=Althæmĕnes=, a son of Creteus king of Crete. Hearing that either he or his brothers were to be their father’s murderers, he fled to Rhodes, where he made a settlement, to avoid becoming a parricide. After the death of all his other sons, Creteus went after his son Althæmenes; when he landed in Rhodes, the inhabitants attacked him, supposing him to be an enemy, and he was killed by the hand of his own son. When Althæmenes knew that he had killed his father, he entreated the gods to remove him, and the earth immediately opened, and swallowed him up. _Apollodorus_, bk. 3, ch. 2. =Altīnum=, a flourishing city of Italy, near Aquileia, famous for its wool. _Martial_, bk. 14, ltr. 25.――_Pliny_, bk. 3, ch. 18. =Altis=, a sacred grove round Jupiter’s temple at Olympia, where the statues of the Olympic conquerors were placed. _Pausanias_, bk. 5, ch. 20, &c. =Altus=, a city of Peloponnesus. _Xenophon_, _Hellenica_. =Aluntium=, a town of Sicily. _Pliny_, bk. 5, ch. 8.――_Cicero_, _Against Verres_, bk. 4. =Alus=, =Aluus=, and =Halus=, a village of Arcadia, called also the temple of Æsculapius. _Pausanias_, bk. 8, ch. 25. =Alyattes I.=, a king of Lydia, descended from the Heraclidæ. He reigned 57 years. =Alyattes II.=, king of Lydia, of the family of the Mermnadæ, was father to Crœsus. He drove the Cimmerians from Asia, and made war against the Medes. He died when engaged in a war against Miletus, after a reign of 35 years. A monument was raised on his grave with the money which the women of Lydia had obtained by prostitution. An eclipse of the sun terminated a battle between him and Cyaxares. _Herodotus_, bk. 1, chs. 16, 17, &c.――_Strabo_, bk. 13. =Aly̆ba=, a country near Mysia. _Homer_, _Iliad_, bk. 2. =Alycæa=, a town of Arcadia. _Pausanias_, bk. 8, ch. 27. =Alycæus=, son of Sciron, was killed by Theseus. A place in Megara received its name from him. _Plutarch_, _Theseus_. =Aly̆mon=, the husband of Circe. =Alyssus=, a fountain of Arcadia, whose waters could cure the bite of a mad dog. _Pausanias_, bk. 8, ch. 19. =Alyxothoe=, or =Alexirhoe=, daughter of Dymus, was mother of Æsacus by Priam. _Ovid_, _Metamorphoses_, bk. 11, li. 763. =Alyzia=, a town of Acarnania on the western mouth of the Achelous, opposite to the Echinades. _Cicero_, _Letters to his Friends_, bk. 16, ltr. 2. =Amadŏcus=, a king of Thrace, defeated by his antagonist Seuthes. _Aristotle_, bk. 5, _Politics_, ch. 10. =Amage=, a queen of Sarmatia, remarkable for her justice and fortitude. _Polyænus_, bk. 8, ch. 56.