A surgeon
of the same name, who is mentioned by Martial
(Epigr.
of the same name, who is mentioned by Martial
(Epigr.
Charles - 1867 - Classical Dictionary
also called Jacimus, or Jo-
achim ('lu*e//<<>c), one of the Jewish priests who es
poused the Syrian cause. He was made high priest
by Demetrius, about B. C. 161, and was installed in
his office by the help of a Syrian army. In conse-
quence of his cruelties he was expelled by the Jews
and obliged to fly to Antioch, but was restored by
the help of another Syrian army. He continued in
his office, under the protection of the Syrians, til
his death, which happened suddenly (B. C. 159), while
he was pulling down the wall of the'temple that
divided the court of the Gentiles from that of the
Israelites. (Joseph. , Ant. Jud. , 12, 9, $ 7. --1 Mac-
(ab. , 7,9. )--II. A Greek rhetorician, whom Diogenes
Laertius (2, 114) calls the most distinguished of al
Greek rhetoricians, flourished about B. C. 300. It
is not certain whether he is the seme as the Alci-
mus to whom Diogenes, in another passage (3, 9)
ascribes a work irpof 'Ajtvvrav. Athenffius in severa!
places speaks of a Sicilian Alcimus, who appears
in have been the author of a great historical work
parts of which are referred to under the names ol
'Ira'f. ii,! , and Zue/ltKa. But whether he was the same
is the rhetorician Alcimus, cannot be determined.
(Athen. , 10, p. 441 ; 12, p. 519; 7, p. 322. )--III. (A vi-
rus) AI. ETHIUS, the writer of seven short poems in
the Latin Anthology, whom Wernsdorf has shown
\Poet. Lot. Mm. , vol. 6, p. S6, &c. ) to be the same
person as Alcimus, the rhetorician in Aquitania in
Gaul, who is spoken of in terms of high praise by
Bidonius Apollinaris (Epi>>t. , 8, 11; 5, 10) and Au-
? onius (Profess. Burdigal. , 2). His date is determin-
ed by Hieronymus in his Chronicon, who says that
Alcimus and Delphidius taught in Aquitania in A. D.
360. His poems are superior to most of his time.
They are printed by Meier in his "Anthologia Lat-
ina," ep. 254-260, and by Wernsdorf, vol. 6, p. 194,
AsC.
ALCINOUS ('AA<<ivo"rt, II. a Platonic philosopher,
who probably lived under the Caesars. Nothing is
known of his personal history, but a work entitled
'Ejnro/wy TUV nXcinJvof tJojy/drtJV, containing an
analysis of the Platonic philosophy, as it was set
forth by late writers, has been preserved. The
treatise is written rather in the manner of Aristo-
tle than of Plato, and the author has not hesitated
to introduce any of the views of other philosophers
which seemed to add to the completeness of the
system. Thus the parts of the syllogism (c. 8), the
doctrine of the mean and of the li-eif and kvepyelai
(c. 2, 8), are attributed to Plato, as well as the
division of philosophy which was common to the
Peripatetics and Stoics. It was impossible from
the writings of Plato to get a system complete in
Its parts, and hence the temptation of later writers,
who sought for system, to join Plato and Aristotle,
without perceiving the inconsistency of the union,
while everything which coiled their purpose was
? ? fearlessly ascribed to the founder of their own sect.
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tor. Phi^isopk ) A farther account -i his philosoph-
ical opinions may he found in Menage's Notes to
Diogenes Lacrlws, S, 83, p. 387 -- Le Cterc, Hist, de
la Med. -- Alfons. Ciacconius, ap. Fabric. , Biblioth.
Grac. , vol. 13, p. 48, ed. vet. --Sprcngcl, Hist, de la
Mid. , vol. 1, p. 239. --C. G. Kukn, De Philosopk.
nle Hippocr. Medicina Cultor. , Lips. , 1781, 4to,
reprinted in Ackermann's Opuac. ad Hislor. Medic.
Pertifttnlia, fforimt. , 1797, 8vo, and in Kuhn't
Oputf. Atad. Med. et Philol. , Lips. , 1827-8, S vols.
8vo. --Isensee, Gesch. der Median.
