his wisdom, temperance, and extensive knowledge, has been called one
of the seven wise men. Like his countrymen, he made use of a cart
instead of a house. He was wont to compare laws to cobwebs, which
can stop only small flies, and are unable to resist the superior
force of large insects. When he returned to Scythia from Athens,
where he had spent some time in study, and in the friendship of
Solon, he attempted to introduce there the laws of the Athenians,
which so irritated his brother, who was then on the throne, that
he killed him with an arrow. Anacharsis has rendered himself famous
among the ancients by his writings, and his poems on war, the
laws of Scythia, &c. Two of his letters to Crœsus and Hanno are
still extant. Later authors have attributed to him the invention
of tinder, of anchors, and of the potter’s wheel. The name of
Anacharsis is become very familiar to modern ears, by that elegant,
valuable, and truly classical work of Barthelemi, called the travels
of Anacharsis. _Herodotus_, bk. 4, chs. 56, 47, & 48.――_Plutarch_,
_Quæstiones Convivales_.――_Cicero_, _Tusculanæ Disputationes_, bk. 5,
ch. 32.――_Strabo_, bk. 7.
=Anacium=, a mountain with a temple sacred to the Anaces in
Peloponnesus. _Polyænus_, bk. 1, ch. 21.
=Anacreon=, a famous lyric poet of Teos in Ionia, highly favoured by
Polycrates and Hipparchus son of Pisistratus. He was of a lascivious
and intemperate disposition, much given to drinking, and deeply
enamoured of a youth called Bathyllus. His odes are still extant,
and the uncommon sweetness and elegance of his poetry have been the
admiration of every age and country. He lived to his 85th year, and,
after every excess of pleasure and debauchery, choked himself with
a grape stone and expired. Plato says that he was descended from
an illustrious family, and that Codrus, the last king of Athens,
was one of his progenitors. His statue was placed in the citadel of
Athens, representing him as an old drunken man, singing, with every
mark of dissipation and intemperance. Anacreon flourished 532 B.C.
All that he wrote is not extant; his odes were first published
by H. Stephens, with an elegant translation. The best editions
of Anacreon are that of Maittaire, 4to, London, 1725, of which
only 100 copies were printed, and the very correct one of Barnes,
12mo, Cambridge, 1721, to which may be added that of Brunck,
12mo, Strasbourg, 1778. _Pausanias_, bk. 1, chs. 2, 25.――_Strabo_,
bk. 14.――_Ælian_, _Varia Historia_, bk. 9, ch. 4.――_Cicero_,
_Tusculanæ Disputationes_, bk. 4, ch. 33.――_Horace_, epode 14,
li. 20.――_Pliny_, bk. 7, ch. 7.――_Herodotus_, bk. 3, ch. 121.
=Anactoria= and =Anactorium=, a town of Epirus, in a peninsula towards
the gulf of Ambracia. It was founded by a Corinthian colony, and was
the cause of many quarrels between the Corcyreans and Corinthians.
Augustus carried the inhabitants to the city of Nicopolis, after
the battle of Actium. _Strabo_, bk. 10.――_Thucydides_, bk. 1,
ch. 55.――_Pliny_, bk. 4, ch. 1; bk. 5, ch. 29.――――An ancient name
of Miletus.
=Anactŏrie=, a woman of Lesbos, wantonly loved by Sappho. _Ovid_,
_Heroides_, poem 15, li. 17.
=Anadyomĕne=, a valuable painting of Venus, represented as rising from
the sea, by Apelles. Augustus bought it and placed it in the temple
of Julius Cæsar. The lower part of it was a little defaced, and
there were found no painters in Rome able to repair it. _Pliny_,
bk. 35, ch. 10.
=Anagnia=, now _Anagni_, a city of the Hernici in Latium, where
Antony struck a medal when he divorced Octavia and married Cleopatra.
_Virgil_, _Æneid_, bk. 7, li. 684.――_Strabo_, bk. 5.――_Silius
Italicus_, bk. 8, li. 392.
=Anagogia=, a festival, celebrated by the people of Eryx in Sicily, in
honour of Venus. _Ælian_, _Varia Historia_, bk. 1, ch. 15; _Natura
Animalium_, bk. 4, ch. 2.
=Anagyrontum=, a small village of Attica. _Herodotus._
=Anaītis=, a goddess of Armenia. The virgins who were consecrated
to her service, esteemed themselves more dignified by public
prostitution. The festivals of the deity were called Sacarum Festa;
and when they were celebrated both sexes assisted at the ceremony,
and inebriated themselves to such a degree, that the whole was
concluded by a scene of the greatest lasciviousness and intemperance.
