Achæus

, a king of Lydia, hung by his subjects for his extortion. Ovid , Ibis .――A son of Xuthus of The aly. He fled, after the accidental murder of a man, to Peloponnesus; where the inhabitants were called from him, Achæi. He afterwards returned to The aly. Strabo , bk. 8 .— Pausanias , bk. 7 , ch. 1 .――A tragic poet of Eretria, who wrote 43 tragedies, of which some of the titles are preserved, such as Adrastus, Linus, Cycnus, Eumenides, Phi loc tetes, Pirithous, These us, Œdip us, . ; of these only one obtained the prize. He lived some time after Sophocles.――Another of Syracuse, author of 10 tragedies.――A river which falls into the Euxine. Arrian , Periplus of the Euxine Sea .――A relation of Antiochus the Great, appointed governor of all the king’s provinces beyond Taurus. He aspired to sovereign power, which he disputed for eight years with Antiochus, and was at last betrayed by a Cretan. His limbs were cut off, and his body, sewed in the skin of an a , was exposed on a gibbet. Polybius , bk. 8 .