=Aliēnus Cæcīna=, a questor in Bœotia, appointed, for his services, commander of a legion in Germany, by Galba. The emperor disgraced him for his bad conduct, for which he raised commotions in the empire. _Tacitus_, _Histories_, bk. 1, ch. 52. =Alīfæ=, =Alifa=, or =Alipha=, a town of Italy, near the Vulturnus, famous for the making of cups. _Horace_, bk. 2, satire 8, li. 39. ――_Livy_, bk. 8, ch. 25. =Alilæi=, a people of Arabia Felix. =Alimentus Cincius=, an historian in the second Punic war, who wrote in Greek an account of Annibal, besides a treatise on military affairs. _Livy_, bks. 21 & 30. =Alindæ=, a town of Caria. _Arrian._ =Aliphēria=, a town of Arcadia, situate on a hill. _Polybius_, bk. 4, ch. 77. =Alirrothius=, a son of Neptune. Hearing that his father had been defeated by Minerva, in his dispute about giving a name to Athens, he went to the citadel, and endeavoured to cut down the olive, which had sprung from the ground and given the victory to Minerva; but in the attempt he missed his aim, and cut his own legs so severely that he instantly expired. =Tiberius Alledius Severus=, a Roman knight, who married his brother’s daughter to please Agrippina.――――A noted glutton in Domitian’s reign. _Juvenal_, satire 5, li. 118. =Allia=, a river of Italy, falling into the Tiber. The Romans were defeated on its banks by Brennus and the Gauls, who were going to plunder Rome, 17th July, B.C. 390. _Plutarch_, _Camillus_.――_Livy_, bk. 5, ch. 37.――_Florus_, bk. 1, ch. 13.――_Virgil_, _Æneid_, bk. 7, li. 717.――_Ovid_, _Ars Amatoria_, bk. 1, li. 413. =Alliēnos=, a pretor of Sicily, under Cæsar. _Hirtius_, _African War_, ch. 2. =Allŏbrŏges=, a warlike nation of Gaul near the Rhone, in that part of the country now called Savoy, Dauphiné, and Vivarais. The Romans destroyed their city because they had assisted Annibal. Their ambassadors were allured by great promises to join in Catiline’s conspiracy against his country; but they scorned the offers, and discovered the plot. _Dio Cassius._――_Strabo_, bk. 4.――_Tacitus_, _Histories_, bk. 1, ch. 66.――_Sallust_, _Jugurthine War_. =Allobry̆ges=, a people of Gaul, supposed to be the same as the Allobroges. _Polybius_, bk. 30, ch. 56. =Allotrĭges=, a nation on the southern parts of Spain. _Strabo_, bk. 2. =Allutius=, or =Albutius=, a prince of the Celtiberi, to whom Scipio restored the beautiful princess whom he had taken in battle. =Almo=, a small river near Rome falling into the Tiber. _Ovid_, _Fasti_, bk. 4, li. 387.――_Lucan_, bk. 1, li. 600. =Almon=, the eldest of the sons of Tyrrhus. He was the first Rutulian killed by the Trojans; and from the skirmish which happened before and after his death, arose the enmities which ended in the fall of Turnus. _Virgil_, _Æneid_, bk. 7, li. 532.