going to the conquest of Persia, offered sacrifices on the tomb of Achilles, and admired the hero who had found a Homer to publish his fame to posterity. _Xenophon_, _On Hunting_.――_Plutarch_, _Alexander_; _De facie in orbe Lunæ_; _De Musica_; _De amicorum multitudine_; _Quæstiones Græcæ_.――_Pausanias_, bk. 3, ch. 18, &c.――_Diodorus_, bk. 17.――_Statius_, _Achilleid_.――_Ovid_, _Metamorphoses_, bk. 12, fable 3, &c.; _Tristia_, bk. 3, poem 5, li. 37, &c.――_Virgil_, _Æneid_, bk. 1, lis. 472, 488; bk. 2, li. 275; bk. 6, li. 58, &c.――_Apollodorus_, bk. 3, ch. 13.――_Hyginus_, fables 96 & 110.――_Strabo_, bk. 14.――_Pliny_, bk. 35, ch. 15.――_Maximus of Tyre_, Oration 27.――_Horace_, bk. 1, ode 8; bk. 2, odes 4 & 16; bk. 4, ode 6; bk. 2, ltr. 2, li. 42.――_Homer_, _Iliad_ & _Odyssey_.―― _Dictys Cretensis_, bks. 1, 2, 3, &c.――_Dares Phrygius._――_Juvenal_, satire 7, li. 210.―― _Apollonius_, bk. 4, _Argonautica_, li. 869.―――― There were other persons of the same name. The most known were――a man who received Juno when she fled from Jupiter’s courtship――――the preceptor of Chiron the centaur――――a son of Jupiter and Lamia, declared by Pan to be fairer than Venus――――a man who instituted ostracism at Athens――――Tatius, a native of Alexandria, in the age of the emperor Claudius, but originally a pagan, converted to Christianity, and made a bishop. He wrote a mixed history of great men, a treatise on the sphere, tactics, a romance on the loves of Clitophon and Leucippe, &c. Some manuscripts of his works are preserved in the Vatican and Palatinate libraries. The best edition of his works is that in 12mo, Leiden, 1640. ♦ ‘Geeeks’ replaced with ‘Greeks’ =Achillēum=, a town of Troas near the tomb of Achilles, built by the Mityleneans. _Pliny_, bk. 5, ch. 30. ♦=Achilleus=, or =Aquileus=, a Roman general in Egypt, in the reign of Diocletian, who rebelled, and for five years maintained the imperial dignity at Alexandria. Diocletian at last marched against him; and because he had supported a long siege, the emperor ordered him to be devoured by lions. ♦ Placed in alphabetical order =Achīvi=, the name of the inhabitants of Argos and Lacedæmon before the return of the Heraclidæ, by whom they were expelled from their possessions 80 years after the Trojan war. Being without a home, they drove the Ionians from Ægialus, seized their 12 cities, and called the country Achaia. The Ionians were received by the Athenians. The appellation of _Achivi_ is indiscriminately applied by the ancient poets to all the Greeks. _Pausanias_, bk. 7, ch. 1, &c. _See:_ Achaia. =Achladæus=, a Corinthian general, killed by Aristomenes. _Pausanias_, bk. 4, ch. 19. =Acholōe=, one of the Harpies. _Hyginus_, fable 14. =Acichōrius=, a general with Brennus in the expedition which the Gauls undertook against Pæonia. _Pausanias_, bk. 10, ch. 10.