ABRADATAH
 

AlACETES
 

  Abbadatas ('ABpaSdrag), a king of Susa, aid

an ally of the Assyrians against Cyrus, accord¬

ing to Xenophon's Cyropeedia.  His wife, Pan-

thea, was taken on the conquest of the Assyrian

camp.  In  consequence  of the honorable treat¬

ment  which she received from Cyrus, Abrada-

las joined the latter with his forces.   He fell in

the first battle in which he fought for him, while

fighting against the Egyptians in the army of

Crcesus at Thymbrana, on  the  Pactolus.  In¬

consolable  at her loss, Panthea put an end to

her own  life.   Cyrus had a high mound raised

in honor of them.

  [Abeettene ('ABperrTjvJi), a region of Mysia,

on the borders of Bithynia, said to have been

bo called  from the nymph Abretia.]

  Abrinoatui, a people of Gallia Lugdunensis,

in the neighborhood of the modern Avranches.

  Abrocomas ('ABpoicofiag), one of  the satraps

of Artaxerxes Mnemon, was  sent with an army

to oppose Cyrus on his march into Upper Asia,

B.C. 401.  He retreated on the approach of  Cy¬

rus, but  did  not join the king in time for the

battle of Cunaxa.

  [Abeooomes ('ASpoKofiqg, Jon.), son of Darius

and Phratagune, accompanied the army of Xerx¬

es to Greece, and was slain at Thermopylae.]

  [Abeon ("ABpuiv), son of the  Attic orator  Ly-

curgus.—2. Son of Oallias, of the deme of Bate

in Attica, who wrote  on the festivals of  the

Greeks.]

   Abeonyohus ('ABpuvvxog), an  Athenian, who

served in the Persian war, B.C. 480, and was

subsequently sent as ambassador to Sparta, with

Themistooles  and Aristides,  respecting the  for¬

tifications of Athens.

  Abrotonum, mother of Themistooles.

   Abeotonom ('ABporovov : now  Sabart or  Old

Tripoli), a eity on the coast of Africa, between

the Syrtes, founded by the Phoenicians; a colony

under  the Romans.   It was also  called Sabrata

sod Neapolis, and it formed, with G3a and Lep-

tie Magna, the African Tripolis.

   [Abeonius Silo, a Latin poet of the Augustan

age, pupil of Porcius Latro.   According to Vos-

sius, there were  two of this name, father  and

eon.]

   [Abrozelmes ('ABpoghfiijg), a Thracian, inter¬

preter of the Thracian king Seuthes, mentioned

in the Anabasis of Xenophon.]

   Abstrtides or Apsyrtides, so. insulae ('Aipvp-

riSeg: now Glierso,  Osero, Ferosina, and Chao),

the name of  four islands off the coast of Illyri-

cum,  [the principal one of which was Absoeus,

with a town of the same name.]  According to

one tradition, Absyrtus was slain  in these isl¬

ands by his sister Medea and by Jason.

   Absyrtos  or  Apsyetds  ("Aipvprog),  son  of

,/Eetes, king  of Colchis, and brother of Medea,

When Medea  fled  witl; Jason, she took  her

brother Absyrtus with her ; and when she  was

nearly overtaken by her father, she murdered

Absyrtus,  cut his body in pieces  and screwed

them on the road, that her father might thus be

detained  by gathering  the  limbs of his child.

Tomi, the place  where this horror  was com¬

mitted, was believed to have derived  its name

from  rs/iva, " to cut." According to another tra¬

dition, Absyrtus did not accompany Medea, but

Vas sent out by his father in pursuit of her.  He

avertook her in Corcyra, where she had been
 

kindly, received by king Alcinous, who refuse*

to surrender her to Absyrtus.  When he over

took her a second time  in certain islands off the

Hlyrian coast, he was  slain by Jason.  The son

of jEetes, who was  murdered by Medea, is called

by some writers JEgialeus.

   AbulItes ('Afou/Urijc), the satrap  of Susiana,

surrendered Susa  to Alexander. • The satrapy

was  restored to him by Alexander, but he  anc

his son Oxyathres  were afterward executed by

Alexander for the crimes they had committed

   Abuenus Valens.   Vid. Vaj.kns.

   Abds (now Humber), a river in Britain.

   [Abus ("A6og : now Aghri-Dagh), a mountain

chain of Armenia  Major,  and believed by the

natives at the present day to be the Ararat of

Scripture.]

   Abydencs ('A&vdqvog),  a Grtek historian, who

wrote a history of  Assyria.  Hii date is uncer

tain: he made use of the works of Megasthe-

nes and Berosus, and he wrote  in the Ionic di¬

alect.  His work  was particularly valuable for

chronology.  The  fragments of his history have

been published by Scaliger, Be Emendatione

Temporum; and  Richter, Berosi  Chaldmorum

Historic, <ke., Lips., 1826.

   Abydos ( "A&vSog : 'ABvSnvog).  1. A town oi

the  Troad  on the Hellespont,  and a Milesian

colony. It was nearly opposite to Sestos, but a

little lower down the stream.  The bridge .of

boats which  Xerxes constructed  over the Hel¬

lespont, B.C. 480,  commenced a little higher up

than Abydos, and  touched the  European shore

between Sestos and Madytus.  The site of Aby¬

dos is a little north of Sullania or the old castle

of Asia, which is  opposite to the old  castle of

Europe.'—2. (Ruins near Arabat el Matfoon and

El Birbeh), a city of Upper Egypt, near the west

bank of the Nile;  once second only to Thebes,

but  in Strabo's time (A.D. 14)  a small  village.

It had a temple of Osiris and a Memnonium, both

still standing, and an oracle.  Here was found

the  insciiption known  as the Table of Abydos^

which  contains a list of the Egyptian kings.

   Abyla or Abila Mons or Colcmna ('ABvTiij or

'ABiKn  arrilrj or opog:  now  Jebel Zatout. i. e.

Apes' Hill, above  Oeuta),  a mountain in Maure-

tania Tingitana, forming the eastern extremity

of the south or  African coast of the Fretum

Gaditanum.  This and Mount Calpe (Gibraltar),

opposite to it on the Spanish coast, were called

the Columns of Hercules, from the faVe that they

were originally one mountain,  wbicl  was torn

asunder by Hercules.

   Acacallis ('Aicarca/l/Uf), daughter  of Minos,

by whom Apollo begot a son, Miletus, as well as

other  children.  Acaeallis was  in Crete a com¬

mon name for a narcissus.

   AcAcfisiuii ('AicaK?jmov : 'Ananrioiog), a town

of Arcadia, at the foot of a hill of the same name,

   Acacesius ('Ananrjoiog), a surname of Mer

cury (Hermes), for which Homer uses the form

Acacetes.   Some  writers derive it from the Ai

cadian town of Acacesium, in which he was be

lieved to have been brought up ;  others from a

priv. and /ca/coc, and  suppose it  to mean " the

god who does not hurt."  The same surname

is given to Prometheus, whence it may be in¬

ferred that its meaning is that of benefactor ol

 deliverer from evil.

   Acacetes.  Vid. Acacesius.