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ENCYCLOPAEDIA BRITANNICA

A DICTIONARY OF ARTS, SCIENCES, LITERATURE
AND GENERAL INFORMATION

ELEVENTH EDITION

VOLUME II, SLICE VII

Arundel, Thomas to Athens

ARTICLES IN THIS SLICE:

ARUNDEL, THOMAS ASSAB
ARUNDEL (town) ASSAM
ARUNDELL OF WARDOUR ASSAMESE
ARUSIANUS MESSIUS ASSAROTTI, OTTAVIO GIOVANNI BATTISTA
ARVAL BROTHERS ASSARY
ARVALS ASSASSIN
ARVERNI ASSAULT
ARYAN ASSAYE
ARYA SAMAJ ASSAYING
ARYTENOID ASSEGAI
ARZAMAS ASSELIJN, HANS
AS ASSEMANI
ASA ASSEMBLY, UNLAWFUL
ASAFETIDA ASSEN
ASAF-UD-DOWLAH ASSER
ASAPH ASSESSMENT
ASBESTOS ASSESSOR
ASBJORNSEN, PETER CHRISTEN ASSETS
ASBURY, FRANCIS ASSIDEANS
ASBURY PARK ASSIGNATS
ASCALON ASSIGNMENT
ASCANIUS ASSINIBOIA
ASCENSION ASSINIBOIN
ASCENSION, FEAST OF THE ASSISE
ASCETICISM ASSISI
ASCHAFFENBURG ASSIUT
ASCHAM, ROGER ASSIZE
ASCHERSLEBEN ASSMANNSHAUSEN
ASCIANO ASSOCIATE
ASCITANS ASSOCIATION OF IDEAS
ASCITES ASSONANCE
ASCLEPIADES (Greek physician) ASSUAN
ASCLEPIADES (of Samos) ASSUMPSIT
ASCLEPIODOTUS ASSUMPTION, FEAST OF
ASCOLI, GRAZIADIO ISAIA ASSUR (land of Assyria)
ASCOLI PICENO ASSUR (capital of Assyria)
ASCONIUS PEDIANUS, QUINTUS ASSUR (god of Assyria)
ASCOT ASSUR-BANI-PAL
ASCUS ASSUS
ASELLI, GASPARO ASSYRIA
ASGILL, JOHN AST, GEORG ANTON FRIEDRICH
ASH ASTARA
A'SHA ASTARABAD
ASHANTI ASTARTE
ASH'ARI ASTELL, MARY
ASHBOURNE ASTER
ASHBURNHAM, JOHN ASTERIA
ASHBURTON, ALEXANDER BARING ASTERID
ASHBURTON, JOHN DUNNING ASTERISK
ASHBURTON (river) ASTERIUS (of Cappadocia)
ASHBURTON (town) ASTERIUS (bishop of Amasia)
ASHBY, TURNER ASTHMA
ASHBY-DE-LA-ZOUCH ASTI
A-SHE-HO ASTLEY, JACOB ASTLEY
ASHER ASTLEY, SIR JOHN DUGDALE
'ASHER BEN-YEHIEL ASTON, ANTHONY
ASHEVILLE ASTON MANOR
ASHFORD ASTOR, JOHN JACOB
'ASHI ASTORGA, EMANUELE D'
ASHINGTON ASTORGA (city)
'ASHKENAZI, SEBI ASTORIA
ASHLAND (Kentucky, U.S.A.) ASTRAEA
ASHLAND (Pennsylvania, U.S.A.) ASTRAGAL
ASHLAND (Virginia, U.S.A.) ASTRAKHAN (government of Russia)
ASHLAND (Wisconsin, U.S.A.) ASTRAKHAN (town of Russia)
ASHLAR ASTROLABE
ASHLEY, WILLIAM JAMES ASTROLOGY
ASHMOLE, ELIAS ASTRONOMY
ASHRAF ASTROPALIA
ASHREF ASTROPHYSICS
ASHTABULA ASTRUC, JEAN
ASHTON-IN-MAKERFIELD ASTURA
ASHTON-UNDER-LYNE ASTURIAS
ASH WEDNESDAY ASTYAGES
ASHWELL, LENA ASTYLAR
ASIA (continent) ASUNCION
ASIA (Roman province) ASVINS
ASIA MINOR ASYLUM
ASIENTO ASYLUM, RIGHT OF
ASIR ATACAMA
ASISIUM ATACAMA, DESERT OF
ASKABAD ATACAMITE
ASKAULES ATAHUALLPA
ASKE, ROBERT ATALANTA
ASKEW, ANNE ATARGATIS
ASMA'I ATAULPHUS
ASMARA ATAVISM
ASMODEUS ATBARA
ASMONEUS ATCHISON
ASNIERES ATE
ASOKA ATELLA
ASOLO ATELLANAE FABULAE
ASOR ATESTE
ASP ATH
ASPARAGINE ATHABASCA
ASPARAGUS ATHALARIC
ASPASIA ATHALIAH
ASPASIUS ATHAMAS
ASPEN ATHANAGILD
ASPENDUS ATHANARIC
ASPER, AEMILIUS ATHANASIUS
ASPER, HANS ATHAPASCAN
ASPERGES ATHARVA VEDA
ASPERN-ESSLING ATHEISM
ASPHALT ATHELM
ASPHODEL ATHELNEY
ASPHYXIA ATHENA
ASPIC ATHENAEUM
ASPIDISTRA ATHENAEUS
ASPIROTRICHACEAE ATHENAGORAS
ASPIROZ, MANUEL DE ATHENODORUS
ASPROMONTE ATHENRY
ASQUITH, HERBERT HENRY ATHENS (Greece)
ASS ATHENS (Georgia, U.S.A.)
ASS, FEAST OF THE ATHENS (Ohio, U.S.A.)

