133, and made of it a Roman province, which they governed by a proconsul. From this circumstance, whatever was a valuable acquisition, or an ample fortune, was always called by the epithet _Attalicus_. Attalus, as well as his predecessors, made themselves celebrated for the valuable libraries which they collected at Pergamus, and for the patronage which merit and virtue always found at their court. _Livy_, bk. 24, &c.――_Pliny_, bks. 7, 8, 33, &c.――_Justin_, bk. 39.――_Horace_, bk. 1, ode 1.――――An officer in Alexander’s army. _Curtius_, bk. 4, ch. 13.――――Another very inimical to Alexander. He was put to death by Parmenio, and Alexander was accused of the murder. _Curtius_, bk. 6, ch. 9; bk. 8, ch. 1.――――A philosopher, preceptor to Seneca. _Seneca_ ltr. 108.――――An astronomer of Rhodes. =Attarras=, an officer who seized those that had conspired with Dymnus against Alexander. _Curtius_, bk. 6. =Atteius Capĭto=, a consul in the age of Augustus, who wrote treatises on sacerdotal laws, public courts of justice, and the duty of a senator. _See:_ ♦Ateius. ♦ No reference to ‘Ateius’ found. =Attes=, a son of Calaus of Phrygia, who was born impotent. He introduced the worship of Cybele among the Lydians, and became a great favourite of the goddess. Jupiter was jealous of his success, and sent a wild boar to lay waste the country and destroy Attes. _Pausanias_, bk. 7, ch. 17. =Atthis=, a daughter of Cranaus II. king of Athens, who gave her name to Attica, according to _Apollodorus_, bk. 3, ch. 14. =Attĭca=, a country of Achaia or Hellas, at the south of Bœotia, west of the Ægean sea, north of the Saronicus Sinus, and east of Megara. It received its name from Atthis, the daughter of Cranaus. It was originally called Ionia, from the Ionians, who settled there; and also Acte, which signifies _shore_, and Cecropia, from Cecrops the first of its kings. The most famous of its cities is called Athens, whose inhabitants sometimes bear the name of _Attici_. Attica was famous for its gold and silver mines, which constituted the best part of the public revenues. The face of the country was partly level and partly mountainous, divided into the 13 tribes of Acamantis, Æantis, Antiochis, Attalis, Ægeis, Erechtheis, Adrianis, Hippothoontis, Cecropis, Leontis, Æneis, Ptolemais, and Pandionis; whose inhabitants were numbered in the 116th olympiad, at 31,000 citizens, and 400,000 slaves, within 174 villages, some of which were considerable towns. _See:_ Athenæ.