CARLETON'S CONDENSED CLASSICAL DICTIONARY. BEING BRIEF BUT SUCCINCT INFORMATION CONCERNING THE PROMINENT NAMES IN CLASSICAL HISTORY AND MYTHOLOGY, TOGETHER WITH THE MOST CONSPICUOUS INCIDENTS ASSOCIATED WITH THEM. _CAREFULLY PREPARED AND EDITED_ BY GEORGE W. CARLETON, AUTHOR OF "OUR ARTIST IN CUBA, PERU, ALGIERS AND SPAIN." "Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it."--_Boswell's Life of Johnson._ NEW YORK Copyright, 1882, by _G. W. Carleton & Co., Publishers_. MADISON SQUARE. MDCCCLXXXII. CARLETON'S CONDENSED CLASSICAL DICTIONARY. =Aby´dos.= A city of Asia opposite Sestos in Europe. It is famous for the loves of Hero and Leander, and for the bridge of boats which Xerxes built there across the Hellespont. Leander was in the habit of swimming across the Hellespont to see Hero, till at length, on a stormy night, he was drowned. =Aby´dos.= A town of Egypt, where was the famous temple of Osiris. =Acade´mi´a.= A place surrounded with trees, near Athens, belonging to Academus, from whom the name is derived. Here Plato opened his school of philosophy, and from this every place sacred to learning has ever since been called Academia. =Acha´tes.= A friend of Æneas, whose fidelity was so exemplary that _Fidus Achates_ has become a proverb. =Achelo´us.= The son of Oceanus and Terra, or Tethys, god of the river of the same name in Epirus. As one of the numerous suitors of Dejanira, he entered the lists against Hercules, and being inferior, changed himself into a serpent, and afterwards into an ox. Hercules broke off one of his horns and defeated him, after which, according to some, he was changed into a river. =Ac´heron.= One of the rivers of hell; often used to signify hell itself.