A classical dictionary: containing a copious account of all the proper names mentioned in ancient authors with tables of coins, weights, and measures used among the Greeks and Romans and a chronological tableLemprière, John
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A classical dictionary: containing a copious account of all the proper names mentioned in ancient authors with tables of coins, weights, and measures used among the Greeks and Romans and a chronological table
Lemprière, John
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=Anactoria= and =Anactorium=, a town of Epirus, in a peninsula towards
the gulf of Ambracia. It was founded by a Corinthian colony, and was
the cause of many quarrels between the Corcyreans and Corinthians.
Augustus carried the inhabitants to the city of Nicopolis, after
the battle of Actium. _Strabo_, bk. 10.――_Thucydides_, bk. 1,
ch. 55.――_Pliny_, bk. 4, ch. 1; bk. 5, ch. 29.――――An ancient name
of Miletus.
=Anactŏrie=, a woman of Lesbos, wantonly loved by Sappho. _Ovid_,
_Heroides_, poem 15, li. 17.
=Anadyomĕne=, a valuable painting of Venus, represented as rising from
the sea, by Apelles. Augustus bought it and placed it in the temple
of Julius Cæsar. The lower part of it was a little defaced, and
there were found no painters in Rome able to repair it. _Pliny_,
bk. 35, ch. 10.
=Anagnia=, now _Anagni_, a city of the Hernici in Latium, where
Antony struck a medal when he divorced Octavia and married Cleopatra.
_Virgil_, _Æneid_, bk. 7, li. 684.――_Strabo_, bk. 5.――_Silius
Italicus_, bk. 8, li. 392.
=Anagogia=, a festival, celebrated by the people of Eryx in Sicily, in
honour of Venus. _Ælian_, _Varia Historia_, bk. 1, ch. 15; _Natura
Animalium_, bk. 4, ch. 2.
=Anagyrontum=, a small village of Attica. _Herodotus._
=Anaītis=, a goddess of Armenia. The virgins who were consecrated
to her service, esteemed themselves more dignified by public
prostitution. The festivals of the deity were called Sacarum Festa;
and when they were celebrated both sexes assisted at the ceremony,
and inebriated themselves to such a degree, that the whole was
concluded by a scene of the greatest lasciviousness and intemperance.
They were first instituted by Cyrus, when he marched against the
Sacæ, and covered tables with the most exquisite dainties, that
he might detain the enemy by the novelty and sweetness of food
to which they were unaccustomed, and thus easily destroy them.
_Strabo._――――Diana is also worshipped under this name by the Lydians.
_Pliny_, bk. 33, ch. 4.
=Ananias=, an Iambic poet. _Athenæus._
=Anăphe=, an island that rose out of the Cretan sea, and received this
name from the Argonauts, who, in the middle of a storm, suddenly
saw the new moon. Apollo was worshipped there, and called Anaphæus.
_Apollonius._
=Anaphlystus=, a small village of Attica near the sea, called after
an ancient hero of the same name, who was son of Trœzen.――――A small
village near Athens.
=Anāpus=, a river of Epirus. _Thucydides_, bk. 2, ch. 82.――――Of Sicily,
near Syracuse. _Thucydides_, bk. 6, ch. 96.
=Anartes=, a people of Lower Pannonia. _Cæsar_, _Gallic War_, bk. 6,
ch. 25.
=Anas=, a river of Spain, now called Guadiana. _Strabo_, bk. 3.
=Anatŏle=, one of the Horæ. _Hyginus_, fable 183.――――A mountain near
the Ganges, where Apollo ravished a nymph called Anaxibia.
=Anauchĭdas=, a Samian wrestler. _Pausanias_, bk. 5, ch. 27.
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