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by her, 190; he advises the Lacedæmonians to
send Gylippus to the aid of Syracuse, 193; he re-
tires to Tissaphernes, 213; his credit with that
satrap, ibid.; his return to Athens is concerted,
214; he is recalled, 216; he beats the Lacedæ-|
monian fleet, 218; he goes to Tissaphernes, who
cansed him to be seized and carried prisoner to
Sardis, ibid.; he escapes out of prison, ibid.; he
defeats Mindarus and Pharnabasus by sea and
land the same day, 219; he returns in triumph to
Athens, where he is declared generalissimo, 220;
he causes the great mysteries to be celebrated,
221; he sets sail with the fleet, 222; Thrasybulus
accuses him at Athens of having occasioned the
defeat of the fleet near Ephesus, 223; the com-
mand is taken from him, 224; he comes to the
Athenian generals at Ægospotamus, 231; the ad-
vice he gives them, 232; he retires into the pro-
vince of Pharnabasus, 240; that satrap causes
him to be assassinated, ibid.; his character, ibid.
Al-ci-bi'a-des, one of the Spartan exiles; was rein-
stated by the Achæans, and sent deputy to Rome
with complaints against them, iv. 92; the Acha-
ans condemn him to die, 94; they soon after an-
nul that sentence, 96.

Al'ci-mus is placed at the head of Demetrius So-
ter's army against the Jews, iv. 231.
Alc-ma'on, i. 436, 437.

Alc-mæ-on'i-dæ expelled from Athens by Pisistra-
tus, i. 440; they take the care of building the new
temple of Delphi upon themselves, ibid. ; their aid
in that undertaking, ibid.

