No More Learning

Locos, iv. 8. vol. xii. p. 789. ) [W. A. G. )
of Ant. S. v. Medicus. ) A work on Agriculture ATHENOCLES ('Aonvoklas). 1. The leader
by a person of the same name is mentioned by of an Athenian colony, who settled at Amisus in
Varro (De Re Rust. i. 1. $ 9) and Columella (De Pontus, and called the place Peiraeeus. The date
Re Rust. i. 1. § 10).
(W. A. G. ) of this event is uncertain. (Strab. xii. p. 547. )
ATHENA'IS ('Aonvats). 1. A Sibyl in the 2. Of Cyzicus, a commentator upon Homer,
time of Alexander the Great, born at Erythrae. who, according to the judgment of Athenaeus (v.
(Strab. xiv. p. €45. )
p. 177, e. ), understood the Homeric poems better
2. Surnamed Philostorgus (16Otopyos), the than Aristarchus. Whether the commentator upon
wife of Ariobarzanes 11. , king of Cappadocia, and Homer is the same Athenocles who wrote upon
the mother of Ariobarzanes ill. (Cic. ad Fam. the early history of the Assyrians and Medes
xv. 4; Eckhel, iii. p. 200. ) It appears from an (Agathias, ii. 24), is uncertain.
inscription (Eckhel, iii. p. 199), that the wife of ATHENOCLES ( 'Aonyokañs), a celebrated
Ariobarzanes I. was also called Athenais.
embosser or chaser, mentioned by Athenaeus. (xi.
3. The daughter of Leontius. (Eudocia. ] pp. 781, e. , 782, b. )
[C. P. M. )
ATHE'NION ('Aonviwv). 1. A Cilician, who in ATHENODO’RUS ('Aonvówpos). 1. Of A E-
the second servile war in Sicily, by the aid of his nos, a rhetorician, who lived in the time of Pollux.
wealth and pretended astrological knowledge, pro- He had been a disciple of Aristocles and Chrestus.
• cured himself to be chosen leader of the insurgents (Philost. Vit. Sophist. ii. 14; Eudocia, p. 51. )
in the western part of the island. After a fruitless 2. The father and brother of the poet ARATUS.
attack upon Lilybaeum, he joined Salvius, the king The latter defended Homer against the attacks of
of the rebels, who, under the influence of a suspi- Zoilus. (Suidas, s. v. "Apatos. )
cious jealousy, threw him into prison, but after- 3. A Stoic philosopher, surnamed CANANITES
wards released him. Athenion fought with great (Kavavitos) from Cana in Cilicia, the birthplace of
bravery in a battle with L. Licinius Lucullus, and his father, whose name was Sandon. Athenodorus
was severely wounded. On the death of Salvius, was himself a native of Tarsus. It is the same per-
he succeeded to his title of king. He maintained son probably whom Cicero (ad 111. xvi. 11) calis
his ground for some time successfully, but in B. c. Athenodorus Calvus. In Rhodes he became ac-
101 the Romans sent against him the consul M. I quainted with Posidonius, by whom probably he was
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ATHENODORUS.
ATIA.
instructed in the doctrines of the Stoics. He after- of the elder Polycletus, and Aourished at the end
wards went to Apollonia, where he taught, and of the fifth century B. C. (Paus. x. 9. & 8; Plin.
attracted the notice of Octavianus, whom he fol- H. N. xxxiv. 19, init. , and $ 26. )
lowed to Rome. He stood high in the favour of 2. A sculptor, the son and pupil of Agesander
the emperor, and was permitted to offer him advice, of Rhodes, whom he assisted in executing the
which he did on some occasions with considerable group of Laocoon. [AGESANDER. ] (C. P. M. ]
freedom. (Dion Cass. lii. 36, lvi. 43; Zonaras, p. ATHENOʻGENES ('Aonvoyévns), the author of
544, b. ) Zosimus (i. 6) tells us, that the govem a work, probably a poem, entitled Cephalion.
