iv useful in families and seminaries, we have made a copious collection of the scriptural proper names, with a succinct description and history of those who are entitled to notice, collected from the most learned and accurate writers upon the subject of Biblical history. The importance of this addition will be duly estimated by those who have long desired a correct account of the history and biography of the persons mentioned in the scriptures. To each name we have affixed the accent according to the manner pursued by Mr. Walker in his key to the pronunciation of Greek, Latin, and Scripture names; a work that has thrown light upon those subjects which the disputes of prosodists and the controversies of the most distinguished scholars had involved in doubt and obscurity. A CLASSIC CLASSICAL DICTIONARY, &c. A. AARON, a Levite who was the son of Amram, and brother of Moses and Miriam, was born A. M. 2430. By his wife Elisheba, he had four sons, Nadab, Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar. He was commissioned, together with his brother Moses, to effect the deliverance of the Israelites from the power of the Egyptians. He and his posterity were specially appointed to the priesthood; but being concerned in raising up the golden calf as an object of worship, and in hostility to Moses, he incurred the divine displeasure. Particular marks of honour were afterwards conferred upon him, but failing in the performance of his duty, he was debarred from entering the promised land. A short time before the Israelites were to enter Canaan, Aaron, at the command of God, ascended Mount Hor; and the priests' robes being put upon his son Eleazar, he suddenly died, in the 123 year of his age, A. M. 2552. Exo. Levit. Num. A'BA and A'BÆ, a town of Phocis, famous for an oracle of Apollo, surnamed Abæus. The inhabitants, called Abantes, were of Thracian origin. Herodot. Vid. ABANTIS.-Also the name of a city of Caria and Arabia Felix. Pliny. AB'ALUS, an island in the German ocean, where, as the ancients supposed, the amber dropped from the trees. Pliny. AB'AÑA, a river of Syria. Kings. ABANTES, a people of Peloponnesus, who built a town in Phocis called Aba, after their leader Abas, whence also their name originated: they afterwards went to Euboea. Herodot. Vid. ABAN TIS. ABAN'TIAS, or ABAN'TIADES, a patronymick given to the descendants of Abas king of Argos, such as Acrisius, Danae, Perseus. ABAN'TIS, or ABAN'TIAS, an ancient name of the island of Eubœa, received from the Abantes, who settled in it from Phocis. Pliny.-Also a coun try of Epirus. ABARBA'REA, one of the Niades, mother of sepus and Pedasus by Bucolion, Laomedon's eldest son. ABAR'IMON, a country of Scythia, near mount Imaus. ABA'RIS: the most remarkable of this name was a Scythian in the time of the Trojan war; he received a flying arrow from Apollo, with which he gave oracles, and transported himself wherever he pleased. He is said to have returned to the Hyperborean countries from Athens without eating, and to have made the Trojan Palladium with the bones of Pelops. Herodot. ABA'RUS, an Arabian prince, who perfidiously deserted Crassus in his expedition against Parthia. Appian. A'BAS: there were many of this name, the most remarkable of whom was Abas, the 11th king of Argos, son of Belus, some say of Lynceus and Hypermenestra. He was father to Prœtus and Acrisius, and built Abæ. He reigned 23 years, B. C. 1384. Paus. &c.A Latin chief who assisted Æneas against Turnus, and was killed by Lausus. Virg. Also a centaur, famous for his skill in hunting-A mountain in Syria, the source of the Euphrates.