raised to the greatest honours under Valerian. He was elected emperor
by the populace, who were dissatisfied with Gallienus, and was soon
after murdered by his soldiers, A.D. 262.
=Regillus=, a small lake of Latium, whose waters fall into the Anio,
at the east of Rome. The dictator Posthumius defeated the Latin army
near it. _Livy_, bk. 2, ch. 19.
=Regīnum=, a town of Germany, now supposed Ratisbon or Regensburg.
=Regium Lepidum=, a town of Modena, now _Regio_, at the south of the Po.
_Pliny_, bk. 3, ch. 15.――_Cicero_, bk. 12, _Letters to his Friends_,
ltr. 5; bk. 13, ltr. 7.
=Marcus Attilius Regŭlus=, a consul during the first Punic war. He
reduced Brundusium, and in his second consulship he took 64, and
sunk 30 galleys of the Carthaginian fleet, on the coast of Sicily.
Afterwards he landed in Africa, and so rapid was his success, that in
a short time he defeated three generals, and made himself master of
about 200 places of consequence on the coast. The Carthaginians sued
for peace, but the conqueror refused to grant it, and soon after he
was defeated in a battle by Xanthippus, and 30,000 of his men were
left on the field of battle, and 15,000 taken prisoners. Regulus
was in the number of the captives, and he was carried in triumph to
Carthage. He was afterwards sent by the enemy to Rome, to propose an
accommodation, and an exchange of prisoners; and if his commission
was unsuccessful, he was bound by the most solemn oaths to return to
Carthage without delay. When he came to Rome, Regulus dissuaded his
countrymen from accepting the terms which the enemy proposed, and
when his opinion had had due influence on the senate, he then retired
to Carthage agreeable to his engagements. The Carthaginians were told
that their offers of peace had been rejected at Rome by the means of
Regulus, and therefore they prepared to punish him with the greatest
severity. His eyebrows were cut, and he was exposed for some days to
the excessive heat of the meridian sun, and afterwards confined in
a barrel, whose sides were everywhere filled with large iron spikes,
till he died in the greatest agonies. His sufferings were heard
at Rome, and the senate permitted his widow to inflict whatever
punishments she pleased on some of the most illustrious captives of
Carthage, who were in their hands. She confined them also in presses
filled with sharp iron points, and was so exquisite in her cruelty,
that the senate at last interfered, and stopped the barbarity of
her punishments. Regulus died about 251 years before Christ. _Silius
Italicus_, bk. 6, li. 319.――_Florus_, bk. 2, ch. 3.――_Horace_, bk. 3,
ode 5.――_Cicero_, _de Officiis_, bk. 1, ch. 13.――_Valerius Maximus_,
bk. 1, ch. 1; bk. 9, ch. 2.――_Livy_, ltr. 16.――――Memmius, a Roman
made governor of Greece by Caligula. While Regulus was in this
province, the emperor wished to bring the celebrated statue of
Jupiter Olympius, by Phidias, to Rome; but this was supernaturally
prevented, and according to ancient authors, the ship which was to
convey it was destroyed by lightning, and the workmen who attempted
to remove the statue were terrified away by sudden noises. _Dio
Cassius._――――A man who condemned Sejanus.――――Roscius, a man who held
the consulship but for one day, in the reign of Vitellius.
=Remi=, a nation of Gaul, whose principal town, Duricortorium, is now
Rheims, in the north of Champagne. _Pliny_, bk. 4, ch. 17.――_Cæsar_,
_Gallic War_, bk. 2, ch. 5.
=Remmia lex=, _de judiciis_, was enacted to punish all calumniators.
The letter K was marked on their forehead. This law was abolished by
Constantine the Great. _Cicero_, _For Quintus Roscius_.
=Rĕmŭlus=, a chief of Tibur, whose arms were seized by the Rutulians,
and afterwards became part of the plunder which Euryalus obtained.
