Alcidamĭdas, a general of the Messenians, who retired to Rhegium, after the taking of Ithome by the Spartans, B.C. 723. Strabo, bk. 6.
Alcidămus, an Athenian rhetorician, who wrote an eulogy on death, &c. Cicero, bk. 1, Tusculanæ Disputationes, ch. 48.—Plutarch, Lives of the Ten Orators.
Alcīdas, a Lacedæmonian, sent with 23 galleys against Corcyra, in the Peloponnesian war. Thucydides, bk. 3, ch. 16, &c.
Alcīdes, a name of Hercules, from his strength, ἀλκος, or from his grandfather Alcæus.——A surname of Minerva in Macedonia. Livy, bk. 42, ch. 51.
Alcidĭce, the mother of Tyro, by Salmoneus. Apollodorus, bk. 1, ch. 9.
Alcimăchus, an eminent painter. Pliny, bk. 35, ch. 11.
Alcimĕde, the mother of Jason by Æson. Flaccus, bk. 1, li. 296.
Alcimĕdon, a plain of Arcadia, with a cave the residence of Alcimedon, whose daughter Phillo was ravished by Hercules. Pausanias, bk. 8, ch. 12.——An excellent carver. Virgil, Eclogues, poem 3.——A sailor, &c. Ovid, Metamorphoses, bk. 4, fable 10.
Alcimĕnes, a tragic poet of Megara.——A comic writer of Athens.——An attendant of Demetrius. Plutarch, Demetrius.——A man killed by his brother Bellerophon. Apollodorus, bk. 2, ch. 3.
Alcĭmus, an historian of Sicily, who wrote an account of Italy.——An orator. Diogenes Laërtius.