] Hipparchus
belonged
to the new comedy.
William Smith - 1844 - Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities - b
39.
)
with him. The forces placed under their joint
Nine more persons of the name of Himerius, command amounted, according to Timaeus and
concerning whom, however, nothing of interest is Xenophon, to 120,000 men: Ephorus, with his
known, are enumerated by Wernsdorf in the intro- usual exaggeration, stated them at 300,000. (Diod.
duction to his edition, and in Fabricius, Bill. xiii. 80; Xen. Hell. i. 5. $ 21. ) With this great
Graec. vol. vi. p. 55, note ww. (L. S. ] army the two generals formed the siege of Agri-
HI'MERUS ("Iuepus ), the personification of gentum, and directed their attacks against it on
longing love, is first mentioned by Hesiod (Thcog. several points at once. In the course of the works
201), where he and Eros appear as the companions they constructed for this purpose, they destroyed
of Aphrodite. He is sometimes seen in works of many sepulchres, a circumstance to which the
art representing erotic circles; and in the temple superstitious fears of the multitude attributed a
of Aphrodite at Megara, he was represented by pestilence that broke out in the camp soon after-
Scopas, together with Eros and Pothus. (Paus. i. wards, and which carried off many victims, Han-
43. S 6. )
[L. S. ) nibal among the rest. Himilco, now left sole
HIMILCO ("Tuinkwr). Considerable variations general, after attempting to relieve the religious ap-
are found in the MSS. (especially of Greek authors) prehensions of his soldiers by propitiatory sacrifices,
in the mode of writing this name, which is fre- continued to press the siege with vigour. The
quently confounded with Hamilcar, and written arrival of Daphnaeus with a body of Syracusan
'Aula kwr, 'Iulakas, or even 'Auinkas (see Wes- and other auxiliaries for a time changed the face of
seling, ad Diod. xiv. 49). It is probable indeed affairs, and Himilco was even blockaded in his
that Hamilcar and Himilco are only two forms of camp, and reduced to great straits for want of pro-
the same name: both were of common occurrence visions; but having, with the assistance of his
at Carthage.
fleet, intercepted a Syracusan convoy, he was re-
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HIMILCO.
lieved from this difficulty, and soon recovered the to shut himself up with his army within the walls
advantage. The famine, which now made itself of that city. Himilco, thus finding no enemy to
felt in its turn in the besieged city, the dissensions oppose him in the field, advanced at once with his
of the Sicilian generals, and the incapacity or army to the very gates of Syracuse, and encamped
treachery of some among them, at length led to on the same ground previously occupied by the
the abandonment of Agrigentum, of which Himilco Athenians under Nicias, while his fieet of 208
thus became master, after a siege protracted for triremes, besides a countless swarm of transports,
nearly eight months. (Diod. xiij. 80-89; Xen. occupied, and almost filled, the great port. For
Hell. i. 5. $ 21, ii. 2. $ 24. ) Here he took up his 30 days Himilco ravaged the neighbouring country
quarters for the winter, and in the spring of 405 unopposed, and repeatedly offered battle to the
advanced against Gela, to which he laid siege. Syracusans; but though
made himself master of
Dionysius, then just established as tyrant of Syra- one of the suburbs, he does not appear to bave
cuse, led a large force to its relieſ, but was defeated made any vigorous attacks on the city itself.
