Pollutia, a daughter of Lucius Vetus, put to death after her husband Rubellius Plautus, by order of Nero, &c. Tacitus, bk. 16, Annals, chs. 10 & 11.
Pollux, a son of Jupiter by Leda the wife of Tyndarus. He was brother to Castor. See: [Castor].——A Greek writer, who flourished A.D. 186, in the reign of Commodus, and died in the 58th year of his age. He was born at Naucratis, and taught rhetoric at Athens, and wrote a useful work called Onomasticon, of which the best edition is that of Hemsterhusius, 2 vols., folio, Amsterdam, 1706.
Poltis, a king of Thrace, in the time of the Trojan war.
Polus, a celebrated Grecian actor.——A sophist of Agrigentum.
Polusca, a town of Latium, formerly the capital of the Volsci. The inhabitants were called Pollustini. Livy, bk. 2, ch. 39.
Polyænus, a native of Macedonia, who wrote eight books in Greek of stratagems, which he dedicated to the emperors Antoninus and Verus, while they were making war against the Parthians. He wrote also other books which have been lost, among which was a history, with a description of the city of Thebes. The best editions of his stratagems are those of Masvicius, 8vo, Leiden, 1690, and of Mursinna, 12mo, Berlin, 1756.——A friend of Philopœmen.——An orator in the age of Julius Cæsar. He wrote in three books an account of Antony’s expedition in Parthia, and likewise published orations.——A mathematician, who afterwards followed the tenets of Epicurus, and disregarded geometry as a false and useless study. Cicero, Academicæ Quæstiones, bk. 4.
Polyānus, a mountain of Macedonia, near Pindus. Strabo.
Polyarchus, the brother of a queen of Cyrene, &c. Polyænus, bk. 8.
Polybidas, a general after the death of Agesipolis the Lacedæmonian. He reduced Olynthus.
Polybius, or Poly̆bus, a king of Corinth, who married Peribœa, whom some have called Merope. He was son of Mercury by Chthonophyle, the daughter of Sicyon king of Sicyon. He permitted his wife, who had no children, to adopt and educate as her own son, Œdipus, who had been found by his shepherds exposed in the woods. He had a daughter called Lysianassa, whom he gave in marriage to Talaus son of Bias king of Argos. As he had no male child, he left his kingdom to Adrastus, who had been banished from his throne, and who had fled to Corinth for protection. Hyginus, fable 66.—Pausanias, bk. 2, ch. 6.—Apollodorus, bk. 3, ch. 5.—Seneca, Œdipus, li. 812.