) to be the same of the Arabians in the
Parthian
history ascribed
person that is mentioned by Galen.
person that is mentioned by Galen.
William Smith - 1844 - Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities - a
]
origin of the gods. But such works, if they were
ABANTIDAS (Abarridas), the son of Paseas, really current in ancient times, were no more
became tyrant of Sicyon after murdering Cleinias, genuine than his reputed correspondence with
the father of Aratus, B. c. 264. Aratus, who was Phalaris the tyrant. The time of his appearance
then only seven years old, narrowly escaped death. in Greece is stated differently, some fixing it in
A bantidis was fond of literature, and was accus Ol. 3, others in 01. 21, and others again make
tomed to attend the philosophical discussions of him a contemporary of Croesus. (Bentley, On the
Deinias and Aristotle, the dialectician, in the agora Epist. of Phalaris, p. 34. ) Lobeck places it about
of Sicyon : on one of these occasions he was mur- the year B. C. 570, i. e. about 01. 52. Respecting
dered by his enemies. He was succeeded in the the perplexing traditions about A baris see Klopfer,
tyranny by his father, who was put to death by Mythologisches Wörterbuch, i. p. 2; Zapf, Disputa-
Nicocles. (Plut. Arai. 2. 3; Paus. ii. 8. $ 2. ) tio historica de Abaride, Lips. 1707 ; Larcher, on
ABARBA'REA 'Alaplapén), a Naiad, who | Herod. vol. iii. p. 446.
[L. S. )
bore two sons, Aesepus and Pedasiis, to Bucolion, ABAS ("Abas). 1. A son of Metaneira, was
the eldest but illegitimate son of the Trojan King changed by Demeter into a lizard, because he
Laomedon. (Hom. Il vi. 22, &c. ) Other writers mocked the goddess when she had come on her
do not mention this nymph, but Hesychius (s. r. ) wanderings into the house of her mother, and
mentions 'Αβαρβαρέαι or 'Αβαρβαλαιαι as the name drank eagerly to quench her thirst. (Nicander,
of a class of nymphs.
(L. S. ] Theriaca ; Natal. Com. v. 14; Ov. Met. y.
A'BARIS ("Atapıs), son of Seuthes, was a 450. ) Other traditions relate the same story
Hyperborean priest of Apollo (Herod. iv. 36), and of a boy, Ascalabus, and call his mother Misine.
came from the country about the Caucasus (Or. (Antonin. Lib. 23. )
Met. v. 86) to Greece, while his own country was 2. The t velfth King of Argos. He was the
visited by a plague. He was endowed with the son of Lynceus and Hypermnestra, and grand-
gift of prophecy, and by this as well as by his son of Danaus. He married Ocaleia, who bore
Scythian dress and simplicity and honesty be him twin sons, Acrisius and Proetus. (Apollod.
created great sensation in Greece, and was held in ii. 2. $ 1; Hygin. Fab. 170. ) When he informed
high esteem. (Strab. vii. p. 301. ) He travelled about his father of the death of Danaus, he was re-
in Grecce, carrying with him an arrow as the warded with the shield of his grandfather,
symbol of Apollo, and gave oracles. Toland, in which was sacred to Hera. " He is described as
his History of the Druids, considers him to have a successful conqueror and as the founder of
been a Druid of the Hebrides, because the arrow the town of Abae in Phocis (Paus. x. 35. § 1),
furmed a part of the costume of a Druid. His and of the Pelasgic Argos in Thessaly. (Strab.
