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despair at seeing his troops desert to Scribonius. declared that she had caten part of a pomegranate.
Stravo (vii. p. 311) speaks of a wall or a ditch Demeter (according to Apollodorus, l. c. , ii. 5. $ 1:2)
which Asander constructed across the Isthmus of punished him by burying him under a huge stone,
the Crimea, of 360 stadia in length, to protect the and when subsequently this stone was removed by
peninsula against the incursions of the nomadic lleracles, she changed Ascalaphus into an owi.
tribes. (Mannert, Geogr. der Griech. u. Rom. iv. According to Ovid, Persephone herself changed
P. 293. )
(L. S. ] him into an owl by sprinkling him with water of
ASBAMAEUS ('Aobauaios), a surname of the river Phlegethon. There is an evident resem-
Zeus, the protector of the sanctity of oaths. It blance between the mythus of Ascalabus and that
was derived from a well, Asbamaeon near Tyana, of Ascolaphus. The latter secms to be only a
in Cappadocia, the water of which was said to be moditication or continuation of the former, and the
beneficial and pleasant to honest persons, but pes- confusion may have arisen from the resemblance
tilential to those who were guilty of perjury. between the words dorénabos, a lizard, and do.
When perjured persons drank of the water, it pro- Kalapos, an owl.
(LS. )
duced a disease of the eyes, dropsy, and lameness, A'SCALUS ("Arralos), a son of Hymenaeus,
so that the guilty persons were unable to walk and a general of the Lydian king Aciamus, who is
away from the well, and were obliged to own said to have built the town of Ascalon in Syria.
their crime. (Philostr. Vit. Apolion. i. 6. ; Pseudo- (Steph. Ryz. s. r. 'Aokádwv. ) [L. S. ]
Aristot. Mirab. Auscult. 163; Ammian. Marcellin. ASCANIUS ('Aoravios), a son of Acneas by
xxiii. 6. )
(L. S. ) Creusa (Virg. Acn. ii. 666), or by Lavinia. (Liv.
A'SBOLUS (^Aobolos), a centaur, whom Hesiodi. 1, 3 ; Serv. ad Aen. vi. 760. ) From Livy it
(Scut. Herc. 185) calls oiwviotns, probably from would seem that some traditions distinguished be-
his skill in observing or prophesying from the tween an earlier and a later Ascanius, the one a
flight of birds. He fought against the Lapithae son of Creuse, and the other of Lavinia. After the
at the nuptials of Peirithous, and was subsequently fall of Troy, A scanjus and some Phrygian allies of
nailed to a cross by Heracles, who is said to have the Trojans were sent by Aeneas to the country
made an epigram upon him, which is preserved in of Dascylitis, whose inhabitants made Ascanius
Philostratus. (Her. xix. $ 17; comp. Tzetz. Child their king; but he soon returned to Troy, and
v. 22. )
[L. S. ) ruled there after the death of his father, who, ac-
ASCAʼLABUS ('Aokálabos), a son of Misme. cording to some traditions, had likewise returned
When Demeter on her wanderings in search of her to Troy. (Dionys. Hal. i. 47, 53. ) Another
daughter Persephone came to Misme in Attica, the legend made Ascanius found a new kingdom at
goddess was received kindly, and being exhausted Scepsis in Troas, in conjunction with Scamandrius,
and thirsty, Misme gave her something to drink. the son of Hector. (Strab. xiii. p. 607. ) Others
As the goddess emptied the vessel at one draught, again, according to whom his original name was
A scalabus laughed at her, and ordered a whole Euryleon, made him accompany his father to Italy
cask to be brought. Demeter indignant at his and succeed him as king of the Latins. (Dionys.
conduct, sprinkled the few remaining drops from 1. 65. ) Liry states that on the death of his father
her vessel upon him and thereby changed him into Ascanius was yet too young to undertake the go-
a lizard. (Antonin. Lib. 24; 08. Met. v. 447, vernment, and that after he had attained the age
where a similar story is related, though without the of manbood, he left Lavinium in the hands of his
name either of Misme or Ascalabus ; Welcker, Das mother, and migrated to Alba Longa. Here he
Kunst-Museum zu Bonn, p. 74, &c. ) For differ- was succeeded by his son Silvius. Accorùing to
ent legends respecting what happened to Demeter Dionysius (i. 70), Silrius was a younger brother of
on her arrival in Artica, see BAUBO, Lambe, and Ascanius, and disputed the succession with Julus,
METANEIRA.
