[Apu`re], a river in Venezuela, chief tributary of the Orinoco, into which it falls by six branches.
[Aqua Tofa`na], Tofana's poison, some solution of arsenic with which a Sicilian woman called Tofana, in 17th century, poisoned, it is alleged, 600 people.
[Aqua`rius], the Water-bearer, 11th sign of the Zodiac, which the sun enters Jan. 21.
[Aquaviva], a general of the Jesuits of high authority (1543-1615).
[A`quila] (20), capital of the province of Abruzzo Ulteriora, on the Alterno, founded by Barbarossa; a busy place.
[A`quila], a Judaised Greek of Sinope, in Pontus, executed a literal translation of the Old Testament into Greek in the interest of Judaism versus Christianity in the first half of the 2nd century A.D.
[A`quila, Gaspar], a friend of Luther who aided him in the translation of the Bible.
[Aquileia], an Italian village, 22 m. W. of Trieste, once a place of great importance, where several councils of the Church were held.
[Aqui`nas, Thomas], the Angelic Doctor, or Doctor of the Schools, an Italian of noble birth, studied at Naples, became a Dominican monk despite the opposition of his parents, sat at the feet of Albertus Magnus, and went with him to Paris, was known among his pupils as the "Dumb Ox," from his stubborn silence at study, prelected at his Alma Mater and elsewhere with distinguished success, and being invited to assist the Council at Lyons, fell sick and died. His "Summa Theologiæ," the greatest of his many works, is a masterly production, and to this day of standard authority in the Romish Church. His writings, which fill 17 folio vols., along with those of Duns Scotus, his rival, constitute the high-water mark of scholastic philosophy and the watershed of its divergence into the philosophico-speculative thought on the one hand, and the ethico-practical or realism of modern times on the other, q. v. (1226-1274).
[Aquitaine`], a division of ancient Gaul between the Garonne and the Pyrenees, was from the time of Henry II. till 1453 an appanage of the English crown.