Al-cy-o-næ'us, son of Antigonus, carries the head
of Pyrrhus to his father, iii. 345.
A-lex-am'e-nes is sent by the Etolians to seize
Sparta, iv. 53; his avarice occasions the miscar-
riage of that design, and he is killed in Sparta, ib.
Al-ex-an'der, a young Lacedæmonian, puts out
one of Lycurgus's eyes, i. 419; Lycurgus's man-
ner of being revenged on him, ibid.
Al-ex-an'der I. son of Amyntas I. king of Mace-
don, avenged the affront his mother and sisters
had received from the Persian ambassadors, ii.
27; he makes proposals of peace to the Athen-
ians from the Persians, 72; he gives the Greeks
intelligence of the design of the Persians, 75.
Al-ex-an'der II. son of Amyntas II. reigns in Mace-
donia, and dies at the end of one year, ii. 444.
Al-ex-an'der III. surnamed the great, son of Philip.
His birth, iii. 77; happy inclination of that prince,
ibid. &c.; he has Aristotle for his preceptor, 78;
Alexander's esteem and affection for that philo-
sopher, ibid.; he breaks Bucephalus, 81; he as-
cends the throne of Macedonia, 82; he reduces
and subjects the people bordering upon his king-
dom, who had revolted, ibid.; he enters Greece
to dissolve the leagues which had been formed
against him, 83; he defeats the Thebans in a
great battle, and takes their city, which he de-
stroys, ibid.; he pardons the Athenians, 84; he
summons a diet at Corinth, and causes himself
to be declared generalissimo of the Greeks against
the Persians, 85; he returns into Macedonia, 86;
he makes preparations for his expeditions against
the Persians, 87; he appoints Antipater to go-
vern Macedonia as his viceroy, ibid.; he sets out
for Asia, 88; he arrives at Ilium, where he ren-
ders great honours to the memory of Achilles,
ibid.; he passes the Granicus, and gains a great
victory over the Persians, 90; he besieges and
takes Miletus, 92; then Halicarnassus, ibid.; and
conquers almost all Asia Minor, 93; he takes
Gordium, where he cuts the famous Gordian
knot, 94; he passes the straits of Cilicia, 95; he
arrives at Tarsus, where he has a dangerous ill-
ness, occasioned by bathing in the river Cydnus,
95, 96; he is cured in a few days, 97; he marches
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that prince near Issus, 100, &c.; tired with pur-
suing Darius, he comes to that prince's camp,
which his troops had just before seized, 105; Al-
exander's humanity and respect for Sysigambis,
and the other captive princesses, 106, 143; he
enters Syria, 107; the treasures laid up in Da-
mascus are delivered to him, ibid.; Darius writes
him a letter in the most haughty terms, 108; he
answers in the same style, 109; the city of Sidon
opens its gates to him, ibid.; he besieges Tyre,
112, &c.; after a long siege, he takes that place by
storm, 117; he receives a second letter from Da-
rius, 121; he marches to Jerusalem, 122; honours
paid by him to the high-priest Jaddus, 124; he en-
ters Jerusalem, and offers sacrifices there, ibid.;
Daniel's prophecies relating to him are shown
him, ibid.; he grants great privileges to the Jews,
and refuses the same to the Samaritans, 127; he
besieges and takes Gaza, 128; he enters Egypt,
ibid.; makes himself master of it, 129, and begins
to build Alexandria, 130; he goes to Libya, ibid. ;
visits the temple of Jupiter Ammon, 131, and
causes himself to be declared the son of that god,
ibid.; returns to Egypt and meditates advancing
against Darius, ibid.; on setting out, he is in-
formed of the death of that prince's wife, 132;
he causes her to be interred with very great
magnificence, ibid.; he passes the Euphrates, 133,
then the Tigris, ibid.; he comes up with Darius,
and gains the great battle of Arbela, 139; he takes
Arbela, ibid.; Babylon, 140, Susa, 142, subdues
the Uxii, 144; seizes the passes of Susa, ibid.;
arrives at Persepolis, of which he makes him-
self master, 145; and burns the palace of that
city in a debauch, 146; he pursues Darius, 148;
the treatment of that prince by Bessus causes
him to hasten his march, 149; Alexander's grief
on seeing Darius, who had just before expired,
150; he sends his body to Sysigambis, ibid.; he
marches against Bessus, 153; Thalestris queen
of the Amazons, comes from a remote country to
see him, 155; he abandons himself to pleasure
and debauch, ibid.; he continues his march against
Bestus, 157; he puts Philotas to death upon sus-
picion of having entered into a conspiracy against
him, 160, and Parmenio his father, ibid.; he sub-
dues several nations, 161; he arrives in Bac-
triana, 162; his cruel treatment of the Branchides,
ibid.; Bessus is brought to him, ibid.; he takes
many cities in Bactriana, 164, and builds one near
the laxartes, to which he gives his name, ibid.; he
marches against the Sogdians, who had revolted,
and destroys many of their cities, ibid.; the Scyth-
ians send ambassadors to him, who speak with
extraordinary liberty, 165; he passes the Iaxartes,
166, gains a victory over the Scythians, and treats
the conquered favourably, 167; he quells a re-
volt of the Sogdians, 164; he sends Bessus to Ec-
batana, to be punished, 167; he takes the city of
Petra, 169; he abandons himself to the pleasure
of hunting, in which he is in great danger, 170; he
gives Clitus the command of the provinces which
had before been under Artabazus, ibid.; he in-
vites that officer to a feast, and kills him, 170, 171;
he undertakes various expeditions, 173; he mar-
ries Roxana daughter of Oxyartes, ibid.; he re-
solves to march against India, and makes prepar-
ations for setting out, 174; he endeavours to make
his courtiers adore him after the Persian manner,
ibid.; he puts the philosopher Calisthenes to death,
176; he sets out for India, ibid.; he takes many
cities there that appeared impregnable, and fre-
quently endangers his life, 179, 180, &c.; he grants
Taxilus his protection, 181; he passes the river In-
dus, 182; then the Hydaspes, 183, and gains a fa-
mous victory over Porus, 185; he restores that
prince his kingdom, 186; he builds Nicæa and By-
cephala, ibid.; he advances into India, and sub-