Although' Alcmseon is termed a pupil of Pythag-
oras, there is great reason to doubt whether lie was
a Pythagorean at all; his name seems to have crept
into the lists of supposititious Pythagoreans given us
by later writers. (Bra. nd. is, Geschickte der Philoso-
vhie, vol. 1, p. 607. ) Aristotle (Meiapky*. , A. , 5)
mentions him as nearly contemporary with Pythag-
oras, but distinguishes between the aroiytia of op-
posites, under which the Pythagoreans included all
things, and the double principle of Alcmseon, ac-
cording to Aristotle, less extended, although he
does not explain the precise difference. Other doc-
trines of Alcmteon have been preserved to us. He
said that the human soul was immortal, and partook
of the divine nature, because, like the heavenly bod-
ies, it contained in itself a principle of motion.
(Arisl. , De Anima, 1, 2, p. 405. --Cic. , De Nat.
Deor. ', 1, 11. ) The eclipse of the moon, which was
also eternal, he supposed to arise from its shape,
which, he said, was like a boat. All his doctrines
which have come down to us relate to physics or
medicine, and seem to have arisen partly out of Iht
speculations of the Ionian school, with which, rather
than the Pythagorean, Aristotle appears to connect
Almnceon, partly from the traditionary lore of the
earliest medical science. (Brandis, vol. 1, p. 508. )
ALCMAN ('A/. wm<<'), called by the Attic and later
Greek writers Alcmteon ('Ata/uu'uv), the chief lyric
pool of Sparta, was by birlh a Lydian ofSardis.
His father's name was Damas or Titarus. He was
brought into Laconia as a slave, evidently when
very young. His master, whose name was Agesi-
4as, discovered his genius, and emancipated him;
and he IK -n began to distinguish himself as a lyric
poet. (Suidas, s. >>. --Heraclid. Pont. , Polit. , p. 206.
-- Veil. Pat. , 1, 18. --Alcman, fr. 11, Welcker. --Epi-
grams by Alexander JEtolvs, Leonidas, and Antipater
Tkess. , in Jacobs's Anthol. GrtEc. . 1, p. 207, No, 3;
p. 175, No. 80; 2, p. 110, No. 56; in the Anthol.
Palat. . 7, 709, 19, 18. ) In the epigram last cited it
is said that the two continents strove for the hon-
our of his birth; and Suidas (/. c. ) calls him a La-
conian of Messoa, which may mean, however, that
he was enrolled as a citizen of Messoa after his
emancipation. The above statements seem to be
more in accordance with the authorities than the
opinion of Bode, that Alcman's father was brought
from Sardis to Sparta as a slave, and that Alcman
himself was born at Messoa. It is not known to
what extent he obtained the rights of citizenship.
The time at which Alcman lived is rendered
somewhat doubtful by the different statements of
the Greek and Armenian copies of Eusebius, and
of the chronographers who followed him. On the
whole, however, the Greek copy of Eusebius ap-
pears to he right in placing him at the second year
? ? of thy twenty-seventh Olympiad (B. C. 671). He
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There is no l/ace of an epode following the strophe
*n<l antistrophe in his poems
The dialect of Airman was the Spartan Doric,
with an intermixture of the . . Kuiir. The popular
idioms of Laconia appear most frequently in his
Diore familiar poems.
The Alexandrean grammarians placed Alcman at
the head of their canon of the nine lyric poets.
Among the proofs of his popularity may be men-
tioned the tradition that his songs were sung, with
those of Terpander, at the first performance of the
gymnopajdia at Sparta (B. C. 665: Milan, V. H. , 12,
60), and the ascertained fact, that they were fre-
quently afterward used at that festival. (Athen. ,
15, p. 678. ) The few fragments which remain
scarcely allow us to judge how far he deserved his
reputation, but some of them display a true poetical
spirit.
Alcman's poems comprised six hooks, the extant
fragments of which are included in the collections
of Neander, H. Stephens, and Fulvius Ursinus. The
latest and best edition is that of VVelcker, Giessen,
1815.
A LCDS, II. a surgeon (vitlnerum medicus) at Rome
in the reign of Claudius, A. D. 41-54, who is said
by Pliny (H. N. , 29, 8) to have been banished to
Gaul, and to have been fined ten millions of sester-
ces: H. S. ccntics cent. mill, (about ? 78,125). Af-
ter his return from banishment, he is said to have
gained by his practice an equal sum within a few
years, which, however, seems so enormous (com-
pare ALBUTIUS and ARRUNTIUS), that there must
probably be some mistake in the text.
