He was afterwards expelled by Diomedes the grandson of Œneus, upon
which he killed himself. _Hyginus_, fables 175 & 242.――_Apollodorus_,
bk. 1, ch. 7.――_Homer_, _Iliad_, bk. 14, li. 117.――――A giant.――――A
centaur killed by Hercules. _Apollodorus_, bk. 2, ch. 5.――――A son of
Ulysses by Circe. _Hesiod_, _Theogony_, li. 1013.――――The father of
Thersites. _Ovid_, _ex Ponto_, bk. 3, poem 9, li. 9.
=Agrŏlas=, surrounded the citadel of Athens with walls, except that
part which afterwards was repaired by Cimon. _Pausanias_, bk. 1,
ch. 28.
=Agron=, king of Illyria, who, after conquering the Ætolians, drank
to such excess that he died instantly, B.C. 231. _Polybius_, bk. 2,
ch. 4.
=Agrotas=, a Greek orator of Marseilles.
=Agrotĕra=, an anniversary sacrifice of goats offered to Diana at
Athens. It was instituted by Callimachus the Polemarch, who vowed
to sacrifice to the goddess so many goats as there might be enemies
killed in a battle which he was going to fight against the troops
of Darius, who had invaded Attica. The quantity of the slain was
so great, that a sufficient number of goats could not be procured;
therefore they were limited to 500 every year, till they equalled
the number of Persians slain in battle.――――A temple of Ægira in
Peloponnesus, erected to the goddess under this name. _Pausanias_,
bk. 7, ch. 26.
=Agyleus= and =Agyieus= from ἀγυια, _a street_, a surname of Apollo,
because sacrifices were offered to him in the public streets of
Athens. _Horace_, bk. 4, ode 6.
=Agylla=, a town of Etruria, founded by a colony of Pelasgians, and
governed by Mezentius when Æneas came to Italy. It was afterwards
called Cære, by the Lydians, who took possession of it. _Virgil_,
_Æneid_, bk. 7, li. 652; bk. 8, li. 479.
=Agyllæus=, a gigantic wrestler of Cleonæ, scarce inferior to Hercules
in strength. _Statius_, _Thebiad_, bk. 6, li. 837.
=Agyrium=, a town of Sicily, where Diodorus the historian was born.
The inhabitants were called _Agyrinenses_. _Diodorus_, bk. 14.――
_Cicero_, _Against Verres_, bk. 2, ch. 65.
=Agyrius=, an Athenian general who succeeded Thrasybulus. _Diodorus_,
bk. 14.
=Agyrtes=, a man who killed his father. _Ovid_, _Metamorphoses_, bk. 5,
li. 148.――――A piper. _♦Statius_, bk. 2, _Achilleis_, li. 50.
♦ ‘Sil.’ replaced with ‘Statius’
=Agȳrus=, a tyrant of Sicily, assisted by Dionysius against the
Carthaginians. _Diodorus_, bk. 14.
=Ahāla=, the surname of the Servilii at Rome.
=Ahenobarbus.= _See:_ Ænobarbus.
=Ajax=, the son of Telamon by Peribœa or Eribœa daughter of Alcathous,
was, next to Achilles, the bravest of all the Greeks in the Trojan
war. He engaged Hector, with whom at parting he exchanged arms.
