=Ancæus=, the son of Lycurgus and Antinoe, was in the expedition of the Argonauts. He was at the chase of the Calydonian boar, in which he perished. _Hyginus_, fables 173 & 248.――_Ovid_, _Metamorphoses_, bk. 8.――――The son of Neptune and Astypalæa. He went with the Argonauts, and succeeded Tiphis as pilot of the ship Argo. He reigned in Ionia, where he married Samia daughter of the Mæander, by whom he had four sons, Perilas, Enudus, Samus, Alithersus, and one daughter called Parthenope. _Orpheus_, _Argonauts_. He was once told by one of his servants, whom he pressed with hard labour in his vineyard, that he never would taste of the produce of his vines. He had already the cup in his hand, and called the prophet to convince him of his falsehood; when the servant, yet firm in his prediction, uttered this well-known proverb: Πολλα μεταξυ πελει κυλικος και χειλεος ακρου. _Multa cadunt inter calicem supremaque labra._ At that very moment Ancæus was told that a wild boar had entered his vineyard; upon which he threw down the cup, and ran to drive away the wild beast. He was killed in the attempt. =Ancalītes=, a people of Britain near the Trinobantes. _Cæsar_, _Gallic War_, bk. 5, ch. 21. =Ancarius=, a god of the Jews. _See:_ Anchialus. =Ancharia=, a family of Rome.――――The name of Octavia’s mother. _Plutarch_, _Antonius_. =Ancharius=, a noble Roman killed by the partisans of Marius during the civil wars with Sylla. _Plutarch_, _Marius_. =Anchemŏlus=, son of Rhœtus king of the Marrubii in Italy, ravished his mother-in-law Casperia, for which he was expelled by his father. He fled to Turnus, and was killed by Pallas son of Evander, in the wars of Æneas against the Latins. _Virgil_, _Æneid_, bk. 10, li. 389. =Anchesītes=, a wind which blows from Achisa, a harbour of Epirus. _Cicero_, _Letters to Atticus_, bk. 7, ltr. 1.――_Dionysius of Halicarnassus._ =Anchesmus=, a mountain of Attica, where Jupiter _Anchesmius_ had a statue. =Anchiăle= and =Anchiala=, a city on the sea coast of Cilicia. Sardanapalus, the last king of Assyria, built it, with Tarsus in its neighbourhood, in one day. _Strabo_, bk. 14.――_Pliny_, bk. 5, ch. 27. The founder was buried there, and had a statue, under which was a famous inscription in the Syrian language, denoting the great intemperance and dissipation which distinguished all his life. There was a city of the same name in Thrace, called by Ovid the city of Apollo. There was another in Epirus. _Ovid_, _Tristia_, bk. 1, poem 10, li. 36.――_Pliny_, bk. 4, ch. 11.――_Mela_, bk. 2, ch. 2. =Anchiălus=, a famous astrologer.――――A great warrior, father of Mentes. ――――One of the Phæacians. _Homer_, _Odyssey_.――――A god of the Jews, as some suppose, in _Martial’s_ epigrams, bk. 11, ltr. 95. =Anchimolius=, a Spartan general sent against the Pisistratidæ, and killed in the expedition. _Herodotus_, bk. 5, ch. 63.――――A son of Rhœtus. _See:_ Anchemolus.