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The editions of Anacreon are very numerous.
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xii. pp. 514, f. , 529, e. ; Aelian, H. N. v. 14, xvii. 17. ) of Aeson and Pheres. (Hom. Od. xi. 259. ) He
AMYNTAS, surgeon. [AMENTES. ]
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came the father of Bias, Melampus, and Aeolia. | who sent a galley of fifty oars to fetch him. (Plat.
(Apollod. i. 9. & 11, 7. $ 7. ) According to Pindar Hippurch. p. 228. )
At Athens he became ac-
Pyth, iv. 220, &c. ), he and several other members quainted with Simonides and other poets, whom
of his family went to lolcus to intercede with the taste of Hipparchus bad collected round hinn
Pelias on behalf of Jason. Pausanias (v. 8. § 1) and he was admitted to intimacy by other noble
mentions him among those to whom the restoration families besides the Peisistratidae, among whom he
of the Olympian gaines was ascribed. (L. S. ] especially celebrated the beauty of Critias, the son
AMYTHAO'NIUS, a patronymic froin Amy- of Dropides. (Plat. Charm. p. 157; Berghk's
thuon, by which his son, the scer Melampus, is Anacreon, fr. 55. ) He died at the age of 85, pro-
sometimes designated. (Virg. Georg. iii. 550 ; bably about B. c. 478. (Lucian, Macrob. c. 26. )
Columell. x. 348. ) The descendants of Anythaon Simonides wrote two epitaphs upon him (Anthol.
in general are alled by the Greeks Amythaonidae. Pal. vii. 24, 25), the Athenians set up his statue
(Strab. viii. p. 372. )
(L. S. ] in the Acropolis (Paus, i. 25. 81), and the Teians
A'MYTIS ("AMUTIS). 1. The daughter of As struck his portrait on their coins. (Visconti, Icon.
tyages, the wife of Cyrus, and the mother of Cam-Grecque, pl. iii. 6. ) The place of his death, how-
byses, according to Cresias. (Pers. c. 2, 10, &c. , erer, is uncertain. The second epitaph of Simo-
ed. Lion. )
nides appears to say clearly that he was buried at
2. The daughter of Xerxes, the wife of Mega- Teos, whither be is supposed to have returned after
byzus, and the mother of Achaemenes, who pe- the death of Hipparchus (B. C. 514); but there is
rished in Egypt, according to Ctesias. (Pers. c. 20, also a tradition that, after his return to Teos, he
22, 28, 30, 36, 39, &c. )
fied a second time to Abdera, in consequence of
A'NACES. (ANAX, No. 2. )
the revolt of Histiaeus. (B. C. 495; Suidas, s. v.
ANACHARSIS ('Avexapois), a Scythian of 'Avaxpéw and Téw. ) This tradition has, however,
princely rank, according to Herodotus (iv. 76), the very probably arisen from a confusion with the
son of Gnurus, and brother of Saulius, king of original emigration of the Teians to Abdera.
Thrace; according to Lucian (Scytha) the son of The universal tradition of antiquity represents
Daucetas. He left his native country to travel in Anacreon as a most consummate voluptuary; and
pursuit of knowledge, and came to Athens just at his poems prove the truth of the tradition. Though
the time that Solon was occupied with his legisla- Athenaeus (x. p. 429) thought that their drunken
tive measures. He became acquainted with Sulon, tone was affected, arguing that the poet must have
and by the simplicity of his way of living, his been tolerably sober while in the act of writing, it
talents, and his acute observations on the institu- is plain that Anacreon sings of love and wine with
tions and usages of the Greeks, he excited general hearty good will, and that his songs in honour of
attention and admiration. The fame of his wisdom Polycrates came less from the heart than the ex-
was such, that he was even reckoned by some pressions of his love for the beautiful youths whom
amor. g the seven sages. Some writers affirmed, the tyrant had gathered round him. (Anthol. Pul.
