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2. A writer of a work called Troica, from which Servius (Serv. ad Aen. 9.264) has preserved a fragment.

(Ἀβάσκαντος), a physician of Lugdunum (Lyons), who probably lived in the second century after Christ. He is several times mentioned by Galen (De Compos. Medicam. secund. Locos, 9.4. vol. xiii. p. 278), who has also preserved an antidote invented by him against the bite of serpents. (De Antid. 2.12. vol. xiv. p. 177.) The name is to be met with in numerous Latin inscriptions in Gruter's collection, live of which refer to a freedman of Augustus, who is supposed by Kühn (Additam. ad Elench. Medic. Vet. a J. A. Fabricio in " Bibl. Gr." Eahib.) to be the same person that is mentioned by Galen. This however is quite uncertain, as also whether Παρακλήτιος Ἀβάσκανθος in Galen (De Compos. Medicam. secund. Locos. 7.3. vol. xiii. p. 71) refers to the subject of this article.

or ABDALO'NIMUS, a gardener, but of royal descent, was made king of Sidon by Alexander the Great. (Curt. 4.1; Just. 11.10.) He is called Ballonymass by Diodorus. (17.46.)

(Ἄβδηρος), a son of Hermes, or according to others of Thromius the Locrian. (Apollod. 2.5.8; Strab. vii. p. 331.) He was a favourite of Heracles, and was torn to pieces by the mares of Diomedes, which Heracles had given him to pursue the Bistones. Heracles is said to have built the town of Abdera to honour him. According to Hyginus, (Hyg. Fab. 30,) Abderus was a servant of Diomedes. the king of the Thracian Bistones, and was killed by Heracles together with his master and his four men-devouring horses. (Compare Philostrat. Heroic. 3.1; 19.2.)

(Ἀβδίας).

Abdias was called the first Bishop of Babylon.