A Lycian, who was a
companion
of Sarpe-
common with other barbarian chiefs.
common with other barbarian chiefs.
William Smith - 1844 - Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities - a
) According to Plutarch (De
The story of Ajax was frequently made use of by Dudal. Frugin. 5), he advised Zeus to have a
ancient poets and artists, and the hero who ap figure of oak-wood dressed in bridal attire, and
pcars on some Locrian coins with the helmet, carried about amidst hymeneal songs, in order to
shield, and sword, is probably Ajax the son of change the anger of Hera into jealousy. The
Oğlcus. (Mionnet, No. 570, &c. ) (L. S. ]
naine of the wife of Alaicomenes was Athe
A'IDES, 'At5ms. (HADES. ]
païs, and that of his son, Glaucopus, both of
AIDONEUS ('Az5wveús). 1. A lengthened which refer to the goddess Athena (Stepli
. Byz.
form of 'At5ns. (Hom. ll. v. 190, xx. 61. ) s. r. 'Alankoméviov ; Paus. ix. 3. § 3; comp.
(HADES. ]
Dict. of Ant. s. e. Saidaia ; Müller, Orchom. p.
2. A mythical king of the Molossians, in 213. )
(L. S. )
Epeirus, who is represented as the husband of ALALCOME'NIA ( Alarkouevia), one of the
Persephone, and father of Core. After Theseus, daughters of Ogyges, who as well as her two
with the assistance of Peirithous, had carried off sisters, Thelxionoea and Aulis, were regarded as
Jelen, and concealed her at Aphidnae (ACADE- supernatural beings, who watched over oaths and
MUS), he went with Peirithous to Epeirus to pro- saw that they were not taken rashly or thought-
cure for him as a reward Core, the daughter of lessly. Their name was Mpačioikai, and they had
Aïdoneus. This king thinking the two strangers a temple in common at the foot of the Telpbusian
were well-meaning suitors, offered the hand of his mount in Boeotia. The representations of these
daughter to Peirithous, on condition that he should divinities consisted of mere heads, and no parts of
fight and conquer his dog, which bore the name of animals were sacrificed to them, except heads
Cerberus, But when Aïdoneus discovered that (Paus. ix. 33. & 2, 4; Panyasis, ap. Steph. Buz.
they had come with the intention of carrying off s. v. Tpemban; Suid. s. e. Npatriðinn ; Müller, Or
his daughter, he had Peirithous killed by Cerberus, chem. p. 128, &c. )
(L. S. ]
and kept Theseus in captivity, who was after- ALARI'CU'S, in German Aldric, i e. " All
wards released at the request of Heracles. (Plut. rich," king of the Visigoths, remarkable as
Thes. 31, 35. ) Eusebius (Chron. p. 27) calls the being the first of the barbarian chiefs who en
wife of Aïdoneus, a daughter of queen Demeter, tered and sacked the city of Rome, and the first
with whom he had eloped. It is clear that the enemy who had appeared before its walls since the
story about Ardoneus is nothing but the sacred time of Hannibal. He was of the family of Palthing
legend of the rape of Persephone, dressed up in or Bold, the second noblest family of the Visigoths.
the form of a history, and is undoubtedly the work (Jornandes, de Reh. Get. 29. ) His first apperance
of a late interpreter, or rather destroyer of genuine in history is in d. D. 391, when he was invested
ancient myths.
