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ACADEMUS, an old Athenian hero.

In a garden dedicated to him and
called Academia, Plato and his
successors taught. E. ii. 2. 45
Accius, Roman tragic poet, born
170 B.C., S. i. 10. 53; E. ii. 1. 56;
A. P. 258

Achilles, hero of the Iliad, S. i. 7.

12; ii. 3. 193; E. ii. 2. 42; A.P.
120. See Pelides

Achivi, the Greeks, S. ii. 3. 194;

E. i. 2. 14; ii. 1. 33
Actius, adj., of Actium, promon-
tory and town of Greece on the
Ambracian Gulf, where Octavius
defeated Antony in 31 B.C., E. i.
18. 61

Aegaeus, adj., Aegean, applied to
the sea between Greece and Asia
Minor, E. i. 11. 16
Aemilius, adj., of Aemilius (Lepidus),
who, according to Porphyrio,
set up a gladiatorial school,
A.P. 32

Aeneas, the Trojan hero, son of
Anchises and Venus, S. ii. 5. 63
Aeschylus, Greek tragic poet, E.
ii. 1. 163; A.P. 279

Aesopus, Roman tragic actor, S.
ii. 3. 239; E. ii. 1. 82
Aetna, the famous Mt. Etna in
Sicily, A.P. 465

Aetolus, adj., of Aetolia, in central
Greece, E. i. 18. 46

Afer, adj., African, S. ii. 4. 58;
ii. 8. 95

Afranius, a writer of comedies with

a Roman setting, known as
togatae, E. ii. 1. 57

Africa, i.e. Africa Provincia, the
Roman province of Africa, S.
ii. 3. 87

Agave, daughter of Cadmus, wife
of Echion, king of Thebes, who
in the madness of Bacchic rites
tore her son Pentheus to pieces,
S. ii. 3. 203

Agrippa, i.e. M. Vipsanius Agrippa,
son-in-law of Augustus, aedile in
33 B.C., S. ii. 3. 185; erected the
Portico of Neptune in 27 B.C.,
E. i. 6. 26; had estates in Sicily,
E. i. 12. 1; conquered the Can-
tabri in 20-19 B.C., E. i. 12. 26
Aiax, Greek hero, son of Telamon,
and brother of Teucer. In his
tragedy, the Ajax, Sophocles
represents Menelaus as forbid-
ding Teucer to bury the dead hero.
S. ii. 3. 187, 193, 201, 211
Albanus, adj., Alban, associated
with the Alban hills, or the
Alban Mount (now Monte Cavo)
near Rome, S. ii. 4. 72; E. i. 7.
10; ii. 1. 27
Albinovanus, i.e. Celsus Albino-
vanus, E. i. 8. 1. See Celsus
Albinus, probably a usurer, A.P. 327
Albius, (1) a man of expensive tastes,
S. i. 4. 28, 109; (2) the poet,
Albius Tibullus, E. i. 4. 1, possibly
son of (1)

Albucius, a name from Lucilius,
S. ii. 1. 48; ii. 2. 67

Alcaeus, Lesbian poet, E. i. 19. 29;
ii. 2. 99

Alcinous, king of Phaeacia and
host of Ulysses, E. i. 2. 28
Alcon, a Greek slave, S. ii. 8. 15
Alexander, i.e. Alexander the Great,
king of Macedon, E. ii. 1. 232, 241
Alfenus, a barber, who is said to
have become eminent in the law,
S. i. 3. 130

Allifanus, adj., of Allifae, a town
of Samnium, known for its
pottery, S. ii. 8. 39

Alpes, the Alps, S. ii. 5. 41
Alpinus, properly an adj., of the
Alps, a nickname given to M.
Furius Bibaculus, who wrote an
Aethiopis and a poem on Gaul, S. i.
10. 36. See also Furius
Amphion, son of Jupiter and
Antiope, mother of Zethus, and
famous player on the lyre. The
citadel of Thebes was built to the
accompaniment of his music. E.
i. 18. 41, 44; A.P. 394. See Zethus
Ancus, Ancus Marcius, fourth king
of Rome, E. i. 6. 27

Antenor, a Trojan chief, who pro-
posed to restore Helen to the
Greeks, E. i. 2. 9

Anticyra, a town in Phocis on the
Corinthian gulf, famous for its
hellebore, S. ii. 3. 83, 166, A.P.
300

Antiphates, king of the Laestry-
gones (Homer, Od. x. 100 f.), A.P.