After the death of Achilles, Ajax and Ulysses disputed their
claim to the arms of the dead hero. When they were given to the
latter, Ajax was so enraged that he slaughtered a whole flock of
sheep, supposing them to be the sons of Atreus, who had given the
preference to Ulysses, and stabbed himself with his sword. The blood
which ran to the ground from the wound, was changed into the flower
hyacinth. Some say that he was killed by Paris in battle, others
that he was murdered by Ulysses. His body was buried at Sigæum,
some say on mount Rhœtus, and his tomb was visited and honoured
by Alexander. Hercules, according to some authors, prayed to the
gods that his friend Telamon, who was childless, might have a son,
with a skin as impenetrable as the skin of the Nemæan lion which
he then wore. His prayers were heard. Jupiter, under the form of
an eagle, promised to grant the petition; and when Ajax was born,
Hercules wrapped him up in the lion’s skin, which rendered his body
invulnerable, except that part which was left uncovered by a hole
in the skin, through which Hercules hung his quiver. This vulnerable
part was in his breast, or as some say behind the neck. _Quintus
Calaber [Smyrnæus]_, bks. 1 & 4.――_Apollodorus_, bk. 3, chs. 10
& 13.――_Philostratus_, _Heroicus_, ch. 12.――_Pindar_, _Isthmean_,
ode 6.――_Homer_, _Iliad_, bk. 1, &c.; _Odyssey_, bk. 11.――_Dictys
Cretensis_, bk. 5.――_Dares Phrygius_, ch. 9.――_Ovid_, _Metamorphoses_,
bk. 13.――_Horace_, bk. 2, satire 3, li. 197. ――_Hyginus_, fables
107 & 242.――_Pausanias_, bk. 1, ch. 35; bk. 5, ch. 19.――――The son of
Oileus king of Locris, was surnamed _Locrian_, in contradistinction
to the son of Telamon. He went with 40 ships to the Trojan war,
as being one of Helen’s suitors. The night that Troy was taken, he
offered violence to Cassandra, who fled into Minerva’s temple; and
for this offence, as he returned home, the goddess, who had obtained
the thunders of Jupiter, and the power of tempests from Neptune,
destroyed his ship in a storm. Ajax swam to a rock, and said that
he was safe in spite of all the gods. Such impiety offended Neptune,
who struck the rock with his trident, and Ajax tumbled into the sea
with part of the rock and was drowned. His body was afterwards found
by the Greeks, and black sheep offered on his tomb. According to
Virgil’s account, Minerva seized him in a whirlwind, and dashed him
against a rock, where he expired, consumed by thunder. _Virgil_,
_Æneid_, bk. 1, li. 43, &c.――_Homer_, _Iliad_, bks. 2, 13, &c.;
_Odyssey_, bk. 4.――_Hyginus_, fables 116 & 273.――_Philostratus_,
_Imagines_, bk. 2, ch. 13.――_Seneca_, _Agamemnon_.――_Horace_,
_Epodes_, poem 10, li. 13.――_Pausanias_, bk. 10, chs. 26 & 31.――――The
two Ajaces were, as some suppose, placed after death in the island
of Leuce, a separate place reserved only for the bravest heroes of
antiquity.
=Aidōneus=, a surname of Pluto.――――A king of the Molossi, who
imprisoned Theseus, because he and Pirithous attempted to ravish his
daughter Proserpine, near the Acheron; whence arose the well-known
fable of the descent of Theseus and Pirithous into hell. _Plutarch_,
_Theseus_.――――A river near Troy. _Pausanias_, bk. 10, ch. 12.
=Aimy̆lus=, son of Ascanius, was, according to some, the progenitor of
the noble family of the Æmylii in Rome.
=Aius Locutius=, a deity to whom the Romans erected an altar, from the
following circumstance: one of the common people, called Ceditius,
informed the tribunes, that as he passed one night through one of
the streets of the city, a voice more than human, issuing from above
Vesta’s temple, told him that Rome would soon be attacked by the
Gauls. His information was neglected; but his veracity was proved
by the event; and Camillus, after the conquest of the Gauls, built
a temple to that supernatural voice which had given Rome warning of
the approaching calamity, under the name of Aius Locutius.
=Alabanda=, æ, or orum, an inland town of Caria, abounding with
scorpions. The name is derived from Alabandus, a deity worshipped
there. _Cicero_, _de Natura Deorum_, bk. 3, ch. 16.――_Herodotus_,
bk. 7, ch. 195.――_Strabo_, bk. 14.
=Alabastrum=, a town of Egypt. _Pliny_, bk. 36, ch. 7.
=Alăbus=, a river in Sicily.
=Alæa=, a surname of Minerva in Peloponnesus. Her festivals are also
called Alæa. _Pausanias_, bk. 8, chs. 4 & 7.
