A Saïte, who, having been
invested
with the
(Plin.
(Plin.
William Smith - 1844 - Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities - a
Arrian (p.
17, f.
) ascribes his
an advanced age, B. C. 370, leaving three legitimate flight from Macedonia to his hatred and fear of
sons, Alexander, Perdiccas, and the famous Philip. Alexander the Great; the ground of these feel-
(Just. l. c. ; Diod. xv. 60. )
ings is not stated, but Mitford (ch. 44. sect. 1)
connects him with the plot of Pausanias and the
murder of Philip. He took refuge in Ephesus
under Persian protection ; whence, however, after
A AYA
the battle of the Granicus, fearing the approach of
Alexander, he escaped with the Greek mercenaries
who garrisoned the place, and fled to the court of
Dareius. (Arr. I. c. ) In the winter of the same
year, B. C. 333, while Alexander was at Phaselis
in Lycia, discovery was made of a plot against his
life, in which Amyntas was implicated. He ap-
COIN OF AMYNTAS II.
pears to have acted as the channel through whom
Dareius had been negotiating with Alexander the
3. Grandson of Amyntas II. , was left an infant Lyncestian, and had promised to aid him in mount-
in nominal possession of the throne of Macedonia, ing the throne of Macedonia on condition of his
when his father Perdiccas 111. fell in battle against assassinating his master. The design was disco-
the Illyrians, B. c. 360. (Diod. xvi. 2. ) He was vered through the confession of Asisines, a Persian,
quietly excluded from the kingly power by his whom Dareius had despatched on a secret mission
uncle Philip, B. C. 359, who had at first acted to the Lyncestian, and who was apprehended by
merely as regent (Just. vii
. 5), and who felt him- Parmenio in Phrygia. (Arr. i. pp. 24, e. , 25, b. )
self so safe in his usurpation, that he brought up At the battle of Issus we hear again of Amyntas
Amyntas at his court, and gave him one of his as a commander of Greek mercenaries in the Per-
daughters in marriage in the first year of the sian service (Curt. iii
. 11. $ 18; comp. Arr. ii. p.
reign of Alexander the Great, B. c. 336, Amyntas 40, b. ); and Plutarch and Arrian mention his ad-
was executed for a plot against the king's life. vice vainly given to Darius shortly before, to await
(Thirlw. Gr. Hist. vol. v. pp. 165, 166, 177, rol. Alexander's approach in the large open plains to
vi. p. 99, and the authorities to which he refers ; the westward of Cilicia. (Plut. Alex. p. 675, b. ,
p
Just. xii. 6, and Freinsheim, ad Curt. vi. 9, 17. ) | Arr. ii. pp. 33, e. , 31, a. )
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AMYNTAS.
AMYTHAON.
On the defeat of the Persians at the battle of | AMYNTIANUS ("Anvitiarbs), the author of
Issus, Amyntas fled with a large body of Greeks a work on Alexander the Grent, dedicated to the
to Tripolis in Phoenicia. There he seized some emperor M. Antoninus, the style of whick Photius
ships, with which he passed over to Cyprus, and blames. He also wrote the life of Olympins, the
thence to Egypt, of the sovereignty of which-a mother of Alexander, and a few other biographies.
double traitor--he designed to possess himself. (Phot. Cod. 131, p. 97, d. , ed. Bekker. ) . The
The gates of Pelusium were opened to him on his Scholiast on Pindar (ad ol. iii. 52) refers to a
pretending that he came with authority from Da- work of Amyntianus on elephants.
reius : thence he pressed on to Memphis, and being AMYNTOR ('Auúrtwp), according to Homer
joined by a large number of Egyptians, defeated in (1. x. 266), a son of Ormenus of Eleon in Thessaly,
a battle the Persian garrison under Mazaces. But where Autolycus broke into his house and stole
this victory made his troops over-confident and in the beautiful helmet, which afterwards came into
cautious, and, while they were dispersed for plun- the hands of Meriones, who wore it during the
der, Mazaces sallied forth upon them, and Amyntas war against Troy. Amyntor was the father of
himself was killed with the greater part of his men. Crantor, Euaemon, Astydameia and Phoenix.