A surgeon
of the same name, who is mentioned by Martial
(Epigr. , 11, 84) as a contemporary, may possibly be
the same person.
ALECTOE ('AXe'icrup), I. the father of Le'itus, the
Argonaut. (Apyllod. , 1, 9, ? 16. ) Homer (II. , 17,
602) calls him Alectryon. --! ! . A son of Anaxago-
ras, and father of Iphis, king of Argos. He was con-
sulted by Polyneices as to the manner in which
Amphiaraus might be compelled to take part in the
expedition against Thebes. (Apollod. ,~3, 6, ? 2. --
Paui. , 2, 18, $ 4. ) Two others of the same name
>>rfc mentioned in Homer. (Od. , 4, 10. --Euttath. ad
Worn. , p. 303 and 1598. )
Au> UI. -K and ALEUAS ('fCkevuSai ami '. \>. j i'r. v. )
Aletas is the ancestorial hero of the Thessalian, or,
more particularly, of the Larisssean family of the
. Aleuadae. (Find,. , Pyl/i. , 10, 8, with the Schol. )
The Aleuadee were the noblest and most powerful
amcng all the families of Thessaly, whence Herodo-
tus (7,6) calls its members /JamXtcf. (Comp. Died. ,
15, 61; 16, 14. ) The first Aleuas, who bore the
surname of IIii/5/^f, that is, the red-haired, is called
king (here synonymous with Tagus: md. Diet, of
Ant. , p. 945) of Thessaly, and a descendant of Her-
cules through Thessalus, one of the many sons of
Hercules. (Suidas, a. v. 'AXfuuJoj. --Ulpitm ad
Vtm. , Olynth. . l. --Sehol. adApollon. Rhod. , 3, 1090.
-Vellei. , 1, 3. ) Plutarch (De Am. Frat. , in Jin. )
states that he was hated by his father, on account
of his haughty and savage character; but his uncle,
nevertheless, contrived to get him elected king and
sanctioned by the god of Delphi. His reign was
more glorious than that of any of his ancestors, and
the' nation rose in power and importance. This
? ? Aluuas, who belongs to the mythical period of Greek
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id is Thorax, a friend of Antigonus. (1'lut. , Demetr. ,
89 ) Whether the sculptois Aleuas, mentioned by
Pliny {H. N. , 34. 8), and Scopas of Paros, were in
any way connected with the Aleuadse, cannot be
ascertained. See Doeckh's Commentary on Pint. ,
Pyth. , 10; Schneider on Arutot. , Potit, 5,5,9, ant
more particularly Buttmann, Von dem GcichUckt ia
Akuadcn, in his Mythol. , 2, p. 246, ,\r <<bo bat
made out the following genealogical tabsu of ti
Aleuads.
Aleuas Tlvjiftof,
Kino, or Taoub, or Thessaly.
Mother Archedice.
01. 40. Echecratides.
'45.
50.
55.
70.
Eu. ylochus.
Scopas I. A
Echecratides.
wife Dyseris.
Simus.
Aleuas II.
Creon. Diactorides.
Scopas II.
Antiochus, Tagus.
"80.
Orestes.
"85.
"90.
"95.
Medius.
Eurylochus.
"100.
"105.
H
"110.
Eurylochus.
'<< 115.
Me(
lius.
Thorax, Eurypylus, Thrasydaeuj.
Aristippus.
Hcllam ic rates.
Eudicus. Simus. Thrasydaeus.
Scopas III. , Tagus.
AlexamenusI. ('AXf? a/itv6c), of Teos, was, accord-
ing to Aristotle, in his work upon poets (rrepi ttoi-
firCv), the first person who wrote dialogues in the
Socratic style before the time of Plato (Athcn. , 11,
p. 505, b, c. --Diog. Lacrt. , 3, 48. )
Alexander, IV. ('KKiiavSpoc), the Paphlaoonian,
s celebrated impostor, who flourished about tho be-
ginning of the second century (Lucian, Alex. , 6), a
native of Abonoteichos on the Euxine, and the pupil
of t friend of Apollonius Tyanaeus. His history,
Which is told by Lucian with great naiveti, is chiefly
an account of the various contrivances by which he
established and maintained the credit of an oracle.
