=Absŏrus=, =Absyrtis=, =Absyrtides=, islands in the Adriatic, or near Istria, where Absyrtus was killed, whence their name. _Strabo_, bk. 7.――_Apollodorus_, bk. 1, ch. 9.――_Lucan_, bk. 3, li. 190. =Absyrtos=, a river falling into the Adriatic sea, near which Absyrtus was murdered. _Lucan_, bk. 3, li. 190. =Absyrtus=, a son of Æetes king of Colchis, and Hypsea. His sister Medea, as she fled away with Jason, tore his body to pieces, and strewed his limbs in her father’s way, to stop his pursuit. Some say that she murdered him in Colchis, others, near Istria. It is said by others, that he was not murdered, but that he arrived safe in Illyricum. The place where he was killed has been called Tomos, and the river adjoining to it Absyrtos. _Lucan_, bk. 3, li. 190.―― _Strabo_, bk. 7.――_Hyginus_, fable 23.――_Apollodorus_, bk. 1, ch. 9.――_Flaccus_, bk. 8, li. 261.――_Ovid_, _Tristia_, bk. 3, poem 9.――_Cicero_, _de Natura Deorum_, bk. 3, ch. 19.――_Pliny_, bk. 3, chs. 21 & 26. =Abulītes=, governor of Susa, betrayed his trust to Alexander, and was rewarded with a province. _Curtius_, bk. 5, ch. 2.――_Diodorus_, bk. 17. =Abydēnus=, a disciple of Aristotle, too much indulged by his master. He wrote some historical treatises on Cyprus, Delos, Arabia, and Assyria. _Philo Judæus._――_Josephus_, _Against Apion_. =Abȳdos=, a town of Egypt, where was the famous temple of Osiris. _Plutarch_, on _De Iside et Osiride_.――――A city of Asia, opposite Sestos in Europe, with which, from the narrowness of the Hellespont, it seemed, to those who approach it by sea, to form only one town. It was built by the Milesians, by permission of king Gyges. It is famous for the amours of Hero and Leander, and for the bridge of boats which Xerxes built there across the Hellespont. The inhabitants, being besieged by Philip the father of Perseus, devoted themselves to death with their families, rather than fall into the hands of the enemy. _Livy_, bk. 31, ch. 18.――_Lucan_, bk. 2, li. 674. ――_Justin_, bk. 2, ch. 13.――_Musæus_, _Hero & Leander_.――_Flaccus_, bk. 1, li. 285. =Abȳla.= _See:_ Abila. =Abȳlon=, a city of Egypt. =Abyssinia=, a large kingdom of Africa, in Upper Æthiopia, where the Nile takes its rise. The inhabitants are said to be of Arabian origin, and were little known to the ancients. =Acacallis=, a nymph, mother of Philander and Phylacis by Apollo. These children were exposed to the wild beasts in Crete; but a goat gave them her milk, and preserved their life. _Pausanias_, bk. 10, ch. 16.――――A daughter of Minos, mother of Cydon by Mercury, and of Amphithemis by Apollo. _Pausanias_, bk. 8, ch. 53.――_Apollonius_, bk. 4, li. 1493. =Acacēsium=, a town of Arcadia, built by Acacus son of Lycaon. Mercury, surnamed Acacesius, because brought up by Acacus as his foster-father, was worshipped there. _Pausanias_, bk. 8, chs. 3, 36, &c. =Acacius=, a rhetorician in the age of the emperor Julian.