(Diod. xvii. 48 ; Arr. ï. p. 40,c; Curt. iv. 1. $ 27, The last of these was cursed and expelled by
&c. , iv. 7. & 1, 2. )
Amyntor for having entertained, at the instigation
It is possible that the subject of the present arti- of his mother Cleobule or Hippodameia, an unlaw-
cle may have been the Amyntas who is mentioned ful intercourse with his father's mistress. (Hom.
among the ambassadors sent to the Boeotians by N. ix. 434, &c. ; Lycophr. 417. ) According to
Philip, B. C. 338, to prevent the contemplated Apollodorus (ii. 7. $ 7, iii. 13. & 7), who states,
alliance of Thebes with Athens. It may also have that Amyntor blinded his son Phoenix, he was a
been the son of Andromenes. (Plut. Dem. pp. 849, king of Ormenium, and was slain by Heracles, to
854; Diod. xvi. 85. )
whom he refused a passage through his dominions,
6. A king of Galatia and several of the adja- and the hand of his daughter Astydameia. (Comp.
cent countries, mentioned by Strabo (xii. p. 569) | Diod. iv. 37. ) According to Ovid (Met
. viii. 307,
as contemporary with himself. He seems to have xii. 364, &c. ), Amyntor took part in the Calydo
first possessed Lycaonia, where he maintained nian hunt, and was king of the Dolopes, and when
more than 300 flocks. (Strab. xii. p. 568. ) To conquered in a war by Peleus, he gave him his son
this he added the territory of Derbe by the murder Crantor as a hostage.
(L. S. ]
of its prince, Antipater, the friend of Cicero (Cic. A'MYRIS (“Auupus), of Sybaris in Italy, sur-
ad Fam. xiii. 73), and Isaura and Cappadocia by named “the Wise,” whose son was one of the
Roman favour. Plutarch, who enumerates him suitors of Agarista, at the beginning of the sixth
among the adherents of Antony at Actium (Ant. century, B. C. Amyris was sent by his fellow-citi-
p. 944, c. ), speaks probably by anticipation in call- zens to consult the Delphic oracle. His reputation
ing him king of Galatia, for he did not succeed to for wisdom gave rise to the proverb, "Aurpis malvetai,
that till the death of Dežotarus (Strab. xii. p. 567); "the wise man is mad. ” (Herod. vi. 126; Athen. xii.
and the latter is mentioned by Plutarch himself p. 520, a. ; Suidas, s. v. ; Eustath. ad Il. ii. p. 298 ;
(Ant. p. 945, b. ) as deserting to Octavius, just be- Zenobius, Paroemiogr. iv. 27. )
fore the battle, together with Amyntas.
AMYRTAEUS ('Auupraſos). 1. The name,
While pursuing his schemes of aggrandizement, according to Ctesias (ap. Phot. Cod. 72, p. 37,
and endeavouring to reduce the refractory high- Bekker), of the king of Egypt who was conquered
landers around him, Amyntas made himself master by Cambyses. [PSAMNENITUS]
of Homonada (Strab. xii. p. 569), or Homona 2.
A Saïte, who, having been invested with the
(Plin. H. N. v. 27), and slew the prince of that title of king of Egypt, was joined with Inarus the
place; but his death was avenged by his widow, Libyan in the command of the Egyptians when
and Amyntas fell a victim to an ambush which they rebelled against Artaxerxes Longimanus (B. C.
she laid for him. (Strab. l. c. ) [E. E. ] 460). After the first success of the Egyptians,
B. C. 456 (ACH AEMENES), Artaxerxes sent a
second immense army against them, by which they
were totally defeated. Amyrtaeus escaped to the
ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ
island of Elbo, and maintained himself as king in
the marshy districts of Lower Egypt till about the
year 414 B. C. , when the Egyptians expelled the
Persians, and Amyrtaeus reigned six years, being
the only king of the 28th dynasty. His name on
KMYNTOS
the monuments is thought to be Aomaborte.
