. Johnson's new universal cyclopaedia : a scientific and popular treasury of useful knowledge. received Spain and Gallia Narbonensis,and was lelt as governor of Rome while Antony and Octa-vianus proceeded against Brutus and Cassius. But by thesecond partition, after the battle of Philippi in 42 B. c, hewas treated rather slightingly, and received only province ho held till ^G b. c, in which year Octavianusorclercd him to join him at Sicily against Sextus came, and believed the opportunity favorable foran attempt at throwing off the authority of Octavianus. .Atthe d
. Johnson's new universal cyclopaedia : a scientific and popular treasury of useful knowledge. received Spain and Gallia Narbonensis,and was lelt as governor of Rome while Antony and Octa-vianus proceeded against Brutus and Cassius. But by thesecond partition, after the battle of Philippi in 42 B. c, hewas treated rather slightingly, and received only province ho held till ^G b. c, in which year Octavianusorclercd him to join him at Sicily against Sextus came, and believed the opportunity favorable foran attempt at throwing off the authority of Octavianus. .Atthe decisive moment, however, his Sdldiers deserted him, andon liis knees he had to beg for mercy. Octavianus treatedhim with great contempt, deprived him of his province,though not of his private fortune or of his dignity of pon-tiftj- mnximns, and banished him to Circeii, where ho livedin retirement till his death, 13 B. c. Leporidrp [Lat. lrpu»^ hare, and -irfic], a family ofduplieidentate glirine mammals, readily recognizable by theexternal appearance of the body, as well as by the struc-. The Uabbit. ture of the skeleton. The hind legs being much more do-velnped than the fore ! alih<nigh not so ilispropitrtionately asin (he kangaroos .ind jumping mice), the animal iirogressesby a series of running leaps or short jumps, in which lattercase the back is cr«ioked and arched ba<rkwarcl, and givesthe characteristic jihysiognomy : the heail is high, archedbackward, and ct-mpressed; the eyes lateral and promi-nent; the snout rounded, and with the nostrils convergingdt)wnward to a median furrow which divides the lips; thecars are more or loss elongated, and the tail is short andbushy, and turned up. Tho skull is high and conijircssed,the rostral portion much produced and broad, and the in-terorbital urea widened by the development of enlargedand expanding supraorbital plates or procest^cs separatedgenerally by narrow fissures from tho body of the frontalbones fore and aft ; the
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