Abăris

, a man killed by Perseus. Ovid , Metamorphoses , bk. 5 , li. 86 .――A Rutulian killed by Euryalus. Virgil , Æneid , bk. 9 , li. 344 .――A Scythian, son of Seuthes, in the age of Crœsus, or the Trojan war, who received a flying arrow from Apollo, with which he gave oracles, and transported himself wherever he pleased. He is said to have returned to the Hyperborean countries from Athens without eating, and to have made the Trojan Palladium with the bones of Pelops. Some suppose that he wrote treatises in Greek; and it is reported, that there is a Greek manuscript of his epistles to Phalaris, in the library of Augsburg. But there were probably two persons of that name. Hero dot us , bk. 4 , ch. 36 .— Strabo , bk. 7 .— Pausanias , bk. 3 , ch. 33 .