Fulvius,
the proconsul, in his petition for a triumph, but with-
drew his opposition chiefly through the influence of
his colleague Ti.
the proconsul, in his petition for a triumph, but with-
drew his opposition chiefly through the influence of
his colleague Ti.
Charles - 1867 - Classical Dictionary
,,
V, II. I. c. ) Some say that Zoilus was stoned to
death, or exposed on a cross, by order of Ptolemy,
while others maintain that he was burned alive at
Smyrna. According to another account, he recited
his invectives against Homer at the Olympic games,
and was thrown from a rock for his offence. (Julian,
V. H. , I. c. --Longin. , 9, 4. )
ZO. XA or ZONK, a city . on the . t>r;m coast of
Thrace, near the promontory of Serrhium. It is men-
tioned by Herodotus (7, 59) and by Hecatajus (ap.
Steph. lli/~. ). Here Orpheus sang, and by his strains
drew after him both the woods and the beasts that
tenanted them. (Apollon. Rhod. , 1, 28. )
ZONARAS, a Byzantine historian, who flourished to-
wards the close of the eleventh and the commence-
ment of the twelfth centuries. He held the offices
originally of Grand Dungarius (commander of the Beet)
and chief secretary of the imperial cabinet; but he
afterward became a monk, and attached himself to a
religious house on Mount Athos, where he died sub-
sequently to A. D. 1118. His Annals, or Chronicle,
extend from the creation of the world down to 1118
A. D. , the period of the death of Alexis I. They pos-
sess a double interest: for more ancient times, he has
availed himself, independently of Eutropius and Dio
Cassius, of other authors that are lost to us; and at a
later period he details events of which he himself was
a witness. Though deficient in critical spirit, he has
still displayed great good sense in adding nothing of
his own to the extracts which he has inserted in his
history, except what might serve to unite thim to-
gether in regular order. There results from this, it is
true, a great variety of style in his work, but this is
easily paidoned, and the only regret is, that Zonaras
had not indicated with more exactness the authors
whence he drew his materials. The impartiality of
the writer is worthy of praise. This work is found in
the collections of the Byzantine Historians. --Zonaras
was the author also of a Glossary or Lexicon, in the
manner of Hesychius a -J Suidas It was published
ZOS
by Tittman, in 1808, at the Leipzig press, along >>:i
the Lexicon of Photius, in 3 vols. 4to, the first tw<
? ? volumes being devoted to the Lexicon of Zonarai.
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Ai*i,III. the twelfth king of Argos. He was the
ion of Lynceus and HypgWnnestra, and grandson
? f Danaus. He married Ocaleia, who bore him
iwin sons, Acri. sius and Proetus. (Apollod. , 2, 2,
i. --Hygin. , Fab. , 170. ) When he informed his
father of the death of Danaus, he was rewarded
with the shield of his grandfather, which was sa-
cred to Juno. He is described as a successful con-
queror, and as the founder of the town of Abae in
I'] mi-is (Paui. , 10, 36, 1), and of the Pelasgic Argos
in Thessaly. (Strab. , 9, p. 431. ) The fame of
his warlike spirit was so great, that even after his
death, when people revolted whom he had subdued,
they were put to flight by the simple act of showing
them his shield. (Virg. , JEn. , 3, 286. --Sen. , ad loc. )
! t was from this Abas that the kings of Argos were
called by the patronymic Abantiades.
ABASCANTDB ('AtaoitavTOf), a physician of Lugdu-
num (Lyons), who probably lived in the second cen-
tury after Christ. He is several times mentioned
by Galen (It, Compos. Medicam. secund. Locos, 9,
4, vol. 13, p. 278), who has also preserved an an-
tidote invented fty him against the bite of serpents.
(De Anlid. , 2, 12, vol. 14, p. 177. ) -The name is
to be met with in numerous Latin inscriptions in
Grater's collection, five of which refer to a freed-
man of Augustus, who is supposed by Kiihn (Addi-
tam. ad Blench. Medic. Vet. a J. A. Falrricio in
? ? Bibl. Gr. " Exhib. ) to he the same person that is
nentioned by Galen. This, however, is quite uncer-
tain, as also whether HapaidJTiof 'ASdoitavSoc. in
Galen (De Compot. Medicam. secund. Locos. , 7, 3,
vol. 13, p. 71) refers to the subject of this article.