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dues many nations, 187; he forms the design of pe-
netrating as far as the Ganges, 189; general mur
mur of his army, ibid.; he renounces that design,
and gives orders to prepare for returning, 191; ex-
cess of vanity, which he shows in giving thanks
to the gods, ibid.; he sets out on his march to the
ocean, 192 he subdues all he meets in his way,
194; he is in extreme danger at the city of Oxy-
drace, ibid.; he arrives at the ocean, 196; prepares
for his return to Europe, ibid.; he suffers extremely
by famine in passing desert places, ibid.; equi-
page in which he passes through Carmania, 197;
he arrives at Pasargada, 198; honours rendered
by him to the ashes of Cyrus, 199; he puts Orsi-
nes, satrap of the province, to death, ibid.; he
marries Statira, the daughter of Darius, 200; he
pays the debis of the soldiers, ibid.; appeases a
revolt among them, 203; he recalls Antipater,
and substitutes Craterus for him, 204; his grief
for Hephæstion's death, 204, 206; he conquers
the Cossa ans, 204; he enters Babylon, notwith-
standing the predictions of the Magi, and other
soothsayers, 205; he celebrates Hephaestion's fu-
neral with extraordinary magnificence, 206; he
forms various designs of expeditions and con-
quests, 207; he sets people at work to repair the
banks of the Euphrates, and rebuild the temple
of Belus, 208, he abandons himself to excessive
drinking, which occasions his death, 209, 210, &c.;
pomp of his funeral, 239; his body is carried to
Alexandria, 240; judginent to be passed on Alex-
ander, 212; character of that prince as to merit,
ibid. &c. and as to defects, 216, &c. Daniel's pro-
phecies concerning Alexander, 124.
Al-ex-an'der, son of Alexander the Great, is elected
king, iii. 229; Cassander deprives that prince of
the sovereignty, 259; he afterwards puts him to
death, 273.

Al-ex-an'der, son of Cassander, disputes the crown
of Macedonia with his brother Antipater, iii. 301;
he is killed by Demetrius, whom he had called in
to his aid, 302.

Al-ex-an'der I. king of Epirus, marries Cleopatra
daughter of Philip king of Macedonia, i 70.
Al-ex-an'der Ba'la forms a conspiracy against De-
metrius Soter, iv. 233; he ascends the throne of
Syria, 234; he marries Cleopatra, the daughter of
Ptolemy Philometer, ibid.; he abandons himself
to voluptuousness, 235; Ptolemy declares against
him in favour of Demetrius Nicator, ibid.; Alex-
ander perishes, 236.

Al-ex-an'der Ze-bi-na dethrones Demetrius king of
Syria, iv. 251; he is defeated by Antiochus Gry-
pus, and soon after killed, 253.

Al-ex-an'der I. son of Physcon, is placed upon the
throne of Egypt, iv. 258; causes his mother Cleo-
patra to be put to death, 261; he is expelled by his
subjects, and perishes soon after, ibid.
Al-ex-an'der II. son of Alexander I. reigns in Egypt
after the death of Lathyrus, iv. 262; he marries
Cleopatra, called Berenice, and kills her nineteen
days after, ibid.; the Alexandrians dethrone him
266; he dies, and declares at his death the Roman
people his heirs, ibid.

Al-ex-an'der Jan-na'us, reigns in Judea, iv. 273;
he attacks the inhabitants of Ptolemais, 258; La-
thyrus marches to the aid of that city, and defeats
Alexander near the Jordan, ibid.; Alexander's
revenge upon Gaza, ibid.; quarrel between that
prince and the Pharisees, ibid.; gross affront that
he receives at the feast of tabernacles, ibid.; ven-
geance which he takes for it, ibid.; civil war be-
tween that prince and his subjects, ibid.; after
having terminated it, he abandons himself to
feasting, and dies, 274.

Al-ex-an'der makes himself tyrant of Pheræ, ii
444; he endeavours to subject the people of Thes-
saly, ibid.; Pelopidas reduces him, ibid.; he seizes

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Pelopidas by treachery, and puts him in pran,
445; Epaminondas obliges him to release his p
soner, 447; he is defeated near Cynocepha
448; his diversions, 446; tragical end of that?
rant, 449.

Al-ex-an'der, son of Eropus, forms a conspiag
against Alexander the Great, iii. 94; he is par
death, ibid.

Al-ex-an'der, son of Polysperchon, accepts the
neral government of Peloponnesus, iii. 200; bes
killed in Sicyon, ibid.
Al-ex-an'der, governor of Persia for Antiochus the
Great, iii. 400; he revolts, and makes himself
sovereign in his province, ibid.; he perishes mise
rably, 403.