They were first instituted by Cyrus, when he marched against the
Sacæ, and covered tables with the most exquisite dainties, that
he might detain the enemy by the novelty and sweetness of food
to which they were unaccustomed, and thus easily destroy them.
_Strabo._――――Diana is also worshipped under this name by the Lydians.
_Pliny_, bk. 33, ch. 4.
=Ananias=, an Iambic poet. _Athenæus._
=Anăphe=, an island that rose out of the Cretan sea, and received this
name from the Argonauts, who, in the middle of a storm, suddenly
saw the new moon. Apollo was worshipped there, and called Anaphæus.
_Apollonius._
=Anaphlystus=, a small village of Attica near the sea, called after
an ancient hero of the same name, who was son of Trœzen.――――A small
village near Athens.
=Anāpus=, a river of Epirus. _Thucydides_, bk. 2, ch. 82.――――Of Sicily,
near Syracuse. _Thucydides_, bk. 6, ch. 96.
=Anartes=, a people of Lower Pannonia. _Cæsar_, _Gallic War_, bk. 6,
ch. 25.
=Anas=, a river of Spain, now called Guadiana. _Strabo_, bk. 3.
=Anatŏle=, one of the Horæ. _Hyginus_, fable 183.――――A mountain near
the Ganges, where Apollo ravished a nymph called Anaxibia.
=Anauchĭdas=, a Samian wrestler. _Pausanias_, bk. 5, ch. 27.
=Anaurus=, a river of Thessaly, near the foot of mount Pelion, where
Jason lost one of his sandals. _Callimachus_, _Diana [Artemis]_.――――A
river of Troas near Ida. _Colluthus._
=Anausis=, one of Medea’s suitors, killed by Styrus. _Valerius
Flaccus_, bk. 6, li. 43.
=Anax=, a son of Cœlus and Terra, father to Asterius, from whom Miletus
has been called Anactoria. _Pausanias_, bk. 1, ch. 36; bk. 7, ch. 2.
=Anaxagŏras=, succeeded his father Megapenthes on the throne of Argos.
He shared the sovereign power with Bias and Melampus, who had cured
the women of Argos of madness. _Pausanias_, bk. 2, ch. 18.――――A
Clazomenian philosopher, son of Hegesibulus, disciple to Anaximes
and preceptor to Socrates and Euripides. He disregarded wealth and
honours, to indulge his fondness for meditation and philosophy.
He applied himself to astronomy, was acquainted with eclipses, and
predicted that one day a stone would fall from the sun, which it
is said really fell into the river Ægos. Anaxagoras travelled into
Egypt for improvement, and used to say that he preferred a grain of
wisdom to heaps of gold. Pericles was in the number of his pupils,
and often consulted him in matters of state; and once dissuaded him
from starving himself to death. The ideas of Anaxagoras concerning
the heavens were wild and extravagant. He supposed that the sun was
inflammable matter, about the bigness of Peloponnesus; and that the
moon was inhabited. The heavens he believed to be of stone, and the
earth of similar materials. He was accused of impiety and condemned
to die; but he ridiculed the sentence, and said it had long been
pronounced upon him by nature. Being asked whether his body should
be carried into his own country, he answered, no, as the road that
led to the other side of the grave was as long from one place as
the other. His scholar Pericles pleaded eloquently and successfully
for him, and the sentence of death was exchanged for banishment.
In prison, the philosopher is said to have attempted to square the
circle, or determine exactly the proportion of its diameter to the
circumference. When the people of Lampsacus asked him before his
death whether he wished anything to be done in commemoration of him,
“Yes,” said he, “let the boys be allowed to play on the anniversary
of my death.” This was carefully observed, and that time, dedicated
to relaxation, was called _Anaxagoreia_. He died at Lampsacus in
his 72nd year, 428 B.C. His writings were not much esteemed by his
pupil Socrates. _Diogenes Laërtius_, _Lives of Eminent Philosophers_.
――_Plutarch_, _Nicias_ & _Pericles_.――_Cicero_, _Academicæ
quaestiones_, bk. 4, ch. 23; _Tusculanæ Disputationes_, bk. 1,
ch. 43.――――A statuary of Ægina. _Pausanias_, bk. 5, ch. 23.――――A
grammarian, disciple to Zenodotus. _Diogenes Laërtius._――――An orator,
disciple to Socrates. _Diogenes Laërtius._――――A son of Echeanox, who,
with his brothers Codrus and Diodorus, destroyed Hegesias tyrant of
Ephesus.
