POLLUX (-ficis), 15.2,-/u.r. a. Called PUY den'as by the Greeks, was the brother of Castor (q. v.). 2. J., a Greek writer under Commtidus, born at Naucratis, in Egypt, taught rhetoric at Athens, and wrote an extant Greek lexilogus.
x. Of Macedonia, wrote an extant work in eight books on Strata gems, dedicated to the emperors Antoninus and Verus, and some lost historical works. 2. A mathematician of LampsAcus, became a friend and follower of Epicurus, and discarded mathe matics as a useless study.
PoLvalus, 25,1-/fib'-I-us, the historian, of Megalopas, in Arcadia, born about 205 B.C., was early initiated in the duties of a statesman by his father Lycortas, who was a strong sup porter of the Achman league. On the conquest of Perseus, 168, he was, as one of the t,000 leading Achman prisoners, taken to Rome but his captivity was nominal, and he became intimate with the younger Scipio Africanus, whom, after having gone home, a5x, with the surviving Achmans, he accompanied, x46, against Carthage. He returned home in the same year to relieve the distress occasioned by the fall of Corinth. He afterwards travelled
extensively, and died, when aged above 8o, in • his birthplace. His valuable history of Rome, in forty books, of which only I.—V. and frag ments of the others exist, comprised (in Greek) an epitome of the period from the capture of Rome by the Gauls to the commencement of the second Punic war, and a history from the second Punic war, 220 a.c., to the capture of Corinth, 146.
PoLvaus, pe.y-bus. I. King of Corinth, was son of Mercury by King Sickon's daughter Chthfinliphyle, and married Peribcea (or Merope). Being childless, he adopted the foundling. afterwards the famous king, CEdipus (q. v.). His daughter Lysianassa married Tahms, son of King Bias of Argos ; and hs bequeathed his kingdom to Adrastus, who, when exiled, had taken refuge with him. 2. A king of Thebes in temp. Trojan wax. 3. One of Penelope 's suitors.