himself the government of a state, on account of the vehemence of his passions.――――A king conquered by Antony, &c. _Cæsar_, bk. 3, _Civil War_, bk. 4.――――A king of Messenia. _Pausanias_, bk. 4.――――A commander of the Athenian fleet, under Alcibiades, conquered by Lysander. _Xenophon_, _Hellenica_.――――A writer of Alexandria, who published a treatise on comic poets. _Athenæus._――――A sceptic of Laodicea. _Diogenes Laërtius_, _Pyrrhus_.――――A learned sophist. _Philostratus._――――A servant of Atticus. _Cicero_, _Letters to Atticus_, bk. 3, ltr. 33.――――A hair-dresser mentioned by _Martial_, bk. 11, ltr. 85.――――A son of Hercules by Medea. _Apollodorus_, bk. 2, ch. 7.――――A stage player. _Juvenal_, satire 3, li. 98.――――A sculptor, said to have made the famous statue of Pallas, preserved in the Ludovisi gardens at Rome. =Antiŏpe=, a daughter of Nycteus king of Thebes by Polyxo, was beloved by Jupiter, who, to deceive her, changed himself into a satyr. She became pregnant, and, to avoid the resentment of her father, she fled to mount Cithæron, where she brought forth twins, Amphion and Zethus. She exposed them, to prevent discovery, but they were preserved. After this she fled to Epopeus king of Sicyon, who married her. Some say that Epopeus carried her away, for which action Nycteus made war against him, and at his death left his crown to his brother Lycus, entreating him to continue the war, and punish the ravisher of his daughter. Lycus obeyed his injunctions, killed Epopeus, and recovered Antiope, whom he loved and married, though his niece. His first wife, Dirce, was jealous of his new connection; she prevailed upon her husband, and Antiope was delivered into her hands, and confined in a prison, where she was daily tormented. Antiope, after many years’ imprisonment, obtained means to escape, and went after her sons, who undertook to avenge her wrongs upon Lycus and his wife Dirce. They took Thebes, put the king to death, and tied Dirce to the tail of a wild bull, which dragged her till she died. Bacchus changed her into a fountain, and deprived Antiope of the use of her senses. In this forlorn situation she wandered all over Greece, and at last found relief from Phocus son of Ornytion, who cured her of her disorder, and married her. Hyginus, fable 7, says that Antiope was divorced by Lycus, because she had been ravished by Epopeus, whom he calls Epaphus, and that after her repudiation she became pregnant by Jupiter. Meanwhile Lycus married Dirce, who suspected that her husband still kept the company of Antiope, upon which she imprisoned her. Antiope, however, escaped from her confinement, and brought forth on mount Cithæron. Some authors have called her daughter of Asopus, because she was born on the banks of that river. The _Scholiast_ on _Apollonius_, bk. 1, li. 735, maintains that there were two persons of the name, one the