(L. S,] by Theodosius with the conimand of wie Gothic
AIUS LOCU'TIUS or LOQUENS, a Roman auxiliaries in his war with Engenius. (Zosimils,
divinity. In the year B. c. 339, a short time bo V. 5. ) In 396, partly from anger at being refused
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the conımand of the armies of the eastern empire, imply that the Christian faith, in which he had
parily at the instigation of Rufinus (Socrates, been instructed by Arian teachers, had laid son:o
Hist. Eccl. vii. 10), he invaded and devastated hold at least on his imagination, and had not
Greece, till, by the arrival of Stilicho in 397, he been tinged with that fierce hostility against the
was compelled to escape to Epirus. Whilst there orthodox party which marked the Arians of the
he was, by the weakness of Arcadius, appointed Vandal tribes. Accordingly, we find that the
prefect of eastern Illyricum (Zosimus, v. 5, 6), and Christian part of his contemporaries regarded him,
partly owing to this office, and the use he made of in comparison with the other invaders of the empire
it in providing anns for his own purposes, partly to as the representative of civilization and Christianity,
his birth and fame, was by his countrymen elected and as the fit instrument of divine vengeance on
king in 398. (Claudian, Eutrop. ii. 212, Bell. Get the still half pagan city (Oros. vii. 37), and the
533–543. )
very slight injury which the great buildings of
The rest of his life was spent in the two inva- Greece and Rome sustained from his two invasions
sions of luly. The first (400-403), apparently confirm the same view. And amongst the Pagans
unprovoked, brought him only to Ravenna, and, the same sense of the preternatural character of
after a bloody defeat at Pollentia, in which his wife his invasion prevailed, though expressed in a dif-
and treasures were taken, and a masterly retreat ferent forni. The dialogue which Claudian (Bell.
to Verona (Oros. vii. 37), was ended by the treaty Gel
. 485-540) represents liim to have held with
with Stilicho, which transferred his services from the aged counsellors of his own tribe seems to be
Arcadius to Honorius, and made him prefect of the the heathen version of the ecclesiastical story, that
western instead of the eastern Illyricum. In this he stopped the monk who begged him to spare Rome
capacity he fixed his camp at Acmona, in expecta- with the answer, that he was driven on by a voice
tion of the fulfilment of his demands for pay, and which he could not resist. (Socrates, Hist. Eid.
for a western province, as the future home of his vii. 10. ) So also his vision of Achilles and Mi-
nation. The second invasion (408-410) was occa- nerva appearing to defend the city of Athens, as
sioned by the delay of this fulfilment, and by the recorded by Zosimus (v. 6), if it does not imply
massacre of the Gothic families in Italy on Stilicho's a lingering respect and fear in the mind of Alaric
death. It is marked by the three sieges of Rome. himself towards the ancient worship, - at least
The first (408), as being a protracted blockade, expresses the belief of the pagan historian, that his
was the most severe, but was raised by a ransom. invasion was of so momentous a character as to
The second (409), was occasioned by å refusal to call for divine interference.
comply with Alaric's demands, and, upon the occu- The permanent effects of his career are to be
pation of Ostia, ended in the unconditional surren- found only in the establishment of the Visigothic
der of the city, and in the disposal of the empire kingdom of Spain by the warriors whom he was
by Alaric to Attalus, till on discovery of his inca- the first to lead into the west.
pacity, he restored it to Honorius. (Zosimus, v. vi. ) The authorities for the invasion of Greece and
The third (410), was occasioned by an assault upon the first two sieges of Rome are Zosimus (v. vi):
his troops under the imperial sanction, and was for the first invasion of Italy, Jornandes de Reb. Get.
ended by the treacherous opening of the Salarian 30; Claudian, B. Get. : for the third siege and
gate on August 24, and the sack of the city for six sack of Rome, Jornandes, ib. ; Orosius, vii. 39;
days. It was immediately followed by the occu-Aug. Civ. Dei, i. 1-10; Hieronym. Epist. ad Prin-
pation of the south of Italy, and the design of in- cip. ; Procop. Bell. Vand. i. 2; Sozomen, Hist.
vading Sicily and Africa. This intention, how- Ecd. ix. 9, 10; Isid. Hispalensis, Chronicon Got-
ever, was interrupted by his death, after a short torum. ) The invasions of Italy are involved in
illness at Consentia, where he was buried in the great confusion by these writers, especially by
bed of the adjacent river Busentinus, and the Jornandes, who blends the battle of Pollentia in
place of his interment concealed by the massacre of 403 with the massacre of the Guths in 408. By
all the workmen employed on the occasion. (Oros. conjecture and inference they are reduced in Gibbon
vii. 39; Jornandes, 30. )
(c. 30, 31) to the order which has been here follow-
The few personal traits that are recorded of him ed. See also Godefroy, ad Phüostor. xii. 3. (A. P. S. )
- his answer to the Roman embassy with a hoarse ALASTOR ('AlcoTwp). 1. According to He-
laugh in answer to their threat of desperate resist- sychius and the Etymologicum M. , a surname of
ance, “The thicker the bay, the easier mown, Zeus, describing him as the avenger of evil deeds.
