a Gothic custom, whereby the children of a former marriage are put upon the same footing with those of the second. This is also called unio prolixi, and still retained in some parts of Germany, though Heinicus observes that this is not adoption.

AD FINES, (Antonine), a town of Switzerland supposed to be the modern Pfyn, in the north of the district of Turgow, on the rivulet Thur, not far from the borders of Swabia, about half-way between Constance and Frauenfeld. So called, because when Cæcina, general of the emperor Vitellius, with the auxiliary Rhetians, defeated the Helvetii, the former extended their borders thus far, their territory ending here; and, in the time of the Romans, it was the last town in this quarter, and of some repute.