)
Greek) delivered at the Council, (see Conciliorum ACANTHUS (Akavos), the Lacedaemonian,
Nova Collectio à Mansi, vol.
Greek) delivered at the Council, (see Conciliorum ACANTHUS (Akavos), the Lacedaemonian,
Nova Collectio à Mansi, vol.
William Smith - 1844 - Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities - a
Cyril and the Eastern Bishops at a
1. C. ABURIUS was one of the ambassadors sent Synod held at Berrhoea, A. D. 432. He died A. D.
to Masinissa and the Carthaginians, E. c. 171. 437, at the age of 116 years. Three of his letters
(Liv. xli. 35. )
remain in the original Greek, one to St Cyril,
2. M. ABURIUK, tribune of the plebs, B. c187, (extant in the Collection of Councils by Mansi,
opposed M. Fulvius the proconsul in his petition vol iv. p. 1056,) and two to Alexander, Bishop
for a triumph, but withdrew his opposition chiefly of Hierapolis. (Ibid. pp. 819, 830, c. 41. 55. $ 129,
through the influence of his colleague Ti. Gracchus. 143. )
(Liv. xxxix. 4. 5. ) He was praetor peregrinus, 3. The One-eyed (ó Mová od almos), the pupil
B. C. 176. (Liv. xli. 18. 19. )
and successor in the See of Caesarea of Eusebius
ABURNUS VALENS. (VALENS. )
A. D. 340, whose life he wrote. (Socrates, Hist.
ABYDENUS ('ABuonvós), a Greek historian, Eccl. ü. 4. ) He was able, learned, and unscru-
who wrote a history of Assyria ('Agoupiaká). pulous. At first a Semi-Arian like his master,
The time at which he lived is uncertain, but we he founded afterwards the Homoean party and
know that he made use of the works of Megas was condemned by the Semi-Arians at Seleucia,
thenes and Berosus; and Cyrillus (adv. Julian. pp. A. D. 359. (Socrates, Hist. Eccl. ii. 39. 40;
8, 9) states, that he wrote in the lonic dialect. Sozomen, Hist. Eod. iv. 22. 23. ) He subse
Several fragments of his work are preserved by quently became the associate of Aetius (AËTIUS),
Eusebius, Cyrillus and Syncellus: it was particu- the author of the Anoinoeon, then deserted him
larly valuable for chronology. An important frago at the command of Constantius, and, under the
ment, which clears up some difficulties in Assyrian Catholic Jovian, subscribed the Homoousion or
history, has been discovered in the Armenian Creed of Nicaea He died A. D. 366. He wrote
translation of the Chronicon of Eusebius. The seventeen Books on Ecclesiastes and six of Miscel-
fragments of his history have been published by lanies. (St. Jerome, Vir. II 98. ) St. Epipha-
Scaliger, * De Emendatione Temporum," and nius has preserved a frugment of his work uyumst
Richter, “ Berosi Chaldaeorum Historiae," & C. , Marcellus (c. Haer. 72), and nothing else of his
Lips. 1825.
is extant, though Sozomen speaks of many valu-
ACACALLIS ('Akakarís), daughter of Minos, able works written by him. (Hist
. Eod. ii. 2. )
by whom, according to a Cretan tradition, Hermes 4. Bishop of Constantinople, succeeded Gen-
begot Cydon; while according to a tradition of the nadius A. D. 471, after being at the head of
Tegeatans, Cydon was a son of Tegeates, and im- the Orpban Asylum of that city. He distinguish-
migrated to Crete from Tegea. (Paus. viii. 53. $2. ) ed himself by defending the Council of Chalcedon
Apollo begot by her a son Miletus, whom, for fear against the emperor Basiliscus, who favoured the
of her father, Acacallis exposed in a forest, where Monophysite heresy. Througb his exertions Zeno,
wolves watched and suckled the child, until he from whom Basiliscus had usurped the empire, was
was found by shepherds who brought him up. restored (A. D. 477), but the Monophysites meaji-
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deemed advisable to issue a formula, conciliatory A camas. (Schol. au Lycophr. 499, &c. ) Virgil
from its indefiniteness, called the Henoticon, A. D. (Aen. ji. 262) mentions him among the Greeks
482. Acacius was led into other concessions, concealed in the wooden horse at the taking of
which drew upon him, on the accusation of John Troy. On his return home he was detained in
Talain, against whom he supported the claims of Thrace by his love for Phyllis ; but after leaving
Peter Mongus to the See of Alexandria, the 'Thrace and arriving in the island of Cyprus, he
anatherpa of Pope Felix II. a. D. 484. Peter was killed by a fall from his horse upon his own
Mongus had gained Acacius's support by profess-sword. (Schol. ad Lycophr. l. c. ) The promontory
ing assent to the canons of Chalcedon, though at of Acamas in Cyprus, the town of Acainentium in
heart a Monophysite. Acacius refused to give up Phrygia, and the Attic tribe Acamantis, derived
Peter Mongus, but retained his see till his death, their names from him. (Steph. Byz. s. v. 'Arauár.