in the first encounter, on which he at once with Meanwhile, a fever, caused by the marshy nature
drew, taking with him the whole population, not of the ground in which he was encamped and the
only of Gela, but of Camarina also. The cities, great heat of the summer, broke out in his army,
thus abandoned, naturally fell, without a struggle, and soon assumed the character of a malignant
into the hands of Ilimilco ; but of his farther ope- pestilence. This visitation was attributed by the
rations we know nothing, except that a pestilenco Greeks to the profanation of their temples; and
broke out in his army, which led him to make Dionysius took advantage of the confidence thus
offers of peace to the Syracusans. These were inspired to make a sudden attack upon the Cars
gladly accepted, and the terms of the treaty were thaginian camp both by sea and land, which proved
highly advantageous to Carthage, which retained, completely successful; a great part of their fieet
in addition to its former possessions, Selinus, Hi- was either sunk, burnt, or captured ; and Himilco,
mera, and Agrigentum, besides which Gela and despairing of retrieving his fortune, immediately
Camarina were to pay her tribute, and remain un- sent proposals to Dionysius for a secret capitula-
fortified. (Diod. xiii. 91, 108–114. )
tion, by which he himself, together with the native
Himilco now returned to Africa, but his army Carthaginians under his command, should be per-
carried with it the seeds of pestilence, which mitted to depart unmolested, on payment of a sum
quickly spread from the soldiers to the inhabitants, of 300 talents. These terms were gladly accepted
and committed dreadful ravages, which appear to by the Syracusans, and Himilco made his escape
have extended through a period of several years. under cover of the night, leaving all the forces of
Carthage was thus sorely weakened, and wholly his allies and mercenary troops at the mercy of
unprepared for war, when, in 397, Dionysius, who Dionysius. But though he thus secured his per-
had spent several years in preparations, sent a sonal safety, as well as that of the Carthaginian
herald to declare war in form against the Cartha- citizens in his army, a termination at once so igno-
ginians. They were thus unable to prevent his minious and so disastrous to a campaign that had
victorious progress from one end of the island to the promised so much, caused him, on his return to
other, or even to avert the fall of Motya, their Carthage, to be overwhelmed with obloquy, until
chief, and almost their last, strong-hold in Sicily. at length unable to bear the weight of odium that
All that Himilco, who still held the chief command, he had incurred, he put an end to his life by
and who was about this time advanced to the voluntary abstinence. (Diod. xiv. 41, 47-76;
dignity of king or suffete (Diod. xiv. 54), could Justin. xix. 2. )
do, was to attempt the destruction of Dionysius's 4. One of the generals appointed by the Car-
fleet, by attacking it suddenly with 100 triremes, thaginians to conduct the war in Africa against
when most of the ships were drawn up on shore ; Archagathus, the son of Agathocles. He totally
but foiled in this, he was obliged to return to defeated the division of the Syracusan forces under
Africa. Meanwhile, however, he had been actively the command of Eumachus, and put them almost
engaged in preparations, and by the following all to the sword. After this he occupied the passes
spring (B. C. 396), he had assembled a numerous and strongholds in the neighbourhood of Tunis, so
fieet and an army of 100,000 men, with which he as completely to blockade Archagathus in that
landed at Panormus, though not without heavy city. (Diod. xx. 60, 61. ) What part he took ia
loss, having been attacked on the voyage by Lep- the subsequent operations against Agathocles him-
tines, and many of his ships sunk. But once self is not mentioned.
arrived in Sicily, he quickly regained the advantage, 5. Commander of the Carthaginian forces at
recovered possession of Eryx and Motya, and com- Lilybaeum during the first Punic war. At what
pelled Dionysius to fall back towards the eastern time he was sent to Sicily does not appear, but we
side of the island, on which the Sicanians imme- i find him in command of Lily baeum when the
diately declared in favour of Carthage.
Romans, after the great victory of Metellus over
Thus again master of the western part of Sicily, Hasdrubal (B. C. 250), determined to forin the siege
Himilco advanced along the north coast both with of that important fortress. Himilco appears to
his fleet and army; and having effected his march have done all that an energetic and able officer
without opposition as far as Messana, surprised could do : the forces under his command amounted
that city during the absence of most of the inhabit to only 10,000 regular troops, while the Romans
ants, and levelled it to the ground; after which he are said to have brought not less than 110. 000
directed his march southwards, against Syracuse men to the siege; but this must, of course, include
itself. Dionysius had advanced with a large army all who took part in the works, not merely the
to meet him, but the defection of his Sicilian fighting men. Both consuls (C. Atilius and L.
