. -in-law of Herod Anti-pas, invaded Judaea, because Herod had dis-missed the daughter of Aretas in consequenceof his connexion witli Herodias (Jos. ). This Aretas seems to have been theprince who had possession of Damascus at thetime of the conversion of the Apostle Paul, 31. Arete (Ap^rrj). 1. Wife of Alcinous, king ofthe Phaeacians, received Ulysses with hospi-tality, and induced her people not to give upMedea to the emissaries of Aeetes (Od. vi. 305,vii. 66 ff.; Ap. Rh. iv. 1010; Apollod. i. 9, 25).—2, Daughter of t
. -in-law of Herod Anti-pas, invaded Judaea, because Herod had dis-missed the daughter of Aretas in consequenceof his connexion witli Herodias (Jos. ). This Aretas seems to have been theprince who had possession of Damascus at thetime of the conversion of the Apostle Paul, 31. Arete (Ap^rrj). 1. Wife of Alcinous, king ofthe Phaeacians, received Ulysses with hospi-tality, and induced her people not to give upMedea to the emissaries of Aeetes (Od. vi. 305,vii. 66 ff.; Ap. Rh. iv. 1010; Apollod. i. 9, 25).—2, Daughter of the elder Dionysius andAristomache, wife of Thearides, and after hisdeath of her uncle Dion. After Dion had fledfrom Syracuse, Arete was compelled by herbrother to marry Timocrates, one of his friends ;but she was again received by Dion as his wifewhen he had obtained possession of Syracuseand expelled the younger Dionysius. Afterthe assassination of Dion in 353, she wasdrowned by his enemies. (Plut. Dion.; H. xii. 47, where Arete and Aristomache are. ARETHUSA confused.)—3. Daughter of Aristippus, the Ifounder of the Cyrenaic school of philosophy, jwas instructed by him in the principles of hissystem, which she transmitted to her son the iyounger Aristippus (Diog. Laert. ii. 72). Arethusa (ApiOovaa), one of the Nereids,and the nymph of the famous fountain of Are-thusa in theisland of Or- 1tygia near Sy-racuse. Fordetails, see Al-pheus. Virgil(Eclog. iv. 1, ) reckons heramong the Si-cilian nymphs,and as the di-vinity who in-spired pastoralpoetry. Thehead of Are-thusa with herhair confinedin a net andsurrounded byfishes, occursin the coinsof Syracuse.—There were se-veral otherfountains inGreece whichbore the nameof Arethusa, ofwhich the mostimportant was Asethusa. Coin of Syracuse of the one in Ithaca,reign of Gelon, whose Givmpic vie- J ei,(..lr, tory Is Bhown on the reverse. D°V ^euaao, and another in Euboea near Chalcis (Strab. p. 58; Eur. 170). Arethu
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