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
=Anemōsa=, a village of Arcadia. _Pausanias_, bk. 8, ch. 35.
=Anfinomus= and =Anapius=. Rather _Amphinomus_, which _see_.
=Angelia=, a daughter of Mercury.
=Angelion=, a statuary who made Apollo’s statue at Delphi. _Pausanias_,
bk. 2, ch. 32.
=Angĕlus=, a son of Neptune, born in Chios, of a nymph whose name is
unknown. _Pausanias_, bk. 7, ch. 4.
=Angītes=, a river of Thrace falling into the Strymon. _Herodotus_,
bk. 7, ch. 113.
=Angli=, a people of Germany at the north of the Elbe, from whom, as
being a branch of the Saxons, the English have derived their name.
_Tacitus_, _Germania_, ch. 40.
=Angrus=, a river of Illyricum, flowing in a northern direction.
_Herodotus_, bk. 4, ch. 49.
=Anguitia=, a wood in the country of the Marsi, between the lake
Fucinus and Alba. Serpents, it is said, could not injure the
inhabitants, because they were descended from Circe, whose power
over those venomous creatures has been much celebrated. _Silius
Italicus_, bk. 8.――_Virgil_, _Æneid_, bk. 7, li. 759.
=Ania=, a Roman widow, celebrated for her beauty. One of her friends
advised her to marry again. “No,” said she, “if I marry a man
as affectionate as my first husband, I shall be apprehensive for
his death; and if he is bad, why have him, after such a kind and
indulgent one?”
=Anicētus=, a son of Hercules by Hebe the goddess of youth.
_Apollodorus_, bk. 2.――――A freedman who directed the education of
Nero, and became the instrument of his crimes. _Suetonius_, _Nero_.
=Anicia=, a family at Rome, which, in the flourishing times of
the republic, produced many brave and illustrious citizens.――――A
relation of Atticus. _Cornelius Nepos._
=Anicium=, a town of Gaul. _Cæsar_, _Gallic War_, bk. 7.
=Anicius Gallus=, triumphed over the Illyrians and their king Gentius,
and was propretor of Rome, A.U.C. 585.――――A consul with Cornelius
Cethegus, A.U.C. 594.――――Probus, a Roman consul in the fourth
century, famous for his humanity.
=Anigrus=, a river of Thessaly, where the centaurs washed the
wounds which they had received from Hercules, and made the waters
unwholesome. _Ovid_, _Metamorphoses_, bk. 15, li. 281. The nymphs
of this river are called Anigriades. _Pausanias_, bk. 5, ch. 6.
=Anio= and =Anien=, now _Taverone_, a river of Italy, flowing through
the country of Tibur, and falling into the river Tiber, about five
miles at the north of Rome. It receives its name, as some suppose,
from Anius, a king of Etruria, who drowned himself there when he
could not recover his daughter, who had been carried away. _Statius_,
bk. 1, _Sylvæ_, poem 3, li. 20.――_Virgil_, _Æneid_, bk. 7, li. 683.
――_Strabo_, bk. 5.――_Horace_, bk. 1, ode 7, li. 13.――_Plutarch_, _de
Fortuna Romanorum_.
=Anitorgis=, a city of Spain, near which a battle was fought between
Asdrubal and the Scipios. _Livy_, bk. 25, ch. 33.
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