Arion, A famous harper, whome the mariners woulde haue cast into the sea to haue his money: but hee desiring them to let him playe a song on his harpe ere he dyed, afterward leapt into the water, and a Dolphin receiuing hym on his backe, brought him to lande aline. It is also one Adrastus Chariot horses.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
ăriŏlor@ariovistus@Ărīon, ŏnis, m. (nom. Ario, Gell. 16, 19; acc. Gr. Ariona, Ov. F. 2, 83 al.), = *)ari/wn. I.A celebrated cithara player of Methymna, in Lesbos, rescued from drowning by a dolphin, Ov. F. 2, 79 sqq.; Gell. 16, 19; cf. Herod. 1, 23.—Hence, Ărīŏnĭus, a, um, adj., = *)ario/nios, belonging to Arion: nomen, Ov. F. 2, 93: lyra, id. A. A. 3, 326; Prop. 2, 26, 18. —II.A horse endowed with speech and the gift of prophecy, sent by Neptune to Adrastus; hence, vocalis, Prop. 2, 34, 37 fata movens, Stat. Th. 11, 443: Adrastaeus, id. S. 1, 1, 52; cf. Claud. IV. Cons. Hon. 555, and Hom. Il. 23, 346.