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

276 GCLAtUCIUS. GLOBULUS.
whole family of Glaucus was exterminated before hooks, or dovetails (6esuol), which were used before
the third generation. The same story is alluded the invention of Glaucus. (Pausan. I. c.; Muller,
to by Pausanias (ii. 18, ~ 2, viii. 7. ~ 4), and by in Biottiger's Amalthea, vol. iii. p. 25.) Plutarch
Juvenal (xiii. 199). [E. H. B.] also speaks of this base as very celebrated. (De
GLAUCUS (rAacos)r) 1. Of Athens; and Defect.Orac. 47, p. 436, a.) The skill of Glaucus
2. of Nicopolis, poets of the Greek Anthology, whose passed into a proverb, rmavKov TeXV71. (Schol. ad
epigrams seem to have been confounded together. Plat. Phaed. p. 13, Ruhnken, pp. 381-2, Bekker.)
The Anthology contains six epigrams, of which the Stephanus Byzantinus (s. v. AiOa'A71) calls Glau1st, 2nd, 4th, and 5th are simply inscribed rtaJ'- cus a Samian. The fact is, that Glaucus belonged
KOV, the 3rd, rav'aov'AOroaiov, and the 6th, to the Samian school of art.
MAa&Kov NuKoo7roATa. From internal evidence, Ja- Glaucus is placed by Eusebius (Chron. Arm.) at
cobs thinks that the 1st and 2nd belong to Glaucus 01. 22, 2 (B. c. 69w). Alyattes reigned B. C. 617
of Nicopolis, and that the 3rd, 4th, and 5th were -560. But the dates are not inconsistent, for
written by one poet, probably by Glaucus of Athens. there is nothing in Herodotus to exclude the supThese latter three are descriptions of works of art. position that the iron base had been made some
Perhaps all the epigrams should be ascribed to time before Alyattes sent it to Delphi.
Glaucus of Athens. (Brunck. Anal. vol. ii. pp. 2. Of Lemnos, a distinguished statuary (Steph.
347, 348; Jacobs, Anth. Graec. vol. iii. pp. 57, 58, Byz. s. v. A0oad21), is perhaps the same as the forvol. xiii. p. 898; Fabric. Bibl. Graec. vol. ii. p. 122, mer, for several of the Samian school of artists
vol. iv. p. 476.) wrought in Lemnos.
3. A Locrian, who is mentioned as one of the 3. Of Argos, was the statuary who, in conjuncwriters on cookery (dJiaprvicld, Athen. vii. p. tion with Dionysius, made the works which Smi324, a., ix. p. 369, b., xii. p. 516, c., xiv. p. 661, cythus dedicated at Olympia. Glaucus made the
e.; Pollux, vi. 10.) statues of Iphitus crowned by Ececheiria (the god4. Of Rhegium, sometimes mentioned merely as dess of truces), of Amphitrite, of Poseidon, and of
of Italy, wrote on the ancient poets and musicians Vesta, which Pausanias calls "the greater offer(aky-ypaclpad Tr 7repl'cvo dpXaiwv Trol71TCv'e- Kal ings of Smicythus." Dionysius made " the lesser,uov-eWv, Plut. de Mus'c. 4, p. 1132, e.). Diogenes offerings." (Paus. v. 26. ~~ 2-6. [DIONYLaertius quotes statements of his respecting Empe- sius.] [P. S.]
docles and Democritus, and says that he was con- GLAUCUS (ravKos). 1. Called by Arrian
temporary with Democritus (viii. 52, ix. 38). (Anab. vii. ]4) Glaucias (rJavKias), the name
Glaucus is also quoted in the argument to the of the physician who attended on Hephaestion
Persae of Aeschylus. (rhavKos e' To07s 7repi Ale- at the time of his death, B. c. 325, and who is said
Xv'hov 60'wv.) His work was also ascribed to the to have been either crucified or hanged by Alexorator Antiphon. (Plut. Vit. X. Orat. p. 833, d.) ander, for his ill success in treating him,. (Plut.