(L. S. ) a son of Ascanius. The dispute was decided in
ASCAʼLAPHUS ('Aokáropos). 1. A son of favour of Silvius. Servius (ad Aen. i. 271) states,
Ares and Astyoche, and brother of Ialmenus, that Ascanius was also called Ilus, Julus, Dar-
together with whom he led the Minyans of Orcbo danus, and Leontodamus. The gens Julia at
menos against Troy, in thirty ships. (Hom. II. ii. Rome traced its pedigree up to Julus and Ascanius.
511, &c. )' In the war against Tros, he was slain (Heyne, Excurs. viii. , ad Aen. i. ) In the stories
by the hand of Derphobus, at which Ares was about Troy there occur three other personages of
filled with anger and indignation. (N. xiii. 519, the name Ascanius. (Apollod. iii. 12. & 5; Hom.
&c. , xv. 110, &c. ; comp. Paus. ix. 37. $ 3. ) | 1. ii. 862, xiii. 792. )
(L. S. ]
According to Apollodorus (i. 9. § 16, iii. 10. S 8) A'SCARUS ("Aukapos), a Theban statuary,
Ascalaphus was one of the Argonauts, and also one who made a statue of Zeus, dedicated by the
of the suitors of Helen. Hyginus in one passage Thessalians at Olympia. (Paus. F. 24. 1. )
(Fab. 97) calls A scalaphus and lalmenus sons of Thiersch (Epochen ºder bild. K'unst, p. 160, &c
Lycus of Argos, while in another (Fab. 159) he Anm. ) endeavours to shew that he was a pupil of
agrees with the common account. One tradition Ageladas of Sicyon. (AGELADAS. ) (C. P. M. )
described Ascalaphus as having gone from Troy to A'SCLAPO, a physician of Patrae, in Achain,
Samareia, and as having been buried there by who attended on Cicero's freedman, Tiro, during
Ares. The name of Samareia itself was derived an illness, B. C. 51. (Cic. ad Fam. xvi. 9. ) Cicero
from this occurrence, that is, from oâua or oñua was so much pleased by his kindness and his
and "Apns. (Eustath. ad Hom. p. 1009. )
medical skill, that he wrote a letter of recommen-
2. A son of Acheron by Gorgyra ( Apollod. i. 5. dation for him to Servius Sulpicius, B. C. 47. (xiii.
§ 3) or by Orphne. (Or. Met. 4. 510. ) Servius | 20. )
(W. A. G. )
(ad Aen. iv. 462) calls him a son of Styx. When ASCLEPI’ADAE. [AESCULAPIUS. )
Persephone was in the lower world, and Pluto ASCLEPI'ADES ('AJkantikons). 1.
Of Alex-
gave her permission to return to the upper, pro- ANDRIA, seems to have been a grammarian, as the
vided she had not eaten anything, Ascalaphus Scholiast on Aristophanes (Nd. 37) quoies him
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ASCLEPIADES.
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ASCLEPIADES.
as an authority on the meaning of the word there must have been two Asclepiades of Myrleia,
δήμαρχος.
the one of whom was perhaps n son or grandson of
2. Of ANAZARBA in Cilicia, is mentioned by the other. The younger taught grammar at Rome,
Stephanus of Byzantium (s. r. 'Avašapká) as the and is supposed to be the same as the one who for
author of many works, of which however only some time resided in Spain as a teacher of gram-
one, on rivers (Tepl Totauwv), is specified. mar, and wrote a description of the tribes of Spain
3. A son of ARETUS, wrote a work on Demetrius (Teperiynois Twv é@vwv), to which Strabo occasion-
Phalereus. (Athen. xiii. p. 567. ) It is not quite ally refers. (iii. p. 157, &c. ) Asclepiades of Myrleia
certain whether he is not the same as Asclepiades is also mentioned as the author of several other
of Myrleia, who is also called a native of Nicaea. works, of which, however, we possess only a few
(Steph. Byz. s. v. Nikaia. )
fragments. 1. On grammarians or grammars (Tepl
4. A Cynic philosopher, a native of Phlius, and paumatikáv, Suidas, s. r. 'Oppeús; Anonym. l'it.
a contemporary of Crates of Thebes, who must Arati; S. Empiric. adv. Grammat. 47, 72, 252).
