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Alcĭbĭădes, is, m. (gen. Alcibiadi, Arn. adv. Gent. 6, p. 198; voc. Gr. Alcibiadē, Liv. 39, 36), = Ἀλκιβιάδης.

  1. I. An Athenian general in the time of the Peloponnesian war, distinguished for his beauty, wealth, and natural endowments, as well as for his changing fortunes and want of fixed principle, Cic. de Or. 2, 22; id. Tusc. 3, 22 (his life, v. in Plut., Nep., and Just.).
    Hence, * Alcĭbĭădēus, a, um, adj., pertaining to him, Arn. 6, p. 198.
  2. II. The name of a later Greek in the time of the war with the Romans, Liv. 39, 36.

Alcĭdĕmos, i, f., v. 1. Alcis.

Alcīdes, ae, m., = Ἀλκείδης, a male descendant of Alceus; usu. his grandson Hercules, Verg. E. 7, 61; id. A. 8, 203; 10, 321: quid memorem Alciden? id. ib. 6, 123; so Hor. C. 1, 12, 25; Tib. 4, 1, 12; Prop. 1, 20, 49: non fugis, Alcide, Ov. H. 9, 75; voc. also Alcidā, Sen. Herc. Fur. 1343.

Alcĭmăchus, i, m., = Ἀλκίμαχος, a famous Greek painter, Plin. 35, 11, 40, § 139.

Alcĭmĕdē, ēs, f., = Ἀλκιμέδη, a daughter of Autolycus, wife of Æson, and mother of Jason, Ov. H. 6, 105; Hyg. Fab. 14; Val. Fl. 1, 317; Stat. Th. 5, 236.

Alcĭmĕdon, ontis, m., the name of an artist in wood-carving, of whom nothing more is known; perh. contemporary with Vergil, Verg. E. 3, 37 and 44: ubi v. Wagn.

Alcĭnŏus, i, m., = Ἀλκίνοος, a king of the Phœacians, by whom Ulysses, in his wanderings, was entertained as guest, Ov. P. 2, 9, 42; Prop. 1, 14, 24; Hyg. Fab. 23, 125. On account of the luxury that prevailed at his court, Horace called luxurious young men juventus Alcinoi, voluptuaries, Hor. Ep. 1, 2, 29 (cf. the words of Alcinous in Hom. Od. 8, 248). His love for horticulture (cf. Hom. Od. 7, 112 sq.) was also proverbial: pomaque et Alcinoi silvae, fruit-trees, Verg. G. 2, 87: Alcinoi pomaria, Stat. S. 1, 3, 81.
Hence, Alcinoo dare poma, of any thing superfluous (as in silvam ligna ferre, Hor. S. 1, 10, 34, and in Gr. γλαῦκ’ εἰς Ἀθήνας), Ov. P. 4, 2, 10; Mart. 7, 41.

1. Alcis, ĭdis, f., = Ἀλκίς [from ἀλκή, strength], an appellation of Minerva among the Macedonians: Minervae, quam vocant Alcidem, Liv. 42, 51, where Weissenb. reads Alcidemon.

* 2. Alcis, m. [acc. to some fr. the Gr. ἀλκή; acc. to others, the Old Germ. Elk = force], a deity of the Naharvali, Tac. G. 43; cf. Ruperti ad h. 1.

Alcisthĕnē, ēs, f., = Ἀλκισθένη, a Greek female painter, Plin. 35, 11, 40, § 147.

Alcĭthŏē, ēs, f., = Ἀλκιθόη, one of the daughters of Minyas in Thebes, changed into a bat for ridiculing the orgies of Bacchus, Ov. M. 4, 1; 274; 389 sq.; cf. O. Müll. Gesch. Hellen. Stämme, 1, 167 sq.