1S2 A. ALLIENUS. This diiFcrence is tlie more important in an histo- rical view, from Alimentus having written on the old Roman calendar and having carefully ex- amined the most ancient Etruscan and Roman chronology. It is ingeniously accounted for by Niebuhr, by supposing our author to have re- duced the ancient cyclical years, consisting of ten months, to an equivalent number of common years of twelve months. Now, the pontiffs reckoned 132 cyclical years before the reign of Tarquinius Priscus, from which time, according to Julius Gracchanus, the use of the old calendar was discontinued. The reduction makes a difference of 22 years, for 132- i££-^=22, and 22 years, added to the era of Polybiiis and Nepos, viz. 01. . 2, bring us to the very date of Alimentus, 01. . 4. Alimentus composed a treatise De Officio Jurts- consu'ti, containing at least two books ; one book De Verbis priscis^ one De Constdum Potesiate, one De Comitiis^ one De Fastis, two, at least, Mystago- fficnn, and several De Be Militari. In the latter work he handles the subjects of military levies, of the ceremonies of declaring war, and generally of the Jus Fccide. (GeU. xvi. 4 ; Voss. Hist. Gr. iv. , fin.. Hist. Lat. i. 4; F. Lachmann, de Fontib. Histor. Tit. Livii Com.. 17, 4to. 1822; Zimmem, R6m. Rechts-gesch. i. § 73.) [J.T. G.]
ALIMENTUS, M. CI'NCIUS, tribune of the plebs B. c. 204, proposed in his tribuneship the law known by the name of Cincia IjCX de Donis et Muneribris, or Aluneralis Lex. (Liv. xxxiv. 4 ; Cic. Cato, 4, de Orat. ii. 71, ad Att. i. 20; Festus, e. V. Afuneralis.) This law was confirmed in the time of Augustus. {Did. of Ant. $. v. Cincia Lex.)
ALIPHE'RUS or HALIPHE'RUS CAAi'i^pos), one of the sons of Lycaon, killed by Zeus with a flash of lightning for their insolence. (Apollod. iii. . § 1.) The town of Aliphera or Alipheira in Arcadia was believed to have been founded by him, and to have derived its name from him. (Pans. viii. 3. § 1, 26. § 4 ; Steph. Byz. s. v. 'AKi- <pfipa.) ' [L. S.]
ALITTA or ALILAT (Ἀλίττα or Ἀλιλάτ), the name by which, according to Herodotus (i. 131, iii. 8), the Arabs called Aphrodite Urania. [L. S.]
ALLECTUS, was raised to the highest dignities in Britain during the dominion of Carausius; but the crimes which he committed, and the fear of punishment on account of them, led him in A. D. 293 to murder Carausius and assume the imperial title in Britain for himself. He enjoyed his honours for three years, at the end of which Constantius sent Asclepiodotus with an anny and fleet against him. AUectus vas defeated in a. d. 296,
and Britain was thus cleared of usurpers. (Aurel. Vict, de Caes. 39 ; Eutrop. ix. 14.) On the annexed coin the inscription is Imp. C. Allectus.
P. F. Aug. [L. S.]
A. ALLIE'NUS. 1. A friend of Cicero's, who
3B spoken of by him in high terms. He was the
legate of Q. Cicero in Asia, B. c. 60 (Cic. ad Qu. Fr. i. I. § 3), and praetor in B. c. 49. {Ad Att. x.
15.) In the following year, he had the province
of Sicily, and sent to Caesar, who was then in
Africa, a large body of troops. He continued in
Sicily till B. c. 47, and received the title of pro-
consul. Two of Cicero's letters are addressed to
him. (Hirt. Bell. Afr. 2, 34 ; Cic. ad Fani. xiii.
78, 79.) His name occurs on a coin, which has
on one side C. Caes. Imp. Cos. Iter., and on the
other A. Allienvs Procos.
. Was sent by Dolabella, B. c. 43, to bring to
him the legions which were in Egj-pt. On his re-
turn from Egypt with four legions, he was sur-
prised by Cassius in Palestine, who was at the
head of eight legions. As his forces were so infe-
rior, AUienus joined Cassius. (Appian, B. C. iii.
78, iv. 59 ; Cic. Phil. xi. 12, 13 ; Cassius, ap. Cic.
ad Fain. xii. 11, 12.) This AUienus may perhaps
be the same person as No. 1.
ALLU'CIUS, a prince of theCeltiberi, betrothed
to a most beautiful virgin, who was taken prisoner
by Scipio in Spain, b. c. 209. Scipio generously
gave her to Allucius, and refused the presents her
parents offered him. The story is beautifully told
in Livy (xxvi. 50), and is also related bv other
writers. (Polyb. x. 19 ; Val. Max, iv. 3. /l; Sil.
Ital. XV. 268, &c.)
ALMO, the god of a river in the neighbourhood
of Rome, who, like Tiberinus and others, were
prayed to by the augurs. In the water of Alrao
the statue of the mother of the gods used to be
washed. (Cic. de A'at. Deor. iii. 20 ; comp. Varro,
de Ling. Lat. v. 71, ed. MUller.) [L. S.]
ALMOPS {"AK/xuip), a giant, the son of Poseidon
and Helle, from whom the district of Almopia and
its inhabitants, the Almopcs in Macedonia, were
believed to have derived their name. (Steph. Byz.
s. V. 'AXfiunrla.) [L. S.]
ALOEIDAE, ALOI'ADAE, or ALO'ADAE
('AAwetSai, AAcotctSoj or 'AAwaSot), are patronymic
fonns from Aloeus, but are used to designate the
two sons of his wife Iphiraedeia by Poseidon : viz.
Otus and Ephialtes. The Aloeidae are renowned
in the earliest stories of Greece for their extraor-
dinary' strength and daring spirit. Wlien they
were nine years old, each of their bodies measured
nine cubits in breadth and twenty-seven in height.
At this early age, they threatened the Olympian
gods with Avar, and attempted to pile mount Ossa
upon Olympus, and Pelion upon Ossa, They
would have accomplished their object, says Homer,
had they been allowed to grow iip to the age of
manhood ; but Apollo destroyed them before their
beards began to appear, {Od. xi. 305, &c.) In
the Iliad (v. 385, &c.; comp. Philostr. de Vit. Soph.
ii. 1. § 1) the poet relates another feat of their
early age. They put the god Ares in chains, and
kept him imprisoned for thirteen months ; so tiiat
he would have perished, had not Hermes been in-
formed of it by Eriboea, and secretly liberated the
prisoner. The same stories are related by Apollo-
dorus (i. 7. § 4), who however does not make them
perish in the attempt upon Olympus. According
to him, they actually' piled the mountains upon
one another, and threatened to change land into
sea and sea into land. They are further said to
have grown every year one cubit in breadth and
three in height. As another proof of their daring,
it is related, that Ephialtes sued for the hand of
Hera, and Otus for that of Artemis. But this led
to their destruction in the island of Naxos. (Comp.
