=Alcyŏneus=, a youth of exemplary virtue, son to Antigonus. _Plutarch_, _Pyrrhus_.――_Diogenes Laërtius_, bk. 4.――――A giant, brother to Porphyrion. He was killed by Hercules. His daughters, mourning his death, threw themselves into the sea, and were changed into Alcyons by Amphitrite. _Claudian_, _De Raptu Proserpinæ_.――_Apollodorus_, bk. 1, ch. 6. =Aldescus=, a river of European Sarmatia, rising from the Riphæan mountains, and falling into the northern sea. _Dionysius Periegetes._ =Alduăbis.= _See:_ Dubis. =Alea=, a surname of Minerva, from her temple built by Aleus son of Aphidas, at Tegæa in Arcadia. The statue of the goddess made of ivory was carried by Augustus to Rome. _Pausanias_, bk. 8, chs. 4 & 46.――――A town of Arcadia, built by Aleus. It had three famous temples, those of Minerva, Bacchus, and Diana the Ephesian. When the festivals of Bacchus were celebrated, the women were whipped in the temple. _Pausanias_, bk. 8, ch. 23. =Alēbas=, a tyrant of Larissa, killed by his own guards for his cruelties. _Ovid_, _Ibis_, li. 323. =Alēbion= and =Dercynus=, sons of Neptune, were killed by Hercules for stealing his oxen in Africa. _Apollodorus_, bk. 2, ch. 5. =Alecto=, one of the Furies (_a_, ληγω, _non desino_), is represented with flaming torches, her head covered with serpents, and breathing vengeance, war, and pestilence. _See:_ Eumenides. _Virgil_, _Æneid_, bk. 7, li. 324, &c.; bk. 10, li. 41. =Alector=, succeeded his father Anaxagoras in the kingdom of Argos, and was father to Iphis and Capaneus. _Pausanias_, bk. 2, ch. 18. ――_Apollodorus_, bk. 3, ch. 6. =Alectryon=, a youth whom Mars, during his amours with Venus, stationed at the door to watch against the approach of the sun. He fell asleep, and Apollo came and discovered the lovers, who were exposed by Vulcan, in each other’s arms, before all the gods. Mars was so incensed that he changed Alectryon into a cock, which, still mindful of his neglect, early announces the approach of the sun. _Lucian_, _Alectryon_ [_Gallus_]. =Alectus=, a tyrant of Britain, in Diocletian’s reign, &c. He died 296 A.D. =Alēius Campus=, a place in Lycia, where Bellerophon fell from the horse Pegasus, and wandered over the country till the time of his death. _Homer_, _Iliad_, bk. 6, li. 201.――_Dionysius Periegetes_, li. 872.――_Ovid_, _Ibis_, li. 257. =Alemanni=, or =Alamanni=, a people of Germany. They are first mentioned in the reign of Caracalla, who was honoured with the surname of _Alemannicus_ for a victory over them. =Alēmon=, the father of Myscellus. He built Crotona in Magna Græcia. Myscellus is often called Alemonides. _Ovid_, _Metamorphoses_, bk. 15, lis. 19 & 26. =Alemusii=, inhabitants of Attica, in whose country there was a temple of Ceres and of Proserpine. _Pausanias_, _Attica_. =Alens=, a place in the island of Cos. =Aleon=, or =Ales=, a river of Ionia, near Colophon. _Pausanias_, bk. 7, ch. 5; bk. 8, ch. 28.