=Alæi=, a number of islands in the Persian gulf, abounding in
tortoises. _Arrian_, _Periplus of the Euxine Sea_.
=Alæsa=, a city on a mountain in Sicily.
=Alæus=, the father of Auge, who married Hercules.
=Alagōnia=, a city of Laconia. _Pausanias_, bk. 3, chs. 21 & 26.
=Alāla=, the goddess of war, sister to Mars. _Plutarch_, _de gloria
Atheniensium_.
=Alalcomĕnæ=, a city of Bœotia, where some suppose that Minerva was
born. _Plutarch_, _Quæstiones Græcæ_.――_Statius_, _Thebiad_, bk. 7,
li. 330.
=Alalia=, a town of Corsica, built by a colony of Phocæans, destroyed
by Scipio, 262 B.C., and afterwards rebuilt by Sylla. _Herodotus_,
bk. 1, ch. 165.――_Florus_, bk. 2, ch. 2.
=Alamānes=, a statuary at Athens, disciple of Phidias.
=Alamanni=, or =Alemanni=, a people of Germany, near the Hercynian
forest. They were very powerful and inimical to Rome.
=Alāni=, a people of Sarmatia, near the Palus Mœotis, who were said to
have 26 different languages. _Pliny_, bk. 4, ch. 12.――_Strabo._
=Alăres=, a people of Pannonia. _Tacitus_, bk. 15, _Annals_, ch. 10.
=Alarīcus=, a famous king of the Goths, who plundered Rome in the
reign of Honorius. He was greatly respected for his military valour,
and during his reign he kept the Roman empire in continual alarms.
He died after a reign of 13 years, A.D. 410.
=Alarōdii=, a nation near Pontus. _Herodotus_, bk. 3, ch. 94.
=Alastor=, a son of Neleus and Chloris. _Apollodorus_, bk. 1, ch. 9.
――――An arm-bearer to Sarpedon king of Lycia, killed by Ulysses.
_Homer_, _Iliad_, bk. 5, li. 677.――_Ovid_, _Metamorphoses_, bk. 13,
li. 257.――――One of Pluto’s horses when he carried away Proserpine.
_Claudian_, _de Raptu Proserpinæ_, bk. 1, li. 286.
=Alaudæ=, soldiers of one of Cæsar’s legions in Gaul. _Suetonius_,
_Julius Cæsar_, ch. 24.
=Alazon=, a river flowing from mount Caucasus into the Cyrus, and
separating Albania from Iberia. _Flaccus_, bk. 6, li. 101.
=Alba Sylvius=, son of Latinus Sylvius, succeeded his father in the
kingdom of Latium, and reigned 36 years. _Ovid_, _Metamorphoses_,
bk. 14, li. 612.――――Longa, a city of Latium, built by Ascanius, B.C.
1152, on the spot where Æneas found, according to the prophecy of
Helenus (_Virgil_, _Æneid_, bk. 3, li. 390, &c.), and of the god
of the river (_Æneid_, bk. 8, li. 43), a _white_ sow with 30 young
ones. It was called _longa_ because it extended along the hill
Albinus. The descendants of Æneas reigned there in the following
order: 1. Ascanius, son of Æneas, with little intermission, eight
years. 2. Sylvius Posthumus, 29 years. 3. Æneas Sylvius, 31 years.
4. Latinus, five years. 5. Alba, 36 years. 6. Atys, or Capetus,
26 years. 7. Capys, 28 years. 8. Calpetus, 13 years. 9. Tiberinus,
eight years. 10. Agrippa, 33 years. 11. Remulus, 19 years. 12.
Aventinus, 37 years. 13. Procas, 13 years. 14. Numitor and Amulius.
Alba, which had long been the powerful rival of Rome, was destroyed
by the Romans, 665 B.C., and the inhabitants were carried to Rome.
_Livy._――_Florus._――_Justin_, &c.――――A city of the Marsi in Italy.
――――Pompeia, a city of Liguria. _Pliny_, bk. 3, ch. 5.