A. D. 488. There remain two letters of his, one TIOV ; Paus. i. 5. § 2. ) He was painted in the
to Pope Simplicius, in Latin (see Conciliorum Nova Lesche at D. -Iphi by Polygnotus, and there was also
Collectio à Mansi, vol. vii. p. 982), the other to a statue of nim at Delphi. (Paus. x. 26. $ ), x.
Peter Fullo, Archbishop of Antioch, in the original 10. $ 1. )
Greek. (Ibid. p. 1121. )
2. A son of Antenor and Theano, was one
5. Reader at (A. D. 390), then the Bishop of of the bravest Trojans. (Hom I. ii. 823, xii.
Melitene (A. D. 431). He wrote A. D. 431, 100. ). He avenged the death of his brother, who
against Nestorius.
His zeal led him to use had been killed by Ajax, ty slaying Promachus
expressions, apparently savouring of the contrary the Boeotian. (11. xiv. 476. ) He himself was
heresy, which, for a time, prejudiced the em- slain by Meriones. (N. xvi. 342. )
peror Theodosius II. against St. Cyril. He was 3. A son of Eussorus, was one of the leaders
present at the Oecumenical Council of Ephesus of the Thracians in the 'Trojan war (Hom. Il. ii.
A. D. 431, and constantly maintained its authority. 844, v. 462), and was slain by the Telamonian
There remain of his productions a Homily (in Ajax. (N. vi. 8. )
(L. S.
)
Greek) delivered at the Council, (see Conciliorum ACANTHUS (Akavos), the Lacedaemonian,
Nova Collectio à Mansi, vol. v. p. 181,) and a letter was victor in the δίαυλος and the δόλιχος in the
written after it to St. Cyril, which we have in a Olympic games in Ol. 15, (B. C. 720,) and accord-
Latin translation. (Ibid. pp. 860, 998. ) (A. J. C. ] ing to some accounts was the first who ran naked
ACACEʻSIUS ('Arakholos), a surname of in these games. (Paus. v. 8. $ 3; Dionys. vii. 72 ;
Hermes (Callim. Hym. in Dian. 143), for which African. apud Euseb. p. 143. ) Other accounts
Homer (. xvi. 185; Od. xxiv. 10) uses the ascribe this to Orsippus the Megarian. [ORSIP-
form dránita (akaktons). Some writers derive it pus. ) Thucydides says that the Lacedaemonians
from the Arcadian town of Acacesium, in which were the first who contended naked in gymnastic
he was believed to have been brought up by king games. (i. 6. )
Acacus; others from kanos, and assign to it the ACARNAN ('Arapvév), one of the Epigones,
meaning: the god who cannot be hurt, or who does was a son of Alcmaeon and Calirrhoe, and brother
not hurt. The same attribute is also given to of Amphoterus. Their father was murdered by ·
Prometheus (Hes. Theog. 614), whence it may be Phegeus, when they were yet very young, and
inferred that its meaning is that of benefactor or Calirrhoe prayed to Zeus to make her sons grow
deliverer from evil. (Compare Spanh. ad Callim. quickly, tbat they might be able to avenge the
1. c. ; Spitzner, ad Il. xvi. 185. ) (L. S. ) death of their father. The prayer was granted,
ACACETES. (ACACESIUS )
and Acarnan with his brother slew Phegeus, his
A'CACUS ("Axakos), a son of Lycaon and king wife, and his two
The inhabitants of
of Acacesium in Arcadia, of which he was believed Psophis, where the sons had been slain, pursued
to be the founder. (Paus viï. 3. § 1; Steph. Byz. the murderers as far as Tegea, where however they
5. ο. 'Ακακήσιον. )
(L. S. ) were received and rescued. At the request of
ACADE'MUS (Axádnuos), an Attic hero, who, Achelous they carried the necklace and peplus of
when Castor and Polydeuces invaded Attica to Harmonia to Delphi, and from thence they went
liberate their sister Helen, betrayed to them that to Epirus, where Acarnan founded the state called
she was kept concealed at Aphidnae. For this after him Acarnania. (Apollod. iii. 7. 85–7; Ov.
