Chambers's encyclopaedia; a dictionary of universal knowledge for the people . : fields were tilled; grain was raisedand ground into meal; food was cooked and baked; cloth waswoven and sewed into garments; and the use of the metals, evenof iron, was known. The numbers as far as a hundred had beennamed, the decimal principle being followed. The name for athousand had not come into requisition until after the dispersion,for it differs in ditTerent Aryan tongues. Finally, it was among the yet undivided Aryans, while abstractlanguage did not yet exist, while every word was a metaphor, andthe setti
Chambers's encyclopaedia; a dictionary of universal knowledge for the people . : fields were tilled; grain was raisedand ground into meal; food was cooked and baked; cloth waswoven and sewed into garments; and the use of the metals, evenof iron, was known. The numbers as far as a hundred had beennamed, the decimal principle being followed. The name for athousand had not come into requisition until after the dispersion,for it differs in ditTerent Aryan tongues. Finally, it was among the yet undivided Aryans, while abstractlanguage did not yet exist, while every word was a metaphor, andthe setting of the sun, for example, could only be expressed byhis growing old and dying, that those stories of gods, heroes, andmonsters originated, which, with more or less of varietj, but stillwith a family-likeness, formed the pagan mythology of everymember of the group. AS was the designation both of a Roman w-eight (called alsolibra) corresponding very nearly to an English ^«u/i(Z (q. v.), andalso of a coin made of the mixed metal aes, or bronze. The As 340 AKZIGNANO— (coin) originally no doubt weiglied a (Koinan) pound; but it wasgradually reduced to ,4^ of a pound, and even lower. It is thusdifficult to assign any fixed value to the As. About 370 , the (=8id.) con-tained 10 ases; so thattlie value of the As wastlien a little more than 3farthings; when 16 aseswent to the denarius, thevalue was about a half-penny. It was by thesestertius (q. v.) was reclvoned atRome. The oldest formof As«usually bore thefigure of an ox, a sheep,or other domestic animal (;)ecM«); from which it is usually supposedthat the Latin word for money, pecunia, is derived. ARZIGNANO, a town of North Italy, ll miles west-by-southfrom Vicenza, in a plain surrounded by hills. It manufactureswoollens, leather, and silk twist. Pop. (1871) 370(). ASA, son of Abijali, and grandson of Rehoboam, was the thirdIdng of Judah. At tlie beginning of his reign, he was very young,and lii
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