to the care of king Polymnestor,
together
with v.
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23.
)
and Augustus. Ahenobarbus fled from Rome to AJAX ( Alas). 1. A son of Telamon, king of
Antony at Ephesus, where he found Cleopatra Salamis, by Periboea or Eriboea (Apollod. iii. 12.
with him, and endeavoured, in vain, to obtain her $7; Paus. i. 42. § 4; Pind. Isth. vi. 65; Diod.
removal from the army. Many of the soldiers, iv. 72), and a gran dsou of Aeacus. Homer calls
disgusted with the conduct of Antony, offered the him Ajax the Tela monian, Ajax the Great, or
command to him; but he preferred deserting the simply Ajax (N. ii. 768, ix. 169, xiv. 410; comp.
party altogether, and accordingly went over to Pind. Isth. vi. 38), whereas the other Ajax, the
Augustus shortly before the battle of Actium. He son of Oileus, is always distinguished from the
was not, however, present at the battle, as he died former by some epithet. According to Homer
a few days after joining Augustus. Suetonius says Ajax joined the expedition of the Greeks against
that he was the best of his family. (Cic. Phil. ii
. Troy, with his Salaminians, in twelve ships (N.
11, x. 6, Brut. 25, ad Fam. vi. 22 ; Appian, B. C. ii. 557; comp. Strab. ix. p. 394), and was next to
v. 55, 63, 65; Plut. Anton. 70, 7); Dion Cass. Achilles the most distinguished and the bravest
lib. xlvii. --); Vellei. ii. 76, 84; Suet. Ner. 3; among the Greeks. (ii. 768, xvii 279, &c. ) He
Tac. Ann. iv. 44. )
is described as tall of stature, and his head and
9. L. Domitius Cn. F. L. N. AHENOBARBUS, broad shoulders as rising above those of all the
son of the preceding, was betrothed in B. C. 36, at Greeks (iii. 226, &c. ); in beauty he was inferior
the meeting of Octavianus and Antony at Taren- to none but Achilles (Od. xi. 550, xxiv. 17;
tum, to Antonia, the daughter of the latter by comp. Paus. i. 35. $ 3. ) When Hector challenged
Octavia. He was aedile in B. c. 22, and consul in the bravest of the Greeks to single combat, Ajax
B. C. 16. After his consulship, and probably as the came forward among several others. The people
successor of Tiberius, he commanded the Roman prayed that he might fight, and when the lot
army in Germany, crossed the Elbe, and penetrat- fell to Ajax (11. vii. 179, &c. ), and be ap-
ed further into the country than any of his prede proached, Hector himself began to tremble. (215. )
cessors had done. He received in consequence the He wounded Hector and dashed him to the ground
insignia of a triumph. He died A. D. 25. Sueto by a huge stone. The combatants were separated,
nius describes him as haughty, prodigal, and cruel, and upon parting they exchanged arms with one
and relates that in his aedileship he commanded another as a token of mutual esteem. (305, &c. )
the censor Plancus to make way for im ; and Ajax was also one of the ambasszors whom Aga-
that in his praetorship and consulship he brought memnon sent to conciliate Achilles. (ix. 169. ) He
Roman knights and matrons on the stage. He fought several times besides with Hector, as in the
exhibited shows of wild beasts in every quarter of battle near the ships of the Greeks (xiv. 409, &c. xv.
the city, and his gladiatorial combats were con- | 415, xvi. 114), and in protecting the body of Patro
ducted with so much bloodshed, that Augustus clus. (xvii. 128,7 32. ) In the games at the funeral
was obliged to put some restraint upon them. pile of Patroclus, Ajax fonght with Odysseus, but
(Suet. Ner. 4; Tac. Ann. iv. 44; Dion Cass. liv. without gaining any decided advantige over him
59; Vellei. ü. 72. )
(xxiii. 720, &c. ), and in like manner with Dio-
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AJAX.
