A biographical, historical and chronological dictionary: containing accurate accounts of the lives, characters, and actions, of the most eminent persons of all ages and all countries; : including the revolutions of states, and the succession of sovereign princes / By John Watkins.

  • John Watkins
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1807
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    andrecal. He then commanded with suc- cess against the Lacedemonians, whom he compelled to sue for peace, and was re- ceived at Athens in triumph. But his po- pularity did not last long: for the defeat of the' Athenian fleet by Lysander, the ■Spartan commander, being attributed to Alcibiades, hewas deprived of his command. On this he retired into Thrace, and after- v ards placed himself under the protection of Pharnabazus, the Persian governor of Phrvgia; but the tyrants of Athens, dread- ing flis spirit and talents, prevailed on Phar- nabazus to murder him. Accordingly, the cottage in which he resided was set Are to in :he night, and in his attempt to escape he svas slain, in the 46th year of his age, B. C. 104. It is related of him, that while a young man he entered a school, and asked the schoolmaster for Homer’s Iliad, and finding that he had it not, be gave him a box on the ear, saying, that the man who had not Ho- mer was not a proper person to instruct fouth.—Plutarch et Nepos in Vit. Alcib. Thu- ydiues. Xenophon. At cm am as, a Greek rhetorician, who vas the disciple of Gorgias, B. C. 422. rhere arfe two orations extant under his lame; the first printed by Aldus in his edi- ion of the Greek orators, 1518, and the econd in the same printer’s edition of Iso- rates, 151S. Cicero notes a discourse of as in praise of death.—Fabric. Bibl. Grcec. Alcimus surnamed Jachim, high-priest f the Jews, B. C. 163; he obtained that dice from Antioehus Lupator, king of Sy- ia, but rendered himself odious to his coun- .ymen by Iris avarice and cruelty. He ied two years after his election.—Josephus. Alcimus (Latinus Alcimus Alethius), orn at Agen in the fourth century; he rrote the history of Julian, and of Sallust ie consul under that emperor, both which e lost. An eprigam by him is in Mat- ■ire’s Corpus Poetarum, 'l 754.—Moreri. . Alcinous, a Platonic philosopher of the ■cond century, who wrote an“Introduc- on to the Philosophy of Plato,” which has een translated into English by Stanley.— abric. Bibl. Grcec. Alciphron, a Grecian philosopher, who Vc ia ^ie t*me Alexander the Great, here was a sophist of the same name, nose epistles give a curious picture of recian manners. They were printed by ergler at Leipsic, in 1715, and an English anslation v/as published in 1791. Lucian supposed to have imitated him.—Ibid. Alcman, of Lacedemon or Sardis, one of prCC”n pwriter8, 'ho flourished * b 12 9' ,Sorae fragments of his ^tns remain m different authors. Pie is bCeD the firSt Writer of am°rous ■mri-in/ }er • was another of the me, and a lyric poet, who flourished about ii. L.— Moreri. rA,];L“'?,,’Aphilo!0Ph'r »f Crotona, and = taplt «! : he „aa the hr,t writer on natural philosophy; but he held strange notions, particularly that the stars were animated beings.—Clemens Alcxand. Plutarch. Alcock (John), an English prelate, was born at Beverley, in Yorkshire, and edu- cated at Cambridge. He became dean of Westminster, and master of the rolls, and in 1471 was preferred to the see of Rochester, from whence he was translated to Worcester, and finally to Ely. Henry VII. made him lord president of Wales and chancellor of England. He endowed a school at King- ston upon Hull, built the hall at the palace in Ely, and founded Jesus college Cam- bridge. He died in 1500, and was buried in the chapel which he built at Kingston upon Hull.—Aiog. Br. Alcuinus (Albinus Flaccus), an English divine, was born in Yorkshire, and educated first by the venerable Bede, and then bv Edwin, archbishop of York, who made him his librarian; he afterwards became abbot of Canterbury, and in 793 went to France, at the request of Charlemagne, who gave him several rich abbeys; he attended that prince to the council of Frankfort. He died in SO L His works were published in one volume folio,at Paris,in 1617.—Pitsius. Bale. Biog. Br. Alcyonius (Peter), an Italian writer, who was corrector of the press to Aldus Manutius, and afterwards professor at Flo- rence. He quitted that place to seek his fortune at Rome, where he perished during the troubles excited by the Golonnas about 1527. He wrote some ingenious pieces in Latin, and among the rest, a treatise on ba- nishment, which he is said to have taken from a MS. on glory by Cicero, found bvhim m a monastery, and which, after copying the above, he burnt.—Bayle. Aluebert, or Adalbert, a French im- postor in the eighth century, who pre- tended to be inspired, and exercised the episcopal function without authority; he was condemned by a council at Rome, and thrown into prison, where he died.—Bare- nius. Aldegraff (Albert), an eminent histori- cal painter and engraver, was a native of Zoust, in Westphalia, where he died poor, about the middle of the sixteenth centum* —Be Piles. ' Alderette (Bernard and Joseph), two brothers of the society of Jesus, and natives of Malaga, vho lived at the beginning of the seventeenth century. The.y°wrote°two learned works, entitled, 1. Origines Linguaj Castillamcas, 1606, 4to. 2. The Antiquities ‘ Pain> 1614,4to. They were so perfectly alike as to be frequently mistaken for each other.—Moreri. Aldhelm, or ApEi,M)(St.), bishop ofSher- borne, was born at Malmsbury, and conse- crated bishop at Rome by Sergius I.; he is said to have been the first Englishman who wrote in Latm, and the first who in-
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