His works are printed in two volumes octavo.