consequently have lived about B. c. 530. (Diog. 2. A work on the poct Cratinus (Tepl Kpativov,
Laërt. vi. 91; Tertull. c. Nat. ii. 14. ) Whether Athen. xi. p. 501). 3. A work called tepi Neoto-
he is the same as the one whom Cicero (Tusc. v. pioos. (Athen. xi. pp. 477, 488, &c. , 498, 503. )
39) states to have been blind, is uncertain. 4. Αη υπόμνημα της 'Οδυσσείας. (Ειym. Μ. 5. τ.
5. A Cynic philosopher, who is mentioned along 'Apvaios ; Schol. ad Hom. Od. x. 2, xi. 269, 321,
with Servianus and Chytton, and lived in the reign 326, xii. 69, ed. Buttmann. ) 5. A work on the
of Constantius and Julianus, about a. D. 360. history of Bithynia (Biduriká), which consisted of
(Julian, Orat. c. Heracl. Cyn. p. 224; Ammian. at least ten books. (Parthen. Erot. 35; Schol. ad
Marc. xxii. 13. )
Apollon. Rhod. ii. 722, 791 ; Athen. ii. p. 50. )
6. Of Cyprus, wrote a work on the history of He is usually believed to be the author of a history
his native island and Phoenicia, of which a frag- of Alexander the Great mentioned by Arrian.
ment is preserved in Porphyrius. (De Alstin. iv. 15; (Anab. vii. 15; comp. Vossius, de Hist. Graec.
comp. Hieronym. ad Jovin. 2. )
pp. 97, 158, 161, 187, ed. Westermann; F. X.
1. An EGYPTIAN, possessed, according to Suidas Werfer, Acta Philol. Monac. iii. 4. p. 551, where
(s. r. 'Hpárokos), a profound knowledge of Egyptinn the fragments of Asclepiades are collected. )
theology, and wrote hymns on his native gods. He 12. Of TRAGILUS in Thrace, a contemporary
also composed a work upon the agreement among and disciple of Isocrates. (Phot. Bibl. p. 486, b.
the different religions, a second on the history of ed. Bekker. ) He is called a tragic writer, but was
Egypt, and a third on Ogyges. Of the history of more probably a sophist or a grammarian. He
Egypt the sixtieth book is quoted by Athenaeus. was the author of a work called τραγωδούμενα, in
(iii. p. 83. ) There seems to be little doubt that six books, which treated on the subjects used by
this Asclepiades is the same as the one whom the Greek tragic writers, and on the manner in
Suetonius (Aug. 94) calls the author of coloyoú- which they had dealt with their mythuses. (Plut.
uera, and of whom he quotes a fragment. This Vil. X. Orat. p. 837; Steph. Byz. s. v. Tpáginos;
Oconoyoúueva, moreover, seems to be the same Athen. X. p. 456; Harpocrat. s. v. Avoahans;
work as that on the agreement among the different Hesych. s. v. 'noiapxos ; comp. Werfer, l. c. p. 489,
religions. Suetonius calls him Asclepiades Mendes, where the fragments of the Tpaywooúueva are col-
which seems to be derived from the name of a lected. )
town in Egypt. (Comp. Schol. an Hom. II. vii. 13. A bishop of TRALLES, who lived about A. D.
p. 147; Casaub. ad Suet. l. c. ; Vossius, de Hist. 484. A letter of his and ten anathematismi against
Graec. p. 406, ed. Westermann. )
Fullo are printed with a Latin translation in Lab-
8. EPIGRAMMATIC poets. Under the name of beus, Concil
. iv. p. 1120. Another letter of his is
Asclepiades the Greek Anthology contains upwards still extant in the Vienna and Vatican libraries in
of forty epigrams; but it is more than probable MS. (Fabr. Bibl.