)
Buttmann places this hero in the period between Among the tetrarchs whom he entrusted with the
the so-called return of the Heraclids and the age of administration of Thessaly, there is one Thrasy-
Peisistratus.
Buttmann places this hero in the period between Among the tetrarchs whom he entrusted with the
the so-called return of the Heraclids and the age of administration of Thessaly, there is one Thrasy-
Peisistratus.
William Smith - 1844 - Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities - a
) The Sco-
likewise a statue of Athena Alea. (Paus. iii. 19. padae inhabited Crannon and perhaps Pharsalus
$ 7. )
[L. S. ] also, while the main branch, the Aleuadae, remain-
ALEBION. (ALBION. )
ed at Larissa. The influence of the families, how-
ALECTO. [FURIAE. ]
ever, was not confined to these towns, but extended
ALECTOR (Αλέκτωρ). 1. The father of more or less over the greater part of Thessily.
Leïtus, the Argonaut. (Apollod. i. 9. § 16. ) Ho- | 'They formed in reality a powerful aristocratic
mer (Il. xvii. 602) calls liiin Alectryon.
party (Bagineis) in opposition to the great body of
2. A son of Anaxagors and father of Iphis, the Thessalians. (Herod. vii. 172. ).
king of Argos. He was consulted by Polyneices The earliest historical person, who probably be-
as to the manner in which Amphiaraus might belongs to the Aleuadae, is Eurylochus, who termi-
compelled to take part in the expedition against nated the war of Cirrha about B. c. 590. (Strab. ix.
Thebes. (Apollod. iii. 6. & 2; Paus. ii. 18. & 4. ) p. 418. ) [EURYLOCHUS. ] In the time of the post
Two others of the sanie name are mentioned in Simonides we find a second Aleuas, who was a
Homer. (Od. iv. 10; Eustath. ad Hom. pp. 303 friend of the poet. He is called a son of Echecra-
and 1598. )
(L. S. ] tides and Syris (Schol. ad Theocrit. xvi. 34); but
ALEMON, ALEMO'NIDES. [MYSCELUS. ] besides the suggestion of Orid (Ibis, 225), that he
ALETES ('Alutns), a son of Hippotes and a had a tragic end, nothing is known about him.
descendant of Heracles in the fifth degree. He is At the time when Xerxes invaded Grecce, three
said to have taken possession of Corinth, and to sons of this Aleuas, Thorax, Euryrylus, and Thra-
have expelled the Sisyphids, thirty years after the sydaeus, came to him as ambassadors, to request
first invasion of Peloponnesus by the Heraclids. him to go on with the war, and to promise him
His family, sometimes called the Aletidac, main their assistance. (Herod. vii. 6. ) (THORAX. )
tained themselves at Corinth down to the time of When, after the Persian war, Leotychides was
Bacchis. (Paus. ii. 4. & 3, v. 18. § 2; Strab. viii. sent to Thessaly to chastise those who had acted
p. 389; Callim. Fragm. 103; Pind. Ol. xiii. 17. ) as traitors to their country, he allowed himself to
Velleius Paterculus (i. 3) calls him a descendant be bribed by the Aleuadae, although he might
of Heracles in the sixth degree. He received an have subdued all Thessaly. (Herod. vi. 72; Paus.
oracle, promising him the sovereignty of Athens, if iii. 7. & 8. ) This fact shews that the power of the
during the war, which was then going on, its king Aleuadae was then still as great as before. About
should remain uninjured. This oracle became the rear B. C. 460, we find an Aleuad Orestes, son
known at Athens, and Codrus sacrificed himself of Echecratides, who came to Athens as a fugitive,
for his country. (Conon, Narrat. 26. ) (CODRUs. ] and persuaded the Athenians to exert themselves
Other persons of this name are mentioned in for his restoration. (Thuc. i. 111. ) He had
Apollod. iii. 10. § 6; Hygin. Fab. 122, and in been expelled either by the Thessalians or more
Virg. Aen. i. 121, ix. 462.