and, in reply to their question of what he would But the name is also used, especially by the tragic
leave them, “ Your lives"-are in the true savage writers, to desigate any deity of demon who
humour of a barbarian conqueror. (Zosimus, v. 40. ) | avenges wrongs committed by men. (Paus. viii.
But the impression left upon us by his general 24. § 4 ; Plut. De Def. Orac. 13, &c. ; Aeschyl.
character is of a higher order. The real military Agam. 1479, 1508, Pers. 343 ; Soph. Truch. 1092;
skill shewn in his escape from Greece, and in his Eurip. Phoen. 1550, &c. )
retreat to Verona; the wish at Athens to shew 2. A son of Nelens and Chloris. When Heracles
that he adopted the use of the bath and the other took Pylos, Alastor and his brothers, except
extemal forms of civilised life; the moderation and Nestor, were slain by himn. (Apollod. i. 9. $ 9;
justice which he observed towards the Romans in Schol. ad Apollon. Rhod. i. 156. ) According to
the times of peace; the humanity which distin- Parthenius (c. 13) he was to be married to Har-
guished him during the sack of Rome-indicate palyce, who, however, was taken from him by her
something superior to the mere craft and lawless father Clymenus.
ambition which he seems to have possessed in 3.
A Lycian, who was a companion of Sarpe-
common with other barbarian chiefs. So also his don, and slain by Odysseus. (Hom. N. r. 677;
scruples against fighting on Easter-day when at- Or. Met. xiii. 257. ) Another Alastor is mention-
tacked at Pollentia, and his reverence for the churches ed in Hom. II. vii. 333, xiii. 422. (L. S. )
during the sack of the city (Oros. vii. 37, 39), ALASTO'RIDES ('Anaotopions), a patron
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ALBINOVANUS.
ALBINUS.
1
nymic from Alastor, and given by Homer (11. xx. ' The fragment of Albinovanus on the vorage of
403) to Tros
, who was probably a son of the Germanicus, has been published by 11. Stephens,
Lycian Alastor mentioned above. [L. S. ] Frapin. Poct. , p. 416, Pithoeus, Epigrum. et poo m.
ALATHE'US, called ODOTHAEUS by Clau-rel. , p. 239, Burmann, Anth. lat. ü. ep. 121,
dian, became with Saphrax, in A. D. 376, on the W'ernsdorf, Poët. Lai. Min. iv. i. p. 2:29, &c.
death of Vithimir, the guardian of Vithericus, the All that has been ascribed to Albinovanus was
young king of the Greuthungi, the chief tribe of published at Amsterdam, 1703, with the notes of
the Ostrogoths. Alatheus and Saphrax led their J. Sciliger and others. The last edition is by
people across the Danube in this year, and uniting Meinecke, which contains the text, and a German
their forces with those of the Visigoths under translation in verse, Quedlinburg, 1819.
