Alexios

See Alexius. Alexis (a-lek's is). [Gr. Ἄλεξις .] Born at Thurii, Magna Græcia, Italy, about 390 B. c.: died about 288 в. с. А Greek dramatist, a master of the "middle comedy." He was a prolific writer, the author of 245 plays. Fragments of these, amounting to 1,000 lines, are extant. He was brought as a youth to Athens, and was a citizen of that city. Alexis, or Alexei. Born in 1629: died in 1676. Czar of Ru ia, son of Michael Féodorovitch, IMG:content-0063.png:[blocks in formation] succeeded in 1645. He waged a war with Poland from 1654 to 1667, acquiring po e ion of Smolensk and eastern