_Virgil_, _Æneid_, bk. 9, li. 360.――――A friend of Turnus, trampled to
death by his horse, which Orsilochus had wounded. _Virgil_, _Æneid_,
bk. 11, li. 636, &c.
=Rĕmŭlus Sylvius=, a king of Alba, destroyed by lightning on account of
his impiety. _Ovid_, _Tristia_, bk. 4, li. 50.
=Remuria=, festivals established at Rome by Romulus, to appease the
manes of his brother Remus. They were afterwards called _Lemuria_,
and celebrated yearly.
=Remus=, the brother of Romulus, was exposed, together with him, by the
cruelty of his grandfather. In the contest which happened between the
two brothers about building a city, Romulus obtained the preference,
and Remus, for ridiculing the rising walls, was put to death by his
brother’s orders, or by Romulus himself. _See:_ Romulus. The Romans
were afflicted with a plague after this murder, upon which the oracle
was consulted, and the manes of Remus appeased by the institution
of the Remuria. _Ovid._――――One of the auxiliaries of Turnus against
Æneas. _Virgil_, _Æneid_, bk. 9, li. 330.
=Resæna=, a town of Mesopotamia, famous for the defeat of Sapor by
Gordian.
=Resus=, a small river of Asia Minor, falling into the Mæander.
=Retina=, a village near Misenum. _Pliny_, bk. 6, ltr. 16.
=Reudigni=, a nation of Germany. _Tacitus_, _Germania_, ch. 40.
=Rha=, a large river, now the _Volga_, of Russia. A medicinal root
which grew on its bank was called _Rha barbarum_, _Rhubarb_.
=Rhacia=, a promontory in the Mediterranean sea, projecting from the
Pyrenean mountains.
=Rhacius=, a Cretan prince, the first of that nation who entered Ionia
with a colony. He seized Claros, of which he became the sovereign.
He married Manto the daughter of Tiresias, who had been seized on his
coasts. _Pausanias_, bk. 7, ch. 3.
=Rhacōtis=, an ancient name of Alexandria the capital of Egypt.
_Strabo._――_Pausanias_, bk. 5, ch. 21.
=Rhadamanthus=, a son of Jupiter and Europa. He was born in Crete,
which he abandoned about the 30th year of his age. He passed into
some of the Cyclades, where he reigned with so much justice and
impartiality, that the ancients have said he became one of the judges
of hell, and that he was employed in the infernal regions in obliging
the dead to confess their crimes, and in punishing them for their
offences. Rhadamanthus reigned not only over some of the Cyclades,
but over many of the Greek cities of Asia. _Pausanias_, bk. 8,
ch. 53.――_Ovid_, _Metamorphoses_, bk. 9, li. 435.――_Diodorus_, bk. 5.
――_Plato._――_Homer_. _Iliad_, bk. 4, li. 564.――_Virgil_, _Æneid_,
bk. 6, li. 566.
=Rhadamistus=, a son of Pharnasmanes king of Iberia. He married Zenobia,
the daughter of his uncle Mithridates king of Armenia, and some
time after put him to death. He was put to death by his father for
his cruelties, about the year 52 of the christian era. _Tacitus_,
_Annals_, bk. 13, ch. 37.
=Rhadius=, a son of Neleus.
=Rhæteum=, a city of Phrygia.
=Rhæti=, or =Ræti=, an ancient and warlike nation of Etruria. They were
driven from their native country by the Gauls, and went to settle on
the other side of the Alps. _See:_ Rhætia. _Pliny_, bk. 3, ch. 10.
――_Justin_, bk. 20, ch. 5.
