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178 ANIANUS..
Other accounts state that Angerona was the goddess of silence, and that her worship was introduced at Rome to prevent the secret and sacred
name of Rome being made known, or that Angerona was herself the protecting divinity of Rome,
who by laying her finger on her mouth enjoined
men not to divulge the secret name of Rome.
(Plin. I. c.; Macrob. Sat. iii. 9.) A festival, Angeronalia, was celebrated at Rome in honour of
Angerona, every year on the 12th of December, on
which day the pontiffs offered sacrifices to her in
the temple of Volupia, and in the curia Acculeia.
(Varro, de Ling. Lat. vi. 23; Plin. and Macrob.
li. cc.) [L. S.]
ANGI'TIA or ANGUI'TIA, a goddess worshipped by the Marsians and Marrubians, who
lived about the shores of the lake Fucinus. She was
believed to have been once a being who actually
lived in that neighbourhood, taught the people
remedies against the poison of serpents, and had
derived her name from being able to kill serpents
by her incantations (from angere or angeis, Serv.
adAen. vii. 750). According to the account given
by Servius, the goddess was of Greek origin, for
Angitia, says he, was the name given by the Marrubians to Medea, who after having left Colchis
came to Italy with Jason and taught the people
the above mentioned remedies. Silius Italicus
(viii. 498, &c.) identifies her completely with
Medea. Her name occurs in several inscriptions
(Orelli, p. 87, No. 116; p. 335, No. 1846), in one of
which she is mentioned along with Angerona, and
in another her name appears in the plural form.
From a third inscription (Orelli, p. 87, No. 115) it
seems that she had a temple and a treasury belonging to it. The Silvia Angitia between Alba and
lake Fucinus derived its name from her. (Solin.
c. 2.) [L. S.]
ANIA'NUS, the referendarius (Dufresne,
Gloss. s. v.) of Alaric the second, king of the Visigoths, and employed in that capacity to authenticate with his subscription the official copies of the
Breviarium. (Dictt. of Ant. s.. Breviarium.)
In his subscription he used the words Anianus, vir
spectabilis subscripsi et edidi, and it is probable that,
from a misunderstanding of the word eddii, proceeded the common notion that he was the author
of the Romano-Gothic code, which has thence
sometimes been called Breviariuam Aniani. The
subscription took place at Aire (Aduris) in Gascoigne, A. D. 506. (Silberrad, ad Hebinec. Hiist.
Jar. Germ. ~ 15.) Sigebert (de ecclesiasticis scriptoributs, c. 70, cited by Jac. Godefroi, Prolegiomena
in Cod. Theodos. ~ 5) says, that Anianus translated
from Greek into Latin the work of Chrysostom
upon St. Matthew; but respecting this, see the
following article, No. 2. [J. T. G.]
ANIA'NUS ('Aviavds). 1. An Egyptian monk,
who lived at the beginning of the 5th century after
Christ, and wrote a chronography, in which, according to Syncellus, he generally followed Eusebius,
but sometimes corrected errors made by that writer.
It is, however, very doubtful whether Anianus, on
the whole, surpassed Eusebius in accuracy. Syncellus frequently finds fault with him. (Syncell.
Chronogr. pp. 7, 16, 17, 34-36.)
2. Deacon of Celeda, in Italy, at the beginning of the 5th century, a native of Campania,
was the amanuensis of Pelagius, and himself
a warm Pelagian. He was present at the synod
of Diospolis (A. D. 415), and wrote on the Pelagian

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controversy against Jerome. (iieron. Epist. 81.)
He also translated into Latin the homilies of
Chrysostom on the Gospel of Matthew and on
the Apostle Paul, and Chrysostom's Letters to
Neophytes. Of all his works there are only extant
the translations of the first eight of Chrysostom's
homilies on Matthew, which are printed in Montfaucon's edition of Chrysostom. The rest of those
homilies were translated by Gregorius (or Georgius)
Trapezuntius, but Fabricius regards all up to the
26th as the work of Anianus, but interpolated by
Gregory. (Bibl. Graec. viii. p. 552, note.) Sigebert
and other writers attribute the translation of
Chrysostom to the jurist Anianus, who lived
under Alaric; but this is a manifest error, since
the preface to the work is addressed to Orontius,
who was condemned for Pelagianism in the council
of Ephesus. (A. D. 431.) [P. S.]
ANICE'TUS. 1. A freedman of Nero, and
formerly his tutor, commanded the fleet at Misenum
in A. D. 60, and was employed by the emperor to
murder Agrippina. He was subsequently induced
by Nero to confess having committed adultery
with Octavia, but in consequence of his conduct in
this affair was banished to Sardinia, where he died.
(Tac. Ann. xiv. 3, 7, 8, 62; Dion Cass. lxi. 13;
Suet. Ner. 35.)
2. A freedman of Polemo, who espoused the
party of Vitellius, and excited an insurrection
against Vespasian in Pontus, A. D. 70. It was
however put down in the same year, and Anicetus,
who, had taken refuge at the mouth of the river
Cohibus, was surrendered by the king of the Sedochezi to the lieutenant of Vespasian, and put to
death. (Tac. Hist. iii. 47, 48.)
3. A Greek grammarian, who appears to have
written a glossary. (Athen. xi. p. 783, c.; comp.
Alciphr. i. 28, with Bergler's note.)
ANICIA GENS. Persons of the name o:
Anicius are mentioned first in the beginning of th(
second century B. c. Their cognomen was GALL us
Those whose cognomen is not mentioned are givel
under ANICIUS.
ANICIUS. 1. CN. ANIClUS, alegate of Paullu
in the Macedonian war, B c. 168. (Liv. xliv. 46.
2. T. ANICIus, who said that Q. Cicero ha(
given him a commission to purchase a place in th
suburbs for him, B.c. 54. (Cic. ad Qu. Fr. iii. 1. ~ 7.
3. C. ANICIus, a senator and a friend of Cicerc
whose villa was near that of the latter. Cicer
gave him a letter of introduction to Q. Cornificiu
in Africa, when Anicius was going there with th
privilege of a legatio libera (Dict. of A nt. s.v. Legatue
in B. c. 44. (Cic. ad Qu. Fr. ii. 19, ad Fam. vi
26, xii. 21.)
ANI'GRIDES ('Avilyptes), the nymphs of tt
river Anigrus in Elis. On the coast of Elis, n<
far from the mouth of the river, there was a grot'
sacred to them, which was visited by persol
afflicted with cutaneous diseases. They were cure
here by prayers and sacrifices to the nymphs, ar
by bathing in the river. (Paus. v. 5. ~ 6; Stra
viii. p. 346; Eustath. ad Homr.. p. 880.) [L. S
A'NIUS ('Avios), a son of Apollo by Creus
or according to others by Rhoeo, the daught
of Staphylus, who when her pregnancy becar
known was exposed by her angry father in a chb
on the waves of the sea. The chest landed
Delos, and when Rhoeo was delivered of a boy s
consecrated him to the service of Apollo, who c
dowed him with prophetic powers. (Diod. v. 6