allies, and the total defeat of his fleet by that of Manlius) were with the Roman army, and they
the Carthaginiane under Mago, excited his appre carried on their operations with the utmost vigour,
bensions for the safety of Syracuse, and he hastened | endeavouring to block up the port by a great mole,
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HIMILCO.
at the same time that they attacked the walls on | is first mentioned as commanding the fleet which
the land side with battering rams and other en- was sent over from Carthage in B. C. 214, about
gines. Himilco, on his side, thongh he had to the time that Marcellus first arrived in Sicily; but
contend with disaffection among the mercenaries he appears to have remained inactive at Cape
under his own command, as well as with the enemy Pachynus, watching the operations of the enemy,
without the walls, was not less active; but he was but without effecting any thing decisive (Liv. xxiv.
unable to prevent the progress of the Roman works 27, 35). From thence he returned to Carthage;
on the land : a great storm, however, swept away and having received from the government there,
the molc that the Romans were constructing; and who were now determined to prosecute the war in
Hannibal, the son of llamilcar, succeeded in run- Sicily with energy, an army of 25,000 foot and
ning into the port with 50 ships and a force of 3000 horse, he landed with this force at Heraclea
10,000 men, in the very teeth of the Roman fleet. Minoa, and quickly made himself master of Agri-
Thus reinforced, Himilco renewed his attacks upon gentum. Here he was joined by Ilippocrates from
the works of the besiegers; and though repulsed Syracuse ; and following Marcellus, who retreated
in a first sally, he ultimately succeeded in burning before him, he advanced to the banks of the
all the battering engines and other works of the Anapus. But the Roman camp was too strong to
Romans. This decisive blow compelled the con- be forced, and Ilimilco, feeling confident that the
suls to turn the siege into a blockade: nor werc Syracusans could be left to their own resources,
they able to make even this effectual, as they turned liis attention to the other cities of Sicily.
could not succeed in cutting off the besieged alto- The spirit of hostility to Rome was mpidly spread-
gether from their communications by sea. The ing among these, and several openly declared in
next year ( B. C. 249) the great victory of Adherbal favour of the Carthaginians. Murgantia, where
at Drepanum rendered the Carthaginians once great part of the Roman magazines had been col-
more masters of the sea; and Ilimilco is again lected, was betrayed into the hands of Himilco ;
mentioned as co-operating with Carthalo after that and the still more important fortress of Enna was
event, in the attempt to destroy the Roman squa- only prevented from following its example by the
dron, which still kept guard before Lilybaeum. barbarous massacre of its inhabitants by the orders
The enterprise was only partially successful; but of the Roman governor, Pinarius. [Pinarius. ]
from this time the communications of the city by Bat in the following spring (212) the surprise of
sea appear to have been perfectly open. The the Epipolae by Marcellus, which put him in pos-
name of Himilco occurs once more in the following session of three out of the five quarters of Syracuse,
year as opposing the operations of the consuls more than counterbalanced all these advantages of
Caecilius and Fabius, but this is the last we the Carthaginians. Himilco saw the necessity of
hear of him ; and we have no means of judging an immediate effort to relieve Syracuse, and again
how long he continued to hold the comnand of advanced thither in conjunction with Hippocrates.
Lilybaeum, or when he was succeeded by Gisco, But their attacks on the Roman lines were re-
whom we find in that situation at the conclusion pulsed; and a pestilence, caused by the marshy
of the war. (Polyb. i. 41-43, 53 ; Diod. Exc. ground on which they were encamped, broke out
Hoeschel. xxiv, 1; Zonar. viii. 15, 16. )
in their army, which carried off Himilco, as well as
6. A Carthaginian, who commanded the fleet his colleague, Hippocrates. (Liv. xxiv. 35-39,
of Hasdrubal in Spain in 217 B. C. He was at- xxv. 23, 26; Zonar. ix. 4. )
tacked by Cn. Scipio at the mouth of the Iberus, 10. A Carthaginian officer, who commanded the
and conipletely defeated, twenty-five ships out of Punic garrison at Castulo in 206 B. c. , when that
forty taken, and the rest driven to the shore, where city was betrayed into the hands of Scipio by the
the crews with difficulty made their escape. (Liv. Spaniard Cerdubellus. (Liv. xxviji. 20. )
xxii, 19, 20; Polyb. iii. 95, by whom he is called 11. Surnamed PHAMAEAS or PHAMEAS (ba-
Hamilcar. See HAMILCAR, No. 10. )
