Such were the political divisions of Asia Minor recognized by Hero dot us

A century later Ephorus made an enumeration which differs from that of Hero dot us but in two or three particulars. "Asia Minor," he said, "is inhabited by sixteen races, three of which are Greek, and the rest barbarian, not to mention certain mixed races which are neither the one nor the other. The barbarian races are the following:- Upon the coast, the Cilicians, the Lycians, the Pamphylians, the Bithynians, the Paphlagonians, the Mariandynians, the Trojans, and the Carians; in the interior, the Pisidians, the Mysians, the Chalybians, the Phrygians, and the Milyans Rawlinson, Herod., I. 381-386. Asiago (ä-se-ä'go). The chief place in the Sette Communi, province of Vicenza, Italy, 38 miles northwest of Padua. Population, about 6,000. Asiatic Ru ia. Those regions of Asia which are under Ru ian rule. They include Transcaucasia, Siberia, and Ru ian Central Asia (Turkestan and the Trans cas pian Province). Asinara (ä-se-nä'rä). An island, 11 miles long, dinia, belonging to the province of Sa ari: the ancient Insula Herculis (Island of Hercules). Asinara, Gulf of. An arm of the Mediterranean, off the northwestern coast of the Island of Sardinia. off the northwestern coast of the Island of Sar Asinarus (as-i-nā'rus). In ancient geography, a small river in the province of Syracuse, Sicily: the modern Fiume di Noto, or Falcon are. Near here the Syracusans defeated the A then i ans 413 в. с. Asinia gens (a-sin'i-ä jenz). In ancient Rome, a plebeian clan or house, originally from Teate, the principal town of the Marrucini, whose family names were Agrippa, Celer, Dento, Gallus, Pollio, and Salon in us. As in i us. See Pollio . As in i us Gallus. See Gallus , Caius As in i us . Asir, or Asyr (ä-ser'). A mountainous region in western Arabia, between Hejaz on the north and Yemen on the south, inhabited by Wahabis. Asisi. See A isi . Asius (a's hi-us). An early Greek poet of Samos. He is "quoted by Duris as describing the luxury of the Ionians at Samos in terms not unlike Thucydides' account of the old A then i ans. Athenæus cites a few comic lines from an elegy of the same poet, and Pausanias refers to him on obscure genealogical questions about local heroes" ( Mahafy , Hist. of Cla ical Greek Lit., I. 145). Ask (ask) and Embla (em'blä). [ON. Askr and Embla .] In Old Norse mythology, the first man and woman, created in Midgard by the three gods Odin, Hænir, and Lodur (Old Norse IMG:content-0104.png:[blocks in formation] Lodhurr), out of trees found on the sea-shore. Asopus. In Greek mythology, the god of the Odin gave them life, Hænir sense, and Lodur blood and color. Askabad (äs-kä-bäd'). A place in the Turkoman Steppe, Ru ian Central Asia, about lat. 37° 50′ N., long. 58° 20′ E.: an important sta tion on the Trans cas pian Railway. Population, about 7,000. Askanien (äs-kä'ni-en). An ancient countship of Germany, named from the castle of Askanien near Aschersleben. IMG:content-0105.png:[blocks in formation] Askja (äskyä). A volcano in the interior of Iceland. It was in eruption in 1875. Asklepios. See Æsculapius . Aslauga's Knight (a-slou'gaz nīt). [G. As lauga's Ritter .] A story by Baron de La Motte Fouqué, published in German in the autumn of 1814, and translated into English in Carlyle's "German Romance." Aslauga is a spirit chosen by the Knight in preference to any earthly lady-love. She appears to him at important moments in his career, and he dies fancying himself clasped in her arms and shrouded in her wonderful golden hair. Asmai (Abu Said Abd-el Melek ibn Koraïb El-Asmai). Born at Basra about 740 A. D.: died about 830. An Arabian littérateur and preceptor to Harun-al-Rashid. He probably wrote the romance "Antar." As mode us (as-mō-dē'us or as-mō'de-us). [Heb. Ashmodai : derived by some from Heb. samad , to destroy: probably of Persian origin.] In later Jewish demonology, a destructive demon. In the book of Tobit he is said to have loved Sara and to have destroyed in succe ion her seven husbands, appear ing as on their bridal nights. hence jocularly spoken of as the destroyer of domestic happie ne . When, however, Sara was married to the son of Tobit, As mode us was driven away by the fumes from the burning heart and liver of a fish (hence the allusion in "Paradise Lost," iv. 168). King Solomon, in his search for the mysterious and miraculous Shamir, ordered As mode us, who knew the secret, to be brought to him. He resisted the summons violently, upsetting trees and houses. A poor widow begging him not to injure her little hut, he turned aside