for shooting proved fatal to him, and in his attempts to rob a
lioness of her whelps, he was killed by the enraged animal. Some say
that he died by the bite of a serpent, and others that he was killed
by a wild boar. His sisters mourned his death with such constant
lamentations, that Jupiter, in compassion for their sorrow, changed
them into stars. _See:_ Hyades. _Hyginus_, fable 192.――_Ovid_,
_Fasti_, bk. 5, li. 170.
=Hybla=, a mountain in Sicily, called afterwards _Megara_, where thyme
and odoriferous flowers of all sorts grew in abundance. It is famous
for its honey. There is at the foot of the mountain a town of the
same name. There is also another near mount Ætna, close to Catana.
_Pausanias_, bk. 5, ch. 23.――_Strabo_, bk. 6.――_Mela_, bk. 2, ch. 7.
――_Cicero_, _Against Verres_, bk. 3, ch. 43; bk. 5, ch. 25.――_Silius
Italicus_, bk. 14, li. 26.――_Statius_, bk. 14, li. 201.――――A city of
Attica bears also the name of Hybla.
=Hybrēas=, an orator of Caria, &c. _Strabo_, bk. 13.
=Hybrianes=, a people near Thrace.
=Hyccaron= (plural, a), a town of Sicily, the native place of Lais.
=Hyda= and =Hyde=, a town of Lydia, under mount Tmolus, which some
suppose to be the same as Sardes.
=Hydara=, a town of Armenia. _Strabo_, bk. 12.
=Hydarnes=, one of the seven noble Persians who conspired to destroy
the usurper Smerdis, &c. _Herodotus_, bks. 3 & 6.――_Strabo_, bk. 11.
=Hydaspes=, a river of Asia, flowing by Susa. _Virgil_, _Georgics_,
bk. 4, li. 211.――――Another in India, now _Behut_ or _Chelum_, the
boundaries of Alexander’s conquests in the east. It falls into the
Indus. _Curtius_, bk. 5, ch. 2.――_Lucan_, bk. 8, li. 227.――_Horace_,
bk. 1, ode 22, li. 7.――_Strabo_, bk. 15.――――A friend of Æneas,
killed in the Rutulian war. _Virgil_, _Æneid_, bk. 10, li. 747.
=Hydra=, a celebrated monster, which infested the neighbourhood of
the lake Lerna in Peloponnesus. It was the fruit of Echidna’s union
with Typhon. It had 100 heads, according to Diodorus; 50, according
to Simonides; and nine, according to the more received opinion of
Apollodorus, Hyginus, &c. As soon as one of these heads was cut off,
two immediately grew up if the wound was not stopped by fire. It was
one of the labours of Hercules to destroy this dreadful monster, and
this he easily effected with the assistance of Iolas, who applied
a burning iron to the wounds as soon as one head was cut off. While
Hercules was destroying the hydra, Juno, jealous of his glory, sent
a sea-crab to bite his foot. This new enemy was soon despatched;
and Juno, unable to succeed in her attempts to lessen the fame of
Hercules, placed the crab among the constellations, where it is now
called the Cancer. The conqueror dipped his arrows in the gall of
the hydra, and, from that circumstance, all the wounds which he gave
proved incurable and mortal. _Hesiod_, _Theogony_.――_Apollodorus_,
bk. 2, ch. 5.――_Pausanias_, bk. 5, ch. 17.――_Ovid_, _Metamorphoses_,
bk. 9, li. 69.――_Horace_, bk. 4, ode 4, li. 61.――_Virgil_, _Æneid_,
bk. 6, li. 276; bk. 7, li. 658.
=Hydraotes=, a river of India, crossed by Alexander.
=Hydrophŏria=, a festival observed at Athens, called ἀπο του φορειν
ὑδωρ, _from carrying water_. It was celebrated in commemoration of
those who perished in the deluge of Deucalion and Ogyges.