ARUNDEL, THOMAS (1353-1414), archbishop of Canterbury, was the third son of Richard Fitzalan, earl of Arundel and Warenne, by his second wife, Eleanor, daughter of Henry Plantagenet, earl of Lancaster. His family was an old and influential one, and when Thomas entered the church his preferment was rapid. In 1373 he became archdeacon of Taunton, and in April 1374 was consecrated bishop of Ely. During the early years of the reign of King Richard II. he was associated with the party led by Thomas, duke of Gloucester, Henry, earl of Derby, afterwards King Henry IV., and his own brother Richard, earl of Arundel, and in 1386 he was sent with Gloucester to Eltham to persuade Richard to return to parliament. This mission was successful, and Arundel was made lord chancellor in place of Michael de la Pole, duke of Suffolk, and assisted to make peace between the king and the supporters of the commission of regency. In April 1388 he was made archbishop of York, and, when Richard declared himself of age in 1389, he gave up the office of chancellor, to which, however, he returned in 1391. During his second tenure of this office he removed the courts of justice from London to York, but they were soon brought back to the metropolis. In September 1396 he was translated from York to Canterbury, and again resigned the office of chancellor. He began his new rule by a vigorous attempt to assert his rights, warned the citizens of London not to withhold tithes, and decided appeals from the judgments of his suffragans during a thorough visitation of his province. In November 1396 he had officiated at the marriage of Richard and Isabella, daughter of Charles VI., king of France, and his fall was the sequel of the king's sudden attack upon the lords appellant in 1397. After the arrest of Gloucester, Warwick and Arundel, the archbishop was impeached by the Commons with the king's consent, although Richard, who had not yet revealed his hostility, held out hopes of safety to him. He was charged with assisting to procure the commission of regency in derogation of the royal authority, and sentence of banishment was passed, forty days being given him during which to leave the realm. Towards the end of 1397 he started for Rome, and Pope Boniface IX., at the urgent request of the king, translated him to the see of St Andrews, a step which the pope afterwards confessed he repented bitterly. This translation virtually deprived Arundel of all authority, as St Andrews did not acknowledge Boniface. He then became associated with Henry of Lancaster, but did not return to England before 1399, and the account which Froissart gives telling how he was sent by the Londoners to urge Henry to come and assume the crown is thought to refer to his nephew and namesake, Thomas, earl of Arundel. Landing with Henry at Ravenspur, he accompanied him to the west. He took his place at once as archbishop of Canterbury, witnessed the abdication of Richard in the Tower of London, led the new king, Henry IV., to his throne in presence of the peers, and crowned him on the 13th of October 1399.

The main work of his later years was the defence of the church, and the suppression of heresy. To put down the Lollards, he called a meeting of the clergy, pressed on the statute _de haeretico comburendo_, and passed sentence of degradation upon William Sawtrey. He resisted the attempt of the parliament of 1404 to disendow the church, but failed to induce Henry to pardon Archbishop Scrope in 1405. In 1407 he became chancellor for the fourth time, and in 1408 summoned a council at Oxford, which drew up constitutions against the Lollards. These he published in January 1409, and among them was one forbidding the translation of the Bible into English without the consent of the bishop of the diocese, or of a provincial synod. In 1411 he went on an embassy abroad, and in 1412 became chancellor again, his return to power being accompanied by a change in the foreign policy of Henry IV. In 1397 he had sought to vindicate his right of visitation over the university of Oxford, but the dispute remained unsettled until 1411 when a bull was issued by Pope John XXIII. recalling one issued by Pope Boniface IX., which had exempted the university from the archbishop's authority. In 1413 he took a leading part in the proceedings against Sir John Oldcastle, Lord Cobham, and in the following year he died on the 19th of February, and was buried at Canterbury. A legend of a later age tells how, just before his death, he was struck dumb for preventing the preaching of the word of God.

The chief authorities are T. Walsingham, _Historia Anglicana_, ed. by
H.T. Riley (London, 1863-1864); _Eulogium historiarum sive temporis_,
ed. by F.S. Haydon (London, 1858-1863); the Monk of Evesham, _Historia
vitae et regni Ricardi II._, ed. by T. Hearne (Oxford, 1729); W.F.
Hook, _Lives of the Archbishops of Canterbury_, vol. iv. (London,
1860-1876).

ARUNDEL, a market town and municipal borough in the Chichester parliamentary division of Sussex, England, 58 m. S.S.W. from London by the London, Brighton & South Coast railway. Pop. (1901) 2739. It is pleasantly situated on the slope of a hill above the river Arun, which is navigable for small vessels to Littlehampton at the mouth, 6 m. south. From the summit of the hill rises Arundel Castle, which guarded the passage along the river through the hills. For its connexion with the title of earl of Arundel see ARUNDEL, EARLDOM OF. A castle existed in the time of King Alfred, and at the time of the Conquest it was rebuilt by Roger de Montgomerie, but it was taken from his son, who rebelled against the reigning monarch, Henry I. In 1397 it was the scene of a conspiracy organized by the earl of Arundel, archbishop of Canterbury and duke of Gloucester, to dethrone Richard II. and murder the lords of his council, a plot which was discovered before it could be carried into execution. During the civil wars of the 17th century, the stronghold was frequently assaulted by the contending parties, and consequently greatly damaged; but it was restored by Charles, 11th duke of Norfolk (d. 1815), who made it what it now is, one of the most splendid baronial mansions in England. Extensive reconstruction, in the style of the 13th century, was undertaken towards the close of the 19th century. The town, according to the whimsical etymology shown on the corporation seal, takes its name from _hirondelle_ (a swallow). The town hall is a castellated building, presented to the corporation by the duke of Norfolk. The church of St Nicholas, founded about 1375, is Perpendicular with a low tower rising from the centre. In the north aisle of the chancel there are several ancient monuments of the earls of Arundel. The church is otherwise remarkable for its reredos and iron work. The chancel is the property of the duke of Norfolk and is screened from the rest of the building, although in 1880 this exercise of right by the owner was made the subject of an action at law and subsequent appeal. The Roman Catholic church of St Philip Neri was built by the duke of Norfolk (1873). Some remains of a _Maison Dieu_, or hospital, erected in the time of Richard II., still exist. The borough is under a mayor, 4 aldermen and 12 councillors. Area, 2053 acres.

