celebrated than that of Minerva, which, after being burnt by the Persians, was rebuilt by Pericles, with the finest marble, and still exists a venerable monument of the hero’s patriotism, and of the abilities of the architect. _Cicero_, _Letters to Atticus_, Against Verres, &c.――_Thucydides_, bk. 1, &c.――_Justin_, bk. 2, &c.――_Diodorus_, bk. 13, &c.――_Ælian_, _Varia Historia_.――_Pliny_, bk. 7, ch. 56.――_Xenophon_, _Memorabilia_.――_Plutarch_, _in vitis_, &c.――_Strabo_, bk. 9, &c.――_Pausanias_, bk. 1, &c.――_Valerius Maximus._――_Livy_, bk. 31, &c.――_Cornelius Nepos_, _Miltiades_, &c.――_Polybius._――_Paterculus._ =Athenæa=, festivals celebrated at Athens in honour of Minerva. One of them was called ♦_Panathenæa_, and the other _ Chalcea_; for an account of which see those words. ♦ ‘Bana, thenæe’ replaced with ‘Panathenæa’ =Athenæum=, a place at Athens sacred to Minerva, where the poets, philosophers, and rhetoricians generally declaimed and repeated their compositions. It was public to all the professors of the liberal arts. The same thing was adopted at Rome by Adrian, who made a public building for the same laudable purposes.――――A promontory of Italy.――――A fortified place between Ætolia and Macedonia. _Livy_, bk. 38, ch. 1; bk. 39, ch. 25. =Athenæus=, a Greek cosmographer.――――A peripatetic philosopher of Cilicia in the time of Augustus. _Strabo._――――A Spartan sent by his countrymen to Athens, to settle the peace during the Peloponnesian war.――――A grammarian of Naucratis, who composed an elegant and miscellaneous work, called ♦_Deipnosophistæ_, replete with very curious and interesting remarks and anecdotes of the manners of the ancients, and likewise valuable for the scattered pieces of ancient poetry which it preserves. The work consists of 15 books, of which the two first, part of the third, and almost the whole of the last, are lost. Athenæus wrote, besides this, a history of Syria, and other works now lost. He died A.D. 194. The best edition of his works is that of Casaubon, folio, 2 vols., Lugdunum, 1612, by far superior to the editions of 1595 and 1657.――――An historian, who wrote an account of Semiramis. _Diodorus._――――A brother of king Eumenes II., famous for his paternal affection.――――A Roman historian, in the age of Gallienus, who is supposed to have written a book on military engines.――――A physician of Cilicia in the age of Pliny, who made heat, cold, wet, dry, and air the elements, instead of the four commonly received. ♦ ‘Deipnosphistæ’ replaced with ‘Deipnosophistæ’