patriarch of Alexandria, lived about the ninth age; and wrote annals in the Arabic language, printed in Oxford in 1658, with a Latin version by Mr Pococke. Selden had printed something of his before.

EUXINE or Black Sea, forms part of the boundary between Europe and Asia. It receives the Neiper, the Danube, and other large rivers; and extends from 28 to 40 degrees of E. Long. and from 40 to 46 of N. Lat. The ancients imagined this sea to have been originally only a lake or standing pool which broke first into the Propontis, and then into the Egean, washing away by degrees the earth which first kept it within bounds, and formed the two channels of the Bosphorus Thraceus and Hellespont, now the Dardanelles.—It was anciently called the Aenus, supposed to be from Athenea the son of Gomer, who is said to have settled near it. This original being forgotten in length of time, the Greeks explained it by inhoptable, which the word Axenos literally signifies; and therefore, when they came to consider the inhabitants of these coasts as more civilized and hospitable, they changed the name into Euxinus, which it still retains.