that after having been honoured with the Athenian vii. 25; Maxim. Tyr. Diss. xxvi. 1. ) We see in
franchise, he was initiated into the Eleusinian him the luxury of the lonian inflamed by the
mysteries. According to the account in Herodotus, fervour of the poet. The tale that he loved Sappho
on his return to Thrace, he was killed by his bro- is very improbable. (Athen. xii. p. 599. ) His
ther Saulius, while celebrating the orgies of Cybele death was worthy of his life, if we may believe the
at Hylaea. Diogenes Laertius gives a somewhat account, which looks, however, too like a poetical
different version—that he was killed by his bro fiction, that he was choked by a grape-stone.
ther while hunting. He is said to have written a (Plin. vii. 5; Val. Max. ix. 12. $ 8. ) The idea
metrical work on legislation and the art of war. formed of Anacreon by nearly all ancient writers,
Cicero (Tusc. Disp. v. 32) quotes from one of his as 'a grey-haired old man, seems to bave been de-
letters, of which several, though of doubtful au- rived from his later poems, in forgetfulnrss of the
thenticity, are still extant. Various sayings of his fact that when his fame was at its height, at the
have been preserved by Diogenes and Athenaeus. court of Polycrates, he was a very young man ; the
(Herod. iv. 46, 76, 77; Plut. Sol. 5, Convio, delusion being aided by the unabated warmth of
Sept. Supient. ; Diog. Laert. i. 101, &c. ; Strab. vii: his poetry to the very last.
p. 303; Lucian, Scythu and Anacharsis; Athen. In the time of Suidas five books of Anacreon's
iv. p. 159, x. pp. 428, 437, xiv. p. 613; Aelian, poems were extant, but of these only a few genuine
V. il. v. 7. )
[C. P. M. ] fragments have come down to us. The “ Odes"
ANA'CREON ('Avarpėwv), one of the principal attributed to him are now universally admitted to
Greek lyric poets, was a native of the Ionian city be spurious. All of them are later than the time
of Teos, in Asia Minor. The accounts of his life of Anacreon. Though some of them are very
are neagre and confused, but he seems to have graceful, others are very deficient in poetical feel.
spent his youth at his native city, and to have re- ing; and all are wanting in the tone of earnestnesa
moved, with the great body of its inhabitants, to which the poetry of Anacreon always breathed.
Abdera, in Thrace, when Teos was taken by Har- The usual metre in these Odes is the lambic
pagus, the general of Cyrus (about B. c. 540 ; Strab. Dimeter Catalectic, which occurs only once in the
xiv. p. 644). The early part of his middle life genuine fragments of Anacreon. His favourite
was spent at Samos, under the patronage of Poly- metres are the Choriambic and the lonica
crates, in whose praise Anacreon wrote many Minore.
songs. (Strab. xir. p. 638; Herod. ij. 121.
) He
The editions of Anacreon are very numerous.
enjoyed very high favour with the tyrant, and is the best are those of Brunck, Strasb. 1786; Fischer,
said to have softened his temper by the charms of Lips. 1793 ; Mehlhorn, Glogau, 1825; and
music. (Maxim. Tyr. Diss. xxxvii. 5. ) After Bergk, Lips. 1834.
(P. S. )
the death of Polycrates (B. C. 52. ? ), he went to
ANACYNDARAXES ('Avak uvdapálns), the
Athens at the invitation of the tyrant Hipparchus, father of Sardanapalus, king of Assyria. (Arrian,
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158
ANANIUS.
ANASTASIUS.
An. ji. 5 ; Strab. xiv. p. 672; Athen. viii. p. 335, f. , | The invention of the satyric iambic verse called
xii. pp. 529, e, 530, b. )
Scazon is ascribed to him as well as to Hipponax.