Being, according to Lucian's account, at his wit's
end for the means of life, with many natural ad-
vantages of manner and person, he determined on
the following imposture. After raising the expecta-
tions of the Paphlagonians with a reported visit of
the god yEsculapius, and giving himself out, under
the sanction of an oracle, as a descendant of Per-
? ? seus, he gratified the expectation which he had
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? nd cynaedt. Among hia epic poems, we possess
the titles and some fragments of three pieces: the
Fisherman (aXieic: A then. , 7, p. 296), Kirka or
Krika (Athcn. , 7, p. 283), which, however, is desig-
nated by Athensus as doubtful, and Helena, (Bek-
kcr. Anted. , p. 96. ) Of his elegies, some beautiful
fragments are still extant. (Athen. , 4, p. 170; 11,
>>. 496; 15, p. 899. --S/rffi. , 12, p. 556; 14, p. 681.
--Parthcn. . Erot. , i. --Tzctz. ad Lycophr. , 266 --
Schol. and Eustath. ad 11, 3, 314. ) His Cynsedi, or
"lunna ? KoitipaTa, are mentioned by Strabo (14, p.
648) and Athensus (14, p. 620). Some anaplas-
tic verses in praise of Euripides are preserved in
Gellius (15, 20). AU the fragments of Alexander
jEtolus are collected in "Alexandri Mtoli frag-
menla coll. et ill. A. Capcllmann," Bonn, 1829, 8vo.
--Comp. Welcker, Die Griech, Tragodien, p. 1263,
dec. --Diintzer, Die Fragm. der Episch. Poetic der
Gricchcn, von Alexand. dem Grossen, &c, p. 7,
dec. --IX. Commander of the horse in the army of
Antioonds Doson during the war against Cleome-
nes III. , of Sparta. (Polyb. , 2, 66. ) He fought
against Philopoemen, then a young man, whose pru-
dence and valour forced him to a disadvantageous
engagement at Sellasia (2, 68). This Alexander is
probably the same person as the one whom Antig-
onus, as the guardian of Philip, had appointed com-
mander of Philip's body-guard, and who was calum-
niated by Apelles (4, 87). Subsequently he was sent
by Philip as ambassador to Thebes, to persecute
Megaleas (5, 28). Polybius states, that at all times
he manifested a most extraordinary attachment to
his king (7,12) --X.
achim ('lu*e//<<>c), one of the Jewish priests who es
poused the Syrian cause. He was made high priest
by Demetrius, about B. C. 161, and was installed in
his office by the help of a Syrian army. In conse-
quence of his cruelties he was expelled by the Jews
and obliged to fly to Antioch, but was restored by
the help of another Syrian army. He continued in
his office, under the protection of the Syrians, til
his death, which happened suddenly (B. C. 159), while
he was pulling down the wall of the'temple that
divided the court of the Gentiles from that of the
Israelites. (Joseph. , Ant. Jud. , 12, 9, $ 7. --1 Mac-
(ab. , 7,9. )--II. A Greek rhetorician, whom Diogenes
Laertius (2, 114) calls the most distinguished of al
Greek rhetoricians, flourished about B. C. 300. It
is not certain whether he is the seme as the Alci-
mus to whom Diogenes, in another passage (3, 9)
ascribes a work irpof 'Ajtvvrav. Athenffius in severa!
places speaks of a Sicilian Alcimus, who appears
in have been the author of a great historical work
parts of which are referred to under the names ol
'Ira'f. ii,! , and Zue/ltKa. But whether he was the same
is the rhetorician Alcimus, cannot be determined.
(Athen. , 10, p. 441 ; 12, p. 519; 7, p. 322. )--III. (A vi-
rus) AI. ETHIUS, the writer of seven short poems in
the Latin Anthology, whom Wernsdorf has shown
\Poet. Lot. Mm. , vol. 6, p. S6, &c. ) to be the same
person as Alcimus, the rhetorician in Aquitania in
Gaul, who is spoken of in terms of high praise by
Bidonius Apollinaris (Epi>>t. , 8, 11; 5, 10) and Au-
? onius (Profess. Burdigal. , 2). His date is determin-
ed by Hieronymus in his Chronicon, who says that
Alcimus and Delphidius taught in Aquitania in A. D.
360. His poems are superior to most of his time.
They are printed by Meier in his "Anthologia Lat-
ina," ep. 254-260, and by Wernsdorf, vol. 6, p. 194,
AsC.