Eusebius calls him Amyrtes and Amyrtanus
(Auupravos). (Herod. ii. 140, iii. 15 ; Thuc. i.
COIN OF AMYNTAS, KING OF GALATIA. 110; Diod. xi. 74, 75; Ctesias. ap. Phot. Pp. 27,
32, 40, Bekker; Euseb. Chron. Armen. pp. 106,
AMYNTAS ('Auúvras), a Greek writer of a 342, ed. Zohrab and Mai; Wilkinson's Ant.
work entitled Etabuoi, which was probably an ac- Egypt. i. p. 205. )
[P. S. ]
count of the different halting-places of Alexander APMYRUS ("Auupos), a son of Poseidon, from
the Great in his Asiatic expedition. He perhaps whom the town and river Amyrus in Thessaly
accompanied Alexander. (Näke, Choerilus, p. 205. ) were believed to have derived their name. (Steph.
From the references that are made to it, it seems Byz. s. v. ; Val. Flacc. ii. 11. ) [L. S. ]
to have contained a good deal of historical informa- AMYTHA'ON ('Allviewv), a son of Cretheus
tion. (Athen. ii. p. 67, a. , X. p. 442, b. , xi. p. 500, d. , and Tyro (Hom. Od. xi. 235, &c. ), and brother
xii. pp. 514, f. , 529, e. ; Aelian, H. N. v. 14, xvii. 17. ) of Aeson and Pheres. (Hom. Od. xi. 259. ) He
AMYNTAS, surgeon. [AMENTES. ]
dwelt at Pylos in Messenia, and by Idomene be-
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ANACREON.
157
ANACYNDARAXES.
came the father of Bias, Melampus, and Aeolia. | who sent a galley of fifty oars to fetch him. (Plat.
(Apollod. i. 9. & 11, 7. $ 7. ) According to Pindar Hippurch. p. 228. )
At Athens he became ac-
Pyth, iv. 220, &c. ), he and several other members quainted with Simonides and other poets, whom
of his family went to lolcus to intercede with the taste of Hipparchus bad collected round hinn
Pelias on behalf of Jason. Pausanias (v. 8. § 1) and he was admitted to intimacy by other noble
mentions him among those to whom the restoration families besides the Peisistratidae, among whom he
of the Olympian gaines was ascribed. (L. S. ] especially celebrated the beauty of Critias, the son
AMYTHAO'NIUS, a patronymic froin Amy- of Dropides. (Plat. Charm. p. 157; Berghk's
thuon, by which his son, the scer Melampus, is Anacreon, fr. 55. ) He died at the age of 85, pro-
sometimes designated. (Virg. Georg. iii. 550 ; bably about B. c. 478. (Lucian, Macrob. c. 26. )
Columell. x. 348. ) The descendants of Anythaon Simonides wrote two epitaphs upon him (Anthol.
in general are alled by the Greeks Amythaonidae. Pal. vii. 24, 25), the Athenians set up his statue
(Strab. viii. p. 372. )
(L. S. ] in the Acropolis (Paus, i. 25. 81), and the Teians
A'MYTIS ("AMUTIS). 1. The daughter of As struck his portrait on their coins. (Visconti, Icon.
tyages, the wife of Cyrus, and the mother of Cam-Grecque, pl. iii. 6. ) The place of his death, how-
byses, according to Cresias. (Pers. c. 2, 10, &c. , erer, is uncertain. The second epitaph of Simo-
ed. Lion. )
nides appears to say clearly that he was buried at
2. The daughter of Xerxes, the wife of Mega- Teos, whither be is supposed to have returned after
byzus, and the mother of Achaemenes, who pe- the death of Hipparchus (B. C. 514); but there is
rished in Egypt, according to Ctesias. (Pers. c. 20, also a tradition that, after his return to Teos, he
22, 28, 30, 36, 39, &c. )
fied a second time to Abdera, in consequence of
A'NACES. (ANAX, No. 2. )
the revolt of Histiaeus. (B. C. 495; Suidas, s. v.
