a kind of public sale, very much in use for household goods, books, plate, &c. By this method of sale the highest bidder is always the buyer. This was originally a kind of sale among the ancient Romans, performed by the public crier sub hoffa, i.e., under a spear stuck up on that occasion, and by some magistrate, who made good the sale by delivery of the goods.

AUDEUS, the chief of the Audeans, obtained the name of an heretic, and the punishment of banishment, for celebrating Easter in the manner of the Jews, and attributing an human form to the Deity. He died in the country of the Goths, about the year 370.