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
Classical dictionaries
=Andrēas=, a statuary of Argos. _Pausanias_, bk. 6, ch. 16.――――A man
of Panormum, who wrote an account of all the remarkable events that
had happened in Sicily. _Athenæus._――――A son of the Peneus. Part of
Bœotia, especially where Orchomenos was built, was called _Andreis_
after him. _Pausanias_, bk. 9, ch. 34, &c.
=Andriclus=, a mountain of Cilicia. _Strabo_, bk. 14.――――A river of
Troas, falling into the Scamander. _Pliny_, bk. 5, ch. 27.
=Andriscus=, a man who wrote a history of Naxos. _Athenæus_, bk. 1.
――――A worthless person called _Pseudophilippus_, on account of the
likeness of his features to king Philip. He incited the Macedonians
to revolt against Rome, and was conquered and led in triumph by
Metellus, 152 B.C. _Florus_, bk. 2, ch. 14.
=Androbius=, a famous painter. _Pliny_, bk. 35, ch. 11.
=Androclēa=, a daughter of Antipœnus of Thebes. She, with her sister
Alcida, sacrificed herself in the service of her country, when the
oracle had promised the victory to her countrymen, who were engaged
in a war against Orchomenos, if any one of noble birth devoted
himself for the glory of his nation. Antipœnus refused to do it,
and his daughters cheerfully accepted it, and received great honours
after death. Hercules, who fought on the side of Thebes, dedicated
to them the image of a lion in the temple of Diana. _Pausanias_,
bk. 9, ch. 17.
=Andrōcles=, a son of Phintas, who reigned in Messenia. _Pausanias_,
bk. 4, ch. 5, &c.――――A man who wrote a history of Cyprus.
=Androclīdes=, a noble Theban, who defended the democratical, against
the encroachments of the oligarchical, power. He was killed by one
of his enemies.――――A sophist in the age of Aurelian, who gave an
account of philosophers.
=Androclus=, a son of Codrus, who reigned in Ionia, and took Ephesus
and Samos. _Pausanias_, bk. 7, ch. 2.
=Androcy̆des=, a physician, who wrote the following letter to Alexander:
――_Vinum potaturus, Rex, memento te bibere sanguinem terræ, sicuti
venenum est homini cicuta, sic et vinum._ _Pliny_, bk. 14, ch. 5.
=Androdămus.= _See:_ Andromadas.
=Andrōdus=, a slave known and protected in the Roman circus by a lion
whose foot he had cured. _Aulus Gellius_, bk. 5, ch. 15.
=Andrŏgeos=, a Greek, killed by Æneas and his friends, whom he took to
be his countrymen. _Virgil_, _Æneid_, bk. 2, li. 371.
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