(L. S. ]
probably by a faction of his own family, who
ALEUAS and ALEU'ADAE ('Alevas and wished to exclude him from the dignity of Baoineus
Areváda). Aleuas is the ancestorial hero of the (i. e. probably Tagus), for such feuds among the
Thessalian, or, more particularly, of the Larissaean Aleuadae themselves are frequently mentioned.
family of the Aleuadae. (Pind. Pyth. x. 8, with | (Xen. Anab. i. 1. § 10. )
the Schol. ) The Aleuadae were the noblest and After the end of the Peloponnesian war, another
most powerful among all the families of Thessaly, Thessalian family, the dynasts of Pherae, gradually
whence Herodotus (vii. 6) calls its members Baoi rose to power and influence, and gave a great shock
dels. (Comp. Diod. xv. 61, xvi. 14. ) The first to the power of the Aleuadae. As early as B. C.
Aleuas, who bore the surname of núppos, that is, 375, Jason of Pherae, after various struggles, suc-
the red-haired, is called king (here synonymous ceeded in raising himself to the dignity of Tagus.
with Tagus, see Dict. of Ant. p. 932) of Thessaly, | (Xen. Hellen. ii. 3. & 4; Diod. xiv. 82, xv. 60. )
and a descendant of Heracles through Thessalus, When the dynasts of Pherae became tyrannical,
ole of the many sons of Heracles. (Suidas, 8. v. some of the Larissaean Aleuadae conspired to put
'Alevádos; Ulpian, ad Dem. Olymth. i. ; Schol. an end to their rule, and for this purpose they invited
ad Apollon. Rhod. iii. 1090; Vellei. i. 3. ) Plutarch Alexander, king of Macedonia, the son of Amyntas.
(de Am. Frut. in fin. ) states, that he was hated by 1 (Diod. xv. 61. ) Alexander took Larissa and
his father on account of his haughty and savage Crannon, but kept them to himself. Afterwards,
character: but his uncle nevertheless contrived to Pelopidas restored the original state of things in
get him elected king and sanctioned hy the god of Thessaly; but the dynasts of Pherae soon reco-
Delphi. His reign was more glorious than that of vered their power, and the Aleuadae again solicited
any of his ancestors, and the nation rose in power the assistance of Macedonia against them. Philip
and importance. This Aleuas, who belongs to the willingly complied with the request, broke the
mythical period of Greek history, is in all proba- power of the tyrants of Pherae, restored the towns
bility the same as the one who, according to Hege to an appearance of freedom, and made the Aleua-
mon (ap. Ael. Anim. viii. 11), was beloved by a dae his faithful friends and allies. (Diod. xvi. 14. )
dragon. According to Aristotle (ap. Hurpocrat. In what manner Philip used them for his purposes,
8. v. Tetpapxlz) the division of Thessaly into four and how little he spared them when it was his
parts, of which traces remained down to the latest interest to do so, is sufficiently attested. (Dem.
times, took place in the reign of the first Aleuas. de Cor. p. 241; Polyaen. iv. 2. § 11; Ulpian, l. c.
)
Buttmann places this hero in the period between Among the tetrarchs whom he entrusted with the
the so-called return of the Heraclids and the age of administration of Thessaly, there is one Thrasy-
Peisistratus. But even earlier than the time of daeus (Theopomp. ap. Athen. vi. p. 249), who un-
Peisistratus the family of the Aleuadae appears to doubtedly belonged to the Aleundae, just as the
have become divided into two branches, the Aleu- Thessalian Medius, who is mentioned as one of
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110
ALEXANDER.
ALEXANDER.
the companions of Alexander the Great. (Plut. De nected with the Aleundae, cannot be ascertained.
Trunguil. 13; comp. Strab. xi. p. 530. ) The fa- | See Boeckh's Communtury on l'imi. Puth. X. ;
mily now balık into insignificance, and the last i Schneider, on Aristot. l'olit. v. 5, 9; but more parti-
cerinin trace of an Aleuad is Thorax, a friend of' cularly Buttmann, l'on dem Geschlecht der Aleuaden,
Antigonus. (Plut. Demetr. 29. ) Whether the in his Mythol. ii. p. 246, &c. , who has made out the
sculpiors Alcuns, mentioned by Pliny (II. N. xxxiv. following gencalogicul table of the Aleuadae.
8), and Scopas of Paros, were in any way con- !
ALECAS Πύρρος,
Kinci, or TAGUS, OF THESSALY.
Mother Archedice.
Ol. 40. Echecmides.
45.
50.
Eurylochus.
Scopas I.
29
Creon. Diactorides.
55.
Simus.
»
Echecratides.
wife Dyseris.
Scopas II.
70.
Aleuas II.
.
Antiochus, Tagus.