87
AJAX.
medes. In the contest about the armour of Achilles, / wandering of his soul after his death, see Plato,
he was conquered by Odysseus, and this, snys De Re Publ. x. in fin. ; Plut. Sympos. ix. 5.
Jlomer, became the cause of his death. (od. xi. Ajax was worshipped in Salamis as the tutelary
541, &c. ) Odysscus afterwards met his spirit in hero of the island, and had a temple with a statue
Hades, and endeavoured to appease it, but in vain. there, and was honoured with a festival, Aiarteia.
Thus far the story of Ajax, the Telamonian, is (Dict. of Ant. s. v. ) At Athens too he was wor-
related in the Homeric poems. Later writers fur shipped, and was one of the eponymic heroes, ono
nish us with various other traditions about his of the Attic tribes (Acantis) being called after him.
youth, but more especially about his death, which (Paus. i. 35. & 2; Plut. Sympos. i. 10. ) Not far
is so miguely alluded to by Homer. According to from the town Rhoeteion, on the promontory of the
Apollodorus (iii. 12. $7) and Pindar (1 sth. vi. same name, there was likewise a sanctuary of
51, &c. ), Ajax became invulnerable in conse- Ajax, with a beautiful statue, which Antonius
quence of a prayer which Heracles offered to Zeus,
sent to Egypt, but which was restored to its ori-
while he was on a visit in Salamis. The child ginal place by Augustus. (Strab. xiii. p. 595. )
was called Ayas from detós, an eagle, which ap- According to Dictys Cretensis (v. 16) the wife of
peared immediately after the prayer as a favour. Ajax was Glauca, by whom she had a son, Acan-
able omen. According to Lycophron (455 with the tides; by his beloved Tecmessa, he had a son,
Schol. ), Ajax was born before Heracles came to Eurysaces. (Soph. Aj. 333. ) Several illustrious
Telamon, and the hero made the child invulner-Athenians of the historical times, such as Miltiades,
able by wrapping him up in his lion's skin. Cimon, and Alcibiades, traced their pedigree to the
(Comp. Schol. ad Il. xxiii
. 841. ) Ajax is also Telamonian Ajax. (Paus. ii. 29. $ 4; Plut. Alcib.
mentioned among the suitors of Helen. (Apollod. 1. ) The traditions about this hero furnished
ii. 10. $ 8; Hygin. Fub. 81. ) During the war plentiful materials, not only for poets, but also for
against Troy, Ajax, like Achilles, made excursions sculptors and painters. His single combat with
into neighbouring countries. The first of them was Hector was represented on the chest of Cypselus
to the Thracian Chersonesus, where he took Poly: (Paus. v. 19. $ 1); his statue formed a part of a
dorus, the son of Priam, who had been entrusted large group at Olympia, the work of Lycius. (Paus.
to the care of king Polymnestor, together with v. 22. & 2; comp. Plin. H. N. xxxv. 10. § 36 ;
rich booty. Thence, he went into Phrygia, slew Aelian, v. H. ix. 11. ) A beautiful sculptured
king Teuthras, or Teleutas, in single conibat, and head, which is generally believed to be a head of
carried off great spoils, and Tecmessa, the king's Ajax, is still extant in the Egremont collection at
daughter, who became his mistress. (Dict. Cret. Petworth. (Bottiger, Amalthea, iii. p. 258. )
ii
. 18; Soph. Aj. 210, 480, &c. ; Hor. Carm. ii. 2. The son of Oileus, king of the Locrians, who
4. 5. ) In the contest about the armour of Achilles, is also called the Lesser Ajax. (Hom. Il. ii. 527. )
Agamemnon, on the advice of Athena, awarded His mother's name was Eriopis. According to
the prize to Odysseus. This discomfiture threw Strabo (ix. p. 425) his birthplace was Naryx in
Ajax into an awful state of madness. In the Locris, whence Ovid (Met. xiv. 468) calls him
night he rushed from his tent, attacked the sheep Narycius heros. According to the Iliad (ii. 527,
of the Greek army, made great havoc among them, &c. ) he led his Locrians in forty ships (Hygin.