-A river of Armenia Major, where Pompey routed the Albani. Plut. ABA'SA, an island in the Red Sea, near Ethiopia. Paus. AB'ATOS, an island near Memphis in Egypt, abounding with flax and papyrus. Osiris was buried there. Lucan. ABDALON'IMUS, one of the descendants of the kings of Sidon, so poor, that to maintain himself he worked in a garden. When Alexander took Sidon he made him king, and enlarged his possessions on account of his great disinterestedness. Justin. ABDE'RA, a town of Hispania Bætica.A maritime city of Thrace, supposed to have been built by Abdera, the sister of Diomedes. The inhabitants were of such a sluggish disposition, that stupidity was commonly called Abderitica mens. ABDERI'TES, a people of Poonia, obliged to leave their country on account of the great number of rats and frogs that infested it. Justin. ABDE RUS, of Locris, armbearer to Hercules, was torn to pieces by the mares of Diomede, which the hero had | intrusted to his care when going to war against the Bistones. Hercules built a city, which, in honour of his friend, he called Abdera. AB′DOŃ, a judge of Israel, and successour of Elon. He exercised the functions of that office for eight years.--A city which belonged to the tribe of Asher. Josh. One of Josiah's messengers, who were sent to consult Huldah. Chron. A'BEL, the second son of Adam and Eve, and younger brother of Cain. His profession was that of a shepherd. Being honoured by God, above his brother Cain, he incurred the hatred of the latter, whose resentment could be gratified only by the murder of his brother. He was the first of the human race who felt the power of death. Gen. Heb. -Abel was also the name of the field of Joshua. Sam. ABELLA, a town of Campania, whose inhabitants were called Abellani. Its nuts, called avellana, were famous. Virg. ABEONA, (ab abeo.) a goddess whom the Romans invoked when going to undertake a journey. A'BIA, formerly IRF, a maritime town of Messenia, one of the seven cities promised to Achilles by Agamemnon. It is called after Abia, daughter of Her cules, and nurse of Hillus. Paus. Strab. &c. A'BII, a nation between Scythia and Thrace. Hom. ABI'ATHAR, the tenth high priest of the Jews, appointed by David, to whom he had fled for protection from Sarl, who had put to death his father Ahi melech. He incurred the just displeasure of Solomon by whom he was displaced from his dignity. Sam. Kings. A'BIB, the first sacred and seventh civil month of the Jewish year, answering to our month of March. In this month the Jews ate the passover, and kept the feast of unleavened bread. AB'IDON, the son of Gideoni. Numb. AB'IGAIL, the wife of Nabal. Her husband having offended David, she appeased him with presents, and after the death of Nabal, married him. 1 & 2 Sam. ABI'JAH, the son and successourof Rehoboam in the throne of Judah. He reigned three years, during which time he was almost constantly at war with Jeroboam, king of Israel. 1 Kings. 2 Chron. ABILE'NE, a small canton in Hollow Syria. ABİ'LA, or ABYLA, a mountain of Africa, in that part which is nearest to the opposite mountain called Calpe, on the coast of Spain, only eighteen miles distant. These two mountains are called the columns of Hercules, and were said formerly to be united, till the hero separated them, and made a communication between the Mediterranean and Atlantick seas. Strab. ABIM'ELECH, a king of the Philistines, who dwelt in Gerar, cotemporary with Abraham. The son and successour of the former. Gen.-A king of Israel and bastard son of Gideon. He murdered sixty-nine of his brethren in order to ascend the throne. He lost his life in subduing some of his rebellious subjects. Judg. ABIRAM, the brother of Dathan, both of whom, together with Korah and their families, were swallowed up in the earth, for conspiring against Moses and Aaron. ABISH'AI, the son of Zeruiah, a sister of David. ABNER, the son of Ner. He was an uncle of Saul and commanded his army. 1 and 2 Sam. ABNO'BA, a mountain of Germany, now Abenow, or the black mountain, where are the sources of the Danube. Tacit. ABC'RITUS, a Beotian general, kil led with a thousand men, in a battle at Charonea, against the Etolians. Plut. ABORIG'INES, the original inhabitants of Italy, under the reign of Saturn. Their posterity were called Latini, from Latinus, one of their kings. They assisted Æneas against Turnus. Rome was built in their country. The word signifies, without origin, or whose origin is not known. Liv. Justin, &c. ABRADA'TES, a king of Susa, who, when his wife Panthea had been taken prisoner by Cyrus, and humanely treated, surrendered himself