Asinārius, a river of Sicily, where the Athenian generals, Demosthenes and Nicias, were taken prisoners.
Asĭne, one of the Sporades.——An island of the Adriatic.——Three towns of Peloponnesus bore that name, viz. in Laconia, Argolis, and Messenia.
Asĭnes, a river of Sicily.
Asinius Gallus, son of Asinius Pollio the orator, married Vipsania, after she had been divorced by Tiberius. This marriage gave rise to a secret enmity between the emperor and Asinius, who starved himself to death, either voluntarily, or by order of his imperial enemy. He had six sons by his wife. He wrote a comparison between his father and Cicero, in which he gave a decided superiority to the former. Tacitus bks. 1 & 5, Annals.—Dio Cassius, bk. 58.—Pliny, bk. 7, ltr. 4.——Marcellus, grandson of Asinius Pollio, was accused of some misdemeanours, but acquitted, &c. Tacitus, bk. 14, Annals.——Pollio, an excellent orator, poet, and historian, intimate with Augustus. He triumphed over the Dalmatians, and wrote an account of the wars of Cæsar and Pompey, in 17 books, besides poems. He refused to answer some verses against him by Augustus, “because,” said he, “you have the power to proscribe me, should my answer prove offensive.” He died in the 80th year of his age, A.D. 4. He was consul with Cnaeus Domitius Calvinus, A.U.C. 714. It is to him that the fourth of Virgil’s Bucolics is inscribed. Quintilian.—Suetonius, Cæsar, chs. 30 & 55.—Dio Cassius, bks. 37, 49, 55.—Seneca, de Tranquilitate Animi & ltr. 100.—Pliny, bk. 7, ch. 30.—Tacitus, bk. 6.—Paterculus, bk. 2.—Plutarch, Cæsar.——A commander of Mauritania, under the first emperors, &c. Tacitus, Histories, bk. 2.——An historian in the age of Pompey.——Another in the third century.——Quadratus, a man who published the history of Parthia, Greece, and Rome.
Asius, a son of Dymas, brother of Hecuba. He assisted Priam in the Trojan war, and was killed by Idomeneus. Homer, Iliad, bk. 2, li. 342; bk. 12, li. 95; bk. 13, li. 384.——A poet of Samos, who wrote about the genealogy of ancient heroes and heroines. Pausanias, bk. 7, ch. 4.——A son of Imbracus, who accompanied Æneas into Italy. Virgil, Æneid, bk. 10, li. 123.
Asius Campus, a place near the Cayster.
Asnāus, a mountain of Macedonia, near which the river Aous flows. Livy, bk. 32, ch. 5.
Asōphis, a small country of Peloponnesus, near the Asopus.
Asōpia, the ancient name of Sicyon. Pausanias, bk. 2, ch. 1.
Asōpiădes, a patronymic of Æacus, son of Ægina, the daughter of Asopus. Ovid, Metamorphoses, bk. 7, li. 484.