145

Antonius, (1) Marcus Antonius,

the triumvir, S. i. 5. 33; (2)
Musa Antonius, a freedman and
physician, who cured Augustus
by cold-water treatment, E. i.
15. 3

Anxur, the old name of Terracina,
originally built at the top of a
hill, but later rebuilt on the
plain below, S. i. 5. 26

Anytus, one of the accusers of
Socrates, S. ii. 4. 3

Apella, a Jewish freedman, S. i. 5.
100

Apelles, a famous Greek painter,
E. ii. 1. 239

Apollo, the god, S. i. 9. 78; ii. 5.

60; E. i. 3. 17; i. 16. 59; ii. 1.
216; A.P. 407

Appia (Via), Appian Way, S. i. 5. 6
Appius, i.e. Appius Claudius

Caecus, who in 312 B.C. built the
Appian Way and Aqueduct, E.
i. 6. 26; i. 18. 20. The Forum
Appi, 43 miles south of Rome, was
also named from him, S. i. 53.
The Appius mentioned in S. i. 6.
21 is perhaps Appius Claudius
Pulcher, who was censor in 50 B. C.
Apulia, a district of Italy, S. i. 5. 77
Apulus, adj., of Apulia, S. ii. 1.
34, 38

Aquarius, the water-bearer, a sign
of the Zodiac, S. i. 1. 36
Aquilo, the north wind, or the
North, S. ii. 6. 25; ii. 8. 56;
A. P. 64

Aquinas, adj., of Aquinum, a town
of Latium, E. i. 10. 27

Arabs, an Arab, E. i. 6. 6; i. 7. 36
Arbuscula, an actress or mima,
celebrated in Cicero's time (Ad
Att. iv. 15), S. i. 10. 77
Archiacus, adj., of Archias, a maker
of furniture, E. i. 5. 1
Archilochus, Greek iambic poet,
flourished about 650 B.C., S. ii. 3.
12; E. i. 19. 25, 28; A.P. 79
Arellius, a rich neighbour of Horace,
S. ii. 6. 78

Argi, city of Argos, in the Pelopon-
nesus, often representative of
Greece in general, S. ii. 3. 132;
E. ii. 2. 128; A.P. 118
Aricia, a town sixteen miles south
of Rome, S. i. 5. 1

Aricinus, adj., of Aricia, E. ii. 2. 167
Aristarchus, a great Homeric critic,
flourished at Alexandria about
180 B. C.; A.P. 450

Aristippus, founder of the Cyrenaic
school of philosophy, S. ii. 3. 100;
E. i. 1. 18; i. 17. 14, 23

Aristius Fuscus, a friend of Horace,
S. i. 9. 61; i. 10. 83; E. i. 10. 1
Aristophanes, the most famous of
Attic writers of comedy, S. i. 4. 1
Armenius, adj., Armenian, E. i. 12.
27

Arrius, whose praenomen was Quin-
tus, and who gave a great funeral

entertainment, mentioned by
Cicero (In Vatinium, xii.), S. ii. 3.
86, 243

Asia, the province of Asia, in Asia
Minor, S. i. 7. 19, 24; E. i. 3, 5
Asina, cognomen of Vinius, E. i.
13. 8

Assyrius, adj., of Assyria, A.P. 118
Atabulus, a hot, dry wind, peculiar

to Apulia, the scirocco, S. i. 5. 78
Atacinus. See Varro

Athenae, Athens, S. i. 1. 64; ii. 7.
13; E. ii. 1. 213; ii. 2. 43, 81
Atreus, son of Pelops, murdered
the children of Thyestes, his
brother, and served them as a
meal to their father, A.P. 186
Atrides, son of Atreus, Agamem-
non, S. ii. 3. 187; E. i. 2. 12;
Menelaus, E. i. 7. 43; plur. of
both sons, S. ii. 3. 203

