in Antiquity, the chief mimic actor or Archimedes pantomime, who sometimes at funeral processions represented the character of the deceased, by imitating his voice and gestures. Suet. Vesp. 19.

ARCHINUS of Cole in Attica, an eminent statesman who assisted Thrasybulus and Anytus in expelling the thirty tyrants from Athens, in B.C. 403. It was by his advice that the Cadmean or Ionic alphabet was introduced into all public documents in the same year. From an allusion in Plato, Dionysius of Halicarnassus and others have fallen into the mistake of attributing to Archinus a funeral oration.—See Plato, Menex. p. 403; Dion. Hal. De adm. ei dicend. in Demosth. p. 178.