=Alcidĭce=, the mother of Tyro, by Salmoneus. _Apollodorus_, bk. 1, ch. 9. =Alcimăchus=, an eminent painter. _Pliny_, bk. 35, ch. 11. =Alcimĕde=, the mother of Jason by Æson. _Flaccus_, bk. 1, li. 296. =Alcimĕdon=, a plain of Arcadia, with a cave the residence of Alcimedon, whose daughter Phillo was ravished by Hercules. _Pausanias_, bk. 8, ch. 12.――――An excellent carver. _Virgil_, _Eclogues_, poem 3.――――A sailor, &c. _Ovid_, _Metamorphoses_, bk. 4, fable 10. =Alcimĕnes=, a tragic poet of Megara.――――A comic writer of Athens. ――――An attendant of Demetrius. _Plutarch_, _Demetrius_.――――A man killed by his brother Bellerophon. _Apollodorus_, bk. 2, ch. 3. =Alcĭmus=, an historian of Sicily, who wrote an account of Italy.―――― An orator. _Diogenes Laërtius._ =Alcinoe=, a daughter of Sthenelus son of Perseus. _Apollodorus_, bk. 2, ch. 4. =Alcĭnor.= _See:_ Alcenor. =Alcinous=, son of Nausithous and Peribœa, was king of Phæacia, and is praised for his love of agriculture. He married his niece Arete, by whom he had several sons and a daughter, Nausicaa. He kindly entertained Ulysses, who had been shipwrecked on his coast, and heard the recital of his adventures; whence arose the proverb of the stories of Alcinous to denote improbability. _Homer_, _Odyssey_, bk. 7.――_Orpheus_, _Argonautica_.――_Virgil_, _Georgics_, bk. 2, li. 87.――_Statius_, bk. 1, _Sylvæ_, poem 3, li. 81.――_Juvenal_, satire 5, li. 151.――_Ovid_, _Amores_, bk. 1, poem 10, li. 56.―― _Plato_, _Republic_, bk. 10.――_Apollodorus_, bk. 1, ch. 9.――――A son of Hippocoon. _Apollodorus_, bk. 3, ch. 10.――――A man of Elis. _Pausanias._――――A philosopher in the second century, who wrote a book _de Doctriná Platonis_, the best edition of which is the 12mo, printed Oxford, 1667. =Alcioneus=, a man killed by Perseus. _Ovid_, _Metamorphoses_, bk. 5, fable 4. =Alciphron=, a philosopher of Magnesia, in the age of Alexander. There are some epistles in Greek that bear his name, and contain a very perfect picture of the customs and manners of the Greeks. They are by some supposed to be the production of a writer of the fourth century. The only edition is that of Leipzig, 12mo, 1715, cum notis Bergleri. =Alcippe=, a daughter of the god Mars, by Agraulos. She was ravished by Halirrhotius. _Apollodorus_, bk. 3, ch. 14.――――The wife of Metion and mother to Eupalamus. _Apollodorus_, bk. 3, ch. 16.――――The daughter of Œnomaus, and wife of Evenus, by whom she had Marpessa. ――――A woman who brought forth an elephant. _Pliny_, bk. 7.――――A country-woman. _Virgil_, _Eclogues_, poem 7. =Alcippus=, a reputed citizen of Sparta, banished by his enemies. He married Democrite, of whom _Plutarch_, _Amatoriæ narrationes_. =Alcis=, a daughter of Ægyptus. _Apollodorus._