and dragged dead and living animals into his tent, Fab. 97, says twenty) against Troy. He is de-
fancying that they were his enemies. When, in scribed as one of the great heroes among the
the morning, he recovered his senses and beheld Greeks, and acts frequently in conjunction with
what he had done, shame and despair led him to the Telamonian Ajax. He is small of stature and
destroy himself with the sword which Hector had wears a linen cuirass (Avolupnt), but is brave
once given him as a present. (Pind. Nem. vii
. and intrepid, especially skilled in throwing the
36; Soph. Aj. 42, 277, 852; Ov. Me. xiii. 1, spear, and, next to Achilles, the most swift-footed
&c. ; Lycophr. l. C. ) Less poetical tra litions among all the Greeks. (N. xiv. 520, &c. , xxiii.
make Ajax die by the hands of others. (Dict. 789, &c. ) His principal exploits during the siege
Cret. v. 15; Dar. Phryg. 35, and the Greek argu- of Troy are mentioned in the following passages :
ment to Soph. Ajax. )" His step-brother Teucrus xiii. 700, &c. , xiv. 520, &c. , xvi. 350, xvii. 256,
was charged by Telamon with the murder of Ajas, 732, &c. In the funeral games at the pyre of
but succeeded in clearing himself from the accusa- Patroclus he contended with Odysseus and Anti-
tion. (Paus. i. 28. $ 12. ) A tradition mentioned lochus for the prize in the footrace; but Athena
by Pausanias (i. 35. § 3; comp. Ov. Met. xiii. who was hostile towards him and favoured Odys-
397, &c. ) states, that from his blood there sprang seus, made him stumble and fall, so that he
up a purple Hower which bore the letters ai on its gained only the second prize. (xxiii. 754, &c. )
leares, which were at once the initials of his name On his return from Troy his vessel was wrecked
and expressive of a sigh. According to Dictys, on the Whirling Rocks (Tupai nét par), but he him-
Neoptolemus, the son of Achilles, deposited the self escaped upon a rock through the assistance of
ashes of the hero in a golden urn on mount Rhoe Poseidon, and would have been saved in spite of
teion; and according to Sophocles, he was buried Athena, but he used presumptuous words, and
by his brother Teucrus against the will of the said that he would escape the dangers of the sea
Atreidae. (Comp. Q. Smyrn. v. 500; Philostr. Her. in defiance of the immorials. Hereupon Poseidon
xi. 3. ) Palisanias (iii
. 19. & 11) represents Ajax, split the rock with his trident, and Ajax was
like many other heroes, as living after his death in | swallowed up by the sea. (Od. iv. 499, &c. )
the island of Leuce. It is said that when, in the In later traditions this Ajax is called a son of
time of the emperor Hadrian, the sca had washed Oileus and the nymph Rhene, and is also men-
open the grave of Ajax, bones of superhuman size tioned among the suitors of Helen. (Hygin. Ful.
were found in it, which the emperor, however, 81, 97; Apollod. iii. 10. $ 8. ) According to a
ordered to be buried again. (Philostr. Her. i. 2; tradition in Philostmtus (Iler. viii. 1), A jax had
Paus. iii. 39. § 11. ) Respecting the state and a tame dragon, five cubits in length, which follow-
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AIUS LOCUTIUS.
ALARICI'S.