Thorax, Eurypylus, Thrasydaeus.
99
99
99
99
80. Orestes.
85.
90.
95,
Eurylochus. Aristippus. Scopas III. , Tagus.
Medius.
100.
105.
Hellanocrates.
110.
Eurylochus. Eudicus. Simus. Thrasydaeus.
115. Medius.
[L. S. )
ALEUAS, an artist who was famous for his ALEXA'NDER ('Aréfav&pos), a saint and
statues of philosophers. (Plin. H. N. xxxiv. 8. s. martyr, whose memory is celebrated by the Romish
19, 26. )
(C. P. M. ] church, together with the orher martyrs of Lyons
AʼLÉUS ('Ancós), a son of Apheidas, and and Vienne, on the second of Jure. He was a
grandson of Arcas. He was king of Tegea in native of Phrygia, and a physician by profession,
Arcadia, and married to Neaera, and is said to and was put to death, A. D. 177, during the perse-
have founded the town of Alea and the first tem-cution that mged against the churches of Lyons
ple of Athena Alen at Tegea. (Paus. viii. 23. & 1, and Vienne under the emperor Marcus Aurelius.
4. $ 3, &c. ; Apollod. iii. 9. & 1. ) [Alea. ) [L. S. ) (Epist. Eccles. Lugdun. et l'ienn. apud Euseb. Hist.
ALEXAMENUS ('Alecanevós), was general Eccl. v. 1. p. 163. ) He was condemned, together with
of the Aetolians, B. C. 196 (Polyb. xviii. 26), and another Christian, to be deroured by wild beasts
was sent by the Aetolians, in B. c. 192, to obtain in the amphitheatre, and died (as the historian
possession of Lacedaemon. He succeeded in his expresses it) “neither uttering a groan nor a syl-
object, and killed Nabis, the tyrant of Lacedae lable, but conversing in his heart with God. ”
mon; but the Lacedaemonians rising against him (Bzorius, Nomenclator Sanctorum Professione Me
shortly after, he and most of his troops were killed. dicorum ; Martyrol. Roman. ed. Baron. ; Acta Sanc-
(Liv. xxxv. 34-36. )
torum, June 2. )
(W. A. G. )
ALEXA'MENUS ('Ale Equevós), of Teos, ALEXANDER, an ACARNANIAN, who had
was, according to Aristotle, in his work upon once been a friend of Philip III. of Macedonia
poets (Tepl Tointwv), the first person who wrote but forsook him, and insinuated himself so much
dialogues in the Socratic style before the time of into the favour of Antiochus the Great, that he
Plato. (Athen. xi. p. 505, b. c. ; Diog. Laërt. iii. 48. ) was admitted to his most secret deliberations. He
ALEXANDER. [Paris. ]
advised the king to invade Greece, holding out to
ALEXANDER ('Allégavdpos), the defender of him the most brilliant prospects of victory over the
men, a surname of Hera under which she was Romans, B. c. 192. (Liv. xxxv. 18. ) Antiochus
worshipped at Sicyon. A temple had been built followed his adrice. In the battle of Cynoscephalae,
there to Hera Alexandros by Adrastus after his in which Antiochus was defeated by the Romans,
fight from Argos. (Schol. ad Pind. Nem. ix. 30 ; Alexander was covered with wounds, and in this
comp. Apollod. ii. 12. & 5. )
[L. S. ] state he carried the news of the defeat to his king,
ALEXANDER ('Anekavāpos), a man whom who was staying at Thronium, on the Maliac gulf.
Mithridates is charged by Sulla with having sent When the king, on his retreat from Greece, had
to assassinate Nicomedes. (Appian, De Bell. Mithr. reached Cenacum in Euboca, Alexander died and
57. ) He seems to be the same person as Alexan- was buried there, B, C. 191. (xxxvi. 20. ) [L. S. ]
der the Paphlagonian, who is afterwards (76, &c. ) ALEXANDER of AEGAE ('Alétav&pos Al-
mentioned as one of the generals of Mithridates, yaſos), a peripatetic philosopher, who fiourished at
and was made prisoner by Lucullus, who kept him Rome in the first century, and a disciple of the
to adorn his triumph at Rome. (L. S. ] celebrated mathematician Sosigenes, whose calcula-
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ALEXANDER.
11
ALEXANDER.