=Rhætia=, a country at the north of Italy, between the Alps and the
Danube, which now forms the territories of the Grisons, of the Tyrol,
and part of Italy. It was divided into two parts, _Rhætia prima_ and
_Rhætia secunda_. The first extended from the sources of the Rhine
to those of the Licus or Lek, a small river which falls into the
Danube. The other, called also _Vindelicia_, extended from the Licus
to another small river called Œnus, or Inn, towards the east. The
principal towns of Rhætia were called Curia, Tridentum, Belunum,
Feltria. The Rhætians rendered themselves formidable by the frequent
invasions which they made upon the Roman empire, and were at last
conquered by Drusus the brother of Tiberius, and others under the
Roman emperors. _Virgil_, _Georgics_, bk. 2, li. 96.――_Strabo_, bk. 4.
――_Pliny_, bk. 3, ch. 20; bk. 14, ch. 2, &c.――_Horace_, bk. 4, ode 4
& 14.
=Rhamnes=, a king and augur, who assisted Turnus against Æneas. He was
killed in the night by Nisus. _Virgil_, _Æneid_, bk. 9, li. 325.
=Rhamnus=, a town of Attica, famous for a temple of Amphiaraus, and a
statue of the goddess Nemesis, who was from thence called _Rhamnusia_.
This statue was made by Phidias, out of a block of Parian marble,
which the Persians intended as a pillar to be erected to commemorate
their expected victory over Greece. _Pausanias_, bk. 1.――_Pliny_,
bk. 36.
=Rhamnusia=, a name of Nemesis. _See:_ Rhamnus.
=Rhampsinītus=, an opulent king of Egypt, who succeeded Proteus.
He built a large tower with stones at Memphis, where his riches
were deposited, and of which he was robbed by the artifice of the
architect, who had left a stone in the wall easily movable, so as to
admit a plunderer. _Herodotus_, bk. 2, ch. 121, &c.
=Rhamses=, or =Ramises=, a powerful king of Egypt, who, with an army
of 700,000 men, conquered Æthiopia, Libya, Persia, and other eastern
nations. In his reign, according to Pliny, Troy was taken. Some
authors consider him to be the same as Sesostris. _Tacitus_, _Annals_,
bk. 2, ch. 60.――_Pliny_, bk. 36, ch. 8.
=Rhanis=, one of Diana’s attendant nymphs. _Ovid_, _Metamorphoses_,
bk. 3.
=Rharos=, or =Rharium=, a plain of Attica, where corn was first sown
by Triptolemus. It received its name from the sower’s father, who was
called Rharos. _Pausanias_, bk. 1, chs. 14 & 38.
=Rhascupŏris=, a king of Thrace, who invaded the possessions of Cotys,
and was put to death by order of Tiberius, &c. _Tacitus_, _Annals_,
bk. 2, ch. 64.
=Rhea=, a daughter of Cœlus and Terra, who married Saturn, by whom she
had Vesta, Ceres, Juno, Pluto, Neptune, &c. Her husband, however,
devoured them all as soon as born, as he had succeeded to the throne
with the solemn promise that he would raise no male children, or,
according to others, because he had been informed by an oracle
that one of his sons would dethrone him. To stop the cruelty of her
husband, Rhea consulted her parents, and was advised to impose upon
him, or perhaps to fly into Crete. Accordingly, when she brought
forth, the child was immediately concealed, and Saturn devoured up
a stone which his wife had given him as her own child. The fears
of Saturn were soon proved to be well founded. A year after, the
child, whose name was Jupiter, became so strong and powerful, that
he drove his father from his throne. Rhea has been confounded by
the mythologists with some of the other goddesses, and many have
supposed that she was the same divinity that received adoration
under the various names of Bona Dea, Cybele, Dindymena, Magna mater,
Ceres, Vesta, Titæa, and Terra, Tellus, and Ops. _See:_ Cybele,
Ceres, Vesta, &c. Rhea, after the expulsion of her husband from his
throne, followed him to Italy, where he established a kingdom. Her
benevolence in this part of Europe was so great, that the golden
age of Saturn is often called the age of Rhea. _Hesiod_, _Theogony_.