Fritigern, took part against the Romans in the ALBINOVANUS, P. TU'LLIUS, belonged
battle of Hadrianople, A. D. 378, in which the em- to the party of Marius in the first civil war, and
peror Valens was defeated and killed. After was one of the twelve who were declared enemies
plundering the surrounding country, Alatheus and of the state in B. C. 87. He thereupon fed to
Saphrax eventually recrossed the Danubc, but Hicmpsal in Numidia. After the defeat of Carbo
appeared again on its banks in 386, with the in- and Norbanus in B. c. 81, he obtained the pardon
tention of invading the Roman provinces again. of Sulla by treacherously putting to death many
They were, however, repulsed, and Alatheus was of the principal officers of Norbanus, whom he had
slain. (Amm. Marc. xxxi. 3, &c. ; Jornand. de invited to a banquet. Ariminium in consequence
Reb. Get. 26, 27 ; Claudian, de IV Cons. Honor. revolted to Sulla, whence the Pseudo-Asconins (in
626 ; Zosimus, ir. 39. )
Cic. Verr. p. 168, ed. Orelli) speaks of Albino-
ALBA SI'LVIUS, one of the mythical kings vanus betraying it. (Appian, B. C. i. 60, 62, 91;
of Alba, said to have been the son of Latinus, and Florus, iii. 21. $ 7. )
the father of Atys, according to Liry, and of Ca- ALBINUS or ALBUS, the name of the prin-
petus, according to Dionysius. He reigned thirty- cipal family of the patrician Postumia gens. The
nine years. (Liv. i. 3; Dionys. i. 71. )
original name was Albus, as appears from the
A'LBIA GENS. No persons of this gens ob- | Fasti, which was afterwards lengthened into Albi-
tained any offices in the state till the first century nus. We find in proper names in Latin, derivatives
B. C. They all bore the cognomen CARRINAS. in anus, enus, and inus, used without any additional
L. ALBI'NIUS. 1. One of the tribunes of meaning, in the same sense as the simple forms.
the plebs, at the first institution of the office, B. c. (Comp. Niebuhr, Hist. of Rome, i. n. 219. )
494. (Liv. ii. 33. ) Asconius calls him L. Albi- 1. A. PostumIUS P. F. ALBU'S REGILLENSIS,
nius C. F. Paterculus. (In Cic. Cornel. p. 76, ed. was, according to Livy, dictator B. C. 498, when
Orelli. )
he conquered the Latins in the great battle near
2. Á plebeian, who was conveying his wife and lake Regillus. Roman story related that Castor
children in a cart out of the city, after the defeat and Pollux were seen fighting in this battle on the
on the Alia, B. C. 390, and overtook on the Jani- side of the Romans, whence the dictator afterwards
culus, the priests and vestals carrying the sacred dedicated a temple to Castor and Pollux in the
things : he made his family alight and took as forum. He was consul B. C. 496, in which year
many as he was able to Caere. (Liv. v. 40; Val. some of the annals, according to Livy, placed the
Max. i. l. § 10. ) The consular tribune in B. C. battle of the lake Regillus; and it is to this year
379, whom Livy (vi. 30) calls M. Albinius, is that Dionysius assigns it. (Liv. ii. 19, 20, 21;
probably the same person as the above. (Comp. Dionys. vi. 2, &c. ; Val
. Max. i. 8. § 1; Cic. de
Niebuhr, Hist. of Rome, ii. n. 1201. )
Nat. Deor. ii. 2, iji. 5. ) The surname Regillensis
ALBINOVA'NUS, C. PEDO, a friend and is usually supposed to have been derived from this
contemporary of Ovid, to whom the latter address battle ; but Niebuhr thinks that it was taken from
ses one of his Epistles from Pontus. (iv. 10. ) He a place of residence, just as the Claudii bore the
is classed by Quintilian (x. 1) among the epic same name, and that the later annalists only spoke
poets; Ovid also speaks of his poem on the ex- of Postumius as commander in consequence of the
ploits of Theseus, and calls him silereus Pedo, on name. Livy (xxx. 45) states expressly, that Scipio
account of the sublimity of his style. (Ex. Pont. Africanus was the first Roman who obtained a
iv. 16. 6. ) He is supposed to have written an surname from his conquests. (Niebuhr, Hist. of
epic poem on the exploits of Germanicus, the son Rome, i. p. 556. )
of Drusus, of which twenty-three lines are pre Many of the coins of the Albini commemorate
serred in the Suasoria of Seneca. (lib. i. ) This this victory of their ancestor, as in the one annexed.
fragment is usually entitled “ De Navigatione On one side the head of Diana is represented with
Germanici per Oceanum Septentrionalem," and the letters Roma underneath, which are partly
describes the voyage of Germanicus through the effaced, and on the reverse are three horsemen
Amisja (Ems) into the northern ocean, A. D. 16. trampling on a foot-soldier.
