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Abas (sophist) Abas () was an ancient hellenistic Greece, Greek sophist and a rhetorician about whose life nothing is known. The ''Suda'' ascribes to him historical commentaries (in Greek ιστoρικά απoμνηατα) and a work on rhetoric (in Greek τέ� ...

, an ancient Greek sophist and rhetorician *Abas, the ancient writer of a work entitled ''Troia'' from which

Maurus Servius Honoratus Servius, distinguished as Servius the Grammarian ( or ), was a late fourth-century and early fifth-century grammarian. He earned a contemporary reputation as the most learned man of his generation in Italy; he authored a set of commentaries o ...

(''ad Aen.'' ix. 264) has preserved a fragment *

Abas I of Armenia Abas () was king of Bagratid Armenia from 928 to 953. He was a member of the Bagratid ( Bagratuni) royal dynasty. He was the son of Smbat I and the brother of Ashot II the Iron, whom he succeeded. In contrast to the reign of his predecessors, A ...

, king of Armenia from 928 to 953 * Abas (name)

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Abas River The Abas River (), was a river of Iberia in Asia, mentioned by Plutarch (Plut. ''Pomp.'' 35) and Dio Cassius (37.3) as crossed by Pompey, on his expedition into the Caucasian regions. Its course was east of the Cambyses (likely the modern Iori); ...

, a river of the Caucasus :*

Battle of the Abas The Battle of the Abas was fought in 65 BC between the forces of the Roman Republic under Pompey Magnus and those of the Caucasian Albanian King Oroeses during the course of the Third Mithridatic War. The battle took place on a flat plain by ...

, a battle at the river in 65 BCE * Abas Business Software, an enterprise resource planning and e-business application from ABAS Software AG *'' Abas unipunctata'', a species of planthopper and the only member of the animal genus ''Abas'' * Abas wittii, an extinct species of diatoms * ''Abas'' (diatom), an extinct genus of algae *

Abas (mythology) In Greek mythology, the name Abas (; Ancient Greek: Ἄβας; ''gen''.: Ἄβαντος means "guileless" or "good-hearted") is attributed to several individuals: * Abas, king of Argos. *Abas, son of Poseidon and Arethusa. A Thracian by birth, ...

, several individuals in Greek and Roman mythology

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