Chapter Athenæum to Aubri's Dog of A by Brewer's Readers Handbook

Atticus (The English), Joseph Addison (1672–1719).

Who but must laugh if such a man there be,
Who would not weep if Atticus were he?
   —Pope: Prologue to the Satires.

The Christian Atticus, Reginald Heber, bishop of Calcutta (1783–1826).

The Irish Atticus. George Faulkner (1700–1775) is satirized under this name in a series of letters by the earl of Chesterfield.

Attila, one of the tragedies of Pierre Corneille (1667). This king of the Huns, usually called the “Scourge of God,” must not be confounded with “Athalie,” daughter of Jezebel and wife of Joram, the subject and title of Racine’s chef-d’œuvre, and Mdlle. Rachel’s chief character.

Attrebates , Drayton makes it 3 syl The Attrebates inhabited part of Hampshire and Berkshire. The primary city was Calleba (Silchester).—Richard of Cirencester, vi. 10.

The Attrebates in Bark unto the bank of Thames.
   —Drayton: Polyolbion, xvi.(1612).

“In Bark” means in Berkshire.

Atys, a Phrygian shepherd, transformed into a fir tree. Catullus wrote a poem in Latin on the subject, and his poem has been translated into English by Leigh Hunt (1784–1859).

William Whitehead (1715–1785) wrote an heroic poem entitled Atys and Adrastus; but this Atys was quite another person. The Phrygian shepherd wa s son of Nana, but Whitehead’s Atys was son of Crœsus. The former was metamorphosed by Cybele into a fir tree; the latter was slain by Adrastos (not the king of Argos, but son of Gordius), who accidentally killed him while hunting, and was so distressed at the accident that he put an end to his own life.

Aubert (Thérèse), the chief character of a romance by C. Nodier (1819). The story contains the adventures of a young royalist in the French Revolution, who disguised himself in female attire to escape discovery.

Aubrey, a widower for 18 years. At the death of his wife he committed his infant daughter to the charge of Mr. Bridgemore a merchant, and lived abroad. He returned to London after an absence of 18 years, and found that Bridgemore had abused his trust; and his daughter had been obliged to quit the house and seek protection with a Mr. Mortimer.

Augusta Aubrey, daughter of Mr. Aubrey, in love with Francis Tyrrel, the nephew of Mr. Mortimer. She is snubbed and persecuted by the vulgar Lucinda Bridgemore, and most wantonly persecuted by lord Abberville; but after passing through many a most painful visitation, she is happily married to the man of her choice.—Cumberland: The Fashionable Lover (1780).

Aubri’s Dog showed a most unaccountable hatred to Richard de Macaire, snarling and flying at him whenever he appeared in sight. Now, Aubri had been murdered by some one in the forest of Bondy, and this animosity of the dog directed suspicion towards Richard de Macaire. Richard was taken up, and condemned to single combat with the dog, by whom he was killed. In his dying moments he confessed himself to be the murderer of Aubri. (See Dog.)

Le combat entre Macaire et le chien eut lieu à Paris, dans l’ile Louviers. On place ce fait merveilleux en 1371, mais … il est bien antérieur, car il est mentionné dès le siècle précédent par Albéric des Trois-Fontaines.—Bouillet: Dict. Universal, etc.