1
ed him everywhere like a dog. After the taking fore the invasion of the Gauls, a voice was herri
of Troy, it is said, he rushed into the temple of at Rome in the Via nova, during the silence of
Athena, where Cassandra had taken refuge, and night, announcing that the Gauls were approaching.
was embracing the statue of the goddess as a sup (Liv. v. 32. ) No attention was at the time paid
pliant Ajax dragged her away with violence and to the warning, bui atter the Gauls had withdmun
led her to the other captives. (Virg. sen. ii. 403; from the city, the Romans reinembered the pro-
Eurip. Troud. 70, &c. ; Dict. Cret. v. 12; llygin. phetic voice, and atoned for their neglect by crect-
Feb. 116. ) According to some suitements he ing on the spot in the l'ia nova, where the voice
eren violntcd Cassandra in the temple of the gods had been heard, a templum, that is, an altar with
dess (Trypliod. 035; Q. Smyrn. xiii. 4:22; a sured enclosure around it to Aius Locutius, or
Lycophr. 360, with the Schol. ); Odysseus at least the “ Announcing Speaker. " (Liv. v. 50; l'arro,
accused him of this crime, and Ajax was to be up. Gell. xvi. 17; Cic. de Divinat. i. 45, i.
stoned to death, but saved himself by establisbing : 32. )
(LS. )
his innocence by an oath (Paus. x. 26. & I, 31. ALABANDUS ('Andeavdos), a Ciuriin hero,
§ 1. ) The whole charge, is on the other hand, son of Euippus and Cirrhoë, whom the inhabit-
said to have been an invention of Agamemnon, ants of Alabanda worshipped as the founder of
who wanted to have Cassandra for himself. But their town. (Steph. Byz. s. r. 'Arabavda ; Cic.
whether true or not, Athena had sufficient rcason de Nat. Deor. iii. 15, 19. )
(L. S. )
for being indignant, as Ajax had dragged a sup- | ALAGOʻNIA ('Alayovia), a daughter of
pliant from her temple. When on his voyage : Zeus and Europa from whom Alagonia, a town in
homeward he came to the Capharean rocks on the i Laconia derived its name. (Puus. iii. 21. $ 6,
coast of Euboea, his ship was wrecked in a storin, 26. § 8; Nat. Com. viii. 23.
and Augustus. Ahenobarbus fled from Rome to AJAX ( Alas). 1. A son of Telamon, king of
Antony at Ephesus, where he found Cleopatra Salamis, by Periboea or Eriboea (Apollod. iii. 12.
with him, and endeavoured, in vain, to obtain her $7; Paus. i. 42. § 4; Pind. Isth. vi. 65; Diod.
removal from the army. Many of the soldiers, iv. 72), and a gran dsou of Aeacus. Homer calls
disgusted with the conduct of Antony, offered the him Ajax the Tela monian, Ajax the Great, or
command to him; but he preferred deserting the simply Ajax (N. ii. 768, ix. 169, xiv. 410; comp.
party altogether, and accordingly went over to Pind. Isth. vi. 38), whereas the other Ajax, the
Augustus shortly before the battle of Actium. He son of Oileus, is always distinguished from the
was not, however, present at the battle, as he died former by some epithet. According to Homer
a few days after joining Augustus. Suetonius says Ajax joined the expedition of the Greeks against
that he was the best of his family. (Cic. Phil. ii
. Troy, with his Salaminians, in twelve ships (N.
