Part 14

=Alopĕce=, an island in the Palus Mæotis. _Strabo._――――Another in the Cimmerian Bosphorus. _Pliny_, bk. 4, ch. 12.――――Another in the Ægean sea opposite Smyrna. _Pliny_, bk. 5, ch. 31.――――A small village of Attica, where was the tomb of Anchimolius, whom the Spartans had sent to deliver Athens from the tyranny of the Pisistratidæ. Socrates and Aristides were born there. _Aeschines_, _Against Timarchus_.――_Herodotus_, bk. 5, ch. 64.

=Alopius=, a son of Hercules and Antiope. _Apollodorus_, bk. 2, ch. 35.

=Alos=, a town of Achaia. _Strabo_, bk. 9.――_Pliny_, bk. 4, ch. 7.

=Alotia=, festivals in Arcadia, in commemoration of a victory gained over Lacedæmon by the Arcadians.

=Alpēnus=, the capital of Locris, at the north of Thermopylæ. _Herodotus_, bk. 7, ch. 176, &c.

=Alpes=, mountains that separate Italy from Spain, Gaul, Rhætia, and Germany; considered as the highest ground in Europe. From them arise several rivers, which, after watering the neighbouring countries, discharge themselves into the German, Mediterranean, and Euxine seas. The Alps are covered with perpetual snows, and distinguished, according to their situation, by the different names of _Cottiæ_, _Carnicæ_, _Graiæ_, _Noricæ_, _Juliæ_, _Maritimæ_, _Pannoniæ_, _Penninæ_, _Pœnæ_, _Rhætiæ_, _Tridentinæ_, _Venetæ_. A traveller is generally five days in reaching the top in some parts. They were supposed for a long time to be impassable. Hannibal marched his army over them, and made his way through rocks, by softening and breaking them with vinegar. They were inhabited by fierce uncivilized nations, who were unsubdued till the age of Augustus, who, to eternize the victory which he had obtained over them, erected a pillar in their territory. _Strabo_, bks. 4 & 5.――_Livy_, bk. 21, ch. 35.――_Juvenal_, satire 10, li. 151.――_Horace_, bk. 2, satire 5, li. 41.――_Lucan_, bk. 1, li. 183.――_Tacitus_, _Histories_, bk. 3, ch. 53.

=Alpheia=, a surname of Diana in Elis. It was given her when the river Alpheus endeavoured to ravish her without success.――――A surname of the nymph Arethusa, because loved by the Alpheus. _Ovid_, _Metamorphoses_, bk. 5, li. 487.

=Alphēnor=, one of Niobe’s sons. _Ovid_, _Metamorphoses_, bk. 6, fable 6.

=Alphēnus.= _See:_ Alfenus.

=Alphesibœa=, daughter of the river Phlegeus, married Alcmæon son of Amphiaraus, who had fled to her father’s court after the murder of his mother. _See:_ Alcmæon. She received, as a bridal present, the famous necklace which Polynices had given to Eriphyle, to induce her to betray her husband Amphiaraus. Alcmæon being persecuted by the means of his mother, left his wife by order of the oracle, and retired near the Achelous, whose daughter Callirrhoe had two sons by him, and begged of him, as a present, the necklace which was then in the hands of Alphesibœa. He endeavoured to obtain it, and was killed by Temenus and Axion, Alphesibœa’s brothers, who thus revenged their sister who had been so innocently abandoned. _Hyginus_, fable 244.――_Propertius_, bk. 8, poem 15, li. 15.――_Pausanias_, bk. 8, ch. 24.

=Alphesibœus=, a shepherd, often mentioned in Virgil’s eclogues.

=Alphēus=, now _Alpheo_, a famous river of Peloponnesus, which rises in Arcadia, and after passing through Elis falls into the sea. The god of this river fell in love with the nymph Arethusa, and pursued her till she was changed into a fountain by Diana. The fountain Arethusa is in Ortygia, a small island near Syracuse; and the ancients affirm that the river Alpheus passes under the sea from Peloponnesus, and without mingling itself with the salt waters, rises again in Ortygia, and joins the stream of Arethusa. If anything is thrown into the Alpheus in Elis, according to their traditions, it will reappear, after some time, swimming on the waters of Arethusa, near Sicily. Hercules made use of the Alpheus to clean the stables of Augeas. _Strabo_, bk. 6.――_Virgil_, _Æneid_, bk. 3, li. 694.――_Ovid_, _Metamorphoses_, bk. 5, fable 10.――_Lucan_, bk. 3, li. 176. ――_Statius_, _Thebiad_, bks. 1 & 4.――_Mela_, bk. 2, ch. 7.――_Pausanias_, bk. 5, ch. 7; bk. 6, ch. 21.――_Marcellinus_, bk. 25.――_Pliny_, bk. 2, ch. 103.