history, which is entirely mythical, is related in ix. p. 431. ) The fame of his warlike spirit was
various ways, and worked up with extraordinary | so great, that even after his death, when people
331
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:
a
revoltcd, whom he had subdued, they were put | 17), and also the same as Belis or Belenus men-
to flight by the simple act of showing them his tioned by Tertullian ( Apologet. 23) and Herodian
shield. (Virg. sen. iii
. 286 ; Serv. ad wc. ) It was (viii. 3; comp. Capitol. Marimin. 22). As the
from this Abas that the kings of Argos were called root of the word he recognises the Spartan Béra,
by the patronymic Abantiads. (ABANTIADES. ] i. e. the sun (Hesych. s. e. ), which appears in the
[L. S. ] Syriac and Chaldaic Belus or Baal. (L. S. )
ABAS (Abas). 1. A Greek sophint and ABERCI'S, ST. ('Abé pkios), the supposed
rhetorician about whose life nothing is known. successor of St. Papias in the see of Hierapolis,
Suidas (s. v. 'Abas: compare Eudocia, p. 51) flourished a. D. 150. There are ascribed to him,
ascribes to him ιστορικά απομνήματα and a work 1. An Epistle to the Emperor Marcus Aurelius, of
on rhetoric (τέχνη ρητορική). What Photius which Baronius speaks as extant, but he does
(i'nd. 190. p. 150, b. ed. Bekker) quotes from him, not produce it; and, 2. A Book of Triscipline
belongs probably to the former work. (Compare (Bibaos didackalias) addressed to bis Clergy ; this
Walz, Rhetor. Graec. vii. 1. p. 203. )
too is lost. See illustr. Eccles. Orient. Script.
2. A writer of a work called Troica, from which Vitue, à P. Mallour. Duac. 1636. (A. J. C. )
Servius (ad Aen. ix. 264) has preserved a frag- A'BGARUS, A'CBARCS, or AC'GARIS
ment.
(L. S. ] ("Asyapus, "Axtapos, Avyapos), a name comnior
ABASCANTUS ('Abáokavtos), a physician of to many rulers of Edessin, the capital of the district
Lugdunum (Lyons), who probably lived in the of Osrhoëne in Mesopotamia. It seems to have
second century after Christ. He is several times been a title and not a proper name. (Procop.
mentioned by Galen (De Compos. Melicam. secund. Bell. Pers. ii. 12. ) For the history of these kings
Locos, ix. 4. Fol. xiii. p. 278), who has also preserved see Bayer, “ Historia Osthoena et Edessena ex
An antidote invented by him against the bite of nummis illustrata," Petrop. 1734. Of these the
serpents. (De Antid. ii. 12. vol. xiv. p. 177. ) The most important are :
name is to be met with in numerous Latin in- 1. The ally of the Romans under Pompey, who
scriptions in Gruter's collection, five of which refer treacherously drew Crassus into an unfavorable
to a freedman of Augustus, who is supposed by position before his defeat. He is called Augarus
Kühn (Additum, ad Elench. Mrdic. V'et. a J. A. by Dion Cassius (xl. 20), Acbarus the phylarch
Fabricio in “ Bibl. Gr. " Exhil.
) to be the same of the Arabians in the Parthian history ascribed
person that is mentioned by Galen. This however to Appian (p. 34. Schw. ), and Ariamnes by Plu-
is quite uncertain, as also whether Tapakantios tarch. (Cruss. 21. )
'A6áo kavoos in Galen (De Compos. Medicum. 2. The contemporary of Christ. See the follow-
secund. Locos. vii. 3. vol. xiii. p. 71) refers to the ing article.
subject of this article.
(W. A. G. ) 3. The chief, who resisted Meherdates, whom
ABDOLO'NIMUS or ABDALONIMUS, a Claudius wished to place on the Parthian throne :
gardener, but of royal descent, was made king of he is called a king of the Arabians by Tacitus
Sidon by Alexander the Great. (Curt. iv. 1; Just
. (Ann. xii. 12. 14), but was probably an Osrhoënian.
