A name borne by the West Saxons who first settled in
Gloucestershire and Worcestershire when that region was
conquered. They led a revolt against the West Saxon king
Ceawlin, in which they were joined by the Britons, or Welsh.
The battle of Wanborough, fought A. D. 591, drove Ceawlin from
the throne.
_J. R. Green,
The Making of England,
pages 129-208._
See ENGLAND: A. D. 547-633.
HYACINTHIA, Feast of the.
"The feast of the Hyacinthia was held annually at Amyclæ
[Lacedæmonia], on the longest day of the Spartan month
Hecatombeus, corresponding to our June and July. …
Hyacinthus, the beautiful youth slain accidentally by Apollo,
was the chief object of the worship. He took his name from the
flower, which was an emblem of death; and the original feast
seems to have been altogether a mournful ceremony,—a
lamentation over the destruction of the flowers of spring by
the summer heat, passing on to a more general lament over
death itself.'
_G. Rawlinson,
History of Herodotus,
Note, book 9, section 7._
ALSO IN:
_E. Abbott,
History of Greece,
volume 1, page 222._