ABDIAS . 'v. . V,<r), the pretended author of an
Apocryphal book, entitled The History of the Apos-
tolical contest. This work claims to have been writ-
ten in Hebrew, to have been tranriated into Greek
by Eutropius, and thence into Latin by Julius Afri-
'lanus. It was, however, originally written in Latin,
about A. D. 910. It is printed in Fabricius, Codex
Apocrypha Noti Tett. , p. 402, 8vo, Hamb. , 1703.
Abdias was called, too, the first Bishop of Babylon.
ABELLIO is the name of a divinity found in in-
scriptions which were discovered at Comminges in
France. (Gruter, Inter. , p. 37, 4. --J. Sealigcr, Lee-
tiones Ausoniana, 1, 9. ) Buttmann (Mythologus, 1,
p. 167, &c. ) considers Abellio to be the same name
as Apollo, who in Crete and elsewhere was called
'\'<</. ">>? . and by the Italians and some Dorians
Apello (f'est. , s. r. Apcllinem. -- Eustalh. ai II. , 2,
99), and that the deity is the same as the Gallic
Apollo mentioned by Caesar (Bell. Gall. , 6, 17), and
also the same as Belis or Belenus mentioned by
Tertullian (Apolopet. , 23) and Herodian (8, 3. --
Comp. Capitol. , Maximin. , 22). As the root of the
word he recognises the Spartan Beta, i. <? . the sun
(Hesych. , s. >- ), whirli appears in the Syriac and
Chaldaic Belus or Baal.
ABISARES or ABISSARKS ('A</<-m;. y). called llm-
hisarus ('E/tliaapofi by Diodorus (17, 90), an In-
dian king beyond the river Hydaspes, whose terri-
tory lay in the mountains, sent embassies to Alex-
ander t! ,e Great, both before and after the conquest
of Porus, although inclined to espouse the side of
the latter. Alexander not only allowed him to re-
lain bis kingdoi- but increased it, and on his tleath
SO
appointed his son as his successor. '! ://,. -<<. i,at
? ? 5, 8, 20, 29. --Curt. , 8, 12, 13, 14; P,'l; 10,1. )
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? orrenJered Susa to Alexander when the latter ap-
proached the city. The satrapy was restored to
him by Alexander, but he and his son Oxyathres
were afterward executed by Alexander for th. e
crimes they had committed in the government of
the satrapy. (Curt. , 6, 2. --Arrian, Anab. , 3, 16; 7,
4. --Diod. , 17, 05. )
ABDHIA GENS, plebeian. On the coins of this
gens we find the cognomen GEH. , which is perhaps
an abbreviation of Geminus. The coins have no
beads of persons on them. The most distinguished
members of this gens were--I. C. ABURIUS, one of
the ambassadors sent to Masinissa and the Cartha-
ginians, B. C. 171. (Li>>. , 42, 35. )--II. M. ABURIOS,
tribune of the plebs, B. C. 187, opposed M.
Fulvius,
the proconsul, in his petition for a triumph, but with-
drew his opposition chiefly through the influence of
his colleague Ti. Gracchus. (Liv. , 39, 4, 5. ) He
was praetor peregrinus, B. C. 176. (Liv. , 41, 18,19. )
ABURNUS VALENO, a Roman lawyer, probably the
same w,ith the Valens who formed one of the con-
silium of the Emperor Antoninus Pius. (Capitoli-
>><<*, Ant. Piiu, 12. ) We have, in the Pandects,
selections from his seven books of " Fidcicommis-
to. " IZimmern, Gtsch. d. Bom. Privatrcckts, 1, 1,
934. )
ACACAI. I. IS ('AKOHcalUif), daughter of Minos, by
whom, according to a Cretan tradition, Hermes
begot Cydon; while, according to a tradition of the
Tegeatans, Cydon was a son of Tegeates, and im-
migrated to Crete from Tegea. (Pan*. , 8, 63, $ 2. )
Apollo begot by her a son, Miletus, whom, for fear
of her father, Acacallis exposed in a forest, where
wolves watched and suckled the child until he was
found by shepherds, who brought him up. (Antonin.
Lib. , 30. ) Other sons of her and Apollo are Amphi-
themis and Garamas. (Apollon. , 4,1490, &c. ) Apol-
lodorus (3,1, $ 3) calls this daughter of Minos Acalle
''AM*/ / /,! , but does not mention Miletus as her son.
