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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=Arsinoe=, daughter of Leucippus and Philodice, was mother of
Æsculapius by Apollo, according to some authors. She received divine
honours after death at Sparta. _Apollodorus_, bk. 3.――_Pausanias_,
bk. 2, ch. 26; bk. 3, ch. 12.――――A daughter of Phlegeus, promised
in marriage to Alcmæon. _Apollodorus_, bk. 3, ch. 7.――――A fountain
of Peloponnesus. _Pausanias_, _Messenia_.――――The sister and wife of
Ptolemy Philadelphus, worshipped after death under the name of Venus
Zephyritis. Dinochares began to build her a temple with loadstones,
in which there stood a statue of Arsinoe suspended in the air by the
power of the magnet; but the death of the architect prevented its
being perfected. _Pliny_, bk. 34, ch. 14.――――A daughter of Ptolemy
Lagus, who married Lysimachus king of Macedonia. After her husband’s
death, Ceraunus, her own brother, married her, and ascended the
throne of Macedonia. He previously murdered Lysimachus and Philip,
the sons of Arsinoe by Lysimachus, in their mother’s arms. Arsinoe
was some time after banished to Samothrace. _Justin_, bk. 17, ch. 1,
&c.――――A younger daughter of Ptolemy Auletes, sister to Cleopatra.
Antony despatched her to gain the good graces of her sister.
_Hirtius_, _Alexandrine War_, ch. 4.――_Appian._――――The wife of Magas
king of Cyrene, who committed adultery with her son-in-law. _Justin_,
bk. 26, ch. 3.――――A daughter of Lysimachus. _Pausanias._――――A town
of Egypt, situated near the lake of Mœris, on the western shore of
the Nile, where the inhabitants paid the highest veneration to the
crocodiles. They nourished them in a splendid manner, and embalmed
them after death, and buried them in the subterraneous cells of the
labyrinth. _Strabo._――――A town of Cilicia,――――of Æolia,――――of Syria,
――――of Cyprus,――――of Lycia, &c.
=Arsites=, a satrap of Paphlagonia.
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