――_Orpheus_, _Hymns_.――_Homer_, _Hymns_.――_Æschylus_, _Prometheus
Bound_.――_Euripides_, _Bacchæ_ & _Electra_.――_Ovid_, _Fasti_, bk. 4,
li. 197.――_Apollodorus_, bk. 1, ch. 1, &c.――――Sylvia, the mother
of Romulus and Remus. She is also called Ilia. _See:_ Ilia.――――A
nymph of Italy, who is said to have borne a son called Aventinus to
Hercules. _Virgil_, _Æneid_, bk. 7, li. 659.
=Rhebas=, or =Rhebus=, a river of Bithynia, flowing from mount Olympus
into the Euxine sea. _Flaccus_, bk. 7, li. 698.
=Rhedŏnes.= _See:_ Redones.
=Rhegium=, now _Rheggio_, a town of Italy, in the country of the
Brutii, opposite Messana in Sicily, where a colony of Messenians
under Alcidamidas settled, B.C. 723. It was originally called
_Rhegium_, and afterwards _Rhegium Julium_, to distinguish it from
_Rhegium Lepidi_, a town of Cisalpine Gaul. Some suppose that it
received its name from the Greek word ῥηγνυμι, _to break_, because
it is situate on the straits of Charybdis, which were formed when
the island of Sicily, as it were, was broken and separated from
the continent of Italy. This town has always been subject to great
earthquakes, by which it has often been destroyed. The neighbourhood
is remarkable for its great fertility, and for its delightful views.
_Silius Italicus_, bk. 13, li. 94.――_Cicero_, _For Archias_, ch. 3.
――_Ovid_, _Metamorphoses_, bk. 14, lis. 5 & 48.――_Justin_, bk. 4,
ch. 1.――_Mela_, bk. 2, ch. 4.――_Strabo_, bk. 6.
=Rhegusci=, a people of the Alps.
=Rhemi.= _See:_ Remi.
=Rhene=, a small island of the Ægean, about 200 yards from Delos, 18
miles in circumference. The inhabitants of Delos always buried their
dead there, and their women also retired there during their labour,
as their own island was consecrated to Apollo, where Latona had
brought forth, and where no dead bodies were to be inhumated. Strabo
says that it was uninhabited, though it was once as populous and
flourishing as the rest of the Cyclades. Polycrates conquered it,
and consecrated it to Apollo, after he had tied it to Delos, by means
of a long chain. Rhene was sometimes called the small Delos, and
the island of Delos the great Delos. _Thucydides_, bk. 3.――_Strabo_,
bk. 10.――_Mela_, bk. 2, ch. 7.
=Rheni=, a people on the borders of the Rhine.
=Rhenus=, one of the largest rivers of Europe, which divides Germany
from Gaul. It rises in the Rhætian Alps, and falls into the German
ocean. Virgil has called it _bicornis_, because it divides itself
into two streams. The river Rhine was a long time a barrier between
the Romans and the Germans, and on that account its banks were
covered with strong castles. Julius Cæsar was the first Roman who
crossed it to invade Germany. The waters of that river were held in
great veneration, and were supposed by the ancient Germans to have
some peculiar virtue, as they threw their children into it, either
to try the fidelity of the mothers, or to brace and invigorate their
limbs. If the child swam on the surface, the mother was acquitted
of suspicion, but if it sunk to the bottom, its origin was deemed
illegitimate. In modern geography the Rhine is known as dividing
itself into four large branches; the Waal, Lech, Issel, and the
Rhine. That branch which still retains the name of Rhine loses
itself in the sands above modern Leyden, and is afterwards no longer
known by its ancient appellation, since the year 860, A.D., when
inundations of the sea destroyed the regularity of its mouth. _Ovid_,
_Metamorphoses_, bk. 2, li. 258.――_Strabo_, bk. 4.――_Mela_, bk. 2, ch.