reason the Tyndarids always showed him much Met. ix. 413, &c. ; Thucyd. ä. 102; Strab. x.
gratitude, and whenever the Lacedaemonians in- p. 462. )
(L. S. )
vaded Attica, they always spared the land belong- · ACÁSTUS ("Anadros), a son of Pelias, king of
ing to Academus which lay on the Cephissus, six lolcus, and of Anaxibia, or as others call her, Phi-
stadia from Athens. (Plut. Thes. 32 ; Diog. Laert. lomache. He was one of the Argonauts (Apollod.
iii. 1. $ 9. ) This piece of land was subsequently i. 9. & 10; Apollon. Rhod. i. 224,&c. ), and also took
adorned with plane and olive plantations (Plut. part in the Calydonian hunt. (Ov. Met. viii. 305,&c. )
Cim. 13), and was called Academia from its After the return of the Argonauts his sisters were
original owner.
(L. S. ] seduced by Medeia to cut their father in pieces
ACALLE. (ACACALLIS. ]
and boil them; and Acastus, when he heard this,
A'CAMAS ('Arduas). 1. A son of Theseus buried his father, drove lason and Medeia, and
and Phaedrs, and brother of Demophoon. (Diod. according to Pausanias (vii. 11) his sisters also,
iv. 62. ) _Previous to the expedition of the Greeks from lolcus, and instituted funeral games in honour
against Troy, he and Diomedes were sent to de of his father. (Hygin. Fab. 24 and 273; Apollod.
mand the surrender of Helen (this message Homer i. 9. & 27, &c. ; Paus. ii. 18. & 9, vi. 20. $ 9, v. 17.
nscribes to Menelaus and Odysseus, Il. xi. 139, 84; Ov. Met. xi. 409, &c. ) During these games it
&c. ), but during his stay at Troy he won the happened that Astydamia, the wife of Acastus,
affection of Laodice, daughter of Priam (Parthen. who is also called Hippolyte, fell in love with
Nic. Erot. 16), and begot by her a son, Munitus, Peleus, whom Acastus had purified from the mur-
yril
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6
ACCA LAURENTIA.
ACERBAS.
:
der of Eurytion. When Pelens refused to listen her was followed by one sacred to the Lares.
to her addresses, she accused him to her husband (Macrob. Sut. I. c. ; compare Müller, Etrusker, ii.
of having attempted to dishonour her. (Apollod. p. 103, &c. ; llartung, Du Religion der Römer, ii.
ii. 13. & 2, &c. ; Pind. Nem. iv. 90, &c. ) Acastus, p. 144, &c. )
(L. S. )
however, did not take immediate revenge for the L. A'CCIUS or A'TTIUS, an early Row
alleged crime, but after he and Peleus had been man tragic poet and the son of a freedman, was
chasing on mount Pelion, and the latter had fallen born according to Jerome B. c. 170, and was fifty
asleep, Acastus took his sword from him, and left years younger than Pacuvius. He lived to a great
him alone and exposed, so that Peleus was nearly age; Cicero, when a young man, frequently con-
destroyed by the Centaurs. But he was saved by versed with him. (Brul. 28. ) His tragedies were
Cheiron or Hermes, returned to Acistus, and killed chiefly imitated from the Greeks, especially from
him together with his wife. (Apollod. 1. c. ; Schol. Aeschylus, but he also wrote some on Roman sub-
ud Apollon. Rhod. i. 224. ) The death of Acastus jects (Practexlata); one of which, entitled Brutus,
is not mentioned by Apollodorus, but according to was probably in honour of his patron D. Brutus.
him Peleus in conjunction with lason and the (Cic. de Leg. ii. 21, pro Arch. 11. ) We possess only
Dioscuri merely conquer and destroy Jolcus. fragments of his tragedies, of which the most im-
(Apollod. iii. 13. $ 7. )
(L. S. ) portant have been preserved by Cicero, but suff-
ACBARUS.