The first mention of Arundel (Harundell) comes as early as 877, when
it was left by King Alfred in his will to his nephew Aethelm. In the
time of Edward the Confessor the town seems to have consisted of the
mill and a fortification or earthwork which was probably thrown up by
Alfred as a defence against the Danes; but it had increased in
importance before the Conquest, and appears in Domesday as a thriving
borough and port. It was granted by the Conqueror to Roger de
Montgomery, who built the castle on the site of the ancient earthwork.
From very early times markets were held within the borough on Thursday
and Saturday, and in 1285 Richard Fitzalan, earl of Arundel, obtained
a grant of two annual fairs on the 14th of May and the 17th of
December. The borough returned two members to parliament from 1302 to
1832 when the Reform Act reduced the membership to one; in 1868 it was
disfranchised altogether. There are no early charters extant, but in
1586 Elizabeth acknowledged the right of the mayor and burgesses to be
a body corporate and to hold a court for pleas under forty shillings,
two weekly markets and four annual fairs--which rights they claimed to
have exercised from time immemorial. James II. confirmed in 1688 a
charter given two years before, and incorporated the borough under the
title of a mayor, 4 aldermen and 12 burgesses. The town was half
destroyed by fire in 1338, but was soon rebuilt. Arundel was formerly
a thriving seaport, and in 1813 was connected by canal with London.

See M.A. Tierney, _The History and Antiquities of the Castle and Town
of Arundel_ (London, 1834); _Victoria County History--Sussex._

ARUNDELL OF WARDOUR, THOMAS ARUNDELL, 1ST BARON (c. 1562-1639), son of Sir Mathew Arundell of Wardour Castle in Wiltshire, a member of the ancient family of Arundells of Lanherne in Cornwall, and of Margaret, daughter of Sir Henry Willoughby, was born about 1562. In 1579 he was personally recommended by Queen Elizabeth to the emperor Rudolph II. He greatly distinguished himself while serving with the imperial troops against the Turks in Hungary, and at the siege of Gran or Esztergom on the 13th of August 1595, he captured the enemy's banner with his own hand. He was created by Rudolph II. a count of the Holy Roman Empire in December 1595, and returned to England after suffering shipwreck and barely preserving his life in January 1596. His assumption of the foreign title created great jealousy among the English peers, who were wont to give a precedence by courtesy to foreign nobles, and he incurred the resentment of his father, who objected to his superior rank and promptly disinherited him. The queen, moreover, was seriously displeased, declared that "as chaste wives should have no glances but for their own spouses, so should faithful subjects keep their eyes at home and not gaze upon foreign crowns," and committed him to the Fleet immediately on his arrival, while she addressed a long letter of remonstrance on the subject to the emperor. Arundell remained under arrest till April, when he was liberated after an examination. In April 1597, however, he was again confined, but declared innocent of any charge save that of "practising to contrive the justification of his vain title with Ministers beyond the seas." In December he was liberated and placed under the care of his father, but next year he was again arrested and accused of a conspiracy against the government. His petitions for a licence to undertake an expedition by sea, wherein he declared "his end was honour which some base minds call ambition," were refused, but in 1599 he was apparently again restored to favour. On the 4th of May 1605 he was created by James I. Baron Arundell of Wardour, but fell again under temporary suspicion at the time of the Gunpowder Plot. In 1623 he once more got into trouble by championing the cause of the recusants, of whom he was himself one, on the occasion of the visit of the Spanish envoys, and he was committed to custody, and in 1625 all the arms were removed by the government from Wardour Castle. After the accession of Charles I. he was pardoned, and attended the sittings of the House of Lords. He was indicted in the king's bench about the year 1627 for not paying some contribution, and in 1632 he was accused of harbouring a priest. In 1637 he was declared exempt from the recusancy laws by the king's order, but in 1639 he again petitioned for relief. The same year he paid L500 in lieu of attending the king at York. He died on the 7th of November 1639. Arundell was an earnest Roman Catholic, but the suspicions of the government as to his loyalty were probably unfounded and stifled a career destined by nature for successful adventure. He married (1) Mary, daughter of Henry Wriothesley, 2nd earl of Southampton, by whom besides other children he had Thomas, who succeeded him as 2nd baron; and (2) Anne, daughter of Miles Philipson, by whom he had several daughters.

HENRY ARUNDELL, 3rd Baron Arundell of Wardour (c. 1607-1694), son of Thomas, 2nd baron, and of Blanche, daughter of Edward, earl of Worcester, was born on the 21st of July 1607, and succeeded on his father's death in 1643 to the family title and estates. A strong royalist and Roman Catholic, he supported the king's cause, and distinguished himself in 1644 by the recapture of his castle at Wardour from the parliamentarians, who had taken it in the previous year in spite of his mother's brave defence of the place. In 1648 he was one of the delinquents exempted from pardon in the proposals sent to Charles in the Isle of Wight. His estates had been confiscated, but he was permitted about 1653 to compound for them in the sum of L35,000. In 1652, in consequence of his being second at a duel in which one of the combatants was killed, he was arrested, and tried in 1653; he pleaded his peerage, but the privilege was disallowed as the House of Lords had been abolished. At the Restoration he regained possession of the family estates, and in 1663 was made master of the horse to Henrietta Maria. He was one of the few admitted to the king's confidence concerning the projects for the restoration of the Roman Catholic religion and the alliance with France. In 1669 he took part in the secret council assembled by Charles II., and in October was sent to France, ostensibly for the funeral of Henrietta Maria, but in reality to negotiate with Louis XIV. the agreement which took shape in 1670 in the treaties of Dover (see CHARLES II.). In 1676 he was privy to James's negotiations with Rome through Coleman. He was accused in 1678 by Titus Oates of participation in the popish plot, and was one of the five Roman Catholic peers arrested and imprisoned in the Tower in October, found guilty by the Middlesex grand jury of high treason, and impeached subsequently by the parliament. Lord Stafford was found guilty and executed in December 1680, but after the perpetration of this injustice the proceedings were interrupted, and the three surviving peers were released on bail on the 12th of February 1684. On the 22nd of May 1685, after James II.'s accession, the charge was annulled, and on the 1st of June 1685 they obtained their full liberty. In February 1686, with other Roman Catholics, Arundell urged upon the king the removal of his mistress, Lady Dorchester, on account of her strong Protestantism. In spite of his religion he was made a privy councillor in August 1686, and keeper of the privy seal in 1687, being excused from taking the oaths by the king's dispensation. He presented the thanks of the Roman Catholics to James in June 1687 for the declaration of indulgence. His public career ended with the abdication of the king, and he retired to Breamore, the family residence since the destruction of Wardour Castle. He died on the 28th of December 1694. He was the author of five religious poems said to be composed during his confinement in the Tower in 1679, published the same year and reprinted in _A Collection of Eighty-six Loyal Poems_ in 1685. His piety and benevolence to his unfortunate co-religionists were conspicuous. Evelyn calls him "very good company" and he was a noted sportsman, the Quorn pack being descended from his pack of hounds at Breamore. He married Cecily, daughter of Sir Henry Compton, by whom besides other children he had Thomas, who succeeded him as 4th baron.