Acacallis was in Crete a common name for a nar-
eitsus. (Alhen. , 15, p. 681. --Hesych. , >>. t )
ACACUS ("AicaKof), a son of Lycaon and king of
Acacesium in Acadia, of which he was believed to
be the founder. (Paut. , 8, 3, l. --JStcph. Byz. , s. v.
'Axaisf/aiov. )
ACARNAN ('Axapvuv), one of the Epigones, was
a son of Alcmaeon and Calirrhoe, and brother of
Amphoterus. Their father was murdered by Phe-
geus when they were yet very young, and Calirrhoi!
prayed to Zeus to make her sons grow quickly, that
they might be able to avenge the death of their fa-
ther The prayer was granted, and Acarnan, with his
brother, slew Phegeus, his wife, and his two sons.
The inhabitants of Psophis, where the sons had been
slain, pursued the murderers as far as Tegea, where,
however, they were received and rescued. At the
request of Achelous, they carried the necklace and
peplus of Harmonia to Delphi, and from thence they
went to Epirus, where Acarnan founded the state
called after him Acarnania. (ApoUod. , 3, 7, $ 5-7.
--O>>. , Met. , 9, 413, &. C. --Thucyd. , 2, 103. --Strpb. ,
10, p. 462. )
Accioi, I. or ATTIUS, L. , an early Roman tragic
ix>et and the son of a freedman, was born, according
to Jerome, B. C. 170, and was fifty years younger
than Pacuvius. He lived to a great -Hge; Cicero,
when a wung man, frequently convcised with him.
? ? (ftrnt. , 28. ) His tragedies -veie chiefly imitated
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which characterizes him as the god of the healing
art, or, in general, as the averter of evil, like 'Axeoiof.
lEurip. , Androm. , 901. )--III. surnamed Sacas (Zti-
/cof), on account of his foreign origin, was a tragic-
poet at Athens, and a contemporary of Aristophanes.
He seems to have been either of Thracian or Mys-
lau origin. (Aristoph. , Aiics, 31. --Scliol. , ad lor. . --
Vapa, Vtl6. --Schol. ,ad he. --Phot, arid Suid. , a. v.
2-ixaf. --Wckker, Die Griech. Trugud, p. 1032. )
ACH^EOS ('A^atof), V. son of Andromachus,
wnose sister Laodice married Seleucus Callinicus,
Ihe father of Antiochus the Great. Achseus him-
Belf married Laodice, the daughter of Mithradates,
king of Pontus. (Polyt. , 4, 51, H i 8, 22, I) 11. )
He accompanied Seleucus Ceraunus, the son of
Callinicus, in his expedition across Mount Taurus
against Attains, and after the assassination of Se-
leucus, avenged his death; and though he might
easily have assumed the royal power, he remained
faithful to the family of Seleucus. Antiochus the
Great, the successor of Seleucus, appointed him to
the command of all Asia on this side of Mount Tau-
rus, B. C. 223. Achfcus recovered for the Syrian
empire all the districts which Attalus had gained;
but having been falsely accused by Hermeias, the
minister of Antiochus, of intending to revolt, he did
so in self-defence, assumed the title of king, and
ruled over the whole of Asia on this side of the
Taurus. As long as Antiochus was engaged in the
war with Ptolemy, he could not march against
Achaeus; but after a peace had been concluded
with Ptolemy, he crossed the Taurus, united his
forces with Attalus, deprived Achaeus in one cam-
paign of all his dominions, and took Sard is, with the
exception of the citadel. Achaeus, after sustaining
a siege of two years in the citadel, at last fell into
the hands of Antiochus, B. C. 314, through the treach-
ery of Bol is, who had been employed by Sosibius,
the minister of Ptolemy, to deliver him from his
danger, but betrayed him to Antiochus, who ordered
feini to be put to death immediately. (Polyb. , 4, 2,
Y 6; 4, 48; 5, 40, $ 7, 42, 57; 7, 15-18; 8, 17-
93. )
ACHILLAS ('A^i/Uuf), III. one of the guardians of
the Egyptian king Ptctemy Dionysus, and command-
er of the trcops y'-. en Pompey fled to Egypt, B. C.
