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 prolium, and still retained in some parts of Germa- ny, though Heineccius observes that this is not adop- tion.

AD FINES, (Antonine), a town of Swifterland, sup- posed to be the modern Pfinz, in the north of the dis- trict of Turgow, on the rivulet Thur, not far from the borders of Swabia, about half way between Con- stance and Frauenfeld. So called, because when Ce- cinna, general of the emperor Vitellius, with the auxi- liary Rhetians, defeated the Helvetii, the former ex- tended 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.