The barony is still held in the Arundell family, which has never ceased to be Roman Catholic. The 14th baron (b. 1859) was a direct descendent of the 6th.

ARUSIANUS MESSIUS, or MESSUS, Latin grammarian, flourished in the 4th century A.D. He was the author of a small extant work _Exempla Elocutionum_, dedicated to Olybrius and Probinus, consuls for the year 395. It contains an alphabetical list, chiefly of verbs admitting more than one construction, with examples from each of the four writers, Virgil, Sallust, Terence and Cicero. Cassiodorus, the only writer who mentions Arusianus, refers to it by the term Quadriga.

See Keil, _Grammatici Latini_, vii.; Suringar, _Historia Critica
Scholiastarum Latinorum_ (1834-1835); Van der Hoeven, _Specimen
Literarium_ (1845).

ARVAL BROTHERS (Fratres Arvales), in Roman antiquities, a college or priesthood, consisting of twelve members, elected for life from the highest ranks in Rome, and always apparently, during the empire, including the emperor. Their chief duty was to offer annually public sacrifice for the fertility of the fields (Varro, _L. L_. v. 85). It is generally held that the college was founded by Romulus (see ACCA LARENTIA). This legend probably arose from the connexion of Acca Larentia, as _mater Larum_, with the Lares who had a part in the religious ceremonies of the Arvales. But apart from this, there is proof of the high antiquity of the college, which was said to have been older than Rome itself, in the verbal forms of the song with which, down to late times, a part of the ceremonies was accompanied, and which is still preserved. It is clear also that, while the members were themselves always persons of distinction, the duties of their office were held in high respect. And yet it is singular that no mention of them occurs in Cicero or Livy, and that altogether literary allusions to them are very scarce. On the other hand, we possess a long series of the _acta_ or minutes of their proceedings, drawn up by themselves, and inscribed on stone. Excavations, commenced in the 16th century and continued to the 19th, in the grove of the Dea Dia about 5 m. from Rome, have yielded 96 of these records from A.D. 14 to 241. The brotherhood appears to have languished in obscurity during the republic, and to have been revived by Augustus. In his time the college consisted of a master (_magister_), a vice-master (_promagister_), a _flamen_, and a _praetor_, with eight ordinary members, attended by various servants, and in particular by four chorus boys, sons of senators, having both parents alive. Each wore a wreath of corn, a white fillet and the praetexta. The election of members was by co-optation on the motion of the president, who, with a flamen, was himself elected for one year. The great annual festival which they had to conduct was held in honour of the anonymous Dea Dia, who was probably identical with Ceres. It occupied three days in May. The ceremony of the first day took place in Rome itself, in the house of the magister or his deputy, or on the Palatine in the temple of the emperors, where at sunrise fruits and incense were offered to the goddess. A sumptuous banquet took place, followed by a distribution of doles and garlands. On the second and principal day of the festival the ceremonies were conducted in the grove of the Dea Dia. They included a dance in the temple of the goddess, at which the song of the brotherhood was sung, in language so antiquated that it was hardly intelligible (see the text and translation in Mommsen, _Hist, of Rome_, bk. i. ch. xv.) even to Romans of the time of Augustus, who regarded it as the oldest existing document in their mother-tongue. Especial mention should be made of the ceremony of purifying the grove, which was held to be defiled by the felling of trees, the breaking of a bough or the presence of any iron tools, such as those used by the lapidary who engraved the records of the proceedings on stone. The song and dance were followed by the election of officers for the next year, a banquet and races. On the third day the sacrifice took place in Rome, and was of the same nature as that offered on the first day. The Arvales also offered sacrifice and solemn vows on behalf of the imperial family on the 3rd of January and on other extraordinary occasions. The brotherhood is said to have lasted till the time of Theodosius. The British Museum contains a bust of Marcus Aurelius in the dress of a Frater Arvalis.

Marini, _Atti e Monumenti de' Fratri Arvali_ (1795); Hoffmann, _Die
A._ (1858): Oldenberg, _De Sacris Fratrum A_. (1875); Bergk, _Das Lied
der Arvalbruder_ (1856); Breal, "Le Chant des Arvals" in _Mem. de la
Soc. de Linguistique_ (1881); Edon, _Nouvelle Etude sur le Chant
Lemural_ (1884); _Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum_, vi. 2023-2119;
Henzen, _Acta Fratrum Arvalium_ (1874).

ARVALS, ARVELS or ARTHELS (O. Norse _Arfr_, inheritance, and _ol_, A.S. Ale, a banquet), primarily the funeral dinner, and later, especially in the north of England, a thin, light, sweet cake, spiced with cinnamon and nutmeg, served to the poor at such feasts. The funeral meal was called the Arvel-dinner. The custom seems to have been to hold on such occasions an informal inquest, when the corpse was publicly exposed, to exculpate the heir and those entitled to the property of the dead from all accusations of foul play.

ARVERNI, the name of an ancient Gaulish tribe in the Auvergne, which still bears its name. It resisted Caesar longer than most of Gaul; when once vanquished it adopted Roman civilization readily. Its tribal deity, the god of the mountain, the Puy de Dome, rechristened in Roman phrase Mercurius Dumias, was famous far beyond its territory. Part of his temple has been excavated recently.

ARYAN, a term which has been used in a confusing variety of significations by different philologists. By Max Muller especially it was employed as a convenient short term for the whole body of languages more commonly known as Indo-European (q.v.) or Indo-Germanic. In the same way Max Muller used Aryas as a general term for the speakers of such languages, as in his book published in 1888, _Biographies of Words and the Home of the Aryas_. "Aryas are those who speak Aryan languages, whatever their colour, whatever their blood. In calling them Aryas we predicate nothing of them except that the grammar of their language is Aryan" (p. 245). It is to be observed, therefore, that Max Muller is careful to avoid any ethnological signification. The Aryas are those who speak Aryan without regard to the question whether Aryan is their _hereditary_ language or not. As he says still more definitely elsewhere in the same work (p. 120), "I have declared again and again that if I say Aryas, I mean neither blood nor bones, nor hair nor skull; I mean simply those who speak an Aryan language. The same applies to Hindus, Greeks, Romans Germans, Celts and Slaves. When I speak of them I commit myself to no anatomical characteristics. The blue-eyed and fair-haired Scandinavians may have been conquerors or conquered, they may have adopted the language of their darker lords or their subjects, or vice versa. I assert nothing beyond their language when I call them Hindus, Greeks, Romans, Germans, Celts and Slaves; and in that sense, and in that sense only, do I say that even the blackest Hindus represent an earlier stage of Aryan speech and thought than the fairest Scandinavians.... To me an ethnologist who speaks of Aryan race, Aryan blood, Aryan eyes and hair, is as great a sinner as a linguist who speaks of a dolichocephalic dictionary or a brachycephalic grammar."

