=Aborigĭnes=, the original inhabitants of Italy; or, according to others, a nation conducted by Saturn into Latium, where they taught the use of letters to Evander the king of the country. Their posterity was called Latini, from Latinus, one of their kings. They assisted Æneas against Turnus. Rome was built in their country.――The word signifies _without origin_, or whose _origin is not known_, and is generally applied to the original inhabitants of any country. _Livy_, bk. 1, ch. 1, &c.――_Dionysius of Halicarnassus_, bk. 1, ch. 10.――_Justin_, bk. 43, ch. 1.――_Pliny_, bk. 3, ch. 5.――_Strabo_, bk. 5. =Aborras=, a river of Mesopotamia. _Strabo_, bk. 16. =Abradātes=, a king of Susa, who, when his wife Panthea had been taken prisoner by Cyrus, and humanely treated, surrendered himself and his troops to the conqueror. He was killed in the first battle he undertook in the cause of Cyrus, and his wife stabbed herself on his corpse. Cyrus raised a monument on their tomb. _Xenophon_, _Cyropædia_, bks. 5, 6, &c. =Abrentius=, was made governor of Tarentum by Annibal. He betrayed his trust to the enemy to gain the favours of a beautiful woman, whose brother was in the Roman army. _Polyænus_, bk. 8. =Abrocŏmas=, son of Darius, was in the army of Xerxes, when he invaded Greece. He was killed at Thermopylæ. _Herodotus_, bk. 7, ch. 224.――_Plutarch_, _Cleomenes_. =Abrodiætus=, a name given to Parrhasius the painter, on account of the sumptuous manner of his living. _See:_ Parrhasius. =Abron=, an Athenian, who wrote some treatises on the religious festivals and sacrifices of the Greeks. Only the titles of his works are preserved. _Suidas._――――A grammarian of Rhodes, who taught rhetoric at Rome.――――Another who wrote a treatise on Theocritus.――――A Spartan, son of Lycurgus the orator. _Plutarch_, _Decem Oratorum_. ――――A native of Argos, famous for his debauchery. =Abronius Silo=, a Latin poet in the Augustan age. He wrote some fables. _Seneca._ =Abronycus=, an Athenian, very serviceable to Themistocles in his embassy to Sparta. _Thucydides_, bk. 1, ch. 91.――_Herodotus_, bk. 8, ch. 21. =Abrŏta=, the wife of Nisus, the youngest of the sons of Ægeus. As a monument to her chastity, Nisus, after her death, ordered the garments which she wore to become the models of fashion in Megara. _Plutarch_, _Quæstiones Græcæ_. =Abrotŏnum=, the mother of Themistocles. _Plutarch_, _Themistocles_. ――――A town of Africa, near the Syrtes. _Pliny_, bk. 5, ch. 4.――――A harlot of Thrace. _Plutarch_, _Aratus_. =Abrus=, a city of the Sapæi. _Pausanias_, bk. 7, ch. 10. =Abrypŏlis=, an ally of Rome, driven from his possessions by Perseus, the last king of Macedonia. _Livy_, bk. 42, chs. 13 & 41. =Abseus=, a giant, son of Tartarus and Terra. _Hyginus_, preface to fables. =Absinthii=, a people on the coasts of Pontus, where there is also a mountain of the same name. _Herodotus_, bk. 6, ch. 34.