Al-ex-an'der, deputy from the Etolians to the as-
sembly of the allies held at Tempe, iv. 31.
Al-ex-an'der, pretended son of Perseus, is drives
out of Macedonia, where he had usurped the
throne, iv. 210.
Al-ex-an'der, son of Antony and Cleopatra, iv.
400.

Al-ex-an'dra, wife of Alexander Jauneus, reigns
over the Jewish nation, iv. 274, 275; she dies in
the ninth year of her reign, 276.
Al-ex-an'dri-a, city of Egypt built by Alexander the
Great, iii. 130; luxury that reigned there, i. 110;
its commerce, 109; famous library of Alexandria,
iii. 308, 309, &c.; fate of that library, iv. 392.
Al-ex-an'dri-a, built by Alexander the Great upon
the laxartes, iii. 163.

A-lex'is, governor of the citadel of Apamaa. be
trays Epigenes, general of Antiochus, i. 42.
Al-lo-bro'ges. Extent of their country, i. 211.
Alps, mountains famous for Hannibal's passing
them, i. 211.

A-ma'sis, officer of Apries, is proclaimed king of
Egypt, i. 144; he is confirmed in the possession
of the kingdom by Nebuchodonosor, 145; he de-
feats Apries, who marched against him, takes
him prisoner and puts him to death, ibid.; be
reigns peaceably in Egypt, 146; his method for
acquiring the respect of his subjects, ibid., his
death, 147; his body is taken out of his tomb,
and burnt, by order of Cambyses, 302
Am-bas'sa-dors. Fine example of disinterested-
ness in certain Roman ambassadors, ii. 346.
A-me'no-phis, king of Egypt. i. 131; his manner
of educating his son Sesostris, ibid.; this king is
the Pharaoh of Scripture, who was drowned in
the Red Sea, ibid.

A-mes'tris, wife of Xerxes; barbarous and inhu-
man revenge of that princess, ii. &.
A-mi'sus, a city of Asia, besieged by Lucullus, iv.
359. The engineer Callimachus, who defended
it, sets it on fire and burns it, 361.
Am-mo'ni-ans, i. 362; famous temple of that pec-
ple, ibid. iii. 129.

Am'nes-ty, famous one at Athens, ii. 943; occa
sions when amnesties are necessary, 244.
A-mor'ges, bastard of Pisuthnes, revolts against
Darius Nothus, ii. 212; he is taken and sent into
Persia, ibid.

Am'o-sis, king of Egypt. See Thetmosis.
Am-pha'res, one of the Spartan ephori, iii. 1:
his treachery and cruelty to king Agis, ibid.
Am-phic'ty-on, king of Athens, i. 412.
Am-phic'ty-ons: Institution of that assembly, i
412, ii. 349; their power, 350; oath taken at their
installation, ibid.; their condescension for Philip
occasions the diminution of their authority, ibid.
famous sacred war undertaken by order of thi
assembly, iii. 39,

Am-phip'o-lis, city of Thrace, besieged by Cleon,
general of the Athenians, ii. 173; Philip takes
that city from the Athenians, and declares it free,
iii. 34; it is soon after taken possession of by
that prince, ibid.

An'ti-och, city built by Seleucus upon the Orontes,
iii. 298.

An-ti-o'chus, lieutenant of Alcibiades, attacks the
Lacedæmonians with ill conduct, and is defeated
with great loss, ii. 223.

An-ti-o'chus I. surnamed Soter, reigns in Syria,
and marries Stratonice his father's wife, iii. 319;
he endeavours to seize the kingdom of Perga-
mus, 349; he is defeated by Eumenes, puts one
of his sons to death, and dies soon after, ibid.
An-ti-o'chus II. surnamed Theos, ascends the
throne of Syria, iii. 349; he delivers Miletus from
tyranny, ibid.; he carries the war into Egypt
against Ptolemy, 351; the provinces of the east
revolt against him, ibid.; he loses most of those
provinces, ibid.; he makes peace with Ptolemy,
marries Berenice the daughter of that prince,
after having repudiated Laodice, 352; he repu
diates Berenice, and takes Laodice again, who
causes him to be poisoned, 357; Daniel's prophe-
cies concerning him, 352.