ANADYO'MENE ('Avað vouévn), the goddess (Hephaest. p. 30, 11, Gaisf. ) Some fragments of
rising out of the sea, a burname given to Aphrodite, Ananius are preserved by Athenaeus (pp. 78, 282,
in allusion to the story of her being born from the 370), and all that is known of him has been col-
foam of the sea. This surname had not much ce- lected by Welcker. (Ipponactis et Ananü lamba
lebrity previous to the time of A pelles, but his graphorum Fragmenta, p. 109, &c. ) (P. S. )
famous painting of Aphrodite Anadyomene, in ANAPHAS ('Avapas), was said to have been
which the goddess was represented as rising from one of the seven who slew the Magi in B. c. 521,
the sea and drying her hair with her hands, at and to have been lincally descended from A tossib
once drew great attention to this poetical idea, and the sister of Cambyses, who was the father of the
excited the emulation of other artists, painters as great Cyrus. The Cappadocian kings traced their
well as sculptors. The painting of Apelles was origin to Anaphas, who received the government
made for the inhabitants of the island of Cos, who of Cappadocia, free from taxes. Anaphas was suc-
set it up in their temple of Asclepius. Its beauty ceeded by his son of the same name, and the latter
induced Augustus to have it removed to Rome, by Datames. (Diod. xxxi. Ed. 3. )
and the Coans were indemnified by a reduction in ANASTA'SIA, a noble Roman lady, who suf-
their taxes of 100 talents. In the time of Nero fered martyrdom in the Diocletian persecution.
the greater part of the picture had become effaced, (A. d. 303. ) Two letters written by her in prison
and it was replaced by the work of another artist. are extant in Suidas, s. r. Youooyovos. (P. S. ]
(Strab. xiv. p. 657; Plin. H. N. xxxv. 36. SS 12. ANASTASIUS ("Avastácios), the author of
and 15; Auson. Ep. 106 ; Paus. ii. 1. $ 7. ) [L. S. ] a Latin epigram of eighteen lines addressed to
ANAEA ('Avala), an Amazon, from whom the a certain Armatus, “ De Ratione Victus Salutaris
town of Anaea in Caria derived its name. (Steph. post Incisum Venam et Emissum Sanguinem,"
Byz. s. v. ; Eustath. ad Dionys. Perieg. 828. ) (L. S. ] which is to be found in several editions of the
ANAGALLIS. (AGALLIS. )
Remmen Sanitatis Salernitanum. (e. g. Antverp. 1557,
ANAGNOSTES, JOANNES ('Iwdvrns 'Ava- 12mo. ) The life and date of the author are quite
groots), wrote an account of the storming of his unknown, but he was probably a late writer, and
native city, Thessalonica, by the Turks under is therefore not to be confounded with a Greek
Amurath 11. (1. D. 1430), to which is added a physician of the same name, whose remedy for the
"Monodia," or lamentation for the event, in prose gout, which was to be taken during a whole year,
The work is printed, in Greek and Latin, in the is quoted with approbation by Aetius (tetrab. iii.
Lúpuerta of Leo Allatius, Rom. 1653, 8vo. , pp. serm. iv. 47, p. 609), and who must therefore have
318—380. The author was present at the siege, lived some time during or before the fifth century
after which he left the city, but was induced to after Christ
(W'. A. G. )
return to it by the promises of the conqueror, who ANASTA'SIUS I. II. , patriarchs of ANTIOCH.
two years afterwards deprived him of all his pro- (ANASTASIUS SINAITA. ]
perty. (Hanekius, de Hist. Byz. Script. i. 38, ANASTA'SIUS I. ('Avastáo los ), emperor
p. 636 ; Wharton, Supp. to Cave, Hist. Lit. ij. of ConstanTINOPLE, surnamed Dicorus (Aino-
p. 130. )
[P. S. ) pos) on account of the different colour of his
ANÁI'TIS ('Avattis), an Asiatic divinity, eye-balls, was born about 430 a. D. , at Dyrra-
whose name appears in various modifications, some chium in Epeirus. He was descended from an
times written Anaca (Strab. xvi. p. 738), some- unknown family, and we are acquainted with
times Aneitis (Plut. Artax. 27), sometimes Tanaïs only a few circumstances concerning his life pre
(Clem. Alex. Protrept. p. 43), or Nanaea. (Maccab. viously to his accession. We know, however,
ii. 1, 13. ) Her worship was spread over several that he was a zealous Eutychian, that he was not
parts of Asia, such as Armenia, Cappadocia, Assy- married, and that he served in the imperial life-
ria, Persis, &c. (Strab. xi. p. 512, xii. p. 559. xv. guard of the Silentiarii, which was the cause of his
p. 733. ) In most places where she was worship being generally called Anastasius Silentianus. The
ped we find numerous slares (iepodov. 0. ) of both emperor Zeno, the Isaurian, baring died in 491
sexes consecrated to her, and in Acilisene these without male issue, it was generally believed that
slaves were taken from the most distinguished his brother Longinus would succeed him ; but in
families. The female slaves prostituted them consequence of an intrigue carried on during some
selves for a number of years before they married. time, as it seems, between Anastasius and the em-
These priests seem to have been in the enjoyment press Ariadne, Anastasius was proclaimed emperor.