ANACHARSIS ('Avexapois), a Scythian of 'Avaxpéw and Téw. ) This tradition has, however,
princely rank, according to Herodotus (iv. 76), the very probably arisen from a confusion with the
son of Gnurus, and brother of Saulius, king of original emigration of the Teians to Abdera.
Thrace; according to Lucian (Scytha) the son of The universal tradition of antiquity represents
Daucetas. He left his native country to travel in Anacreon as a most consummate voluptuary; and
pursuit of knowledge, and came to Athens just at his poems prove the truth of the tradition. Though
the time that Solon was occupied with his legisla- Athenaeus (x. p. 429) thought that their drunken
tive measures. He became acquainted with Sulon, tone was affected, arguing that the poet must have
and by the simplicity of his way of living, his been tolerably sober while in the act of writing, it
talents, and his acute observations on the institu- is plain that Anacreon sings of love and wine with
tions and usages of the Greeks, he excited general hearty good will, and that his songs in honour of
attention and admiration. The fame of his wisdom Polycrates came less from the heart than the ex-
was such, that he was even reckoned by some pressions of his love for the beautiful youths whom
amor. g the seven sages. Some writers affirmed, the tyrant had gathered round him. (Anthol. Pul.
that after having been honoured with the Athenian vii. 25; Maxim. Tyr. Diss. xxvi. 1. ) We see in
franchise, he was initiated into the Eleusinian him the luxury of the lonian inflamed by the
mysteries. According to the account in Herodotus, fervour of the poet. The tale that he loved Sappho
on his return to Thrace, he was killed by his bro- is very improbable. (Athen. xii. p. 599. ) His
ther Saulius, while celebrating the orgies of Cybele death was worthy of his life, if we may believe the
at Hylaea.
an advanced age, B. C. 370, leaving three legitimate flight from Macedonia to his hatred and fear of
sons, Alexander, Perdiccas, and the famous Philip. Alexander the Great; the ground of these feel-
(Just. l. c. ; Diod. xv. 60. )
ings is not stated, but Mitford (ch. 44. sect. 1)
connects him with the plot of Pausanias and the
murder of Philip. He took refuge in Ephesus
under Persian protection ; whence, however, after
A AYA
the battle of the Granicus, fearing the approach of
Alexander, he escaped with the Greek mercenaries
who garrisoned the place, and fled to the court of
Dareius. (Arr. I. c. ) In the winter of the same
year, B. C. 333, while Alexander was at Phaselis
in Lycia, discovery was made of a plot against his
life, in which Amyntas was implicated. He ap-
COIN OF AMYNTAS II.
pears to have acted as the channel through whom
Dareius had been negotiating with Alexander the
3. Grandson of Amyntas II. , was left an infant Lyncestian, and had promised to aid him in mount-
in nominal possession of the throne of Macedonia, ing the throne of Macedonia on condition of his
when his father Perdiccas 111. fell in battle against assassinating his master. The design was disco-
the Illyrians, B. c. 360. (Diod. xvi. 2. ) He was vered through the confession of Asisines, a Persian,
quietly excluded from the kingly power by his whom Dareius had despatched on a secret mission
uncle Philip, B. C. 359, who had at first acted to the Lyncestian, and who was apprehended by
merely as regent (Just. vii
. 5), and who felt him- Parmenio in Phrygia. (Arr. i. pp. 24, e. , 25, b. )
self so safe in his usurpation, that he brought up At the battle of Issus we hear again of Amyntas
Amyntas at his court, and gave him one of his as a commander of Greek mercenaries in the Per-
daughters in marriage in the first year of the sian service (Curt. iii
. 11. $ 18; comp. Arr. ii. p.