An-ti-o'chus Hi'e-rax commands in Asia Minor, iii.
257; he enters into a league with his brother Se-
leucus against Ptolemy, 360; he declares war
against Seleucus, gives him battle, and defeats
him with great danger of his life, ibid.; he is at-
tacked and defeated by Eumenes, 361; he retires
to Ariarathes, who soon after seeks occasion to
rid himself of him, ibid.; he takes refuge with
Ptolemy, who imprisons him, ibid.; he escapes,
and is assassinated by robbers, ibid.
An-ti-o'chus III. surnamed the Great, begins to
reign in Syria, iii. 400; fidelity of Achæus in
respect to him, ibid.; he appoints Hermias his
prime minister, ibid.; Molon and Alexander,
whom he had appointed governors of Media and
Persia, revolt against him, ibid.; he marries La-
odice, the daughter of Mithridates, ibid.; he sa-
crifices Epigenes, the most able of his generals,
to the jealousy of Hermias, 402; he marches
against the rebels, and reduces them, 403; he rids
himself of Hermias, 404; he marches into Cœlo-
syria, and takes Seleucia, 405; Tyre and Ptole-
mais, 406; he makes a truce with Ptolemy, ibid.;
the war breaks out again, ibid.; Antiochus gains
many advantages, 407; he loses a great battle at
Raphia, 408; he makes peace with Ptolemy, 409;
he turns his arms against Achæus, who had re-
volted, ibid.; Achæus is put into his hands by
treachery, and executed, ibid.; expeditions of
Antiochus into Media, 450; Parthia, 452; Hyrca-
nia, ibid.; Bactria, ibid.; and even into India,
453; he enters into an alliance with Philip to in-
vade the kingdom of Egypt, iv. 8; and seizes
Celosyria and Palestine, ibid.; he makes war
against Attalus, 19; upon the remonstrances of
the Romans he retires, ibid.; he recovers Colo-
syria, which Aristomenes had taken from him,
ibid.; Amiochus forms the design of seizing Asia
Minor, 20; he takes some places there, 36; an
embassy is sent to him from the Romans upon
that subject, 37; Hannibal retires to him, 29; the
arrival of that general determines him upon a
war with the Romans, 46; he marches against
the Pisidians, and subdues them, 47; he goes to
Greece at the request of the Etolians, 54; he
attempts to bring over the Achæans in vain, 55;
and afterwards the Baotians, 57; he makes him-
self master of Chalcis, and all Euboea, ibid.; the
Romans declare war against him, ibid.; he makes
an ill use of Hannibal's counsels, 58; he goes to
Chalcis and marries the daughter of the person
in whose house he lodges, ibid.; he seizes the
strait of Thermopylæ, ibid.; he is defeated near
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his return to Ephesus, he ventures a sea-fight,
and loses it, 62; his fleet gains some advantage
over the Rhodians, 63; he loses a second battle
at sea, 64; conduct of Antiochus after this de
feat, 65; he makes proposals of peace, which
rejected, 66, 67; he loses a great battle near ha
nesia, 68, 69, &c.; he demands peace and
tains it, 71; on what conditions, ibid.; in order
to pay the tribute to the Romans, he plunders a
temple in Elymais, 84; he is killed, ibid.; cha-
racter of Antiochus, 85; Daniel's prophecies
concerning that prince, ibid.

An-ti-o'chus, eldest son of Antiochus the Great,
dies in the flower of his youth, iv. 48; character
of that young prince, ibid.
An-ti-o'chus IV. surnamed Epiphanes, goes to
Rome as a hostage, iv. 71; he ascends the throne
of Syria, 121; dispute between him and the king
of Egypt, 123; he marches against Egypt, and
gains a first victory over Ptolemy, 124; then a
second, 125; he makes himself master of Egypt,
takes the king himself, ibid; upon the rumour of
a general revolt, he enters Palestine, and besieges
and takes Jerusalem, where he exercises the most
borrid cruelties, ibid.; Antiochus renews the war
in Egypt, 126; he replaces Ptolemy Philometer
upon the throne, 128; he returns into Syria, ibid.;
he comes back to Egypt, and marches to Alexan-
dria, 128; Popilius, the Roman ambassador,
obliges him to quit it, 130; incensed at what hap
pened in Egypt, he vents his rage upon the Jews,
ibid.; he orders Apollonius, one of his generals,
to destroy Jerusalem, ibid.; cruelties committed
there by that general, 130, 131; Antiochus en-
deavours to abolish the worship of the true God
at Jerusalem, 131; he enters Judea, and com-
mits horrible cruelties, 133; he celebrates games
at Daphne, near Antioch, 135, 136; several of his
generals defeated by Judas Maccabeus, 136, 138,
139; he goes to Persia, attempts to plunder the
temple of Elymais, and is shamefully repulsed,
ibid.; upon receiving advice of the defeat of his
armies in Judea, he sets out instantly with a de-
sign to exterminate the Jews, ibid.; he is struck
by the hand of God on the way, and dies in the
greatest torments, 140; Daniel's prophecies con-
cerning this prince, 141.

