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110 the companions of Alexander the Great. (Plut. De Tranquil. 13; comp. Strab. xi. p.530.) The family now sank into insignificance, and the last certain trace of an Aleuad is Thorax, a friend of Antigonus. (Plut. Demetr. 29.) Whether the sculptors Aleuas, mentioned by Pliny (Plin. Nat. 34.8), and Scopas of Paros, were in any way connected with the Aleuadae, cannot be ascertained. See Boeckh's Commentary on Pind. Pyth. x. ; Schneider, on Aristot. Polit. 5.5, 9; but more particularly Buttmann, Von dem Geschlecht der Aleuaden, in his Mythol. ii. p. 246, &c., who has made out the following genealogical table of the Aleuadae.

ALEUAS Πύρρος,

KING, OR TAGUS, OF THESSALY.

Mother Archedice.

01. 40. Echecratides. " 45. " 50. " 55. " 70. Eurylochus Echecratides. wife Dyseris. Antiochus, Tagus. Simus. Aleuas IL Scopas I. Creon. Diactorides. Scopas II Thorax, Eurypylus, Thrasydaeus. " 80. Orestes. " 85. " 90. " 95. Eurylochus. Medius. Aristippus. Scopas III., Tagus. " 100. " 105. " 110. " 115. Hellanocrates. Eurylochus. Eudicus, Simus. Thrasydaeus. Medius.

ALEUAS, an artist who was famous for his statues of philosophers. (Plin. Nat. 34.8. s. 19, 26.)

A'LEUS (Ἀλεός), a son of Apheidas, and grandson of Arcas. He was king of Tegea in Arcadia, and married to Neaera, and is said to have founded the town of Alea and the first temple of Athena Alea at Tegea. (Paus. 8.23.1, 4.3, &c.; Apollod. 3.9.1.) [ALEA.]

ALEXA'MENUS（Ἀλεξαμενός), was general of the Aetolians, B. C. 196 (Plb. 18.26), and was sent by the Aetolians, in B. C. 192, to obtain possession of Lacedaemon. He succeeded in his object, and killed Nabis, the tyrant of Lacedaemon; but the Lacedaemonians rising against him shortly after, he and most of his troops were killed. (Liv. 35.34-36.)

ALEXA'MENUS（Ἀλεξαμενός), of Teos, was, according to Aristotle, in his work upon poets (περὶ τοιητῶν), the first person who wrote dialogues in the Socratic style before the time of Plato. (Athen. 11.505b. c.; D. L. 3.48.)

ALEXA'NDER [PARIS.]

ALEXA'NDER (Ἀλέξανδρος), the defender of men, a surname of Hera under which she was worshipped at Sicyon. A temple had been built there to Hera Alexandros by Adrastus after his flight from Argos. (Schol. ad Pind. Nem. 9.30 ; comp. Apollod. 3.12.5.)

ALEXA'NDER (Ἀλέξανδρος), a man whom Mithridates is charged by Sulla with having sent to assassinate Nicomedes. (Appian, De Bell. Mithr. 57.) He seems to be the same person as Alexander the Paphlagonian, who is afterwards (76, &c.) mentioned as one of the generals of Mithridates, and was made prisoner by Lucullus, who kept him to adorn his triumph at Rome.

ALEXA'NDER (Ἀλέξανδρος), a saint and martyr, whose memory is celebrated by the Romish church, together with the other martyrs of Lyons and Vienne, on the second of June. He was a native of Phrygia, and a physician by profession, and was put to death, A. D. 177, during the persecution that raged against the churches of Lyons and Vienne under the emperor Marcus Aurelius. (Epist. Eccles. Lugdun. et Vienn. apud Euseb. Hist. Eccl. 5.1. p. 163.) He was condemned, together with another Christian, to be devoured by wild beasts in the amphitheatre, and died (as the historian expresses it) "neither uttering a groan nor a syllable, but conversing in his heart with God." (Bzovius, Nomenclator Sanctorum Professione Medicorum ; Martyrol. Roman. ed. Baron.; Acta Sanctorum, June 2.)

ALEXANDER, an ACARNANIAN, who had once been a friend of Philip III. of Macedonia, but forsook him, and insinuated himself so much into the favour of Antiochus the Great, that he was admitted to his most secret deliberations. He advised the king to invade Greece, holding out to him the most brilliant prospects of victory over the Romans, B. C. 192. (Liv. 35.18.) Antiochus followed his advice. In the battle of Cynoscephalae, in which Antiochus was defeated by the Romans, Alexander was covered with wounds, and in this state he carried the news of the defeat to his king, who was staying at Thronium, on the Maliac gulf. When the king, on his retreat from Greece, had reached Cenaeum in Euboea, Alexander died and was buried there, B. C. 191. (36.20.)

ALEXANDER of AEGAE (Ἀλέξανδρος Αἰγαῖος), a peripatetic philosopher, who flourished at Rome in the first century, and a disciple of the celebrated mathematician Sosigenes, whose calcula-