=Albāni= and =Albenses=, names applied to the inhabitants of the two
cities of Alba. _Cicero_, _Rhetorica ad Herennium_, bk. 2, ch. 28.
=Albānia=, a country of Asia, between the Caspian sea and Iberia.
The inhabitants are said to have their eyes all blue. Some maintain
that they followed Hercules from mount Albanus in Italy, when he
returned from the conquest of Geryon. _Dionysius of Halicarnassus_,
bk. 1, ch. 15.――_Justin_, bk. 42, ch. 3.――_Strabo_, bk. 11.――_Pliny_,
bk. 8, ch. 40.――_Mela_, bk. 3, ch. 5.――――The Caspian sea is called
_Albanum_, as being near Albania. _Pliny_, bk. 6, ch. 13.
=Albānus=, a mountain with a lake in Italy, 16 miles from Rome,
near Alba. It was on this mountain that the _Latinæ feriæ_ were
celebrated with great solemnity. _Horace_, bk. 2, ltr. 1, li. 27.
The word, taken adjectively, is applied to such as are natives of,
or belong to, the town of Alba.
=Albia Terennia=, the mother of Otho. _Suetonius._
=Albīci=, a people of Gallia Aquitania. _Cæsar_, _Civil War_, bk. 1,
ch. 34.
=Albiētæ=, a people of Latium. _Dionysius of Halicarnassus._
=Albigaunum=, a town of Liguria. _Mela_, bk. 2, ch. 4.
=Albīni=, two Roman orators of great merit, mentioned by Cicero in
_Brutus_. This name is common to many tribunes of the people. _Livy_,
bk. 2, ch. 33; bk. 6, ch. 30. _Sallust_, _Jugurthine War_.
=Albinovānus Celsus.= _See:_ Celsus.――――Pedo, a poet contemporary with
Ovid. He wrote elegies, epigrams, and heroic poetry in a style so
elegant that he merited the epithet of divine. _Ovid_, _ex Ponto_,
bk. 4, poem 10.――_Quintilian_, bk. 10, ch. 5.
=Albintemēlium=, a town of Liguria. _Tacitus_, bk. 2, _Histories_,
ch. 13.
=Albīnus=, was born at Adrumetum in Africa, and made governor of
Britain by Commodus. After the murder of Pertinax, he was elected
emperor by the soldiers in Britain. Severus had also been invested
with the imperial dignity by his own army; and these two rivals,
with about 50,000 men each, came into Gaul to decide the fate of the
empire. Severus was conqueror, and he ordered the head of Albinus
to be cut off, and his body to be thrown into the Rhone, A.D. 198.
Albinus, according to the exaggerated account of a certain writer
called Codrus, was famous for his voracious appetite, and sometimes
ate for breakfast no less than 500 figs, 100 peaches, 20 pounds
of dry raisins, 10 melons, and 400 oysters.――――A pretorian sent to
Sylla, as ambassador from the senate during the civil wars. He was
put to death by Sylla’s soldiers. _Plutarch_, _Sulla_.――――An usurer.
_Horace._――――A Roman plebeian who received the vestals into his
chariot in preference to his family, when they fled from Rome, which
the Gauls had sacked. _Valerius Maximus_, bk. 1, ch. 1.――_Livy_,
bk. 5, ch. 40.――_Florus_, bk. 1, ch. 13.――――Aulus Posthumus, consul
with Lucullus, A.U.C. 603, wrote a history of Rome in Greek.
=Albion=, son of Neptune by Amphitrite, came into Britain, where he
established a kingdom, and first introduced astrology and the art
of building ships. He was killed at the mouth of the Rhone, with
stones thrown by Jupiter, because he opposed the passage of Hercules.
_Mela_, bk. 2, ch. 5.――――The greatest island of Europe, now called
Great Britain. It is called after Albion, who is said to have
reigned there; or from its chalky white (_albus_) rocks, which
appear at a great distance. _Pliny_, bk. 4, ch. 16.――_Tacitus_,
_Agricola_. The ancients compared its figure to a long buckler, or
to the iron of a hatchet.
