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A DICTIONARY OF ROMAN MYTHOLOGY

ABAMMON MAGISTER. [porphyrius.]

ABANTIAS. [abantiades.]

ABDOLONIMUS or ABDALO'NIMUS, a gardener, but of royal descent, was made king of Sidon by Alexander the Great. He is called Ballonymus by Diodorus.

ABISTAMENES was appointed governor of Cappadocia by Alexander the Great. He is called Sabictas by Arrian. Gronovius conjectures that instead of Abistamene Cappadodae praeposito^ we ought to read Abicta magnae Cappadociae, fyc.

ABLAVIUS. (1.) Prefect of the city, the mi­nister and favourite of Constantine the Great, was murdered after the death of the latter. He was consul a. d. 331. There is an epigram extant attributed to him, in which the reigns of Nero and Constantine are compared. (2.) A Roman historian, whose age is unknown, wrote a history of the Goths, which is some­times quoted by Jornandes as his authority

ABRONIUS SILO, a Latin Poet, who lived in the latter part of the Augustan age, was a pupil of Porcius Latro. His son was also a poet, but degraded himself by writing plays for pantomimes.

ABRUPOLIS, an ally of the Romans, who attacked the dominions of Perseus, and laid them waste as far as Amphipolis, but was afterwards driven out of his kingdom by Perseus.

ABSEUS. [GlGANTES.]

ABURIA GENS, plebeian. On the coins of this gens we find the cognomen gem., which is perhaps an abbreviation of Geminus. The coins have no heads of persons on them.

1. C. aburius was one of the ambassadors sent to Masinissa and the Carthaginians.

2. M. aburius, tribune of the plebs, b. c. 187, opposed M. Fulvius the proconsul in his petition for a triumph, but withdrew his opposition chiefly through the influence of his colleague Ti. Gracchus. He was praetor peregrinus.

ABURNUS VALENS. [valbns.]

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