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Gregory I., surnamed the Great, fills St. Peter’s chair at Rome. The few men of learning who flourished the latter end of this century were Gildas, Agathias, Gregory of Tours the father of French history, Evagrius, and St. Augustin the monk 590

Augustin the monk, with 40 others, comes to preach christianity in England 597

About this time the Saxon heptarchy began in England 600

Phocas, a simple centurion, is elected emperor after the revolt of the soldiers, and the murder of Maurice and of his children 602

The power of the popes begins to be established by the concessions of Phocas 606

Heraclius, an officer in Africa, succeeds, after the murder of the usurper Phocas 610

The conquests of Chosroes king of Persia, in Syria, Egypt, Asia Minor, and afterwards his siege of Rome 611

The Persians take Jerusalem with the slaughter of 90,000 men, and the next year they overrun Africa 614

Mahomet, in his 53rd year, flies from Mecca to Medina, on Friday, July 16th, which forms the first year of the Hegira, the era of the Mahometans 622

Constantinople is besieged by the Persians and Arabs 626

Death of Mahomet 632

Jerusalem taken by the Saracens, and three years after Alexandria and its famous library destroyed 637

Constantine III. son of Heraclius, in partnership with Heracleonas, his brother by the same father, assumes the imperial purple. Constantine reigns 103 days, and after his death, his son. Constantine’s son Constans is declared emperor, though Heracleonas, with his mother Martina, wished to continue in possession of the supreme power 641

Cyprus taken by the Saracens 648

The Saracens take Rhodes, and destroy the Colossus 653

Constantine IV., surnamed Pogonatus, succeeds, on the murder of his father in Sicily 668

The Saracens ravage Sicily 669

Constantinople besieged by the Saracens, whose fleet is destroyed by the Greek fire 673

Justinian II. succeeds his father Constantine. In his exile of 10 years the purple was usurped by Leontius and Absimerus Tiberius. His restoration happened 704. The only men of learning in this century were Secundus, Isidorus, Theophylactus, Georgius Pisides, Callinicus, and the venerable Bede 685

Pepin engrosses the power of the whole French monarchy 690

Africa finally conquered by the Saracens 709

Bardanes, surnamed Philippicus, succeeds at Constantinople, on the murder of Justinian 711

Spain is conquered by the Saracens. Accession of Artemius, or Anastasius II., to the throne 713

Anastasius abdicates, and is succeeded by Theodosius III., who, two years after, yields to the superior influence of Leo III., the first of the Isaurian dynasty 715

Second, but unsuccessful, siege of Constantinople by the Saracens 717

Tax called Peter-pence begun by Ina king of Wessex, to support a college at Rome 727

Saracens defeated by Charles Martel between Tours and Poitiers in October 732

Constantine V., surnamed Copronymus, succeeds his father Leo 741

Dreadful pestilence for three years over Europe and Asia 746

The computation of years from the birth of Christ first used in historical writings 748

Learning encouraged by the race of Abbas caliph of the Saracens 749

The Merovingian race of kings ends in France 750

Bagdad built, and made the capital of the caliphs of the house of Abbas 762

A violent frost for 150 days from October to February 763

Monasteries dissolved in the east by Constantine 770

Pavia taken by Charlemagne, which ends the kingdom of the Lombards, after a duration of 206 years 774

Leo IV. son of Constantine succeeds, and, five years after, is succeeded by his wife Irene and his son Constantine VI. 775

Irene murders her son and reigns alone. The only men of learning in this century were Johannes Damascenus, Fredegaire, Alcuinus, Paulus Diaconus, and George the monk 797

Charlemagne is crowned emperor of Rome and of the western empire. About this time the popes separate themselves from the princes of Constantinople 800

Egbert ascends the throne of England, but the total reduction of the Saxon heptarchy is not effected till 26 years after 801

Nicephorus I., great treasurer of the empire, succeeds 802

Stauracius son of Nicephorus, and Michael I., surnamed Rhangabe, the husband of Procopia sister of Stauracius, assume the purple 811

Leo V. the Armenian, though but an officer of the palace, ascends the throne of Constantinople 813

Learning encouraged among the Saracens by Almanon, who made observations on the sun, &c. 816

Michael II. the Thracian, surnamed the Stammerer, succeeds, after the murder of Leo 821