=Albis=, a river of Germany falling into the German ocean, and now
called the Elbe. _Lucan_, bk. 2, li. 52.
=Albius=, a man, father to a famous spendthrift. _Horace_, bk. 1,
satire 4.――――A name of the poet Tibullus. _Horace_, bk. 1, ode 33,
li. 1.
=Albucilla=, an immodest woman. _Tacitus_, _Annals_, bk. 6, ch. 47.
=Albŭla=, the ancient name of the river Tiber. _Virgil_, _Æneid_,
bk. 8, li. 332.――_Livy_, bk. 1, ch. 3.
=Albŭnea=, a wood near Tibur, and the river Anio, sacred to the muses.
It received its name from a Sibyl, called also Albunea, worshipped
as a goddess at Tibur, whose temple still remains. Near Albunea
there was a small lake of the same name, whose waters were of a
sulphureous smell, and possessed some medicinal properties. This
lake fell, by a small stream called Albula, into the river Anio,
with which it soon lost itself in the Tiber. _Horace_, bk. 1, ode 7,
li. 12.――_Virgil_, _Æneid_, bk. 7, li. 83.
=Alburnus=, a lofty mountain of Lucania, where the Tanager takes its
rise. _Virgil_, _Georgics_, bk. 3, li. 147.
=Albus Pagus=, a place near Sidon, where Antony waited for the arrival
of Cleopatra.
=Albūtius=, a prince of Celtiberia, to whom Scipio restored his wife.
_Arrian._――――A sordid man, father to Canidia. He beat his servants
before they were guilty of any offence, “lest,” said he, “I should
have no time to punish them when they offend.” _Horace_, bk. 2,
satire 2.――――A rhetorician in the age of Seneca.――――An ancient
satirist. _Cicero_, _Brutus_.――――Titus, an epicurean philosopher,
born at Rome; so fond of Greece and Grecian manners, that he wished
not to pass for a Roman. He was made governor of Sardinia; but he
grew offensive to the senate and was banished. It is supposed that
he died at Athens.
=Alcæus=, a celebrated lyric poet of Mitylene in Lesbos, about 600
years before the christian era. He fled from a battle, and his
enemies hung up, in the temple of Minerva, the armour which he left
in the field, as a monument of his disgrace. He is the inventor of
alcaic verses. He was contemporary to the famous Sappho, to whom he
paid his addresses. Of all his works, nothing but a few fragments
remain, found in Athenæus. _Quintilian_, bk. 10, ch. 1.――_Herodotus_,
bk. 5, ch. 95.――_Horace_, bk. 4, ode 9.――_Cicero_, bk. 4, _Tusculanæ
Disputationes_, ch. 33.――――A poet of Athens, said by Suidas to
be the inventor of tragedy.――――A writer of epigrams.――――A comic
poet.――――A son of Androgeus, who went with Hercules into Thrace,
and was made king of part of the country. _Apollodorus_, bk. 2, ch.
5.――――A son of Hercules by a maid of Omphale.――――A son of Perseus,
father of Amphitryon and Anaxo. From him Hercules has been called
Alcides. _Apollodorus_, bk. 2, ch. 4.――_Pausanias_, bk. 8, ch. 14.
=Alcamĕnes=, one of the Agidæ, king of Sparta, known by his apophthegms.
He succeeded his father Teleclus, and reigned 37 years. The Helots
rebelled in his reign. _Pausanias_, bk. 3, ch. 2; bk. 4, chs. 4
& 5.――――A general of the Achæans. _Pausanias_, bk. 7, ch. 15.――――A
statuary, who lived 448 B.C., and was distinguished for his statues
of Venus and Vulcan. _Pausanias_, bk. 5, ch. 10.――――The commander of
a Spartan fleet, put to death by the Athenians. _Thucydides_, bk. 4,
ch. 5, &c.