3; bk. 5, ch. 2.――_Cæsar_, _Gallic War_, bk. 4, ch. 10.――_Tacitus_,
_Annals_, bk. 2, ch. 6.――_Virgil_, _Æneid_, bk. 8, li. 727.――――A
small river of Italy, falling into the Po on the south, now _Rheno_.
_Silius Italicus_, bk. 8, li. 600.――_Pliny_, bk. 3, ch. 16; bk. 16,
ch. 36.
=Rheomitres=, a Persian who revolted from Artaxerxes, &c. _Diodorus_,
bk. 15.――――A Persian officer killed at the battle of Issus. _Curtius_,
bk. 2, ch. 5.
=Rhesus=, a king of Thrace, son of the Strymon and Terpsichore, or,
according to others, of Eioneus by Euterpe. After many warlike
exploits and conquests in Europe, he marched to the assistance of
Priam king of Troy, against the Greeks. He was expected with great
impatience, as an ancient oracle had declared that Troy should never
be taken if the horses of Rhesus drank the waters of the Xanthus, and
fed upon the grass of the Trojan plains. This oracle was well known
to the Greeks, and therefore two of their best generals, Diomedes
and Ulysses, were commissioned by the rest to intercept the Thracian
prince. The Greeks entered his camp in the night, slew him, and
carried away his horses to their camp. _Homer_, _Iliad_, bk. 10.
――_Dictys Cretensis_, bk. 2.――_Apollodorus_, bk. 1, ch. 3.――_Virgil_,
_Æneid_, bk. 1, li. 473.――_Ovid_, _Metamorphoses_, bk. 13, li. 98.
=Rhetogĕnes=, a prince of Spain, who surrendered to the Romans, and was
treated with great humanity.
=Rhetĭco=, a mountain of Rhætia.
=Rheunus=, a place in Arcadia. _Pausanias_, bk. 8, ch. 23.
=Rhexēnor=, a son of Nausithous king of Phæacia. _Homer_, _Odyssey_,
bk. 7.――――The father of Chalciope, the wife of Ægeus king of Athens.
――――A musician who accompanied Antony in Asia.
=Rhexibius=, an athlete of Opus, who obtained a prize in the Olympic
games, and had a statue in the grove of Jupiter. _Pausanias_, bk. 6,
ch. 18.
=Rhiānus=, a Greek poet of Thrace, originally a slave. He wrote an
account of the war between Sparta and Messenia, which continued for
20 years, as also a history of the principal revolutions and events
which had taken place in Thessaly. Of this poetical composition
nothing but a few verses are extant. He flourished about 200 years
before the christian era. _Pausanias_, bk. 4, ch. 6.
=Rhidago=, a river of Hyrcania falling into the Caspian sea. _Curtius_,
bk. 6, ch. 4.
=Rhimotăcles=, a king of Thrace, who revolted from Antony to
Augustus. He boasted of his attachment to the emperor’s person at an
entertainment, upon which Augustus said, _proditionem amo, proditores
vero odi_.
=Rhinocolūra=, a town on the borders of Palestine and Egypt. _Livy_,
bk. 45, ch. 11.
♦=Rhinthon=, a Greek poet of Tarentum, in the age of Alexander.
_Cicero_, _Letters to Atticus_, ltr. 20.
♦ Out of alphabetical order in the text.
=Rhion=, a promontory of Achaia, opposite to Antirrhium in Ætolia,
at the mouth of the Corinthian gulf, called also the Dardanelles of
Lepanto. The strait between Naupactum and Patræ bore also the same
name. The tomb of Hesiod was at the top of the promontory. _Livy_,
bk. 27, ch. 30; bk. 38, ch. 7.――_Pliny_, bk. 4, ch. 2.――_Pausanias_,
bk. 7, ch. 22.
=Rhipha=, or =Rhiphe=, a town of Arcadia. _Statius_, bk. 4, _Thebaid_,
li. 286.