An-ti-o'chus V. called Eupator, succeeds his father
Antiochus Epiphanes, in the kingdom of Syria,
and continues the war with the Jews, iv. 225, his
generals, and himself in person, are defeated by
Judas Maccabeus, 226, 227; be makes peace with
the Jews, and destroys the fortifications of the
temple, ibid.; Romans discontented with Enpa-
tor, 230; his soldiers deliver him up to Demetrius,
who puts him to death, 231.
An-ti-o'chus VI. surnamed Theos, is set upon the
throne of Syria by Tryphon, iv. 238; he is as
sassinated soon after, 239.

An-ti-o'chus VII. surnamed Sidetes, marries Cleo-
patra, wife of Demetrius, and is proclaimed king
of Syria, iv. 241; he dethrones Tryphon, who is
put to death, 242; he marches into Judea, beste-
ges John Hyrcanus in Jerusalem, and the city ca-
pitulates, 247; he turns his arms against Parthis,
where he perishes, 248; adventure of this prince
in bunting, ibid.

An-ti-o'chus VII. surnamed Grypus, begins to
reign in Syria, iv. 252; he marries Tryphena, the
daughter of Physcon, king of Egypt, and defeats
and expels Zebina, 253; his mother Cleopatra en-
deavours to poison him, and is poisoned herself,
ibid.; Antiochus reigns some time in peace, ibid. ;
war between that prince and his brother Anti-
chus of Cyzicum, 254; the two brothers divide
the empire of Syria between them, 255; Grypus
marries Selena, the daughter of Cleopatra, and
renews the war against his brother, 258; he is
assassinated by one of his vassals, 259.

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265.

An'ti-pas, or Antipater, Herod's father, excites

great troubles in Judea, iv. 276; he sends troops
to aid Cæsar, besieged in Alexandria, 394
An-tip'a-ter, Alexander's lieutenant, is appointed
by that prince to govern Macedonia in his ab-
sence, iii. 87; he defeats the Lacedæmonians,
who had revolted against Macedonia, 153; Alex-
ander takes his government from him, and orders
him to come to him, 204; suspicions of Antipa-
ter in respect to Alexander's death, 209: Antip-
ater's expedition into Greece after Alexander's
death, 232, 233; he is defeated by the Athenians
near Lamia, to which he retires, 233; he surren-
ders that place by capitulation, 234; he seizes
Athens, and puts a garrison in it, 236; he puts
Demosthenes and Hyperides to death, 236, 237;
he gives Phila his daughter to Craterus in mar-
riage, 238; he is appointed regent of the kingdom
of Macedonia in the room of Perdiccas, 245;
death of Antipater, 247.

An-tip'a-ter, eldest son of Cassander, iii. 302; dis-
pute between that prince and his brother Alex-
ander for the crown of Macedonia, ibid.; he kills
his mother Thessalonica, who favoured his youn-
ger brother, ibid.; Demetrius drives him out of
Macedonia, ibid.; he retires into Thrace, and dies
there, ibid.

An'ti-phon, courtier of Dionysius. Witty saying
which cost him his life, ii. 387.
'An'to-ny.-See Anthony.

An'y-sis, king of Egypt, i. 137.

A-or'nos, a rock of India, besieged and taken by
Alexander, iii. 181.

Ap-a'mi-a, the daughter of Antiochus Soter, and
widow of Magas, iii. 351.