48. He is called by Caesar a man of extraordinary
daring, and it was he and L. Septimius who killed
Pompey. (Con. , B. C. , 3, 104. --Lie. , Epit. , 104. --
Dion Cass. , 42, 4. ) He subsequently joined the
eunuch Pothinus in resisting Caesar, and having had
the command of the whole army intrusted to him
by Pothinus, he marched against Alexandrea with
20,000 foot and 2000 horse. Caesar, who was at
Alexandrea, had not sufficient forces to oppose him,
and sent ambassadors to treat with him, but these
Achillas murdered to remove all hopes of. reconcil-
iation. He4hen marched into Alexandrea, and ob-
tained possession of the greatest part of the city.
Meanwhile, however, ArsinoB, the younger sister of
Ptolemy, escaped from Caesar and joined Achillas;
but dissensions breaking out between them, she had
Achillas put to death by Ganymedes, a eunuch, B. C.
47, to whom she then intrusted the command of
the forces. (Cas. , B. C. , 3, 108-112; B. Alex. , 4.
-Kon Cass. , 42, 36-40. --Lucan. , 10, 519-523. )
ACHLYS CA^Wc), according to some ancient cos-
? ? mogonies, the eternal night, and the first created
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the Ibftc year he defeated the Celtiberi, and had it
not beer, for the arrival of his successor, would have
reduced the whole people to subjection. Ke applied
for a triumph in consequence, but obtained only an
ovation. (Lh. , 38, 35; 39, 21, 29. ) In B. C. 183,
be was one of the ambassadors sent into Gallia
/Transalpina, and was also appointed one of the
? triumvirs for founding the Latin colony of Aqui-
teia, which was, however, not founded till B. C. 181.
(Liu. , 39, 54, 55; 40, 34. ) He was consul B. C.
? . 79 (Lit. , 40, 43), with his own brother, Q. Fulvius
Flaccus, which is the only instance of two brothers
holding the consulship at the same time. (Fait.
Capitol. --Veil. Pat. , 2, 8. ) At the election of Acid-
inus, M. Scipio declared him to be virum bonum,
egregiumqve chem. (Cic. , De Or. , 2, 64. )--III. L.
MANLICS, who was quiestor in B. C. 168 (lav. , 45,
i3\ is probably one of the two Manlii Acidini, who
are mentioned two years before as illustrious youths,
and of whom one was the son of M. Manlius, the
other of L. Manlius. (Lit. , 42, 49. ) The latter is
probably the same as the quaestor, and the son of No.
II. --IV. A young man who was going to pursue his
.
V, II. I. c. ) Some say that Zoilus was stoned to
death, or exposed on a cross, by order of Ptolemy,
while others maintain that he was burned alive at
Smyrna. According to another account, he recited
his invectives against Homer at the Olympic games,
and was thrown from a rock for his offence. (Julian,
V. H. , I. c. --Longin. , 9, 4. )
ZO. XA or ZONK, a city . on the . t>r;m coast of
Thrace, near the promontory of Serrhium. It is men-
tioned by Herodotus (7, 59) and by Hecatajus (ap.
Steph. lli/~. ). Here Orpheus sang, and by his strains
drew after him both the woods and the beasts that
tenanted them. (Apollon. Rhod. , 1, 28. )
ZONARAS, a Byzantine historian, who flourished to-
wards the close of the eleventh and the commence-
ment of the twelfth centuries. He held the offices
originally of Grand Dungarius (commander of the Beet)
and chief secretary of the imperial cabinet; but he
afterward became a monk, and attached himself to a
religious house on Mount Athos, where he died sub-
sequently to A. D. 1118. His Annals, or Chronicle,
extend from the creation of the world down to 1118
A. D. , the period of the death of Alexis I. They pos-
sess a double interest: for more ancient times, he has
availed himself, independently of Eutropius and Dio
Cassius, of other authors that are lost to us; and at a
later period he details events of which he himself was
a witness. Though deficient in critical spirit, he has
still displayed great good sense in adding nothing of
his own to the extracts which he has inserted in his
history, except what might serve to unite thim to-
gether in regular order. There results from this, it is
true, a great variety of style in his work, but this is
easily paidoned, and the only regret is, that Zonaras
had not indicated with more exactness the authors
whence he drew his materials. The impartiality of
the writer is worthy of praise. This work is found in
the collections of the Byzantine Historians. --Zonaras
was the author also of a Glossary or Lexicon, in the
manner of Hesychius a -J Suidas It was published
ZOS
by Tittman, in 1808, at the Leipzig press, along >>:i
the Lexicon of Photius, in 3 vols. 4to, the first tw<
? ? volumes being devoted to the Lexicon of Zonarai.
