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168 ANCHISES. ANDOCIDES.
philosopher. His extant works are, 1. Five synodal gulf of Thermus near the Hellespont. (Conon, 46.)
decrees, published in Greek and Latin in the JKs According to Apollodorus (iii. 12. ~ 2), Anchises
Gr. Romn. (iii. p. 227), and 2. A dialogue with the had by Aphrodite a second son, Lyrus or Lyrnus,
emperor Manuel Comnenus concerning the claims and Homer (II. xiii. 429) calls Hippodameia the
of the Roman pontiff. Of the latter work only eldest of the daughters of Anchises, but does not
some extracts have been published, by Leo Alla- mention her mother's name. An Anchises of
tius. (De Eccles. Occident. atpque Orient. perpet. Sicyon occurs in II. xxiii. 296. [L. S.]
Consens.) [P. S.] ANCHISI'ADES ('AyXlcriais), a patronymic
ANCHI'NOE. [ACHIROE.] from Anchises, used to designate his son Aeneas
ANCHIMO'LIUS ('AyXrLdo'Aos), the son of (Hom. II. xvii. 754; Virg. Aen. vi. 348), and
Aster, was at the head of the first expedition sent Echepolus, the son of Anchises of Sicyon. (Horn.
by the Spartans to drive the Peisistratidae out of II. xxiii. 296.) [L. S.]
Athens; but he was defeated and killed, about ANCHU'RUS ('AyXvopos), a son of the Phryu. c. 511, and was buried at Alopecae in Attica. gian king Midas, in whose reign the earth opened
(Herod. v. 63.) in the neighbourhood of the town of Celaenae in
ANCII'SES ('AyXtorl), a son of Capys and Phrygia. Midas consulted the oracle in what
Themis, the daughter of Ilus. His descent is manner the opening might be closed, and he was
traced by Aeneas, his son (Hom. II. xx. 208, &c.), commanded to throw into it the most precious thing
from Zeus himself. (Comp. Apollod. iii. 1 2. ~ 2; he possessed. He accordingly threw into it a great
Tzetz. ad Lycoph. 1232.) Hyginus (Fab. 94)makes quantity of gold and silver, but when the chasm
him a son of Assaracus and grandson of Capys. still did not close, his son Anchurus, thinking that
Anchises was related to the royal house of Troy life was the most precious of all things, mounted
and king of Dardanus on mount Ida. In beauty his horse and leapt into the chasm, which closed
he equalled the immortal gods, and was beloved by immediately. (Plut. Parall. 5.) [L. S.]
Aphrodite, by whom he becamre the father of ANCUS MA'RCIUS, the fourth king of Rome,
Aeneas. (Hom. II. ii. 820; Hes. Theoj. 1008; is said to have reigned twenty-three or twentyApollod. Iygin. II. cc.) According to the Homeric four years, from about B. c. 638 to 614. Accordhymn on Aphrodite (45, &c.), the goddess had ing to tradition he was the son of Numa's daughter,
visited him in the disguise of a daughter of the and sought to tread in the footsteps of his grandPhrygian king Otreus. On parting from him, father by reestablishing the religious ceremonies
she made herself known, and announced to him which had fallen into neglect. But a war with
that he would be the father of a son, Aeneas, but the Latins called him from the pursuits of peace.
she commanded him to give out that the child was He conquered the Latins, took many Latin towns,
a son of a nymph, and added the threat that Zeus transported the inhabitants to Rome, and gave
would destroy him with a flash of lightning if he them the Aventine to dwell on. These conquered
should ever betray the real mother. When, there- Latins, according to Niebuhr's views, formed the
fore, on one occasion Anchises lost controul over original Plebs. (Dict. of Ant. s. v. Plebs.) It is
his tongue and boasted of his intercourse with the related further of Ancus, that he founded a colony
'goddess, he was struck by a flash of lightning, at Ostia, at the mouth of the Tiber; built a fortress
which according to some traditions killed, but ac- on the Janiculum as a protection against Etruria.
cording to others only blinded or lamed him. and united it with the city by a bridge across the
(Hygin. 1. c.; Serv. ad Aen. ii. 648.) Virgil in Tiber; dug the ditch of the Quirites, as it was
his Aeneid makes Anchises survive the capture of called, which was a defence for the open ground
Troy, and Aeneas carries his father on his shoul- between the Caelian and the Palatine; and built a
ders from the burning city, that he might be prison to restrain offenders, who were increasing
assisted by his wise counsel during the voyage, for (Liv. i. 32, 33; Dionys. iii. 36-45; Cic. deRep
Virgil, after the example of Ennius, attributes pro- ii. 18; Plut. Num. 21; Niebuhr, Hist. of Rome, i
phetic powers to Anchises. (Aen. ii. 687, with p. 352, &c.; Arnold, Hist. of Rome, i. p. 19.)
Serv. note.) According to Virgil, Anchises died ANDO'BALES. [INDIBILIS.]
soon after the first arrival of Aeneas in Sicily, and ANDO'CIDES ('AvS3omc'3s), one of the tei
was buried on mount Eryx. (Aen. iii. 710, v. Attic orators, whose works were contained in th<
759, &c.) This tradition seems to have been Alexandrine Canon, was the son of Leogoras, an(
firmly believed in Sicily, and not to have been was born at Athens in B. c. 467. He belonged ti
merely an invention of the poet, for Dionysius of the ancient eupatrid family of the Ceryces, whI
Halicarnassus (i. 53) states, that Anchises had a traced their pedigree up to Odysseus and the go(
sanctuary at Egesta, and the funeral games cele- Hermes. (Plut. Vit. X. Orat. p. 834, b., Alcib. 21
brated in Sicily in honour of Anchises seem to comp. Andoc. de Redit. ~ 26; de IMy/ster. ~ 141.
have continued down to a late period. (Ov. Fast. Being a noble, he of course joined the oligarchica
iii. 543.) According to other traditions Anchises party at Athens, and through their influence ob
died and was buried in Italy. (Dionys. L 64; tained, in B. c. 436, together with Glaucon, th
Strab. v. p. 229; Aurel. Vict. De Orig. Gent. Rom. command of a fleet of twenty sail, which was t
10, &c.) A tradition preserved in Pausanias (viii. protect the Corcyraeans against the Corinthian,
12. ~ 5) states, that Anchises died in Arcadia, and (Thuc. i. 51; Plut. Vit. X. Orat. 1. c.) After thi
was buried there by his son at the foot of a hill, he seems to have been employed on various occa
which received from him the name of Anchisia. sions as ambassador to Thessaly, Macedonia, Me
There were, however, some other places besides lossia, Thesprotia, Italy, and Sicily (Andoc. c. A,
which boasted of possessing the tomb of Anchises; cib. ~ 41); and, although he was frequently a'
for some said, that he was buried on mount Ida, in tacked for his political opinions (c. Alcib. ~ 8), h
accordance with the tradition that he was killed yet maintained his ground, until in B. c. 415, whe
there by Zeus (Eustath. ad Horn. p. 894), and he became involved in the charge brought again,
others, that lihe was initerred in a place on the Alcibiades for having profaned the mysteries an