=Hydruntum= and =Hydrus=, a city of Calabria, 50 miles south of
Brundusium. As the distance from thence to Greece was only 60 miles,
Pyrrhus, and afterwards Varro, Pompey’s lieutenant, meditated the
building here a bridge across the Adriatic. Though so favourably
situated, Hydrus, now called _Otranto_, is but an insignificant
town, scarce containing 3000 inhabitants. _Pliny_, bk. 3, ch. 11.
――_Cicero_, bk. 15, _Letters to Atticus_, ltr. 21; bk. 16, ltr. 5.
――_Lucan_, bk. 5, li. 375.
=Hydrūsa=, a town of Attica. _Strabo_, bk. 9.
=Hyĕla=, a town of Lucania. _Strabo_, bk. 6.
=Hyempsal=, a son of Micipsa, brother to Adherbal, murdered by Jugurtha,
after the death of his father. _Sallust_, _Jugurthine War_.
=Hyettus=, a town of Bœotia. _Pausanias_, bk. 9, ch. 24.
=Hygeia=, or =Hygiea=, the goddess of health, daughter of Æsculapius,
held in great veneration among the ancients. Her statues represented
her with a veil, and the matrons usually consecrated their locks to
her. She was also represented on monuments as a young woman holding
a serpent in one hand, and in the other a cup, out of which the
serpent sometimes drank. According to some authors, Hygeia is the
same as Minerva, who received that name from Pericles, who erected
her a statue, because in a dream she had told him the means of
curing an architect, whose assistance he wanted to build a temple.
_Plutarch_, _Pericles_.――_Pausanias_, bk. 1, ch. 23.
=Hygiana=, a town of Peloponnesus.
=Caius Julius Hygīnus=, a grammarian, one of the freedmen of Augustus.
He was a native of Alexandria; or, according to some, he was a
Spaniard, very intimate with Ovid. He was appointed librarian
to the library of mount Palatine, and he was able to maintain
himself by the liberality of Caius Licinius. He wrote a mythological
history, which he called fables, and _Poeticon Astronomicon_, besides
treatises on the cities of Italy, on such Roman families as were
descended from the Trojans, a book on agriculture, commentaries on
Virgil, the lives of great men, &c., now lost. The best edition of
Hyginus is that of Munkerus, 2 vols., 8vo, Amsterdam, 1681. These
compositions have been greatly mutilated, and their incorrectness
and their bad Latinity have induced some to suppose that they are
spurious. _Suetonius_, _Lives of the Grammarians_.
=Hyla= and =Hylas=, a river of Mysia, where Hylas was drowned.
_Virgil_, _Georgics_, bk. 3, li. 6.――――A colony of Phocis.
=Hylactor=, one of Actæon’s dogs, from his barking (ὐλακτω, _latro_).
_Ovid_, _Metamorphoses_, bk. 3.
=Hylæ=, a small town of Bœotia. _Pliny_, bk. 4, ch. 7.
=Hylæus=, a name given to some centaurs, one of whom was killed
by Hercules on mount Pholoe. _Virgil_, _Æneid_, bk. 8, li. 294.
――――Another, by Theseus, at the nuptials of Pirithous. _Statius_,
_Thebiad_, bk. 7, li. 267.――_Ovid_, _Metamorphoses_, bk. 12, li. 378.
――――Another, killed by Bacchus. _Statius_, _Thebiad_, bk. 6, li. 530.
――_Virgil_, _Georgics_, bk. 2, li. 457.――――A fourth, killed by
Atalanta. _Apollodorus_, bk. 3.――――One of Actæon’s dogs.
=Hylas=, a son of Thiodamas king of Mysia and Menedice, stolen away
by Hercules, and carried on board the ship Argo to Colchis. On the
Asiatic coast the Argonauts landed to take a supply of fresh water,
and Hylas, following the example of his companions, went to the
fountain with a pitcher, and fell into the water and was drowned.