The Saracens of Spain take Crete, which they call Candia 823

The Almagest of Ptolemy translated into Arabic by order of Almanon 827

Theophilus succeeds his father Michael 829

Origin of the Russian monarchy 839

Michael III. succeeds his father Theophilus with his mother Theodora 842

The Normans get possession of some cities in France 853

Michael is murdered, and succeeded by Basil I. the Macedonian 867

Clocks first brought to Constantinople from Venice 872

Basil is succeeded by his son Leo VI. the philosopher. In this century flourished Mesué, the Arabian physician Eginhard, Rabanus, Albumasar, Godescalchus, Hincmarus, Odo, Photius, John Scotus, Anastasius the librarian, Alfraganus, Albategni, Reginon, John Asser 886

Paris besieged by the Normans, and bravely defended by bishop Goslin 887

Death of Alfred king of England, after a reign of 30 years 900

Alexander brother of Leo succeeds, with his nephew Constantine VII., surnamed Porphyrogenitus 911

The Normans establish themselves in France under Rollo 912

Romanus I., surnamed Lecapenus, general of the fleet, usurps the throne, with his three sons, Christopher, Stephen, and Constantine VIII. 919

Fiefs established in France 923

Saracen empire divided by usurpation into seven kingdoms 936

Naples seized by the eastern emperors 942

The sons of Romanus conspire against their father, and the tumults this occasioned produced the restoration of Porphyrogenitus 945

Romanus II. son of Constantine VII., by Helena the daughter of Lecapenus, succeeds 959

Romanus, poisoned by his wife Theophana, is succeeded by Nicephorus Phocas II., whom the empress, unable to reign alone under the title of protectress of her young children, had married 963

Italy conquered by Otho, and united to the German empire 964

Nicephorus, at the instigation of Theophana, is murdered by John Zimisces, who assumes the purple 969

Basil II., and Constantine IX., the two sons of Romanus by ♦Theophana, succeed on the death of Zimisces 975

♦ ‘Theopana’ replaced with ‘Theophana’

The third or Capetian race of kings in France begins July 3rd 987

Arithmetical figures brought into Europe from Arabia by the Saracens 991

The empire of Germany first made elective by Otho III. The learned men of this century were Eudes de Cluni, Azophi, Luitprand, Alfarabius, Rhazes, Geber, Abbo, Aimoin, Gerbert 996

A general massacre of the Danes in England, Nov. 13th 1002

All old churches about this time rebuilt in a new manner of architecture 1005

Flanders inundated in consequence of a violent storm 1014

Constantine becomes sole emperor on the death of his brother 1025

Romanus III., surnamed Argyrus, a patrician, succeeds by marrying Zoe the daughter of the late monarch 1028

Zoe, after prostituting herself to a Paphlagonian money-lender, causes her husband Romanus to be poisoned, and afterwards marries her favourite, who ascends the throne under the name of Michael IV. 1034

The kingdoms of Castile and Arragon begin 1035

Zoe adopts for her son Michael V., the trade of whose father (careening vessels) had procured him the surname of Calaphates 1041

Zoe and her sister Theodora are made sole empresses by the populace, but after two months Zoe, though 60 years old, takes for her third husband Constantine X., who succeeds 1042

The Turks invade the Roman empire 1050

After the death of Constantine, Theodora recovers the sovereignty, and, 19 months after, adopts, as her successor, Michael VI., surnamed Stratioticus 1054

Isaac Commenus I. chosen emperor by the soldiers 1057

Isaac abdicates, and when his brother refuses to succeed him, he appoints his friend Constantine XI., surnamed Ducas 1059

Jerusalem conquered by the Turks from the Saracens 1065

The crown of England is transferred from the head of Harold by the battle of Hastings, October the 14th, to William the Conqueror, duke of Normandy 1066

On the death of Ducas, his wife Eudocia, instead of protecting his three sons, Michael, Andronicus, and Constantine, usurps the sovereignty, and marries Romanus III., surnamed Diogenes 1067

Romanus being taken prisoner by the Turks, the three young princes ascend the throne, under the name of Michael Parapinaces VII., Andronicus I., and Constantine XII. 1071

The general Nicephorus Botaniates III. assumes the purple 1078

Doomsday-book begun to be compiled from a general survey of the estates of England, and finished in six years 1080

