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and these are still in existence, but the original has ASELLUS, a cognomen in the Annian and
long since disappeared. All the MSS. employed Claudian gentes. The Annia gens was a plebeian
by the editors of Asconius seem to have been de one; and the Aselli in the Cornelia gens were
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1. C. or P. ANNIUS Asellus, a senator, who grandfather Asinius. (Senec. Epit. Controv. lib.
had not been included in the census, died, leaving iv. praef. ; Tac. Ann. iii. 11, xiv. 40; Suet. Oct.
his only daughter his heres. The property, how- | 43. )
ever, was seized by Verres, the praetor urbanus, ASI'NIA GENS, plcbcian. The Asinii came
on the ground that such a bequest was in violation from Teate, the chief town of the Marrucini (Sil.
of the lex Voconia. (Cic. in Verr. i. 41, &c. , Ital. xvii. 453; Liv. Epit. 73 ; Catull. 1. 2); and
comp. i. 58, ii. 7; Dict. of Ant. s. v. Voconia Lex. ) their name is derived from asinu, which was a
2. Tu. Claudius Asellus, tribune of the sol- cognomen of the Scipios, as asellus was of the Annii
diers in the army of the consul, C. Claudius Nero, and Claudii. The Herius, spoken of by Silius
B. C. 207, praetor in B. C. 206, when he obtained Italicus (l. c. ) in the time of the second Punic war,
Sardinia as his province, and plebeian aedile in about B. c. 218, was an ancestor of the Asinii;
B. C. 204. (Liv. xxvii. 41, xxviii. 10, xxix. 11. ) but the first person of the name of Asinius, who
Appian (de Bell. Annib. 37) relates an extraor- occurs in history, is Herius Asinius, in the Marsic
dinary adventure of this Claudius Asellus in B. C. war, B. C. 90. (Asinius. ] The cognomens of
212.
the Asinii are AGRIPPA, CELER, Dento, GALLUS,
3. T1. Claudius ASELLUS, of the equestrian POllio, SALONINUS. The only cognomens which
order, was deprived of his horse, and reduced to occur on coins, are Gallus and Pollio. (Eckhel,
the condition of an acrarian, by Scipio Africanus, v. p. 144. )
the younger, in his censorship, B. c. 142. When ASI'NIUS. 1. HERIUS ASINIUS, of Teate,
Asellus boasted of his military services, and com- the commander of the Marrucini in the Marsic
plained that he had been degraded unjustly, Scipio war, fell in battle against Marius, B. C. 90. (Liv.
replied with the proverb, “ Agas asellum," 1 e. Epit
. 73 ; Vell Pat. ii. 16; Appian, B. C. i. 40;
A gas asellum, si bovem non agere queas” (Cic. Eutrop. v. 3. )
de Orat. ii. 64), which it is impossible to translate 2. Cn. Asinius, only known as the father of C.
so as to preserve the point of the joke ; it was a Asinius Pollio. [Pollio. ]
proverbial expression for saying, that if a person 3. Asinius, a friend of Antony, who surrepti-
cannot hold as good a station as he wishes, he tiously crept into the senate after the death of
must be content with a lower. When Asellus Caesar, B. C. 44. (Cic. Phil. xiii. 13. )
was tribune of the plebs in B. C. 139, he accused ASI'NIUS QUADRA'TUS. (QUADRATUS. )
Scipio Africanus before the people (Gell. iii. 4); and A'SIUS ('AQL03). 1. A son of Hyrtacus of
Gellius (ii. 20) makes a quotation from the fifth Arisbe, and father of Acamas and Phaenops. He
oration of Scipio against Asellus, which may have was one of the allies of the Trojans, and brought
been delivered in this year. Among other charges them auxiliaries from the several towns over which
which Asellus brought against Scipio, was, that he ruled. He was slain by Idomeneus. (Hom.
the lustrum had been inauspicious (because it had Il. ii. 835, xü. 140, xiii. 389, &c. , xvii. 582. )
been followed by a pestilence); and Gellius (iv. 2. A son of Dymas and brother of Hecabe.
