AHENOBARBUS, h"-la-n3-bar'-bus, surname of L. Domitius, and descendants, from his beard Laving been touched, and its colour instantly changed to that of bronze (a.$), by Castor and Pollux—on his discrediting the victory at Lake Regillus, with which they acquainted him. (See DOMITIUS a.) Al DONEUS, c1-1-eicY-neus. 1. Pluto (as causing to disah5ear;. 2. A king of the Molossi, who imprisoned Theseus, for attempting with Piri thous to seize his daughter Proserpine near the Acheron.
Aius LOCUTIUS, crass lo-cie-a-us (an nouncing speaker), a deity to whom a temple was built by Camillus, after the conquest of the Gauls, 390 B.C., from a plebeian, Ceditius, having informed the tribunes that from above the temple of Vesta, before the invasion, a supernatural voice had warned him that Rome would be attacked by the Gauls—a prediction neglected, but soon verified.
Ajax, tif -ax. 1. Son of Telamon and Peribcea or Eribcea, daughter of Alcathous, was the bravest of the Greeks next to Achilles: he fought, and at parting exchanged arms,withHector. On
the death of Achilles he disputed possession of his arms with Ulysses, and was so enraged at the latter receiving them from the Atreidm that he slaughtered a flock of sheep, supposing them to be the sons of Atreus: he then stabbed himself, the blood from the wound being changed into the hyacinth : he was buried at Sigmum, and his tomb was visited by Alex ander. 2. The Locrian, son of King Oileus of Locris, went, as a former suitor of Helen, with forty ships against Troy. For offering violence to Cassandra, who had fled to Pallas 's temple, on the night Troy fell, Pallas de stroyed his ship on his voyage home ; he swam to a rock and said he was safe in spite of the gods, when Neptune struck the rock with his trident, and Ajax was drowned. His body was afterwards found by the Greeks, and black sheep offered on his tomb.