=Rhiphæi=, large mountains at the north of Scythia, where, as
some suppose, the Gorgons had fixed their residence. The name of
_Rhiphæan_ was applied to any cold mountain in a northern country,
and, indeed, these mountains seem to have existed only in the
imagination of the poets, though some make the Tanais rise there.
_Pliny_, bk. 4, ch. 12.――_Lucan_, bk. 3, li. 272; bk. 3, li. 282; bk.
4, li. 418.――_Virgil_, _Georgics_, bk. 1, li. 240; bk. 4, li. 518.
=Rhipheus=, one of the Centaurs. _Ovid_, _Metamorphoses_.――――A Trojan
praised for his justice, &c. _Virgil_, _Æneid_, bk. 2, li. 426.
_See:_ Ripheus.
=Rhium.= _See:_ Rhion.
=Rhizonitæ=, a people of Illyricum, whose chief town was called
_Rhizinium_. _Livy_, bk. 45, ch. 26.
=Rhoda=, now _Roses_, a seaport town of Spain. _Livy_, bk. 34, ch. 8.
――――A town on the Rhone, from which the river received its name. It
was ruined in Pliny’s age. _Pliny_, bk. 3, ch. 4.
=Rhodănus=, a river of Gallia Narbonensis, arising in the Rhætian Alps,
and falling into the Mediterranean sea, near Marseilles. It is one
of the largest and most rapid rivers of Europe, now known by the
name of the _Rhone_. _Mela_, bk. 2, ch. 5; bk. 3, ch. 3.――_Ovid_,
_Metamorphoses_, bk. 2, li. 258.――_Silius Italicus_, bk. 3, li. 477.
――_Marcellinus_, bk. 15, &c.――_Cæsar_, _Gallic War_, bk. 1, ch. 1.
――_Pliny_, bk. 3, ch. 4.――_Strabo_, bk. 4.――_Lucan_, bk. 1, li. 433;
bk. 6, li. 475.
=Rhode=, a daughter of Neptune. _Apollodorus._――――Of Danaus.
_Apollodorus._
=Rhodia=, one of the Oceanides. _Hesiod._――――A daughter of Danaus.
_Apollodorus._
=Rhodogȳne=, a daughter of Phraates king of Parthia, who married
Demetrius, when he was in banishment at her father’s court.
_Polyænus_, bk. 8.
=Rhŏdŏpe=, or =Rhodōpis=, a celebrated courtesan of Greece, who was
fellow-servant with Æsop, at the court of a king of Samos. She was
carried to Egypt by Xanthus, and her liberty was at last bought by
Charaxes of Mitylene, the brother of Sappho, who was enamoured of
her, and who married her. She sold her favours at Naucratis, where
she collected so much money, that, to render her name immortal, she
consecrated a number of spits in the temple of Apollo at Delphi;
or, according to others, erected one of the pyramids of Egypt. Ælian
says that, as Rhodope was one day bathing herself, an eagle carried
away one of her sandals, and dropped it near Psammetichus king of
Egypt, at Memphis. The monarch was struck with the beauty of the
sandal, strict inquiry was made to find the owner, and Rhodope, when
discovered, married Psammetichus. _Herodotus_, bk. 2, ch. 134, &c.
――_Ovid_, _Heroides_, poem 15.――_Ælian_, _Varia Historia_, bk. 13,
ch. 33. Perizonius supposes there were two persons of that name.
=Rhŏdŏpe=, a high mountain of Thrace, extending as far as the Euxine
sea, all across the country, nearly in an eastern direction. Rhodope,
according to the poets, was the wife of Hæmus king of Thrace, who
was changed into this mountain, because she preferred herself to Juno
in beauty. _Ovid_, _Metamorphoses_, bk. 6, li. 87, &c.――_Virgil_,
_Eclogues_, poem 8; _Georgics_, bk. 3, li. 351.――_Mela_, bk. 2, ch. 2.
――_Strabo_, bk. 7.――_Silius Italicus_, bk. 2, li. 73.――_Seneca_,
_Hercules Oetaeus_.
