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102 ALCIMUS.
Dioxippus lived in the time of Alexander the
Great. (Aelian, V. H. x. 22; Diod. xvii. 100;
Athen. vi. p. 251, a.) Alcimachus therefore probably lived about the same time. [C. P. M.]
ALCI'MEDE ('AAhcqteS?), a daughter of Phylacus and Clymene, the daughter of Minyas. (Apollon. Rhod. i. 45; Schol. ad loc. and ad i. 230.)
She married Aeson, by whom she became the
mother of Jason (Ov. Heroid. iv. 105; Hygin.
Fab. 13 and 14), who, however, is called by others
a son of Polymede, Arne, or Scarphe. (Apollod. i.
9. ~ 8; comp. AESON, JASON.) [L. S.]
ALCIMEDON ('AAhcqiS8wv). 1. An Arcadian hero, from whom the Arcadian plain Alcimedon derived its name. He was the father of
Phillo, by whom Heracles begot a son, Aechmagoras, whom Alcimedon exposed, but Heracles
saved. (Paus. viii. 12. ~ 2.) [AECHMAGORAS.]
2. One of the Tyrrhenian sailors, who wanted
to carry off the infant Dionysus from Naxos, but
was metamorphosed, with his companions, into a
dolphin. (Ov. Met. iii. 618; Hygin. Fab. 134;
comp. ACOETES.)
3. A son of Laerceus, and one of the commanders of the Myrmidons under Patroclus. (Hom. II.
xvi. 197, xvii. 475, &c.) [L. S.]
ALCI'MEDON, an embosser or chaser, spoken
of by Virgil (Eclog. iii. 37, 44), who mentions
some goblets of his workmanship. [C. P. M.]
ALCIMENES ('AAtKcioln). 1. A son of
Glaucus, who was unintentionally killed by his
brother Bellerophon. According to some traditions, this brother of Bellerophon was called Deliades, or Peiren. (Apollod. ii. 3. ~ 1.)
2. One of the sons of Jason and Medeia. When
Jason subsequently wanted to marry Glance, his
sons Alcimenes and Tisander were murdered by
Medeia, and were afterwards buried by Jason in
the sanctuary of Hera at Corinth. (Diod. iv. 54,
55.) [L. S.]
ALCI'MENES ('AAic/vjys), an Athenian comic
poet, apparently a contemporary of Aeschylus.
One of his pieces is supposed to have been the
KoAvug&o-at (the Female Swimmers). His works
were greatly admired by Tynnichus, a younger
contemporary of Aeschylus.
There was a tragic writer of the same name, a
native of Megara, mentioned by Suidas. (Meineke,
Hist. Crit. Comicorum Graec. p. 481; Suid. s. v.
'AAKiciAEqs and 'AAh dv.) [C. P. M.]
A'LCIMUS ('AAhrclos), also called Jacimus, or
Joachim ('IdclKa os), one of the Jewish priests, who
espoused the Syrian cause. He was made high
priest by Demetrius, about B. c. 161, and was installed in his office by the help of a Syrian army.
In consequence of his cruelties he was expelled by
the Jews, and obliged to fly to Antioch, but was
restored by the help of another Syrian army. He
continued in his office, under the protection of the
Syrians, till his death, which happened suddenly
(B. C. 159) while he was pulling down the wall of
the temple that divided the court of the Gentiles
from that of the Israelites. (Joseph. Ant. Jud. xii.
9. ~ 7; 1 Malccab. vii. ix.)
A'LCIMUS ('ANKLncos), a Greek rhetorician
whom Diogenes Laertius (ii. 114) calls the most
distinguished of all Greek rhetoricians, flourished
about B. c. 300. It is not certain whether he is
the same as the Alcimus to whom Diogenes in
another passage (iii. 9) ascribes a work Trpds 'Afb'vvra. Athenaeus in several places speaks of a Si

ALCINOUS.
cilian Alcimus, who appears to have been the
author of a great historical work, parts of which
are referred to under the names of 'IraAucd and
21KeALKa'. But whether he was the same as the
rhetorician Alcimus, cannot be determined. (Athen.
x. p. 441, xii. p. 518, vii. p. 322.) [L. S.]
A'LCIMUS (AVI'TUS) ALE'THIUS, the
writer of seven short poems in the Latin anthology.
whom Wernsdorf has shewn (Po't. Lat. Min. vol.
vi. p. 26, &c.) to be the same person as Alcimus,
the rhetorician in Aquitania, in Gaul, who is spoken
of in terms of high praise by Sidonius Apollinaris,
(Epist. viii. 11, v. 10,) and Ausonius. (Profess.
Burdigal. ii.) His date is determined by Hieronymus in his Chronicon, who says that Alcimus
and Delphidius taught in Aquitania in A.D. 360.
His poems are superior to most of his time.
They are printed by Meier, in his " Anthologia
Latina," ep. 254--260, and by Wernsdorf, vol. vi.
p. 194, &c.
ALCINOUS ('AhKivoos). 1. A son of Nausithous, and grandson of Poseidon. His name is
celebrated in the story of the Argonauts, and still
more in that of the wanderings of Odysseus. In
the former Alcinous is represented as living with
his queen Arete in the island of Drepane. The
Argonauts, on their return from Colchis, came to
his island, and were most hospitably received.
When the Colchians, in their pursuit of the Argonauts, likewise arrived in Drepane, and demanded
that Medeia should be delivered up to them, Alcinous declared that if she was still a maiden she
should be restored to them, but if she was already
the wife of Jason, he would protect her and her
husband against the Colchians. The Colchians were
obliged, by the contrivance of Arete, to depart without their princess, and the Argonauts continued
their voyage homewards, after they had received
munificent presents from Alcinous. (Apollon. Rhod.
iv. 990-1225; Orph. Argon. 1288, &c.; Apollod.
i. 9. ~ 25, 26.) According to Homer, Alcinous is
the happy ruler of the Phaeacians in the island of
Scheria, who has by Arete five sons and one daughter, Nausicaa. (Od. vi. 12, &c., 62, &c.) The
description of his palace and his dominions, the
mode in which Odysseus is received, the entertainments given to him, and the stories he related
to the king about his own wanderings, occupy a
considerable portion of the Odyssey (from book vi.
to xiii.), and form one of its most charming parts.
(Comp. Hygin. Fab. 125 and 126.)
2. A son of Hippothoon, who, in conjunction
with his father and eleven brothers, expelled Icarion and Tyndareus from Lacedaemon, but was
afterwards killed, with his father and brothers, by
Heracles. (Apollod. iii. 10. ~ 5.) [L. S.]
A'LCINOUS ('AActvovs), a Platonic philosopher, who probably lived under the Caesars. Nothing is known of his personal history, but a work
entitled 'E7rTroin) c"V IThAdc'wos o'y/MiaTW, containing an analysis of the Platonic philosophy, as
it was set forth by late writers, has been preserved.
The treatise is written rather in the manner of
Aristotle than of Plato, and the author has not
hesitated to introduce any of the views of other
philosophers which seemed to add to the completeness of the system. Thus the parts of the syllogism (c. 6), the doctrine of the mean and of the
eýels and mvepyCeal (c. 2. 8), are attributed to
Plato; as well as the division of philosophy which
was common to the Peripatetics and Stoics. It