of the sacred land connected with her temples, and Shortly afterwards he married Ariadne, but it does
we find mention of sacred cows also being kept at not appear that he had had an adulterous inter-
such temples. (Plut. Lucull. 24. ) From this and course with her during the life of her husband.
other circumstances it has been inferred, that the When Anastasius ascended the throne of the
worship of Anaitis was a branch of the Indian Eastern empire he was a man of at least sixty, but
worship of nature. It seems, at any rate, clear though, notwithstanding his advanced age, he
that it was a part of the worship so common among evinced uncommon energy, his reign is one of the
the Asiatics, of the creative powers of nature, both most deplorable periods of Byzantine history, dis-
male and female. The Greek writers sometimes turbed as it was by foreign and intestine wars and
identify Anaitis with their Artemis (Paus. iii. 16. by the still greater calamity of religious troubles.
$6; Plut. l. c. ), and sometimes with their Aphro | Immediately after his accession, Longinus, the
dite. (Clem. Alex. I. c. ; Agathias, i. 2; Ammian. brother of Zeno, Longinus Magister Officiorum,
Marc. xxiii
. 3 ; Spartian. Carac. 7; comp. Creuzer, and Longinus Selinuntius, rose against bim, and
Symbol. ii. p. 22, &c. )
(L. S. ] being all natives of Isauria, where they had great
ANA'NIUS ('Arávios), a Greek iambic poet, influence, they made this province the centre of
contemporary with Hipponax (about 540 B.
xii. pp. 514, f. , 529, e. ; Aelian, H. N. v. 14, xvii. 17. ) of Aeson and Pheres. (Hom. Od. xi. 259. ) He
AMYNTAS, surgeon. [AMENTES. ]
dwelt at Pylos in Messenia, and by Idomene be-
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157
ANACYNDARAXES.
came the father of Bias, Melampus, and Aeolia. | who sent a galley of fifty oars to fetch him. (Plat.
(Apollod. i. 9. & 11, 7. $ 7. ) According to Pindar Hippurch. p. 228. )
At Athens he became ac-
Pyth, iv. 220, &c. ), he and several other members quainted with Simonides and other poets, whom
of his family went to lolcus to intercede with the taste of Hipparchus bad collected round hinn
Pelias on behalf of Jason. Pausanias (v. 8. § 1) and he was admitted to intimacy by other noble
mentions him among those to whom the restoration families besides the Peisistratidae, among whom he
of the Olympian gaines was ascribed. (L. S. ] especially celebrated the beauty of Critias, the son
AMYTHAO'NIUS, a patronymic froin Amy- of Dropides. (Plat. Charm. p. 157; Berghk's
thuon, by which his son, the scer Melampus, is Anacreon, fr. 55. ) He died at the age of 85, pro-
sometimes designated. (Virg. Georg. iii. 550 ; bably about B. c. 478. (Lucian, Macrob. c. 26. )
Columell. x. 348. ) The descendants of Anythaon Simonides wrote two epitaphs upon him (Anthol.
in general are alled by the Greeks Amythaonidae. Pal. vii. 24, 25), the Athenians set up his statue
(Strab. viii. p. 372. )
(L. S. ] in the Acropolis (Paus, i. 25. 81), and the Teians
A'MYTIS ("AMUTIS). 1. The daughter of As struck his portrait on their coins. (Visconti, Icon.
tyages, the wife of Cyrus, and the mother of Cam-Grecque, pl. iii. 6. ) The place of his death, how-
byses, according to Cresias. (Pers. c. 2, 10, &c. , erer, is uncertain. The second epitaph of Simo-
ed. Lion. )
nides appears to say clearly that he was buried at
2. The daughter of Xerxes, the wife of Mega- Teos, whither be is supposed to have returned after
byzus, and the mother of Achaemenes, who pe- the death of Hipparchus (B. C. 514); but there is
rished in Egypt, according to Ctesias. (Pers. c. 20, also a tradition that, after his return to Teos, he
22, 28, 30, 36, 39, &c. )
fied a second time to Abdera, in consequence of
A'NACES. (ANAX, No. 2. )
the revolt of Histiaeus. (B. C. 495; Suidas, s. v.