:
tions were used by Julius Caesar for his correction | who, in conjunction with Dorymachus, put himself
of the year. He was tutor to the enperor Nero. in possession of the town of Acgeira in Achaiit,
(Saidus, s. r. 'Anégavåpos Aiyaios ; Suet. Til. 57. ) during the Social war, in B. C. 220.
likewise a statue of Athena Alea. (Paus. iii. 19. padae inhabited Crannon and perhaps Pharsalus
$ 7. )
[L. S. ] also, while the main branch, the Aleuadae, remain-
ALEBION. (ALBION. )
ed at Larissa. The influence of the families, how-
ALECTO. [FURIAE. ]
ever, was not confined to these towns, but extended
ALECTOR (Αλέκτωρ). 1. The father of more or less over the greater part of Thessily.
Leïtus, the Argonaut. (Apollod. i. 9. § 16. ) Ho- | 'They formed in reality a powerful aristocratic
mer (Il. xvii. 602) calls liiin Alectryon.
party (Bagineis) in opposition to the great body of
2. A son of Anaxagors and father of Iphis, the Thessalians. (Herod. vii. 172. ).
king of Argos. He was consulted by Polyneices The earliest historical person, who probably be-
as to the manner in which Amphiaraus might belongs to the Aleuadae, is Eurylochus, who termi-
compelled to take part in the expedition against nated the war of Cirrha about B. c. 590. (Strab. ix.
Thebes. (Apollod. iii. 6. & 2; Paus. ii. 18. & 4. ) p. 418. ) [EURYLOCHUS. ] In the time of the post
Two others of the sanie name are mentioned in Simonides we find a second Aleuas, who was a
Homer. (Od. iv. 10; Eustath. ad Hom. pp. 303 friend of the poet. He is called a son of Echecra-
and 1598. )
(L. S. ] tides and Syris (Schol. ad Theocrit. xvi. 34); but
ALEMON, ALEMO'NIDES. [MYSCELUS. ] besides the suggestion of Orid (Ibis, 225), that he
ALETES ('Alutns), a son of Hippotes and a had a tragic end, nothing is known about him.
descendant of Heracles in the fifth degree. He is At the time when Xerxes invaded Grecce, three
said to have taken possession of Corinth, and to sons of this Aleuas, Thorax, Euryrylus, and Thra-
have expelled the Sisyphids, thirty years after the sydaeus, came to him as ambassadors, to request
first invasion of Peloponnesus by the Heraclids. him to go on with the war, and to promise him
His family, sometimes called the Aletidac, main their assistance. (Herod. vii. 6. ) (THORAX. )
tained themselves at Corinth down to the time of When, after the Persian war, Leotychides was
Bacchis. (Paus. ii. 4. & 3, v. 18. § 2; Strab. viii. sent to Thessaly to chastise those who had acted
p. 389; Callim. Fragm. 103; Pind. Ol. xiii. 17. ) as traitors to their country, he allowed himself to
Velleius Paterculus (i. 3) calls him a descendant be bribed by the Aleuadae, although he might
of Heracles in the sixth degree. He received an have subdued all Thessaly. (Herod. vi. 72; Paus.
oracle, promising him the sovereignty of Athens, if iii. 7. & 8. ) This fact shews that the power of the
during the war, which was then going on, its king Aleuadae was then still as great as before. About
should remain uninjured. This oracle became the rear B. C. 460, we find an Aleuad Orestes, son
known at Athens, and Codrus sacrificed himself of Echecratides, who came to Athens as a fugitive,
for his country. (Conon, Narrat. 26. ) (CODRUs. ] and persuaded the Athenians to exert themselves
Other persons of this name are mentioned in for his restoration. (Thuc. i. 111. ) He had
Apollod. iii. 10. § 6; Hygin. Fab. 122, and in been expelled either by the Thessalians or more
Virg. Aen. i. 121, ix. 462.
(L. S. ]
probably by a faction of his own family, who
ALEUAS and ALEU'ADAE ('Alevas and wished to exclude him from the dignity of Baoineus
Areváda). Aleuas is the ancestorial hero of the (i. e. probably Tagus), for such feuds among the
Thessalian, or, more particularly, of the Larissaean Aleuadae themselves are frequently mentioned.
family of the Aleuadae. (Pind. Pyth. x. 8, with | (Xen. Anab. i. 1. § 10. )
the Schol. ) The Aleuadae were the noblest and After the end of the Peloponnesian war, another
most powerful among all the families of Thessaly, Thessalian family, the dynasts of Pherae, gradually
whence Herodotus (vii. 6) calls its members Baoi rose to power and influence, and gave a great shock
dels. (Comp. Diod. xv. 61, xvi. 14. ) The first to the power of the Aleuadae. As early as B. C.
