ATH'LIOT, the most wretched of all women. Her comfort is (if for her any be), That none can show more cause of grief than she. Wm. Browne, _Britannia's Pastorals_, ii. 5 (1613). ATH'OS. Dinoc'ratês, a sculptor, proposed to Alexander to hew mount Athos into a statue representing the great conqueror, with a city in his left hand, and a basin in his right to receive all the waters which flowed from the mountain. Alexander greatly approved of the suggestion, but objected to the locality. And hew out a huge mountain of pathos, As Philip's son proposed to do with Athos. Byron, _Don Juan_, xii. 86. AT'IMUS, Baseness of Mind personified in _The Purple Island_ (1633), by Phineas Fletcher. "A careless, idle swain ... his work to eat, drink, sleep, and purge his reins." Fully described in canto viii. (Greek, _atimos_, "one dishonored.") A'TIN (_Strife_), the squire of Pyr'ochlês.--Spenser, _Faëry Queen_, ii. 4, 5, 6 (1590). ATOS'SA. So Pope calls Sarah duchess of Marlborough, because she was the great friend of lady Mary Wortley Montagu, whom he calls Sappho. But what are these to great Atossa's mind? Pope. (The great friend of Sappho was Atthis. By Atossa is generally understood Vashti, daughter of Cyrus and wife of Ahasuerus of the Old Testament.) AT'ROPOS, one of the Fates, whose office is to cut the thread of life with a pair of scissors. ... nor shines the knife, Nor shears of Atropos before their vision. Byron, _Don Juan_, ii. 64. ATTIC BEE _(The)_, Soph'oclês (B.C. 495-405). Plato is called "The Athenian Bee." ATTIC BOY _(The)_, referred to by Milton in his _Il Penseroso_, is Ceph'alos, who was beloved by Aurora or Morn, but was married to Procris. He was passionately fond of hunting. Till civil-suited Morn appear, Not tricked and flounced, as she was wont With the Attic boy to hunt, But kerchiefed in a comely cloud. _II Penseroso_ (1638). ATTIC MUSE _(The)_, a phrase signifying the whole body of Attic poetry. ATTICUS. The surname of T. Pomponius, the intimate friend of Cicero, given to him on account of his long residence in Athens. His biography is found in Nepor. _The English Atticus_. Joseph Addison. Who but must laugh if such a man there be. Who would not weep if Atticus were he? Pope, _Prologue to the Satires_. AT'TILA, one of the tragedies of Pierre Corneille (1667). This king of the Huns, usually called "The Scourge of God," must not be confounded with "Athalie," daughter of Jezebel and wife of Joram, the subject and title of Racine's _ches-d'oeuvre_, and Mdlle. Rachel's chief character. AUBERT _(Thérèse)_, the heroine of C. Nodier's romance of that name (1819). The story relates to the adventures of a young royalist in the French Revolutionary epoch, who had disguised himself in female apparel to escape detection.