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

288 ARISBE.
tiacus, the only noble Aeduan who Had neither
given hostages nor taken the oath, requested help
from Caesar, and was accompanied by a numerous
deputation of Gallic chiefs of all tribes, who had
now forgotten their mutual quarrels in their terror
of the common foe. They all expressed the greatest
fear lest their request should be known to Ariovistus, and the Sequani regarded him with such
awe, that they durst not utter a word to Caesar,
but only shewed their misery by their downcast
looks. Caesar, who was afraid that first Gaul and
then Italy would be overrun by the barbarians,
sent orders to Ariovistus to prevent the irruption
of any more Germans, and to restore the hostages
to the Aedui. These demands were refused in
the same haughty tone of defiance which Ariovistus
had before used in declining an interview proposed
by Caesar. Both parties then advanced with warlike intentions, and the Romans seized Vesontio
(Besanfon), the chief town of the Sequani. Here
they were so terrified by the accounts which they
heard of the gigantic bulk and fierce courage of the
Germans, that they gave themselves up to despair,
and the camp was filled with men making their
wills. Caesar reanimated them by a brilliant
speech, at the end of which he said that, if they
refused to advance, he should himself proceed with
his favourite tenth legion only. Upon this they
repented of their despondency, and prepared for
battle. Before this could take place, an interview between Caesar and Ariovistus was at last
held by the request of the latter. They could
come, however, to no agreement, but the battle
was still delayed for some days; Ariovistus contriving means of postponing it, on account of a
prophecy that the Germans would not succeed if
they engaged before the new moon. The battle
ended by the total defeat of Ariovistus, who immediately fled with his army to the Rhine, a
distance of 50 miles from the field. Some crossed
the river by swimming, others in small boats, and
among the latter Ariovistus himself. His two
wives perished in the retreat; one of his daughters
was taken prisoner, the other killed. The fame of
Ariovistus long survived in Gaul, so that in Tacitus
(Hist. iv. 73) we find Cerealis telling the Treveri
that the Romans had occupied the banks of the
Rhine, " nequis alius Ariovistus regno Galliarzum
potiretur." This shews that the representation
which Caesar gives of his power is not exaggerated.
(Caes. B. G. i. 31-53; Dion Cass. xxxviii. 31,
&c.; Plut. Caes. 18; Liv. Epit. 104.) [G. E. L.C.I
ARIPHRON ('Apt~pwv). 1. The father of
Xanthippus, and grandfather of Pericles. (Herod,
vi. 131, 136, vii. 33, viii. 131; Paus. iii. 7. ~ 8.)
2. The brother of Pericles. (Plat. Proltag. p.
320, a.)
3. Of Sicyon, a Greek poet, the author of a beautiful paean to health ('TyilEa), which has been
preserved by Athenaeus. (xv. p. 702, a.) The
beginning of the poem is quoted by Lucian (de
Lapsu inter Salt. c. 6.) and Maximus Tyrius (xiii.
1.) It is printed in. Bergk's Poe/ae Lyrici Graeci,
p. 841.
ARISBE ('Apiafo-). 1. A daughter of Merops
and first wife of Priam, by whom she became the
mother of Aesacus, but was afterwards resigned to
1Hyrtacus. (Apollod. i. 12. ~ 5.) According to
some accounts, the Trojan town of Arisbe derived
its name from her. (Steph. Byz. s. v.)
2. A daughter of Teucer and wife of Dardanus.

ARISTAENUJS.
She wras: a nlitive of Crete, and soine traditions
stated that it was this Arisbe who gave the name
to the town of Arisbe. (Steph. Byz. s. v.; Lycophr.
1308.) According to others, Bateia was the wife
of Dardanus. (Apollod. iii. 12. ~ 1; comp. Eustath.
ad Hom2. p. 894.)
3. A daughter of Macarus, and wife of Paris,
from whom the town of Arisbe in Lesbos derived
its name. (Steph. Byz. s. v.; Eustath. I.c.) [L.S.]
ARISTAE'NETUS ('Apiaraiveros), of Dymae,
an Achaean general, the commander of the Achaean
cavalry on the right wing in the battle of Mantineia,
B. c. 207. (Polyb. xi. 11.) [ARISTAENUS.]
2. The author of a work on Phaselis, of which
the first book is quoted by Stephanus Byz. (s. v.
FIeAa.) He appears also to have written on Egypt
and the good things of the Nile. (Eudoc. Viol. p.
67.) Fabricius (Bibl. Grace. ii. p. 697) mentions
several other persons of this name.
ARISTAE'NETUS ('Apbo-ralveTos),the reputed
author of two books of Love-Letters (irsaroAal
PWTICcaQ), which were first edited by Samsbucus,
(Antwerp, 1566), and subsequently by de Pauwv,
(Utrecht, 1736), Abresch, (Zwoll. 1749), and
Boissonade (1822). These Letters are taken almost entirely from Plato, Lucian, Philostratus,
and Plutarch; and so owe to their reputed author
Aristaenetus nothing but the connexion. They
are short unconnected stories of love adventures;
and if the language in occasional sentences, or
even paragraphs, is terse and elegant, yet on the
whole they are only too insipid to be disgusting.
Of the author nothing is known. It has been
conjectured, that he is the same as Aristaenetus of
Nicaea, to whom several of Libanius' Epistles are
addressed, and who lost his life in the earthquake
in Nicomedia, A. D. 358. (Comp. Ammian. Marcell. xvii. 7.) That this supposition, however, is
erroneous, is proved by the mention of the celebrated pantomimus Caramallus in one of the epistles, who is mentioned in the fifth century by
Sidonius Apolloniaris (xxiii. 267) as his contemporary. Sidonius died A. D. 484. [C. T. A.]
ARISTAENUS ('ApiorTaios), of Megalopolis,
sometimes called Aristaenetus by Polybius
(Schweigh. ad Polyb. xvii. 1) and Plutarch (Philop. 13, 17). Aristaenus, however, appears to be
the correct name. He was strategus of the Achaean
league in B. c. 198, and induced the Achaeans to
join the Romans in the war against Philip of Macedon. Polybius defends him from the charge of
treachery for having done so. In the following
year (a. c. 197) he was again strategus and accomnpanied the consul T. Quinctius Flamininus to his
interview with Philip. (Polyb. xxxii. 19--21,
32; Polyb. xvii. 1, 7, 13.) In the same year he
also persuaded the Boeotians to espouse the side
of the Romans. (Liv. xxxiii. 2.) In B. c. 195,
when he was again strategus, he joined Flamininus
with 10,000 foot and 1000 horse in order -to attack
Nabis. (Liv. xxxiv. 25, &c.) He was also
strategus in B. c. 185, and attacked Philopoemen
and Lycortas for their conduct in relation to the
embassy that had been sent to Ptolemy. (Polyb.
xxiii. 7, 9, 10.)
Aristaenus was the political opponent of Philopoemen, and showed more readiness to gratify the
wishes of the Romans than Philopoemen did. He
was eloquent and skilled in politics, but not distinguished in war. (Polyb. xxv. 9; comp. Plut.
Philop. 17; Paus. viii. 51. ~ 1.)