A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology. By various writers. Ed. by William Smith. Illustrated by numerous engravings on wood.

88 AIUS LOCUTIUS.
ed him everywhere like a dog. After the taking
of Troy, it is said, he rushed into the temple of
Athena, where Cassandra had taken refuge, and
was embracing the statue of the goddess as a suppliant. Ajax dragged her away with violence and
led her to the other captives. (Virg. Aen. ii. 403;
Eurip. Troad. 70, &c.; Dict. Cret. v. 12; Hygin.
Fab. 116.) According to some statements he
even violated Cassandra in the temple of the goddess (Tryphiod. 635; Q. Smyrn. xiii. 422;
Lycophr. 360, with the Schol.); Odysseus at least
accused him of this crime, and Ajax was to be
stoned to death, but saved himself by establishing
his innocence by an oath. (Paus. x. 26. ~ 1, 31.
~ 1.) The whole charge, is on the other hand,
said to have been an invention of Agamemnon,
who wanted to have Cassandra for himselt But
whether true or not, Athena had sufficient reason
for being indignant, as Ajax had dragged a suppliant from her temple. When on his voyage
homeward he came to the Capharean rocks on the
coast of Euboea, his ship was wrecked in a storm,
he himself was killed by Athena with a flash of
lightning, and his body was washed upon the rocks,
which henceforth were called the rocks of Ajax.
(Hygin. Fab. 116; comp. Virg. Aen. i. 40, &c.,
xi. 260.) For a different account of his death see
Philostr. Her. viii. 3, and Schol. ad Lycopolr. 1. c.
After his death his spirit dwelled in the island of
Leuce. (Paus. iii. 19. ~ 11.) The Opuntian
Locrians worshipped Ajax as their national hero,
and so great was their faith in him, that when
they drew up their army in battle array, they always left one place open for him, believing that,
although invisible to them, he was fighting for and
among them. (Paus. 1. c.; Conon. Narrat. 18.)
The story of Ajax was frequently made use of by
ancient poets and artists, and the hero who appears on some Locrian coins with the helmet,
shield, and sword, is probably Ajax the son of
O'leus. (Mionnet, No. 570, &c.) [L. S.]
A'IDES, 'At'ts. [HADES.]
AIDO'NEUS ('A'wvevs). 1. A lengthened
form of 'AfuS'. (Horn. I1. v. 190, xx. 61.)
[HADES.]
2. A mythical king of the Molossians, in
Epeirus, who is represented as the husband of
Persephone, and father of Core. After Theseus,
with the assistance of Peirithous, had carried off
Helen, and concealed her at Aphidnae [AcADEioUS], he went with Peirithous to Epeirus to procure for him as a reward Core, the daughter of
Aidoneus. This king thinking the two strangers
were well-meaning suitors, offered the hand of his
daughter to Peirithous, on condition that he should
fight and conquer his dog, which bore the name of
Cerberus. But when Aidoneus discovered that
they had come with the intention of carrying off
his daughter, he had Peirithous killed by Cerberus,
and kept Theseus in captivity, who was afterwards released at the request of Heracles. (Plut.
Thes. 31, 35.) Eusebius (Cahron. p. 27) calls the
wife of Aldoneus, a daughter of queen Demeter,
with whom he had eloped. It is clear that the
story about Ai'doneus is nothing but the sacred
legend of the rape of Persephone, dressed up in
the form of a history, and is undoubtedly the work
of a late interpreter, or rather destroyer of genuine
ancient myths. [L. S,]
AIUS LOCU'TIUS or LOQUENS, a Roman
divinity. In the year n. c. 389, a short time bo

ALARICUS.
fore the invasion of the Gauls, a voice was heard
at Rome in the Via nova, during the silence of
night, announcing that the Gauls were approaching.
(Liv. v. 32.) No attention was at the time paid
to the warning, but after the Gauls had withdrawn
from the city, the "Romans remembered the prophetic voice, and atoned for their neglect by erecting on the spot in the Via nova, where the voice
had been heard, a templum, that is, an altar with
a sacred enclosure around it, to Aius Locutius, or
the "Announcing Speaker." (Liv. v. 50; Varro,
ap. Gell. xvi. 17; Cic. de Divinai. i. 45, ii.
32.) [L. S.]
ALABANDUS ('A~dgavSos), a Carian hero,
son of Euippus and Calirrhoi, whom the inhabitants of Alabanda worshipped as the founder of
their town. (Steph. Byz. s. v. 'AkArGava;. Cic.
de Nat. Deor. iii. 15, 19.) [L. S.]
ALAGO'NIA ('AXayovia), a daughter of
Zeus and Europa, from whom Alagonia, a town in
Laconia, derived its name. (Paus. iii. 21. ~ 6,
26. ~ 8; Nat. Com. viii. 23.) [L. S.]
ALALCOMENE'IS ('AAaxAcoeveri's), a surname of Athena, derived from the hero Alalcomenes, or from the Boeotian village of Alalcomenae, where she was believed to have been born.
Others derive the name from the verb dAdAicew,
so that it would signify the " powerful defender."
(Hom. 11. iv. 8; Steph. Byz. s. v. 'AAaAacoivoY;
Miller, Orchom. p. 213.) [L. S.]
ALALCO'MENES ('AAaAKcoivbs), a Boeotian
autochthon, who was believed to have given the
name to the Boeotian Alalcomenae, to have
brought up Athena, who was born there, and to
have been the first who introduced her worship.
(Paus. ix. 33. ~ 4.) According to Plutarch (De
Daedal. Fragm. 5), he advised Zeus to have a
figure of oak-wood dressed in bridal attire, and
carried about amidst hymeneal songs, in order to
change the anger of Hera into jealousy. The
name of the wife of Alalcomenes was Athena 's, and that of his son, Glaucopus, both of
which refer to the goddess Athena. (Steph. Byz.
s. v. 'AXaAecogietov; Paus. ix. 3. ~ 3; comp.
Diet. of Ant. s. v. AaiXaa; Miiller, Orclhom. p.
213.) [L. S.]
ALALCOME'NIA ('AAaAKcoteVa), one of the
daughters of Ogyges, who as well as her two
sisters, Thelxionoea and Aulis, were regarded as
supernatural beings, who watched over oaths and
saw that they were not taken rashly or thoughtlessly. Their name was Ilpati3iKcat, and they had
a temple in common at the foot of the Telphusian
mount in Boeotia. The representations of these
divinities consisted of mere heads, and no parts of
animals were sacrificed to them, except heads.
(Paus. ix. 33. ~ 2, 4; Panyasis, ap. Steph. Bye.
s. v. TpepiX/M; Suid. s. v. TIpaýcrmL; Muiller, Orchomn. p. 128, &c.) [L. S.]
ALARI'CUS, in German Al-ric, i. e. " All
rich," king of the Visigoths, remarkable as
being the first of the barbarian chiefs who entered and sacked the city of Rome, and the first
enemy who had appeared before its walls since the
time of Hannibal. He was of the family of Baltha,
or Bold, the second noblest family of the Visigoths.
(Jornandes, de Reb. Get. 29.) His first appearance
in history is in A. D. 394, when he was invested
by Theodosius with the command of the Gothic
auxiliaries in his war with Eugenius. (Zosimus,
v. 5.) In 396, partly from anger at being refused