The poets have embellished this tragical story, by saying that the
nymphs of the river, enamoured of the beautiful Hylas, carried him
away; and that Hercules, disconsolate at the loss of his favourite
youth, filled the woods and mountains with his complaints, and
at last abandoned the Argonautic expedition to go and seek him.
_Apollodorus_, bk. 1, ch. 9.――_Hyginus_, fables 14, 271.――_Virgil_,
_Eclogues_, poem 6.――_Propertius_, bk. 1, poem 20.――――A river of
Bithynia. _Pliny_, bk. 5, ch. 32.
=Hylax=, a dog mentioned in _Virgil_, _Eclogues_, poem 8.
=Hylias=, a river of Magna Græcia.
=Hyllaicus=, a part of Peloponnesus, near Messenia.
=Hyllus=, a son of Hercules and Dejanira, who, soon after his father’s
death, married Iole. He, as well as his father, was persecuted by
the envy of Eurystheus, and obliged to fly from the Peloponnesus.
The Athenians gave a kind reception to Hyllus and the rest of the
Heraclidæ, and marched against Eurystheus. Hyllus obtained a victory
over his enemies, and killed with his own hand Eurystheus, and sent
his head to Alcmena his grandmother. Some time after he attempted
to recover the Peloponnesus with the Heraclidæ, and was killed in
single combat by Echemus king of Arcadia. _See:_ Heraclidæ, Hercules.
_Herodotus_, bk. 7, ch. 204, &c.――_Strabo_, bk. 9.――_Diodorus_, bk.
4.――_Ovid_, _Metamorphoses_, bk. 9, li. 279.――――A river of Lydia,
flowing into the Hernus. It is called also Phryx. _Livy_, bk. 37,
ch. 38.――_Herodotus_, bk. 1, ch. 180.
=Hylonŏme=, the wife of Cyllarus, who killed herself the moment her
husband was murdered by the Lapithæ. _Ovid_, _Metamorphoses_, bk. 12,
li. 405.
=Hylophăgi=, a people of Æthiopia. _Diodorus_, bk. 3.
=Hymĕnæus= and =Hymen=, the god of marriage among the Greeks, was son
of Bacchus and Venus, or, according to others, of Apollo and one of
the muses. Hymenæus, according to the more received opinions, was
a young Athenian of extraordinary beauty, but ignoble origin. He
became enamoured of the daughter of one of the richest and noblest
of his countrymen, and, as the rank and elevation of his mistress
removed him from her presence and conversation, he contented himself
to follow her wherever she went. In a certain procession, in which
all the matrons of Athens went to Eleusis, Hymenæus, to accompany
his mistress, disguised himself in woman’s clothes, and joined
the religious troop. His youth, and the fairness of his features,
favoured his disguise. A great part of the procession was seized
by the sudden arrival of some pirates, and Hymenæus, who shared the
captivity of his mistress, encouraged his female companions, and
assassinated their ravishers while they were asleep. Immediately
after this, Hymenæus repaired to Athens, and promised to restore to
liberty the matrons who had been enslaved, provided he was allowed
to marry one among them who was the object of his passion. The
Athenians consented, and Hymenæus experienced so much felicity in
his marriage state, that the people of Athens instituted festivals
in his honour, and solemnly invoked him at their nuptials, as the
Latins did their Thalassius. Hymen was generally represented as
crowned with flowers, chiefly with marjoram or roses, and holding
a burning torch in one hand, and in the other a vest of a purple
colour. It was supposed that he always attended at nuptials; for,
if not, matrimonial connections were fatal, and ended in the most
dreadful calamities; and hence people ran about calling aloud,
“Hymen! Hymen!” &c. _Ovid_, _Medeâ_; _Metamorphoses_, bk. 12,
li. 215.――_Virgil_, _Æneid_, bk. 1, &c.――_Catullus_, poem 62.