ANACHARSIS ('Avexapois), a Scythian of 'Avaxpéw and Téw. ) This tradition has, however,
princely rank, according to Herodotus (iv. 76), the very probably arisen from a confusion with the
son of Gnurus, and brother of Saulius, king of original emigration of the Teians to Abdera.
Thrace; according to Lucian (Scytha) the son of The universal tradition of antiquity represents
Daucetas. He left his native country to travel in Anacreon as a most consummate voluptuary; and
pursuit of knowledge, and came to Athens just at his poems prove the truth of the tradition. Though
the time that Solon was occupied with his legisla- Athenaeus (x. p. 429) thought that their drunken
tive measures. He became acquainted with Sulon, tone was affected, arguing that the poet must have
and by the simplicity of his way of living, his been tolerably sober while in the act of writing, it
talents, and his acute observations on the institu- is plain that Anacreon sings of love and wine with
tions and usages of the Greeks, he excited general hearty good will, and that his songs in honour of
attention and admiration. The fame of his wisdom Polycrates came less from the heart than the ex-
was such, that he was even reckoned by some pressions of his love for the beautiful youths whom
amor. g the seven sages. Some writers affirmed, the tyrant had gathered round him. (Anthol. Pul.
that after having been honoured with the Athenian vii. 25; Maxim. Tyr. Diss. xxvi. 1. ) We see in
franchise, he was initiated into the Eleusinian him the luxury of the lonian inflamed by the
mysteries. According to the account in Herodotus, fervour of the poet. The tale that he loved Sappho
on his return to Thrace, he was killed by his bro- is very improbable. (Athen. xii. p. 599. ) His
ther Saulius, while celebrating the orgies of Cybele death was worthy of his life, if we may believe the
at Hylaea. Diogenes Laertius gives a somewhat account, which looks, however, too like a poetical
different version—that he was killed by his bro fiction, that he was choked by a grape-stone.
ther while hunting. He is said to have written a (Plin. vii. 5; Val. Max. ix. 12. $ 8. ) The idea
metrical work on legislation and the art of war. formed of Anacreon by nearly all ancient writers,
Cicero (Tusc. Disp. v. 32) quotes from one of his as 'a grey-haired old man, seems to bave been de-
letters, of which several, though of doubtful au- rived from his later poems, in forgetfulnrss of the
thenticity, are still extant. Various sayings of his fact that when his fame was at its height, at the
have been preserved by Diogenes and Athenaeus. court of Polycrates, he was a very young man ; the
(Herod. iv. 46, 76, 77; Plut. Sol. 5, Convio, delusion being aided by the unabated warmth of
Sept. Supient. ; Diog. Laert. i. 101, &c. ; Strab. vii: his poetry to the very last.
p. 303; Lucian, Scythu and Anacharsis; Athen. In the time of Suidas five books of Anacreon's
iv. p. 159, x. pp. 428, 437, xiv. p. 613; Aelian, poems were extant, but of these only a few genuine
V. il. v. 7. )
[C. P. M. ] fragments have come down to us. The “ Odes"
ANA'CREON ('Avarpėwv), one of the principal attributed to him are now universally admitted to
Greek lyric poets, was a native of the Ionian city be spurious. All of them are later than the time
of Teos, in Asia Minor. The accounts of his life of Anacreon. Though some of them are very
are neagre and confused, but he seems to have graceful, others are very deficient in poetical feel.
spent his youth at his native city, and to have re- ing; and all are wanting in the tone of earnestnesa
moved, with the great body of its inhabitants, to which the poetry of Anacreon always breathed.
