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

1324 ZEUXIPPUS. ZEUXIS.
her colonies, so that it would be useless and almost matter, taking part in the investigation that enimpossible to enumerate all the places. -The eagle, sued that he might divert suspicion from himself.
the oak, and the summits of mountains were sacred Some who were put to the torture, falling in with
to him, and his sacrifices generally consisted of the suspicion entertained by many, charged Zeuxgoats, bulls and cows. (Horn. II. ii. 403; Aristot. ippus and Pisistratus with the crime. Zeuxippus
tlhic. v. 10, ix. 2; Virg. Aen. iii. 21, ix. 627.) fled by night to Tanagra, and alarmed lest informhIis usual attributes are, the sceptre, eagle, thun- ation should be given by one of his slaves, who
derbolt, and a figure of Victory in his hand, and was privy to the whole affair, removed from Tanasometimes also a cornucopia. The Olympian Zeus gra to Anthedon, thinking the latter a safer place.
sometimes wears a wreath of olive, and the Dodo- During his exile he did the Romans some good
naean Zeus a wreath of oak leaves. In works of service in their wars with Antiochus and Philipart Zeus is generally represented as the omnipotent pus. The Roman senate, in return, complied with
father and king of gods and men, according to the a request which he made to them, and wrote to the
idea which had been embodied in the statue of the Boeotians requesting his recall. With this request,
Olympian Zeus by Pheidias. (Miiller, Anc. Art however, the Boeotians did not comply, fearing
and its Rem. ~~ 349-351.) [L. S.j lest it should occasion a breach between themselves
ZEU'XIADES (Zev~tLdr'n), artists. 1. A sta- and Macedonia, and they sent an embassy to Rome
tuary of the school of Lysippus. [SILANION, p. 81] 8, intimating their intention. Zeuxippus himself canle
b.] An interesting confirmation of the truth of to Rome at the same time, and the Romans charged
the reading of Pliny, adopted in the article re- the Aetolians and Achaeans with the duty of carferred to, is furnished by an extant inscription on rying their wishes into execution. The Achaeans
the base of a statue of the orator Hyperides, which did not approve of declaring war for that object,
was published by Spon (Miscell. p. 137) in the but sent an embassy to the Boeotians, who proform TET:IAAH4 ErIOIEI (whence Sillig makes mised to yield to their desire, but did not do so.
an artist Teusiales, Catal. Artif. s. v.); but the true -This procedure led to some hostile inroads into
reading, ZETIAAH~H, has been established by Boeotia, and a regular war would have broken out
Visconti (Icon. Grecq. vol. i. p. 272), and adopted if the senate had persisted in their demand; but
by Welcker (Kunstblatt, 1827, No. 82, pp. 326- they suffered the matter to drop. (Liv. I. c.; Polyb.
327) and Raoul-Rochette (Lettre a ill. Schorn, xxiii. 2.) [C. P. M.]
p. 413, 2nd ed.). The date of Hyperides (B. c. ZEUXIPPUS (ZeV5ar7ros), artists. 1. A
396-322) agrees with that which must be assigned painter, of Heracleia, who is mentioned by Soto Zeuxiades on the testimony of Pliny. [See SI- crates in the Protaygoras of Plato (p. 318, b. c.) as
LANION.) "this young man, who has recently come to the
2. A vase painter, whose name appears on the city " (rSovTroU'oi PealKOv Troi Uis VEWeIol /rrlbottom of a vase in the Canino collection. The 8muoOwros). Now since the celebrated Zeuxis was
letters however are so indistinct as to make the a native of Heracleia, since his age would just slit
true reading doubtful. Raoul-Rochette reads it the date of this allusion [ZEUXIs], and since he
ZETIAAE5, Amati ZV:IAAE5; both of which is expressly mentioned by Socrates elsewhere (Xen.
forms are equivalent to ZevtLd3srs; but Ottfried Mem. i. 4. ~ 6, Oecon. x. 1), it is difficult to beMiiller could not read the name at all in a fac- lieve that this Zeuxippus was a different person.
simile of the original work. (R. Rochette, Lettre There is no occasion, however, to suspect the
a AI. Schorn, pp. 63, 64.) [P. S.] reading in the passage of the Protaorags. The
ZEUXIDA'MUS (Zevtiatuos). 1. A king of true explanation is perhaps to be found in the
Sparta, and tenth of the Eurypontidae. He was common tendency of Greek names to assume abgrandson of Theopompus, and father of Anaxida- breviated forms; and thus perhaps Zeuxippus is no
mus, who succeeded him. (Paus. iii. 7.) other than the old genuine form of the name'Zeuxis.
2. A son of Leotychides, king of Sparta. He There is another passage in which Socrates is
was also named Cyniscus. He died before his made to refer to " the Heracleian stranger," withfather, leaving a son, Archidamus II. (Herod. vi. out mentioning his name (Xen. Sysmzpos. iv. 63).
71; Thuc. ii. 47; Paus. iii. 7.) [E. E.] 2. Sculptor of Argos. [PHILEAS.] [P. S.]
ZEUXIPPE (zevdh7rrn). 1. A sister of Pa- ZEUXIS (ZeiLZs), a general in the service of
sithea or Praxithea, was a Naiad and married to Antiochus the Great. He was engaged ill the
Pandion, by whom she became the mother of war with Molo, whom he prevented from crossing
Procne, Philomela, Erechtheus and Butes. (Apollod. the Tigris. Being placed under the command of
iii. 14. ~ 8; comp. BUTES.) Xenoetas, he was left by the latter in charge of
2. A daughter of Lamedon, and the wife of the camp, when he made his ill-fated attempt to
Sicyon, by whom she was the mother of Chthono- overpower Molo. But he retired on the approach
phyle. (Paus. ii. 6. ~ 2.) [L. S.] of Molo, and suffered the latter to cross the river
ZEUXIPPUS (ZeuStr7ros), a son of Apollo, by without opposition. When Antiochus himself
the nymph Syllis, was king of Sicyon. (Paus. ii. marched against Molo, Zeuxis persuaded him to
6. ~ 3.) [L. S.] cross the river, and was in command of the left
ZEUXIPPUS (Ze4tn7rros), a Boeotian, one wing in the battle that ensued. He also took a
of the partisans of the Romans. When Brachyllas prominent part in the siege of Seleucia. (Polyb. v.
was made Boeotarch he and some others betook 45-60.) It is perhaps this same Zeuxis whom
themselves to T. Quinctius at Elatea, and gained we find satrap of Lydia under Antiochus the Great.
his sanction for the assassination of Braschyllas, (Polyb. xxi. 13.) To him Philippus, when at war
which they accomplished with the aid of Alexa- with Attalus, applied for a supply of corn, which
menus, the general of the Aetolians, who provided hie obtained. (Polyb. xvi. 1, 24.) In the decisive
them with the instruments for effecting their nefa- battle with the Romans, Zeuxis was one of the
rious project. (Liv. xxxiii. 27, 28; Polyb. xviii. commanders of the front line (Appian, Syr. 33),
26.) Zeuxippus at first put a bold face upon tile and after the defeat of Antiochus was one of the