=Alcander=, an attendant of Sarpedon, killed by Ulysses. _Ovid_,
_Metamorphoses_, bk. 13, li. 257.――――A Lacedæmonian youth, who
accidentally put out one of the eyes of Lycurgus, and was generously
forgiven by the sage. _Plutarch_, _Lycurgus_.――_Pausanias_, bk. 3,
ch. 18.――――A Trojan killed by Turnus. _Virgil_, _Æneid_, bk. 9,
li. 767.
=Alcandre=, the wife of Polybius, a rich Theban. _Homer_, _Odyssey_,
bk. 4, li. 672.
=Alcānor=, a Trojan of mount Ida, whose sons Pandarus and Bitias
followed Æneas into Italy. _Virgil_, _Æneid_, bk. 9, li. 672.――――A
son of Phorus, killed by Æneas. _Æneid_, bk. 10, li. 338.
=Alcăthoe=, a name of Megara, in Attica, because rebuilt by Alcathous
son of Pelops. _Ovid_, _Metamorphoses_, bk. 8, li. 8.
=Alcăthous=, a son of Pelops, who, being suspected of murdering his
brother Chrysippus, came to Megara, where he killed a lion which had
destroyed the king’s son. He succeeded to the kingdom of Megara, and
in commemoration of his services, festivals, called Alcathoia, were
instituted at Megara. _Pausanias_, bk. 1, ch. 41, &c.――――A Trojan,
who married Hippodamia daughter of Anchises. He was killed in the
Trojan war by Idomeneus. _Homer_, _Iliad_, bk. 12, li. 93.――――A son
of Parthaon, killed by Tydeus. _Apollodorus_, bk. 1, ch. 7, &c.――――A
friend of Æneas, killed in the Rutulian war. _Virgil_, _Æneid_, bk.
10, li. 747.
=Alce=, one of Actæon’s dogs. _Ovid._――――A town of Spain which
surrendered to Gracchus, now _Alcazar_, a little above Toledo.
_Livy_, bk. 40, ch. 47.
=Alcēnor=, an Argive, who, along with Chromius, survived the battle
between 300 of his countrymen and 300 Lacedæmonians. _Herodotus_,
bk. 1, ch. 82.
=Alceste=, or =Alcestis=, daughter of Pelias and Anaxibia, married
Admetus. She, with her sisters, put to death her father, that
he might be restored to youth and vigour by Medea, who, however,
refused to perform her promise. Upon this the sisters fled to
Admetus, who married Alceste. They were soon pursued by an army
headed by their brother Acastus; and Admetus, being taken prisoner,
was redeemed from death by the generous offer of his wife, who was
sacrificed in his stead to appease the shades of her father. Some
say that Alceste, with an unusual display of conjugal affection,
laid down her life for her husband, when she had been told by an
oracle that he could never recover from a disease, except some
one of his friends died in his stead. According to some authors,
Hercules brought her back from hell. She had many suitors while
she lived with her father. _See:_ Admetus. _Juvenal_, satire 6,
li. 651.――_Apollodorus_, bk. 1, ch. 9.――_Pausanias_, bk. 5,
ch. 17.――_Hyginus_, fable 251.――_Euripides_, _Alcestis_.
=Alcĕtas=, a king of the Molossi, descended from Pyrrhus the son of
Achilles. _Pausanias_, bk. 1, ch. 11.――――A general of Alexander’s
army, brother to Perdiccas.――――The eighth king of Macedonia,
who reigned 29 years.――――An historian, who wrote an account
of everything that had been dedicated in the temple of Delphi.
_Athenæus._――――A son of Arybas king of Epirus. _Pausanias_, bk. 1,
ch. 11.
=Alchĭdas=, a Rhodian, who became enamoured of a naked Cupid of
Praxiteles. _Pliny_, bk. 36, ch. 5.
=Alchimăchus=, a celebrated painter. _Pliny_, bk. 35, ch. 11.
=Alcibiădes=, an Athenian general famous for his enterprising
spirit, versatile genius, and natural foibles. He was disciple to
Socrates, whose lessons and example checked for a while his vicious
propensities. In the Peloponnesian war he encouraged the Athenians
to make an expedition against Syracuse. He was chosen general in
that war, and in his absence his enemies accused him of impiety,
and confiscated his goods. Upon this he fled, and stirred up the
Spartans to make war against Athens, and when this did not succeed
he retired to Tissaphernes, the Persian general. Being recalled by
the Athenians, he obliged the Lacedæmonians to sue for peace; made
several conquests in Asia, and was received in triumph at Athens.
