Part 16

=Amūlius=, king of Alba, was son of Procas and youngest brother to Numitor. The crown belonged to Numitor by right of birth; but Amulius dispossessed him of it, and even put to death his son Lausus, and consecrated his daughter Rhea Sylvia to the service of Vesta, to prevent her ever becoming a mother. Yet, in spite of all these precautions, Rhea became pregnant by the god Mars, and brought forth twins, Romulus and Remus. Amulius, who was informed of this, ordered the mother to be buried alive for violating the laws of Vesta, which enjoined perpetual chastity, and the two children to be thrown into the river. They were providentially saved by some shepherds, or, as others say, by a she-wolf; and when they had attained the years of manhood, they put to death the usurper, Amulius, and restored the crown to their grandfather. _Ovid_, _Fasti_, bk. 3, li. 67.―― _Livy_, bk. 1, chs. 3 & 4.――_Plutarch_, _Romulus_.――_Florus_, bk. 1, ch. 1.――_Dionysius of Halicarnassus._――――A celebrated painter. _Pliny_, bk. 35, ch. 10.

=Amy̆ci Portus=, a place in Pontus, famous for the death of Amycus king of the Bebryces. His tomb was covered with laurels, whose boughs, as is reported, when carried on board a ship, caused uncommon dissensions among the sailors. _Pliny_, bk. 5, ch. 32.――_Arrian._

=Amy̆cla=, a daughter of Niobe, who, with her sister Melibœa, was spared by Diana, when her mother boasted herself greater than Diana. _Pausanias_, bk. 2, ch. 22.――――Homer says that all the daughters perished. _Iliad_, bk. 24. _See:_ Niobe.――――The nurse of Alcibiades.

=Amy̆clæ=, a town of Italy between Caieta and Tarracina, built by the companions of Castor and Pollux. The inhabitants were strict followers of the precepts of Pythagoras, and therefore abstained from flesh. They were killed by serpents, which they thought impious to destroy, though in their own defence. _Pliny_, bk. 8, ch. 29. Once a report prevailed in Amyclæ that the enemies were coming to storm it; upon which the inhabitants made a law that forbade such a report to be credited, and when the enemy really arrived, no one mentioned it, or took up arms in his own defence, and the town was easily taken. From this circumstance the epithet of _tacitæ_ has been given to Amyclæ. _Virgil_, _Æneid_, bk. 10, li. 564.――_Silius Italicus_, bk. 8, li. 529.――――A city of Peloponnesus, built by Amyclas. Castor and Pollux were born there. The country was famous for dogs. Apollo, called Amyclæus, had a rich and magnificent temple there, surrounded with delightful groves. _Pausanias_, bk. 3, ch. 18. ――_Statius_, _Thebiad_, bk. 4, li. 223.――_Strabo_, bk. 8.――_Virgil_, _Georgics_, bk. 3, li. 345.――_Ovid_, _de Ars Amatoria_, bk. 2, li. 5.

=Amyclæus=, a statuary. _Pausanias_, bk. 10, ch. 13.――――A surname of Apollo.

=Amyclas=, son of Lacedæmon and Sparta, built the city of Amyclæ. His sister Eurydice married Acrisius king of Argos, by whom she had Danae. _Pausanias_, bk. 3, ch. 1; bk. 7, ch. 18.――――The master of a ship in which Cæsar embarked in disguise. When Amyclas wished to put back to avoid a violent storm, Cæsar, unveiling his head, discovered himself, and bidding the pilot pursue his voyage, exclaimed, _Cæsarem vehis, Cæsarisque fortunam_. _Lucan_, bk. 5, li. 520.

=Amy̆cus=, son of Neptune by Melia, or Bithynis, according to others, was king of the Bebryces. He was famous for his skill in the management of the cestus, and he challenged all strangers to a trial of strength. When the Argonauts, in their expedition, stopped on his coasts, he treated them with great kindness, and Pollux accepted his challenge, and killed him when he attempted to overcome him by fraud. _Apollonius_, bk. 2, _Argonautica_.――_Theocritus_, _Idylls_, poem 22.――_Apollonius_, bk. 1, ch. 9.――――One of the companions of Æneas, who almost perished in a storm on the coast of Africa. He was killed by Turnus. _Virgil_, _Æneid_, bk. 1, li. 225; bk. 9, li. 772.――――Another, likewise killed by Turnus. _Ibis_, bk. 12, li. 509.――――A son of Ixion and the cloud.――_Ovid_, _Metamorphoses_, bk. 12, li. 245.

=Amy̆don=, a city of Pæonia in Macedonia, which sent auxiliaries to Priam during the Trojan war. _Homer_, _Iliad_, bk. 2.

