Arsinoe

, daughter of Leu cippus and Philodice, was mother of Æsculapius by Apollo, according to some authors. She received divine honours after death at Sparta. Apollo dor us , bk. 3 .— Pausanias , bk. 2 , ch. 26 ; bk. 3 , ch. 12 .――A daughter of Phlegeus, promised in marriage to Alcmæon. Apollo dor us , bk. 3 , ch. 7 .――A fountain of Peloponnesus. Pausanias , Me enia .――The sister and wife of Ptolemy Philadelphus, worshipped after death under the name of Venus Zephyr it is. Dino chares began to build her a temple with loadstones, in which there stood a statue of Arsinoe suspended in the air by the power of the magnet; but the death of the architect prevented its being perfected. Pliny , bk. 34 , ch. 14 .――A daughter of Ptolemy Lagus, who married Lysimachus king of Macedonia. After her husband’s death, Ceraunus, her own brother, married her, and ascended the throne of Macedonia. He previously murdered Lysimachus and Philip, the sons of Arsinoe by Lysimachus, in their mother’s arms. Arsinoe was some time after banished to Samothrace. Justin , bk. 17 , ch. 1 , . ――A younger daughter of Ptolemy Auletes, sister to Cleopatra. Antony despatched her to gain the good graces of her sister. Hirtius , Alexandrine War , ch. 4 .— Appian. ――The wife of Magas king of Cyrene, who committed adultery with her son-in-law. Justin , bk. 26 , ch. 3 .――A daughter of Lysimachus. Pausanias. ――A town of Egypt, situated near the lake of Mœris, on the western shore of the Nile, where the inhabitants paid the highest veneration to the crocodiles. They nourished them in a splendid manner, and embalmed them after death, and buried them in the subterraneous cells of the labyrinth. Strabo. ――A town of Cilicia,――of Æolia,――of Syria,――of Cyprus,――of Lycia, .