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Ai*i,III. the twelfth king of Argos. He was the
ion of Lynceus and HypgWnnestra, and grandson
? f Danaus. He married Ocaleia, who bore him
iwin sons, Acri. sius and Proetus. (Apollod. , 2, 2,
i. --Hygin. , Fab. , 170. ) When he informed his
father of the death of Danaus, he was rewarded
with the shield of his grandfather, which was sa-
cred to Juno. He is described as a successful con-
queror, and as the founder of the town of Abae in
I'] mi-is (Paui. , 10, 36, 1), and of the Pelasgic Argos
in Thessaly. (Strab. , 9, p. 431. ) The fame of
his warlike spirit was so great, that even after his
death, when people revolted whom he had subdued,
they were put to flight by the simple act of showing
them his shield. (Virg. , JEn. , 3, 286. --Sen. , ad loc. )
! t was from this Abas that the kings of Argos were
called by the patronymic Abantiades.
ABASCANTDB ('AtaoitavTOf), a physician of Lugdu-
num (Lyons), who probably lived in the second cen-
tury after Christ. He is several times mentioned
by Galen (It, Compos. Medicam. secund. Locos, 9,
4, vol. 13, p. 278), who has also preserved an an-
tidote invented fty him against the bite of serpents.
(De Anlid. , 2, 12, vol. 14, p. 177. ) -The name is
to be met with in numerous Latin inscriptions in
Grater's collection, five of which refer to a freed-
man of Augustus, who is supposed by Kiihn (Addi-
tam. ad Blench. Medic. Vet. a J. A. Falrricio in
? ? Bibl. Gr. " Exhib. ) to he the same person that is
nentioned by Galen. This, however, is quite uncer-
tain, as also whether HapaidJTiof 'ASdoitavSoc. in
Galen (De Compot. Medicam. secund. Locos. , 7, 3,
vol. 13, p. 71) refers to the subject of this article.
ABDIAS . 'v. . V,<r), the pretended author of an
Apocryphal book, entitled The History of the Apos-
tolical contest. This work claims to have been writ-
ten in Hebrew, to have been tranriated into Greek
by Eutropius, and thence into Latin by Julius Afri-
'lanus. It was, however, originally written in Latin,
about A. D. 910. It is printed in Fabricius, Codex
Apocrypha Noti Tett. , p. 402, 8vo, Hamb. , 1703.
Abdias was called, too, the first Bishop of Babylon.
ABELLIO is the name of a divinity found in in-
scriptions which were discovered at Comminges in
France. (Gruter, Inter. , p. 37, 4. --J. Sealigcr, Lee-
tiones Ausoniana, 1, 9. ) Buttmann (Mythologus, 1,
p. 167, &c. ) considers Abellio to be the same name
as Apollo, who in Crete and elsewhere was called
'\'<</. ">>? . and by the Italians and some Dorians
Apello (f'est. , s. r. Apcllinem. -- Eustalh. ai II. , 2,
99), and that the deity is the same as the Gallic
Apollo mentioned by Caesar (Bell. Gall. , 6, 17), and
also the same as Belis or Belenus mentioned by
Tertullian (Apolopet. , 23) and Herodian (8, 3. --
Comp. Capitol. , Maximin. , 22). As the root of the
word he recognises the Spartan Beta, i. <? . the sun
(Hesych. , s. >- ), whirli appears in the Syriac and
Chaldaic Belus or Baal.
ABISARES or ABISSARKS ('A</<-m;. y). called llm-
hisarus ('E/tliaapofi by Diodorus (17, 90), an In-
dian king beyond the river Hydaspes, whose terri-
tory lay in the mountains, sent embassies to Alex-
ander t! ,e Great, both before and after the conquest
of Porus, although inclined to espouse the side of
the latter. Alexander not only allowed him to re-
lain bis kingdoi- but increased it, and on his tleath
SO
appointed his son as his successor. '! ://,. -<<. i,at
? ? 5, 8, 20, 29. --Curt. , 8, 12, 13, 14; P,'l; 10,1. )
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? orrenJered Susa to Alexander when the latter ap-
proached the city. The satrapy was restored to
him by Alexander, but he and his son Oxyathres
were afterward executed by Alexander for th. e
crimes they had committed in the government of
the satrapy. (Curt. , 6, 2. --Arrian, Anab. , 3, 16; 7,
4. --Diod. , 17, 05. )
ABDHIA GENS, plebeian. On the coins of this
gens we find the cognomen GEH. , which is perhaps
an abbreviation of Geminus. The coins have no
beads of persons on them. The most distinguished
members of this gens were--I. C. ABURIUS, one of
the ambassadors sent to Masinissa and the Cartha-
ginians, B. C. 171. (Li>>. , 42, 35. )--II. M. ABURIOS,
tribune of the plebs, B. C. 187, opposed M.