Abdera, in Thrace, when Teos was taken by Har- The usual metre in these Odes is the lambic
pagus, the general of Cyrus (about B. c. 540 ; Strab. Dimeter Catalectic, which occurs only once in the
xiv. p. 644). The early part of his middle life genuine fragments of Anacreon. His favourite
was spent at Samos, under the patronage of Poly- metres are the Choriambic and the lonica
crates, in whose praise Anacreon wrote many Minore.
songs. (Strab. xir. p. 638; Herod. ij. 121.
) He
The editions of Anacreon are very numerous.
enjoyed very high favour with the tyrant, and is the best are those of Brunck, Strasb. 1786; Fischer,
said to have softened his temper by the charms of Lips. 1793 ; Mehlhorn, Glogau, 1825; and
music. (Maxim. Tyr. Diss. xxxvii. 5. ) After Bergk, Lips. 1834.
(P. S. )
the death of Polycrates (B. C. 52. ? ), he went to
ANACYNDARAXES ('Avak uvdapálns), the
Athens at the invitation of the tyrant Hipparchus, father of Sardanapalus, king of Assyria. (Arrian,
## p. 158 (#178) ############################################
158
ANANIUS.
ANASTASIUS.
An. ji. 5 ; Strab. xiv. p. 672; Athen. viii. p. 335, f. , | The invention of the satyric iambic verse called
xii. pp. 529, e, 530, b. )
Scazon is ascribed to him as well as to Hipponax.
ANADYO'MENE ('Avað vouévn), the goddess (Hephaest. p. 30, 11, Gaisf. ) Some fragments of
rising out of the sea, a burname given to Aphrodite, Ananius are preserved by Athenaeus (pp. 78, 282,
in allusion to the story of her being born from the 370), and all that is known of him has been col-
foam of the sea. This surname had not much ce- lected by Welcker. (Ipponactis et Ananü lamba
lebrity previous to the time of A pelles, but his graphorum Fragmenta, p. 109, &c. ) (P. S. )
famous painting of Aphrodite Anadyomene, in ANAPHAS ('Avapas), was said to have been
which the goddess was represented as rising from one of the seven who slew the Magi in B. c. 521,
the sea and drying her hair with her hands, at and to have been lincally descended from A tossib
once drew great attention to this poetical idea, and the sister of Cambyses, who was the father of the
excited the emulation of other artists, painters as great Cyrus. The Cappadocian kings traced their
well as sculptors. The painting of Apelles was origin to Anaphas, who received the government
made for the inhabitants of the island of Cos, who of Cappadocia, free from taxes. Anaphas was suc-
set it up in their temple of Asclepius. Its beauty ceeded by his son of the same name, and the latter
induced Augustus to have it removed to Rome, by Datames. (Diod. xxxi. Ed. 3. )
and the Coans were indemnified by a reduction in ANASTA'SIA, a noble Roman lady, who suf-
their taxes of 100 talents. In the time of Nero fered martyrdom in the Diocletian persecution.
the greater part of the picture had become effaced, (A. d. 303. ) Two letters written by her in prison
and it was replaced by the work of another artist. are extant in Suidas, s. r. Youooyovos. (P. S. ]
(Strab. xiv. p. 657; Plin. H. N. xxxv. 36. SS 12. ANASTASIUS ("Avastácios), the author of
and 15; Auson. Ep. 106 ; Paus. ii. 1. $ 7. ) [L. S. ] a Latin epigram of eighteen lines addressed to
ANAEA ('Avala), an Amazon, from whom the a certain Armatus, “ De Ratione Victus Salutaris
town of Anaea in Caria derived its name. (Steph. post Incisum Venam et Emissum Sanguinem,"
Byz. s. v. ; Eustath. ad Dionys. Perieg. 828. ) (L. S. ] which is to be found in several editions of the
ANAGALLIS. (AGALLIS. )
Remmen Sanitatis Salernitanum. (e. g. Antverp. 1557,
ANAGNOSTES, JOANNES ('Iwdvrns 'Ava- 12mo. ) The life and date of the author are quite
groots), wrote an account of the storming of his unknown, but he was probably a late writer, and
native city, Thessalonica, by the Turks under is therefore not to be confounded with a Greek
Amurath 11. (1. D. 1430), to which is added a physician of the same name, whose remedy for the
"Monodia," or lamentation for the event, in prose gout, which was to be taken during a whole year,
The work is printed, in Greek and Latin, in the is quoted with approbation by Aetius (tetrab. iii.
