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On fuch an occafion the imperator fent mefTcngers crowned with laurel with letters to the fenate, which were likewife adorned with laurel, to demand of them the title of irnpe— rotor-, and the honour of 'a fupplication. This folemnity con fitted in facrificing and feafting in the temples, with giving thanks to the gods for the fuccefs obtained, and praying for the continuance of their afliftance. At firft there were only a few days taken up in fuch feftivals; but afterwards they were increafed gradually, till they came to no lefs than fifty. On fubduing the Sabines, in the year of the city 304, a fupplication of one day only was ordained ; on the tak- ing of Veii, Camillus had a fupplication of four days de-' creed him ; Pompey had twelve on putting an end to the Mithridatic war ; Ca?far had fifteen, and afterwards twenty for reducing Gaul ; Oftavianus and Panfa had fifty days of [application for delivering the colony of Mutina.
SWALLOW (Suppi.) — Sea-S w-allow, theEnglifh name of a genus of birds, called by authors Jlerna, See the article Sterna, Suppl.
SWARTH, among country people, the fame with fwatb. See the next article.
SWATH, (Cycl.) a word ufed by country people for a row of grafs or corn, as laid by the mower. Ruft. Di£t. in voc.
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SWEALING a bog, a word ufed in fome parts of the king- dom for finging him. Ruft. Dicl. in voc.
SWEATH, the fame with fwatb. See the article Swath, fupra.
SWEET -apple. See the article Apple, fupra.
Sweet- Johns. See the article Johns, fupra.
Sweet- fFilliam of Barbadoes, the Englifh name of a genus of plants, called by botanifts quamoclit. Seethe article Qwa-
MOCLIT, Suppl.
Sweet- willow.. See the article Willow, infra.
SWINE's crefs, a name given to a fpecies of nafturtium. See
the article Nasturtium, Suppl. SWIVELS, a kind of rings made to turn round in a flaple,
or other ring. Thefe are ufed when a fhip lies at her
moorings ; alfo in tedders for cattle, that they may turn
round without unwarping the tedder. SWORD-f/h, the Englifh name of the _xipbias, a genus of
fifhes. See the article Xiphias, Suppl. SwoRD-^ra/j. SeeAcoRus, Cycl. SYMPHORICARPOS, in botany, the name of a genus of
plants, according to Dillenius, but made a fpecies of kni-
cera by Linnaeus. See the article Lonicera, Append.
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