any thing relating to Attica, or to the city of Athens: thus Attic salt, in philology, is a delicate poignant sort of wit and humour peculiar to the Athen- ian writers; Attic witness, a witness incapable of corruption, &c.

**Attic Order.** See Architecture.

**Attic Base**, a peculiar kind of base used by the ancient architects in the Ionic order; and by Palladio, and some others, in the Doric.

**Attic Story**, in architecture; a story in the upper part of a house, where the windows are usually square.

**Attica**, an ancient kingdom of Greece, situated extents, &c., along the north coast of the gulf of Saron, bounded on the west by Megara, mount Cithaeron, and part of Boeotia; on the north by the gulph of Euripus, now Stratto di negro ponte, and the rest of Boeotia; and on the east by the Eurotius. It extended in length from north-west to south-east about 60 miles; its breadth from north to south was 56, decreasing as it approached the sea.

The soil of this country was naturally barren and craggy, though by the industry of its inhabitants it produced all the necessaries of life. On this account