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AESTUARY

Volume 1 · 86 words · 1823 Edition

among physicians, a vapour bath, or any other instrument for conveying heat to the body.

ASYMNNIUM, in antiquity, a monument erected to the memory of the heroes by Asynnus the Megarean. He, consulting the oracle in what manner the Megareans might be most happily governed, was answered, If they held consultation with the more numerous: whom he taking for the dead, built the said monument, and a senate-house that took within its compass the monument; imagining, that thus the dead would assist at their consultations. (Pausanias).