malas, Appian ; Pauéas, Zonar. ), commander of the
7. A Carthaginian senator, who is represented Carthaginian cavalry in the third Punic war.
by Livy (xxiii. 12) as a warm supporter of the Being young, active, and daring, and finding him-
Barcine party, and as upbraiding Hanno with his self at the head of an indefatigable and hardy body
opposition, when Mago brought to Carthage the of troops, he continually harassed the Roman
tidings of the victory at Cannae. It is possible generals, prevented their soldiers from leaving the
that he is the same who was soon after sent to camp for provisions or forage, and frequently at-
Spain with an army to hold that province, while tacked their detachments with success, except, it is
Hasdrubal advanced into Italy (Liv. xxiii. 28); said, when they were commanded by Scipio. By
but this is a mere conjecture. It is remarkable these means he became an object of terror to the
that the Himilco just referred to, though entrusted Romans, and contributed greatly to the success of
with so important a command, is not again men- the Carthaginian army under Hasdrubal, especially
tioned in history; at least there are no sufficient on occasion of the march of Manilius upon New
grounds for identifying him with any of those here pheris. But in the course of this irregular warfare
after enumerated.
having accidentally fallen in with Scipio (at that
8. An officer in the army of Hannibal, who re time one of the tribunes in the Roman army), he
duced the town of Petelia in Bruttium (B. c. 216), was led by that officer into a conference, in which
after a siege of several months' duration, during Scipio induced him to abandon the cause of Car-
wbich the inhabitants had suffered the greatest thage as hopeless, and desert to the Romans. This
extremities of famine. (Liv. xxiii. 20, 30. ) This resolution he put in execution on occasion of the
conquest is ascribed by Appian (Annib. 29) to second expedition of Manilius against Nepheris
Hanno, who, in fact, held ihe chief command in (B. c. 148), when he went over to the enemy, car.
Bruttium at this time.
rying with him the greater part of the troops under
9. Commander of the Carthaginian forces in his command. He was sent by Manilius with
Sicily during a part of the second Punic war. He Scipio to Roinc, where the senate rewarded bin
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HIPPARCHUS.
HIPPARCHUS.
for his treachery with a purple robe and other HIPPARCHUS (“ITTapXos), literary: J. An
(rnaments of distinction, as well as with a sum of Athenian comic poet. Suidas (s. r. ) assigns him
money. After this he returned to Africa, but we to the old comedy ; but from what he adus, that
do not learn that he was able to render any im- “his dramas were about marriages," and from the
portant services to the Romans in their subsequent extant titles of his plays, namely, 'Avaowcóuerol,
operations. (Appian, Pun. 97, 100, 104, 107, 109; navvuxis, Oats, and Zwypápos, it is evident that
Zonar. ix. 27; Eutrop. iv. 10. ) (E. H. B.
] Hipparchus belonged to the new comedy. He was
HIOSTUS, a Sardinian, son of Ilampsicora. probably contemporary with Diphilus and Menan-
[HAMPSICORA. ]
der. (Meineke, Frag. Com. Graec. vol. i. p. 457,
HIPPAGORAS ("Inaayópas), a writer men- vol. iv. p. 431 ; Fabric. Bibl. Gracc. vol. ii. p. 451. )
tioned by Athenaeus (xiv. p. 630 A. ) as the author 2. The author of an Egyptian Iliad, from which
of a treatise Περί της Καρχηδονίων Πολιτείας. two lines are quoted by Athenaeus (in. p. 101, a. ).