Aleuas, who bore the surname of núppos, that is, 375, Jason of Pherae, after various struggles, suc-
the red-haired, is called king (here synonymous ceeded in raising himself to the dignity of Tagus.
with Tagus, see Dict. of Ant. p. 932) of Thessaly, | (Xen. Hellen. ii. 3. & 4; Diod. xiv. 82, xv. 60. )
and a descendant of Heracles through Thessalus, When the dynasts of Pherae became tyrannical,
ole of the many sons of Heracles. (Suidas, 8. v. some of the Larissaean Aleuadae conspired to put
'Alevádos; Ulpian, ad Dem. Olymth. i. ; Schol. an end to their rule, and for this purpose they invited
ad Apollon. Rhod. iii. 1090; Vellei. i. 3. ) Plutarch Alexander, king of Macedonia, the son of Amyntas.
(de Am. Frut. in fin. ) states, that he was hated by 1 (Diod. xv. 61. ) Alexander took Larissa and
his father on account of his haughty and savage Crannon, but kept them to himself. Afterwards,
character: but his uncle nevertheless contrived to Pelopidas restored the original state of things in
get him elected king and sanctioned hy the god of Thessaly; but the dynasts of Pherae soon reco-
Delphi. His reign was more glorious than that of vered their power, and the Aleuadae again solicited
any of his ancestors, and the nation rose in power the assistance of Macedonia against them. Philip
and importance. This Aleuas, who belongs to the willingly complied with the request, broke the
mythical period of Greek history, is in all proba- power of the tyrants of Pherae, restored the towns
bility the same as the one who, according to Hege to an appearance of freedom, and made the Aleua-
mon (ap. Ael. Anim. viii. 11), was beloved by a dae his faithful friends and allies. (Diod. xvi. 14. )
dragon. According to Aristotle (ap. Hurpocrat. In what manner Philip used them for his purposes,
8. v. Tetpapxlz) the division of Thessaly into four and how little he spared them when it was his
parts, of which traces remained down to the latest interest to do so, is sufficiently attested. (Dem.
times, took place in the reign of the first Aleuas. de Cor. p. 241; Polyaen. iv. 2. § 11; Ulpian, l. c.
)
Buttmann places this hero in the period between Among the tetrarchs whom he entrusted with the
the so-called return of the Heraclids and the age of administration of Thessaly, there is one Thrasy-
Peisistratus. But even earlier than the time of daeus (Theopomp. ap. Athen. vi. p. 249), who un-
Peisistratus the family of the Aleuadae appears to doubtedly belonged to the Aleundae, just as the
have become divided into two branches, the Aleu- Thessalian Medius, who is mentioned as one of
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110
ALEXANDER.
ALEXANDER.
the companions of Alexander the Great. (Plut. De nected with the Aleundae, cannot be ascertained.
Trunguil. 13; comp. Strab. xi. p. 530. ) The fa- | See Boeckh's Communtury on l'imi. Puth. X. ;
mily now balık into insignificance, and the last i Schneider, on Aristot. l'olit. v. 5, 9; but more parti-
cerinin trace of an Aleuad is Thorax, a friend of' cularly Buttmann, l'on dem Geschlecht der Aleuaden,
Antigonus. (Plut. Demetr. 29. ) Whether the in his Mythol. ii. p. 246, &c. , who has made out the
sculpiors Alcuns, mentioned by Pliny (II. N. xxxiv. following gencalogicul table of the Aleuadae.
8), and Scopas of Paros, were in any way con- !
ALECAS Πύρρος,
Kinci, or TAGUS, OF THESSALY.
Mother Archedice.
Ol. 40. Echecmides.
45.
50.
Eurylochus.
Scopas I.
29
Creon. Diactorides.
55.
Simus.
»
Echecratides.
wife Dyseris.
Scopas II.
70.
Aleuas II.
.
Antiochus, Tagus.
Thorax, Eurypylus, Thrasydaeus.
99
99
99
99
80. Orestes.
85.
90.
95,
Eurylochus. Aristippus. Scopas III. , Tagus.
Medius.
100.
105.
Hellanocrates.
110.
