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ABUNDANTIA

Volume 1 · 111 words · 1797 Edition

a heathen divinity, represented in ancient monuments under the figure of a woman with a pleasing aspect, crowned with garlands of flowers, pouring all sorts of fruit out of a horn which she holds in her right hand, and scattering grain with her left, taken promiscuously from a sheaf of corn. On a medal of Trajan, she is represented with two cornucopiae.

ABU SAID, (Ebn Aljaptu), sultan of the Moguls, succeeded his father anno 717 of the hegira. He was the last monarch of the race of Jenghizkhan; and after his death, which happened the same year that Tamerlane was born, the empire was made a scene of blood and desolation.