His popularity was of short duration; the failure of an expedition
against Cyme exposed him again to the resentment of the people,
and he fled to Pharnabazus, whom he almost induced to make war
upon Lacedæmon. This was told to Lysander the Spartan general,
who prevailed upon Pharnabazus to murder Alcibiades. Two servants
were sent for that purpose, and they set on fire the cottage where
he was, and killed him with darts as he attempted to make his
escape. He died in the 46th year of his age, 404 B.C., after a
life of perpetual difficulties. If the fickleness of his countrymen
had known how to retain among them the talents of a man who
distinguished himself, and was admired wherever he went, they might
have risen to greater splendour, and to the sovereignty of Greece.
His character has been cleared from the aspersions of malevolence,
by the writings of Thucydides, Timæus, and Theopompus; and he is
known to us as a hero, who, to the principles of the debauchee,
added the intelligence and sagacity of the statesman, the cool
intrepidity of the general, and the humanity of the philosopher.
_Plutarch_ & _Cornelius Nepos_, _Alcibiades_.――_Thucydides_, bks. 5,
6, & 7.――_Xenophon_, _Hellenica_, bk. 1, &c.――_Diodorus_, bk. 12.
=Alcidămas=, of Cos, was father to Ctesilla, who was changed into
a dove. _Ovid_, _Metamorphoses_, bk. 7, fable 12.――――A celebrated
wrestler. _Statius_, _Thebiad_, bk. 10, li. 500.――――A philosopher
and orator, who wrote a treatise on death. He was pupil to Gorgias,
and flourished B.C. 424. _Quintilian_, bk. 3, ch. 1.
=Alcidamēa=, was mother of Bunus by Mercury.
=Alcidamĭdas=, a general of the Messenians, who retired to Rhegium,
after the taking of Ithome by the Spartans, B.C. 723. _Strabo_,
bk. 6.
=Alcidămus=, an Athenian rhetorician, who wrote an eulogy on death,
&c. _Cicero_, bk. 1, _Tusculanæ Disputationes_, ch. 48.――_Plutarch_,
_Lives of the Ten Orators_.
=Alcīdas=, a Lacedæmonian, sent with 23 galleys against Corcyra, in
the Peloponnesian war. _Thucydides_, bk. 3, ch. 16, &c.
=Alcīdes=, a name of Hercules, from his _strength_, ἀλκος, or from his
grandfather Alcæus.――――A surname of Minerva in Macedonia. _Livy_,
bk. 42, ch. 51.
=Alcidĭce=, the mother of Tyro, by Salmoneus. _Apollodorus_, bk. 1,
ch. 9.
=Alcimăchus=, an eminent painter. _Pliny_, bk. 35, ch. 11.
=Alcimĕde=, the mother of Jason by Æson. _Flaccus_, bk. 1, li. 296.
=Alcimĕdon=, a plain of Arcadia, with a cave the residence of
Alcimedon, whose daughter Phillo was ravished by Hercules.
_Pausanias_, bk. 8, ch. 12.――――An excellent carver. _Virgil_,
_Eclogues_, poem 3.――――A sailor, &c. _Ovid_, _Metamorphoses_, bk. 4,
fable 10.
=Alcimĕnes=, a tragic poet of Megara.――――A comic writer of Athens.
――――An attendant of Demetrius. _Plutarch_, _Demetrius_.――――A man
killed by his brother Bellerophon. _Apollodorus_, bk. 2, ch. 3.
=Alcĭmus=, an historian of Sicily, who wrote an account of Italy.――――
An orator. _Diogenes Laërtius._
=Alcinoe=, a daughter of Sthenelus son of Perseus. _Apollodorus_,
bk. 2, ch. 4.
=Alcĭnor.= _See:_ Alcenor.