11, x. 6, Brut. 25, ad Fam. vi. 22 ; Appian, B. C. ii. 557; comp. Strab. ix. p. 394), and was next to
v. 55, 63, 65; Plut. Anton. 70, 7); Dion Cass. Achilles the most distinguished and the bravest
lib. xlvii. --); Vellei. ii. 76, 84; Suet. Ner. 3; among the Greeks. (ii. 768, xvii 279, &c. ) He
Tac. Ann. iv. 44. )
is described as tall of stature, and his head and
9. L. Domitius Cn. F. L. N. AHENOBARBUS, broad shoulders as rising above those of all the
son of the preceding, was betrothed in B. C. 36, at Greeks (iii. 226, &c. ); in beauty he was inferior
the meeting of Octavianus and Antony at Taren- to none but Achilles (Od. xi. 550, xxiv. 17;
tum, to Antonia, the daughter of the latter by comp. Paus. i. 35. $ 3. ) When Hector challenged
Octavia. He was aedile in B. c. 22, and consul in the bravest of the Greeks to single combat, Ajax
B. C. 16. After his consulship, and probably as the came forward among several others. The people
successor of Tiberius, he commanded the Roman prayed that he might fight, and when the lot
army in Germany, crossed the Elbe, and penetrat- fell to Ajax (11. vii. 179, &c. ), and be ap-
ed further into the country than any of his prede proached, Hector himself began to tremble. (215. )
cessors had done. He received in consequence the He wounded Hector and dashed him to the ground
insignia of a triumph. He died A. D. 25. Sueto by a huge stone. The combatants were separated,
nius describes him as haughty, prodigal, and cruel, and upon parting they exchanged arms with one
and relates that in his aedileship he commanded another as a token of mutual esteem. (305, &c. )
the censor Plancus to make way for im ; and Ajax was also one of the ambasszors whom Aga-
that in his praetorship and consulship he brought memnon sent to conciliate Achilles. (ix. 169. ) He
Roman knights and matrons on the stage. He fought several times besides with Hector, as in the
exhibited shows of wild beasts in every quarter of battle near the ships of the Greeks (xiv. 409, &c. xv.
the city, and his gladiatorial combats were con- | 415, xvi. 114), and in protecting the body of Patro
ducted with so much bloodshed, that Augustus clus. (xvii. 128,7 32. ) In the games at the funeral
was obliged to put some restraint upon them. pile of Patroclus, Ajax fonght with Odysseus, but
(Suet. Ner. 4; Tac. Ann. iv. 44; Dion Cass. liv. without gaining any decided advantige over him
59; Vellei. ü. 72. )
(xxiii. 720, &c. ), and in like manner with Dio-
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AJAX.
87
AJAX.
medes. In the contest about the armour of Achilles, / wandering of his soul after his death, see Plato,
he was conquered by Odysseus, and this, snys De Re Publ. x. in fin. ; Plut. Sympos. ix. 5.
Jlomer, became the cause of his death. (od. xi. Ajax was worshipped in Salamis as the tutelary
541, &c. ) Odysscus afterwards met his spirit in hero of the island, and had a temple with a statue
Hades, and endeavoured to appease it, but in vain. there, and was honoured with a festival, Aiarteia.
Thus far the story of Ajax, the Telamonian, is (Dict. of Ant. s. v. ) At Athens too he was wor-
related in the Homeric poems. Later writers fur shipped, and was one of the eponymic heroes, ono
nish us with various other traditions about his of the Attic tribes (Acantis) being called after him.
youth, but more especially about his death, which (Paus. i. 35. & 2; Plut. Sympos. i. 10. ) Not far
is so miguely alluded to by Homer. According to from the town Rhoeteion, on the promontory of the
Apollodorus (iii. 12. $7) and Pindar (1 sth. vi. same name, there was likewise a sanctuary of
51, &c. ), Ajax became invulnerable in conse- Ajax, with a beautiful statue, which Antonius
quence of a prayer which Heracles offered to Zeus,
sent to Egypt, but which was restored to its ori-
while he was on a visit in Salamis. The child ginal place by Augustus. (Strab. xiii. p. 595. )
was called Ayas from detós, an eagle, which ap- According to Dictys Cretensis (v. 16) the wife of
peared immediately after the prayer as a favour. Ajax was Glauca, by whom she had a son, Acan-
able omen. According to Lycophron (455 with the tides; by his beloved Tecmessa, he had a son,
Schol. ), Ajax was born before Heracles came to Eurysaces. (Soph. Aj. 333. ) Several illustrious
Telamon, and the hero made the child invulner-Athenians of the historical times, such as Miltiades,
able by wrapping him up in his lion's skin. Cimon, and Alcibiades, traced their pedigree to the
(Comp. Schol. ad Il. xxiii
. 841. ) Ajax is also Telamonian Ajax. (Paus. ii. 29. $ 4; Plut. Alcib.