Alexius Commenus I. nephew of Isaac I. ascends the throne. His reign is rendered illustrious by the pen of his daughter, the princess Anna Commena. The Normans, under Robert of Apulia, invade the eastern empire 1081

Asia Minor finally conquered by the Turks 1084

Accession of William II. to the English throne 1087

The first crusade 1096

Jerusalem taken by the crusaders 15th July. The only learned men of this century were Avicenna, Guy d’Arezzo, Glaber, Hermannus, Franco, Peter Damiani, Michael Celularius, George Cedrenus, Berenger, Psellus, Marianus Scotus, Arzachel, William of Spires, Suidas, Peter the Hermit, Sigebert 1099

Henry I. succeeds to the throne of England 1100

Learning revived at Cambridge 1110

John, or Calojohannes, son of Alexius, succeeds at Constantinople 1118

Order of Knights Templars instituted 1118

Accession of Stephen to the English crown 1135

Manuel son of John succeeds at Constantinople 1143

The second crusade 1147

The canon law composed by Gratian, after 24 years’ labour 1151

The party names of Guelfs and Gibbelines begin in Italy 1154

Henry II. succeeds in England 1154

The Teutonic order begins 1164

The conquest of Egypt by the Turks 1169

The famous council of Clarendon in England, January 25th. Conquest of Ireland by Henry II. 1172

Dispensing of justice by circuits first established in England 1176

Alexius II. succeeds his father Manuel 1180

English laws digested by Glanville 1181

From the disorders of the government, on account of the minority of Alexius, Andronicus the grandson of the great Alexius is named Guardian, but he murders Alexius, and ascends the throne 1183

Andronicus is cruelly put to death, and Isaac Angelus, a descendant of the great Alexius by the female line, succeeds 1185

The third crusade, and siege of Acre 1188

Richard I. succeeds his father Henry in England 1189

Saladin defeated by Richard of England in the battle of Ascalon 1192

Alexius Angelus brother of Isaac revolts, and usurps the sovereignty by putting out the eyes of the emperor 1195

John succeeds to the English throne. The learned men of this century were Peter Abelard, Anna Commena, St. Bernard, Averroes, William of Malmesbury, Peter Lombard, Otho ♦Frisingensis, Maimonides, Humenus, Wernerus, Gratian, Jeoffry of Monmouth, Tzetzes, Eustathius, John of Salisbury, Simeon of Durham, Henry of Huntingdon, Peter Comestor, Peter of Blois, Ranulph Glanville, Roger Hoveden, Campanus, William of Newburgh 1199

♦ ‘Trisingensis’ replaced with ‘Frisingensis’

Constantinople is besieged and taken by the Latins, and Isaac is taken from his dungeon and replaced on the throne with his son Alexius. This year is remarkable for the fourth crusade 1203

The father and son are murdered by Alexius Mourzoufle, and Constantinople is again besieged and taken by the French and Venetians, who elect Baldwin count of Flanders emperor of the east. In the mean time, Theodore Lascaris makes himself emperor of Nice; Alexius grandson of the tyrant Andronicus becomes emperor of Trebizond; and Michael, an illegitimate child of the Angeli, founds an empire in Epirus 1204

The emperor Baldwin is defeated by the Bulgarians, and next year is succeeded by his brother Henry 1205

Reign and conquests of the great Zingis Khan first emperor of the Moguls and Tartars, till the time of his death, 1227 1206

Aristotle’s works imported from Constantinople are condemned by the council of Paris 1209

Magna Charta granted to the English barons by king John 1215

Henry III. succeeds his father John on the English throne 1216

Peter of Courtenay, the husband of Yolanda sister of the two last emperors, Baldwin and Henry, is made emperor by the Latins 1217

Robert son of Peter Courtenay succeeds 1221

Theodore Lascaris is succeeded on the throne of Nice by his son-in-law John Ducas Vataces 1222

John of Brienne, and Baldwin II. son of Peter, succeeded on the throne of Constantinople 1228

The inquisition which had been begun 1204 is now trusted to the Dominicans 1233

Baldwin alone 1237

Origin of the Ottomans 1240

The fifth crusade 1248

Astronomical tables composed by Alphonso XI. of Castile 1253

Ducas Vataces is succeeded on the throne of Nice by his son Theodore Lascaris II. 1255

Lascaris succeeded by his son John Lascaris, a minor 1259

Michael Palæologus son of the sister of the queen of Theodore Lascaris ascends the throne, after the murder of the young prince’s guardian 1260