and his troops to the conquerour. He was killed in the first battle he undertook in the cause of Cyrus, and his wife stabbed herself on his corpse. Cyrus raised a monument on their tomb. Xenoph. A'BRAM, the son of Terah. He was born A. M. 2008, at Ur in Chaldea, which he left at the age of seventy, in obedience to the commands of God, and removed with his father's household to Haran. Five years afterward, Teral dying, and God appearing to him again, he left his father's family, and taking with him his wife Sarai, and Lot, the son of his brother Haran, he travelled towards Canaan. He received repeated promises from God of a numerous seed which should inherit Canaan. He had a son, who was called Ishmael, by a concubine; and not long after his wife brought him another, whom he called Isaac. When Isaac attained the age of twenty-five, Abraham prepared, in obedience to the commands of God, to offer him a burnt sacrifice; but his hand was arrested by divine interposition. wife Sarah dying, soon after he married Keturah, by whom he had six sons. He died in the hundred and seventyfifth year of his age, A. M. 2183. Before the death of Sarai, her name was changed to Sarah, and that of her husband to Abraham. Gen. ABROCOMAS, son of Darius, was killed at the battle of Thermopylae. Herodot. His at A'BRON, an Athenian, author of a treatise concerning the religion of the ancient Greeks.-A grammarian of Rhodes, who taught rhetorick Rome. A Spartan,son of Lycurgus the oratour. Plut. AB'ROTA, the wife of Nisus, the youngest of the sons of Egeus. As a monument to her chastity, Nisus, after her death, ordered the garments which she wore to become the models of fashion in Megara. Plut. ABRYPOLIS, an ally of Rome, driven from his possessions by Perseus, the last king of Macedonia. Liv. AB'SALOM, the third son of David. He was remarkable for the beauty of his person, and the elegance of his hair. He attempted to usurp the throne in the 40th year of his father's reign, but was defeated in battle, and in his flight, his hair became entangled in the branches of an oak, and he lost his life. Sam. ABSE'US, a giant, son of Tartarus and Terra. Hygin. AB'SORUS, ABSYRTIS, ABSYRTIDES, islands in the Adriatick, or near Istria, where Arybstus was killed, whence their name. Strab. ABSYR'TUS, a son of etes, king of Colchis and Hypsea. His sister Medea, as she fled away with Jason, tore his body to pieces, and strewed his limbs in her father's way, to stop his pursuit. Some say that she murdered him in Colchis, others near Istria. Lucan, Strab. &c. ABULITES, a governour of Susa, who betrayed his trust to Alexander the Great, and was rewarded with a province. ABY'DOS, a town of Egypt, where was the famous temple of Osiris.-A city of Asia, opposite Sestos in Europe, built by the Milesians, by permission of king Gyges. It is famous for the amours of Hero and Leander, and for the bridge of boats which Xerxes built there across the Hellespont, when he invaded Greece. Liv. Justin. ABYSSIN'IA, a large kingdom of Africa, in upper Ethiopia, where the Nile takes its rise. ACACAL'LIS, a nymph, mother of Philander and Philacis by Apollo. These children were exposed to the wild beasts in Crete, but a goat giving them her milk, preserved them. Paus. ACADEMIA, a place surrounded with trees near Athens, belonging to Academus, from whence the name is derived. Here Plato opened his school of philosophy, and from this, every place sacred to learning has ever since been called Academia. It was even forbidden to laugh there. It was called Academia vetus, to distinguish it from the second academy founded by Arcesilaus, who made some few alterations in the Platonick philosophy, and from the third which was established by Carneades. Cic. Diog. &c. ACADE'MUS, an Athenian, who discovered to Castor and Pollux where Theseus had concealed their sister Helen, for which they amply rewarded him. Plut.in Thes. ACA'LLE, a daughter of Minos and Pasiphae. Apollod AC'AMAS, son of Theseus and Phædra, went with Diomedes to demand Helen from the Trojans. He was concerned in the Trojan war, and afterwards built the