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A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Achae'menes (search)
Achae'menes 2. The son of Darius I. was appointed by his brother Xerxes governor of Egypt, B. C. 484. He commanded the Egyptian fleet in the expedition of Xerxes against Greece, and strongly opposed the prudent advice of Demaratus. When Egypt revolted under Inarus the Libyan in B. C. 460, Achaemenes was sent to subdue it, but was defeated and killed in battle by Inarus. (Hdt. 3.12, 7.7, 97, 236; Diod. 11.74.)
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Aleuas (search)
Eurypylus, and Thrasydaeus, came to him as ambassadors, to request him to go on with the war, and to promise him their assistance. (Hdt. 7.6.) [THORAX.] When, after the Persian war, Leotychides was sent to Thessaly to chastise those who had acted as traitors to their country, he allowed himself to be bribed by the Aleuadae, although he might have subdued all Thessaly. (Hdt. 6.72; Paus. 3.7.8.) This fact shews that the power of the Alenadae was then still as great as before. About the year B. C. 460, we find an Aleuad Orestes, son of Echecratides, who came to Athens as a fugitive, and persuaded the Athenians to exert themselves for his restoration. (Thuc. 1.111.) He had been expelled either by the Thessalians or more probably by a faction of his own family, who wished to exclude him from the dignity of *basileu/s (i. e. probably Tagus), for such feuds among the Aleuadae themselves are frequently mentioned. (Xen.. Anab. 1.1.10.) After the end of the Peloponnesian war, another Thessal
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Amyrtaeus (search)
Amyrtaeus 2. A Saite, who, having been invested with the title of king of Egypt, was joined with Inarus the Libyan in the command of the Egyptians when they rebelled against Artaxerxes Longimanus (B. C. 460). After the first success of the Egyptians, B. C. 456 [ACHAEMENES], Artaxerxes sent a second immense army against them, by which they were totally defeated. Amyrtaeus escaped to the island of Elbo, and maintained himself as king in the marshy districts of Lower Egypt till about the year 414 B. C., when the Egyptians expelled the Persians, and Amyrtaeus reigned six years, being the only king of the 28th dynasty. His name on the monuments is thought to be Aomahorte. Eusebius calls him Amyrtes and Amyrtanus (*)Amurta/nos). (Hdt. 2.140, 3.15; Thuc. 1.110; Diod. 11.74, 75; Ctesias. apud Phot. pp. 27, 32, 40, Bekker; Euseb. Chron. Armen. pp. 106, 342, ed. Zohrab and Mai; Wilkinson's Ant. Egypt. i. p. 205.) [P.S]
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), (search)
f his accession his only surviving brother Hystaspes was satrap of Bactria, and Artaxerxes had scarcely punished Artabanus and his associates, before Hystaspes attempted to make himself independent. After putting down this insurrection and deposing several other satraps who refused to obey his commands, Artaxerxes turned his attention to the regulation of the financial and military affairs of his empire. These beneficent exertions were interrupted in B. C. 462, or, according to Clinton, in B. C. 460, by the insurrection of the Egyptians under Inarus, who was supported by the Athenians. The first army which Artaxerxes sent under his brother Achaemenes was defeated, and Achaemenes slain. After a useless attempt to incite the Spartans to a war against Athens, Artaxerxes sent a second army under Artabazus and Megabyzus into Egypt. A remnant of the forces of Achaemenes, who were still besieged in a place called the white castle (leuko/n tei=xos), near Memphis, was relieved, and the fleet o
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Ba'ttus (search)
tes) was founded by Arcesilaus IV., with the view of securing a retreat for himself in the event of the successful rebellion of his subjects. It is not known whether he died by violence or not; but after his death royalty was abolished, and his son Battus, who had fled to Hesperides, was there murdered, and his head was thrown into the sea. Various dates have been assigned for the conclusion of the dynasty of the Battiadae; but nothing is certain, except that it could not have ended before B. C. 460, in which year Arcesilaus IV. won the chariot-race at Olympia,--nor after 401, when we hear of violent seditions between the Cyrenaean nobles and populace. (Diod. 14.34; Aristot. Pol. 6.4, ed. Bekk.) Thrige is disposed to place the commencement of popular government about 450. (Res Cyrenensium, §§ 24, 45, 46, 48; comp. Müller, Dor. 3.9.13.) The father of Callimachus was a Cyrenaean of the name of Battus (Suidas, s. v. *Kalli/maxos); and the poet, who is often called " Battiades," seems to
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Arcesilaus IV. (search)