reign of Alexander the Great, B. c. 336, Amyntas 40, b. ); and Plutarch and Arrian mention his ad-
was executed for a plot against the king's life. vice vainly given to Darius shortly before, to await
(Thirlw. Gr. Hist. vol. v. pp. 165, 166, 177, rol. Alexander's approach in the large open plains to
vi. p. 99, and the authorities to which he refers ; the westward of Cilicia. (Plut. Alex. p. 675, b. ,
p
Just. xii. 6, and Freinsheim, ad Curt. vi. 9, 17. ) | Arr. ii. pp. 33, e. , 31, a. )
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AMYNTAS.
AMYTHAON.
On the defeat of the Persians at the battle of | AMYNTIANUS ("Anvitiarbs), the author of
Issus, Amyntas fled with a large body of Greeks a work on Alexander the Grent, dedicated to the
to Tripolis in Phoenicia. There he seized some emperor M. Antoninus, the style of whick Photius
ships, with which he passed over to Cyprus, and blames. He also wrote the life of Olympins, the
thence to Egypt, of the sovereignty of which-a mother of Alexander, and a few other biographies.
double traitor--he designed to possess himself. (Phot. Cod. 131, p. 97, d. , ed. Bekker. ) . The
The gates of Pelusium were opened to him on his Scholiast on Pindar (ad ol. iii. 52) refers to a
pretending that he came with authority from Da- work of Amyntianus on elephants.
reius : thence he pressed on to Memphis, and being AMYNTOR ('Auúrtwp), according to Homer
joined by a large number of Egyptians, defeated in (1. x. 266), a son of Ormenus of Eleon in Thessaly,
a battle the Persian garrison under Mazaces. But where Autolycus broke into his house and stole
this victory made his troops over-confident and in the beautiful helmet, which afterwards came into
cautious, and, while they were dispersed for plun- the hands of Meriones, who wore it during the
der, Mazaces sallied forth upon them, and Amyntas war against Troy. Amyntor was the father of
himself was killed with the greater part of his men. Crantor, Euaemon, Astydameia and Phoenix.
(Diod. xvii. 48 ; Arr. ï. p. 40,c; Curt. iv. 1. $ 27, The last of these was cursed and expelled by
&c. , iv. 7. & 1, 2. )
Amyntor for having entertained, at the instigation
It is possible that the subject of the present arti- of his mother Cleobule or Hippodameia, an unlaw-
cle may have been the Amyntas who is mentioned ful intercourse with his father's mistress. (Hom.
among the ambassadors sent to the Boeotians by N. ix. 434, &c. ; Lycophr. 417. ) According to
Philip, B. C. 338, to prevent the contemplated Apollodorus (ii. 7. $ 7, iii. 13. & 7), who states,
alliance of Thebes with Athens. It may also have that Amyntor blinded his son Phoenix, he was a
been the son of Andromenes. (Plut. Dem. pp. 849, king of Ormenium, and was slain by Heracles, to
854; Diod. xvi. 85. )
whom he refused a passage through his dominions,
6. A king of Galatia and several of the adja- and the hand of his daughter Astydameia. (Comp.
cent countries, mentioned by Strabo (xii. p. 569) | Diod. iv. 37. ) According to Ovid (Met
. viii. 307,
as contemporary with himself. He seems to have xii. 364, &c. ), Amyntor took part in the Calydo
first possessed Lycaonia, where he maintained nian hunt, and was king of the Dolopes, and when
more than 300 flocks. (Strab. xii. p. 568. ) To conquered in a war by Peleus, he gave him his son
this he added the territory of Derbe by the murder Crantor as a hostage.