Atta, i.e. T. Quintius Atta, a writer
of togatae, who died in 78 B.C.,
E. ii. 1. 79

Attalicus, adj., of Attalus, the
name of several kings of Pergamos.
The last of these left his enormous
wealth to the Roman people in
133 B.C., E. i. 11. 5
Atticus, adj., of Attica or Athens,
S. ii. 8. 13

Aufidius, perhaps M.

Aufidius

Lurco, the first to fatten pea-
cocks for sale, according to Pliny
(N.H. x. 23. 20), S. ii. 4. 24
Aufidius Luscus, the "praefectus"
at Fundi, S. i. 5. 34
Aufidus, a river of Apulia, now
Ofanto, S. i. 1. 58

Augustus, imperial title of Octavius
Caesar, E. i. 3. 2, 7; i. 16. 29;
ii. 2. 48. See Caesar

Aulis, a town of Boeotia, whence
the Greeks sailed for Troy, S.
ii. 3. 199

Aulus, son of Oppidius, S. ii. 3. 171.
See Cascellius

Auster, the south wind, S. i. 1. 6;
ii. 2. 41; ii. 6. 18; ii. 8. 6; E. i.
11. 15

Avidienus, a miser, S. ii. 2. 55

BACCHIUS, a famous gladiator, S. i.
7. 20. See Bithus

Bacchus, a god of wine and of poets,
S. i. 3. 7 where some editors
read Bacchae, i.e. votaries of
Bacchus; E. ii. 2. 78

Baiae, a town of Campania, a
favourite seaside resort of the
Romans, E. i. 1. 83; i. 15. 2, 12
Baianus, adj., of Baiae, S. ii. 4. 32
Baius, a certain poor man, S. i. 4. 110
Balatro, a parasite of Maecenas, S.
ii. S. 21, 33, 40, 83 (cf. S. i. 2. 2)
Balbinus, a person unknown, S.
i. 3. 40

Barbaria, a general term for all
countries not Greek, E. i. 2. 7
Barium, a town in Apulia, now
Bari, S. i. 5. 97. To-day steamers
go from Bari to ports in Albania,
Montenegro, and Dalmatia
Barrus, (1) a vain person, unknown,
S. i. 6. 30; (2) a foul-mouthed
person, S. i. 7. 8

Bellona, sister of Mars, and goddess
of war, S. ii. 3. 223

Beneventum, a town of Samnium,
now Benevento, S. i. 5. 71
Bestius, probably a character in
Lucilius, E. i. 15. 37

Bibulus, probably C. Calpurnius
Bibulus, a step-son of Brutus, S.
i. 10. 86

Bioneus, adj., of Bion, a philosopher,
born in Scythia, who lived in
Athens in the third century B.C.,
and was famous for his caustic
wit, E. ii. 2. 60

Birrius, a robber, S. i. 4. 69
Bithus, a gladiator. He and
Bacchius, after slaying many
opponents, finally killed each
other. S. i. 7. 20

Bithynus, adj., of Bithynia, a Roman
province in Asia Minor, south of
the Euxine, E. i. 6. 33

Boeotus, adj., of Boeotia, a district
in Greece, north-west of Attica,
E. ii. 1. 244

Bolanus, a hot-headed acquaintance
of Horace (the name was derived
from Bola, a town of the Aequi),
S. i. 9. 11
Brundisium, now Brindisi, famous
port of Calabria, S. i. 5. 104; E.
i. 17. 52; i. 18. 20

Brutus, i.e. M. Junius Brutus, who
slew Caesar. He was properly pro-
praetor of Macedonia, but after
the coalition of Octavian and M.
Antonius, and the murder of C.
Trebonius, proconsul of Asia, he
assumed the jurisdiction of that
province as well, S. i. 7. 18, 33
Bullatius, a friend of Horace, E. i.

