Abas 2. A writer of a work called Troica, from which Servius ( Serv. ad Aen. 9.264 ) has preserved a fragment. [ L.S ] Abascantus ( 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. [ W.A.G ] Abdolo'nimus 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.) Abde'rus ( 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.) [ L.S ] Abdias ( Ἀβδίας ). Abdias was called the first Bishop of Babylon. Works The History of the Apostolical contest He was the pretended author of an Apocryphal book, entitled The History of the
 Apostolical contest. This work claims to have been written in Hebrew, to have been
 translated into Greek by Eutropius, and thence into Latin by Julius Africanus. It was
 however originally written in Latin, about A. D. 910 . Editions It is printed in Fabricius, Codex Apocryphus Novi Test. p.
 402. 8vo. Hamb. 1703. [ A.J.C ]