=Hymettus=, a mountain of Attica, about 22 miles in circumference, and
about two miles from Athens, still famous for its bees and excellent
honey. There was also a quarry of marble there. Jupiter had there a
temple; whence he is called _Hymettius_. _Strabo_, bk. 9.――_Silius
Italicus_, bk. 2, li. 228; bk. 14, li. 200.――_Pliny_, bk. 36, ch. 3.
――_Horace_, bk. 2, ode 18, li. 3; bk. 2, satire 2, li. 15.――_Cicero_,
bk. 2, _de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum_, ch. 34.
=Hypæpa=, or =Ipepæ=, now _Berki_, a town of Lydia, sacred to Venus,
between mount Tmolus and the Caystrus. _Strabo_, bk. 13.――_Ovid_,
_Metamorphoses_, bk. 11, li. 152.
=Hypæsia=, a country of Peloponnesus.
=Hypănis=, a river of European Scythia, now called _Bog_, which falls
into the Borysthenes, and with it into the Euxine. _Herodotus_, bk.
4, ch. 52, &c.――_Ovid_, _Metamorphoses_, bk. 15, li. 285.――――A river
of India.――――Another of Pontus. _Cicero_, _Tusculanæ Disputationes_,
bk. 2, ch. 39.――――A Trojan who joined himself to Æneas, and was
killed by his own people, who took him for one of the enemy in the
night that Troy was burned by the Greeks. _Virgil_, _Æneid_, bk. 2,
li. 428.
=Hyparīnus=, a son of Dion, who reigned at Syracuse for two years
after his father.――――The father of Dion.
=Hypătes=, a river of Sicily, near Camarina. _Silius Italicus_, bk. 14,
li. 231.
=Hypătha=, a town of Thessaly. _Livy_, bk. 41, ch. 25.
=Hypatia=, a native of Alexandria celebrated for her beauty, her
virtues, and her great erudition. She was assassinated 415 A.D.
=Hypēnor=, a Trojan killed by Diomedes at Troy. _Homer_, _Iliad_,
bk. 5, li. 144.
=Hyperbatus=, a pretor of the Achæans, B.C. 224.
=Hyperbius=, a son of Ægyptus. _Apollodorus._
=Hy̆perbŏrei=, a nation in the northern parts of Europe and Asia, who
were said to live to an incredible age, even to 1000 years, and in
the enjoyment of all possible felicity. The sun was said to rise
and set to them but once a year, and therefore, perhaps, they are
placed by Virgil under the north pole. The word signifies _people
who inhabit beyond the wind Boreas_. Thrace was the residence of
Boreas, according to the ancients. Whenever the Hyperboreans made
offerings they always sent them towards the south, and the people
of Dodona were the first of the Greeks who received them. The word
Hyperboreans is applied, in general, to all those who inhabit any
cold climate. _Pliny_, bk. 4, ch. 12; bk. 6, ch. 17.――_Mela_, bk. 3,
ch. 5.――_Virgil_, _Georgics_, bk. 1, li. 240; bk. 3, lis. 169 & 381.
――_Herodotus_, bk. 4, ch. 13, &c.――_Cicero_, _de Natura Deorum_,
bk. 3, ch. 23; bk. 4, ch. 12.
=Hyperea= and =Hyperīa=, a fountain of Thessaly, with a town of the
same name. _Strabo_, bk. 9.――――Another in Messenia, in Peloponnesus.
_Flaccus_, bk. 1, li. 375.
=Hyperesia=, a town of Achaia. _Strabo_, bk. 8.
=Hypĕrĭdes=, an Athenian orator, disciple to Plato and Socrates, and
long the rival of Demosthenes. His father’s name was Glaucippus.
He distinguished himself by his eloquence and the active part
which he took in the management of the Athenian republic. After the
unfortunate battle of Cranon, he was taken alive, and, that he might
not be compelled to betray the secrets of his country, he cut off
his tongue. He was put to death by order of Antipater, B.C. 322.
