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Borl. </i>vii. 61, and the <i>Mus. Capit. </i>iv. 19, are supposed to be copies. There were some statues by him of centaurs carry ing nymphs, in the collection of <a href="0394.html">Asinius</a> <a href="2773.html">Pollio</a>. He received a talent <a href="3733.html">from</a> Octavius, a Roman knight, for the model of a bowl <i>(crater}, </i>and was engaged by <a href="1938.html">Lucullus</a> to make a statue of <a href="1251.html">Felicitas</a> for 60 sestertia; but the deaths both of the artist and of his <a href="2473.html">patron</a> prevented the completion of the work. (Plin. xxxv. 45, xxxvi. 4. §§ 10, 13 : the reading <i>Arckesitae, </i>in § 10, ought, almost undoubt edly, to be <i>Arcesilae </i>or <i>Arcesilai.) </i>[P. S.]</p> <p><b><b>ARCHAEANACTIDAE</b></b> (<i>'ApxatuvaKrfiat</i>), the name of a race of kings who reigned in the Cimmerian Bosporus forty-two years, <span style="font-variant:small-caps">b. </span><span style="font-variant:small-caps">c.</span> 480— 438. (Diod. xii. 31, with Wesseling's note.)</p> <p><b><b>ARCHAGATHUS</b></b> <i>CApx&yaeos). </i>1. The son of <a href="0074.html">Agathocles</a>, accompanied his father in his expedition into Africa, <span style="font-variant:small-caps">b. </span><span style="font-variant:small-caps">c.</span> 310. While there he narrowly escaped being put to death in a tumult of the soldiers, occasioned by his having murdered <a href="1953.html">Lyciscus</a>, who reproached him with committing incest with his step-mother Alcia. When Agathocles was summoned <a href="3733.html">from</a> Africa by the state of affairs in Sicily, he left Archagatlms behind in command of the army. He met at first with some success, but was afterwards defeated three times, and obliged to take refuge in Tunis. <a href="0074.html">Agathocles</a> returned to his assistance; but a mutiny of the soldiers soon compelled him to leave Africa again, and <b>Archagathus</b> and his brother were put to death by the troops in revenge, <span style="font-variant:small-caps">b. </span><span style="font-variant:small-caps">c.</span> 307. (Diod. xx. 33, 57—61; Justin. xxii. 8.)</p> <p>2. The son of the preceding, described as a youth of great bravery and daring, murdered Agathocles, the son of <a href="0074.html">Agathocles</a>, that he might succeed his grandfather. He was himself killed by <a href="2005.html">Maenon</a>. (Diod. xxi. Eel. 12.)</p> <p><b><b>ARCHAGATHUS</b></b> <i>('ApxdyaQos), </i>a Pelopon- nesian, the son of <a href="1972.html">Lysanias</a>, who settled at Rome as a practitioner of medicine, <span style="font-variant:small-caps">b. </span><span style="font-variant:small-caps">c.</span> 219, and, ac cording to <a href="0635.html">Cassius</a> <a href="1488.html">Hemina</a> (as quoted by Pliny, <i>H, N. </i>xxix. 6), was the first person who made it a distinct profession in that city. He was received in the first instance with great respect, the " Jus Quiritium" was given him, and a shop was bought for him at the public expense ; but his practice was observed to be so severe, that he soon excited the dislike of the people at large, and produced a complete disgust to the profession generally. The practice of <b>Archagathus</b> seems to have been almost exclusively surgical, and to have consisted, in a great measure, in the use of the knife and powerful caustic applications. (Bostock, <i>Hist, of Med.) </i>[W. A. G.]</p> <p><b><b>ARCHEBULUS</b></b> <i>(Apx€§ov\os}, </i>of Thebes, a lyric poet, who appears to have lived about the year <span style="font-variant:small-caps">b. </span><span style="font-variant:small-caps">c.</span> 280, as <a href="1207.html">Euphorion</a> is said to have been instructed by him in poetry. (Suid. <i>s.v. </i>Ei)<£opiW.) A particular kind of verse which was frequently used by other lyric poets, was called after him. (Hephaest. <i>Enchir. </i>p. 27.) Not a fragment of his poetry is now extant. [L. S.]</p> <p><b><b>ARCHEDEMUS</b></b> or ARCHEDA'MUS <i>(Ap-</i>XeSTj/xos or 'ApxeScfyios). 1. A popular leader at Athens, took the first step against the generals who had gained the battle of Arginusae, <span style="font-variant:small-caps">b. </span><span style="font-variant:small-caps">c.</span> 406, by imposing a fine on <a href="1150.html">Erasinides</a>, and calling him to account in a court of justice for some public money which he had received in the Hellespont. (Xen. <i>Hell. </i>vii. 1. § 2.) This seems to be the same</p> <p><b>ARCHEGETES</b>.