17) has preserved two verses of Lucilius referring Apollo assumed the appearance of this Asius, when
to this charge:
he wanted to stimulate Hector to fight against
" Scipiadae magno improbus objiciebat Asellus
Patroclus (Hom. N. xvi. 715, &c. ; Eustath. p.
Lustrum, illo censore, malum infelixque fuisse. ” 1083. ) According to Dictys Cretensis (iv. 12),
Asius was slain by Ajax. There are two more
Scipio replied, that it was not surprising that it mythical personages of this name, which is also
should have been so, as his colleague, L. Mummius, used as a surname of Zeus, from the town of Asos
who had performed the lustrum, bad removed or Oasos in Crete. (Virg. Aen. x. 123; Tzetz. ail
Asellus from the aerarians and restored him to his Lycoph. 355 ; Steph. Byz. s. o. 'Agos. ). (L. S. )
former rank. (Cic. de Orat. ii. 66; comp. Val. A'SIUS ("Agios), one of the earliest Greek
Max. vi. 4. § 2; Aurel. Vict. de Vir. İl. 58, poets, who lived, in all probability, about B. C.
where the opposition of Mummius to Scipio is 700, though some critics would place him at an
alluded to. ) This Claudius Asellus seems to be the earlier and others at a later period. He was a
same who was poisoned by his wife, Licinia. native of Samos, and Athenaeus (iii. p. 125) calls
(Val. Max. ri. 3. & 8. )
him the old Samian poet. According to Pausanias
A'SIA ('Agla). 1. A surname of Athena in (vii. 4. & 2), his father's name was Amphiptolemus.
Colchis. Her worship was believed to have been Asius wrote epic and elegiac poems.
The subject
brought from thence by Castor and Polydeuces to or subjects of his epic poetry are not known; and
Laconia, where a temple was built to her at Las the few fragments which we now possess, consist
(Paus. iii. 24. & 5. )
of genealogical statements or remarks about the
2. A daughter of Oceanus and Tethys, who be- Samians, whose luxurious habits he describes with
came by Japetus the mother of Atlas, Prometheus, great naïveté and humour. The fragments are
and Epimetheus. (Hesiod. Theog. 359; Apollod. preserved in Athenaeus, Pausanias, Strabo, A pol-
i. 2. $ 2, &c. ) According to some traditions the lodorus, and a few others. His elegies were writ-
continent of Asia derived its name from her. ten in the regular elegiac metre, but all have
(Herod. iv. 45. ) There are two other mythical perished with the exception of a very brief one
personages of this name. (Hygin. Fab. Praef. p. 2; which is preserved in Athenaeus. (l. c. ) The
Tzetzes, ad Lycoph. 1277. )
(L. S. ) fragments of Asius are collected in N. Bach, Cal-
ASIATICUS, a surname of the Scipios and lini, Tyrtaei et Asü Samii quae supersunt, ge,
Valerii. [Scipio; VALERIUS. )
Leipzig, 1831, 8vo. ; in Dübner's edition of Hesiod,
AʼSINA, a surname of the Scipios. (SCIPIO. ] &c. , Paris, 1840, and in Düntzer, Die Fragm. der
ASI'NIA, the daughter of C. Asinius Pollio, Episch. Poes. p. 66, &c. , Nachtrag, p. 31. [L. S. ]
consul B. C. 40, was the wife of Marcellus Aeser- ASOʻPIS ('Aownis), two mythological per-
ninus, and the mother of Marcellus Aeseruinus sonages, one a daughter of Thespius, who became
the younger, who was instructed in rhetoric by his by lleracles the mother of Mentor (Apollod. ij. 7.
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ASPASIA.
ASPASIA.
$ 8), and the other a daughter of the river-god | Athens, and there gained and fixed the affections
Asopus. (Diod. iv. 72. )
(L. S. ] of Pericles, not more by her beauty than by her
ASOʻPIUS ('AOUTiOs). 1. Father of Phormion high mental accomplishments
. With his wife.
