26 & 31.――――The two Ajaces were, as some suppose, placed after death in the island of Leuce, a separate place reserved only for the bravest heroes of antiquity. =Aidōneus=, a surname of Pluto.――――A king of the Molossi, who imprisoned Theseus, because he and Pirithous attempted to ravish his daughter Proserpine, near the Acheron; whence arose the well-known fable of the descent of Theseus and Pirithous into hell. _Plutarch_, _Theseus_.――――A river near Troy. _Pausanias_, bk. 10, ch. 12. =Aimy̆lus=, son of Ascanius, was, according to some, the progenitor of the noble family of the Æmylii in Rome. =Aius Locutius=, a deity to whom the Romans erected an altar, from the following circumstance: one of the common people, called Ceditius, informed the tribunes, that as he passed one night through one of the streets of the city, a voice more than human, issuing from above Vesta’s temple, told him that Rome would soon be attacked by the Gauls. His information was neglected; but his veracity was proved by the event; and Camillus, after the conquest of the Gauls, built a temple to that supernatural voice which had given Rome warning of the approaching calamity, under the name of Aius Locutius. =Alabanda=, æ, or orum, an inland town of Caria, abounding with scorpions. The name is derived from Alabandus, a deity worshipped there. _Cicero_, _de Natura Deorum_, bk. 3, ch. 16.――_Herodotus_, bk. 7, ch. 195.――_Strabo_, bk. 14. =Alabastrum=, a town of Egypt. _Pliny_, bk. 36, ch. 7. =Alăbus=, a river in Sicily. =Alæa=, a surname of Minerva in Peloponnesus. Her festivals are also called Alæa. _Pausanias_, bk. 8, chs. 4 & 7. =Alæi=, a number of islands in the Persian gulf, abounding in tortoises. _Arrian_, _Periplus of the Euxine Sea_. =Alæsa=, a city on a mountain in Sicily. =Alæus=, the father of Auge, who married Hercules. =Alagōnia=, a city of Laconia. _Pausanias_, bk. 3, chs. 21 & 26. =Alāla=, the goddess of war, sister to Mars. _Plutarch_, _de gloria Atheniensium_. =Alalcomĕnæ=, a city of Bœotia, where some suppose that Minerva was born. _Plutarch_, _Quæstiones Græcæ_.――_Statius_, _Thebiad_, bk. 7, li. 330. =Alalia=, a town of Corsica, built by a colony of Phocæans, destroyed by Scipio, 262 B.C., and afterwards rebuilt by Sylla. _Herodotus_, bk. 1, ch. 165.――_Florus_, bk. 2, ch. 2. =Alamānes=, a statuary at Athens, disciple of Phidias. =Alamanni=, or =Alemanni=, a people of Germany, near the Hercynian forest. They were very powerful and inimical to Rome. =Alāni=, a people of Sarmatia, near the Palus Mœotis, who were said to have 26 different languages. _Pliny_, bk. 4, ch. 12.――_Strabo._ =Alăres=, a people of Pannonia. _Tacitus_, bk. 15, _Annals_, ch. 10.