fold character of nature, the male and female, concentrated in one.
2. A son of Manes, king of the Maeonians, from whose son Lydus, his son and successor, the Maeonians were afterwards called Lydians. (Herod, i. 7, vii. 74.) Herodotus (i. 94; comp. Dionys. Hal. A. R. i. 26, 28; Tacit. Annal. iv. 55) mentions Tyrrhenus as another sob of Atys; and in another
passage (iv. 45), he speaks of Cotys as the son of Manes, instead of Atys.
3. A Latin chief, the son of Alba, and father of Capys, from whom the Latin gens Atia derived its origin, and from whom Augustus was believed to
be descended on his mother's side. (Virg. Aen. v. 568; Liv. i. 3; Suet. Aug. 4.)
4. A son of Croesus. [Adrastus.] [L. S.]
AU'DATA (AuSdra), an lUyrian, the first wife
of Philip of Macedon, by whom he had a daughter,
Cynna. (Athen. xiii. p. 557, c.)
AUDE'NTIUS, a Spanish bishop, of whom
Gennadius (de Viris Illustribiin, c. 14) records, that
he wrote against the Manichaeans, the Sabellians,
the Arians, and, with especial energy, against the
Photinians. The work was entitled de Fide advenus ILtereticos. Its object was to shew that the
second person in the Trinity is co-eternal with the
Father. Audentius is styled by Trithemius {de
Script. Eccl. cr.) " vir in divinis ecripturis exercitatum habens ingenium." Cave supposes him to
have flourished about a. d. 260. [J. M. M.]
AUDO'LEON (A«>3o€wi/ or AvSuKeup), a king
of Paeonia, was the son of Agis. He was a con-
temporary of Alexander the Great, and was the
father of Ariston, who distinguished hunself at the
battle of Guagamela, and of a daughter who married
Pyrrhus, king of Epeirus. In a war with the
Autoriatae he was reduced to great straits, but was
Buccoured by Cassander. (DiocLxx. 19.) [C.P.M.]
AVENTINENSIS, the name of a plebeian fa-
mily of the Genucia gens. The name was derived
from the hill Aventinus, which was the quarter of
Rome peculiar to the plebeians. The family was
descended from the tribune Cn. Genucius, who was
murdered in b. c. 473.
1. L. Genucius M. f. Cn. n. Aventinensis, consul B. c. 365, and again in 362, was killed in battle against the Hemicans in the latter of these years, and his army routed. His defeat and death caused the patricians great joy, as he was the tirst consul who had marched against the enemy with plebeian auspices. (Liv. vii. 1, 4, 6 ; Diod. XV. 90, xvi. 4; Eutrop. ii. 4; Ores. iii. 4; Lyd. de Mag. ?. 46.)
2. Cn. Genucius M. f. M. n. Aventinensis, consul B. c. 363, in which j-ear the senate was chiefly occupied in endeavouring to appease the anger of the gods. (Liv. vii. 3 ; Diod. xvi. 2.)
3. L. Genucius (Aventinensis), tribune of the plebs, B. c. 342, probably belonged to this family. He brought forward a law for the abolition of usury, and was probably the author of many of the | AUFIDIUS. other reforms in the same year mentioned by Livy. (vii. 42.)
4. L. Genucius (L. f. M. n.) Aventinensis, consul B. c. 303. (Liv. x. 1 ; Diod. xx. 102.)
AVENTI'NUS, a son of Hercules and the
priestess Rhea, (Virg. Aen. vii. 656.) Servius on
this passage speaks of an Aventinus, a king of the
Aborigines, who was killed and buried on the hill
afterwards called the Aventine. [L. S.]
AVENTI'NUS, one of the mythical kings of
Alba, who was buried on the hill which was after-
wards called by his name. He is said to have
reigned thirty-seven years, and to have been suc-
ceeded by Procas, the father of Amulius. (Liv. i.
3; Dionys. i. 71; Ov. Fast. iv. 5L)
AVERNUS, properly speaking, the name of a
lake in Campania, which the Latin poets describe
as the entrance to the lower world, or as the lower
world itself. Here we have only to mention, that
Avemus was also regarded as a divine being ; for
Servius {ad Virg. Georg. ii. 161) speaks of a statue
of Avemus, which perspired during the storm after
the union of the Avemian and Lucrinian lakes, and
to which exfsatorv sacrifices were offered. [L. S.]
AVERRUNCUS. [Apotropaei.]
AUFI'DIA GENS, plebeian, was not known
till the later times of the republic. The first mem-
ber of it, who obtained the consulship, was Cn.
Aufidius Orestes, in b. c. 71. Its cognomens are
LuRco and Orestes: for those who occur with-
out a fomily-narae, see Aufidius.
AUFIDIENUS RUFUS. [Rufus.];
CN. AUFIDIUS, tribune of the plebs, b. r.
1 70, accused C. Lucretius Gallus on account of his
oppression of the Chalcidians. (Liv. xliii. 10.)
CN. AUFI'DIUS, a learned historian and per-
haps a jurist, is celebrated in some of the extant
works of Cicero for the equanimity with which he
bore blindness ; and we find from St. Jerome {in
Epitaph. Nepatiani, 0pp. vol. iv. P. ii. p. 268, ed.
Benedict.), that his patience was also recounted in
the lost treatise de Consolalioiie. His corporeal
blindness did not quench his intellectual vision.
Bereaved of sight and advanced in age, he still at-
tended his duties, and spoke in the senate, and
found means to write a Grecian history. Cicero
states {Tusc. Disp. v. 38), that he also gave advice
to his friends {nee amicis dcliberantUms deerat) ;
and, on account of this expression, he has been
ranked by some legal biographers among the Roman
jurists. In his old age, he adopted Cn. Aurelius
Orestes, who consequently took the name of Aufi-
dius in place of Aurelius. This precedent has been
quoted (Cic pro Dom. 13) to shew that the power
of adopting does not legally depend on the power
of begetting children. Aufidius was quaestor b. c.
119, tribunus plebis, b. c. 11 4, and finally praetor
B. c. 1 08, about two years before the birth of Cicero,
who, as a boy, was acquainted with the old blind
scholar. {DeFin..d.) [J.T.G.]
SEX. AUFI'DIUS, was warmly recommended
by Cicero to Comificius, proconsul of Africa, in b. c.
43. (Jt^Fam. xii. 26, 27.)
T. AUFI'DIUS, a jurist, the brother of M.
Virgilius, who accused Sulla E. c. 86. It was pro^
bably the jurist who was quaestor B. c. 84, and
wlio was afterwards praetor of Asia. {Cic. pro Flac.
19.) He may also have been the Aufidius once
talked of as one of Cicero's competitors for the con-
sulship, B. c. 63. (Cic. ad Alt. i. 1.) In pleading
private causes, he imitated the manner of T, Ju-