ment of Augustus became milder in consequence of (Athen. iv. p. 164, a. )
his attending to the advice of Athenodorus. The ATHENO'GENES ('Aonvoyévms), a Christian
young Claudius was placed under his instruction. martyr, of whom nothing more is known with cer-
(Suet. Claud. 4. ) In his old age he returned tainty than that, when he was proceeding to the
to Tarsus, which was at that time misgoverned stake, he left, as a parting gift to his friends, a
by Boëthus, a favourite of Antonius. Athena hymn in which the divinity of the Holy Spirit was
dorus procured his expulsion and that of his acknowledged. We learn this fact from St. Basil,
party, and restored order. Through his in- by whom it is incidentally recorded. (De Spiritu
fiuence with Augustus, he procured for his native Sancto, c. 29. ) On the supposed authority of this
city a remission of the vectigalia. He died at testimony, some have erroneously attributed to
the age of eighty-two, and his memory was ho- Athenogenes the morning hymn (uvos éwdivós)
noured by an annual festival and sacrifice. (Strab. beginning aóļa ev vviotois Ora, and the evening
xiv. p. 674; Lucian, Macrob. 21 ; Cic. ad Fam. hymn (üuvos con epivós) beginning tws inapov
iij. 7, ad Att. xvi. 14. ) He was the author of a svías 86/ns. (For the hymns themselves, see
work against the Categories of Aristotle (Porphyt. Usher, Diss. de Symbolo- A postolico, &c. p. 33 ;
in Categ. p. 21, a. ; Simplic
. Categ. p. 15, b. ; Sto- Thomas Smith's Miscellanea priora, p. 152; Fa-
baeus, Serm. 33) attributed by some to Athenodorus bric. Bibl. Gr. vii. pp. 171-2. ) But Basil in this
Cordylio; of an account of Tarsus (Steph. 'Ayxian); passage makes no mention whatever of the moming
of a work addressed to Octavia (Plui. Poplic. 17); hymn, while he expressly distinguishes the evening
of one hepl o novo ñs nal taldelas (Athen. xii. p. 519); hymn from that of Athenogenes, and says that he
of a work called Mlepínatoa (Diog. Laërt. iii. 3, v. does not know who was its author. Cave falls
36), and of some others. (Fabric. Bibl. Graec. iii. into the above-mentioned error in the first volume
p. 543; Hoffmann, Dissert. de Athen. Tarsensie of his Historia Literaria (ed. 1688), but corrects it
Lips.
1732 ; Sevin, in the Mémoires de l'Acad. des in the dissertation de Libris et Officiis Ecclesiasticis
Inscr. xix. p. 77. )
Graecorum, appended to the second volume, pub-
4. Surnamed CORDYL10 (Kopguaíwr), a Stoic lished in 1698. Le Moyne makes Athenogenes
philosopher, born at Tarsus. He was the keeper contemporary with Clemens Alexandrinus, and re-
of the library at Pergamus, and in his anxiety to presents him as suffering under the emperor Seve-
preserve the doctrines of his sect in their original rus. In this chronology Cave and Lumper concur.
purity, used to cut out from the works of the Stoic Garnier, in a note upon the above-cited passage in
writers such parts as appeared to him erroneous or Basil, identifies this Athenogenes with one whom
inconsistent. He removed from Pergamus to Rome, the martyrologies represent as suffering under Dio-
and lived with M. Cato, at whose house he died. cletian. Baronius and Tillemont strangely suppose
(Strab. xiv. p. 674; Diog. Laërt. vii. 34 ; Plut. that Athenogenes is one and the same with Atbe-
Cut. Min. 10; Senec. de Tranquill. Animi, c. 3, Ep. nagoras, whose apology for the Christians was
x. 4. )
addressed to M. Aurelius Antoninus and his son
5. An ERETRIAN, the author of a work entitled Commodus. (Le Moyne, Varia Sacra, ü. pp.
Únouvnuata. (Photius, Cod. 119. )
1095-6; Tillemont, Mémoires, &c. ii. p. 632;
6. Of Rhodes, a rhetorician spoken of by Quin- Lumper, Historia Theologico-Critica, &c. iv. pp. 39,
tilian. (ii. 17. )
40; Fabric. Bibl. Gr. vii. pp. 170-2. ) (J. M. M. )
7. Of Soli, a disciple of Zenon. (Diog. Laërt. ATHOʻUS ('Abwos), a surname of Zeus, derived
vii. 38, 121. ) He maintained, in opposition to the from mount Athos, on which the god had a temple.
