Autonoe, a daughter of Cadmus, who married Aristæus, by whom she had Actæon, often called Autoneius heros. The death of her son [See: [Actæon]] was so painful to her, that she retired from Bœotia to Megara, where she soon after died. Pausanias, bk. 1, ch. 44.—Hyginus, fable 179.—Ovid, Metamorphoses, bk. 3, li. 720.——One of the Danaides. Apollodorus, bk. 2.——One of the Nereides. Hesiod, Theogony.——A female servant of Penelope. Homer, Odyssey, bk. 18.
Autophradātes, a satrap of Lydia, who revolted from Artaxerxes. Diodorus.
Autūra, the Eure, a river of Gaul which falls into the Seine.
Auxesia and Damia, two virgins who came from Crete to Trœzene, where the inhabitants stoned them to death in a sedition. The Epidaurians raised them statues by order of the oracle, when their country was become barren. They were held in great veneration at Trœzene. Herodotus, bk. 5, ch. 82.—Pausanias, bk. 2, ch. 30.
Axĕnus, the ancient name of the Euxine sea. The word signifies inhospitable, which was highly applicable to the manners of the ancient inhabitants of the coast. Ovid, bk. 4; Tristia, poem 4, li. 56.
Axiŏchus, a philosopher, to whom Plato dedicated a treatise concerning death.
Axīon, brother of Alphesibœa, murdered Alcmæon his sister’s husband, because he wished to recover from her a golden necklace. See: [Alcmæon] and [Alphesibœa].
Axiotea, a woman who regularly went in a man’s dress to hear the lectures of Plato.
Axiothea, the wife of Nicocles king of Cyprus. Polyænus, bk. 8.
Axis, a town of Umbria. Propertius, poem 4.