Part 11

=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.

=Alcinous=, son of Nausithous and Peribœa, was king of Phæacia, and is praised for his love of agriculture. He married his niece Arete, by whom he had several sons and a daughter, Nausicaa. He kindly entertained Ulysses, who had been shipwrecked on his coast, and heard the recital of his adventures; whence arose the proverb of the stories of Alcinous to denote improbability. _Homer_, _Odyssey_, bk. 7.――_Orpheus_, _Argonautica_.――_Virgil_, _Georgics_, bk. 2, li. 87.――_Statius_, bk. 1, _Sylvæ_, poem 3, li. 81.――_Juvenal_, satire 5, li. 151.――_Ovid_, _Amores_, bk. 1, poem 10, li. 56.―― _Plato_, _Republic_, bk. 10.――_Apollodorus_, bk. 1, ch. 9.――――A son of Hippocoon. _Apollodorus_, bk. 3, ch. 10.――――A man of Elis. _Pausanias._――――A philosopher in the second century, who wrote a book _de Doctriná Platonis_, the best edition of which is the 12mo, printed Oxford, 1667.

=Alcioneus=, a man killed by Perseus. _Ovid_, _Metamorphoses_, bk. 5, fable 4.

=Alciphron=, a philosopher of Magnesia, in the age of Alexander. There are some epistles in Greek that bear his name, and contain a very perfect picture of the customs and manners of the Greeks. They are by some supposed to be the production of a writer of the fourth century. The only edition is that of Leipzig, 12mo, 1715, cum notis Bergleri.

=Alcippe=, a daughter of the god Mars, by Agraulos. She was ravished by Halirrhotius. _Apollodorus_, bk. 3, ch. 14.――――The wife of Metion and mother to Eupalamus. _Apollodorus_, bk. 3, ch. 16.――――The daughter of Œnomaus, and wife of Evenus, by whom she had Marpessa. ――――A woman who brought forth an elephant. _Pliny_, bk. 7.――――A country-woman. _Virgil_, _Eclogues_, poem 7.

=Alcippus=, a reputed citizen of Sparta, banished by his enemies. He married Democrite, of whom _Plutarch_, _Amatoriæ narrationes_.

=Alcis=, a daughter of Ægyptus. _Apollodorus._

=Alcithoe=, a Theban woman, who ridiculed the orgies of Bacchus. She was changed into a bat, and the spindle and yarn with which she worked, into a vine and ivy. _Ovid_, _Metamorphoses_, bk. 4, fable 1.