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

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viii. 1; Phot. Cod. 1G6.) The Getae believed that strife, is described as a son of Pallas and Styx,
the departed went to him. Every four years they and a brother of Nice. (Hes. ThLeog. 384; Apolselected a man by lot to go as a messenger to lod. i. 2. ~ 4.) [L. S.]
Zalmoxis, and tell him what they needed. The ZENAS (Znvas), a sculptor, known by the
mode in which the man was killed is described by inscriptions on two busts in the Museum of the
Herodotus (iv. 94; comp. Clem. Alex. Strom. iv. Capitol. Muller states that one of these busts is
p. 497). The Pythagorean doctrines respecting that of the emperor Clodius Albinus, and R. Rothe soul spreading in various forms among the chette says that one of them is that of the emperor
barbaric races who came in contact with the Greeks Macrinus. Whether, by putting these statements
seem to have given rise to this whole fable about together, we have the subjects of both works, or
Zalmoxis. [C. P. M.] merely two different opinions respecting one of
ZANCLUS (ZiytcAXos), a mythical king, and them, we have not the means of deciding. At all
son of Gegenus, from whom the town of Zancle in events, Zenas must have lived about the commenceSicily derived its name. (Diod. iv. 85; Steph. ment of the third century of our era. From the
Byz. s. v. ZadyKXV7.) [L. S.] occurrence of the name Znv/is on an inscription of
ZARBIE'NUS (ZapCiy7vds), king of Gordyene, Aphrodisias (B6ckh, Co6p. Inscr., No. 2768, vol. ii.
made overtures to Appius Claudius, when the latter p. 512) M. Raoul-Rochette thinks it probable.
was staying at Antiocheia, wishing to shake off that Zenas may have been a native of that place,
the yoke of Tigranes. He was informed against, at which the name Zenon was also common.
however, and was assassinated with his wife and [ZENON.] The same writer also points out the
children before the Romans entered Armenia. error of Sillig, who, from the true and a false
When Locullus arrived he celebrated his funeral reading of one of the inscriptions above referred to,
rites with great pomp, setting fire to the funeral as recorded by different authorities, has inserted in
pile with his own hand, and had a sumptuous his Catalogue two different artists, Zebas and
monument erected to him. (Plut. Lucull. 21, Linax. (Muller, Archsiol. d. KZnTIst, ~ 205, n. 2;
29). [C. P. M.] R. Rochette, Lettre ah 111. Schorn, pp. 428, 429,
ZAREX (Zdp?7i), a hero who was believed to 2nd ed.) [P. S.]
have been instructed in music by Apollo, and had ZENEUS or ZENIS (Z77/eSs, Zr7vzs), of Chios,
an heroum near Eleusis. Pausanias (i. 38. ~ 4) takes wrote a work on his native country. (Athen. xiii.
him to be a Laconian hero, and the founder of the p. 601, f.) As he is only mentioned in this pastown of Zarex in Laconia. The scholiast on Ly- sage of Athenaeus, it has been conjectured that
cophron (580) describes him as a son of Carystus the name may be a mistake, and that we ought
or Carycus, as a grandson of Cheiron, and as to read Xenomedes, who was also an historian
the father of Anius by Rhoeo. [L. S.] of Chios. [XENOMEDES.]' (Miiller, Fraym. Hist.
ZARIADRES (Zapica3pns), the younger brother Graec. vol. ii. p. 43, Paris, 1848.)
of Hystaspes, was the hero of the celebrated love- ZENICETUS. [VATIA, NO. I.]
story of Zariadres and Odatis. [ODATIS, Vol. II. ZENIS. [ZENEUS.]
p. 10.] [C. P. M.] ZENO. [ZENON.]
ZARZAS or ZARXAS (Zdapia;, Zdcipa), a ZENO'BIA, the wife of Rhadamistus, king of
Libyan, commander of a portion of the mercenary Armenia, at the accession of Nero, of whom Tacitus
troops which revolted from the Carthaginians. The relates a romantic story. (Tac. Ann. xii. 51.)
rebels being pressed by famine, Zarxas, amongst ZENO'BIA, queen of Palmyra. After the
others, surrendered himself to Hamilcar, and was death of her husband, Odenathus, about A. D.,266,
crucified. (Polyb. i. 84, 8.5, 86.) [C. P. M.] she assumed the imperial diadem and purple, as
ZEGABE'NUS or ZIGABE'NUS EUTHY' regent for her sons, and not only maintained the
MIUS. [EUTHYMIUS.] pomp but discharged all the active duties of a
ZEGABE'NUS, GEO'RGIUS, a Byzantine sovereign. She appeared in martial attire at the
writer of late date, wrote a work on the seven head of the troops, she shared their toils both on
vowels and the twenty-four letters (repI trcv Eir7rT horseback and on foot, she was at once liberal and
ra, rP-ewov ita? 7rEpl m', ElKooeirseedpw' ec,01- prudent in the administration of the revenues,
XecoW) in verse, which is extant in MS. in the strict in dispensing justice, merciful in the exercise
imperial library at Vienna. In the introduction he of power. But not content with enjoying the
gives a most lamentable account of his condition, dignified independence gratefully conceded by Galand describes himself as wanting the first neces- lienus and tolerated by Claudius, she sought to
saries of life. He also wrote and translated some include all Syria, Asia, and Egypt within the
other works, which are mentioned by Fabricius limits of her sway, and to make good the title
(Bibl. Grace. vol. xii. p. 47, fell.). which she claimed of Queen of the East. We
ZEILAS (ZiLtAas), son of Nicomedes, king of have seen elsewhere [AURELIANUs] that by this
Bithynia, and Ditizele. In consequence of the rash ambition she lost both her kingdom and her
intrigues of his step-mother, Etazeta, Zeilas was liberty. Loaded with costly jewels, fettered hand
compelled to take refuge with the king of Armenia. and foot with shackles of gold, she was led by
At his death Nicomedes left his throne to his a agolden chain, before the chariot of Aurelian, along
children by Etazeta, to the exclusion of Zeilas, who the Sacred Way, while all Rome gazed, with eager
immediately endeavoured to regain his rights by curiosity, on the Arabian princess. Profiting by
force. After several battles, fought with various the clemency of her conqueror, she passed the resuccess, he recovered the throne, probably about mainder of her life with her sons [HIERENNIANUS;
B. C. 250. He was succeeded by his son Prusias TIMOLAUS], after the manner of a Roman matron,
about B. c. 228. (Memnon, ap. Phot. Cod. 224, in the vicinity of Tivoli, nigh to the gorgeous
p. 228, ed. Bekker; Clinton, Fasti Hellen. vol. iii. villa of Hadrian, on an estate which still bore her
p. 413.) [C. P. M.] name when Pollio wrote her history.
Z ELJUS (Z~Xos), the personification of zeal or One black stain is attached to the memory of