11. 1

Butra, a friend of Torquatus, E. i.
5. 26

Byzantius, adj., of Byzantium,

centre of the tunny fishery of
the Black Sea, S. ii. 4. 66

CADMUS, (1) a public executioner,
S. i. 6. 39; (2) founder of Thebes
in Boeotia. He and his wife
Harmonia were changed into
serpents (so Ovid, Met. iv. 563 ff.),
A.P. 187
Caecilius, Roman comic poet, older
contemporary of Terence, E. ii.
1. 59; A.P. 54

Caelius, a robber, S. i. 4. 69
Caeres, adj., belonging to Caere, an

old town of Etruria, which had
a limited Roman franchise.
Whether this was given as a re-
ward or was due to punishment
imposed, is uncertain, E. i. 6. 62
Caesar, a family name in the Julian
gens; hence (1) C. Julius Caesar,
the famous statesman and dic-
tator, who left his gardens by his
will to the Roman people, S. i. 9.
18; (2) C. Julius Caesar Octavia-
nus, also called Augustus when
emperor, grandnephew of the
dictator, who adopted him as his
son and heir, S. i. 3. 4; ii. 1. 11, 19,
84; E. i. 5. 9; i. 12. 28; i. 13. 18;
ii. 1. 4; ii. 2. 48. See Augustus
Calaber, adj., of Calabria, E. i. 7.
14; ii. 2. 177

Callimachus, famous poet of Alex-
andria, flourished about 270 B.C.,
E. ii. 2. 100
Calvus, i.e. C. Licinius Calvus,
orator and poet, friend of Catul-
lus, S. i. 10. 19

Camena, pure Latin name of the
Greek Movσa, Muse, S. i. 10.

45; E. i. 1. 1; i. 18. 47; i. 19.
5; A.P. 275
Camillus, i.e. M. Furius Camillus,
who took Veii and freed Rome
from the Gauls, 390 B.C., E. i. 1.64
Campanus, adj., of Campania, S. i.
5. 45, 62; i. 6. 118; ii. 3. 144; ii.
8.56

Campus, the Campus Martius or
Field of Mars, in Rome, S. i. 1.
90; i. 6. 126; ii. 6. 49; E. i. 7.
59; i. 18. 54

Canidia, a sorceress, S. i. 8. 24, 48;
ii. 1. 48; ii. 8. 95

Canis, (1) the Dog-star, E. i. 10.
16; (2) a nickname, S. ii. 2. 56
Cantaber, adj., of Cantabria, in
Spain, E. i. 12. 26

Cantabricus, adj., of Cantabria,
E. i. 18. 55

Canusinus, adj., of Canusium, S.
i. 10, 30

Canusium, a place in Apulia, where
they spoke both Greek and Latin,
S. i. 5. 91; ii. 3. 168
Capito. See Fonteius'
Capitolinus. See Petillius
Cappadox, a Cappadocian, living in
Cappadocia, the most

eastern

Asiatic province of the Romans,
E. i. 6. 39

Caprius, a public prosecutor, S. i.

4. 66

Capua, a town in Campania, S. i.
5. 47; E. i. 11. 11
Cascellius, with praenomen Aulus,
an eminent jurist, contemporary
of Cicero, but living into the
time of Augustus, A.P. 371
Cassius, (1) Etruscus, a poet, per-
haps same as (2), S. i. 10. 62; (2)
Parmensis, an elegiac poet, one
of the slayers of Caesar, E. i. 4. 3
Castor, (1) brother of Pollux and

Helen, S. ii. 1. 26; E. ii. 1. 5;
(2) a gladiator, E. i. 18. 19
Catia, a shameless woman, S. i. 2. 95
Catienus, an actor, S. ii. 3. 61
Catius, according to the scholiasts

either an Epicurean philosopher,
or a writer on the art of baking,
S. ii. 4. 1, 88

Cato, (1) the famous censor, M.
Porcius Cato, S. i. 2. 32; E.