=Attilius=, a Roman consul in the first Punic war. _See:_ Regulus. ――――Calatinus, a Roman consul who fought the Carthaginian fleet. ――――Marcus, a poet who translated the Electra of Sophocles into Latin verse, and wrote comedies whose unintelligible language procured him the appellation of _Ferreus_.――――Regulus, a Roman censor who built a temple to the goddess of concord. _Livy_, bk. 23, ch. 23, &c.――――The name of Attilius was common among the Romans, and many of the public magistrates are called Attilii; their life, however, is not famous for any illustrious event. =Attinas=, an officer set over Bactriana by Alexander. _Curtius_, bk. 8. =Attius Pelignus=, an officer of Cæsar. _Cæsar_, _Civil War_, bk. 1. ――――Tullius, the general of the Volsci, to whom Coriolanus fled when banished from Rome. _Livy._――――Varius seized Auxinum in Pompey’s name, whence he was expelled. After this he fled to Africa, which he alienated from Julius Cæsar. _Cæsar_, bk. 1, _Civil War_.――――A poet. _See:_ Accius.――――The family of the Attii was descended from Atys, one of the companions of Æneas, according to the opinion which Virgil has adopted, _Æneid_, bk. 5, li. 568. =Atūrus=, a river of Gaul, now the _Adour_, which runs at the foot of the Pyrenean mountains into the bay of Biscay. _Lucan_, bk. 1, li. 420. =Atyădæ=, the descendants of Atys the Lydian. =Atys=, an ancient king of Lydia, who sent away his son Tyrrhenus with a colony of Lydians, who settled in Italy. _Herodotus_, bk. 1, ch. 7.――――A son of Crœsus king of Lydia. He was forbidden the use of all weapons by his father, who had dreamt that he had been killed. Some time after this, Atys prevailed on his father to permit him to go to hunt a wild boar which laid waste the country of Mysia, and he was killed in the attempt by Adrastus, whom Crœsus had appointed guardian over his son, and thus the apprehensions of the monarch were realized. _Herodotus_, bk. 1, ch. 34, &c. _See:_ Adrastus.――――A Trojan who came to Italy with Æneas, and is supposed to be the progenitor of the family of the Atti at Rome. _Virgil_, _Æneid_, bk. 5, li. 568.――――A youth to whom Ismene the daughter of Œdipus was promised in marriage. He was killed by Tydeus before his nuptials. _Statius_, _Thebiad_, bk. 8, li. 598.――――A son of Limniace the daughter of the river Ganges, who assisted Cepheus in preventing the marriage of Andromeda, and was killed by Perseus with a burning log of wood. _Ovid_, _Metamorphoses_, bk. 5, li. 47.――――A celebrated shepherd of Phrygia, of whom the mother of the gods, generally called Cybele, became enamoured. She entrusted him with the care of her temple, and made him promise that he always would live in celibacy. He violated his vow by an amour with the nymph Sangaris, for which the goddess made him so insane and delirious, that he castrated himself with a sharp stone. This was afterwards