(L. S. ]
of its prince, Antipater, the friend of Cicero (Cic. A'MYRIS (“Auupus), of Sybaris in Italy, sur-
ad Fam. xiii. 73), and Isaura and Cappadocia by named “the Wise,” whose son was one of the
Roman favour. Plutarch, who enumerates him suitors of Agarista, at the beginning of the sixth
among the adherents of Antony at Actium (Ant. century, B. C. Amyris was sent by his fellow-citi-
p. 944, c. ), speaks probably by anticipation in call- zens to consult the Delphic oracle. His reputation
ing him king of Galatia, for he did not succeed to for wisdom gave rise to the proverb, "Aurpis malvetai,
that till the death of Dežotarus (Strab. xii. p. 567); "the wise man is mad. ” (Herod. vi. 126; Athen. xii.
and the latter is mentioned by Plutarch himself p. 520, a. ; Suidas, s. v. ; Eustath. ad Il. ii. p. 298 ;
(Ant. p. 945, b. ) as deserting to Octavius, just be- Zenobius, Paroemiogr. iv. 27. )
fore the battle, together with Amyntas.
AMYRTAEUS ('Auupraſos). 1. The name,
While pursuing his schemes of aggrandizement, according to Ctesias (ap. Phot. Cod. 72, p. 37,
and endeavouring to reduce the refractory high- Bekker), of the king of Egypt who was conquered
landers around him, Amyntas made himself master by Cambyses. [PSAMNENITUS]
of Homonada (Strab. xii. p. 569), or Homona 2.
A Saïte, who, having been invested with the
(Plin. H. N. v. 27), and slew the prince of that title of king of Egypt, was joined with Inarus the
place; but his death was avenged by his widow, Libyan in the command of the Egyptians when
and Amyntas fell a victim to an ambush which they rebelled against Artaxerxes Longimanus (B. C.
she laid for him. (Strab. l. c. ) [E. E. ] 460). After the first success of the Egyptians,
B. C. 456 (ACH AEMENES), Artaxerxes sent a
second immense army against them, by which they
were totally defeated. Amyrtaeus escaped to the
ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ
island of Elbo, and maintained himself as king in
the marshy districts of Lower Egypt till about the
year 414 B. C. , when the Egyptians expelled the
Persians, and Amyrtaeus reigned six years, being
the only king of the 28th dynasty. His name on
KMYNTOS
the monuments is thought to be Aomaborte.
Eusebius calls him Amyrtes and Amyrtanus
(Auupravos). (Herod. ii. 140, iii. 15 ; Thuc. i.
COIN OF AMYNTAS, KING OF GALATIA. 110; Diod. xi. 74, 75; Ctesias. ap. Phot. Pp. 27,
32, 40, Bekker; Euseb. Chron. Armen. pp. 106,
AMYNTAS ('Auúvras), a Greek writer of a 342, ed. Zohrab and Mai; Wilkinson's Ant.
work entitled Etabuoi, which was probably an ac- Egypt. i. p. 205. )
[P. S. ]
count of the different halting-places of Alexander APMYRUS ("Auupos), a son of Poseidon, from
the Great in his Asiatic expedition. He perhaps whom the town and river Amyrus in Thessaly
accompanied Alexander. (Näke, Choerilus, p. 205. ) were believed to have derived their name. (Steph.
From the references that are made to it, it seems Byz. s. v. ; Val. Flacc. ii. 11. ) [L. S. ]
to have contained a good deal of historical informa- AMYTHA'ON ('Allviewv), a son of Cretheus
tion. (Athen. ii. p. 67, a. , X. p. 442, b. , xi. p. 500, d. , and Tyro (Hom. Od. xi. 235, &c. ), and brother
xii. pp. 514, f. , 529, e. ; Aelian, H. N. v. 14, xvii. 17. ) of Aeson and Pheres. (Hom. Od. xi. 259. ) He
AMYNTAS, surgeon. [AMENTES. ]
dwelt at Pylos in Messenia, and by Idomene be-
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ANACREON.
157
ANACYNDARAXES.
came the father of Bias, Melampus, and Aeolia. | who sent a galley of fifty oars to fetch him. (Plat.