From the popularity of Max Muller's works on comparative philology this is the use of the word which is most familiar to the general public. The arguments in support of this use are set forth by him in the latter part of lecture vi. of the _Lectures on the Science of Language_ (first series) and as an appendix to chap. vii. of the final edition (i. pp. 291 ff.). The Sanskrit usage of the word is fully illustrated by him from the early Sanskrit writings in the article "Aryan" in the ninth edition of this encyclopaedia. From the earliest occurrences of the word it is clear that it was used as a national name not only in India but also in Bactria and Persia (in Sanskrit _arya_- and _arya_, in Zend _airya_-, in Old Persian _ariya_-). That it is in any way connected with a Sanskrit word for earth, _ira_, as Max Muller asserts, is far from certain. As Spiegel remarks (_Die arische Periode_, p. 105), though it is easy enough to connect the word with a root _ar_-, there are several roots of that form which have different meanings, and there is no certain criterion whereby to decide to which of them it is related. Nor are the other connexions for the word outside this group free from doubt. It is, however, certain that the connexion with _Erin_ (Ireland), which Pictet in his article "Iren and Arier" (Kuhn and Schleicher's _Beitrage_, i. 1858, pp. 81 ff.) sought to establish, is impossible (Whitley Stokes in Max Muller's _Lectures_, 1891, i. pp. 299 f.), though the word may have the same origin as the _Ario_- of names like _Ariovistus_, which is found in both Celtic and Germanic words (Uhlenbeck, _Kurzgefasstes etymologisches Worterbuch der altindischen Sprache_, s.v.). The name of Armenia (Old Persian _Armina_-), which has often been connected, is of uncertain origin. Within Sanskrit itself probably two words have to be distinguished: (1) _arya_, the origin of Aryan, from which the usual term _arya_ is a derivative; (2) _arya_, which frequently appears in the _Rig Veda_ as an epithet of deities. In many passages, however, _aryas_ may equally well be the genitive of _ari_, which is explained as "active, devoted, pious." Even in this word probably two originally separate words have to be distinguished, for the further meanings which Grassmann in his dictionary to the _Rig Veda_ attaches to it, viz. "greedy" (for treasure and for battle), "godless," "enemy," seem more appropriately to be derived from the same source as the Greek [Greek: eri-s], "strife." The word _arya_- is not found as a national name in the _Rig Veda_, but appears in the _Vajasaneyi-sainhita_, where it is explained by Mahidhara as _Vaisya_-, a cultivator or a man of the third among the original four classes of the population. So in the _Atharva Veda_ (iv. 20. 4; xix. 62. 1) it is contrasted with the Sudra or fourth class (Spiegel, _Arische Periode_, p. 102). In the _Avesta, airya_- is found both as adjective and substantive in the sense of Aryan, but no light is thrown upon the history of the word. Darius describes himself in an inscription as of Aryan stock, _Daraya[h]va[h]us ariya[h]civ[r]a[h]_. In the _Avesta_ the derivative _airyana_- is also found in the sense of Aryan. In both India and Persia a word is found (Skt. _aryaman_-; Zend _airyahman_-) which is apparently of the same origin. In both Sanskrit and Zend it means something like "comrade" or "bosom friend," but in Zend is used of the priestly or highest class. In Sanskrit, besides this use in which it is contrasted with the _Dasa_ or _Dasyu_, the enemies, the earlier inhabitants, the word is often used for the bridegroom's spokesman, and in both languages is also employed as the name of a divine being. In the _Rig Veda, Aryaman_- as a deity is most frequently coupled with Mitra and Varuna (Grassmann, _Worterbuch_, s.v.); in Zend, according to Bartholomae (_Altiranisches Worterbuch_, s.v.), from the earliest literature, the Gathas, there is nothing definite to be learnt regarding _Airyaman_.

Whatever the origin of _arya_-, however, it is clear that it is a word with dignified associations, by which the peoples belonging to the Eastern section of the Indo-Europeans were proud to call themselves. It is now used uniformly by scholars to indicate the Eastern branch as a whole, a compound, _Indo-Aryan_, being employed for that part of the Eastern branch which settled in India to distinguish them from the Iranians (_Iran_ is of the same origin), who remained in Bactria and Persia, while _Aryo-Indian_ is sometimes employed to distinguish the Indian people of this stock from the Dravidian and other stocks which also inhabit parts of the Indian peninsula. Of the stages in the occupation of the Iranian table-land by the Aryan people nothing is known, the people themselves having apparently no tradition of a time when they did not hold these territories (Spiegel, _Arische Periode_, p. 319). Though the Hindus have no tradition of their invasion of India, it is certain that they are not an indigenous people, and, if they are not, it is clear that they could have come in no other direction save from the other side of the Hindu Kush. At the period of their earliest literature, which may be assigned roughly to about 1000 B.C., they were still settled in the valley of the Indus, and at this time the separation probably had not long taken place, the Eastern portion of the stock having pushed their way along the Kabul valley into the open country of the Indus. According to Professor E.W. Hopkins (_India Old and New_, 1901, p. 31) the _Rig Veda_ was composed in the district about Umballa. He argues that the people must have been then to the west of the great rivers, otherwise the dawn could not be addressed as one who "in shining light, before the wind arises, comes gleaming over the waters, making good paths." The vocabulary is still largely the same; whole sentences can be transliterated from one language to the other merely by making regular phonetic changes and without the variation of a single word (for examples see Bartholomae, _Handbuch der altiranischen Dialekte_, 1883, p. v.; Williams Jackson, _Avesta Grammar_, 1892, pp. xxxi. f.; _Grundriss der iranischen Philologie_, 1895, i. p. 1). It is noteworthy that it is those who remain behind whose language has undergone most change.