mentioned among the suitors of Helen. (Apollod. 1. ) The traditions about this hero furnished
ii. 10. $ 8; Hygin. Fub. 81. ) During the war plentiful materials, not only for poets, but also for
against Troy, Ajax, like Achilles, made excursions sculptors and painters. His single combat with
into neighbouring countries. The first of them was Hector was represented on the chest of Cypselus
to the Thracian Chersonesus, where he took Poly: (Paus. v. 19. $ 1); his statue formed a part of a
dorus, the son of Priam, who had been entrusted large group at Olympia, the work of Lycius. (Paus.
to the care of king Polymnestor, together with v. 22. & 2; comp. Plin. H. N. xxxv. 10. § 36 ;
rich booty. Thence, he went into Phrygia, slew Aelian, v. H. ix. 11. ) A beautiful sculptured
king Teuthras, or Teleutas, in single conibat, and head, which is generally believed to be a head of
carried off great spoils, and Tecmessa, the king's Ajax, is still extant in the Egremont collection at
daughter, who became his mistress. (Dict. Cret. Petworth. (Bottiger, Amalthea, iii. p. 258. )
ii
. 18; Soph. Aj. 210, 480, &c. ; Hor. Carm. ii. 2. The son of Oileus, king of the Locrians, who
4. 5. ) In the contest about the armour of Achilles, is also called the Lesser Ajax. (Hom. Il. ii. 527. )
Agamemnon, on the advice of Athena, awarded His mother's name was Eriopis. According to
the prize to Odysseus. This discomfiture threw Strabo (ix. p. 425) his birthplace was Naryx in
Ajax into an awful state of madness. In the Locris, whence Ovid (Met. xiv. 468) calls him
night he rushed from his tent, attacked the sheep Narycius heros. According to the Iliad (ii. 527,
of the Greek army, made great havoc among them, &c. ) he led his Locrians in forty ships (Hygin.
and dragged dead and living animals into his tent, Fab. 97, says twenty) against Troy. He is de-
fancying that they were his enemies. When, in scribed as one of the great heroes among the
the morning, he recovered his senses and beheld Greeks, and acts frequently in conjunction with
what he had done, shame and despair led him to the Telamonian Ajax. He is small of stature and
destroy himself with the sword which Hector had wears a linen cuirass (Avolupnt), but is brave
once given him as a present. (Pind. Nem. vii
. and intrepid, especially skilled in throwing the
36; Soph. Aj. 42, 277, 852; Ov. Me. xiii. 1, spear, and, next to Achilles, the most swift-footed
&c. ; Lycophr. l. C. ) Less poetical tra litions among all the Greeks. (N. xiv. 520, &c. , xxiii.