(C. P. M. ] 3. A Pythagorean, contemporary with Lysis, the
HIPPAʼLCIMUS ('ITÁMiuos), a grandson of teacher of Epaminondas, about 3. c. 380. There
Boeotus, son of Itonus, and father of Pencleus. is a letter froin Lysis to Hipparchus, remonstrating
(Diod. iv. 67; Apollod. i. 9. $ 16, who, however, with him for teaching in public, which was contrary
calls him Hippalmus. )
(L. S. ] to the injunctions of Pythagoras. (Diog. Laërt.
HIPPALCMUS ("Invalkuos), the name of two viii. 42 ; lamblich. l'it. Pythag. 17 ; Synes. Epist.
mythical personages, the one a son Pelops and ad lleracl. ) Clemens Alexandrinus tells us, ihat
Hippodamein, and the other an Argonaut. (Schol. on the ground of his teaching in public, Hipparchus
ad Pind. Ol. i. 144 ; llygin. Fub. 14. ) [L. S. ] was expelled from the society of the Pythagoreans,
HIPPA'RCHIA (ʻlinapxía), born at Maroneia, who erected a monument to him, as if he had been
a town of Thrace. She lived about B. c. 328. She dead. (Strom. v. p. 574; comp. Lycurg. adr. Leocr.
was the daughter of a family of wealth and dis- 30. ) Stobaeus (Serm. cvi. ) has preserved a fragment
tinction; but having been introduced by her brother from his book Ilepi evduulas. (Fabric. Bibl. Graec.
Meteocles to Crates, an ugly and deformed Cynic vol. i. pp. 847, 886. )
(Crates of THEBES], she conceived such a violent 4. Of Stageira, a relation and disciple of Aris-
passion for him, that she informed her parents that totle, who mentions him in his will. (Diog. Laërt.
if they refused to allow her to marry him, she v. 12. ) Suidas (s. r. ) mentions his works ti åpper
should kill herself. They begged Crates to per- και θήλυ παρά τους θεούς and τίς ο γάμος. Pro-
suade her out of this strange fancy, and he certainly bably he is the same as the Hipparchus mentioned
appears to have done his best to accomplish their in the will of Theophrastus, and the father of He
wishes, since he exhibited to her his humpback gesias. (Diog. Laërt. v. 51, 56, 57. )
and his wallet, saying, “ Here is the bridegroom, Other persons of the name are mentioned by
and this is his fortune. ” Hipparchia, however, Fabricius. (Bibl. Graec. vol. iv. p. 31. ) [P. S. )
was quite satisfied, declaring that she could not HIPPARCHUS ("Intapxos). We must give
find any where, a handsomer or a richer spouse. a few words to the explanation of our reason for
They were accordingly married, and she assumed deferring all such account of Hipparchus as his
the Cynic dress and manners, and plunged into all | fame requires to another article. The first and
possible excesses of eccentricity. Suidas says that greatest of Greek astronomers bas left no work of
she wrote some treatises, amongst others, questions his own which would entitle him to that character:
addressed to Theodorus, sumamed the Atheist. it is entirely to Ptolemy that our knowledge of
There is an epigram on her by Antipater, in the him is due. In this respect, the parallel is very
Anthology, in which she is made to say, twv de close between him and two others of his race, each
κυνών έλόμαν ρωμαλέον βίοτον, and to pronounce | one of the three being the first of his order in point
herself as much superior to Atalanta as wisdom is of time. Aesop and Menander would only have
better than hunting. (Diog. Laërt. vi. 96 ; Me been known to us by report or by slight fragments,
nage, Historia Mulierum Philosopharum, 63 ;| if it had not been for Phaedrus and Terence : it
Brucker, Hist. Crit. Phil. ii. 2. 8. ) [G. E. L. C. ] would have been the same with Hipparchus if it