Constantinople is recovered from the Latins by the Greek emperors of Nice 1261

Edward I. succeeds on the English throne 1272

The famous Mortmain act passes in England 1279

Eight thousand French murdered during the Sicilian vespers, 30th of March 1282

Wales conquered by Edward and annexed to England 1283

Michael Palæologus dies, and his son Andronicus, who had already reigned nine years conjointly with his father, ascends the throne. The learned men of this century are Gervase, Diceto, Saxo, Walter of Coventry, Accursius, Anthony of Padua, Alexander Halensis, William of Paris, Peter de Vignes, Matthew Paris, Grosseteste, Albertus, Thomas Aquinas, Bonaventura, John Joinville, Roger Bacon, Cimabue, Durandus, Henry of Ghent, Raymond Lulli, Jacob Voragine, Albertet, Duns Scotus, Thebit 1293

A regular succession of English parliaments from this time 1293

The Turkish empire begins in Bithynia 1298

The mariner’s compass invented or improved by Flavio 1302

The Swiss cantons begin 1307

Edward II. succeeds to the English crown 1307

Translation of the holy see to Avignon, which alienation continues 68 years, till the return of Gregory XI. 1308

Andronicus adopts, as his colleagues, Manuel, and his grandson the younger Andronicus. Manuel dying, Andronicus revolts against his grandfather, who abdicates 1320

Edward III. succeeds in England ♦1327

♦ ‘1337’ replaced with ‘1327’

First comet observed, whose course is described with exactness, in June 1337

About this time flourished Leo Pilatus, a Greek professor at Florence, Barlaam, Petrarch, Boccace, and Manuel Chrysoloras, where may be fixed the era of the revival of Greek literature in Italy 1339

Andronicus is succeeded by his son John Palæologus in the ninth year of his age. John Cantacuzene, who had been left guardian of the young prince, assumes the purple. First passage of the Turks into Europe 1341

The knights and burgesses of parliament first sit in the same house 1342

The battle of Crecy, August 26th 1346

Seditions of Rienzi at Rome, and his elevation to the tribuneship 1347

Order of the Garter in England established April 23rd 1349

The Turks first enter Europe 1352

Cantacuzene abdicates the purple 1355

The battle of Poictiers, September 19th 1356

Law pleadings altered from French into English as a favour from Edward III. to his people, in his 50th year 1362

Rise of Timour, or Tamerlane, to the throne of Samarcand, and his extensive conquests till his death, after a reign of 35 years 1370

Accession of Richard II. to the English throne 1377

Manuel succeeds his father John Palæologus 1391

Accession of Henry IV. in England. The learned men of this century were Peter Apono, Flavio, Dante, Arnoldus Villa, Nicholas Lyra, William Occam, Nicephoras Gregoras, Leontius Pilatus, Matthew of Westminster, Wickliff, Froissart, Nicholas Flamel, &c. 1399

Henry IV. is succeeded by his son Henry V. 1413

Battle of Agincourt, October 25th 1415

The island of Madeira discovered by the Portuguese 1420

Henry VI. succeeds to the throne of England. Constantinople is besieged by Amurath II. the Turkish emperor 1422

John Palæologus II. succeeds his father Manuel 1424

Cosmo de Medici recalled from banishment, and rise of that family at Florence 1434

The famous pragmatic sanction settled in France 1439

Printing discovered at Mentz, and improved gradually in 22 years 1440

Constantine, one of the sons of Manuel, ascends the throne after his brother John 1448

Mahomet II. emperor of the Turks besieges and takes Constantinople on the 29th of May. Fall of the eastern empire. The captivity of the Greeks, and the extinction of the imperial families of the Commeni and Palæologi. About this time the House of York in England began to aspire to the crown, and, by their ambitious views, to deluge the whole kingdom in blood. The learned men of the 15th century were Chaucer, Leonard Aretin, John Huss, Jerome of Prague, Poggio, Flavius Blondus, Theodore Gaza, Frank Philelphus, Georgius Trapezuntius, Gemistus Pletho, Laurentius Valla, Ulugh Beigh, John Guttemberg, John Faustus, Peter Schoeffer, Wesselus, Peurbachius, Æneas Sylvius, Bessarion, Thomas à Kempis, Argyropulus, Regiomontanus, Platina, Agricola, Pontanus, Ficinus, Lascaris, Tiphernas, Annius of Viterbo, Merula, Savonarola, Picus, Politian, Hermolaus, Grocyn, Mantuanus, John Colet, Reuchlin, Lynacre, Alexander ab Alexandro, Demetrius Chalcondyles, &c. 1453

A CLASSICAL DICTIONARY, ETC., ETC.

