Ada, a sister of queen Artemisia, who married Hidricus. After her husband’s death, she succeeded to the throne of Caria; but being expelled by her younger brother, she retired to Alindæ, which she delivered to Alexander after adopting him as her son. Curtius, bk. 2, ch. 8.—Strabo, bk. 14.
Adad, a deity among the Assyrians, supposed to be the sun.
Adæus, a native of Mitylene, who wrote a Greek treatise on statuaries. Athenæus, bk. 13.
Adamantæa, Jupiter’s nurse in Crete, who suspended him in his cradle to a tree, that he might be found neither in the earth, the sea, nor in heaven. To drown the infant’s cries, she had drums beat and cymbals sounded around the tree. Hyginus, fable 139.
Adămas, a Trojan prince, killed by Merion. Homer, Iliad, bk. 13, li. 560.——A youth who raised a rebellion on being emasculated by Cotys king of Thrace. Aristotle, Politics, bk. 5, ch. 10.
Adamastus, a native of Ithaca, father of Achæmenides. Virgil, Æneid, bk. 3, li. 614.
Adaspii, a people at the foot of mount Caucasus. Justin, bk. 12, ch. 5.
Addephagia, a goddess of the Sicilians. Ælian, bk. 1, Varia Historia, ch. 27.
Addua, now Adda, a river of Cisalpine Gaul, falling into the Po near Cremona. Pliny, bk. 2, ch. 103.
Adelphius, a friend of Marcus Antoninus, whom he accompanied in his expedition into Parthia, of which he wrote the history. Strabo, bk. 11.