ATTICUS, HERODES, an opulent citizen of Athens, in the time of the Antonines, celebrated for the vast sums he expended in the decoration of that and other cities. He built a stadium at Athens, 600 feet in length, of Pentelic marble, capable of containing at once the whole population; and erected a new theatre or odeion in honour of his deceased wife Regilla. The aqueduct of Troas in Asia was completed by him at an expense of more than 1,100,000 sterling; at Corinth he built a theatre, and richly decorated the temple of the Isthmian Neptune. The stadium at Delphi was another of his works; as were the baths of the hot-springs at Thermopyle; and a fine aqueduct at Canusium in Italy. Many cities of Peloponnesus, Bœotia, Epirus, Thessalia, and Eubœa have, by numerous inscriptions, testified their gratitude to him, their munificent benefactor. See Mém. de l'Acad. des Inscrip. xxx., and Gibbon's Hist. i.; Stuart's Athens, where its dimensions and plan are given.