=Alphius=, or =Alfeus=, a celebrated usurer ridiculed in _Horace_, _Epodes_, poem 2.

=Alphius Avitus=, a writer in the age of Severus, who gave an account of illustrious men, and a history of the Carthaginian war.

=Alpīnus=, belonging to the Alps. _Virgil_, _Æneid_, bk. 4, li. 442.

=Alpīnus (Cornelius)=, a contemptible poet, whom Horace ridicules for the awkward manner in which he introduces the death of Memnon in a tragedy, and the pitiful style with which he describes the Rhine, in an epic poem which he attempted on the wars in Germany. _Horace_, bk. 1, satire 10, li. 36.――――Julius, one of the chiefs of the Helvetii. _Tacitus_, _Histories_, bk. 1, ch. 68.

=Alpis=, a small river falling into the Danube.

=Alsium=, a maritime town at the west of the Tiber, now _Statua_. _Silius Italicus_, bk. 8.

=Alsus=, a river of Achaia in Peloponnesus, flowing from mount Sipylus. _Pausanias_, bk. 7, ch. 27.――――A shepherd during the Rutulian wars. _Virgil_, _Æneid_, bk. 12, li. 304.

=Althæa=, daughter of Thestius and Eurythemis, married Œneus king of Calydon, by whom she had many children, among whom was Meleager. When Althæa brought forth Meleager, the Parcæ placed a log of wood in the fire, and said, that as long as it was preserved, so long would the life of the child just born be prolonged. The mother saved the wood from the flames, and kept it very carefully; but when Meleager killed his two uncles, Althæa’s brothers, Althæa, to revenge their death, threw the log into the fire, and as soon as it was burnt, Meleager expired. She was afterwards so sorry for the death she had caused, that she killed herself, unable to survive her son. _See:_ Meleager. _Ovid_, _Metamorphoses_, bk. 8, fable 4.――_Homer_, _Iliad_, bk. 9.――_Pausanias_, bk. 8, ch. 45; bk. 10, ch. 31.――_Apollodorus_, bk. 1, ch. 8.

=Althæmĕnes=, a son of Creteus king of Crete. Hearing that either he or his brothers were to be their father’s murderers, he fled to Rhodes, where he made a settlement, to avoid becoming a parricide. After the death of all his other sons, Creteus went after his son Althæmenes; when he landed in Rhodes, the inhabitants attacked him, supposing him to be an enemy, and he was killed by the hand of his own son. When Althæmenes knew that he had killed his father, he entreated the gods to remove him, and the earth immediately opened, and swallowed him up. _Apollodorus_, bk. 3, ch. 2.

=Altīnum=, a flourishing city of Italy, near Aquileia, famous for its wool. _Martial_, bk. 14, ltr. 25.――_Pliny_, bk. 3, ch. 18.

=Altis=, a sacred grove round Jupiter’s temple at Olympia, where the statues of the Olympic conquerors were placed. _Pausanias_, bk. 5, ch. 20, &c.

=Altus=, a city of Peloponnesus. _Xenophon_, _Hellenica_.

=Aluntium=, a town of Sicily. _Pliny_, bk. 5, ch. 8.――_Cicero_, _Against Verres_, bk. 4.

=Alus=, =Aluus=, and =Halus=, a village of Arcadia, called also the temple of Æsculapius. _Pausanias_, bk. 8, ch. 25.

=Alyattes I.=, a king of Lydia, descended from the Heraclidæ. He reigned 57 years.

=Alyattes II.=, king of Lydia, of the family of the Mermnadæ, was father to Crœsus. He drove the Cimmerians from Asia, and made war against the Medes. He died when engaged in a war against Miletus, after a reign of 35 years. A monument was raised on his grave with the money which the women of Lydia had obtained by prostitution. An eclipse of the sun terminated a battle between him and Cyaxares. _Herodotus_, bk. 1, chs. 16, 17, &c.――_Strabo_, bk. 13.

