(DEI); certain gods, whose business it was, according to the Pagan theology, to avert misfortunes. fortunes. Apollo and Hercules were of the number of these gods among the Greeks; and Castor and Pollux among the Romans.

**Aversa**, a town of Italy in the kingdom of Naples, with a bishop's see. It is situated in a very fine plain, in E. Long. 14° 20', N. Lat. 41°.

**Aversion**, according to Lord Kames, is opposed to affection, and not to desire, as it commonly is. We have an affection to one person; we have an aversion to another; the former disposes us to do good to its object, the latter to do ill.

**Averti**, in Horsemanhip, is applied to a regular step or motion enjoined in the lemons. In this sense they say pas averte, sometimes pas ecoue, and pas d'ecole, which all denote the same. The word is mere French, and signifies adverted.