were annually made to him, the first on the day that he delivered Sicyon from tyranny, and the second on the day of his birth. During those sacrifices, which were called _Arateia_, the priests wore a ribbon bespangled with white and purple spots, and the public schoolmaster walked in procession at the head of his scholars, and was always accompanied by the richest and most eminent senators, adorned with garlands. Aratus died in the 62nd year of his age, B.C. 213. He wrote a history of the Achæan league, much commended by Polybius. _Plutarch_, _Lives of the Roman Emperors_.――_Pausanias_, bk. 2, ch. 8.――_Cicero_, _de Officiis_, bk. 2, ch. 23.――_Strabo_, bk. 14.――_Livy_, bk. 27, ch. 31.――_Polybius_, bk. 2. =Araxes=, now _Arras_, a celebrated river which separates Armenia from Media, and falls into the Caspian sea. _Lucan_, bk. 1, li. 19; bk. 7, li. 188.――_Strabo_, bk. 8.――_Virgil_, _Æneid_, bk. 8, li. 728. ――_Herodotus_, bk. 1, ch. 202, &c.――――Another in Europe, now called Wolga. =Arbāces=, a Mede who revolted with Belesis against Sardanapalus, and founded the empire of Media upon the ruins of the Assyrian power, 820 years before the christian era. He reigned above 50 years, and was famous for the greatness of his undertakings, as well as for his valour. _Justin_, bk. 1, ch. 3.――_Paterculus_, bk. 1, ch. 6. =Arbēla= (orum), now _Irbil_, a town of Persia, on the river Lycus, famous for a battle fought there between Alexander and Darius, the 2nd of October, B.C. 331. _Curtius_, bk. 5, ch. 1.――_Plutarch_, _Alexander_. =Arbĕla=, a town of Sicily, whose inhabitants were very credulous. =Arbis=, a river on the western boundaries of India. _Strabo._ =Arbocāla=, a city taken by Annibal as he marched against Rome. =Arbuscŭla=, an actress on the Roman stage, who laughed at the hisses of the populace while she received the applauses of the knights. _Horace_, bk. 1, satire 10, li. 77. =Arcădia=, a country in the middle of Peloponnesus, surrounded on every side by land, situate between Achaia, Messenia, Elis, and Argolis. It received its name from Arcas son of Jupiter, and was anciently called Drymodes, on account of the great number of _oaks_ (δρυς) which it produced, and afterwards Lycaonia and Pelasgia. The country has been much celebrated by the poets, and was famous for its mountains. The inhabitants were for the most part all shepherds, who lived upon acorns, were skilful warriors, and able musicians. They thought themselves more ancient than the moon. Pan, the god of shepherds, chiefly lived among them.――Aristotle, bk. 4, _Metaphysics_, says that the wine of Arcadia, when placed in a goat’s skin near a fire, will become chalky, and at last be turned into salt. _Strabo_, bk. 1.――_Pliny_, bk. 4, ch. 5.――_Pausanias_, bk. 8, chs. 1, 2, &c. ――_Athenæus_, bk. 14.――――A fortified village of Zacynthus.