xi. 10. ) He is called Ballonymus by Diodorus. 4. The contemporary of Trajan, who sent pre-
(xvii. 46. )
sents to that emperor when he invaded the east,
ABDE’RUS (Abonpos), a son of Hermes, or and subsequently waited upon him and became his
according to others of Thromius the Locrian. (A pol. ally. (Dion Cass. lxvii. 18. 21. )
lod. ji. 5. & 8; Strab. vii. p. 331. ) He was a favourite 5. The contemporary of Caracalla, who acted
of Heracles, and was torn to pieces by the mares cruelly towards his nation, and was deposed by
of Diomedes, which Heracles had given him to Caracalla. (Dion Cass. lxxvii. 12. )
pursue the Bistones. Heracles is said to have A'BGARUS, Toparch of Edesse, supposed by
built the town of Abdera to honour him. Accord Eusebius to have been the author of a letter
ing to Hygivus, (Fah. 30,) Abderus was a servant written to our Saviour, which be found in a church
of Diomedes, the king of the Thracian Bistones, at Edessa and translated from the Syriac. The
and was killed by Heracles together with his letter is believed to be spurious. It is given by
master and his four men-devouring horses. (Com- Eusebius. (Hist. Eccl. i. 13. ) (A. J. C. )
pare Philostrat. Heroic. 3. $ 1; 19. § 2. ) [L. S. ] A'BIA ('Abia), the nurse of Hyllus, a son of
ABDIAS ('Abdias), the pretended author of an Heracles. She built a temple of Heracles at Ira
A pocryphal book, entitled The History of the Apo in Messenia, for which the Heraclid Cresphontes
stolical contest. This work claims to have been written afterwards honoured her in various other ways,
in Hebrew, to have been translated into Greek by and also by changing the name of the town of ira
Eutropius, and thence into Latin by Julius Afri- into Abia. (Paus. iv. 30. $ 1. ) (L. S. ]
canus. It was however originally written in Latin, ABELOX, ABELUX or ABILYX ('AbiavE),
about A. D. 910. It is printed in Fabricius, a noble Spaniard, originally a friend of Carthages
Coder Apocryphus Novi Test. p. 402. 8vo. Hamb. be! rayed the Spanish hostages at Saguntum, who
1703. Abdias was called too the first Bishop of were in the power of the Carthaginians, to the
Babylon
(A. J. C. ) Roman generals, the two Scipios, after deceiving
ABEʻLLIO, is the name of a divinity found in Bostar, the Carthaginian cominander. (Liv. xxii.
inscriptions which were discovered at Comminges 22 ; Polyb. iii. 98, &c. )
in France. (Gruter, Inscr. p. 37, 4 ; J. Scaliger, ABI'SARES or ABI'SSARES (A6. oápns),
Lectiones Arsoniunae, i. 9. ) Butimann (Mythologus, called Embisarus ('Eubio apos) by Diodorus (xvii.
i. p. 167, &c. ) considers Abellio to be the same 90), an Indian king beyond the river Hydaspes,
name as Apollo, who in Crete and elsewhere was whose territory lay in the mountains, sent embns-
called 'Abéalos, and by the Italians and some Do sies to Alexander the Great both before and after
rian8 Apello (Fest. s. r. Apellinem; Eustath. ad the conquest of Porus, although inclined to espouse
1. ii. 99), and that the deity is the same as the the side of the latter. Alexander not only allowed
Gallic A pollo mentioned by Caesar (Beil. Gull. vi. him to retain his kingdom, but increased it, and
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ABSYRTUS.
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on his death nppointed his son as his successor. of Artaxerxes Mnemon, was sent with an army of
(Arrian, Anab. v. 8. 20. 29; Curt. viii. 12. 13. 14. 300,000 men to oppose Cyrus on his march into
ix l. x. 1. )
upper Asia. On the arrival of Cyrus at Tarsus,
ABI'STAMENES was appointed governor of Abrocomas was said to be on the Euphrates ; and at
Cappadocia by Alexander the Great. (Čurt. iii. 4. ) Issus four hundred heavy-armed Greeks, who had
He is called Sabictas by Arrian. (Anab. ii. 4. ) deserted Abrocomas, joined Cyrus. Abrocomas did
Gronovius conjectures that instead of Abistamené not defend the Syrian passes, as was expected, bu:
Cappadociae praeposito, we ought to read Abicta marched to join the king. He burnt some boats to
mugnae Cappadociae, &c.
prevent Cyrus from crossing the Euphrates, but did
ABITIANUS ('Abit flavos), the author of a not arrive in time for the battle of Cunaxa. (Xen.