5. A sophist and hierophant of the Eleusinian Ales. c. 72.)
mysteries. (Philostrat. de Sophist. ii. 20, p. 601.) 2. Another physician of the same name at Alex6. A writer on the geography and antiquities of andria, -who is said to have informed Q. Dellius of
Arabia, often quoted by Stephanus Byzantinus, a plot formed against him by Cleopatra, probably
who calls his work sometimes'ApafKc) dopXaoAo- B. c. 31. (Plut. Anton. c. 59.)'ya, and sometimes'ApaclKd (s. v. A'tAavoo, ra, 3. Another physician of the same name, is quoted
&c.; Vossius, de Hist. Graec. pp. 443-4, ed. West- by Asclepiades Pharmacion (ap. Galen, De Compos.
ermann.) [P. S.] Medicam. sec. Loc. iv. 7, vol. xii. p. 743.), and
GLAUCUS (rhagKos), of Carystus, the son of lived in or before the first century after Christ.
Demylos, was one of the most celebrated Grecian 4. A physician, about the end of the first cenathletes. He was a 7repLoeovbc77s, having gained tury after Christ, mentioned by Plutarch as a conone Olympic, two Pythian, eight Nemean, aid temporary in his treatise De Sanitate Tuenda
eight Isthmian victories in boxing. It is said that (init.).
while still a boy, he refixed a ploughshare which GLI'CIA or GLY'CIAS, M. CLAU'DIUS, a
had dropped'out of its place by the blows of his freedman of P. Claudius Pulcher [CLAUDIUS, No,
fist, without the help of a hammer. His statue at 13], to whom he was clerk or messenger. When
Olympia was made by GLAUCIAS of Aegina. Claudius, after his defeat at Drepana, B. C. 249,
(Miiller, Aeginet. iii. 4. p. 103; Krause, Olynmp. was cited by the senate to answer for his misconp. 292.) [P. S.] duct, and commanded to appoint a dictator, he noGLAUCUS (nravKos), artists. 1. Of Chios, minated Glicia. (Suet. Tib. 2.) The appointment
a statuary in metal, distinguished as the inventor was, however, instantly cancelled, even before
of the art of soldering metals (co'AA'qesS). His Glicia had named his master of the equites. (Fasti.
most noted work was an-iron base (7roKp'77piL810ov, Capit.) His disgrace did not prevent Glicia from
Herod.; dsrd06,La, Paus.), which, with the silver appearing at the Great Games in his pretexta as if
bowl it supported, was presented to the temple at he had been really dictator, (Liv. Epit. xix.) Glicia
Delphi by Alyattes, king of Lydia. (Herod. i. 25.) was afterwards legatus in Corsica, to the consul
This base was seen by Pausanias, who describes its C. Licinius Varus, B. C. 236, where, presuming to
construction (x. 16. ~ 1), and by Athenaeus:(v. treat with the Corsicans without orders from the
p. 210, b. c.), who says that it was- chased- with senate or the consul, he was first delivered up to
small figures of animals, insects, and plants. Per- the enemy as solely responsible for the treaty, and,
haps it'is this passage that has led Meyer (Kunst- on their refusal to punish him, was put to death at
geschichte, vol. ii. p. 24) and others into the mistake Rome. (Dion Cass. fr. 45; Zonar. viii. p. 400. B;
of explaining KcdAAo'ts as that kind of engraving Val. Max. vi. 3. 3; Comp. Grot. de Jur. Bell. et
on steel which we call damascene work. There is Pac. ii. 21. ~ 4.) [W.B. D.]
no doubt that it means a mode of uniting metals by GLI'CIUS GALLUS. [GALLUS.]
a solder or cement, without the help of the nails, GLO'BULUS, P. SERVI'LIUS, was tribune