Fulvius,
the proconsul, in his petition for a triumph, but with-
drew his opposition chiefly through the influence of
his colleague Ti. Gracchus. (Liv. , 39, 4, 5. ) He
was praetor peregrinus, B. C. 176. (Liv. , 41, 18,19. )
ABURNUS VALENO, a Roman lawyer, probably the
same w,ith the Valens who formed one of the con-
silium of the Emperor Antoninus Pius. (Capitoli-
>><<*, Ant. Piiu, 12. ) We have, in the Pandects,
selections from his seven books of " Fidcicommis-
to. " IZimmern, Gtsch. d. Bom. Privatrcckts, 1, 1,
934. )
ACACAI. I. IS ('AKOHcalUif), daughter of Minos, by
whom, according to a Cretan tradition, Hermes
begot Cydon; while, according to a tradition of the
Tegeatans, Cydon was a son of Tegeates, and im-
migrated to Crete from Tegea. (Pan*. , 8, 63, $ 2. )
Apollo begot by her a son, Miletus, whom, for fear
of her father, Acacallis exposed in a forest, where
wolves watched and suckled the child until he was
found by shepherds, who brought him up. (Antonin.
Lib. , 30. ) Other sons of her and Apollo are Amphi-
themis and Garamas. (Apollon. , 4,1490, &c. ) Apol-
lodorus (3,1, $ 3) calls this daughter of Minos Acalle
''AM*/ / /,! , but does not mention Miletus as her son.
Acacallis was in Crete a common name for a nar-
eitsus. (Alhen. , 15, p. 681. --Hesych. , >>. t )
ACACUS ("AicaKof), a son of Lycaon and king of
Acacesium in Acadia, of which he was believed to
be the founder. (Paut. , 8, 3, l. --JStcph. Byz. , s. v.
'Axaisf/aiov. )
ACARNAN ('Axapvuv), one of the Epigones, was
a son of Alcmaeon and Calirrhoe, and brother of
Amphoterus. Their father was murdered by Phe-
geus when they were yet very young, and Calirrhoi!
prayed to Zeus to make her sons grow quickly, that
they might be able to avenge the death of their fa-
ther The prayer was granted, and Acarnan, with his
brother, slew Phegeus, his wife, and his two sons.
The inhabitants of Psophis, where the sons had been
slain, pursued the murderers as far as Tegea, where,
however, they were received and rescued. At the
request of Achelous, they carried the necklace and
peplus of Harmonia to Delphi, and from thence they
went to Epirus, where Acarnan founded the state
called after him Acarnania. (ApoUod. , 3, 7, $ 5-7.
--O>>. , Met. , 9, 413, &. C. --Thucyd. , 2, 103. --Strpb. ,
10, p. 462. )
Accioi, I. or ATTIUS, L. , an early Roman tragic
ix>et and the son of a freedman, was born, according
to Jerome, B. C. 170, and was fifty years younger
than Pacuvius. He lived to a great -Hge; Cicero,
when a wung man, frequently convcised with him.
? ? (ftrnt. , 28. ) His tragedies -veie chiefly imitated
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which characterizes him as the god of the healing
art, or, in general, as the averter of evil, like 'Axeoiof.
lEurip. , Androm. , 901. )--III. surnamed Sacas (Zti-
/cof), on account of his foreign origin, was a tragic-
poet at Athens, and a contemporary of Aristophanes.
He seems to have been either of Thracian or Mys-
lau origin. (Aristoph. , Aiics, 31. --Scliol. , ad lor. . --
Vapa, Vtl6. --Schol. ,ad he. --Phot, arid Suid. , a. v.