Greek treatise De Urinis inserted in the second Anab. i. 3. & 20, 4. § 3, 5, 18, 7. $ 12; Harpocrat.
volume of Ideler's Physici et Medici Graeci Mi- and Suidns, s. v. )
nores, Berol 8vo. 1842, with the title Niepl Oŭpws ABRO'COMÉS ('Alpokóuns) and his brother
Πραγματεία Αρίστη του Σοφωτάτου παρά μεν | Hyperanthes (“Υπεράνθης), the sons of Darius by
Ινδοίς "Αλλη Έμπνι του Σινά ήτοι 'Αλλη υιού του | Phratagune, the daughter of Artanes, were elain at
Σινά, παρά δε Ιταλούς 'Αβιτζιωνού. He is the same | Thermopylae while hghting over the body of Leo-
person as the celebrated Arabic physician Avicenna, nidas. (Herod. vii. 224. )
whose real name was Abú 'Ali Ibn Sina, A. H. ABRON or HABRON ("A@pwr or "Apwr). I
370 or 375—428 (A. D. 980 or 985—1037), and Son of the Attic orator Lycurgus. (Plut. Vit. dec.
from whose great work Ketáb al-Kánún fi 'l-Tebb, Orat. p. 843. )
Lilver Canonis Medicinae, this treatise is probably 2. The son of Callias, of the deme of Bate in
translated.
(W. A. G. ) Attica, wrote on the festivals and sacrifices of the
ABLA'BIUS ('Acaábios). 1. A physician on Greeks. (Steph. Byz. 8. v. Barh. ) He also wrote a
whose death there is an epigram by Theosebia in work tepl Tapwrójwv, which is frequently referred
the Greek Anthology (vii
. 559), in which he is to by Stephanus Byz. (s. v.
origin of the gods. But such works, if they were
ABANTIDAS (Abarridas), the son of Paseas, really current in ancient times, were no more
became tyrant of Sicyon after murdering Cleinias, genuine than his reputed correspondence with
the father of Aratus, B. c. 264. Aratus, who was Phalaris the tyrant. The time of his appearance
then only seven years old, narrowly escaped death. in Greece is stated differently, some fixing it in
A bantidis was fond of literature, and was accus Ol. 3, others in 01. 21, and others again make
tomed to attend the philosophical discussions of him a contemporary of Croesus. (Bentley, On the
Deinias and Aristotle, the dialectician, in the agora Epist. of Phalaris, p. 34. ) Lobeck places it about
of Sicyon : on one of these occasions he was mur- the year B. C. 570, i. e. about 01. 52. Respecting
dered by his enemies. He was succeeded in the the perplexing traditions about A baris see Klopfer,
tyranny by his father, who was put to death by Mythologisches Wörterbuch, i. p. 2; Zapf, Disputa-
Nicocles. (Plut. Arai. 2. 3; Paus. ii. 8. $ 2. ) tio historica de Abaride, Lips. 1707 ; Larcher, on
ABARBA'REA 'Alaplapén), a Naiad, who | Herod. vol. iii. p. 446.
[L. S. )
bore two sons, Aesepus and Pedasiis, to Bucolion, ABAS ("Abas). 1. A son of Metaneira, was
the eldest but illegitimate son of the Trojan King changed by Demeter into a lizard, because he
Laomedon. (Hom. Il vi. 22, &c. ) Other writers mocked the goddess when she had come on her
do not mention this nymph, but Hesychius (s. r. ) wanderings into the house of her mother, and
mentions 'Αβαρβαρέαι or 'Αβαρβαλαιαι as the name drank eagerly to quench her thirst. (Nicander,
of a class of nymphs.
