Arsinoé

the name borne by several Egyptian (1) The daughter of Ptolemy I., who 300 B.c. married Lysimachus, King of 'Thrace. his death being persecuted by Ptolemy her half-brother, who aarried her, and her children, she became the wife of her Ptolemy Philadelphus. (2) The daughter Ptolemy Euergetes, called Cleopatra by Livy. married her brother Ptolemy Philopater, accomhim in his war against Syria 217 B.c., but put to death by her husband through the in of a mistre . (3) The daughter of XI., and sister of the famous Cleopatra, whose request she was put to death by Antony. towns, notably Suez and Crocodilopolis, named Arsinoé after one or another of these Arsis, in Prosody, originally the unaccented of a foot; now, however, the accented while thesis, now the unaccented, was the accented part. In elocution arsis is raising of the voice and thesis the depre ion. music arsis is the downward beat and thesis the as the ancients used to beat time in exactly opposite way to the moderns—their upward signifying the accented portion of the bar. Arslan (the lion), the title given to Ali an Albanian chief born in 1741, who gained of a large portion of Albania early in his In 1787, for his services to the Porte in the war, he was created pasha, and in he entered into an alliance with Napoleon, but shortly broke it off. He did a great deal of in his own territory in putting down brigand and disorder. In 1803 he subdued the Suliotes ) Artabaszus. of Epirus, while in 1807 he again concluded a treaty with Napoleon and again severed the alliance. In 1820, in consequence of his efforts after complete independence, the Sultan ordered his deposition, and in 1822 Arslan, who had yielded to a false promise of security, was put to death.