(Thuc. i. 64), called Asopichus by Pausanias. (i. who was a lady of rank, and by whom he had two
24. § 12. )
sons, he seems to have lived unhappily; and, hav-
2. Son of Phormion, was, at the request of the ing parted from her by mutual consent, he attached
Acarnanians who wished to have one of Phor himself to Aspasin during the rest of his life as
mion's family in the command, sent by the Athe-closely as was allowed by the law, which forbade
nians in the year following his father's naval marriage with a foreign woman under severe penal-
victories, B. c. 428 (the 4th of the Peloponnesian ties. (Plut. Peric. 24 ; Demosth. c. Neuer. p. 1350. )
war), with some ships to Naupactus. He fell Nor can there be any doubt that she acquired over
shortly after in an unsuccessful attempt on the him a great ascendancy; though this perhaps comes
Leucadian coast. (Thuc. iii. 7. ) [A. H. C. ] before us in an exaggerated shape in the statements
ASOPODOʻRUS, a statuary, possibly a native which ascribe to her intluence the war with Samos
of Argos (Thiersch, Epoch. d. bild, kunst. p. 275, on behalf of Miletus in B. C. 440, as well as the
Anm. ), was a pupil of Polycletus. (Plin. xxxiv. Peloponnesian war itself. (Plut. Peric. I. c. ; Aris-
8. s. 19. )
[C. P. M. ] toph. Acharn. 497, &c. ; Schol. ad loc. ; comp. Aris-
ASOʻPUS ("AOWTOS), the god of the river toph. Pax, 587, &c. ; Thuc. i. 115. )
The con-
Asopus, was a son of Oceanus and Tethys, or nexion, indeed, of Pericles with Aspasia appears to
according to others, of Poseidon and Pero, of Zeus have been a favourite subject of attack in Athenian
and Eurynome, or lastly of Poseidon and Cegluse. comedy (Aristoph. Acharn. 1. c. ; Plut. Peric. 24 ;
(Apollod. iii. 12. 96; Paus. ii. 5. $ 2, 12. $ 5. ) Schol. ad Piat. Mener. p. 235), as also with cer-
He was married to Metope, the daughter of the tain writers of philosophical dialogues, between
river god Ladon, by whom he had two sons and whom and the comic poets, in respect of their
twelve, or, according to others, twenty daughters. abusive propensities, Athenaeus remarks a strong
Their naines differ in the various accounts. (Apol- family likeness. (Athen. V. p. 220; Casaub. ad loc. )
lod. I. c. ; Diod. iv. 72 ; Schol. ad Pind. Ol. vi. Nor was their bitterness satisfied with the vent of
144, Isthm. viii. 37; Paus. ix. 1. & 2; Herod. ix. satire ; for it was Hermippus, the comic poet, who
51; Eustath. ad Hom. p. 278. ) Several of these brought against Aspasia the double charge of im-
daughters of Asopus were carried off by gods, piety and of infamously pandering to the vices of
which is commonly believed to indicate the colo Pericles; and it required all the personal influence
nies established by the people inhabiting the banks of the latter with the people, and his most earnest
of the Asopus, who also transferred the name of entreaties and tears, to procure her acquittal. (Plut.
Asopus to other rivers in the countries where they Peric. 32; Athen. xiii. p. 589, e. ; comp. Thirl-
settled. Aegina was one of the daughters of Asopus, wall's Greece, vol. iii. p. 87, &c. , and Append. ji. )
and Pindar mentions a river of this name in Aegina. The house of Aspasia was the great centre of the
(Nem. iii. 4, with the Schol:) In Greece there highest literary and philosophical society of Athens,
were two rivers of this name, the one in Achaia nor was the seclusion of the Athenian matrons so
in Peloponnesus, and the other in Boeotia, and the strictly preserved, but that many even of them re-
legends of the two are frequently confounded or sorted thither with their husbands for the pleasure
mixed up with each other. Hence arose the dif- and improvement of her conversation (Plut. Peric.
ferent accounts about the descent of Asopus, and 24); so that the intellectual influence which she ex-
the difference in the names of his daughters. But ercised was undoubtedly considerable, even though
as these names have, in most cases, reference to we reject the story of her being the preceptress
geographical circumstances, it is not difficult to of Socrates, on the probable ground of the irony of
perceive to which of the two river gods this or that those passages in which such statement is made
particular daughter originally belonged. The more (Plat. Mener. pp. 235, 249 ; Xen. Oecon. iii.
celebrated of the two is that of Peloponnesus. 14, Memor.