Rufus Festus Aviēnus, a poet in the age of Theodosius, who translated the phænomena of Aratus, as also all Livy, into iambic verses. The best edition of what remains of him is that of Cannegetier, 8vo, 1731.
Avitus, a governor of Britain under Nero. Tacitus, Annals, bk. 14.——Alcinus, a christian poet, who wrote a poem in six books on original sin, &c.
Avium, a city between Tyre and Sidon. Strabo, bk. 16.
Aulerci, a people of Gaul, between the Seine and the Loire.
Aulestes, a king of the Etrurians when Æneas came into Italy. Virgil, Æneid, bk. 12, li. 290.
Aulētes, a general who assisted Æneas in Italy, with 100 ships. Virgil, Æneid, bk. 10, li. 207.——The surname of one of the Ptolemean kings, father to Cleopatra.
Aulis, a daughter of Ogyges. Pausanias, Bœotia.——A town of Bœotia near Chalcis on the sea coast, where all the Greeks conspired against Troy. They were detained there by contrary winds, by the anger of Diana, whose favourite stag had been killed by Agamemnon. To appease the resentment of the goddess, Agamemnon was obliged to sacrifice his own daughter Iphigenia, whom, however, Diana spared by substituting a ram. Virgil, Æneid, bk. 4, li. 426.—Ovid, Metamorphoses, bk. 12, li. 9, &c.—Homer, Iliad, bk. 2, li. 303.
Aulon, a mountain of Calabria, opposite Tarentum, famous for its wine, which, according to Horace bk. 2, ode 6, li. 18, is superior to that of Falernum. Martial, bk. 13, ltr. 125.—Strabo, bk. 6.——A place of Messenia. Pausanias.
Aulonius, a surname of Æsculapius.
Aulus, a prænomen common among the Romans.——Gellius. See: [Gellius].