By four well-marked characteristics the Aryan group is easily distinguishable from the other Indo-European languages. (1) By the confusion of original _e_ and _o_, both long and short, with the original long and short _a_ sound; (2) the short schwa-sound [schwa] is represented here, and in this group only, by _i_ (_pita_, "father," as compared with [Greek: pataer], &c.); (3) original _s_ after _i_, _u_ and some consonants becomes s; (4) the genitive plural of stems ending in a vowel has a suffix-_nam_ borrowed by analogy from the stems ending in _-n_ (Skt. _asvanam_, "of horses"; Zend _aspanam_; Old Persian _aspanam_). The distinctions between Sanskrit and Iranian are also clear, (1) The Aryan voiced aspirates _gh, dh, bh_, which survive in Sanskrit, are confused in Iranian with original _g, d, b_, and further changes take place in the language of the later parts of the Avesta; (2) the Aryan breathed aspirates _kh, th, ph_, except in combination with certain consonants, become spirants in Iranian; (3) Aryan _s_ becomes _h_ initially before vowels in Iranian and also in certain cases medially, Iranian in these respects resembling Greek (cf. Skt. _sapta_; Zend _hapta_; Gr. [Greek: hepta], "seven"); (4) in Zend there are many vowel changes which it does not share with Old Persian. Some of these arise from the umlaut or epenthesis which is so prevalent, and which we have already seen in _airya_- as compared with the Skt. _arya_. In other respects the languages are remarkably alike, the only striking difference being in the numeral "one"--Skt. _eka_-; Zend _aeva_-; Old Persian _aiva_-, where the Iranian group has the same stem as that seen in the Greek [Greek: oi(f)o-s], "alone."

For the subdivisions of the two groups see the articles on PERSIA: _Language_, and INDO-ARYAN LANGUAGES. Dr Grierson has shown in his monograph on "The Pisaca Languages of North-Western India" (Royal Asiatic Society, 1906) that there is good reason for regarding various dialects of the north-western frontier (Kafiristan, Chitral, Gilgit, Dardistan) as a separate group descended from Aryan but independent of either Sanskrit or Iranian.

The history of the separation of the Aryan from the other Indo-European languages is not yet clear (see INDO-EUROPEAN LANGUAGES). Various attempts have been made, with little success, to identify fragments of unknown languages in cuneiform inscriptions with members of this group. The investigation has entered a new and more favourable stage as the result of the discoveries made by German excavators at Boghaz Keui (said to be identical with Herodotus' Pteria in Cappadocia), where treaties between the king of the Hittites and the king of Mitanni, in the beginning of the 14th century B.C., seem almost certainly to contain the names of the gods Mitra, Varuna and Indra, which belong to the early Aryan mythology (H. Winckler, _Mitteilungen der deutschen Orientgesellschaft_, No. 35; E. Meyer, _Sitzungsberichte der Berliner Akademie_, 1908, pp. 14 ff.; _Zeitschrift fur vergleichende Sprachforschung_, 42, 1908, pp. 24 ff.). Still further light is to be expected when the vast collections of the German expedition to Turfan (Turkestan) have been sifted. Up to 1909 only a preliminary account had been given of Tocharish, a hitherto unknown Indo-European language, which is reported to be in some respects more akin to the Western groups than to Aryan. But further investigation is still required (see E. Sieg and W. Siegling, "Tocharisch, die Sprache der Indoskythen," in _Sitzungsberichte der Berl. Akad._ (July 1908, pp. 915 ff.). (P. Gi.)

ARYA SAMAJ, a Hindu religious association with reforming tendencies, which was founded by a Guzerati Brahman named Dayanand Saraswati. This man was born of a Saivite family about 1825, but in early manhood grew dissatisfied with idol-worship. He undertook many pilgrim-ages and studied the Vedic philosophy in the hope of solving the old problem of the Buddha,--how to alleviate human misery and attain final liberation. About 1866, when he had begun to teach and to gather disciples, he first saw the Christian scriptures, which he vehemently assailed, and the _Rig Veda_, which he correspondingly exalted, though in the conception which he ultimately formed of God the former was much more influential than the latter. Dayanand's treatment of the Vedas was peculiar, and consisted of reading into them his own beliefs and modern scientific discoveries. Thus he explains the _Yajna_ (sacrificial cult) as "the entertainment of the learned in proportion to their worth, the business of manufacture, the experiment and application of chemistry, physics and the arts of peace; the instruction of the people, the purification of the air, the nourishment of vegetables by the employment of the principles of meteorology, called _Agni-Notri_ in Sanskrit." He denied that the _Vedas_ warranted the caste system, but wished to retain the four grades as orders of learning to which admission should be won by examination.

These views naturally met with scanty acceptance among the Brahmans to whom he introduced them, and Dayanand turned to the masses and established _Samajes_ in various parts of India, the first being at Bombay in 1875. He chose the epithet Arya as being more dignified than the slightly contemptuous term Hindu. After a successful series of tours, during which he debated publicly with orthodox pundits and with Christian missionaries, he died at Ajmere in 1883.

The Arya Samaj is not an eclectic system like the Brahma Samaj, which strives to find the common basis underlying all the great religions, and its narrower scope and corresponding intensity of conviction have won it a greater strength. It seemed to meet the feeling of many educated natives whose faith in current Hinduism was undermined, but who were predisposed against any foreign religious influence. Their patriotic ardour gladly seized on "a view of the original faith of India that seemed to harmonize with all the discoveries of modern science and the ethics of European civilization," and they cheerfully supported their leader's strange polemic with the agnostic and rationalist literature of Europe. By 1890 their numbers had increased to 40,000, by 1900 to over 92,000. Divisions had, however, set in, especially a cleavage into the _Ghasi_ or vegetarian, and the _Mansi_ or flesh-eating sections. To the latter belong those Rajputs who though generally in sympathy with the movement declined to adhere to the tenet of the _Samaj_ which forbade the destruction of animal life and the consumption of animal food. The age of admission to the Samaj is eighteen, and members are expected to contribute to its funds at least 1% of their income.