=Aly̆ba=, a country near Mysia. _Homer_, _Iliad_, bk. 2.

=Alycæa=, a town of Arcadia. _Pausanias_, bk. 8, ch. 27.

=Alycæus=, son of Sciron, was killed by Theseus. A place in Megara received its name from him. _Plutarch_, _Theseus_.

=Aly̆mon=, the husband of Circe.

=Alyssus=, a fountain of Arcadia, whose waters could cure the bite of a mad dog. _Pausanias_, bk. 8, ch. 19.

=Alyxothoe=, or =Alexirhoe=, daughter of Dymus, was mother of Æsacus by Priam. _Ovid_, _Metamorphoses_, bk. 11, li. 763.

=Alyzia=, a town of Acarnania on the western mouth of the Achelous, opposite to the Echinades. _Cicero_, _Letters to his Friends_, bk. 16, ltr. 2.

=Amadŏcus=, a king of Thrace, defeated by his antagonist Seuthes. _Aristotle_, bk. 5, _Politics_, ch. 10.

=Amage=, a queen of Sarmatia, remarkable for her justice and fortitude. _Polyænus_, bk. 8, ch. 56.

=Amalthæa=, daughter of Melissus king of Crete, fed Jupiter with goat’s milk. Hence some authors have called her a goat, and have maintained that Jupiter, to reward her kindnesses, placed her in heaven as a constellation, and gave one of her horns to the nymphs who had taken care of his infant years. This horn was called the horn of plenty, and had the power to give the nymphs whatever they desired. _Diodorus_, bks. 3, 4, 5.――_Ovid_, _Fasti_, bk. 5, li. 113.――_Strabo_, bk. 10.――_Hyginus_, fable 139.――_Pausanias_, bk. 7, ch. 26.――――A Sibyl of Cumæ, called also Hierophile and Demophile. She is supposed to be the same who brought nine books of prophecies to Tarquin king of Rome, &c. _Varro._――_Tibullus_, bk. 2, poem 5, li. 67. _See:_ Sibyllæ.

=Amalthēum=, a public place which Atticus had opened in his country house, called Amalthea, in Epirus, and provided with everything which could furnish entertainment and convey instruction. _Cicero_, _Letters to Atticus_, bk. 1, ltr. 13.

=Amăna=, or =Amanus=, part of mount Taurus in Cilicia. _Lucan_, bk. 3, li. 244.

=Cn. Salvius Amandus=, a rebel general under Diocletian, who assumed imperial honours, and was at last conquered by Diocletian’s colleague.

=Amantes=, or =Amantīni=, a people of Illyricum descended from the Abantes of Phocis. _Callimachus._

=Amānus=, one of the deities worshipped in Armenia and Cappadocia. _Strabo_, bk. 11.――――A mountain in Cilicia.

=Amārăcus=, an officer of Cinyras, changed into marjoram.

=Amardi=, a nation near the Caspian sea. _Mela_, bk. 1, ch. 3.

=Amartus=, a city of Greece. _Homer_, _Hymn to Apollo_.

=Amaryllis=, the name of a countrywoman in Virgil’s eclogues. Some commentators have supposed that the poet spoke of Rome under this fictitious appellation.

=Amarynceus=, a king of the Epeans, buried at Buprasium. _Strabo_, bk. 8.――_Pausanias_, bk. 8, ch. 1.

=Amarynthus=, a village in Eubœa, whence Diana is called Amarysia, and her festivals in that town Amarynthia.――――Eubœa is sometimes called Amarynthus. _Pausanias_, bk. 1, ch. 31.

=Amas=, a mountain of Laconia. _Pausanias_, bk. 3.

=Amăsēnus=, a small river of Latium falling into the Tyrrhene sea. _Virgil_, _Æneid_, bk. 7, li. 685.

=Amasia=, a city of Pontus, where Mithridates the Great and Strabo the geographer were born. _Strabo_, bk. 12.――_Pliny_, bk. 6, ch. 3.