other Stoics, that all offences were not equal. (Hesych. s. r. ; Aeschyl. Agam. 270. ) [L. S. )
8. Of Tarsus. (See Nos. 3 and 4. ]
ATHRYILATUS ('Aoputaatos ), a Greek
9. Of Teos, a player on the cithara, was one of physician of Thasos, introduced by Plutarch as
the performers who assisted at the festivities cele- one of the speakers in his Symposiacon (iii. 4),
brated at Susa in B. C. 324, on the occasion of the and who must therefore have lived at the end of
marriage of Alexander with Statira. There was the first or the beginning of the second century
also a tragedian of the same name, whose services after Christ.
(W. A. G. ]
were called into requisition on the same occasion. ATHYMBRUS ('AQvubpós), ATHYMBRA.
(Athen. xii. p. 538. )
[C. P. M. ) DUS ('ABúu6pados), and HYDREʻLUS ("Tapat
ATHENODO’RUS ('Aonvówpos), a Greek nos), three brothers, who came from Lacedaemon,
physician in the first century after Christ or the and founded cities in Lydia, which were called by
beginning of the second. He was probably a con- their names. These cities were afterwards de-
temporary of Plutarch, by whom the first book of serted by their inhabitants, who founded together
his treatise On Epidemic Diseases, 'Enidhuic is the town of Nysa, whence the latter regarded
quoted. (Sympos. viii. 9. § 1. ). (W. A. G. ) Athymbrus as its founder. (Strab. xiv. p. 650 ;
ATHENODOʻRUS ('Aønvbowpos). 1. A sta- Steph. Byz. s. v. "Advubpa. )
tuary, a native of Cleitor in Arcadia executed A'TIA, the daughter of M. Atius Balbus of
statues of Zeus and Apollo, which were dedicated Aricia, and of Julia, the sister of C. Julius Caesar.
by the Lacedaemonians at Delphi after the battle She was married to C. Octavius, and became by
of Aegos-potami. He was also famed for his him the mother of Augustus Caesar. (Suet. Oct.
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ATILIUS.
was the son of Apollo, who had intercourse with ATI'LIUS. 1. L. Atilius, a plebeian, consular
her in the form of a dragon, while she was sleeping tribune B. c. 399, and again in 396. (Liv. v. 13, 18;
on one occasion in the temple of the god. (Dion Diod. xiv. 54, 90. ) He must be distinguished froin
Cass. xlv. 1; Suet. Oct. 94. ) She carefully at- L. Atilius, the consular tribune in B. C. 444 (Liv.
tended to the education of her son, and is on this iv. 7), who was a patrician, and whose cognomen
account classed by the author of the Dialogue on was Longus, as we learn from Dionysius (xi. 61).
Orators (c. 29) along with Cornelia, the mother of 2. L. Atilius, tribune of the plebs, B. c. 311,
the Gracchi, and Aurelia, the mother of C. Julius brought forward a bill, in conjunction with his
Caesar. Her husband died in B. c. 59, when her colleague, C. Marcius, giving the people the power
son was only four years of age, and she afterwards of electing 16 military tribunes in the four legions,
married L. Marcius Philippus, who was consul in the usual number levied annually. (Liv. ix. 30. )
B. C. 56. On the death of Julius Caesar, she and As there were six tribunes in each legion, the peo-
her husband tried to dissuade her son from accept- ple by this bill had the election of two-thirds of
ing the inheritance which his great-uncle had left the whole number. Previously they appointed
him. (Plut. Cic. 44 ; Suet. Oct. 8; Vell. Pat. ii. 60; only six ; the remaining eighteen were nominated
Appian, B. C. iii. 10. ) She died in the first con- by the consuls. (Comp. Liv. vii. 5. )
sulship of her son, B. C. 43, and was honoured with 3. L. Atilius, quaestor in B. c. 216, slain at
a public funeral (Suet. Oct. 61; Dion. Cass.