</p> <p><b>Archedemus</b> of whom <a href="3637.html">Xenophon</a> speaks in the Memorabilia (ii. 9), as originally poor, but of considerable talents both for speaking and public business, and who was employed by <a href="0904.html">Criton</a> to protect him and his friends <a href="3733.html">from</a> the attacks of sycophants. It appears that <b>Archedemus</b> was a foreigner, and obtained the franchise by fraud, for which he was attacked by <a href="0324.html">Aristophanes</a> <i>(Ran. </i>419) and by <a href="1209.html">Eupolis</a> in the Baptae. (Schol. <i>ad Aristopk. L </i>c.) Both <a href="0324.html">Aristophanes</a> <i>(JKan. </i>588) and <a href="1974.html">Lysias</a> <i>(c. Alcib. </i>p. 536, ed. Reiske) call him <i>blear-eyed (yXajAwv}.</i></p> <p>2. 'O rfo/A?7|, mentioned by <a href="0049.html">Aeschines</a> <i>(c. Cies. </i>p. 531, ed. Reiske), should be distinguished <a href="3733.html">from</a> the preceding.</p> <p>3. An Aetolian (called <a href="0277.html">Archidamus</a> by Livy), who commanded the Aetolian troops which assisted the Romans in their war with Philip. In <span style="font-variant:small-caps">b. </span><span style="font-variant:small-caps">c.</span> 199 he compelled Philip to raise the siege of Thaumaci (Liv. xxxii. 4), and took an active part in the battle of Cynoscephalae, <span style="font-variant:small-caps">b. </span><span style="font-variant:small-caps">c.</span> 197, in which Philip was defeated. (Polyb. xviii. 4.) When the war broke out between the Romans and the Aetolians, he was sent as ambassador to the Achaeans to solicit their assistance, <span style="font-variant:small-caps">b. </span><span style="font-variant:small-caps">c.</span> 192 (Liv. xxxv. 48); and on the defeat of <a href="0204.html">Antiochus</a> the Great in the following year, he -went as ambassador to the consul M\ Acilius <a href="1378.html">Glabrio</a> to sue for peace. (Polyb. xx. 9.) In <span style="font-variant:small-caps">b. </span><span style="font-variant:small-caps">c.</span> 169 he was denounced to the Romans by <a href="1953.html">Lyciscus</a> as one of their enemies. (Polyb. xxviii. 4.) He joined <a href="2542.html">Perseus</a> the same year, and accompanied the Macedonian king in his flight after his defeat in 168. (Liv. xliii. 23, 24, xliv. 43.)</p> <p>4. Of Tarsus, a Stoic philosopher (Strab. xiv. p. 674 ; Diog. Laert. vii. 40, 68, 84, 88), two of whose works, Tlepl <span style="font-variant:small-caps">$coj/tjs </span>and Ilepl SroixeiW, are mentioned by <a href="1028.html">Diogenes Laertius</a>. (vii. 557 134.) He is probably the same person as the <b>Archedemus</b>, whom Plutarch <i>(de Eossilio^ </i>p. 605) calls an Athenian, and who, he states, went into the country of the Parthians and left behind him the Stoic succession at Babylon. <b>Archedemus</b> is also mentioned by <a href="0717.html">Cicero</a> <i>(Acad. Q.uaest. </i>ii. 47), <a href="3111.html">Seneca</a> <i>(Epist. </i>121), and other ancient writers.</p> <p><b><b>ARCHEDICE</b></b> ('ApxeSfeij), daughter of <a href="1587.html">Hippias</a> the Peisistratid, and given in marriage by him after the death of <a href="1584.html">Hipparchus</a> to <a href="0032.html">Aeantides</a>, son of Hip- poclus, the tyrant of Lampsacus. She is famous for the epitaph given in <a href="3444.html">Thucydides</a>, and ascribed by Aristotle to <a href="3170.html">Simonides</a>, which told that, with father, husband, and sons in sovereign power, still she retained her meekness. (Time. vi. 59 ; Arist. <i>Met. </i>i. 9.) [A. H. C.]</p> <p><b><b>ARCHEDICUS</b></b> ('Apxe&fcos), an Athenian comic poet of the new comedy, who wrote, at the instigation of <a href="3462.html">Timaeus</a>, against <a href="0979.html">Demochares</a>, the nephew of <a href="0996.html">Demosthenes</a>, and supported <a href="1532.html">Antipater</a> and the Macedonian party. The titles of two of his plays are preserved, <i>Aia/j.aprdva)V </i>and <i>Sricravpos. </i>He nourished about 302 <span style="font-variant:small-caps">b. </span><span style="font-variant:small-caps">c.</span> (<a href="3265.html">Suidas</a>, <i>s. v.; </i>Athen. vi. p. 252, f., vii. pp. 292, e., 294, a. b., x. p. 467, e., xiii. p. 610, f.; Polyb. xii. 13.) [P. S.]</p> <p><b><b>ARCHEGETES</b></b> <i>('Apxyyer-ns). </i>1. A surname of <a href="0239.html">Apollo</a>, under which he was worshipped in several places, as at Naxos in Sicily (Thuc. vi. 3 Pind. <i>Pytli. </i>v. 80), and at <a href="2115.html">Megara</a>. (Paus. i. 42, § 5.) 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