Alagōnia, a city of Laconia. Pausanias, bk. 3, chs. 21 & 26.
Alāla, the goddess of war, sister to Mars. Plutarch, de gloria Atheniensium.
Alalcomĕnæ, a city of Bœotia, where some suppose that Minerva was born. Plutarch, Quæstiones Græcæ.—Statius, Thebiad, bk. 7, li. 330.
Alalia, a town of Corsica, built by a colony of Phocæans, destroyed by Scipio, 262 B.C., and afterwards rebuilt by Sylla. Herodotus, bk. 1, ch. 165.—Florus, bk. 2, ch. 2.
Alamānes, a statuary at Athens, disciple of Phidias.
Alamanni, or Alemanni, a people of Germany, near the Hercynian forest. They were very powerful and inimical to Rome.
Alāni, a people of Sarmatia, near the Palus Mœotis, who were said to have 26 different languages. Pliny, bk. 4, ch. 12.—Strabo.
Alăres, a people of Pannonia. Tacitus, bk. 15, Annals, ch. 10.
Alarīcus, a famous king of the Goths, who plundered Rome in the reign of Honorius. He was greatly respected for his military valour, and during his reign he kept the Roman empire in continual alarms. He died after a reign of 13 years, A.D. 410.
Alarōdii, a nation near Pontus. Herodotus, bk. 3, ch. 94.