among middle-age writers, an appellation given to those afflicted with the ignis sacer, or erysipelas. They were so called from their appearing as it scorched or burned with the disease. The abbey of St Genevieve at Paris is said to have received the name of Domus Ardentiom because great numbers were cured of that distemper at the shrine of this saint in the reign of Louis VI.

ARDES, a town of France, in Lower Auvergne, and now in the department of Puy de Dome. It serves as a mart for the commodities and trade between Upper and Lower Auvergne. Long. 3° 10' E. Lat. 45° 22' N.