(Comp. Tac. Ann. ii. 23.
The story of Ajax was frequently made use of by Dudal. Frugin. 5), he advised Zeus to have a
ancient poets and artists, and the hero who ap figure of oak-wood dressed in bridal attire, and
pcars on some Locrian coins with the helmet, carried about amidst hymeneal songs, in order to
shield, and sword, is probably Ajax the son of change the anger of Hera into jealousy. The
Oğlcus. (Mionnet, No. 570, &c. ) (L. S. ]
naine of the wife of Alaicomenes was Athe
A'IDES, 'At5ms. (HADES. ]
païs, and that of his son, Glaucopus, both of
AIDONEUS ('Az5wveús). 1. A lengthened which refer to the goddess Athena (Stepli
. Byz.
form of 'At5ns. (Hom. ll. v. 190, xx. 61. ) s. r. 'Alankoméviov ; Paus. ix. 3. § 3; comp.
(HADES. ]
Dict. of Ant. s. e. Saidaia ; Müller, Orchom. p.
2. A mythical king of the Molossians, in 213. )
(L. S. )
Epeirus, who is represented as the husband of ALALCOME'NIA ( Alarkouevia), one of the
Persephone, and father of Core. After Theseus, daughters of Ogyges, who as well as her two
with the assistance of Peirithous, had carried off sisters, Thelxionoea and Aulis, were regarded as
Jelen, and concealed her at Aphidnae (ACADE- supernatural beings, who watched over oaths and
MUS), he went with Peirithous to Epeirus to pro- saw that they were not taken rashly or thought-
cure for him as a reward Core, the daughter of lessly. Their name was Mpačioikai, and they had
Aïdoneus. This king thinking the two strangers a temple in common at the foot of the Telpbusian
were well-meaning suitors, offered the hand of his mount in Boeotia. The representations of these
daughter to Peirithous, on condition that he should divinities consisted of mere heads, and no parts of
fight and conquer his dog, which bore the name of animals were sacrificed to them, except heads
Cerberus, But when Aïdoneus discovered that (Paus. ix. 33. & 2, 4; Panyasis, ap. Steph. Buz.
they had come with the intention of carrying off s. v. Tpemban; Suid. s. e. Npatriðinn ; Müller, Or
his daughter, he had Peirithous killed by Cerberus, chem. p. 128, &c. )
(L. S. ]
and kept Theseus in captivity, who was after- ALARI'CU'S, in German Aldric, i e. " All
wards released at the request of Heracles. (Plut. rich," king of the Visigoths, remarkable as
Thes. 31, 35. ) Eusebius (Chron. p. 27) calls the being the first of the barbarian chiefs who en
wife of Aïdoneus, a daughter of queen Demeter, tered and sacked the city of Rome, and the first
with whom he had eloped. It is clear that the enemy who had appeared before its walls since the
story about Ardoneus is nothing but the sacred time of Hannibal. He was of the family of Palthing
legend of the rape of Persephone, dressed up in or Bold, the second noblest family of the Visigoths.
the form of a history, and is undoubtedly the work (Jornandes, de Reh. Get. 29. ) His first apperance
of a late interpreter, or rather destroyer of genuine in history is in d. D. 391, when he was invested
ancient myths.
(L. S,] by Theodosius with the conimand of wie Gothic
AIUS LOCU'TIUS or LOQUENS, a Roman auxiliaries in his war with Engenius. (Zosimils,
divinity. In the year B. c. 339, a short time bo V. 5. ) In 396, partly from anger at being refused
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ALARICUS.