ALCINOUS ('AA<<ivo"rt, II. a Platonic philosopher,
who probably lived under the Caesars. Nothing is
known of his personal history, but a work entitled
'Ejnro/wy TUV nXcinJvof tJojy/drtJV, containing an
analysis of the Platonic philosophy, as it was set
forth by late writers, has been preserved. The
treatise is written rather in the manner of Aristo-
tle than of Plato, and the author has not hesitated
to introduce any of the views of other philosophers
which seemed to add to the completeness of the
system. Thus the parts of the syllogism (c. 8), the
doctrine of the mean and of the li-eif and kvepyelai
(c. 2, 8), are attributed to Plato, as well as the
division of philosophy which was common to the
Peripatetics and Stoics. It was impossible from
the writings of Plato to get a system complete in
Its parts, and hence the temptation of later writers,
who sought for system, to join Plato and Aristotle,
without perceiving the inconsistency of the union,
while everything which coiled their purpose was
? ? fearlessly ascribed to the founder of their own sect.
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tor. Phi^isopk ) A farther account -i his philosoph-
ical opinions may he found in Menage's Notes to
Diogenes Lacrlws, S, 83, p. 387 -- Le Cterc, Hist, de
la Med. -- Alfons. Ciacconius, ap. Fabric. , Biblioth.
Grac. , vol. 13, p. 48, ed. vet. --Sprcngcl, Hist, de la
Mid. , vol. 1, p. 239. --C. G. Kukn, De Philosopk.
nle Hippocr. Medicina Cultor. , Lips. , 1781, 4to,
reprinted in Ackermann's Opuac. ad Hislor. Medic.
Pertifttnlia, fforimt. , 1797, 8vo, and in Kuhn't
Oputf. Atad. Med. et Philol. , Lips. , 1827-8, S vols.
8vo. --Isensee, Gesch. der Median.
Although' Alcmseon is termed a pupil of Pythag-
oras, there is great reason to doubt whether lie was
a Pythagorean at all; his name seems to have crept
into the lists of supposititious Pythagoreans given us
by later writers. (Bra. nd. is, Geschickte der Philoso-
vhie, vol. 1, p. 607. ) Aristotle (Meiapky*. , A. , 5)
mentions him as nearly contemporary with Pythag-
oras, but distinguishes between the aroiytia of op-
posites, under which the Pythagoreans included all
things, and the double principle of Alcmseon, ac-
cording to Aristotle, less extended, although he
does not explain the precise difference. Other doc-
trines of Alcmteon have been preserved to us. He
said that the human soul was immortal, and partook
of the divine nature, because, like the heavenly bod-
ies, it contained in itself a principle of motion.
(Arisl. , De Anima, 1, 2, p. 405. --Cic. , De Nat.
Deor. ', 1, 11. ) The eclipse of the moon, which was
also eternal, he supposed to arise from its shape,
which, he said, was like a boat. All his doctrines
which have come down to us relate to physics or
medicine, and seem to have arisen partly out of Iht
speculations of the Ionian school, with which, rather
than the Pythagorean, Aristotle appears to connect
Almnceon, partly from the traditionary lore of the
earliest medical science. (Brandis, vol. 1, p. 508. )
ALCMAN ('A/. wm<<'), called by the Attic and later
Greek writers Alcmteon ('Ata/uu'uv), the chief lyric
pool of Sparta, was by birlh a Lydian ofSardis.
His father's name was Damas or Titarus. He was
brought into Laconia as a slave, evidently when
very young. His master, whose name was Agesi-
4as, discovered his genius, and emancipated him;
and he IK -n began to distinguish himself as a lyric
poet. (Suidas, s. >>. --Heraclid. Pont. , Polit. , p. 206.
-- Veil. Pat. , 1, 18. --Alcman, fr. 11, Welcker. --Epi-
grams by Alexander JEtolvs, Leonidas, and Antipater
Tkess. , in Jacobs's Anthol. GrtEc. . 1, p. 207, No, 3;
p. 175, No. 80; 2, p. 110, No. 56; in the Anthol.