1. C. ABURIUS was one of the ambassadors sent Synod held at Berrhoea, A. D. 432. He died A. D.
to Masinissa and the Carthaginians, E. c. 171. 437, at the age of 116 years. Three of his letters
(Liv. xli. 35. )
remain in the original Greek, one to St Cyril,
2. M. ABURIUK, tribune of the plebs, B. c187, (extant in the Collection of Councils by Mansi,
opposed M. Fulvius the proconsul in his petition vol iv. p. 1056,) and two to Alexander, Bishop
for a triumph, but withdrew his opposition chiefly of Hierapolis. (Ibid. pp. 819, 830, c. 41. 55. $ 129,
through the influence of his colleague Ti. Gracchus. 143. )
(Liv. xxxix. 4. 5. ) He was praetor peregrinus, 3. The One-eyed (ó Mová od almos), the pupil
B. C. 176. (Liv. xli. 18. 19. )
and successor in the See of Caesarea of Eusebius
ABURNUS VALENS. (VALENS. )
A. D. 340, whose life he wrote. (Socrates, Hist.
ABYDENUS ('ABuonvós), a Greek historian, Eccl. ü. 4. ) He was able, learned, and unscru-
who wrote a history of Assyria ('Agoupiaká). pulous. At first a Semi-Arian like his master,
The time at which he lived is uncertain, but we he founded afterwards the Homoean party and
know that he made use of the works of Megas was condemned by the Semi-Arians at Seleucia,
thenes and Berosus; and Cyrillus (adv. Julian. pp. A. D. 359. (Socrates, Hist. Eccl. ii. 39. 40;
8, 9) states, that he wrote in the lonic dialect. Sozomen, Hist. Eod. iv. 22. 23. ) He subse
Several fragments of his work are preserved by quently became the associate of Aetius (AËTIUS),
Eusebius, Cyrillus and Syncellus: it was particu- the author of the Anoinoeon, then deserted him
larly valuable for chronology. An important frago at the command of Constantius, and, under the
ment, which clears up some difficulties in Assyrian Catholic Jovian, subscribed the Homoousion or
history, has been discovered in the Armenian Creed of Nicaea He died A. D. 366. He wrote
translation of the Chronicon of Eusebius. The seventeen Books on Ecclesiastes and six of Miscel-
fragments of his history have been published by lanies. (St. Jerome, Vir. II 98. ) St. Epipha-
Scaliger, * De Emendatione Temporum," and nius has preserved a frugment of his work uyumst
Richter, “ Berosi Chaldaeorum Historiae," & C. , Marcellus (c. Haer. 72), and nothing else of his
Lips. 1825.
is extant, though Sozomen speaks of many valu-
ACACALLIS ('Akakarís), daughter of Minos, able works written by him. (Hist
. Eod. ii. 2. )
by whom, according to a Cretan tradition, Hermes 4. Bishop of Constantinople, succeeded Gen-
begot Cydon; while according to a tradition of the nadius A. D. 471, after being at the head of
Tegeatans, Cydon was a son of Tegeates, and im- the Orpban Asylum of that city. He distinguish-
migrated to Crete from Tegea. (Paus. viii. 53. $2. ) ed himself by defending the Council of Chalcedon
Apollo begot by her a son Miletus, whom, for fear against the emperor Basiliscus, who favoured the
of her father, Acacallis exposed in a forest, where Monophysite heresy. Througb his exertions Zeno,
wolves watched and suckled the child, until he from whom Basiliscus had usurped the empire, was
was found by shepherds who brought him up. restored (A. D. 477), but the Monophysites meaji-
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and
8
ACAMAS.
ACASTUS.
on.
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re
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1. D.
iters
while had gained so much strength that it was who was brought up by Aethra, the grandmother of
deemed advisable to issue a formula, conciliatory A camas. (Schol. au Lycophr. 499, &c. ) Virgil
from its indefiniteness, called the Henoticon, A. D. (Aen. ji. 262) mentions him among the Greeks
482. Acacius was led into other concessions, concealed in the wooden horse at the taking of
which drew upon him, on the accusation of John Troy. On his return home he was detained in
Talain, against whom he supported the claims of Thrace by his love for Phyllis ; but after leaving
Peter Mongus to the See of Alexandria, the 'Thrace and arriving in the island of Cyprus, he
anatherpa of Pope Felix II. a. D. 484. Peter was killed by a fall from his horse upon his own
Mongus had gained Acacius's support by profess-sword. (Schol. ad Lycophr. l. c. ) The promontory
ing assent to the canons of Chalcedon, though at of Acamas in Cyprus, the town of Acainentium in
heart a Monophysite. Acacius refused to give up Phrygia, and the Attic tribe Acamantis, derived
Peter Mongus, but retained his see till his death, their names from him. (Steph. Byz. s. v. 'Arauár.