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=ABA= and =Abæ=, a town of Phocis, famous for an oracle of Apollo, surnamed Abæus. The inhabitants, called Abantes, were of Thracian origin. After the ruin of their country by Xerxes, they migrated to Eubœa, which from them was called Abantis. Some of them passed afterwards from Eubœa into Ionia. _Herodotus_, bk. 8, ch. 33.―― _Pausanias_, bk. 10, ch. 55.――――A city of Caria.――――Another of Arabia Felix.――――A mountain near Smyrna. _Pliny_, bk. 5, ch. 24.―― _Strabo_, bk. 10.

=Abacēne=, a country of Sicily near Messana. _Diodorus_, bk. 14.

=Abălus=, an island in the German ocean, where, as the ancients supposed, the amber dropped from the trees. If a man was drowned there, and his body never appeared above the water, propitiatory sacrifices were offered to his manes during a hundred years. _Pliny_, bk. 37, ch. 2.

=Abāna=, a place of Capua. _Cicero_, _De Lege Agraria contra Rullum_.

=Abantes=, a warlike people of Peloponnesus, who built a town in Phocis called Aba, after their leader Abas, whence also their name originated. They afterwards went to Eubœa. _See:_ Abantis. _Herodotus_, bk. 1, ch. 146.

=Abantias= and =Abantiădes=, a patronymic given to the descendants of Abas king of Argos, such as Acrisius, Danae, Perseus, Atalanta, &c. _Ovid._

=Abantĭdas=, made himself master of Sicyon, after he had murdered Clinias the father of Aratus. He was himself soon after assassinated, B.C. 251. _Plutarch_, _Aratus_.

=Abantis=, or =Abantias=, an ancient name of the island of Eubœa, received from the Abantes, who settled in it from Phocis. _Pliny_, bk. 4, ch. 12.――――Also a country of Epirus. _Pausanias_, bk. 5, ch. 22.

=Abarbarea=, one of the Naiades, mother of Æsepus and Pedasus by Bucolion, Laomedon’s eldest son. _Homer_, _Iliad_, bk. 6, li. 23.

=Abarīmon=, a country of Scythia, near mount Imaus. The inhabitants were said to have their toes behind their heels, and to breathe no air but that of their native country. _Pliny_, bk. 7, ch. 2.

=Abăris=, a man killed by Perseus. _Ovid_, _Metamorphoses_, bk. 5, li. 86.――――A Rutulian killed by Euryalus. _Virgil_, _Æneid_, bk. 9, li. 344.――――A Scythian, son of Seuthes, in the age of Crœsus, or the Trojan war, who received a flying arrow from Apollo, with which he gave oracles, and transported himself wherever he pleased. He is said to have returned to the Hyperborean countries from Athens without eating, and to have made the Trojan Palladium with the bones of Pelops. Some suppose that he wrote treatises in Greek; and it is reported, that there is a Greek manuscript of his epistles to Phalaris, in the library of Augsburg. But there were probably two persons of that name. _Herodotus_, bk. 4, ch. 36.――_Strabo_, bk. 7. ――_Pausanias_, bk. 3, ch. 33.

=Abārus=, an Arabian prince, who perfidiously deserted Crassus in his expedition against Parthia. _Appian_, _Parthia_.――――He is called Mezeres by _Florus_, bk. 3, ch. 11, and Ariamnes by _Plutarch_, _Crassus_.

