=Alcamĕnes=, one of the Agidæ, king of Sparta, known by his apophthegms. He succeeded his father Teleclus, and reigned 37 years. The Helots rebelled in his reign. _Pausanias_, bk. 3, ch. 2; bk. 4, chs. 4 & 5.――――A general of the Achæans. _Pausanias_, bk. 7, ch. 15.――――A statuary, who lived 448 B.C., and was distinguished for his statues of Venus and Vulcan. _Pausanias_, bk. 5, ch. 10.――――The commander of a Spartan fleet, put to death by the Athenians. _Thucydides_, bk. 4, ch. 5, &c. =Alcander=, an attendant of Sarpedon, killed by Ulysses. _Ovid_, _Metamorphoses_, bk. 13, li. 257.――――A Lacedæmonian youth, who accidentally put out one of the eyes of Lycurgus, and was generously forgiven by the sage. _Plutarch_, _Lycurgus_.――_Pausanias_, bk. 3, ch. 18.――――A Trojan killed by Turnus. _Virgil_, _Æneid_, bk. 9, li. 767. =Alcandre=, the wife of Polybius, a rich Theban. _Homer_, _Odyssey_, bk. 4, li. 672. =Alcānor=, a Trojan of mount Ida, whose sons Pandarus and Bitias followed Æneas into Italy. _Virgil_, _Æneid_, bk. 9, li. 672.――――A son of Phorus, killed by Æneas. _Æneid_, bk. 10, li. 338. =Alcăthoe=, a name of Megara, in Attica, because rebuilt by Alcathous son of Pelops. _Ovid_, _Metamorphoses_, bk. 8, li. 8. =Alcăthous=, a son of Pelops, who, being suspected of murdering his brother Chrysippus, came to Megara, where he killed a lion which had destroyed the king’s son. He succeeded to the kingdom of Megara, and in commemoration of his services, festivals, called Alcathoia, were instituted at Megara. _Pausanias_, bk. 1, ch. 41, &c.――――A Trojan, who married Hippodamia daughter of Anchises. He was killed in the Trojan war by Idomeneus. _Homer_, _Iliad_, bk. 12, li. 93.――――A son of Parthaon, killed by Tydeus. _Apollodorus_, bk. 1, ch. 7, &c.――――A friend of Æneas, killed in the Rutulian war. _Virgil_, _Æneid_, bk. 10, li. 747. =Alce=, one of Actæon’s dogs. _Ovid._――――A town of Spain which surrendered to Gracchus, now _Alcazar_, a little above Toledo. _Livy_, bk. 40, ch. 47. =Alcēnor=, an Argive, who, along with Chromius, survived the battle between 300 of his countrymen and 300 Lacedæmonians. _Herodotus_, bk. 1, ch. 82.