(L. S. ] Theriaca ; Natal. Com. v. 14; Ov. Met. y.
A'BARIS ("Atapıs), son of Seuthes, was a 450. ) Other traditions relate the same story
Hyperborean priest of Apollo (Herod. iv. 36), and of a boy, Ascalabus, and call his mother Misine.
came from the country about the Caucasus (Or. (Antonin. Lib. 23. )
Met. v. 86) to Greece, while his own country was 2. The t velfth King of Argos. He was the
visited by a plague. He was endowed with the son of Lynceus and Hypermnestra, and grand-
gift of prophecy, and by this as well as by his son of Danaus. He married Ocaleia, who bore
Scythian dress and simplicity and honesty be him twin sons, Acrisius and Proetus. (Apollod.
created great sensation in Greece, and was held in ii. 2. $ 1; Hygin. Fab. 170. ) When he informed
high esteem. (Strab. vii. p. 301. ) He travelled about his father of the death of Danaus, he was re-
in Grecce, carrying with him an arrow as the warded with the shield of his grandfather,
symbol of Apollo, and gave oracles. Toland, in which was sacred to Hera. " He is described as
his History of the Druids, considers him to have a successful conqueror and as the founder of
been a Druid of the Hebrides, because the arrow the town of Abae in Phocis (Paus. x. 35. § 1),
furmed a part of the costume of a Druid. His and of the Pelasgic Argos in Thessaly. (Strab.
history, which is entirely mythical, is related in ix. p. 431. ) The fame of his warlike spirit was
various ways, and worked up with extraordinary | so great, that even after his death, when people
331
B
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2
ABELLIO.
ABISARES.
:
a
revoltcd, whom he had subdued, they were put | 17), and also the same as Belis or Belenus men-
to flight by the simple act of showing them his tioned by Tertullian ( Apologet. 23) and Herodian
shield. (Virg. sen. iii
. 286 ; Serv. ad wc. ) It was (viii. 3; comp. Capitol. Marimin. 22). As the
from this Abas that the kings of Argos were called root of the word he recognises the Spartan Béra,
by the patronymic Abantiads. (ABANTIADES. ] i. e. the sun (Hesych. s. e. ), which appears in the
[L. S. ] Syriac and Chaldaic Belus or Baal. (L. S. )
ABAS (Abas). 1. A Greek sophint and ABERCI'S, ST. ('Abé pkios), the supposed
rhetorician about whose life nothing is known. successor of St. Papias in the see of Hierapolis,
Suidas (s. v. 'Abas: compare Eudocia, p. 51) flourished a. D. 150. There are ascribed to him,
ascribes to him ιστορικά απομνήματα and a work 1. An Epistle to the Emperor Marcus Aurelius, of
on rhetoric (τέχνη ρητορική). What Photius which Baronius speaks as extant, but he does
(i'nd. 190. p. 150, b. ed. Bekker) quotes from him, not produce it; and, 2. A Book of Triscipline
belongs probably to the former work. (Compare (Bibaos didackalias) addressed to bis Clergy ; this
Walz, Rhetor. Graec. vii. 1. p. 203. )
too is lost. See illustr. Eccles. Orient. Script.
2. A writer of a work called Troica, from which Vitue, à P. Mallour. Duac. 1636. (A. J. C. )
Servius (ad Aen. ix. 264) has preserved a frag- A'BGARUS, A'CBARCS, or AC'GARIS
ment.
