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AMBIERLE

Volume 1 · 62 words · 1815 Edition

a town of France, in the department of the Rhone and Loire. It is the chief place of a canton in a district of Roanne.

AMBIGENÆ OVES, in the heathen sacrifices, an appellation given to such ewes, as having brought forth twins, were sacrificed, together with their two lambs, one on each side. We find them mentioned among other sacrifices to Juno.