=Amāsis=, a man who, from a common soldier, became king of Egypt. He made war against Arabia, and died before the invasion of his country by Cambyses king of Persia. He made a law that every one of his subjects should yearly give an account to the public magistrates of the manner in which he supported himself. He refused to continue in alliance with Polycrates the tyrant of Samos, on account of his uncommon prosperity. When Cambyses came into Egypt, he ordered the body of Amasis to be dug up, and to be insulted and burnt; an action which was very offensive to the religious notions of the Egyptians. _Herodotus_, bks. 1, 2, 3.――――A man who led the Persians against the inhabitants of Barce. _Herodotus_, bk. 4, ch. 201, &c.

=Amastris=, the wife of Dionysius the tyrant of Sicily, was sister to Darius, whom Alexander conquered. _Strabo_.――――Also, the wife of Xerxes king of Persia. _See:_ Amestris.――――A city of Paphlagonia, on the Euxine sea. _Catullus._

=Amastrus=, one of the auxiliaries of Perses, against Ætes king of Colchis, killed by Argus son of Phryxus. _Flaccus_, bk. 6, li. 544. ――――A friend of Æneas, killed by Camilla in the Rutulian war. _Virgil_, _Æneid_, bk. 11, li. 673.

=Amāta=, the wife of king Latinus. She had betrothed her daughter Lavinia to Turnus, before the arrival of Æneas in Italy. She zealously favoured the interest of Turnus, and when her daughter was given in marriage to Æneas, she hung herself to avoid the sight of her son-in-law. _Virgil_, _Æneid_, bk. 7, &c.

=Amăthus= (genitive: untis), now _Limisso_, a city on the southern side of the island of Cyprus, particularly dedicated to Venus. The island is sometimes called Amathusia, a name not unfrequently applied to the goddess of the place. _Virgil_, _Æneid_, bk. 10, li. 51.――_Claudius Ptolemy_, bk. 5, ch. 14.

=Amaxampēus=, a fountain of Scythia, whose waters imbitter the stream of the river Hypanis. _Herodotus_, bk. 4, ch. 52.

=Amaxia=, or =Amaxīta=, an ancient town of Troas.――――A place of Cilicia abounding with wood fit for building ships. _Pliny_, bk. 5, ch. 9.――_Strabo_, bk. 14.

=Amazēnes=, or =Mazēnes=, a prince of the island Oaractus, who sailed for some time with the Macedonians and Nearchus in Alexander’s expedition to the east. _Arrian_, _Indica_.

=Amazŏnes=, or =Amazŏnĭdes=, a nation of famous women who lived near the river Thermodon in Cappadocia. All their life was employed in wars and manly exercises. They never had any commerce with the other sex, but, only for the sake of propagation, they visited the inhabitants of the neighbouring country for a few days, and the male children which they brought forth were given to the fathers. According to Justin, they were strangled as soon as born, and Diodorus says that they maimed them and distorted their limbs. The females were carefully educated with their mothers, in the labours of the field; their right breast was burnt off that they might hurl a javelin with more force, and make a better use of the bow; from that circumstance, therefore, their name is derived (_a non_, μαζα _mamma_). They founded an extensive empire in Asia Minor, along the shores of the Euxine, and near the Thermodon. They were defeated in a battle near the Thermodon by the Greeks; and some of them migrated beyond the Tanais, and extended their territories as far as the Caspian sea. Themyscyra was the most capital of their towns; and Smyrna, Magnesia, Thyatira, and Ephesus, according to some authors, were built by them. Diodorus, bk. 3, mentions a nation of Amazons in Africa more ancient than those of Asia. Some authors, among whom is Strabo, deny the existence of the Amazons, and of a republic supported and governed by women, who banished or extirpated all their males; but Justin and Diodorus particularly support it; and the latter says that Penthesilea, one of their queens, came to the Trojan war on the side of Priam, and that she was killed by Achilles, and from that time the glory and character of the Amazons gradually decayed, and was totally forgotten. The Amazons of Africa flourished long before the Trojan war, and many of their actions have been attributed to those of Asia. It is said, that after they had subdued almost all Asia, they invaded Attica, and were conquered by Theseus. Their most famous actions were their expeditions against Priam, and afterwards the assistance they gave him during the Trojan war; and their invasion of Attica, to punish Theseus, who had carried away Antiope, one of their queens. They were also conquered by Bellerophon and Hercules. Among their queens, Hippolyte, Antiope, Lampeto, Marpesia, &c., are famous. Curtius says that Thalestris, one of their queens, came to Alexander, whilst he was pursuing his conquests in Asia, for the sake of raising children from a man of such military reputation; and that, after she had remained 13 days with him, she retired into her country. The Amazons were such expert archers, that, to denote the goodness of a bow or quiver, it was usual to call it Amazonian. _Virgil_, _Æneid_, bk. 5, li. 311. ――_Jornandes_, _Getica_, ch. 7.――_Philostratus Major_, _Imagines_, bk. 2, ch. 5.――_Justin_, bk. 2, ch. 4.――_Curtius_, bk. 6, ch. 5. ――_Pliny_, bk. 6, ch. 7; bk. 14, ch. 8; bk. 36, ch. 5.――_Herodotus_, bk. 4, ch. 110.――_Strabo_, bk. 11.――_Diodorus_, bk. 2.――_Dionysius of Halicarnassus_, bk. 4.――_Pausanias_, bk. 7, ch. 2.――_Plutarch_, _Theseus_.――_Apollodorus_, bk. 2, chs. 3 & 5.――_Hyginus_, fables 14 & 163.

