said that she died ♠on her way from Argos to Thebes, and that she was buried in the temple of Jupiter Olympius. _Pausanias_, bk. 1, ch. 41; bk. 5, ch. 18; bk. 9, ch. 16.――_Plutarch_, ♦_Theseus_ & _Romulus_.――_Homer_, _Odyssey_, bk. 11; _Iliad_, bk. 19.――_Pindar_, _Pythian_, ♣poem 4.――_Lucian_, _Dialogi Deorum_.――_Diodorus_, bk. 4. ――_Hyginus_, fable 29.――_Apollodorus_, bk. 2, chs. 4, 7; bk. 3, ch. 1.――_Plautus_, _Amphitruo_.――_Herodotus_, bk. 2, chs. 43 & 45. ――――_See:_ Amphitryon, Hercules, Eurystheus. ♦ ‘de Reb. Græc.’ replaced with ‘Theseus’ ♠ ‘in’ replaced with ‘on’ ♣ ‘9’ replaced with ‘4’ =Alcon=, a famous archer, who one day saw his son attacked by a serpent, and aimed at him so dexterously that he killed the beast without hurting his son.――――A silversmith. _Ovid_, _Metamorphoses_, bk. 13, fable 5.――――A son of Hippocoon. _Pausanias_, bk. 3, ch. 14.――――A surgeon under Claudius, who gained much money by his profession, in curing hernias and fractures.――――A son of Mars.――――A son of Amycus. These two last were at the chase of the Calydonian boar. _Hyginus_, fable 173. ♦=Alcyŏna=, a pool of Greece, whose depth the emperor Nero attempted in vain to find. _Pausanias_, bk. 2, ch. 37. ♦ Resorted into proper alphabetical order =Alcyŏne=, or =Halcyŏne=, daughter of Æolus, married Ceyx, who was drowned as he was going to Claros to consult the oracle. The gods apprised Alcyone in a dream of her husband’s fate; and when she found, on the morrow, his body washed on the sea-shore, she threw herself into the sea, and was with her husband changed into birds of the same name, who keep the waters calm and serene, while they build and sit on their nests on the surface of the sea, for the space of 7, 11, or 14 days. _Virgil_, _Georgics_, bk. 1, li. 399.――_Apollodorus_, bk. 1, ch. 7.――_Ovid_, _Metamorphoses_, bk. 11, fable 10.――_Hyginus_, fable 65.――――One of the Pleiades, daughter of Atlas. She had Arethusa by Neptune, and Eleuthera by Apollo. She, with her sisters, was changed into a constellation. _See:_ Pleiades. _Pausanias_, bk. 2, ch. 30; bk. 3, ch. 18.――_Apollodorus_, bk. 3, ch. 10.――_Hyginus_, fable 157.――――The daughter of Evenus, carried away by Apollo after her marriage. Her husband pursued the ravisher with his bow and arrows, but was not able to recover her. Upon this, her parents called her Alcyone, and compared her fate to that of the wife of Ceyx. _Homer_, _Iliad_, bk. 9, li. 558.――――The wife of Meleager. _Hyginus_, fable 174.――――A town of Thessaly, where Philip, Alexander’s father, lost one of his eyes.