so sharply that he broke his leg and has been a "diable boiteux" (lame devil) ever since. Le Sage made him the hero of his romance "Le Diable Boiteux," from which Foote took his play "The Devil on Two Sticks." He appears in the former as the companion of Don Cleofas, whom he takes with him in his wonderful flight over the roofs of Madrid, showing him by his diabolical power the insides of the houses as they fly over them. In the novel he is a witty, playful, malicious creature. He is also introduced in Wiel and's "Oberon." Asmoneans, Has mon eans. [From Asmonai , the first of the dynasty.] See Maccabees . A snapper (as-nap'er). See Asenappar . Asnen (äs'nen), Lake. A lake in southern Sweden, south of Wexiö. Asnières (ä-ne-ar'). A suburb of Paris, situ ated on the Seine 1 mile northwest of the fortifications. Population, about 15,000. Asoka (a-sō'kä), or Piyadasi (pi'ya-da-si). A of Bin king of the ol Maurya dynasty of Magadha, son Bindusara, and grandson of Chan drag upta, в. с. 263-226. In consequence of a quarrel with his father, he went away to Rajputana and the Panjab. Re his brothers turning at the moment of his father's death, he ma acred tended his sway over Hindu stan, the Panjab, and Afghan river Asopus (in Sicyonia). He was struck by a thunderbolt from Zeus. Asotus (a-sō'tus). [Gr. άσωτος , profligate.] In Ben Jonson's "Cynthia's Revels," a foolish and prodigal coxcomb, the parasite of A morph us whom he imitates in every way. Aspar (as'pär). Died 471. A general of the Eastern Empire, the son of Ardaburius. was an Alan by extraction. As early as 424 he went with his father on the expedition to Italy which overthrew the He usurper Joannes and established the young Val ent in i an on the throne of his uncle Honor i us. He was consul in 434. "He was called 'First of the Patricians'; he stood on the very steps of the throne, and might have been Emperor himself, but he was an Arian." Hodgkin , Italy and her Invaders, II. 450. Asparagus Gardens, The. A low place of public entertainment, not far from Pimlico. It is to this that Brome refers in his "Sparagus Garden" (which see). Aspasia (as-pā'shi-ä). [Gr. Ασπασία , lit. 'welcome.'] Born at Miletus, Ionia: flourished about 440 в. с. A celebrated Milesian woman of great talents and beauty, who removed to Athens in her youth, and became the mistre of Pericles. Her house was the center of literary and philosophical society at Athens, and her ascendancy over Pericles was such that the war with Samos in behalf of Miletus, 440 В. С., was frequently ascribed to her influence. She was also said to have written part of Pericles's famous funeral oration over the soldiers who fell in the campaign of 431 в. с. She was accused by the comic poet Hermippus of impurity 432 B. c., but was saved by the intervention of Pericles, whose eloquence and personal influence procured her acquittal. After the death of Pericles, 429 B. C., she attached herself to Lysicles, a democratic leader. The son of Peri cles by Aspasia was legitimated by a decree of the people, took his father's name, and was executed, with five other generals, after the victory of Arginusæ. Aspasia, or Aspatia. One of the principal characters in Beaumont and Fletcher's "Maid's Tragedy." She is betrothed to Amintor and is deserted by him. Aspasius (as-pā'shius). Born at Ravenna, Italy: flourished about 225 A. D. A Roman rhetorician and sophist. Aspe (äs'pā). A town in the province of Alicante, Spain, 21 miles west of Alicante. Population (1887), 7,297. Aspe (äsp), Vallée d'. A valley, department of Ba es-Pyrénées, France, near the Spanish frontier, traversed by one of the main routes acro the Pyrenees. It formed a medieval republic under the protection of Béarn. Aspen (as'pen). A silver-mining town in Pit kin County, Colorado, west of Leadville. Population (1890), 5,108. Aspendos (as-pen'dos), A spend us (-dus). [Gr. Ἄσπενδος.] In ancient geography, a city of Pamphylia, Asia Minor, on the Eurymedon about lat. 36°58′ N., long. 31° 16′ E. It contains a Roman theater, which is the best-preserved of all ancient structures of the kind. The cave a is quite intact. There is also a Roman aqueduct which cro es the valley by a long range of arches. Asper (as'per). [L., 'rough, harsh.'] 1. In Ben Jonson's "Every Man out of his Humour," a character which he designed as a portrait of himself. He is of an ingenious and free spirit, eager and constant in reproof, without fear controlling the world's abuses. One whom no servile hope of gain, or frosty apprehension of danger, can make to be a parasite, either to time, place, or opinion.