A. D. 488. There remain two letters of his, one TIOV ; Paus. i. 5. § 2. ) He was painted in the
to Pope Simplicius, in Latin (see Conciliorum Nova Lesche at D. -Iphi by Polygnotus, and there was also
Collectio à Mansi, vol. vii. p. 982), the other to a statue of nim at Delphi. (Paus. x. 26. $ ), x.
Peter Fullo, Archbishop of Antioch, in the original 10. $ 1. )
Greek. (Ibid. p. 1121. )
2. A son of Antenor and Theano, was one
5. Reader at (A. D. 390), then the Bishop of of the bravest Trojans. (Hom I. ii. 823, xii.
Melitene (A. D. 431). He wrote A. D. 431, 100. ). He avenged the death of his brother, who
against Nestorius.
His zeal led him to use had been killed by Ajax, ty slaying Promachus
expressions, apparently savouring of the contrary the Boeotian. (11. xiv. 476. ) He himself was
heresy, which, for a time, prejudiced the em- slain by Meriones. (N. xvi. 342. )
peror Theodosius II. against St. Cyril. He was 3. A son of Eussorus, was one of the leaders
present at the Oecumenical Council of Ephesus of the Thracians in the 'Trojan war (Hom. Il. ii.
A. D. 431, and constantly maintained its authority. 844, v. 462), and was slain by the Telamonian
There remain of his productions a Homily (in Ajax. (N. vi. 8. )
(L. S.
)
Greek) delivered at the Council, (see Conciliorum ACANTHUS (Akavos), the Lacedaemonian,
Nova Collectio à Mansi, vol. v. p. 181,) and a letter was victor in the δίαυλος and the δόλιχος in the
written after it to St. Cyril, which we have in a Olympic games in Ol. 15, (B. C. 720,) and accord-
Latin translation. (Ibid. pp. 860, 998. ) (A. J. C. ] ing to some accounts was the first who ran naked
ACACEʻSIUS ('Arakholos), a surname of in these games. (Paus. v. 8. $ 3; Dionys. vii. 72 ;
Hermes (Callim. Hym. in Dian. 143), for which African. apud Euseb. p. 143. ) Other accounts
Homer (. xvi. 185; Od. xxiv. 10) uses the ascribe this to Orsippus the Megarian. [ORSIP-
form dránita (akaktons). Some writers derive it pus. ) Thucydides says that the Lacedaemonians
from the Arcadian town of Acacesium, in which were the first who contended naked in gymnastic
he was believed to have been brought up by king games. (i. 6. )
Acacus; others from kanos, and assign to it the ACARNAN ('Arapvév), one of the Epigones,
meaning: the god who cannot be hurt, or who does was a son of Alcmaeon and Calirrhoe, and brother
not hurt. The same attribute is also given to of Amphoterus. Their father was murdered by ·
Prometheus (Hes. Theog. 614), whence it may be Phegeus, when they were yet very young, and
inferred that its meaning is that of benefactor or Calirrhoe prayed to Zeus to make her sons grow
deliverer from evil. (Compare Spanh. ad Callim. quickly, tbat they might be able to avenge the
1. c. ; Spitzner, ad Il. xvi. 185. ) (L. S. ) death of their father. The prayer was granted,
ACACETES. (ACACESIUS )
and Acarnan with his brother slew Phegeus, his
A'CACUS ("Axakos), a son of Lycaon and king wife, and his two
The inhabitants of
of Acacesium in Arcadia, of which he was believed Psophis, where the sons had been slain, pursued
to be the founder. (Paus viï. 3. § 1; Steph. Byz. the murderers as far as Tegea, where however they
5. ο. 'Ακακήσιον. )
(L. S. ) were received and rescued. At the request of
ACADE'MUS (Axádnuos), an Attic hero, who, Achelous they carried the necklace and peplus of
when Castor and Polydeuces invaded Attica to Harmonia to Delphi, and from thence they went
liberate their sister Helen, betrayed to them that to Epirus, where Acarnan founded the state called
she was kept concealed at Aphidnae. For this after him Acarnania. (Apollod. iii. 7. 85–7; Ov.
