=Abantĭdas=, made himself master of Sicyon, after he had murdered Clinias the father of Aratus. He was himself soon after assassinated, B.C. 251. _Plutarch_, _Aratus_. =Abantis=, or =Abantias=, an ancient name of the island of Eubœa, received from the Abantes, who settled in it from Phocis. _Pliny_, bk. 4, ch. 12.――――Also a country of Epirus. _Pausanias_, bk. 5, ch. 22. =Abarbarea=, one of the Naiades, mother of Æsepus and Pedasus by Bucolion, Laomedon’s eldest son. _Homer_, _Iliad_, bk. 6, li. 23. =Abarīmon=, a country of Scythia, near mount Imaus. The inhabitants were said to have their toes behind their heels, and to breathe no air but that of their native country. _Pliny_, bk. 7, ch. 2. =Abăris=, a man killed by Perseus. _Ovid_, _Metamorphoses_, bk. 5, li. 86.――――A Rutulian killed by Euryalus. _Virgil_, _Æneid_, bk. 9, li. 344.――――A Scythian, son of Seuthes, in the age of Crœsus, or the Trojan war, who received a flying arrow from Apollo, with which he gave oracles, and transported himself wherever he pleased. He is said to have returned to the Hyperborean countries from Athens without eating, and to have made the Trojan Palladium with the bones of Pelops. Some suppose that he wrote treatises in Greek; and it is reported, that there is a Greek manuscript of his epistles to Phalaris, in the library of Augsburg. But there were probably two persons of that name. _Herodotus_, bk. 4, ch. 36.――_Strabo_, bk. 7. ――_Pausanias_, bk. 3, ch. 33. =Abārus=, an Arabian prince, who perfidiously deserted Crassus in his expedition against Parthia. _Appian_, _Parthia_.――――He is called Mezeres by _Florus_, bk. 3, ch. 11, and Ariamnes by _Plutarch_, _Crassus_.