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
=Arīi=, a savage people of India,――――of Arabia. _Pliny_, bk. 6.――――Of
Scythia. _Herodotus._――――Of Germany. _Tacitus._
=Arĭma=, a place of Cilicia or Syria, where Typhœus was overwhelmed
under the ground. _Homer_, _Iliad_, bk. 2.
=Arimarius=, a god of Persia and Media.
=Arimaspi=, a people conquered by Alexander the Great. _Curtius_,
bk. 7, ch. 3.――_Mela_, bk. 2, ch. 1.
=Arimaspias=, a river of Scythia with golden sands. The neighbouring
inhabitants had but one eye, in the middle of their forehead, and
waged continual wars against the griffins, monstrous animals that
collected the gold of the river. _Pliny_, bk. 7, ch. 3.――_Herodotus_,
bks. 3 & 4.――_Strabo_, bks. 1 & 13.
=Arimasthæ=, a people near the Euxine sea. _Orpheus_, _Argonautica_.
=Arimazes=, a powerful prince of Sogdiana, who treated Alexander with
much insolence, and even asked whether he could fly to aspire to so
extensive a dominion. He surrendered and was exposed on a cross with
his friends and relations. _Curtius_, bk. 7, ch. 11.
=Arĭmi=, a nation of Syria. _Strabo._
=Arīmĭnum= (now _Rimini_), an ancient city of Italy, near the Rubicon,
on the borders of Gaul, on the Adriatic founded by a colony of
Umbrians. It was the cause of Cæsar’s civil wars. _Lucan_, bk. 1,
li. 231.――_Pliny_, bk. 3, ch. 15.
=Ariminus=, a river of Italy rising in the Apennine mountains. _Pliny_,
bk. 3, ch. 15.
=Arimphœi=, a people of Scythia near the Riphæan mountains, who lived
chiefly upon berries in the woods, and were remarkable for their
innocence and mildness. _Pliny_, bk. 6, ch. 7.
=Arĭmus=, a king of Mysia. _Varro._
=Ariobarzānes=, a man made king of Cappadocia by the Romans, after
the troubles which the false Ariarathes had raised had subsided.
Mithridates drove him from his kingdom, but the Romans restored him.
He followed the interest of Pompey, and fought at Pharsalia against
Julius Cæsar. He and his kingdom were preserved by means of Cicero.
_Cicero_, bk. 5, _Letters to Atticus_, ltr. 29.――_Horace_, ltr. 6,
li. 38.――_Florus_, bk. 3, ch. 5.――――A satrap of Phrygia, who, after
the death of Mithridates, invaded the kingdom of Pontus, and kept it
for 26 years. He was succeeded by the son of Mithridates. _Diodorus_,
bk. 17.――――A general of Darius, who defended the passes of Susa
with 15,000 foot against Alexander. After a bloody encounter with
the Macedonians, he was killed as he attempted to seize the city of
Persepolis. _Diodorus_, bk. 17.――_Curtius_, bks. 4 & 5.――――A Mede
of elegant stature and great prudence, whom Tiberius appointed to
settle the troubles of Armenia. _Tacitus_, _Annals_, bk. 2, ch. 4.
――――A mountain between Parthia and the country of the Massagetæ.
――――A satrap, who revolted from the Persian king.
=Ariomandes=, son of Gobryas, was general of Athens against the
Persians. _Plutarch_, _Cimon_.
=Ariomardus=, a son of Darius, in the army of Xerxes when he went
against Greece. _Herodotus_, bk. 7, ch. 78.
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