=Rhodopēius=, is used in the same signification as Thracian, because
Rhodope was a mountain of that country. _Ovid_, _Ars Amatoria_, bk. 3,
li. 321; _Heroides_, poem 2.――_Virgil_, _Georgics_, bk. 4, li. 461.
=Rhodunia=, the top of mount Œta. _Livy_, bk. 36, ch. 16.
=Rhodus=, a celebrated island in the Carpathian sea, 120 miles in
circumference, at the south of Caria, from which it is distant
about 20 miles. Its principal cities were Rhodes, founded about 408
years before the christian era, Lindus, Camisus, Jalysus. Rhodes
was famous for the siege which it supported against Demetrius, and
for a celebrated statue of Apollo. _See:_ Colossus. The Rhodians
were originally governed by kings, and were independent, but this
government was at last exchanged for a democracy and an aristocracy.
They were naturally given up to commerce, and, during many ages, they
were the most powerful nation by sea. Their authority was respected,
and their laws were so universally approved, that every country made
use of them to decide disputes concerning maritime affairs, and they
were at last adopted by other commercial nations, and introduced into
the Roman codes, from whence they have been extracted to form the
basis of the maritime regulations of modern Europe. When Alexander
made himself master of Asia, the Rhodians lost their independence,
but they soon after asserted their natural privileges under his
cruel successors, and continued to hold that influence among nations
to which their maritime power and consequence entitled them. They
assisted Pompey against Cæsar, and were defeated by Cassius, and
became dependent upon the Romans. The island of Rhodes has been known
by the several names of _Ophiusa_, _Stadia_, _Telchinus_, _Corymbia_,
_Trinacria_, _Æthrea_, _Asteria_, _Poessa_, _Atabyria_, _Oloessa_,
_Marcia_, and _Pelagia_. It received the name of Rhodes, either on
account of Rhode, a beautiful nymph who dwelt there, and who was one
of the favourites of Apollo, or because _roses_ (ῥοδον) grew in great
abundance all over the island. _Strabo_, bk. 14.――_Homer_, _Iliad_,
bk. 2.――_Mela_, bk. 2, ch. 7.――_Diodorus_, bk. 5.――_Pliny_, bk. 2,
chs. 62 & 87; bk. 5, ch. 31.――_Florus_, bk. 2, ch. 7.――_Pindar_,
_Olympian_, poem 7.――_Lucan_, bk. 8, li. 248.――_Cicero_, _On Pompey’s
Command_; _Brutus_, ltr. 13.――_Livy_, bk. 27, ch. 30; bk. 31, ch. 2.
=Rhœbus=, a horse of Mezentius, whom his master addressed with the
determination to conquer or to die, when he saw his son Lausus
brought lifeless from the battle. This beautiful address is copied
from Homer, where likewise Achilles addresses his horses. _Virgil_,
_Æneid_, bk. 10, li. 861.
=Rhœcus=, one of the Centaurs who attempted to offer violence to
Atalanta. He was killed at the nuptials of Pirithous by Bacchus.
_Ovid_, _Metamorphoses_, bk. 12, li. 301.――_Virgil_, _Georgics_,
bk. 2.――――One of the giants killed by Bacchus, under the form of a
lion, in the war which these sons of the earth waged against Jupiter
and the gods. _Horace_, bk. 2, ode 19, li. 23.
=Rhœo=, a nymph beloved by Apollo. _Diodorus_, bk. 5.
=Rhœtēum=, or =Rhœtus=, a promontory of Troas, on the Hellespont, near
which the body of Ajax was buried. _Ovid_, _Metamorphoses_, bk. 11,
li. 197; bk. 4, _Fasti_, li. 279.――_Virgil_, _Æneid_, bk. 6, li. 505;
bk. 12, li. 456.
=Rhœtius=, a mountain of Corsica, now _Rosso_.