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.

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, Anadusia, which imports impudence; but, according to Junius's correction, it should rather be Avaria, q. d. innocence. The plaintiff or accuser was placed on an opposite stool called hybris, 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?