make Ajax die by the hands of others. (Dict. 789, &c. ) His principal exploits during the siege
Cret. v. 15; Dar. Phryg. 35, and the Greek argu- of Troy are mentioned in the following passages :
ment to Soph. Ajax. )" His step-brother Teucrus xiii. 700, &c. , xiv. 520, &c. , xvi. 350, xvii. 256,
was charged by Telamon with the murder of Ajas, 732, &c. In the funeral games at the pyre of
but succeeded in clearing himself from the accusa- Patroclus he contended with Odysseus and Anti-
tion. (Paus. i. 28. $ 12. ) A tradition mentioned lochus for the prize in the footrace; but Athena
by Pausanias (i. 35. § 3; comp. Ov. Met. xiii. who was hostile towards him and favoured Odys-
397, &c. ) states, that from his blood there sprang seus, made him stumble and fall, so that he
up a purple Hower which bore the letters ai on its gained only the second prize. (xxiii. 754, &c. )
leares, which were at once the initials of his name On his return from Troy his vessel was wrecked
and expressive of a sigh. According to Dictys, on the Whirling Rocks (Tupai nét par), but he him-
Neoptolemus, the son of Achilles, deposited the self escaped upon a rock through the assistance of
ashes of the hero in a golden urn on mount Rhoe Poseidon, and would have been saved in spite of
teion; and according to Sophocles, he was buried Athena, but he used presumptuous words, and
by his brother Teucrus against the will of the said that he would escape the dangers of the sea
Atreidae. (Comp. Q. Smyrn. v. 500; Philostr. Her. in defiance of the immorials. Hereupon Poseidon
xi. 3. ) Palisanias (iii
. 19. & 11) represents Ajax, split the rock with his trident, and Ajax was
like many other heroes, as living after his death in | swallowed up by the sea. (Od. iv. 499, &c. )
the island of Leuce. It is said that when, in the In later traditions this Ajax is called a son of
time of the emperor Hadrian, the sca had washed Oileus and the nymph Rhene, and is also men-
open the grave of Ajax, bones of superhuman size tioned among the suitors of Helen. (Hygin. Ful.
were found in it, which the emperor, however, 81, 97; Apollod. iii. 10. $ 8. ) According to a
ordered to be buried again. (Philostr. Her. i. 2; tradition in Philostmtus (Iler. viii. 1), A jax had
Paus. iii. 39. § 11. ) Respecting the state and a tame dragon, five cubits in length, which follow-
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88
AIUS LOCUTIUS.
ALARICI'S.
1
ed him everywhere like a dog. After the taking fore the invasion of the Gauls, a voice was herri
of Troy, it is said, he rushed into the temple of at Rome in the Via nova, during the silence of
Athena, where Cassandra had taken refuge, and night, announcing that the Gauls were approaching.
was embracing the statue of the goddess as a sup (Liv. v. 32. ) No attention was at the time paid
pliant Ajax dragged her away with violence and to the warning, bui atter the Gauls had withdmun
led her to the other captives. (Virg. sen. ii. 403; from the city, the Romans reinembered the pro-
Eurip. Troud. 70, &c. ; Dict. Cret. v. 12; llygin. phetic voice, and atoned for their neglect by crect-
Feb. 116. ) According to some suitements he ing on the spot in the l'ia nova, where the voice
eren violntcd Cassandra in the temple of the gods had been heard, a templum, that is, an altar with
dess (Trypliod. 035; Q. Smyrn. xiii. 4:22; a sured enclosure around it to Aius Locutius, or
Lycophr. 360, with the Schol. ); Odysseus at least the “ Announcing Speaker. " (Liv. v. 50; l'arro,
accused him of this crime, and Ajax was to be up. Gell. xvi. 17; Cic. de Divinat. i. 45, i.
stoned to death, but saved himself by establisbing : 32. )
(LS. )
his innocence by an oath (Paus. x. 26. & I, 31. ALABANDUS ('Andeavdos), a Ciuriin hero,
§ 1. ) The whole charge, is on the other hand, son of Euippus and Cirrhoë, whom the inhabit-
said to have been an invention of Agamemnon, ants of Alabanda worshipped as the founder of
who wanted to have Cassandra for himself. But their town. (Steph. Byz. s. r. 'Arabavda ; Cic.
whether true or not, Athena had sufficient rcason de Nat. Deor. iii. 15, 19. )
(L. S. )
for being indignant, as Ajax had dragged a sup- | ALAGOʻNIA ('Alayovia), a daughter of
pliant from her temple. When on his voyage : Zeus and Europa from whom Alagonia, a town in
homeward he came to the Capharean rocks on the i Laconia derived its name. (Puus. iii. 21. $ 6,
coast of Euboea, his ship was wrecked in a storin, 26. § 8; Nat. Com. viii. 23.