=Anaxander=, of the family of the Heraclidæ, was son of Eurycrates
and king of Sparta. The second Messenian war began in his reign,
in which Aristomenes so egregiously signalized himself. His son
was called Eurycrates. _Herodotus_, bk. 2, ch. 204.――_Plutarch_,
_Apophthegmata Laconica_.――_Pausanias_, bk. 3, ch. 3; bk. 4, chs.
15 & 16.――――A general of Megalopolis, taken by the Thebans.
=Anaxandrĭdes=, son of Leon and father to Cleomenes I. and Leonidas,
was king of Sparta. By the order of the Ephori, he divorced his wife,
of whom he was extremely fond, on account of her barrenness; and he
was the first Lacedæmonian who had two wives. _Herodotus_, bks. 1,
5, & 7.――_Plutarch_, _Apophthegmata Laconica_, bk. 1.――_Pausanias_,
bk. 3, ch. 3, &c.――――A son of Theopompus. _Herodotus_, bk. 8, ch.
131.――――A comic poet of Rhodes in the age of Philip and Alexander.
He was the first poet who introduced intrigues and rapes upon the
stage. He was of such a passionate disposition, that he tore to
pieces all his compositions which met with no success. He composed
about 100 plays, of which 10 obtained the prize. Some fragments of
his poetry remain in Athenæus. He was starved to death by order of
the Athenians, for satirizing their government. _Aristotle_, bk. 3,
_Rhetoric_.
=Anaxarchus=, a philosopher of Abdera, one of the followers of
Democritus, and the friend of Alexander. When the monarch had been
wounded in a battle, the philosopher pointed to the place, adding,
“That is human blood, and not the blood of a god.” The freedom of
Anaxarchus offended Nicocreon, and after Alexander’s death, the
tyrant, in revenge, seized the philosopher, and pounded him in a
stone mortar with iron hammers. He bore this with much resignation,
and exclaimed, “Pound the body of Anaxarchus, for thou dost not
pound his soul.” Upon this Nicocreon threatened to cut his tongue,
and Anaxarchus bit it off with his teeth, and spit it out into the
tyrant’s face. _Ovid_, _Ibis_, li. 571.――_Plutarch_, _Convivium
Septem Sapientium_, ch. 7.――_Diogenes Laërtius_, _Lives of Eminent
Philosophers_.――_Cicero_, _Tusculanæ Disputationes_, bk. 2, ch. 22.
――――A Theban general. _Thucydides_, bk. 8, ch. 100.
=Anaxarĕte=, a girl of Salamis, who so arrogantly despised the
addresses of Iphis, a youth of ignoble birth, that the lover hung
himself at her door. She saw this sad spectacle without emotion or
pity, and was changed into a stone. _Ovid_, _Metamorphoses_, bk. 14,
li. 748.
=Anaxēnor=, a musician, whom Marcus Antony greatly honoured, and
presented with the tribute of four cities. _Strabo_, bk. 14.
=Anaxias=, a Theban general. _Pausanias_, bk. 2, ch. 22.
=Anaxibia=, a sister of Agamemnon, mother of seven sons and two
daughters by Nestor. _Pausanias_, bk. 2, ch. 29.――――A daughter of
Bias, brother to the physician Melampus. She married Pelias king
of Iolchos, by whom she had Acastus and four daughters――Pisidice,
Pelopea, Hippothoe, and Alceste. _Apollodorus_, bk. 1, ch. 9.――――She
is called daughter of Dymas by _Hyginus_, fable 14.
=Anaxicrătes=, an Athenian archon. _Pausanias_, bk. 10, ch. 23.
=Anaxidămus=, succeeded his father Zeuxidamus on the throne of Sparta.
_Pausanias_, bk. 3, ch. 7; bk. 4, ch. 15.
=Anaxĭlas= and =Anaxĭlaus=, a Messenian, tyrant of Rhegium. He took
Zancle, and was so mild and popular during his reign, that when he
died, 476 B.C., he left his infant sons to the care of one of his
servants, and the citizens chose rather to obey a slave than revolt
from their benevolent sovereign’s children. _Justin_, bk. 3, ch. 2.