Palat. . 7, 709, 19, 18. ) In the epigram last cited it
is said that the two continents strove for the hon-
our of his birth; and Suidas (/. c. ) calls him a La-
conian of Messoa, which may mean, however, that
he was enrolled as a citizen of Messoa after his
emancipation. The above statements seem to be
more in accordance with the authorities than the
opinion of Bode, that Alcman's father was brought
from Sardis to Sparta as a slave, and that Alcman
himself was born at Messoa. It is not known to
what extent he obtained the rights of citizenship.
The time at which Alcman lived is rendered
somewhat doubtful by the different statements of
the Greek and Armenian copies of Eusebius, and
of the chronographers who followed him. On the
whole, however, the Greek copy of Eusebius ap-
pears to he right in placing him at the second year
? ? of thy twenty-seventh Olympiad (B. C. 671). He
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There is no l/ace of an epode following the strophe
*n<l antistrophe in his poems
The dialect of Airman was the Spartan Doric,
with an intermixture of the . . Kuiir. The popular
idioms of Laconia appear most frequently in his
Diore familiar poems.
The Alexandrean grammarians placed Alcman at
the head of their canon of the nine lyric poets.
Among the proofs of his popularity may be men-
tioned the tradition that his songs were sung, with
those of Terpander, at the first performance of the
gymnopajdia at Sparta (B. C. 665: Milan, V. H. , 12,
60), and the ascertained fact, that they were fre-
quently afterward used at that festival. (Athen. ,
15, p. 678. ) The few fragments which remain
scarcely allow us to judge how far he deserved his
reputation, but some of them display a true poetical
spirit.
Alcman's poems comprised six hooks, the extant
fragments of which are included in the collections
of Neander, H. Stephens, and Fulvius Ursinus. The
latest and best edition is that of VVelcker, Giessen,
1815.
A LCDS, II. a surgeon (vitlnerum medicus) at Rome
in the reign of Claudius, A. D. 41-54, who is said
by Pliny (H. N. , 29, 8) to have been banished to
Gaul, and to have been fined ten millions of sester-
ces: H. S. ccntics cent. mill, (about ? 78,125). Af-
ter his return from banishment, he is said to have
gained by his practice an equal sum within a few
years, which, however, seems so enormous (com-
pare ALBUTIUS and ARRUNTIUS), that there must
probably be some mistake in the text.
A surgeon
of the same name, who is mentioned by Martial
(Epigr. , 11, 84) as a contemporary, may possibly be
the same person.
ALECTOE ('AXe'icrup), I. the father of Le'itus, the
Argonaut. (Apyllod. , 1, 9, ? 16. ) Homer (II. , 17,
602) calls him Alectryon. --! ! . A son of Anaxago-
ras, and father of Iphis, king of Argos. He was con-
sulted by Polyneices as to the manner in which
Amphiaraus might be compelled to take part in the
expedition against Thebes. (Apollod. ,~3, 6, ? 2. --
Paui. , 2, 18, $ 4. ) Two others of the same name
>>rfc mentioned in Homer. (Od. , 4, 10. --Euttath. ad
Worn. , p. 303 and 1598. )
Au> UI. -K and ALEUAS ('fCkevuSai ami '. \>. j i'r. v. )
Aletas is the ancestorial hero of the Thessalian, or,
more particularly, of the Larisssean family of the
. Aleuadae. (Find,. , Pyl/i. , 10, 8, with the Schol. )
The Aleuadee were the noblest and most powerful
amcng all the families of Thessaly, whence Herodo-
tus (7,6) calls its members /JamXtcf. (Comp. Died. ,
15, 61; 16, 14. ) The first Aleuas, who bore the
surname of IIii/5/^f, that is, the red-haired, is called
king (here synonymous with Tagus: md. Diet, of
Ant. , p. 945) of Thessaly, and a descendant of Her-
cules through Thessalus, one of the many sons of
Hercules. (Suidas, a. v. 'AXfuuJoj. --Ulpitm ad
Vtm. , Olynth. . l. --Sehol. adApollon. Rhod. , 3, 1090.
