in fabulous history, the son of Aeneas king of Caledonia, and Althaea the daughter of Theflus, was no sooner born than the Parcae put a firebrand in the fire, saying, "This child shall live as long as this firebrand shall last." The three Parcae being gone, Althaea took the brand out of the fire, and preserved it with great care. Meleager at length discovered great courage in killing the famous Caledonian boar which laid waste the country, and presented the head to Atalanta who had given the monster the first blow; but Plexippus and Toxeus, the brothers of Althaea, refusing to have the head, Meleager killed them in the quarrel, and married Atalanta, by whom he had Parthenope; but Althaea, in revenge for the death of her two brothers, threw the fatal brand on the fire, which occasioned Meleager's death.

a Greek poet, the son of Eucrates, was born at Seleucia in Syria, and flourished under the reign of Seleucus VI. the last king of Syria. He was educated at Tyre; and died in the island of Coos, anciently called Meropoe. He there composed the Greek epigrams called by us the Anthologia. The disposition of the epigrams in this collection was often changed afterwards, and many additions have been made to them. The monk Planudes put them into the order they are in at present in the year 1380.