――_Pausanias_, bk. 4, ch. 23; bk. 5, ch. 27.――_Thucydides_, bk. 6,
ch. 5.――_Herodotus_, bk. 6, ch. 23; bk. 7, ch. 167.――――A magician
of Larissa, banished from Italy by Augustus.――――A Pythagorean
philosopher.――――A physician. _Pliny_, bk. 19, ch. 1.――――An historian,
who began his history with bitter invectives against former writers.
_Dionysius of Halicarnassus._――――A Lacedæmonian. _Plutarch_,
_Alcibiades_.――――A comic writer, about the 100th Olympiad.
=Anaxilĭdes=, wrote some treatises concerning philosophers, and
mentioned that Plato’s mother became pregnant by a phantom of the
god Apollo, from which circumstance her son was called the prince of
wisdom. _Diogenes Laërtius_, _Plutarch_.
=Anaximander=, a Milesian philosopher, the companion and disciple of
Thales. He was the first who constructed spheres, asserted that the
earth was of a cylindrical form, and taught that men were born of
earth and water mixed together, and heated by the beams of the sun;
that the earth moved, and that the moon received light from the
sun, which he considered as a circle of fire like a wheel, about 28
times bigger than the earth. He made the first geographical maps and
sun-dials. He died in the 64th year of his age, B.C. 547. _Cicero_,
_Academicæ Quæstiones_, bk. 4, ch. 37.――_Diogenes Laërtius_, _Lives
of Eminent Philosophers_.――_Pliny_, bk. 2, ch. 70.――_Plutarch_,
_Quæstiones Convivales_. He had a son who bore his name. _Strabo_,
bk. 1.
=Anaximĕnes=, a philosopher, son of Erasistratus and disciple of
Anaximander, whom he succeeded in his school. He said that the air
was the cause of every created being, and a self-existent divinity,
and that the sun, the moon, and the stars, had been made from the
earth. He considered the earth as a plain, and the heavens as a
solid concave figure, on which the stars were fixed like nails,
an opinion prevalent at that time, and from which originated the
proverb, τι εἰ οὐρανος ἐμπεσοι, _if the heavens should fall?_ to
which Horace has alluded, bk. 3, _Odes_, poem 3, li. 7. He died
504 years B.C. _Cicero_, _Academicæ Quæstiones_, bk. 4, ch. 37; _de
Natura Deorum_, bk. 1, ch. 10.――_Plutarch_, _Quæstiones Convivales_.
――_Pliny_, bk. 2, ch. 76.――――A native of Lampsacus, son of Aristocles.
He was pupil to Diogenes the cynic, and preceptor to Alexander the
Great, of whose life, and that of Philip, he wrote the history.
When Alexander, in a fit of anger, threatened to put to death all
the inhabitants of Lampsacus, because they had maintained a long
siege against him, Anaximenes was sent by his countrymen to appease
the king, who, as soon as he saw him, swore he would not grant the
favour he was going to ask. Upon this, Anaximenes begged the king
to destroy the city and enslave the inhabitants, and by this artful
request the city of Lampsacus was saved from destruction. Besides
the life of Philip and his son, he wrote a history of Greece, in
12 books, all now lost. His nephew bore the same name, and wrote an
account of ancient paintings. _Pausanias_, bk. 6, ch. 18.――_Valerius
Maximus_, bk. 7, ch. 3.――_Diogenes Laërtius_, _Lives of Eminent
Philosophers_.
=Anaxipŏlis=, a comic poet of Thasos. _Pliny_, bk. 14, ch. 14.――――A
writer on agriculture, likewise of Thasos.
=Anaxippus=, a comic writer in the age of Demetrius. He used to say,
that philosophers were wise only in their speeches, but fools in
their actions. _Athenæus._
=Anaxirrhoe=, a daughter of Coronus, who married Epeus. _Pausanias_,
bk. 5, ch. 1.
=Anaxis=, a Bœotian historian, who wrote a history down to the age of
Philip son of Amyntas. _Diodorus_, bk. 25.――――A son of Castor and
Hilaira.
=Anaxo=, a virgin of Trœzene carried away by Theseus. _Plutarch_,
_Theseus_.――――A daughter of Alceus, mother of Alcmene by Electryon.