town of Acamantium in Phrygia, and called a tribe after his own name at Athens. Paus. Hygin. ACAN'THA, a nymph loved by Apollo, and changed into the flower Acanthus. ACA'RIA, a fountain of Corinth, where Lolas cut off the head of Eurystheus. Strab. ACARNA'NIA, a country of Epirus, at the north of the Ionian sea, divided from Ætolia by the Achelous. The inhabitants reckoned only six months in the year. Plin. ACAR'ÑAS, and AMPHOTERUS, sons of Alemæon and Callirhoe. Alcmæon being murdered by the brothers of Alphesiboa his former wife, Callirhoe obtained from Jupiter, that her children, who were still in the cradle, might grow up to punish their father's murderers. This was granted. Vid. ALCMEON. ACAS'TA, one of the Oceanides. ACAS'TUS, son of Pelias, king of Thessaly, married Astidamia or Hippolyte. Ov. Vid. PELEUS and ASTYDAMIA. ACCA LAUREN'TIA, the wife of Faustulus, shepherd of king Numitor's flocks. She brought up Romulus and Remus, who had been exposed on the banks of the Tiber. From her wantonness, she was called Lupa (a prostitute), whence the fable that Romulus was suckled by a she wolf. Dionys. Hal. Liv. AC'CHO, a city of Gallilee on the coast of the Mediterranean. ACCIA, or A'TIA, daughter of Julia, and M. Atius Balbus, was the mother of Augustus, and died about 40 years B. C. Dio. Suet. L. AC'CIUS, a Roman tragick poet. He translated some of the tragedies of Sophocles, but of his numerous pieces only some of the names are known, and among these his Nuptiæ, Mercator, Neoptolemus, Phoenice, Medea, Atreus, &c. Some few of his verses may be found preserved in Cicero and other writers. He died about 180 years B. C. Horat. Ovid, &c.-A famous oratour of Pisaurum in Cicero's age. AC'CIUS TULLIUS, a prince of the Volsci, very inimical to the Romans. Coriolanus, when banished by his countrymen, fled to him, and led his armies against Rome. Liv. Plut. ACCO, a general of the Senones in Gaul. A'CE, a place of Arcadia, near Megalopolis, where Orestes was cured from the persecution of the furies who had a temple here. Paus. ACEL'DAMA, a field near Jerusalem which was purchased by the Jews, as a burying place for strangers, with the thirty pieces of silver which Judas had received for betraying his master. From this circumstance it received its name, which signifies the field of blood. Matth. ACERA TUS, a soothsayer, who re mained alone at Delphi, when the approach of Xerxes frightened away the inhabitants. Herodot. ACER'BAS, Vid. SICHÆUS. ACER'RÆE, an ancient town of Campania, near the river Clanius, which often overflows the country. Virg. ACERSEC'OMES, a surname of Apello, which signifies unshorn. ACESINUS, or ACESI'NES, a river of Persia, falling into the Indus. Its banks produce reeds of such an uncommon size, that a piece of them, particularly between two knots, can serve as a boat to cross the water. Justin. ACE'SIUS, a surname of Apollo, as god of medicine. ACESTA, a town of Sicily, called after king Acestes. It received also the name of Segesta; it was built by Eneas. Virg. ACES'TES, son of Crinisus and Agesta, ACHE'A, one of the surnames of Pallas. lamentations at the loss of Proserpine. ACHE'I, the descendants of Achæus, at first inhabited the country near Argos, but being driven by the Heraclidæ 80 years after the Trojan war, they retired among the Ionians, whose twelve cities they seized and kept.-The poets applied the name of Achæi indiscrimi nately to all the Greeks.-Also a people of Asia, on the borders of the Euxine sea. ACHEME'NES: the most remarkable of this name is a king of Persia, among the progenitors of Cyrus the Great; his descendants were called Achæmenides, and formed a separate tribe in Persia, of which the kings were members. Cambyses son of Cyrus, on his death-bed, charged his nobles, and particularly the Achæmenides, not to suffer the Medes to recover their for mer power, and abolish the empire of Persia. Herodot. Horat. ACHEMEN'IDES, a companion of Ulysses, abandoned on the coast of Sicily, where Eneas, on his voyage to Italy, found him. Virg. ACHE'US, a son of Xuthus of Thessaly, fled to Peloponnesus, after the |