-Vellei. , 1, 3. ) Plutarch (De Am. Frat. , in Jin. )
states that he was hated by his father, on account
of his haughty and savage character; but his uncle,
nevertheless, contrived to get him elected king and
sanctioned by the god of Delphi. His reign was
more glorious than that of any of his ancestors, and
the' nation rose in power and importance. This
? ? Aluuas, who belongs to the mythical period of Greek
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id is Thorax, a friend of Antigonus. (1'lut. , Demetr. ,
89 ) Whether the sculptois Aleuas, mentioned by
Pliny {H. N. , 34. 8), and Scopas of Paros, were in
any way connected with the Aleuadse, cannot be
ascertained. See Doeckh's Commentary on Pint. ,
Pyth. , 10; Schneider on Arutot. , Potit, 5,5,9, ant
more particularly Buttmann, Von dem GcichUckt ia
Akuadcn, in his Mythol. , 2, p. 246, ,\r <<bo bat
made out the following genealogical tabsu of ti
Aleuads.
Aleuas Tlvjiftof,
Kino, or Taoub, or Thessaly.
Mother Archedice.
01. 40. Echecratides.
'45.
50.
55.
70.
Eu. ylochus.
Scopas I. A
Echecratides.
wife Dyseris.
Simus.
Aleuas II.
Creon. Diactorides.
Scopas II.
Antiochus, Tagus.
"80.
Orestes.
"85.
"90.
"95.
Medius.
Eurylochus.
"100.
"105.
H
"110.
Eurylochus.
'<< 115.
Me(
lius.
Thorax, Eurypylus, Thrasydaeuj.
Aristippus.
Hcllam ic rates.
Eudicus. Simus. Thrasydaeus.
Scopas III. , Tagus.
AlexamenusI. ('AXf? a/itv6c), of Teos, was, accord-
ing to Aristotle, in his work upon poets (rrepi ttoi-
firCv), the first person who wrote dialogues in the
Socratic style before the time of Plato (Athcn. , 11,
p. 505, b, c. --Diog. Lacrt. , 3, 48. )
Alexander, IV. ('KKiiavSpoc), the Paphlaoonian,
s celebrated impostor, who flourished about tho be-
ginning of the second century (Lucian, Alex. , 6), a
native of Abonoteichos on the Euxine, and the pupil
of t friend of Apollonius Tyanaeus. His history,
Which is told by Lucian with great naiveti, is chiefly
an account of the various contrivances by which he
established and maintained the credit of an oracle.
Being, according to Lucian's account, at his wit's
end for the means of life, with many natural ad-
vantages of manner and person, he determined on
the following imposture. After raising the expecta-
tions of the Paphlagonians with a reported visit of
the god yEsculapius, and giving himself out, under
the sanction of an oracle, as a descendant of Per-
? ? seus, he gratified the expectation which he had
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? nd cynaedt. Among hia epic poems, we possess
the titles and some fragments of three pieces: the
Fisherman (aXieic: A then. , 7, p. 296), Kirka or
Krika (Athcn. , 7, p. 283), which, however, is desig-
nated by Athensus as doubtful, and Helena, (Bek-
kcr. Anted. , p. 96. ) Of his elegies, some beautiful
fragments are still extant. (Athen. , 4, p. 170; 11,
>>. 496; 15, p. 899. --S/rffi. , 12, p. 556; 14, p. 681.
--Parthcn. . Erot. , i. --Tzctz. ad Lycophr. , 266 --
Schol. and Eustath. ad 11, 3, 314. ) His Cynsedi, or
"lunna ? KoitipaTa, are mentioned by Strabo (14, p.
648) and Athensus (14, p. 620). Some anaplas-
tic verses in praise of Euripides are preserved in
Gellius (15, 20). AU the fragments of Alexander
jEtolus are collected in "Alexandri Mtoli frag-
menla coll. et ill. A. Capcllmann," Bonn, 1829, 8vo.
--Comp. Welcker, Die Griech, Tragodien, p. 1263,
dec. --Diintzer, Die Fragm. der Episch. Poetic der
Gricchcn, von Alexand. dem Grossen, &c, p. 7,
dec. --IX. Commander of the horse in the army of
Antioonds Doson during the war against Cleome-
nes III. , of Sparta. (Polyb. , 2, 66. ) He fought
against Philopoemen, then a young man, whose pru-
dence and valour forced him to a disadvantageous
engagement at Sellasia (2, 68). This Alexander is
probably the same person as the one whom Antig-
onus, as the guardian of Philip, had appointed com-
mander of Philip's body-guard, and who was calum-
niated by Apelles (4, 87). Subsequently he was sent
by Philip as ambassador to Thebes, to persecute
Megaleas (5, 28). Polybius states, that at all times
he manifested a most extraordinary attachment to
his king (7,12) --X.