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28 Athe
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the conımand of the armies of the eastern empire, imply that the Christian faith, in which he had
parily at the instigation of Rufinus (Socrates, been instructed by Arian teachers, had laid son:o
Hist. Eccl. vii. 10), he invaded and devastated hold at least on his imagination, and had not
Greece, till, by the arrival of Stilicho in 397, he been tinged with that fierce hostility against the
was compelled to escape to Epirus. Whilst there orthodox party which marked the Arians of the
he was, by the weakness of Arcadius, appointed Vandal tribes. Accordingly, we find that the
prefect of eastern Illyricum (Zosimus, v. 5, 6), and Christian part of his contemporaries regarded him,
partly owing to this office, and the use he made of in comparison with the other invaders of the empire
it in providing anns for his own purposes, partly to as the representative of civilization and Christianity,
his birth and fame, was by his countrymen elected and as the fit instrument of divine vengeance on
king in 398. (Claudian, Eutrop. ii. 212, Bell. Get the still half pagan city (Oros. vii. 37), and the
533–543. )
very slight injury which the great buildings of
The rest of his life was spent in the two inva- Greece and Rome sustained from his two invasions
sions of luly. The first (400-403), apparently confirm the same view. And amongst the Pagans
unprovoked, brought him only to Ravenna, and, the same sense of the preternatural character of
after a bloody defeat at Pollentia, in which his wife his invasion prevailed, though expressed in a dif-
and treasures were taken, and a masterly retreat ferent forni. The dialogue which Claudian (Bell.
to Verona (Oros. vii. 37), was ended by the treaty Gel
. 485-540) represents liim to have held with
with Stilicho, which transferred his services from the aged counsellors of his own tribe seems to be
Arcadius to Honorius, and made him prefect of the the heathen version of the ecclesiastical story, that
western instead of the eastern Illyricum. In this he stopped the monk who begged him to spare Rome
capacity he fixed his camp at Acmona, in expecta- with the answer, that he was driven on by a voice
tion of the fulfilment of his demands for pay, and which he could not resist. (Socrates, Hist. Eid.
for a western province, as the future home of his vii. 10. ) So also his vision of Achilles and Mi-
nation. The second invasion (408-410) was occa- nerva appearing to defend the city of Athens, as
sioned by the delay of this fulfilment, and by the recorded by Zosimus (v. 6), if it does not imply
massacre of the Gothic families in Italy on Stilicho's a lingering respect and fear in the mind of Alaric
death. It is marked by the three sieges of Rome. himself towards the ancient worship, - at least
The first (408), as being a protracted blockade, expresses the belief of the pagan historian, that his
was the most severe, but was raised by a ransom. invasion was of so momentous a character as to
The second (409), was occasioned by å refusal to call for divine interference.
comply with Alaric's demands, and, upon the occu- The permanent effects of his career are to be
pation of Ostia, ended in the unconditional surren- found only in the establishment of the Visigothic
der of the city, and in the disposal of the empire kingdom of Spain by the warriors whom he was
by Alaric to Attalus, till on discovery of his inca- the first to lead into the west.
pacity, he restored it to Honorius. (Zosimus, v. vi. ) The authorities for the invasion of Greece and
The third (410), was occasioned by an assault upon the first two sieges of Rome are Zosimus (v. vi):
his troops under the imperial sanction, and was for the first invasion of Italy, Jornandes de Reb. Get.
ended by the treacherous opening of the Salarian 30; Claudian, B. Get. : for the third siege and
gate on August 24, and the sack of the city for six sack of Rome, Jornandes, ib. ; Orosius, vii. 39;
days. It was immediately followed by the occu-Aug. Civ. Dei, i. 1-10; Hieronym. Epist. ad Prin-
pation of the south of Italy, and the design of in- cip. ; Procop. Bell. Vand. i. 2; Sozomen, Hist.
vading Sicily and Africa. This intention, how- Ecd. ix. 9, 10; Isid. Hispalensis, Chronicon Got-
ever, was interrupted by his death, after a short torum. ) The invasions of Italy are involved in
illness at Consentia, where he was buried in the great confusion by these writers, especially by
bed of the adjacent river Busentinus, and the Jornandes, who blends the battle of Pollentia in
place of his interment concealed by the massacre of 403 with the massacre of the Guths in 408. By
all the workmen employed on the occasion. (Oros. conjecture and inference they are reduced in Gibbon
vii. 39; Jornandes, 30. )
(c. 30, 31) to the order which has been here follow-
The few personal traits that are recorded of him ed. See also Godefroy, ad Phüostor. xii. 3. (A. P. S. )
- his answer to the Roman embassy with a hoarse ALASTOR ('AlcoTwp). 1. According to He-
laugh in answer to their threat of desperate resist- sychius and the Etymologicum M. , a surname of
ance, “The thicker the bay, the easier mown, Zeus, describing him as the avenger of evil deeds.