2-ixaf. --Wckker, Die Griech. Trugud, p. 1032. )
ACH^EOS ('A^atof), V. son of Andromachus,
wnose sister Laodice married Seleucus Callinicus,
Ihe father of Antiochus the Great. Achseus him-
Belf married Laodice, the daughter of Mithradates,
king of Pontus. (Polyt. , 4, 51, H i 8, 22, I) 11. )
He accompanied Seleucus Ceraunus, the son of
Callinicus, in his expedition across Mount Taurus
against Attains, and after the assassination of Se-
leucus, avenged his death; and though he might
easily have assumed the royal power, he remained
faithful to the family of Seleucus. Antiochus the
Great, the successor of Seleucus, appointed him to
the command of all Asia on this side of Mount Tau-
rus, B. C. 223. Achfcus recovered for the Syrian
empire all the districts which Attalus had gained;
but having been falsely accused by Hermeias, the
minister of Antiochus, of intending to revolt, he did
so in self-defence, assumed the title of king, and
ruled over the whole of Asia on this side of the
Taurus. As long as Antiochus was engaged in the
war with Ptolemy, he could not march against
Achaeus; but after a peace had been concluded
with Ptolemy, he crossed the Taurus, united his
forces with Attalus, deprived Achaeus in one cam-
paign of all his dominions, and took Sard is, with the
exception of the citadel. Achaeus, after sustaining
a siege of two years in the citadel, at last fell into
the hands of Antiochus, B. C. 314, through the treach-
ery of Bol is, who had been employed by Sosibius,
the minister of Ptolemy, to deliver him from his
danger, but betrayed him to Antiochus, who ordered
feini to be put to death immediately. (Polyb. , 4, 2,
Y 6; 4, 48; 5, 40, $ 7, 42, 57; 7, 15-18; 8, 17-
93. )
ACHILLAS ('A^i/Uuf), III. one of the guardians of
the Egyptian king Ptctemy Dionysus, and command-
er of the trcops y'-. en Pompey fled to Egypt, B. C.
48. He is called by Caesar a man of extraordinary
daring, and it was he and L. Septimius who killed
Pompey. (Con. , B. C. , 3, 104. --Lie. , Epit. , 104. --
Dion Cass. , 42, 4. ) He subsequently joined the
eunuch Pothinus in resisting Caesar, and having had
the command of the whole army intrusted to him
by Pothinus, he marched against Alexandrea with
20,000 foot and 2000 horse. Caesar, who was at
Alexandrea, had not sufficient forces to oppose him,
and sent ambassadors to treat with him, but these
Achillas murdered to remove all hopes of. reconcil-
iation. He4hen marched into Alexandrea, and ob-
tained possession of the greatest part of the city.
Meanwhile, however, ArsinoB, the younger sister of
Ptolemy, escaped from Caesar and joined Achillas;
but dissensions breaking out between them, she had
Achillas put to death by Ganymedes, a eunuch, B. C.
47, to whom she then intrusted the command of
the forces. (Cas. , B. C. , 3, 108-112; B. Alex. , 4.
-Kon Cass. , 42, 36-40. --Lucan. , 10, 519-523. )
ACHLYS CA^Wc), according to some ancient cos-
? ? mogonies, the eternal night, and the first created
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the Ibftc year he defeated the Celtiberi, and had it
not beer, for the arrival of his successor, would have
reduced the whole people to subjection. Ke applied
for a triumph in consequence, but obtained only an
ovation. (Lh. , 38, 35; 39, 21, 29. ) In B. C. 183,
be was one of the ambassadors sent into Gallia
/Transalpina, and was also appointed one of the
? triumvirs for founding the Latin colony of Aqui-
teia, which was, however, not founded till B. C. 181.
(Liu. , 39, 54, 55; 40, 34. ) He was consul B. C.
? . 79 (Lit. , 40, 43), with his own brother, Q. Fulvius
Flaccus, which is the only instance of two brothers
holding the consulship at the same time. (Fait.
Capitol. --Veil. Pat. , 2, 8. ) At the election of Acid-
inus, M. Scipio declared him to be virum bonum,
egregiumqve chem. (Cic. , De Or. , 2, 64. )--III. L.
MANLICS, who was quiestor in B. C. 168 (lav. , 45,
i3\ is probably one of the two Manlii Acidini, who
are mentioned two years before as illustrious youths,
and of whom one was the son of M. Manlius, the
other of L. Manlius. (Lit. , 42, 49. ) The latter is
probably the same as the quaestor, and the son of No.
II. --IV. A young man who was going to pursue his
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