in Ancient Geography, a lake in the territory of Corinth, whose depth was unfathomable, and in vain attempted to be discovered by Nero. Through this lake Bacchus is said to have descended to hell to bring back Semele (Pausanias).

ALCYNIUS, Peter, a learned Italian, born in 1487. He was, for a considerable time, corrector of the press to Aldus Manutius, and afterwards Professor of Greek at Florence. His treatise on banishment entitled Medices Legatus, sine de Exilio, written in imitation of the style of Cicero, brought upon him, though unjustly, the charge of plagiarism. Paulus Manutius, who bore him no goodwill, was the author of this insinuation, and says that Aleyonius made away with the only existing MS. of Cicero's Treatise De Gloria, to save detection; but the accusation has been satisfactorily refuted. Aleyonius composed two excellent orations on the taking of Rome, representing very strongly the injustice of Charles V. and the barbarity of his soldiers. There is also an oration ascribed to him, on the knights who died at the siege of Rhodes.