=Alexandropŏlis=, a city of Parthia, built by Alexander the Great. _Pliny_, bk. 6, ch. 25. =Alexānor=, a son of Machaon, who built in Sicyon a temple to his grandfather Æsculapius, and received divine honours after death. _Pausanias_, bk. 2, ch. 11. =Alexarchus=, a Greek historian. =Alexas=, of Laodicea, was recommended to Marcus Antony by Timagenes. He was the cause that Antony repudiated Octavia to marry Cleopatra. Augustus punished him severely after the defeat of Antony. _Plutarch_, _Antonius_. =Alexia=, or =Alesia=. _See:_ Alesia. =Alexicăcus=, a surname given to Apollo by the Athenians, because he delivered them from the plague during the Peloponnesian war. =Alexīnus=, a disciple of Eubulides the Milesian, famous for the acuteness of his genius and judgment, and for his fondness for contention and argumentation. He died of a wound which he had received from a sharp-pointed reed, as he swam across the river Alpheus. _Diogenes Laërtius_, _Euclides_. =Alexion=, a physician intimate with Cicero. _Cicero_, _Letters to Atticus_, bk. 13, ltr. 25. =Alexippus=, a physician of Alexander. _Plutarch_, _Alexander_. =Alexiraes=, son of Hercules by Hebe. _Apollodorus_, bk. 2, ch. 7. ――――A place of Bœotia, where Alexiraes was born, bears also this name. _Pausanias_, bk. 9, ch. 25. =Alexirhoe=, a daughter of the river Granicus. _Ovid_, _Metamorphoses_, bk. 11, li. 763. =Alexis=, a man of Samos, who endeavoured to ascertain, by his writings, the borders of his country.――――A comic poet, 336 B.C., of Thurium, who wrote 245 comedies, of which some few fragments remain. ――――A servant of Asinius Pollio.――――An ungrateful youth of whom a shepherd is deeply enamoured, in Virgil’s _Eclogues_, poem 2.――――A statuary, disciple to Polycletes, 87th Olympiad _Pliny_, bk. 34, ch. 8.――――A schoolfellow of Atticus. _Cicero_, _Letters to Atticus_, bk. 7, ltr. 2. =Alexon=, a native of Myndos, who wrote fables. _Diogenes Laërtius._ =Alfaterna=, a town of Campania, beyond mount Vesuvius. =Publius Alfēnus Varus=, a native of Cremona, who, by the force of his genius and his application, raised himself from his original profession of a cobbler to offices of trust at Rome, and at last became consul. _Horace_, bk. 1, satire 3, li. 130. =Algĭdum=, a town of Latium near Tusculum, about 12 miles from Rome. There is a mountain of the same name in the neighbourhood. _Horace_, bk. 1, ode 21. =Aliacmon= and =Haliacmon=, a river of Macedonia, separating it from Thessaly. It flows into the Ægean sea. _Pliny_, bk. 4, ch. 10. =Aliartus= (or um) and =Haliartus=, a town of Bœotia, near the river Permessus, taken by Marcus Lucretius. _Livy_, bk. 42, ch. 63. ――――Another in Peloponnesus, on the coast of Messenia. _Statius_, _Thebiad_, bk. 7, li. 274. =Alĭcis=, a town of Laconia.――――A tribe of Athens.