CLASSICAL     DICTIONARY,



BIOGRAPHICAL, MYTHOLOGICAL,  AND  GEOGRAPHICAL.
 

               AARASSLJS.



  [ Aakabsus ('Aapaaaog), a city of Pisidia; more

correctly, perhaps, Arassus, as  given in some

MSS,; the old Latin version of Strabo having

also Arasum.]

  [Aba  (*A6a), daughter of Zenophanes,  made

herself queen of Olbe in Cilieia; her authority

Mas  confirmed by Antony and  Cleopatra: she

was subsequently deposed and driven out]

  [Aba {"A6aj, more usually Abm, q. «.]

  Abacsnum ('Adanalvov or r<2 'ABqucuva: 'A6a-

Kcuvlvor: ruins near Tripi), an ancient town of

the Siculi in Sicily, west of Messana, and south

of Tyndaris.

  Ab^e ("Aliai.: 'ACaiog: ruins  near Exarcho),

an ancient town of Phocis, on  the  boundaries

of Boeotia, said to have been founded by the Ar-

give Abas, but see Abantes.  It possessed an

ancient temple and oracle of Apollo, who hence

derived  the surname of  Abceus.  The  temple

was destroyed by  the Persians  in the invasion

of Xerxes, and a second time by the Boeotians

in the sacred war: it was rebuilt by Hadrian.

  [Abalus, an island in the Worth or German

Ocean,  where amber was said  to  have been

washed up by the waves,  and  used by the in¬

habitants for fuel.  The more usual name was

Basilia.]

  [Ababn2b or Abanni, a people of Mauretania,

brought  into subjection to the Roman power by

Theodosius, father of the Emperor Theodosius.]

   [Abantes ("ABavrec), the ancient  inhabitants

of Euboea.  (Horn., 11,, ii.,  636).  They are said

to have  been of Thraeian  origin, to have  first

settled in Phocis,  where  they built Abse,  and

afterward to have crossed over to Eubosa.  The

Abantes of Euboea assisted in colonizing several

tf the Ionic cities of Asia Minor.

  Abantiades ('ABavnddr/g), any descendant of

Abas, but especially Perseus, great-grandson of

Abas, and Acrisius, son of Abas.  A female de¬

scendant of Abas, as Danae and Atalante,  was

sailed Auantias.

  Abantias.  Vid. Abantiades.

   Abamtidas ('ABavriSag),  son  of  Paseas, be-

eame i yrant of Sicyon, after murdering Clinias,

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                  ABAS.



the  father of Aratus, B.C. 264, but was soon

after assassinated.

  [Abantis ('ABavTie), an early name of Euboea,

from the Abantes.]

  [Ababbaeea ('A6ap6ape7i), name  of a Naiad,

mother of iEsepus and Pedasus.]

  [Abaris ("A6api£), son of Seuthes, was a Hy¬

perborean priest of  Apollo, and came from the

country about  the  Caucasus to Greece, while

his  own country was visited by a plague. . In

his  travels through  Greece he carried with him

an  arrow as the symbol of Apollo,  and gave

oracles.  His history is entirely mythical, and

is related in various ways: he is said to have

taken no earthly food,  and to  have  ridden on

his  arrow, the gift  of Apollo, through the air.

He  cured diseases by incantations, and delivered

the  world from  a  plague. Later writers as¬

cribe to him several works; but if such works

were really current  in ancient times,  they were

not genuine.  The  time of his appearance in

Greece is stated differently: he may, perhaps,

be  placed about B.C. 570. [Abaris occurs in

Nonnus, Dionys, 11, 132, but the short quantity

seems preferable.—2. A Latin hero, who fought

on  the side of Tumus  against  iEneas: he.was

slain by Euryalus.—3. Called Oaucasius by Ovid,

a friend of Phineas, slain by Perseus.]

  [Abaeis ("A6apic  or Avapic), a city  of Egypt.

called, also, Avaris.  Manetho  places it to the

east of the Bubastie mouth of the Wile, in the

Saitic  nome, while  Mannert identifies it with

what was afterward called Pelusium.]

  Abaknis ("ABapvie or "ABapvos: 'ABapvevg), a

town  and  promontory  close to Lampsacus on

the  Asiatic side  of  the Hellespont.  [Abarnh

was also the name  of the country lying around

and adjacent to the city.]

  [Abarths ("ABaproc), one of the Oodridae, chosen

king of the Phocffians.]

  Abas ("Aeac).  1.  Son of Metanira, was chaOg

ed  by Ceres (Demeter) into a lizard, because

he mocked the goddess when she had come on

her wanderings into the  house of his  mother

aDd drank  eagerly  to  quench  her  thirst—8