=Amazŏnia=, a celebrated mistress of the emperor Commodus.――――The country of the Amazons, near the Caspian sea.

=Amazŏnium=, a place in Attica, where Theseus obtained a victory over the Amazons.

=Amazŏnius=, a surname of Apollo at Lacedæmon.

=Ambarri=, a people of Gallia Celtica, on the Arar, related to the Ædui. _Cæsar_, _Gallic War_, bk. 1, ch. 11.

=Ambarvālia=, a joyful procession round the ploughed fields, in honour of Ceres the goddess of corn. There were two festivals of that name celebrated by the Romans, one about the month of April, the other in July. They went three times round their fields crowned with oak leaves singing hymns to Ceres, and entreating her to preserve their corn. The word is derived _ab ambiendis arvis_, going round the fields. A sow, a sheep, and a bull, called _ambarvaliæ hostiæ_, were afterwards immolated, and the sacrifice has sometimes been called _suovetaurilia_, from _sus_, _ovis_, and _taurus_. _Virgil_, _Georgics_, bk. 1, lis. 339 & 345.――_Tibullus_, bk. 2, poem 1, li. 19.――_Cato_, _de Re Rustica_, ch. 141.

=Ambĕnus=, a mountain of European Sarmatia. _Flaccus_, bk. 6, ch. 85.

=Ambialītes=, a people of Gallia Celtica. _Cæsar_, _Gallic War_, bk. 3, ch. 9.

=Ambiānum=, a town of Belgium, now _Amiens_. Its inhabitants conspired against Julius Cæsar. _Cæsar_, _Gallic War_, bk. 2, ch. 4.

=Ambiatīnum=, a village of Germany, where the emperor Caligula was born. _Suetonius_, _Caligula_, ch. 8.

=Ambigātus=, a king of the Celtæ, in the time of Tarquinius Priscus. Seeing the great population of his country, he sent his two nephews, Sigovesus and Bellovesus, with two colonies, in quest of new settlements; the former towards the Hercynian woods, and the other towards Italy. _Livy_, bk. 5, ch. 34, &c.

=Ambiōrix=, a king of the Eburones in Gaul. He was a great enemy to Rome, and was killed in a battle with Julius Cæsar, in which 60,000 of his countrymen were slain. _Cæsar_, _Gallic War_, bk. 5, chs. 11, 26; bk. 6, ch. 30.

=Ambivius=, a man mentioned by _Cicero_, _de Senectute_.

=Amblada=, a town of Pisidia. _Strabo._

=Ambracia=, a city of Epirus near the Acheron, the residence of king Pyrrhus. Augustus, after the battle of Actium, called it Nicopolis. _Mela_, bk. 2, ch. 3.――_Pliny_, bk. 4, ch. 1.――_Polybius_, bk. 4, ch. 63.――_Strabo_, bk. 10.

=Ambracius Sinus=, a bay of the Ionian sea, near Ambracia, about 300 stadia deep, narrow at the entrance, but within near 100 stadia in breadth, and now called the gulf of Larta. _Polybius_, bk. 4, ch. 63.――_Mela_, bk. 2, ch. 3.――_Florus_, bk. 4, ch. 11.――_Strabo_, bk. 10.

=Ambri=, an Indian nation. _Justin_, bk. 12, ch. 9.