Only one of his numerous orations remains, admired for the sweetness
and elegance of his style. It is said that Hyperides once defended
the courtesan Phryne who was accused of impiety, and that when he
saw his eloquence ineffectual, he unveiled the bosom of his client,
upon which the judges, influenced by the sight of her beauty,
acquitted her. _Plutarch_, _Demosthenes_.――_Cicero_, _Orator_,
ch. 1, &c.――_Quintilian_, bk. 10, &c.
=Hypĕrīon=, a son of Cœlus and Terra, who married Thea, by whom he had
Aurora, the sun, and moon. Hyperion is often taken by the poets for
the sun itself. _Hesiod_, _Theogony_.――_Apollodorus_, bk. 1, chs. 1
& 2.――_Homer_, _Hymn 3 to Apollo_.――――A son of Priam. _Apollodorus_,
bk. 1, ch. 2.
=Hypermnestra=, one of the 50 daughters of Danaus, who married Lynceus
son of Ægyptus. She disobeyed her father’s bloody commands, who had
ordered her to murder her husband the first night of her nuptials,
and suffered Lynceus to escape unhurt from the bridal bed. Her
father summoned her to appear before a tribunal for her disobedience,
but the people acquitted her, and Danaus was reconciled to her and
her husband, to whom he left his kingdom at his death. Some say
that Lynceus returned to Argos with an army, and that he conquered
and put to death his father-in-law, and usurped his crown. _See:_
Danaides. _Pausanias_, bk. 2, ch. 19.――_Apollodorus_, bk. 2,
ch. 1.――_Ovid_, _Heroides_, poem 14.――――A daughter of Thestius.
_Apollodorus._
=Hyperŏchus=, a man who wrote a poetical history of Cuma. _Pausanias_,
bk. 10, ch. 12.
=Hyphæus=, a mountain of Campania. _Plutarch_, _Sulla_.
=Hypsa=, now _Belici_, a river of Sicily, falling into the Crinisus,
and then into the Mediterranean near Selinus. _Silius Italicus_,
bk. 14, li. 228.
=Hypsea=, a Roman matron, of the family of the Plautii. She was blind,
according to Horace; or, perhaps, was partial to some lover, who
was recommended neither by personal nor mental excellence. _Horace_,
bk. 1, satire 2, li. 91.
=Hypsēnor=, a priest of the Scamander, killed during the Trojan war.
_Homer_, _Iliad_, bk. 5.
=Hypseus=, a son of the river Peneus.――――A pleader at the Roman bar
before the age of Cicero. _Cicero_, _On Oratory_, bk. 1, ch. 36.
=Hypsicrătēa=, the wife of Mithridates, who accompanied her husband in
man’s clothes, when he fled before Pompey. _Plutarch_, _Pompey_.
=Hypsicrătes=, a Phœnician who wrote a history of his country, in
the Phœnician language. This history was saved from the flames of
Carthage, when that city was taken by Scipio, and translated into
Greek.
=Hypsipĭdes=, a Macedonian in Alexander’s army, famous for his
friendship for Menedemus, &c. _Curtius_, bk. 7, ch. 7.
=Hypsĭpy̆le=, a queen of Lemnos, daughter of Thoas and Myrine. During
her reign, Venus, whose altars had been universally slighted,
punished the Lemnian women, and rendered their mouths and breath so
extremely offensive to the smell, that their husbands abandoned them,
and gave themselves up to some female slaves, whom they had taken in
a war against Thrace. This contempt was highly resented by all the
women of Lemnos, and they resolved on revenge, and all unanimously
put to death their male relations, Hypsipyle alone excepted, who
spared the life of her father Thoas. Soon after this cruel murder,
the Argonauts landed at Lemnos, in their expedition to Colchis,
and remained for some time in the island. During their stay the
Argonauts rendered the Lemnian women mothers, and Jason, the
chief of the Argonautic expedition, left Hypsipyle pregnant at his
departure, and promised her eternal fidelity. Hypsipyle brought
twins, Euneus and Nebrophonus, whom some have called Deiphilus or
Thoas. Jason forgot his vows and promises to Hypsipyle, and the
unfortunate queen was soon after forced to leave her kingdom by the
Lemnian women, who conspired against her life, still mindful that
Thoas had been preserved by means of his daughter. Hypsipyle, in her
flight, was seized by pirates, and sold to Lycurgus king of Nemæa.
