to pay his troops; but the people rose against him and drove him out of the city. He soon fell into the hands of robbers, who delivered him up to Antiochus, by whom he was put to death, B. C. 122. He was weak and effeminate, but sometimes generous. His surname, Zebina, which means "a purchased slave," was applied to him as a term of reproach, from a report that he had been bought by Ptolemy as a slave. Several of his coins are extant. In the one figured below Jupiter is represented on the reverse, holding in the right hand a small image of victory.
(Justin, xxxix. 1, 2; Joseph. Antiq. xiii. 9, 10; Clinton, Fasti, iii. p. .334.)
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ALEXANDRA. [Cassandra.]
ALEXANDRIDES ('AAe^at/SpiSijs) of Delphi,
a Greek historian of uncertain date. If we may
judge from the subjects on which his history is
quoted as an authority, it would seem that his
work was a history of Delphi. (Plut. Li/sand. 18 ;
Schol. cul Eurip. Alcest. 1, where undoubtedly the
same person is meant, though the MS. reading is
Anaxandrides ; Schol. ad Aristoph. Plut. 926.)
ALEXA′NOR (^kKtl&vwp), a son of Machaon,
and grandson of Aesculapius, Avho built to his sire
a temple at Titane in the territory of Sicyon. He
himself too was worshipped there, and sacrifices
were offered to him after sunset only. (Paus. ii.
23. §4, 11. §6, &c.)
ALEXARCHUS ('AXe'lapxov), a Greek his-
torian, who wrote a work on the history of Italy
('IraAi/fa), of which Plutarch {Parallel. 7) quotes
the third book. Servius {ad Aen. iii. 334) men-
tions an opinion of his respecting the origin of the
names Epeirus and Campania, which unquestion-
ably belonged to his work on Italy. The writer
of this name, whom Plutarch mentions in another
passage {De Is. et Os. p. 365), is probably a different
person.
ALEXARCHUS {' hxilapxos). 1. A brother
of Cassander of Macedonia, who is mentioned as
the founder of a town called Uranopolis, the site
of which is unknown. Here he is said to have
introduced a number of words of his own coinage,
which, though very expressive, appear to have
been regarded as a kind of slang. ( Athen. iii. p. 98.)
2. A Corinthian, who, while the Lacedaemo-
nians were fortifying Deceleia in Attica, a d 413,
and were sending an expedition to Sicilyj was
entrusted with the command of 600 hoplites, with
whom he joined the Sicilian expedition. (Thucyd.
viL19.)
ALE′XIAS ('AAelioy), an ancient Greek physi-
cian, who was a pupil of Thrasyas of Mantinea,
and lived probably about the middle of the fourth
century before Christ. Theophrastus mentions
him as haA-ing lived shortly before his time {Hist.
Plant, ix. 16. § 8), and speaks highly of his abili-
ties and acquirements.
ALEXI′CACUS ('AA€|t/coKoj), the averter of
evil, is a surname given by the Greeks to several
deities, as — Zeus (Orph. De Lapid. Prooem. i.), —
to Apollo, who was worshipped under this name
by the Athenians, because he was believed to have
stopped the plague which raged at Athens in the
time of the Peloponnesian war (Paus. i. 3. § 3,
viii. 41. § 5), — and to Heracles. (Lactant. v. 3.)
ALEXICLES ('AXf|wA7js), an Athenian gene-
ral, who belonged to the oligarchial or Lacedaemo-
nian party at Athens. After the revolution of B. c.
411, he and several of his friends quitted the city
and went to their friends at Deceleia. But he was
afterwards made prisoner in Peiraeeus, and sen-
tenced to death for his participation in the guilt of
PhrjTiichus. (Thucyd. viii. 92 ; Lvcurg. in Leocr.
p. 164.)
ALEXICRATES('AXe4»KpoT77?),a Pythagorean
philosopher who lived at the time of Plutarch, and
whose disciples continued to observe the ancient
diet of the Pythagoreans, abstaining from fish alto-
gether. (Plut. Si/mjws. viii. p. 728.) Another
person of this name occurs in Plutarch, Pyrrh. 5.)
ALE′XIDA ('AAf^tST?), a daugliter of Amphi-
araus, from whom certain divinities called Elasii
( 'EAoo-Jo/, i. e. the averters of epih^ptic fits) were
believed to be descended. (Plut. Quaest. Gr. 23.)
ALEXI′NUS ('AAfirj/oy), a philosopher of the
Dialectic or Megarian school and a disciple of Eu-
bulides [Euclides], from his eristic propensities
facetiously named *EAe7^i'o$, who lived about the
beginning of the third century before Christ. He
was a native of Elis, and a contemporary of Zeno.
From Elis he went to Olympia, in the vain hope,
it is said, of founding a sect which might be called
the Olympian ; but his disciples soon became dis-
gusted with the unhealthiness of the place and
their scanty means of subsistence, and left him
with a single attendant. None of his doctrines
have been preserved to us, but from the brief men-
tion made of him by Cicero {Acad. ii. 24), he
seems to have dealt in sophistical puzzles, like
the rest of his sect. Athenaeus (xv. p. 696, e.)
mentions a paean which he wrote in honour of
Craterus, the Macedonian, and which was sung at
Delphi to the sound of the lyre. Alexinus also
wrote against Zeno, whose professed antagonist he
was, and against Ephorus the historian. Diogenes
Laertius has preserved some lines on his death,
which was occasioned by his being pierced with
a reed while swimming in the Alpheus. (Diog.
Laert. ii. 109, 110.)
ALE′XION, an ancient physician, who was pro-
bably (judging from his name) a native of Greece ;
he was a friend of Cicero, who praises his medical
skill, and deeply laments his sudden death, b. c.
44. (JrfJ^^vii.2,xiii.25, XV. I.d2.)
ALEXI′PPUS ('AAe'CiTnros), an ancient Greek
physician, who is mentioned by Plutarch {Alex.
c. 41) as having received a letter from Alexander
himself, to thank him for having cured Peucestas,
one of his officers, of an illness, probably about b. c.
327.
ALEXIS (Ἄλεξις). 1. A comic poet, born at Thurii, in Magna Graecia (Suidas s. v. "Ἄλ.), but admitted subsequently to the privileges of an
