=Alēse=, a town of Sicily, called afterwards Achronidion, after the founder. The Romans made it an independent city. =Alēsia=, or =Alexia=, now _Alise_, a famous city of the Mandubii in Gaul, founded by Hercules, as he returned from Iberia, on a high hill. Julius Cæsar conquered it. _Florus_, bk. 3, ch. 10.――_Cæsar_, _Gallic War_, bk. 7, ch. 68. =Alēsium=, a town and mountain of Peloponnesus. _Pausanias_, bk. 8, ch. 10. =Aletes=, a son of Ægisthus, murdered by Orestes. _Hyginus_, fable 122. =Alēthes=, the first of the Heraclidæ, who was king of Corinth. He was son of Hippotas. _Pausanias_, bk. 2, ch. 4.――――A companion of Æneas, described as a prudent and venerable old man. _Virgil_, _Æneid_, bk. 1, li. 125; bk. 9, li. 246. =Alethia=, one of Apollo’s nurses. =Aletĭdas= (from ἀλαομαι, _to wander_), certain sacrifices at Athens, in remembrance of Erigone, who wandered with a dog after her father Icarius. =Aletrium=, a town of Latium, whose inhabitants are called Aletrinates. _Livy_, bk. 9, ch. 42. =Alētum=, a tomb near the harbour of Carthage in Spain. _Polybius_, bk. 10. =Aleuādæ=, a royal family of Larissa in Thessaly, descended from Aleuas king of that country. They betrayed their country to Xerxes. The name is often applied to the Thessalians without distinction. _Diodorus_, bk. 16.――_Herodotus_, bk. 7, chs. 6, 172.――_Pausanias_, bk. 3, ch. 8; bk. 7, ch. 10.――_Ælian_, _De Natura Animalium_, bk. 8, ch. 11. =Alēus=, a son of Aphidas king of Arcadia, famous for his skill in building temples. _Pausanias_, bk. 8, chs. 4 & 53. =Alex=, a river in the country of the Brutii. _Dionysius Periegetes._ =Alexamēnus=, an Ætolian, who killed Nabis tyrant of Lacedæmon, and was soon after murdered by the people. _Livy_, bk. 35, ch. 34. =Alexander I.=, son of Amyntas, was the tenth king of Macedonia. He killed the Persian ambassadors for their immodest behaviour to the women of his father’s court, and was the first who raised the reputation of the Macedonians. He reigned 43 years, and died 451 B.C. _Justin_, bk. 7, ch. 3.――_Herodotus_, bks. 5, 7, 8, & 9. =Alexander II.=, son of Amyntas II., king of Macedonia, was treacherously murdered, B.C. 370, by his younger brother Ptolemy, who held the kingdom for four years, and made way for Perdiccas and Philip. _Justin_, bk. 7, ch. 5, says Eurydice, the wife of Amyntas, was the cause of his murder.