Eurylochus. Eudicus. Simus. Thrasydaeus.
115. Medius.
[L. S. )
ALEUAS, an artist who was famous for his ALEXA'NDER ('Aréfav&pos), a saint and
statues of philosophers. (Plin. H. N. xxxiv. 8. s. martyr, whose memory is celebrated by the Romish
19, 26. )
(C. P. M. ] church, together with the orher martyrs of Lyons
AʼLÉUS ('Ancós), a son of Apheidas, and and Vienne, on the second of Jure. He was a
grandson of Arcas. He was king of Tegea in native of Phrygia, and a physician by profession,
Arcadia, and married to Neaera, and is said to and was put to death, A. D. 177, during the perse-
have founded the town of Alea and the first tem-cution that mged against the churches of Lyons
ple of Athena Alen at Tegea. (Paus. viii. 23. & 1, and Vienne under the emperor Marcus Aurelius.
4. $ 3, &c. ; Apollod. iii. 9. & 1. ) [Alea. ) [L. S. ) (Epist. Eccles. Lugdun. et l'ienn. apud Euseb. Hist.
ALEXAMENUS ('Alecanevós), was general Eccl. v. 1. p. 163. ) He was condemned, together with
of the Aetolians, B. C. 196 (Polyb. xviii. 26), and another Christian, to be deroured by wild beasts
was sent by the Aetolians, in B. c. 192, to obtain in the amphitheatre, and died (as the historian
possession of Lacedaemon. He succeeded in his expresses it) “neither uttering a groan nor a syl-
object, and killed Nabis, the tyrant of Lacedae lable, but conversing in his heart with God. ”
mon; but the Lacedaemonians rising against him (Bzorius, Nomenclator Sanctorum Professione Me
shortly after, he and most of his troops were killed. dicorum ; Martyrol. Roman. ed. Baron. ; Acta Sanc-
(Liv. xxxv. 34-36. )
torum, June 2. )
(W. A. G. )
ALEXA'MENUS ('Ale Equevós), of Teos, ALEXANDER, an ACARNANIAN, who had
was, according to Aristotle, in his work upon once been a friend of Philip III. of Macedonia
poets (Tepl Tointwv), the first person who wrote but forsook him, and insinuated himself so much
dialogues in the Socratic style before the time of into the favour of Antiochus the Great, that he
Plato. (Athen. xi. p. 505, b. c. ; Diog. Laërt. iii. 48. ) was admitted to his most secret deliberations. He
ALEXANDER. [Paris. ]
advised the king to invade Greece, holding out to
ALEXANDER ('Allégavdpos), the defender of him the most brilliant prospects of victory over the
men, a surname of Hera under which she was Romans, B. c. 192. (Liv. xxxv. 18. ) Antiochus
worshipped at Sicyon. A temple had been built followed his adrice. In the battle of Cynoscephalae,
there to Hera Alexandros by Adrastus after his in which Antiochus was defeated by the Romans,
fight from Argos. (Schol. ad Pind. Nem. ix. 30 ; Alexander was covered with wounds, and in this
comp. Apollod. ii. 12. & 5. )
[L. S. ] state he carried the news of the defeat to his king,
ALEXANDER ('Anekavāpos), a man whom who was staying at Thronium, on the Maliac gulf.
Mithridates is charged by Sulla with having sent When the king, on his retreat from Greece, had
to assassinate Nicomedes. (Appian, De Bell. Mithr. reached Cenacum in Euboca, Alexander died and
57. ) He seems to be the same person as Alexan- was buried there, B, C. 191. (xxxvi. 20. ) [L. S. ]
der the Paphlagonian, who is afterwards (76, &c. ) ALEXANDER of AEGAE ('Alétav&pos Al-
mentioned as one of the generals of Mithridates, yaſos), a peripatetic philosopher, who fiourished at
and was made prisoner by Lucullus, who kept him Rome in the first century, and a disciple of the
to adorn his triumph at Rome. (L. S. ] celebrated mathematician Sosigenes, whose calcula-
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ALEXANDER.
11
ALEXANDER.
:
tions were used by Julius Caesar for his correction | who, in conjunction with Dorymachus, put himself
of the year. He was tutor to the enperor Nero. in possession of the town of Acgeira in Achaiit,
(Saidus, s. r. 'Anégavåpos Aiyaios ; Suet. Til. 57. ) during the Social war, in B. C. 220.