and, in reply to their question of what he would But the name is also used, especially by the tragic
leave them, “ Your lives"-are in the true savage writers, to desigate any deity of demon who
humour of a barbarian conqueror. (Zosimus, v. 40. ) | avenges wrongs committed by men. (Paus. viii.
But the impression left upon us by his general 24. § 4 ; Plut. De Def. Orac. 13, &c. ; Aeschyl.
character is of a higher order. The real military Agam. 1479, 1508, Pers. 343 ; Soph. Truch. 1092;
skill shewn in his escape from Greece, and in his Eurip. Phoen. 1550, &c. )
retreat to Verona; the wish at Athens to shew 2. A son of Nelens and Chloris. When Heracles
that he adopted the use of the bath and the other took Pylos, Alastor and his brothers, except
extemal forms of civilised life; the moderation and Nestor, were slain by himn. (Apollod. i. 9. $ 9;
justice which he observed towards the Romans in Schol. ad Apollon. Rhod. i. 156. ) According to
the times of peace; the humanity which distin- Parthenius (c. 13) he was to be married to Har-
guished him during the sack of Rome-indicate palyce, who, however, was taken from him by her
something superior to the mere craft and lawless father Clymenus.
ambition which he seems to have possessed in 3.
A Lycian, who was a companion of Sarpe-
common with other barbarian chiefs. So also his don, and slain by Odysseus. (Hom. N. r. 677;
scruples against fighting on Easter-day when at- Or. Met. xiii. 257. ) Another Alastor is mention-
tacked at Pollentia, and his reverence for the churches ed in Hom. II. vii. 333, xiii. 422. (L. S. )
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ALBINOVANUS.
ALBINUS.
1
nymic from Alastor, and given by Homer (11. xx. ' The fragment of Albinovanus on the vorage of
403) to Tros
, who was probably a son of the Germanicus, has been published by 11. Stephens,
Lycian Alastor mentioned above. [L. S. ] Frapin. Poct. , p. 416, Pithoeus, Epigrum. et poo m.
ALATHE'US, called ODOTHAEUS by Clau-rel. , p. 239, Burmann, Anth. lat. ü. ep. 121,
dian, became with Saphrax, in A. D. 376, on the W'ernsdorf, Poët. Lai. Min. iv. i. p. 2:29, &c.
death of Vithimir, the guardian of Vithericus, the All that has been ascribed to Albinovanus was
young king of the Greuthungi, the chief tribe of published at Amsterdam, 1703, with the notes of
the Ostrogoths. Alatheus and Saphrax led their J. Sciliger and others. The last edition is by
people across the Danube in this year, and uniting Meinecke, which contains the text, and a German
their forces with those of the Visigoths under translation in verse, Quedlinburg, 1819.
