=Adămas=, a Trojan prince, killed by Merion. _Homer_, _Iliad_, bk. 13, li. 560.――――A youth who raised a rebellion on being emasculated by Cotys king of Thrace. _Aristotle_, _Politics_, bk. 5, ch. 10. =Adamastus=, a native of Ithaca, father of Achæmenides. _Virgil_, _Æneid_, bk. 3, li. 614. =Adaspii=, a people at the foot of mount Caucasus. _Justin_, bk. 12, ch. 5. =Addephagia=, a goddess of the Sicilians. _Ælian_, bk. 1, _Varia Historia_, ch. 27. =Addua=, now _Adda_, a river of Cisalpine Gaul, falling into the Po near Cremona. _Pliny_, bk. 2, ch. 103. =Adelphius=, a friend of Marcus Antoninus, whom he accompanied in his expedition into Parthia, of which he wrote the history. _Strabo_, bk. 11. =Adēmon=, raised a sedition in Mauritania to avenge his master Ptolemy, whom Caligula had put to death. _Suetonius_, _Caligula_, ch. 35. =Ades=, or =Hades=, the god of hell among the Greeks, the same as the Pluto of the Latins. The word is derived from _α_ and ειδειν [_non videre_], because hell is deprived of light. It is often used for hell itself by the ancient poets. =Adgandestrius=, a prince of Gaul who sent to Rome for poison to destroy Arminius, and was answered by the senate, that the Romans fought their enemies openly, and never used perfidious measures. _Tacitus_, _Annals_, bk. 2, ch. 88. =Adherbal=, son of Micipsa, and grandson of Masinissa, was besieged at Cirta, and put to death by Jugurtha, after vainly imploring the aid of Rome, B.C. 112. _Sallust_, _Jugurthine War_. =Adherbas=, the husband of Dido. _See:_ Sichæus. =Adiante=, a daughter of Danaus. _Apollodorus_, bk. 2, ch. 11. =Adiatōrix=, a governor of Galatia, who, to gain Antony’s favour, slaughtered, in one night, all the inhabitants of the Roman colony of Heraclea, in Pontus. He was taken at Actium, led in triumph by Augustus, and strangled in prison. _Strabo_, bk. 12. =Adimantus=, a commander of the Athenian fleet, taken by the Spartans. All the men of the fleet were put to death, except Adimantus, because he had opposed the designs of his countrymen, who intended to mutilate all the Spartans. _Xenophon_, _Hellenica_. Pausanias says, bk. 4, ch. 17; bk. 10, ch. 9, that the Spartans had bribed him.――――A brother of Plato. _Laërtius_, bk. 3.――――A Corinthian general who reproached Themistocles with his exile.――――A king struck with thunder for saying that Jupiter deserved no sacrifices. _Ovid_, _Ibis_, li. 337. =Admēta=, a daughter of Eurystheus, was priestess of Juno’s temple at Argos. She expressed a wish to possess the girdle of the queen of the Amazons, and Hercules obtained it for her. _Apollodorus_, bk. 2, ch. 23.――――One of the Oceanides. _Hesiod_, _Theogony_, li. 349.