HIPPARCHUS, son of Peisistratus. [Per had not been for Ptolemy. Had it happened that
SISTRATUS, and PeisistRATIDAE. ]
Hipparchus had had two names, by the second of
HIPPARCHUS (“InTapxos), historical. 1. Of which Ptolemy, and Ptolemy only, had referred to
the borough of Cholargae in Attica, a distant re him, we should have had no positive method of
lation of his namesake the son of Peisistratus, is identifying the great astronomer with the writer
mentioned as the first person banished by ostracism of the commentary on Aratus. And if by any
from Athens. (Plut. Nic. 11. )
collateral evidence a doubt had been raised whether
2. Of Euboea, one of the warmest partisans of the two were not the same, it would probably have
Philip of Macedon, who rewarded him for his zeal been urged with success that it was impossible the
by appointing him, together with Automedon and author of so comparatively slight a production could
Cleitarchus, to be rulers, or, as Demosthenes calls have been the sagacious mathematician and dili-
them tyrants, of Eretria, supported by a force of gent observer who, by uniting those two charac-
mercenary troops. (Dem. Phil. iii. p. 125, de Cor. ters for the first time, raised astronomy to that
p. 324, ed. Reiske. ) From an anecdote mentioned rank among the applications of arithmetic and gea
by Plutarch (Apophth. p. 178), it appears that metry which it has always since preserved. This
Philip entertained for him feelings of warm per- is the praise to which the Hipparchus of the Syn-
sonal regard.
taxis is entitled ; and as this can only be ga-
3. A freedman of M. Antony, in whose favour thered from Ptolemy, it will be convenient to refer
he enjoyed a high place, notwithstanding which he the most important part of the account of the former
was one of the first to go over to Octavian. He to the life of the latter ; giving, in this place, only
afterwards established himself at Corinth. (Plut. as much as can be gathered from other sources. And
Ant. 67. )
[E. H. B. ] such a course is rendered more desirable by the cir-
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RCHUS
477
HIPPARCHUS.
HIPPARINUS.
zoxos), literary, 1. 4
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Ut E. C. 380. There
sctus, rencastats
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--17; Sides. Eject
Hrings tells us at
public, Ilippurdo
the Prilageni
as if he had been
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exertedafnamesi
abnie. Dit CE
disciple of Aris-
al. (Diog, Lazit
is works Tips
-ó seus. P.
ichnis merecede
be father of He
cumstance that the boundary between the discoveries | περί της των απλανών συντάξεως και του κατα-
of Hippurchus and those of Ptolemy himself is in | στηριγμού και εις τους αρίστους (αστερισμούς ? ),
several points a question which can only be settled which may be the same as the above. 2. Tepl
from the writings of the latter, if at all.
μεγεθών και αποστημάτων, mentioned by Pappus
Strabo, Suidas, &c. , state that Hipparchus was and Theon. A further account of this work is
of Nicaea, in Bithynia ; and Ptolemy (De Adpar. given under PTOLEMA EUS. Kepler had a manu-
Inerrant. sub fin.
with him. The forces placed under their joint
Nine more persons of the name of Himerius, command amounted, according to Timaeus and
concerning whom, however, nothing of interest is Xenophon, to 120,000 men: Ephorus, with his
known, are enumerated by Wernsdorf in the intro- usual exaggeration, stated them at 300,000. (Diod.
