36, ch. 5. =Artemisia.= _See:_ Artemis. =Artemisium=, a promontory of Eubœa, where Diana had a temple. The neighbouring part of the sea bore the same name. The fleet of Xerxes had a skirmish there with the Grecian ships. _Herodotus_, bk. 7, ch. 175, &c.――――A lake near the grove Aricia, with a temple sacred to Artemis, whence the name. =Artemīta=, a city at the east of Seleucia.――――An island opposite the mouth of the Achelous. _Strabo._ =Artĕmon=, an historian of Pergamus.――――A native of Clazomenæ, who was with Pericles at the siege of Samos, where it is said he invented the battering ram, the _testudo_, and other equally valuable military engines.――――A man who wrote a treatise on collecting books.――――A native of Magnesia, who wrote the history of illustrious women.――――A physician of Clazomenæ.――――A painter.――――A Syrian, whose features resembled, in the strongest manner, those of Antiochus. The queen, after the king’s murder, made use of Artemon to represent her husband in a lingering state, that, by his seeming to die a natural death, she might conceal her guilt, and effect her wicked purpose. _See:_ Antiochus. =Artimpasa=, a name of Venus among the Scythians. _Herodotus_, bk. 4, ch. 59. =Artobarzănes=, a son of Darius, who endeavoured to ascend the throne in preference to his brother Xerxes, but to no purpose. _Herodotus_, bk. 7, chs. 2 & 3. =Artochmes=, a general of Xerxes, who married one of the daughters of Darius. _Herodotus_, bk. 7, ch. 73. =Artōna=, a town of the Latins, taken by the Æqui. _Livy_, bk. 2, ch. 43. =Artontes=, a son of Mardonius. _Pausanias_, _Bœotia_. =Artonius=, a physician of Augustus, who, on the night previous to the battle of Philippi, saw Minerva in a dream, who told him to assure Augustus of victory. _Valerius Maximus_, bk. 1, ch. 7. =Artoxares=, a eunuch of Paphlagonia, in the reign of Artaxerxes I., cruelly put to death by Parysatis. =Arturius=, an obscure fellow, raised to honours and wealth by his flatteries, &c. _Juvenal_, satire 3, li. 29. =Artynes=, a king of Media. =Artynia=, a lake of Asia Minor. =Artystŏna=, a daughter of Darius. _Herodotus_, bk. 3, ch. 88. =Aruæ=, a people of Hyrcania, where Alexander kindly received the chief officers of Darius. _Curtius_, bk. 6, ch. 4. =Arvāles=, a name given to 12 priests who celebrated the festivals called Ambarvalia. According to some, they were descended from the 12 sons of Acca Laurentia, who suckled Romulus. They wore a crown of ears of corn, and a white fillet. _Varro_, _de Lingua Latina_, bk. 4. _See:_ Ambarvalia. =Arueris=, a god of the Egyptians, son of Isis and Osiris. According to some accounts, Osiris and Isis were married together in their mother’s womb, and Isis was pregnant of Arueris before she was born.