Lúpuerta of Leo Allatius, Rom. 1653, 8vo. , pp. serm. iv. 47, p. 609), and who must therefore have
318—380. The author was present at the siege, lived some time during or before the fifth century
after which he left the city, but was induced to after Christ
(W'. A. G. )
return to it by the promises of the conqueror, who ANASTA'SIUS I. II. , patriarchs of ANTIOCH.
two years afterwards deprived him of all his pro- (ANASTASIUS SINAITA. ]
perty. (Hanekius, de Hist. Byz. Script. i. 38, ANASTA'SIUS I. ('Avastáo los ), emperor
p. 636 ; Wharton, Supp. to Cave, Hist. Lit. ij. of ConstanTINOPLE, surnamed Dicorus (Aino-
p. 130. )
[P. S. ) pos) on account of the different colour of his
ANÁI'TIS ('Avattis), an Asiatic divinity, eye-balls, was born about 430 a. D. , at Dyrra-
whose name appears in various modifications, some chium in Epeirus. He was descended from an
times written Anaca (Strab. xvi. p. 738), some- unknown family, and we are acquainted with
times Aneitis (Plut. Artax. 27), sometimes Tanaïs only a few circumstances concerning his life pre
(Clem. Alex. Protrept. p. 43), or Nanaea. (Maccab. viously to his accession. We know, however,
ii. 1, 13. ) Her worship was spread over several that he was a zealous Eutychian, that he was not
parts of Asia, such as Armenia, Cappadocia, Assy- married, and that he served in the imperial life-
ria, Persis, &c. (Strab. xi. p. 512, xii. p. 559. xv. guard of the Silentiarii, which was the cause of his
p. 733. ) In most places where she was worship being generally called Anastasius Silentianus. The
ped we find numerous slares (iepodov. 0. ) of both emperor Zeno, the Isaurian, baring died in 491
sexes consecrated to her, and in Acilisene these without male issue, it was generally believed that
slaves were taken from the most distinguished his brother Longinus would succeed him ; but in
families. The female slaves prostituted them consequence of an intrigue carried on during some
selves for a number of years before they married. time, as it seems, between Anastasius and the em-
These priests seem to have been in the enjoyment press Ariadne, Anastasius was proclaimed emperor.
of the sacred land connected with her temples, and Shortly afterwards he married Ariadne, but it does
we find mention of sacred cows also being kept at not appear that he had had an adulterous inter-
such temples. (Plut. Lucull. 24. ) From this and course with her during the life of her husband.
other circumstances it has been inferred, that the When Anastasius ascended the throne of the
worship of Anaitis was a branch of the Indian Eastern empire he was a man of at least sixty, but
worship of nature. It seems, at any rate, clear though, notwithstanding his advanced age, he
that it was a part of the worship so common among evinced uncommon energy, his reign is one of the
the Asiatics, of the creative powers of nature, both most deplorable periods of Byzantine history, dis-
male and female. The Greek writers sometimes turbed as it was by foreign and intestine wars and
identify Anaitis with their Artemis (Paus. iii. 16. by the still greater calamity of religious troubles.
$6; Plut. l. c. ), and sometimes with their Aphro | Immediately after his accession, Longinus, the
dite. (Clem. Alex. I. c. ; Agathias, i. 2; Ammian. brother of Zeno, Longinus Magister Officiorum,
Marc. xxiii
. 3 ; Spartian. Carac. 7; comp. Creuzer, and Longinus Selinuntius, rose against bim, and
Symbol. ii. p. 22, &c. )
(L. S. ] being all natives of Isauria, where they had great
ANA'NIUS ('Arávios), a Greek iambic poet, influence, they made this province the centre of
contemporary with Hipponax (about 540 B.