=Ambrōnes=, certain nations of Gaul, who lost their possessions by the inundation of the sea, and lived upon rapine and plunder, whence the word _Ambrones_ implied a dishonourable meaning. They were conquered by Marius. _Plutarch_, _Marius_.

=Ambrōsia=, festivals observed in honour of Bacchus in some cities in Greece. They were the same as the Brumalia of the Romans.――――One of the daughters of Atlas, changed into a constellation after death. ――――The food of the gods was called _ambrosia_, and their drink _nectar_. The word signifies immortal. It had the power of giving immortality to all those who eat it. It was sweeter than honey, and of a most odoriferous smell; and it is said that Berenice, the wife of Ptolemy Soter, was saved from death by eating ambrosia given her by Venus. Titonus was made immortal by Aurora, by eating ambrosia; and in like manner Tantalus and Pelops, who, on account of their impiety, had been driven from heaven, and compelled to die upon earth. It had the power of healing wounds, and therefore Apollo, in Homer’s Iliad, saves Sarpedon’s body from putrefaction, by rubbing it with ambrosia; and Venus also heals the wounds of her son, in Virgil’s Æneid, with it. The gods used generally to perfume the hair with ambrosia; as Juno when she adorned herself to captivate Jupiter, and Venus when she appeared to Æneas. _Homer_, _Iliad_, bks. 1, 14, 16, & 24.――_Lucian_, _de Dea Syria_.――_Catullus_, poem 100.―― _Theocritus_, _Idylls_, poem 15.――_Virgil_, _Æneid_, bk. 1, li. 407; bk. 12, li. 419.――_Ovid_, _Metamorphoses_, bk. 2.――_Pindar_, bk. 1, _Olympian_.

=Ambrosius=, bishop of Milan, obliged the emperor Theodosius to make penance for the murder of the people of Thessalonica, and distinguished himself by his writings, especially against the Arians. His three books, _de Officiis_, are still extant, besides eight hymns on the creation. His style is not inelegant, but his diction is sententious, his opinions eccentric, though his subject is diversified by copiousness of thought. He died A.D. 397. The best edition of his works is that of the Benedictines, 2 vols., folio, Paris, 1686.

=Ambrȳon=, a man who wrote the life of Theocritus of Chios. _Diogenes Laërtius._

=Ambryssus=, a city of Phocis, which receives its name from a hero of the same name. _Pausanias_, bk. 10, ch. 35.

=Ambūbājæ=, Syrian women of immoral lives, who, in the dissolute period of Rome, attended festivals and assemblies as minstrels. The name is derived by some from Syrian words, which signify a flute. _Horace_, bk. 1, satire 2.――_Suetonius_, _Nero_, ch. 27.

=Ambulli=, a surname of Castor and Pollux, in Sparta.

=Ameles=, a river of hell, whose waters no vessel could contain. ♦_Plato_, bk. 10, _Republic_.

♦ ‘Plutarch’ replaced with ‘Plato’

=Amenanus=, a river of Sicily, near mount Ætna, now _Guidicello_. _Strabo_, bk. 5.

=Amenīdes=, a secretary of Darius the last king of Persia. Alexander set him over the Arimaspi. _Curtius_, bk. 7, ch. 3.

=Amenŏcles=, a Corinthian, said to be the first Grecian who built a three-oared galley at Samos and Corinth. _Thucydides_, bk. 1, ch. 13.

=Ameria=, a city of Umbria, whose osiers (_Amerinæ salices_) were famous for the binding of vines to the elm trees. _Pliny_, bk. 3, ch. 14.――_Virgil_, _Georgics_, bk. 1, li. 265.

=Amestrătus=, a town of Sicily, near the Halesus. The Romans besieged it for seven months, and it yielded at last after a third siege, and the inhabitants were sold as slaves. _Polybius_, bk. 1, ch. 24.

=Amestris=, queen of Persia, was wife to Xerxes. She cruelly treated the mother of Artiante, her husband’s mistress, and cut off her nose, ears, lips, breast, tongue, and eyebrows. She also buried alive 14 noble Persian youths, to appease the deities under the earth. _Herodotus_, bk. 7, ch. 61; bk. 9, ch. 111.――――A daughter of Oxyartes, wife to Lysimachus. _Diodorus_, bk. 20.

=Amīda=, a city of Mesopotamia, besieged and taken by Sapor king of Persia. _Ammianus_, bk. 19.