Fritigern, took part against the Romans in the ALBINOVANUS, P. TU'LLIUS, belonged
battle of Hadrianople, A. D. 378, in which the em- to the party of Marius in the first civil war, and
peror Valens was defeated and killed. After was one of the twelve who were declared enemies
plundering the surrounding country, Alatheus and of the state in B. C. 87. He thereupon fed to
Saphrax eventually recrossed the Danubc, but Hicmpsal in Numidia. After the defeat of Carbo
appeared again on its banks in 386, with the in- and Norbanus in B. c. 81, he obtained the pardon
tention of invading the Roman provinces again. of Sulla by treacherously putting to death many
They were, however, repulsed, and Alatheus was of the principal officers of Norbanus, whom he had
slain. (Amm. Marc. xxxi. 3, &c. ; Jornand. de invited to a banquet. Ariminium in consequence
Reb. Get. 26, 27 ; Claudian, de IV Cons. Honor. revolted to Sulla, whence the Pseudo-Asconins (in
626 ; Zosimus, ir. 39. )
Cic. Verr. p. 168, ed. Orelli) speaks of Albino-
ALBA SI'LVIUS, one of the mythical kings vanus betraying it. (Appian, B. C. i. 60, 62, 91;
of Alba, said to have been the son of Latinus, and Florus, iii. 21. $ 7. )
the father of Atys, according to Liry, and of Ca- ALBINUS or ALBUS, the name of the prin-
petus, according to Dionysius. He reigned thirty- cipal family of the patrician Postumia gens. The
nine years. (Liv. i. 3; Dionys. i. 71. )
original name was Albus, as appears from the
A'LBIA GENS. No persons of this gens ob- | Fasti, which was afterwards lengthened into Albi-
tained any offices in the state till the first century nus. We find in proper names in Latin, derivatives
B. C. They all bore the cognomen CARRINAS. in anus, enus, and inus, used without any additional
L. ALBI'NIUS. 1. One of the tribunes of meaning, in the same sense as the simple forms.
the plebs, at the first institution of the office, B. c. (Comp. Niebuhr, Hist. of Rome, i. n. 219. )
494. (Liv. ii. 33. ) Asconius calls him L. Albi- 1. A. PostumIUS P. F. ALBU'S REGILLENSIS,
nius C. F. Paterculus. (In Cic. Cornel. p. 76, ed. was, according to Livy, dictator B. C. 498, when
Orelli. )
he conquered the Latins in the great battle near
2. Á plebeian, who was conveying his wife and lake Regillus. Roman story related that Castor
children in a cart out of the city, after the defeat and Pollux were seen fighting in this battle on the
on the Alia, B. C. 390, and overtook on the Jani- side of the Romans, whence the dictator afterwards
culus, the priests and vestals carrying the sacred dedicated a temple to Castor and Pollux in the
things : he made his family alight and took as forum. He was consul B. C. 496, in which year
many as he was able to Caere. (Liv. v. 40; Val. some of the annals, according to Livy, placed the
Max. i. l. § 10. ) The consular tribune in B. C. battle of the lake Regillus; and it is to this year
379, whom Livy (vi. 30) calls M. Albinius, is that Dionysius assigns it. (Liv. ii. 19, 20, 21;
probably the same person as the above. (Comp. Dionys. vi. 2, &c. ; Val
. Max. i. 8. § 1; Cic. de
Niebuhr, Hist. of Rome, ii. n. 1201. )
Nat. Deor. ii. 2, iji. 5. ) The surname Regillensis
ALBINOVA'NUS, C. PEDO, a friend and is usually supposed to have been derived from this
contemporary of Ovid, to whom the latter address battle ; but Niebuhr thinks that it was taken from
ses one of his Epistles from Pontus. (iv. 10. ) He a place of residence, just as the Claudii bore the
is classed by Quintilian (x. 1) among the epic same name, and that the later annalists only spoke
poets; Ovid also speaks of his poem on the ex- of Postumius as commander in consequence of the
ploits of Theseus, and calls him silereus Pedo, on name. Livy (xxx. 45) states expressly, that Scipio
account of the sublimity of his style. (Ex. Pont. Africanus was the first Roman who obtained a
iv. 16. 6. ) He is supposed to have written an surname from his conquests. (Niebuhr, Hist. of
epic poem on the exploits of Germanicus, the son Rome, i. p. 556. )
of Drusus, of which twenty-three lines are pre Many of the coins of the Albini commemorate
serred in the Suasoria of Seneca. (lib. i. ) This this victory of their ancestor, as in the one annexed.
fragment is usually entitled “ De Navigatione On one side the head of Diana is represented with
Germanici per Oceanum Septentrionalem," and the letters Roma underneath, which are partly
describes the voyage of Germanicus through the effaced, and on the reverse are three horsemen
Amisja (Ems) into the northern ocean, A. D. 16. trampling on a foot-soldier.
(Comp. Tac. Ann. ii. 23.