(Apollod. i. 9. & 11, 7. $ 7. ) According to Pindar Hippurch. p. 228. )
At Athens he became ac-
Pyth, iv. 220, &c. ), he and several other members quainted with Simonides and other poets, whom
of his family went to lolcus to intercede with the taste of Hipparchus bad collected round hinn
Pelias on behalf of Jason. Pausanias (v. 8. § 1) and he was admitted to intimacy by other noble
mentions him among those to whom the restoration families besides the Peisistratidae, among whom he
of the Olympian gaines was ascribed. (L. S. ] especially celebrated the beauty of Critias, the son
AMYTHAO'NIUS, a patronymic froin Amy- of Dropides. (Plat. Charm. p. 157; Berghk's
thuon, by which his son, the scer Melampus, is Anacreon, fr. 55. ) He died at the age of 85, pro-
sometimes designated. (Virg. Georg. iii. 550 ; bably about B. c. 478. (Lucian, Macrob. c. 26. )
Columell. x. 348. ) The descendants of Anythaon Simonides wrote two epitaphs upon him (Anthol.
in general are alled by the Greeks Amythaonidae. Pal. vii. 24, 25), the Athenians set up his statue
(Strab. viii. p. 372. )
(L. S. ] in the Acropolis (Paus, i. 25. 81), and the Teians
A'MYTIS ("AMUTIS). 1. The daughter of As struck his portrait on their coins. (Visconti, Icon.
tyages, the wife of Cyrus, and the mother of Cam-Grecque, pl. iii. 6. ) The place of his death, how-
byses, according to Cresias. (Pers. c. 2, 10, &c. , erer, is uncertain. The second epitaph of Simo-
ed. Lion. )
nides appears to say clearly that he was buried at
2. The daughter of Xerxes, the wife of Mega- Teos, whither be is supposed to have returned after
byzus, and the mother of Achaemenes, who pe- the death of Hipparchus (B. C. 514); but there is
rished in Egypt, according to Ctesias. (Pers. c. 20, also a tradition that, after his return to Teos, he
22, 28, 30, 36, 39, &c. )
fied a second time to Abdera, in consequence of
A'NACES. (ANAX, No. 2. )
the revolt of Histiaeus. (B. C. 495; Suidas, s. v.
ANACHARSIS ('Avexapois), a Scythian of 'Avaxpéw and Téw. ) This tradition has, however,
princely rank, according to Herodotus (iv. 76), the very probably arisen from a confusion with the
son of Gnurus, and brother of Saulius, king of original emigration of the Teians to Abdera.
Thrace; according to Lucian (Scytha) the son of The universal tradition of antiquity represents
Daucetas. He left his native country to travel in Anacreon as a most consummate voluptuary; and
pursuit of knowledge, and came to Athens just at his poems prove the truth of the tradition. Though
the time that Solon was occupied with his legisla- Athenaeus (x. p. 429) thought that their drunken
tive measures. He became acquainted with Sulon, tone was affected, arguing that the poet must have
and by the simplicity of his way of living, his been tolerably sober while in the act of writing, it
talents, and his acute observations on the institu- is plain that Anacreon sings of love and wine with
tions and usages of the Greeks, he excited general hearty good will, and that his songs in honour of
attention and admiration. The fame of his wisdom Polycrates came less from the heart than the ex-
was such, that he was even reckoned by some pressions of his love for the beautiful youths whom
amor. g the seven sages. Some writers affirmed, the tyrant had gathered round him. (Anthol. Pul.
that after having been honoured with the Athenian vii. 25; Maxim. Tyr. Diss. xxvi. 1. ) We see in
franchise, he was initiated into the Eleusinian him the luxury of the lonian inflamed by the
mysteries. According to the account in Herodotus, fervour of the poet. The tale that he loved Sappho
on his return to Thrace, he was killed by his bro- is very improbable. (Athen. xii. p. 599. ) His
ther Saulius, while celebrating the orgies of Cybele death was worthy of his life, if we may believe the
at Hylaea.
