Alexas, of Laodicea, was recommended to Marcus Antony by Timagenes. He was the cause that Antony repudiated Octavia to marry Cleopatra. Augustus punished him severely after the defeat of Antony. Plutarch, Antonius.
Alexia, or Alesia. See: [Alesia].
Alexicăcus, a surname given to Apollo by the Athenians, because he delivered them from the plague during the Peloponnesian war.
Alexīnus, a disciple of Eubulides the Milesian, famous for the acuteness of his genius and judgment, and for his fondness for contention and argumentation. He died of a wound which he had received from a sharp-pointed reed, as he swam across the river Alpheus. Diogenes Laërtius, Euclides.
Alexion, a physician intimate with Cicero. Cicero, Letters to Atticus, bk. 13, ltr. 25.
Alexippus, a physician of Alexander. Plutarch, Alexander.
Alexiraes, son of Hercules by Hebe. Apollodorus, bk. 2, ch. 7.——A place of Bœotia, where Alexiraes was born, bears also this name. Pausanias, bk. 9, ch. 25.
Alexirhoe, a daughter of the river Granicus. Ovid, Metamorphoses, bk. 11, li. 763.
Alexis, a man of Samos, who endeavoured to ascertain, by his writings, the borders of his country.——A comic poet, 336 B.C., of Thurium, who wrote 245 comedies, of which some few fragments remain.——A servant of Asinius Pollio.——An ungrateful youth of whom a shepherd is deeply enamoured, in Virgil’s Eclogues, poem 2.——A statuary, disciple to Polycletes, 87th Olympiad Pliny, bk. 34, ch. 8.——A schoolfellow of Atticus. Cicero, Letters to Atticus, bk. 7, ltr. 2.
Alexon, a native of Myndos, who wrote fables. Diogenes Laërtius.