duction to his edition, and in Fabricius, Bill. xiii. 80; Xen. Hell. i. 5. $ 21. ) With this great
Graec. vol. vi. p. 55, note ww. (L. S. ] army the two generals formed the siege of Agri-
HI'MERUS ("Iuepus ), the personification of gentum, and directed their attacks against it on
longing love, is first mentioned by Hesiod (Thcog. several points at once. In the course of the works
201), where he and Eros appear as the companions they constructed for this purpose, they destroyed
of Aphrodite. He is sometimes seen in works of many sepulchres, a circumstance to which the
art representing erotic circles; and in the temple superstitious fears of the multitude attributed a
of Aphrodite at Megara, he was represented by pestilence that broke out in the camp soon after-
Scopas, together with Eros and Pothus. (Paus. i. wards, and which carried off many victims, Han-
43. S 6. )
[L. S. ) nibal among the rest. Himilco, now left sole
HIMILCO ("Tuinkwr). Considerable variations general, after attempting to relieve the religious ap-
are found in the MSS. (especially of Greek authors) prehensions of his soldiers by propitiatory sacrifices,
in the mode of writing this name, which is fre- continued to press the siege with vigour. The
quently confounded with Hamilcar, and written arrival of Daphnaeus with a body of Syracusan
'Aula kwr, 'Iulakas, or even 'Auinkas (see Wes- and other auxiliaries for a time changed the face of
seling, ad Diod. xiv. 49). It is probable indeed affairs, and Himilco was even blockaded in his
that Hamilcar and Himilco are only two forms of camp, and reduced to great straits for want of pro-
the same name: both were of common occurrence visions; but having, with the assistance of his
at Carthage.
fleet, intercepted a Syracusan convoy, he was re-
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HIMILCO.
HIMILCO.
lieved from this difficulty, and soon recovered the to shut himself up with his army within the walls
advantage. The famine, which now made itself of that city. Himilco, thus finding no enemy to
felt in its turn in the besieged city, the dissensions oppose him in the field, advanced at once with his
of the Sicilian generals, and the incapacity or army to the very gates of Syracuse, and encamped
treachery of some among them, at length led to on the same ground previously occupied by the
the abandonment of Agrigentum, of which Himilco Athenians under Nicias, while his fieet of 208
thus became master, after a siege protracted for triremes, besides a countless swarm of transports,
nearly eight months. (Diod. xiij. 80-89; Xen. occupied, and almost filled, the great port. For
Hell. i. 5. $ 21, ii. 2. $ 24. ) Here he took up his 30 days Himilco ravaged the neighbouring country
quarters for the winter, and in the spring of 405 unopposed, and repeatedly offered battle to the
advanced against Gela, to which he laid siege. Syracusans; but though
made himself master of
Dionysius, then just established as tyrant of Syra- one of the suburbs, he does not appear to bave
cuse, led a large force to its relieſ, but was defeated made any vigorous attacks on the city itself.
in the first encounter, on which he at once with Meanwhile, a fever, caused by the marshy nature
drew, taking with him the whole population, not of the ground in which he was encamped and the
only of Gela, but of Camarina also. The cities, great heat of the summer, broke out in his army,
thus abandoned, naturally fell, without a struggle, and soon assumed the character of a malignant
into the hands of Ilimilco ; but of his farther ope- pestilence. This visitation was attributed by the
rations we know nothing, except that a pestilenco Greeks to the profanation of their temples; and
broke out in his army, which led him to make Dionysius took advantage of the confidence thus
offers of peace to the Syracusans. These were inspired to make a sudden attack upon the Cars
gladly accepted, and the terms of the treaty were thaginian camp both by sea and land, which proved
highly advantageous to Carthage, which retained, completely successful; a great part of their fieet
in addition to its former possessions, Selinus, Hi- was either sunk, burnt, or captured ; and Himilco,
mera, and Agrigentum, besides which Gela and despairing of retrieving his fortune, immediately
Camarina were to pay her tribute, and remain un- sent proposals to Dionysius for a secret capitula-
fortified. (Diod. xiii. 91, 108–114. )
tion, by which he himself, together with the native
Himilco now returned to Africa, but his army Carthaginians under his command, should be per-
carried with it the seeds of pestilence, which mitted to depart unmolested, on payment of a sum
quickly spread from the soldiers to the inhabitants, of 300 talents. These terms were gladly accepted
and committed dreadful ravages, which appear to by the Syracusans, and Himilco made his escape
have extended through a period of several years. under cover of the night, leaving all the forces of
