Arba'ces (3 syl.), king of Ibe'ria, in the drama called A King or no King, by Beaumont and Fletcher (1619).
Arbate (2 syl.), governor of the prince of Ithaca, in Molière's comedy La Princesse d'Elide (1664). In his speech to "Euryle" prince of Ithaca, persuading him to love, he is supposed to refer to Louis XIV., then 26 years of age.
Je dirai que l'amour sied bien à vos pareil ...
Et qu'il est malaisé que, sans etre amoureux
Un jeune prince soit et grand et généreux.
Act i. 1.
Arbate, in Racine's drama of Mithridate (1673).
Ar'biter El'igantiæ. C. Petro'nius was appointed dictator-in-chief of the imperial pleasures at the court of Nero, and nothing was considered comme il faut till it had received the sanction of this Roman beau Brummel.
Behold the new Petronius of the day,
The arbiter of pleasure and of play.