The ten articles of their creed may be summarized thus:--

1. The source of all true knowledge is God.
2. God is "all truth, all knowledge, all bliss, boundless, almighty,
just, merciful, unbegotten, without a beginning, incomparable,
the support and Lord of all, all-pervading, omniscient,
imperishable, immortal, eternal, holy, and the cause of the
universe; worship is due to him alone."
3. The medium of true knowledge is the _Vedas_.
4. and 5. The truth is to be accepted and to become the guiding
principle.
6. The object of the Samaj is to benefit the world by improving
its physical, social, intellectual and moral conditions.
7. Love and justice are the right guides of conduct.
8. Knowledge must be spread.
9. The good of others must be sought.
10. In general interests members must subordinate themselves to
the good of others; in personal interests they should retain
independence.

The sixth clause comprehends a wide programme of reform, including abstinence from spirituous liquors and animal food, physical cleanliness and exercise, marriage reform, the promotion of female education, the abolition of caste and of idolatry.

ARYTENOID (or _arytaenoid_; from Gr. [Greek: arytaina], a funnel or pitcher), a term, meaning funnel-shaped, applied to cartilages such as those of the larynx.

ARZAMAS, a town of Russia, in the government of, and 76 m. by rail S. of the town of, Nizhniy-Novgorod, on the Tesha river, at its junction with the Arsha. It is an important centre of trade, and has tanneries, oil, flour, tallow, dye, soap and iron works; knitting is an important domestic industry. Sheepskins and sail-cloth are articles of trade. The town has several churches. Pop. (1897) 10,591.

AS, the Roman unit of weight and measure, divided into 12 _unciae_ (whence both "ounce" and "inch"); its fractions being deunx 11/12, dextrans 5/6, dodrans 3/4, bes 2/3, septunx 7/12, semis 1/2, quincunx 5/12, triens 1/3, quadrans 1/4, sextans 1/6, sescuncia 1/8, uncia 1/12. _As_ really denoted any integer or whole; whence the English word "ace." The unit or _as_ of weight was the _libra_ (pound: = about 11-4/5 oz. avoirdupois); of length, _pes_ (foot: = about 11-3/5 in.); of surface, _jugerum_ ( = about 2/3 acre); of measure, liquid _amphora_ (about 5-3/5 gal.), dry _modius_ (about 9/10 peck). In the same way _as_ signified a whole inheritance; whence _heres ex asse_, the heir to the whole estate, _heres ex semisse_, heir to half the estate. It was also used in the calculation of rates of interest.

_As_ was also the name of a Roman coin, which was of different weight and value at different periods (see NUMISMATICS, S _Roman_). The first introduction of coined money is ascribed to Servius Tullius. The old _as_ was composed of the mixed metal _aes_, an alloy of copper, tin and lead, and was called _as libralis_, because it nominally weighed 1 lb. or 12 ounces (actually 10). Its original shape seems to have been an irregular oblong bar, which was stamped with the figure of a sheep, ox or sow. This, as well as the word _pecunia_ for money (_pecus_, cattle), indicates the fact of cattle having been the earliest Italian medium of exchange. The value was indicated by little points or globules, or other marks. After the round shape was introduced, the one side was always inscribed with the figure of a ship's prow, and the other with the double head of Janus. The subdivisions of the _as_ had also the ship's prow on one side, and on the other the head of some deity. The First Punic War having exhausted the treasury, the _as_ was reduced to 2 oz. In the Second Punic War it was again reduced to half this weight, viz. to 1 oz. And lastly, by the Papirian law (89 B.C.) it was further reduced to the diminutive weight of half an ounce. It appears to have been still more reduced under Octavian, Lepidus and Antony, when its value was 1/3 of an ounce. Before silver coinage was introduced (269 B.C.) the value of the _as_ was about 6d., in the time of Cicero less than a halfpenny. In the time of the emperor Severus it was again lowered to about 5/24 of an ounce. During the commonwealth and empire _aes grave_ was used to denote the old as in contradistinction to the existing depreciated coin; while _aes rude_ was applied to the original oblong coinage of primitive times.

ASA, in the Bible, son (or, perhaps, rather brother) of Abijah, the son of Rehoboam and king of Judah (1 Kings xv. 9-24). Of his long reign, during which he was a contemporary of Baasha, Zimri and Omri of Israel, little is recorded with the exception of some religious reforms and conflicts with the first-named. Baasha succeeded in fortifying Ramah (_er-Ram_), 5 m. north of Jerusalem, and Asa was compelled to use the residue of the temple-funds (cf. 1 Kings xiv. 26) to bribe the king of Damascus to renounce his league with Baasha and attack Israel. Galilee was invaded and Baasha was forced to return; the building material which he had collected at Ramah being used by Asa to fortify Geba, and Mizpah to the immediate north of Jerusalem. The Book of Chronicles relates a story of a sensational defeat of Zerah the "Cushite," and a great religious revival in which Judah and Israel took part (2 Chron. xiv.-xv. 15) (see CHRONICLES). Asa was succeeded by his son Jehoshaphat.

"Cushite" may designate an Ethiopian or, more probably, an Arabian (Cush, the "father" of the Sabaeans, Gen. x. 7). "If by Zerah the Ethiopian or Sabaean prince be meant, the only real difficulty of the narrative is removed. No king Zerah of Ethiopia is known at this period, nor does there seem to be room for such a person." (W.E. Barnes, _Cambridge Bible_, Chronicles, p. xxxi.). The identification with Osorkon I. or II. is scarcely tenable considering Asa's weakness; but inroads by desert hordes frequently troubled Judah, and if the tradition be correct in locating the battle at Mareshah it is probable that the invaders were in league with the Philistine towns. Similar situations recur in the reigns of Ahaz and Jehoram.

See also Wellhausen, _Prolegomena_, 208; S.A. Cook, _Expositor_ (June
1906), p. 540 sq. (S. A. C.)