tes) was founded by Arcesilaus IV., with the view of securing a retreat for himself in the event of the successful rebellion of his subjects. It is not known whether he died by violence or not; but after his death royalty was abolished, and his son Battus, who had fled to Hesperides, was there murdered, and his head was thrown into the sea. Various dates have been assigned for the conclusion of the dynasty of the Battiadae; but nothing is certain, except that it could not have ended before B. C. 460, in which year Arcesilaus IV. won the chariot-race at Olympia,--nor after 401, when we hear of violent seditions between the Cyrenaean nobles and populace. (Diod. 14.34; Aristot. Pol. 6.4, ed. Bekk.) Thrige is disposed to place the commencement of popular government about 450. (Res Cyrenensium, §§ 24, 45, 46, 48; comp. Müller, Dor. 3.9.13.) The father of Callimachus was a Cyrenaean of the name of Battus (Suidas, s. v. *Kalli/maxos); and the poet, who is often called " Battiades," seems to
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Chio'nides (search)
i/dhs), an Athenian comic poet of the old comedy, whom Suidas (s. v.) places at the head of the poets of the old comedy (prwtagwnisth\n th=s a)r*Xai/as kwmwdi/as), adding that he exhibited eight years before the Persian war, that is, in B. C. 487. (Clinton. sub ann.) On the other hand, according to a passage in the Poetics of Aristotle (100.3), Chionides was long after Epicharmus. [EPICHARMUS.] On the strength of this passage Meineke thinks that Chionides cannot be placed much earlier than B. C. 460; and in confirmation of this date he quotes from Athenaeus (xiv. p. 638a.) a passage from a play of Chionides, the *Ptw*Xoi/, in which mention is made of Gnesippus, a poet contemporary with Cratinus. But we also learn from Athenaeus (l.c. and iv. p. 137e.), that some of the ancient critics considered the *Ptwxoi/ to be spurious, and with respect to the passage of Aristotle, Ritter has brought forward very strong arguments against its genuineness. (For the discussion of the question see Wol
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Cincinna'tus (search)
Cincinna'tus 1. L. Quinctius Cincinnatus, L. F. L. N., plays a conspicuous part in the civil and military transactions of the period in which he lived. He particularly distinguished himself as a violent opponent of the claims of the plebeians. He was born about B. C. 519. (Niebuhr, vol. ii. note 927.) The story of his having been reduced to poverty by the merciless exaction of the bail forfeited by the flight of his son Caeso (Liv. 3.13) has no foundation. (Niebuhr, ii. p. 289.) In B. C. 460 he was illegally appointed consul suffectus in the room of P. Valerius. (Liv. 3.19; Niebuhr, ii. p. 295.) Irritated by the death of his son Caeso, he proposed a most arbitrary attempt to oppose the enactment of the Terentilian law, but the design was abandoned. (Liv. 3.20, 21.) Two years afterwards (B. C. 458), according to the common story, Cincinnatus was appointed dictator, in order to deliver the Roman consul and army from the perilous position in which they had been placed by the Aequians.
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Clau'dius (search)
Clau'dius 3. C. Claudius App. F. M. N. SABINUS REGILLENSIS, brother of the preceding (Dionys. A. R. 10.30 ; Liv. 3.35), was consul in B. C. 460, when Appius Herdonius seized the Capitol. After it had been recovered, we find him hindering the execution of the promise made by Valerius respecting the Terentilian law. (Liv. 3.15-21; Dionys. A. R. 10.9, 12-17.) Subsequently, he opposed the proposition to increase the number of the plebeian tribunes and the law de Aventino publicando. (Dionys. A. R. 10.30, 32.) He was an unsuccessful candidate for the dictatorship. (Liv. 3.35.) Though a staunch supporter of the aristocracy, he warned his brother against an immoderate use of his power. (Liv. 3.40; Dionys. A. R. 11.7-11.) His remonstrances being of no avail, he withdrew to Regillum, but returned to defend the decemvir Appius, when impeached. (Liv. 3.58.) Incensed at his death, he strove to revenge himself on the consuls Horatius and Valerius by opposing their application for leave to triumph
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Crati'nus (search)
mic poets rose and fell together. Nay, if we are to believe Cicero, the law itself granted them impunity. (De Repub. 4.10: "apud quos [Graecos] fuit etiam lege concessum, ut quod vellet comoedia de quo vellet nominatim diceret.") The same thing is stated, though not so distinctly,by Themistius. (Orat. viii. p. 110b.) This flourishing period lasted from the establishment of the Athenian power after the Persian war down to the end of the Peloponnesian war, or perhaps a few years later (about B. C. 460-393). The exercise of this license, however, was not altogether unopposed. In addition to what could be done personally by such men as Cleon and Alcibiades, the law itself interfered on more than one occasion. In the archonship of Morychides (B. C. 440-439), a law was made prohibiting the comic poets from holding a living person up to ridicule by bringing him on the stage by name (yh/fisma tou= mh\ kwmfdei=n o)nomasti/, Schol. Arist. Acharn. 67; Meineke, Hist. Crit. p. 40). This law remai
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