She was entrusted with the care of Archemorus the son of Lycurgus;
and, when the Argives marched against Thebes, they met Hypsipyle,
and obliged her to show them a fountain, where they might quench
their thirst. To do this more expeditiously, she laid down
the child on the grass, and in her absence he was killed by a
serpent. Lycurgus attempted to revenge the death of his son, but
Hypsipyle was screened from his resentment by Adrastus the leader
of the Argives. _Ovid_, _Heroides_, poem 6.――_Apollonius_, bk. 1.
――_Statius_, bk. 5, _Thebiad_.――_Flaccus_, bk. 2.――_Apollodorus_,
bk. 1, ch. 9; bk. 3, ch. 6.――_Hyginus_, fables 15, 74, &c. _See:_
Archemorus.
=Hyrcānia=, a large country of Asia, at the north of Parthia, and
at the west of Media, abounding in serpents, wild beasts, &c. It
is very mountainous, and unfit for drawing a cavalry in order of
battle. _Virgil_, _Æneid_, bk. 4, li. 367.――_Cicero_, _Tusculanæ
Disputationes_, bk. 1, ch. 45.――_Strabo_, bks. 2 & 11.――――A town
of Lydia, destroyed by a violent earthquake in the age of Tiberius.
_Livy_, bk. 37, ch. 38.
=Hyrcănum mare=, a large sea, called also _Caspian_. _See:_ Caspium
mare.
=Hyrcānus=, a name common to some of the high priests of Judea.
_Josephus._
=Hyria=, a country of Bœotia, near Aulis, with a lake, river, and town
of the same name. It is more probably situate near Tempe. It received
its name from Hyrie, a woman who wept so much for the loss of her
son, that she was changed into a fountain. _Ovid_, _Metamorphoses_,
bk. 7, li. 372.――_Herodotus_, bk. 7, ch. 170.――――A town of Isauria,
on the Calycadnus.
=Hyrieus=, or =Hyreus=, a peasant, or, as some say, a prince of
Tanagra, son of Neptune and Alcyone, who kindly entertained Jupiter,
Neptune, and Mercury, when travelling over Bœotia. Being childless,
he asked of the gods to give him a son without his marrying, as
he promised his wife, who was lately dead, and whom he tenderly
loved, that he never would marry again. The gods, to reward the
hospitality of Hyreus, made water in the hide of a bull, which had
been sacrificed the day before to their divinity, and they ordered
him to wrap it up and bury it in the ground for nine months. At the
expiration of the nine mouths, Hyreus opened the earth, and found
a beautiful child in the bull’s hide, whom he called Orion. _See:_
Orion.
=Hyrmina=, a town of Elis in Peloponnesus. _Strabo_, bk. 8.
=Hyrneto= and =Hyrnetho=, a daughter of Temenus king of Argos, who
married Deyphon son of Celeus. She was the favourite of her father,
who greatly enriched her husband. _Apollodorus_, bk. 2, ch. 6.
――_Pausanias_, bk. 2, ch. 19.
=Hyrnĭthium=, a plain of Argos, near Epidaurus, fertile in olives.
_Strabo_, bk. 6.
=Hyrtăcus=, a Trojan of mount Ida, father to Nisus, one of the
companions of Æneas. _Virgil_, _Æneid_, bk. 9, lis. 177 & 406.
Hence the patronymic of _Hyrtacides_ is applied to Nisus. It is
also applied to Hippocoon. _Virgil_, _Æneid_, bk. 5, li. 492.