=Amȳmōne=, daughter of Danaus and Europa, married Enceladus son of Ægyptus, whom she murdered the first night of her nuptials. She wounded a satyr with an arrow which she had aimed at a stag. The satyr pursued her, and even offered her violence, but Neptune delivered her. It was said that she was the only one of the 50 sisters who was not condemned to fill a leaky tub with water in hell, because she had been continually employed, by order of her father, in supplying the city of Argos with water in a great drought. Neptune saw her in this employment, and was enamoured of her. He carried her away, and in the place where she stood, he raised a fountain by striking a rock. The fountain has been called Amymone. She had Nauplius by Neptune. _Propertius_, bk. 2, poem 26, li. 46. ――_Apollodorus_, bk. 2.――_Strabo_, bk. 8.――_Pausanias_, bk. 2, ch. 37.――_Ovid_, _Amores_, bk. 1, li. 515.――_Hyginus_, fable 169.――――A fountain and rivulet of Peloponnesus, flowing through Argolis into the lake of Lerna. _Ovid_, _Metamorphoses_, bk. 2, li. 240.

=Amyntas I.=, was king of Macedonia after his father Alcetas. His son Alexander murdered the ambassadors of Megabyzus, for their wanton and insolent behaviour to the ladies of his father’s court. Bubares, a Persian general, was sent with an army to revenge the death of the ambassadors; but instead of making war, he married the king’s daughter, and defended his possessions. _Justin_, bk. 7, ch. 3. ――_Herodotus_, bks. 5, 7, & 8.――――The second of that name was son of Menelaus, and king of Macedonia after his murder of Pausanias. He was expelled by the Illyrians, and restored by the Thessalians and Spartans. He made war against the Illyrians and Olynthians, and lived to a great age. His wife Eurydice conspired against his life; but her snares were seasonably discovered by one of his daughters by a former wife. He had Alexander, Perdiccas, and Philip, Alexander the Great’s father, by his first wife; and by the other he had Archelaus, Aridæus, and Menelaus. He reigned 24 years; and soon after his death his son Philip murdered all his brothers, and ascended the throne.――_Justin_, bk. 7, chs. 4 & 9.――_Diodorus_, bk. 14, &c.――_Cornelius Nepos_ & _Plutarch_, _Pelopidas_.――――There is another king of Macedonia of the same name, but of his life few particulars are recorded in history.――――A man who succeeded Dejotarus, in the kingdom of Gallogræcia. After his death it became a Roman province under Augustus. _Strabo_, bk. 12.――――One of Alexander’s officers.――――Another officer who deserted to Darius, and was killed as he attempted to seize Egypt. _Curtius_, bk. 3, ch. 9.――――A son of Antiochus, who withdrew himself from Macedonia, because he hated Alexander.――――An officer in Alexander’s cavalry. He had two brothers, called Simias and Polemon. He was accused of a conspiracy against the king, on account of his great intimacy with Philotas, and acquitted. _Curtius_, bk. 4, ch. 15; bk. 6, ch. 9; bk. 8, ch. 12.――――A shepherd’s name in Virgil’s _Eclogues_.――――A Greek writer who composed several works quoted by Athenæus, 10 & 12.

=Amyntiānus=, an historian in the age of Antoninus, who wrote a treatise in commendation of Philip, Olympias, and Alexander.

=Amyntor=, a king of Argos, son of Phrastor. He deprived his son Phœnix of his eyes, to punish him for the violence which he had offered to Clytia his concubine. _Hyginus_, fable 173.――_Ovid_, _Metamorphoses_, bk. 8, li. 307.――_Apollodorus_, bk. 3.――_Homer_, _Iliad_, bk. 9.――――A general of the Dolopes. _Ovid_, _Metamorphoses_, bk. 12, li. 364.――――A son of Ægyptus, killed by Damone the first night of his marriage. _Hyginus_, fable 170.

=Amyris=, a man of Sybaris, who consulted the oracle of Delphi concerning the probable duration of his country’s prosperity, &c.

=Amyrīcus Campus=, a plain of Thessaly. _Polybius_, bk. 3.

=Amyrius=, a king by whom Cyrus was killed in a battle. _Ctesias._

=Amy̆rus=, a town of Thessaly.――――A river mentioned by _Valerius Flaccus_, bk. 2, li. 11.

=Amystis=, a river of India falling into the Ganges. _Arrian_, _Indica_.

=Amythāon=, a son of Cretheus king of Iolchos, by Tyro. He married Idomene, by whom he had Bias and Melampus. After his father’s death, he established himself in Messenia with his brother Neleus, and re-established or regulated the Olympic games. Melampus is called _Amythaonius_, from his father Amythaon. _Virgil_, _Georgics_, bk. 3, li. 550.――_Diodorus_, bk. 4.――_Apollodorus_, bk. 1.――_Homer_, _Odyssey_, bk. 11.――――A son of Hippasus, who assisted Priam in the Trojan war, and was killed by Lycomedes. _Homer_, _Iliad_, bk. 17.

=Amytis=, a daughter of Astyages, whom Cyrus married. _Ctesias._――――A daughter of Xerxes, who married Megabyzus, and disgraced herself by her debaucheries.

=Anăces=, or =Anactes=, a name given to Castor and Pollux among the Athenians. Their festivals were called Anaceia. _Plutarch_, _Theseus_.――_Cicero_, _de Natura Deorum_, bk. 3, ch. 21.

=Anacharsis=, a Scythian philosopher, 592 B.C., who, on account of 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.