Padua, St. Anthony (1195-1231).  His day, June 13.  Paris, St. Genevieve (419-512).  Her day, January 3.  Peak, W. Bagshaw, so called from his missionary labors in Derbyshire (1628-1702).  Picts, St. Ninian.  Scottish Reformers, John Knox (1505-1572).  Sicily (the tutelary deity is) Ceres.  Slaves, St. Cyril (died 868).  His day, February 14.  Spain, St. James the Greater (died 44.) His day, July 24.  Temperance, Father Mathew (1790-1856).  Venice, St. Mark; St. Pantaleon; St. Andrew Justiniani.  St. Mark’s day, April 25; St. Pantaleon’s, July 27.  Wales, St. David (480-544).  His day, March 1.  Yorkshire, St. Pauli’nus, bishop of York (597-644).

APOSTOLIC FATHERS (The Five):  Clement of Rome, Barnabas, Hermas, Igna’tius, and Polycarp.  All contemporary with the Apostles.

AP’PETIZER.  A Scotchman being told that the birds called kittiewiaks were admirable appetizers, ate six of them, and then complained “he was no hungrier than he was before.”

AQUARIUS, SAGITTARIUS.  Mrs. Browning says that “Aquarius” is a symbol of man bearing, and “Sagittarius” of man combatting.  The passive and active forms of human labor.

Eve.  Two phantasms of two men. Adam.  One that sustains, And one that strives, so the ends Of manhood’s curse of labor.

E. B. Browning, A Drama of Exile (1851).

A’QUILANT, son of Olive’ro and Sigismunda; a knight in Charlemagne’s army.  He was called “black,” and his brother Gryphon “white” from the color of their armor.—­Ariosto, Orlando Furioso (1516).

A’QUILINE (3 syl.), Raymond’s steed, whose sire was the wind.—­Tasso, Jerusalem Delivered, vii. (1575).

(Solinus, Columella, and Varro relate how the Lusitanian mares “with open mouth against the breezes held, receive the gales with warmth prolific filled, and thus inspired, their swelling wombs produce the wondrous offspring.”—­See also Virgil, Georgics, in. 266-283.)

AQUIN’IAN SAGE.  Juvenal is so called, because he was born at Aqui’num, in Latium (fl.  A.D. 100).

ARABEL’LA, an heiress left under the guardianship of justice Day.  Abel Day, the son of justice Day, aspires to her hand and fortune, but she confers both with right good will on captain Manly.—­T.  Knight, The Honest Thieves.

ARA’BIA FE’LIX ("Araby the blest").  This name is a blunder made by British merchants, who supposed that the precious commodities of India bought of Arab traders were the produce of Arabia.

ARA’BIAN BIRD (The), the phoenix, a marvellous man, one sui generis.

  O Antony!  O thou Arabian bird!

Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra, act iii. sc. 2.

ARACH’NE (3 syl.), a spider, a weaver.  “Arachne’s labors,” spinning or weaving.  Arachne was a Lydian maiden, who challenged Minerva to compete with her in needle tapestry, and Minerva changed her into a spider.