ASAFETIDA (_asa_, Lat. form of Persian _aza_ = mastic, and fetidus, stinking, so called in distinction to _asa dulcis_, which was a drug highly esteemed among the ancients as _laser cyrenaicum_, and is supposed to have been a gummy exudation from _Thapsis garganica_), a gum-resin obtained principally from the root of _Ferula fetida_, and probably also from one or two other closely allied species of umbelliferous plants. It is produced in eastern Persia and Afghanistan, Herat and Kandahar being centres of the trade. _Ferula fetida_ grows to a height of from 5 to 6 ft., and when the plant has attained the age of four years it is ready for yielding asafetida. The stems are cut down close to the root, and the juice flows out, at first of a milky appearance, but quickly setting into a solid resinous mass. Fresh incisions are made as long as the sap continues to flow, a period which varies according to the size and strength of the plant. A freshly-exposed surface of asafetida has a translucent, pearly-white appearance, but it soon darkens in the air, becoming first pink and finally reddish-brown. In taste it is acrid and bitter; but what peculiarly characterizes it is the strong alliaceous odour it emits, from which it has obtained the name asafetida, as well as its German name _Teufelsdreck_ (devil's dung). Its odour is due to the presence of organic sulphur compounds. Asafetida is found in commerce in "lump" or in "tear," the latter being the purer form. Medicinally, asafetida is given in doses of 5 to 15 grains and acts as a stimulant to the intestinal and respiratory tracts and to the nervous system. An enema containing it is useful in relieving flatus. It is sometimes useful in hysteria, which is essentially a lack of inhibitory power, as its nasty properties induce sufficient inhibitory power to render its readministration superfluous. It may also be used in an effervescing draught in cases of malingering, the drug "repeating" in the mouth and making the malingering not worth while. The gum-resin is relished as a condiment in India and Persia, and is in demand in France for use in cookery. In the regions of its growth the whole plant is used as a fresh vegetable, the inner portion of the full-grown stem being regarded as a luxury.

ASAF-UD-DOWLAH, nawab wazir of Oudh from 1775 to 1797, was the son of Shuja-ud-Dowlah, his mother and grandmother being the begums of Oudh, whose spoliation formed one of the chief counts in the charges against Warren Hastings. When Shuja-ud-Dowlah died he left two million pounds sterling buried in the vaults of the zenana. The widow and mother of the deceased prince claimed the whole of this treasure under the terms of a will which was never produced. When Warren Hastings pressed the nawab for the payment of debt due to the Company, he obtained from his mother a loan of 26 lakhs of rupees, for which he gave her a _jagir_ of four times the value; he subsequently obtained 30 lakhs more in return for a full acquittal, and the recognition of her _jagirs_ without interference for life by the Company. These _jagirs_ were afterwards confiscated on the ground of the begum's complicity in the rising of Chai Singh, which was attested by documentary evidence. The evidence now available seems to show that Warren Hastings did his best throughout to rescue the nawab from his own incapacity, and was inclined to be lenient to the begums.

See _The Administration of Warren Hastings, 1772-1785_, by G.W.
Forrest (1892).

ASAPH, the eponym of the Asaphite gild of singers, one of the hereditary choirs that superintended the musical services of the temple at Jerusalem in post-exilic times. The names occur in the titles of certain Psalms, and the writer of the Book of Chronicles makes Asaph a seer (2 Chron. xxix. 30), contemporary with David and Solomon, and chief of the singers of his time.

ASBESTOS, a fibrous mineral from Gr. [Greek: asbestos], unquenchable, by transference, incombustible, in allusion to its power of resisting the action of fire. The word was applied by Dioscorides and other Greek authors to quicklime, but Pliny evidently used it in its modern sense. It was occasionally woven by the ancients into handkerchiefs, and, it has been said, into shrouds which were used in cremation to prevent the ashes of the corpse from mingling with the wood-ashes of the pyre.

In different varieties of asbestos the fibres vary greatly in character. When silky and flexible they are sometimes known as mountain flax. The finer kinds are often termed amianthus (q.v.). When the fibres are naturally interwoven, so as to form a felted mass, the mineral passes under such trivial names as mountain leather, mountain cork, mountain paper, &c. The asbestos formerly used in the arts was generally a fibrous form of some kind of amphibole, like tremolite, or anthophyllite, though occasionally perhaps a pyroxene. In recent years, however, most of the asbestos in the market is a fibrous variety of serpentine, known mineralogically as chrysotile, and probably some of the ancient asbestos was of this character (see AMIANTHUS). Both minerals possess similar properties, so far as resistance to heat is concerned. The amphibole-asbestos, or hornblende-asbestos, is usually white or grey in colour, and may present great length of fibre, some of the Italian asbestos reaching exceptionally a length of 5 or 6 ft., but it is often harsh and brittle. The serpentine-asbestos occurs in narrow veins, yielding fibres of only 2 or 3 in. in length, but of great tensile strength: they are usually of a delicate silky lustre, very flexible and elastic, and of yellowish or greenish colour.

The Canadian asbestos, which of all kinds is at present the most important industrially, occurs in a small belt of serpentine in the province of Quebec, principally near Black Lake and Thetford, where it was first recognized as commercially valuable about 1877. The rock is generally quarried, cobbed by hand, dried if necessary, crushed in rock-breakers, and then passed between rollers; it is reduced to a finer state of division by so-called fiberizers, and graded on a shaking screen, where the loosened fibres are sorted. The process varies in different mills.

In the United States asbestos is worked only to a very limited extent. An amphibole-asbestos is obtained from Sall Mountain, Georgia; and asbestos has also been worked in the serpentine of Vermont. It occurs also in South Carolina, Virginia, Massachusetts, Arizona and elsewhere. Dr G.P. Merrill has shown that some asbestos results from a process of shearing in the rocks.

Formerly asbestos was obtained almost exclusively from Italy and Corsica, and a large quantity is still yielded by Italian workings. This is mostly an amphibole. It is in some cases associated with nodules of green garnet known as "seeds"--_Semenze dell' amianto._ Asbestos is widely distributed, but only in a few localities does it occur in sufficient abundance and purity to be worked commercially; it is found, for example, to a limited extent, at many localities in Tirol, Hungary and Russia; Queensland, New South Wales and New Zealand. In the British Isles it is not unknown, being found among the old rocks of North Wales and in parts of Ireland. Byssolite or asbestoid is a blue or green fibrous amphibole from Dauphiny.

The Asbestos Mountains in Griqualand West, Cape Colony, yield a blue fibrous mineral which is worked under the name of Cape asbestos. This is referable to the variety of amphibole called crocidolite (q.v.). It occurs in veins in slaty rocks, associated with jaspers and quartzites rich in magnetite and brown iron-ore. Their geological position is in the Griqua Town series, belonging to what are known in South Africa as the Pre-Cape rocks.