in the Grecian Mythology, answered to the Sea Venus in the Roman, and was the appellation given to one of the chief deities of the sea. The most celebrated picture in all antiquity was that of this goddess by Apelles; and the famous Venus of Medicis is a Sea Venus.

ANÆDEIA, in antiquity, a denomination given to a silver stool placed in the Areopagus, on which the defendant, or person accused, was seated for examination. The word is Greek, ἀναιδεία, which imports imprudence; but according to Janius's correction, it should rather be ἀναιδία, q. d. innocence. The plaintiff or accuser was placed on an opposite stool called ἀγριβής, or injury; here he proposed three questions to the party accused, to which positive answers were to be given. The first, Are you guilty of this fact? The second, How did you commit the fact? The third, Who were your accomplices?

ANÆSTHESIA, signifies a privation of the senses.