(L. S. ] ("Asyapus, "Axtapos, Avyapos), a name comnior
ABASCANTUS ('Abáokavtos), a physician of to many rulers of Edessin, the capital of the district
Lugdunum (Lyons), who probably lived in the of Osrhoëne in Mesopotamia. It seems to have
second century after Christ. He is several times been a title and not a proper name. (Procop.
mentioned by Galen (De Compos. Melicam. secund. Bell. Pers. ii. 12. ) For the history of these kings
Locos, ix. 4. Fol. xiii. p. 278), who has also preserved see Bayer, “ Historia Osthoena et Edessena ex
An antidote invented by him against the bite of nummis illustrata," Petrop. 1734. Of these the
serpents. (De Antid. ii. 12. vol. xiv. p. 177. ) The most important are :
name is to be met with in numerous Latin in- 1. The ally of the Romans under Pompey, who
scriptions in Gruter's collection, five of which refer treacherously drew Crassus into an unfavorable
to a freedman of Augustus, who is supposed by position before his defeat. He is called Augarus
Kühn (Additum, ad Elench. Mrdic. V'et. a J. A. by Dion Cassius (xl. 20), Acbarus the phylarch
Fabricio in “ Bibl. Gr. " Exhil.
) to be the same of the Arabians in the Parthian history ascribed
person that is mentioned by Galen. This however to Appian (p. 34. Schw. ), and Ariamnes by Plu-
is quite uncertain, as also whether Tapakantios tarch. (Cruss. 21. )
'A6áo kavoos in Galen (De Compos. Medicum. 2. The contemporary of Christ. See the follow-
secund. Locos. vii. 3. vol. xiii. p. 71) refers to the ing article.
subject of this article.
(W. A. G. ) 3. The chief, who resisted Meherdates, whom
ABDOLO'NIMUS or ABDALONIMUS, a Claudius wished to place on the Parthian throne :
gardener, but of royal descent, was made king of he is called a king of the Arabians by Tacitus
Sidon by Alexander the Great. (Curt. iv. 1; Just
. (Ann. xii. 12. 14), but was probably an Osrhoënian.
xi. 10. ) He is called Ballonymus by Diodorus. 4. The contemporary of Trajan, who sent pre-
(xvii. 46. )
sents to that emperor when he invaded the east,
ABDE’RUS (Abonpos), a son of Hermes, or and subsequently waited upon him and became his
according to others of Thromius the Locrian. (A pol. ally. (Dion Cass. lxvii. 18. 21. )
lod. ji. 5. & 8; Strab. vii. p. 331. ) He was a favourite 5. The contemporary of Caracalla, who acted
of Heracles, and was torn to pieces by the mares cruelly towards his nation, and was deposed by
of Diomedes, which Heracles had given him to Caracalla. (Dion Cass. lxxvii. 12. )
pursue the Bistones. Heracles is said to have A'BGARUS, Toparch of Edesse, supposed by
built the town of Abdera to honour him. Accord Eusebius to have been the author of a letter
ing to Hygivus, (Fah. 30,) Abderus was a servant written to our Saviour, which be found in a church
of Diomedes, the king of the Thracian Bistones, at Edessa and translated from the Syriac. The
and was killed by Heracles together with his letter is believed to be spurious. It is given by
master and his four men-devouring horses. (Com- Eusebius. (Hist. Eccl. i. 13. ) (A. J. C. )
pare Philostrat. Heroic. 3. $ 1; 19. § 2. ) [L. S. ] A'BIA ('Abia), the nurse of Hyllus, a son of
ABDIAS ('Abdias), the pretended author of an Heracles. She built a temple of Heracles at Ira
A pocryphal book, entitled The History of the Apo in Messenia, for which the Heraclid Cresphontes
stolical contest. This work claims to have been written afterwards honoured her in various other ways,
in Hebrew, to have been translated into Greek by and also by changing the name of the town of ira
Eutropius, and thence into Latin by Julius Afri- into Abia. (Paus. iv. 30. $ 1. ) (L. S. ]
canus. It was however originally written in Latin, ABELOX, ABELUX or ABILYX ('AbiavE),
about A. D. 910. It is printed in Fabricius, a noble Spaniard, originally a friend of Carthages
Coder Apocryphus Novi Test. p. 402. 8vo. Hamb. be! rayed the Spanish hostages at Saguntum, who
1703. Abdias was called too the first Bishop of were in the power of the Carthaginians, to the
Babylon
(A. J. C. ) Roman generals, the two Scipios, after deceiving
ABEʻLLIO, is the name of a divinity found in Bostar, the Carthaginian cominander. (Liv. xxii.
