Angelique, the aristocratic wife of George Dandin, a French commoner.  She has a liaison with a M. Clitandre, but always contrives to turn the tables on her husband.  George Dandin first hears of a rendezvous from one Lubin, a foolish servant of Clitandre, and lays the affair before M. and Mde.  Sotenville, his wife’s parents.  The baron with George Dandin call on the lover, who denies the accusation, and George Dandin has to beg pardon.  Subsequently, he catches his wife and Clitandre together, and sends at once for M. and Mde.  Sotenville; but Angelique, aware of their presence, pretends to denounce her lover, and even takes up a stick to beat him for the “insult offered to a virtuous wife;” so again the parents declare their daughter to be the very paragon of women.  Lastly, George Dandin detects his wife and Clitandre together at night-time, and succeeds in shutting his wife out of her room; but Angelique now pretends to kill herself, and when George goes for a light to look for the body, she rushes into her room and shuts him out.  At this crisis the parents arrive, when Angelique accuses her husband of being out all night in a debauch; and he is made to beg her pardon on his knees.—­Moliere, George Dandin (1668).

AN’GELO, in Measure for Measure, lord deputy of Vienna in the absence of Vincentio the duke.  His betrothed lady is Maria’na.  Lord Angelo conceived a base passion for Isabella, sister of Claudio, but his designs were foiled by the duke, who compelled him to marry Mariana.—­Shakespeare (1603).

An’gelo, a gentleman friend to Julio in The Captain, a drama by Beaumont and Fletcher (1613).

ANGELS (Orders of).  According to Dionysius the Areop’agite, the angels are divided into nine orders:  Seraphim and Cherubim, in the first circle; Thrones and Dominions, in the second circle; Virtues, Powers, Principalities, Archangels, and Angels, in the third circle.

Novem angelorum ordines dicimus, quia videlicet esse, testante sacro eloquio, scimus Angelos, Archangelos, Virtutes, Potestates, Principatus, Dominationes, Thronos, Cherubim, atque Seraphim.—­St. Gregory the Great, Homily 34.

(See Hymns Ancient and Modern, No. 253, ver. 2, 3.)

ANGER ...  THE ALPHABET.  It was Athenodo’rus the Stoic who advised Augustus to repeat the alphabet when he felt inclined to give way to anger.

  Un certain Grec disait a l’empereur Auguste,
  Comme une instruction utile autant que juste,
  Que, lorsqu’ une aventure en colere nous met,
  Nous devons, avant tout, dire notre alphabet,
  Afin que dans ce temps la bile se tempere,
  Et qu’on ne fasse rien que l’on ne doive faire.

Moliere, L’Ecole des Femmes, ii. 4 (1662).

ANGIOLI’NA (4 syl.), daughter of Loreda’no, and the young wife of Mari’no Faliero, the doge of Venice.  A patrician named Michel Steno, having behaved indecently to some of the women assembled at the great civic banquet given by the doge, was kicked out of the house by order of the doge, and in revenge wrote some scurrilous lines against the dogaressa.  This insult was referred to “The Forty,” and Steno was sentenced to two months’ imprisonment, which the doge considered a very inadequate punishment for the offence.—­Byron, Marino Faliero.