![]() ![]() Abagas Can, King of the Tartars, he, ha∣ving recovered the Dominion of the Turks, and taken Parvana Governour of Turcia, because he betrayed it to the Soldan of Aegypt, cut him in pieces, boyled him among his other viands, and eat him.Abaea, a Town in the Bay of Messena, wherein was the most ancient Oracle of Apollo, burnt at length by the Army of Xerxes.Abae, a Town of Phocis, a Province in Greece, which was not destroyed by Philip of Macedon, because the people were known never to have committed sacriledge.Abaddon, an Hebrew word signifying a destroyer, and used in the New Testament for the Devil.† Abaction, (Latin) a driving, or forcing away.Aba, a Tyrant of Hungaria, who being slain by his own subjects, and buried in the next Church, not long after was digged out of the earth again, where being found with his winding-sheet, and other cloathes un∣corrupted, and unchanged, and all his wounds cured, he was honoured with a no∣bler burial, and his bones translated to a Monastery, built by himself, and there in∣terred.
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