=Alarīcus=, a famous king of the Goths, who plundered Rome in the reign of Honorius. He was greatly respected for his military valour, and during his reign he kept the Roman empire in continual alarms. He died after a reign of 13 years, A.D. 410. =Alarōdii=, a nation near Pontus. _Herodotus_, bk. 3, ch. 94. =Alastor=, a son of Neleus and Chloris. _Apollodorus_, bk. 1, ch. 9. ――――An arm-bearer to Sarpedon king of Lycia, killed by Ulysses. _Homer_, _Iliad_, bk. 5, li. 677.――_Ovid_, _Metamorphoses_, bk. 13, li. 257.――――One of Pluto’s horses when he carried away Proserpine. _Claudian_, _de Raptu Proserpinæ_, bk. 1, li. 286. =Alaudæ=, soldiers of one of Cæsar’s legions in Gaul. _Suetonius_, _Julius Cæsar_, ch. 24. =Alazon=, a river flowing from mount Caucasus into the Cyrus, and separating Albania from Iberia. _Flaccus_, bk. 6, li. 101. =Alba Sylvius=, son of Latinus Sylvius, succeeded his father in the kingdom of Latium, and reigned 36 years. _Ovid_, _Metamorphoses_, bk. 14, li. 612.――――Longa, a city of Latium, built by Ascanius, B.C. 1152, on the spot where Æneas found, according to the prophecy of Helenus (_Virgil_, _Æneid_, bk. 3, li. 390, &c.), and of the god of the river (_Æneid_, bk. 8, li. 43), a _white_ sow with 30 young ones. It was called _longa_ because it extended along the hill Albinus. The descendants of Æneas reigned there in the following order: 1. Ascanius, son of Æneas, with little intermission, eight years. 2. Sylvius Posthumus, 29 years. 3. Æneas Sylvius, 31 years. 4. Latinus, five years. 5. Alba, 36 years. 6. Atys, or Capetus, 26 years. 7. Capys, 28 years. 8. Calpetus, 13 years. 9. Tiberinus, eight years. 10. Agrippa, 33 years. 11. Remulus, 19 years. 12. Aventinus, 37 years. 13. Procas, 13 years. 14. Numitor and Amulius. Alba, which had long been the powerful rival of Rome, was destroyed by the Romans, 665 B.C., and the inhabitants were carried to Rome. _Livy._――_Florus._――_Justin_, &c.――――A city of the Marsi in Italy. ――――Pompeia, a city of Liguria. _Pliny_, bk. 3, ch. 5. =Albāni= and =Albenses=, names applied to the inhabitants of the two cities of Alba. _Cicero_, _Rhetorica ad Herennium_, bk. 2, ch. 28. =Albānia=, a country of Asia, between the Caspian sea and Iberia. The inhabitants are said to have their eyes all blue. Some maintain that they followed Hercules from mount Albanus in Italy, when he returned from the conquest of Geryon. _Dionysius of Halicarnassus_, bk. 1, ch. 15.――_Justin_, bk. 42, ch. 3.――_Strabo_, bk. 11.――_Pliny_, bk. 8, ch. 40.――_Mela_, bk. 3, ch. 5.――――The Caspian sea is called _Albanum_, as being near Albania. _Pliny_, bk. 6, ch. 13.