=Arverni=, a powerful people of Gaul, now _Auvergne_, near the Ligeris, who took up arms against Julius Cæsar. They were conquered with great slaughter. They pretended to be descended from the Trojans as well as the Romans. _Cæsar_, _Gallic War_, bk. 7.――_Strabo_, bk. 14. =Arvĭrăgus=, a king of Britain. _Juvenal_, satire 4, li. 127. =Arvīsium= and =Arvīsus=, a promontory of Chios, famous for its wine. _Virgil_, _Eclogues_, poem 5. =Lucius Arunculeius Costa [Cotta]=, an officer sent by Julius Cæsar against the Gauls, by whom he was killed. _Cæsar_, _Gallic War_. =Aruns=, an Etrurian soothsayer in the age of Marius. _Lucan_, bk. 1, li. 586.――――A soldier who slew Camilla, and was killed by a dart of Diana. _Virgil_, _Æneid_, bk. 11, li. 759.――――A brother of Tarquin the Proud. He married Tullia, who murdered him to espouse Tarquin, who had assassinated his wife.――――A son of Tarquin the Proud, who, in the battle that was fought between the partisans of his father and the Romans, attacked Brutus the Roman consul, who wounded him and threw him down from his horse. _Livy_, bk. 2, ch. 6.――――A son of Porsenna king of Etruria, sent by his father to take Aricia. _Livy_, bk. 2, ch. 14. =Aruntius=, a Roman who ridiculed the rites of Bacchus, for which the god inebriated him to such a degree that he offered violence to his daughter Medullina, who murdered him when she found that he acted so dishonourably to her virtue. _Plutarch_, _Parallela minora_.――――A man who wrote an account of the Punic wars in the style of Sallust, in the reign of Augustus. _Tacitus_, _Annals_, bk. 1.――_Seneca_, ltr. 14.――――Another Latin writer. _Seneca_, _de Beneficiis_, bk. 6. ――――Paterculus, a man who gave Æmylius Censorinus tyrant of Ægesta a brazen horse to torment criminals. The tyrant made the first experiment upon the body of the donor. _Plutarch_, _Parallela minora_.――――Stella, a poet descended of a consular family in the age of Domitian. =Arupīnus=, a maritime town of Istria. _Tibullus_, bk. 4, poem 1, li. 110. =Aruspex.= _See:_ Haruspex. =Aryxăta=, a town of Armenia, near the Araxes. _Strabo_, bk. 11. =Aryandes=, a Persian appointed governor of Egypt by Cambyses. He was put to death because he imitated Darius in whatever he did, and wished to make himself immortal. _Herodotus_, bk. 4, ch. 166. =Arybas=, a native of Sidon, whose daughter was carried away by pirates. _Homer_, _Odyssey_, bk. 15, li. 425.――――A king of the Molossi, who reigned 10 years. =Aryptæus=, a prince of the Molossi, who privately encouraged the Greeks against Macedonia, and afterwards embraced the party of the Macedonians. =Asander=, a man who separated, by a wall, Chersonesus Taurica from the continent. _Strabo_, bk. 7.