=Hysia=, a town of Bœotia, built by Nycteus, Antiope’s father.――――A
village of Argos.――――A city of Arcadia.――――The royal residence of
the king of Parthia.
=Hyspa=, a river of Sicily. _Silius Italicus_, ♦bk. 14, li. 228.
♦ ‘24’ replaced with ‘14’
=Hyssus= and =Hyssi=, a port and river of Cappadocia on the Euxine sea.
=Hystaspes=, a noble Persian, of the family of the Achæmenides. His
father’s name was Arsames. His son Darius reigned in Persia after
the murder of the usurper Smerdis. It is said by Ctesias that
he wished to be carried to see the royal monument which his son
had built between two mountains. The priests who carried him, as
reported, slipped the cord with which he was suspended in ascending
the mountain, and he died of the fall. Hystaspes was the first who
introduced the learning and mysteries of the Indian Brachmans into
Persia, and to his researches in India the sciences were greatly
indebted, particularly in Persia. Darius is called _Hystaspes_,
or son of Hystaspes, to distinguish him from his royal successors
of the same name. _Herodotus_, bk. 1, ch. 209; bk. 5, ch. 83.
――_Ctesias_, _Fragments_.
=Hystieus.= _See:_ Histiæus.
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=Ia=, the daughter of Midas, who married Atys, &c.
=Iacchus=, a surname of Bacchus, _ab_ ἰαχειν, from the _noise_ and
_shouts_ which the bacchanals raised at the festivals of this deity.
_Virgil_, _Eclogues_, poem 6; _Georgics_, bk. 1, li. 166.――_Ovid_,
_Metamorphoses_, bk. 4, ch. 15.――――Some suppose him to be a son of
Ceres; because in the celebration of the Eleusinian mysteries, the
word Iacchus was frequently repeated. _Herodotus_, bk. 8, ch. 65.
――_Pausanias_, bk. 1, ch. 2.
=Iader=, a river of Dalmatia.
=Ialēmus=, a wretched singer, son of the muse Calliope. _Athenæus_,
bk. 14.
=Ialmĕnus=, a son of Mars and Astyoche, who went to the Trojan war
with his brother Ascalaphus, with 30 ships, at the head of the
inhabitants of Orchomenes and Aspledon, in Bœotia. _Pausanias_,
bk. 2, ch. 37.――_Homer_, _Iliad_, bk. 2, li. 19.
=Iāly̆sus=, a town of Rhodes, built by Ialysus, of whom Protogenes was
making a beautiful painting when Demetrius Poliorcetes took Rhodes.
The Telchines were born there. _Ovid_, _Metamorphoses_, bk. 7, fable
9.――_Pliny_, bk. 35, ch. 6.――_Cicero_, bk. 2, _Letters to Atticus_,
ltr. 21.――_Plutarch_, _Demetrius_.――_Ælian_, bk. 12, ch. 5.
=Iambe=, a servant-maid of Metanira, wife of Celeus king of Eleusis,
who tried to exhilarate Ceres, when she travelled over Attica
in quest of her daughter Proserpine. From the jokes and stories
which she made use of, free and satirical verses have been called
_Iambics_. _Apollodorus_, bk. 1, ch. 5.
=Iamblĭcus=, a Greek author who wrote the life of Pythagoras, and the
history of his followers, an exhortation to philosophy, a treatise
against Porphyry’s letter on the mysteries of the Egyptians, &c. He
was a great favourite with the emperor Julian, and died A.D. 363.
=Iamenus=, a Trojan killed by Leonteus. _Homer_, _Iliad_, bk. 12,
lis. 139 & 193.
=Iamĭdæ=, certain prophets among the Greeks, descended from Iamus, a
son of Apollo, who received the gift of prophecy from his father,
which remained among his posterity. _Pausanias_, bk. 6, ch. 2.