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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=Anthōres=, a companion of Hercules, who followed Evander, and settled
in Italy. He was killed in the war of Turnus against Æneas. _Virgil_,
_Æneid_, bk. 10, li. 778.
=Anthracia=, a nymph. _Pausanias_, bk. 8, ch. 31.
=Anthropinus=, =Tisarchus=, and =Diocles=, three persons who laid
snares for Agathocles tyrant of Sicily. _Polyænus_, bk. 5, ch. 3.
=Anthropophăgi=, a people of Scythia that fed on human flesh. They
lived near the country of the Massagetæ. _Pliny_, bk. 4, ch. 12;
bk. 6, ch. 30.――_Mela_, bk. 2, ch. 1.
=Anthylla=, a city of Egypt on the Canopic mouth of the Nile. It
maintained the queens of the country in shoes, or, according
to _Athenæus_, bk. 1, in girdles. _Herodotus_, bk. 2, ch. 98.
=Antia lex=, was made for the suppression of luxury at Rome. Its
particulars are not known. The enactor was Antius Restio, who
afterwards never supped abroad for fear of being himself a witness
of the profusion and extravagance which his law meant to destroy,
but without effect. _Macrobius_, bk. 3, ch. 17.
=Antianīra=, the mother of Echion.
=Antias=, the goddess of fortune, chiefly worshipped at Antium.――――A
poet. _See:_ Furius.
=Anticlēa=, a daughter of Autolycus and Amphithea. Her father, who
was a famous robber, permitted Sisyphus son of Æolus to enjoy the
favours of his daughter, and Anticlea was really pregnant of Ulysses
when she married Laertes king of Ithaca. Laertes was nevertheless
the reputed father of Ulysses. Ulysses is reproached by Ajax in
_Ovid_, _Metamorphoses_, as being the son of Sisyphus. It is said
that Anticlea killed herself when she heard a false report of her
son’s death. _Homer_, _Odyssey_, bks. 11, 19.――_Hyginus_, fables 201,
243.――_Pausanias_, bk. 10, ch. 29.――――A woman who had Periphetes by
Vulcan. _Apollodorus_, bk. 3.――――A daughter of Diocles, who married
Machaon the son of Æsculapius, by whom she had Nicomachus and
Gorgasus. _Pausanias_, bk. 4, ch. 30.
=Antĭcles=, an Athenian archon.――――A man who conspired against
Alexander with Hermolaus. _Curtius_, bk. 8, ch. 6.――――An Athenian
victor at Olympia.
=Anticlīdes=, a Greek historian, whose works are now lost. They are
often quoted by _Athenæus_ & _Plutarch_, _Alexander_.
=Anticrăgus=, a mountain of Lycia, opposite mount Cragus. _Strabo_,
bk. 4.
=Anticrătes=, a Spartan who stabbed Epaminondas, the Theban general,
at the battle of Mantinea. _Plutarch_, _Agesilaus_.
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