Ap-a-tu'ri-æ: Feasts celebrated at Athens, ii. 228.
Ap-a-tu'ri-us, an officer of Seleucus Ceraunus,
forms a conspiracy against that prince, and poi-
sons him, iii. 399; he is put to death, ibid.
A-pe'ga, infernal machine invented by Nabis, iii.
450.

A-pel'les, courtier of Philip, iii. 417; abuses his
power, ibid.; he endeavours to humble and en-
slave the Achæans, 418; he perishes miserably,
426.

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A-pel'les, accomplice of Perseus in accusing Deme-
trius, is sent ambassador to Rome by Philip, iv.
116; after the death of Demetrius, he escapes
into Italy, 118.

A-pel'les, officer of Antiochus Epiphanes, endea
vours to make Mattathias sacrifice to idols, Mat-
tathias kills him with all his followers, iv. 132.
A-pel'li-con, Athenian library erected by him at
Athens, iv. 354.

A'pis, ox adored under that name by the Egyptians,

i. 115.

A'pis, king of Argos, i. 412.

A-pollo, Temple erected in honour of him at Del-
phos, i. 38.

Ap-ol-loc'ra tes, the eldest son of Dionysius the
younger, cominands in the citadel of Syracuse in
his father's name, ii. 404; he surrenders that
place to Dion, and retires to his father, 409.
A-pol-lo-do'rus, of Amphipolis, one of Alexander's
officers, iii. 141.

A-pol-lo-do'rus, friend of Cleopatra, favours the
entrance of that princess into Alexandria, and in
what manner, iv. 391.

A pol-lo-do'rus, governor of Gaza for Lathyrus, de-
fends that place against Alexander Jannæus, iv.
273; he is assassinated by his brother Lysima-
chus, ibid.

Ap-ol-lon'i-des, officer in the army of Eumenes, oc-
casions the loss of a battle, and is siezed and put
to death, iii. 245.

Ap-ol-lon'í-des, magistrate of Syracuse, his wise
discourse in the assembly of the people, iv. 324.
Ap-ol-lo'ni-us, lord of the court of Antiochus Epi-
phanes, is sent ambassador by that prince, first
to Egypt, and then to Rome, iv. 123; Antiochus
sends him with an army against Jerusalem, with
orders to destroy that city, 130; his cruelties
there, ibid.; he is defeated by Judas Maccabeus,
and killed in the battle, 136.
Ap-ol-lo'ni-us, governor of Cœlosyria and Phoni-
cia, marches against Jonathan, and is defeated,
iv. 235.

Ap-ol-loph'a-nes, physician to Antiochus the Great,
discovers to that prince the conspiracy formed

against him by Hermias, iii. 403; salutary advice
which he gave Antiochus, 405.

Ap'pi-us (Claudius), Roman consul, is sent into
Sicily to aid the Mamertines, i. 186; iv. 311; he
defeats the Carthaginians and Syracusans, ibid.
Ap'pi-us (Claudius) Roman Senator, prevents the
senate from accepting the offers of Pyrrhus, iii.
331.

Ap'pi-us (Claudius), Roman, commands a body
of troops, and is beaten near Uscana, against
which he marched with design to plunder it, iv.
164, 165.

A' pri-es ascends the throne of Egypt, i. 143; suc-
cess of that prince, ibid.; Zedekiah, king of Ju-
dah, implores his aid, ibid.; declares himself pro-
tector of Israel, ibid.; Egypt revolts against him
and sets Amasis on the throne, 144,; he is obli-
ged to retire into upper Egypt, ibid.; Amasis de-
feats him in a battle, in which he is taken priso-
ner, and put to death, 145.

A-quil'i-us (Manius), Roman proconsul, is defeated
in a battle by Mithridates, who takes him priso-
ner, and puts him to death, iv. 344.
Ar-a'bi-ans (Nabuthaan): Character of that peo-
ple, iii. 272.

A-ra'cus, Lacedæmonian admiral, ii. 230.
A-ras'pes, lord of Media, is appointed by Cyrus to
keep Panthæa prisoner, i. 321; passion which he
conceives for that princess, ibid.; goodness of Cy-
rus in respect to him, ibid.; he does that prince
great service in going as a spy among the Assyri-
ans, 322, 328.
A-ra'tus, son of Clinias, escapes from Sicyon to
avoid the fury of Abantidas, iii. 365; he delivers