Rhetĭco, a mountain of Rhætia.
Rheunus, a place in Arcadia. Pausanias, bk. 8, ch. 23.
Rhexēnor, a son of Nausithous king of Phæacia. Homer, Odyssey, bk. 7.——The father of Chalciope, the wife of Ægeus king of Athens.——A musician who accompanied Antony in Asia.
Rhexibius, an athlete of Opus, who obtained a prize in the Olympic games, and had a statue in the grove of Jupiter. Pausanias, bk. 6, ch. 18.
Rhiānus, a Greek poet of Thrace, originally a slave. He wrote an account of the war between Sparta and Messenia, which continued for 20 years, as also a history of the principal revolutions and events which had taken place in Thessaly. Of this poetical composition nothing but a few verses are extant. He flourished about 200 years before the christian era. Pausanias, bk. 4, ch. 6.
Rhidago, a river of Hyrcania falling into the Caspian sea. Curtius, bk. 6, ch. 4.
Rhimotăcles, a king of Thrace, who revolted from Antony to Augustus. He boasted of his attachment to the emperor’s person at an entertainment, upon which Augustus said, proditionem amo, proditores vero odi.
Rhinocolūra, a town on the borders of Palestine and Egypt. Livy, bk. 45, ch. 11.
[♦]Rhinthon, a Greek poet of Tarentum, in the age of Alexander. Cicero, Letters to Atticus, ltr. 20.
[♦] Out of alphabetical order in the text.