reason the Tyndarids always showed him much Met. ix. 413, &c. ; Thucyd. ä. 102; Strab. x.
gratitude, and whenever the Lacedaemonians in- p. 462. )
(L. S. )
vaded Attica, they always spared the land belong- · ACÁSTUS ("Anadros), a son of Pelias, king of
ing to Academus which lay on the Cephissus, six lolcus, and of Anaxibia, or as others call her, Phi-
stadia from Athens. (Plut. Thes. 32 ; Diog. Laert. lomache. He was one of the Argonauts (Apollod.
iii. 1. $ 9. ) This piece of land was subsequently i. 9. & 10; Apollon. Rhod. i. 224,&c. ), and also took
adorned with plane and olive plantations (Plut. part in the Calydonian hunt. (Ov. Met. viii. 305,&c. )
Cim. 13), and was called Academia from its After the return of the Argonauts his sisters were
original owner.
(L. S. ] seduced by Medeia to cut their father in pieces
ACALLE. (ACACALLIS. ]
and boil them; and Acastus, when he heard this,
A'CAMAS ('Arduas). 1. A son of Theseus buried his father, drove lason and Medeia, and
and Phaedrs, and brother of Demophoon. (Diod. according to Pausanias (vii. 11) his sisters also,
iv. 62. ) _Previous to the expedition of the Greeks from lolcus, and instituted funeral games in honour
against Troy, he and Diomedes were sent to de of his father. (Hygin. Fab. 24 and 273; Apollod.
mand the surrender of Helen (this message Homer i. 9. & 27, &c. ; Paus. ii. 18. & 9, vi. 20. $ 9, v. 17.
nscribes to Menelaus and Odysseus, Il. xi. 139, 84; Ov. Met. xi. 409, &c. ) During these games it
&c. ), but during his stay at Troy he won the happened that Astydamia, the wife of Acastus,
affection of Laodice, daughter of Priam (Parthen. who is also called Hippolyte, fell in love with
Nic. Erot. 16), and begot by her a son, Munitus, Peleus, whom Acastus had purified from the mur-
yril
,
Losi
,
shop
129,
yupii
bius
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sons.
ster,
and
ucia
40;
abse
IC's),
him
· the
DOT
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uczba
ipha
ar
f his
valu-
2. )
Geir
ed of
uisb-
edon
d the
Zenc,
e, was
mean
## p. 6 (#26) ###############################################
6
ACCA LAURENTIA.
ACERBAS.
:
der of Eurytion. When Pelens refused to listen her was followed by one sacred to the Lares.
to her addresses, she accused him to her husband (Macrob. Sut. I. c. ; compare Müller, Etrusker, ii.
of having attempted to dishonour her. (Apollod. p. 103, &c. ; llartung, Du Religion der Römer, ii.
ii. 13. & 2, &c. ; Pind. Nem. iv. 90, &c. ) Acastus, p. 144, &c. )
(L. S. )
however, did not take immediate revenge for the L. A'CCIUS or A'TTIUS, an early Row
alleged crime, but after he and Peleus had been man tragic poet and the son of a freedman, was
chasing on mount Pelion, and the latter had fallen born according to Jerome B. c. 170, and was fifty
asleep, Acastus took his sword from him, and left years younger than Pacuvius. He lived to a great
him alone and exposed, so that Peleus was nearly age; Cicero, when a young man, frequently con-
destroyed by the Centaurs. But he was saved by versed with him. (Brul. 28. ) His tragedies were
Cheiron or Hermes, returned to Acistus, and killed chiefly imitated from the Greeks, especially from
him together with his wife. (Apollod. 1. c. ; Schol. Aeschylus, but he also wrote some on Roman sub-
ud Apollon. Rhod. i. 224. ) The death of Acastus jects (Practexlata); one of which, entitled Brutus,
is not mentioned by Apollodorus, but according to was probably in honour of his patron D. Brutus.
him Peleus in conjunction with lason and the (Cic. de Leg. ii. 21, pro Arch. 11. ) We possess only
Dioscuri merely conquer and destroy Jolcus. fragments of his tragedies, of which the most im-
(Apollod. iii. 13. $ 7. )
(L. S. ) portant have been preserved by Cicero, but suff-
ACBARUS.