=Ancæus=, the son of Lycurgus and Antinoe, was in the expedition of
the Argonauts. He was at the chase of the Calydonian boar, in which
he perished. _Hyginus_, fables 173 & 248.――_Ovid_, _Metamorphoses_,
bk. 8.――――The son of Neptune and Astypalæa. He went with the
Argonauts, and succeeded Tiphis as pilot of the ship Argo. He
reigned in Ionia, where he married Samia daughter of the Mæander,
by whom he had four sons, Perilas, Enudus, Samus, Alithersus, and
one daughter called Parthenope. _Orpheus_, _Argonauts_. He was once
told by one of his servants, whom he pressed with hard labour in his
vineyard, that he never would taste of the produce of his vines. He
had already the cup in his hand, and called the prophet to convince
him of his falsehood; when the servant, yet firm in his prediction,
uttered this well-known proverb:
Πολλα μεταξυ πελει κυλικος και χειλεος ακρου.
_Multa cadunt inter calicem supremaque labra._
At that very moment Ancæus was told that a wild boar had entered his
vineyard; upon which he threw down the cup, and ran to drive away
the wild beast. He was killed in the attempt.
=Ancalītes=, a people of Britain near the Trinobantes. _Cæsar_,
_Gallic War_, bk. 5, ch. 21.
=Ancarius=, a god of the Jews. _See:_ Anchialus.
=Ancharia=, a family of Rome.――――The name of Octavia’s mother.
_Plutarch_, _Antonius_.
=Ancharius=, a noble Roman killed by the partisans of Marius during
the civil wars with Sylla. _Plutarch_, _Marius_.
=Anchemŏlus=, son of Rhœtus king of the Marrubii in Italy, ravished
his mother-in-law Casperia, for which he was expelled by his father.
He fled to Turnus, and was killed by Pallas son of Evander, in the
wars of Æneas against the Latins. _Virgil_, _Æneid_, bk. 10, li. 389.
=Anchesītes=, a wind which blows from Achisa, a harbour of Epirus.
_Cicero_, _Letters to Atticus_, bk. 7, ltr. 1.――_Dionysius of
Halicarnassus._
=Anchesmus=, a mountain of Attica, where Jupiter _Anchesmius_ had a
statue.
=Anchiăle= and =Anchiala=, a city on the sea coast of Cilicia.
Sardanapalus, the last king of Assyria, built it, with Tarsus in
its neighbourhood, in one day. _Strabo_, bk. 14.――_Pliny_, bk. 5,
ch. 27. The founder was buried there, and had a statue, under which
was a famous inscription in the Syrian language, denoting the great
intemperance and dissipation which distinguished all his life. There
was a city of the same name in Thrace, called by Ovid the city of
Apollo. There was another in Epirus. _Ovid_, _Tristia_, bk. 1, poem
10, li. 36.――_Pliny_, bk. 4, ch. 11.――_Mela_, bk. 2, ch. 2.
=Anchiălus=, a famous astrologer.――――A great warrior, father of Mentes.
――――One of the Phæacians. _Homer_, _Odyssey_.――――A god of the Jews,
as some suppose, in _Martial’s_ epigrams, bk. 11, ltr. 95.
=Anchimolius=, a Spartan general sent against the Pisistratidæ, and
killed in the expedition. _Herodotus_, bk. 5, ch. 63.――――A son of
Rhœtus. _See:_ Anchemolus.
=Anchinoe=, a daughter of Nilus and wife of Belus. _Apollodorus_,
bk. 2, ch. 1.
=Anchion=. _See:_ Chion.
=Anchīse=, a city of Italy. _Dionysius of Halicarnassus._
=Anchīses=, a son of Capys by Themis daughter of Ilus. He was of
such a beautiful complexion, that Venus came down from heaven on
mount Ida, in the form of a nymph, to enjoy his company. The goddess
became pregnant, and forbade Anchises ever to mention the favours he
had received, on pain of being struck with thunder. The child which
Venus brought forth was called Æneas; he was educated as soon as
born by the nymphs of Ida, and, when of a proper age, was entrusted
to the care of Chiron the centaur. When Troy was taken, Anchises was
become so infirm that Æneas, to whom the Greeks permitted to take
away whatever he esteemed most, carried him through the flames
upon his shoulders, and thus saved his life. He accompanied his son
in his voyage towards Italy, and died in Sicily, in the 80th year
of his age. He was buried on mount Eryx by Æneas and Acestes king
of the country, and the anniversary of his death was afterwards
celebrated by his son and the Trojans on his tomb. Some authors
have maintained that Anchises had forgot the injunctions of Venus,
and boasted at a feast that he enjoyed her favours on mount Ida,
upon which he was killed with thunder. Others say that the wounds
he received from the thunder were not mortal, and that they only
weakened and disfigured his body. Virgil, in the sixth book of the
Æneid, introduces him in the Elysian fields, relating to his son the
fates that were to attend him, and the fortune of his descendants
the Romans. _See:_ Æneas. _Virgil_, _Æneid_, bks. 1, 2, &c.――
_Hyginus_, fables 94, 254, 260, 270.――_Hesiod_, _Theogony_, li. 1010.