=Abas=, a mountain in Syria, where the Euphrates rises.――――A river of Armenia Major, where Pompey routed the Albani. _Plutarch_, _Pompey_.――――A son of Metanira, or Melaninia, changed into a lizard for laughing at Ceres. _Ovid_, _Metamorphoses_, bk. 5, fable 7. ――――The 11th king of Argos, son of Belus, some say of Lynceus and Hypermnestra, was famous for his genius and valour. He was father to Prœtus and Acrisius, by Ocalea, and built Abæ. He reigned 23 years, B.C. 1384. _Pausanias_, bk. 2, ch. 16; bk. 10, ch. 35.――_Hyginus_, fable 170, &c.――_Apollodorus_, bk. 2, ch. 2.――――One of Æneas’s companions, killed in Italy. _Virgil_, _Æneid_, bk. 10, li. 170.―――― Another lost in the storm which drove Æneas to Carthage. _Virgil_, _Æneid_, bk. 1, li. 125.――――A Latian chief, who assisted Æneas against Turnus, and was killed by Lausus. _Virgil_, _Æneid_, bk. 10, li. 170, &c.――――A Greek, son of Eurydamus, killed by Æneas during the Trojan war. _Virgil_, _Æneid_, bk. 3, li. 286.――_Homer_, _Iliad_, bk. 5, li. 150.――――A centaur, famous for his skill in hunting. _Ovid_, _Metamorphoses_, bk. 12, li. 306.――――A soothsayer, to whom the Spartans erected a statue in the temple of Apollo, for his services to Lysander. _Pausanias_, bk. 10, ch. 9.――――A son of Neptune. _Hyginus_, fable 157.――――A sophist who wrote two treatises, one on history, the other on rhetoric. The time in which he lived is unknown.――――A man who wrote an account of Troy. He is quoted by Servius in _Virgil_, _Æneid_, bk. 9.

=Abāsa=, an island in the Red sea, near Æthiopia. _Pausanias_, bk. 6, ch. 26.

=Abasītis=, a part of Mysia in Asia. _Strabo._

=Abassēna=, or =Abassinia=. _See:_ Abyssinia.

=Abassus=, a town of Phrygia. _Livy_, bk. 38, ch. 15.

=Abastor=, one of Pluto’s horses.

=Abătos=, an island in the lake near Memphis in Egypt, abounding with flax and papyrus. Osiris was buried there. _Lucan_, bk. 10, li. 323.

=Abdalonīmus=, one of the descendants of the kings of Sidon, so poor, that to maintain himself, he worked in a garden. When Alexander took Sidon, he made him king, in the room of Strato the deposed monarch, and enlarged his possessions on account of the great disinterestedness of his conduct. _Justin_, bk. 11, ch. 10.―― _Curtius_, bk. 4, ch. 1.――_Diodorus_, bk. 17.

=Abdēra=, a town of Hispania Bætica, built by the Carthaginians. _Strabo_, bk. 3.――――A maritime city of Thrace, built by Hercules, in memory of Abderus, one of his favourites. The Clazomenians and Teians beautified it. Some suppose that Abdera the sister of Diomedes built it. The air was so unwholesome, and the inhabitants of such a sluggish disposition, that stupidity was commonly called _Abderitica mens_. It gave birth, however, to Democritus, Protagoras, Anaxarchus, and Hecatæus. _Mela_, bk. 2, ch. 2.――_Cicero_, _Letters to Atticus_, bk. 4, ltr. 16.――_Herodotus_, bk. 1, ch. 186.――_Martial_, bk. 10, ltr. 25.

=Abdēria=, a town of Spain. _Apollodorus_, bk. 2, ch. 5.

=Abderītes=, a people of Pæonia, obliged to leave their country on account of the great number of rats and frogs which infested it. _Justin_, bk. 15, ch. 2.

=Abdērus=, a man of Opus in Locris, arm-bearer to Hercules, torn to pieces by the mares of Diomedes, which the hero had entrusted to his care when going to war against the Bistones. Hercules built a city, which, in honour of his friend, he called Abdera. _Apollodorus_, bk. 2, ch. 5.――_Philostratus_, bk. 2, ch. 25.

=Abeătæ=, a people of Achaia, probably the inhabitants of Abia. _Pausanias_, bk. 4, ch. 30.――_Pliny_, bk. 4, ch. 6.

=Abella=, a town of Campania, whose inhabitants were called Abellani. Its nuts, called _avellanæ_, and also its apples, were famous. _Virgil_, _Æneid_, bk. 7, li. 740.――_Justin_, bk. 20, ch. 5.――_Silius Italicus_, bk. 8, li. 544.

=Abelux=, a noble of Saguntum, who favoured the party of the Romans against Carthage. _Livy_, bk. 22, ch. 22.

=Abenda=, a town of Caria, whose inhabitants were the first who raised temples to the city of Rome. _Livy_, bk. 45, ch. 6.