inscriptions which were discovered at Comminges 22 ; Polyb. iii. 98, &c. )
in France. (Gruter, Inscr. p. 37, 4 ; J. Scaliger, ABI'SARES or ABI'SSARES (A6. oápns),
Lectiones Arsoniunae, i. 9. ) Butimann (Mythologus, called Embisarus ('Eubio apos) by Diodorus (xvii.
i. p. 167, &c. ) considers Abellio to be the same 90), an Indian king beyond the river Hydaspes,
name as Apollo, who in Crete and elsewhere was whose territory lay in the mountains, sent embns-
called 'Abéalos, and by the Italians and some Do sies to Alexander the Great both before and after
rian8 Apello (Fest. s. r. Apellinem; Eustath. ad the conquest of Porus, although inclined to espouse
1. ii. 99), and that the deity is the same as the the side of the latter. Alexander not only allowed
Gallic A pollo mentioned by Caesar (Beil. Gull. vi. him to retain his kingdom, but increased it, and
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ABSYRTUS.
3
on his death nppointed his son as his successor. of Artaxerxes Mnemon, was sent with an army of
(Arrian, Anab. v. 8. 20. 29; Curt. viii. 12. 13. 14. 300,000 men to oppose Cyrus on his march into
ix l. x. 1. )
upper Asia. On the arrival of Cyrus at Tarsus,
ABI'STAMENES was appointed governor of Abrocomas was said to be on the Euphrates ; and at
Cappadocia by Alexander the Great. (Čurt. iii. 4. ) Issus four hundred heavy-armed Greeks, who had
He is called Sabictas by Arrian. (Anab. ii. 4. ) deserted Abrocomas, joined Cyrus. Abrocomas did
Gronovius conjectures that instead of Abistamené not defend the Syrian passes, as was expected, bu:
Cappadociae praeposito, we ought to read Abicta marched to join the king. He burnt some boats to
mugnae Cappadociae, &c.
prevent Cyrus from crossing the Euphrates, but did
ABITIANUS ('Abit flavos), the author of a not arrive in time for the battle of Cunaxa. (Xen.
Greek treatise De Urinis inserted in the second Anab. i. 3. & 20, 4. § 3, 5, 18, 7. $ 12; Harpocrat.
volume of Ideler's Physici et Medici Graeci Mi- and Suidns, s. v. )
nores, Berol 8vo. 1842, with the title Niepl Oŭpws ABRO'COMÉS ('Alpokóuns) and his brother
Πραγματεία Αρίστη του Σοφωτάτου παρά μεν | Hyperanthes (“Υπεράνθης), the sons of Darius by
Ινδοίς "Αλλη Έμπνι του Σινά ήτοι 'Αλλη υιού του | Phratagune, the daughter of Artanes, were elain at
Σινά, παρά δε Ιταλούς 'Αβιτζιωνού. He is the same | Thermopylae while hghting over the body of Leo-
person as the celebrated Arabic physician Avicenna, nidas. (Herod. vii. 224. )
whose real name was Abú 'Ali Ibn Sina, A. H. ABRON or HABRON ("A@pwr or "Apwr). I
370 or 375—428 (A. D. 980 or 985—1037), and Son of the Attic orator Lycurgus. (Plut. Vit. dec.
from whose great work Ketáb al-Kánún fi 'l-Tebb, Orat. p. 843. )
Lilver Canonis Medicinae, this treatise is probably 2. The son of Callias, of the deme of Bate in
translated.
(W. A. G. ) Attica, wrote on the festivals and sacrifices of the
ABLA'BIUS ('Acaábios). 1. A physician on Greeks. (Steph. Byz. 8. v. Barh. ) He also wrote a
whose death there is an epigram by Theosebia in work tepl Tapwrójwv, which is frequently referred
the Greek Anthology (vii
. 559), in which he is to by Stephanus Byz. (s. v.