――_Apollodorus_, bk. 3.――_Ovid_, _Fasti_, bk. 4, li. 34.――_Homer_,
_Iliad_, bk. 20, & _Hymn to Aphrodite_.――_Xenophon_, _On Hunting_,
ch. 1.――_Dionysius of Halicarnassus_, bk. 1, _Roman Antiquities_.
――_Pausanias_, bk. 8, ch. 12, says that Anchises was buried on a
mountain in Arcadia, which, from him, has been called Anchisia.
――――An Athenian archon. _Dionysius of Halicarnassus_, bk. 8.
=Anchīsia=, a mountain of Arcadia, at the bottom of which was a
monument of Anchises. _Pausanias_, bk. 8, chs. 12 & 13.
=Anchīsiădes=, a patronymic of Æneas, as being the son of Anchises.
_Virgil_, _Æneid_, bk. 9, li. 348, &c.
=Anchoe=, a place near the mouth of the Cephisus, where there is a
lake of the same name. _Strabo._
=Anchŏra=, a fortified place in Galatia.
=Anchūrus=, a son of Midas king of Phrygia, who sacrificed himself for
the good of his country when the earth had opened and swallowed up
many buildings. The oracle had been consulted, and gave for answer,
that the gulf would never close, if Midas did not throw into it
whatever he had most precious. Though the king had parted with many
things of immense value, yet the gulf continued open, till Anchurus,
thinking himself the most precious of his father’s possessions, took
a tender leave of his wife and family, and leaped into the earth,
which closed immediately over his head. Midas erected there an altar
of stones to Jupiter, and that altar was the first object which he
turned to gold, when he had received his fatal gift from the gods.
This unpolished lump of gold existed still in the age of Plutarch.
_Plutarch_, _Parallela minora_.
=Ancīle= and =Ancy̆le=, a sacred shield, which, according to the Roman
authors, fell from heaven in the reign of Numa, when the Roman
people laboured under a pestilence. Upon the preservation of this
shield depended the fate of the Roman empire, and therefore Numa
ordered 11 of the same size and form to be made, that if ever any
attempt was made to carry them away, the plunderer might find it
difficult to distinguish the true one. They were made with such
exactness, that the king promised Veterius Mamurius, the artist,
whatever reward he desired. _See:_ Mamurius. They were kept in
the temple of Vesta, and an order of priests was chosen to watch
over their safety. These priests were called Salii, and were 12 in
number; they carried, every year on the 1st of March, the shields
in a solemn procession round the walls of Rome, dancing and singing
praises to the god Mars. This sacred festival continued three days,
during which every important business was stopped. It was deemed
unfortunate to be married on those days, or to undertake any
expedition; and _Tacitus_, bk. 1, _Histories_, has attributed the
unsuccessful campaign of the emperor Otho against Vitellius to his
leaving Rome during the celebration of the Ancyliorum festum. These
two verses of Ovid explain the origin of the word Ancyle, which is
applied to these shields:
_Idque ancyle vocat, quod ab omni parte recisum est,
Quemque notes oculis, angulus omnis abest._
_Fasti_, bk. 3, li. 377, &c.
_Varro_, _de Lingua Latina_, bk. 5, ch. 6.――_Valerius Maximus_,
bk. 1, ch. 1.――_Juvenal_, satire 2, li. 124.――_Plutarch_, _Numa_.
――_Virgil_, _Æneid_, bk. 8, li. 664.――_Dionysius of Halicarnassus_,
bk. 2.――_Livy_, bk. 1, ch. 20.
=Ancon= and =Ancōna=, a town of Picenum, built by the Sicilians, with
a harbour in the form of a crescent or elbow (ἀγχων), on the shores
of the Adriatic. Near this place is the famous chapel of Loretto,
supposed by monkish historians to have been brought through the air
by angels, August 10, A. D. 1291, from Judæa, where it was a cottage,
inhabited by the virgin Mary. The reputed sanctity of the place has
often brought 100,000 pilgrims in one day to Loretto. _Pliny_, bk. 3,
ch. 13.――_Lucan_, bk. 2, li. 402.――_Silius Italicus_, bk. 8, li. 437.