Carthage was thus sorely weakened, and wholly his allies and mercenary troops at the mercy of
unprepared for war, when, in 397, Dionysius, who Dionysius. But though he thus secured his per-
had spent several years in preparations, sent a sonal safety, as well as that of the Carthaginian
herald to declare war in form against the Cartha- citizens in his army, a termination at once so igno-
ginians. They were thus unable to prevent his minious and so disastrous to a campaign that had
victorious progress from one end of the island to the promised so much, caused him, on his return to
other, or even to avert the fall of Motya, their Carthage, to be overwhelmed with obloquy, until
chief, and almost their last, strong-hold in Sicily. at length unable to bear the weight of odium that
All that Himilco, who still held the chief command, he had incurred, he put an end to his life by
and who was about this time advanced to the voluntary abstinence. (Diod. xiv. 41, 47-76;
dignity of king or suffete (Diod. xiv. 54), could Justin. xix. 2. )
do, was to attempt the destruction of Dionysius's 4. One of the generals appointed by the Car-
fleet, by attacking it suddenly with 100 triremes, thaginians to conduct the war in Africa against
when most of the ships were drawn up on shore ; Archagathus, the son of Agathocles. He totally
but foiled in this, he was obliged to return to defeated the division of the Syracusan forces under
Africa. Meanwhile, however, he had been actively the command of Eumachus, and put them almost
engaged in preparations, and by the following all to the sword. After this he occupied the passes
spring (B. C. 396), he had assembled a numerous and strongholds in the neighbourhood of Tunis, so
fieet and an army of 100,000 men, with which he as completely to blockade Archagathus in that
landed at Panormus, though not without heavy city. (Diod. xx. 60, 61. ) What part he took ia
loss, having been attacked on the voyage by Lep- the subsequent operations against Agathocles him-
tines, and many of his ships sunk. But once self is not mentioned.
arrived in Sicily, he quickly regained the advantage, 5. Commander of the Carthaginian forces at
recovered possession of Eryx and Motya, and com- Lilybaeum during the first Punic war. At what
pelled Dionysius to fall back towards the eastern time he was sent to Sicily does not appear, but we
side of the island, on which the Sicanians imme- i find him in command of Lily baeum when the
diately declared in favour of Carthage.
Romans, after the great victory of Metellus over
Thus again master of the western part of Sicily, Hasdrubal (B. C. 250), determined to forin the siege
Himilco advanced along the north coast both with of that important fortress. Himilco appears to
his fleet and army; and having effected his march have done all that an energetic and able officer
without opposition as far as Messana, surprised could do : the forces under his command amounted
that city during the absence of most of the inhabit to only 10,000 regular troops, while the Romans
ants, and levelled it to the ground; after which he are said to have brought not less than 110. 000
directed his march southwards, against Syracuse men to the siege; but this must, of course, include
itself. Dionysius had advanced with a large army all who took part in the works, not merely the
to meet him, but the defection of his Sicilian fighting men. Both consuls (C. Atilius and L.
allies, and the total defeat of his fleet by that of Manlius) were with the Roman army, and they
the Carthaginiane under Mago, excited his appre carried on their operations with the utmost vigour,
bensions for the safety of Syracuse, and he hastened | endeavouring to block up the port by a great mole,
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HIMILCO.
at the same time that they attacked the walls on | is first mentioned as commanding the fleet which
the land side with battering rams and other en- was sent over from Carthage in B. C. 214, about
gines. Himilco, on his side, thongh he had to the time that Marcellus first arrived in Sicily; but
contend with disaffection among the mercenaries he appears to have remained inactive at Cape
under his own command, as well as with the enemy Pachynus, watching the operations of the enemy,
without the walls, was not less active; but he was but without effecting any thing decisive (Liv. xxiv.
unable to prevent the progress of the Roman works 27, 35). From thence he returned to Carthage;
on the land : a great storm, however, swept away and having received from the government there,
the molc that the Romans were constructing; and who were now determined to prosecute the war in
Hannibal, the son of llamilcar, succeeded in run- Sicily with energy, an army of 25,000 foot and
ning into the port with 50 ships and a force of 3000 horse, he landed with this force at Heraclea
10,000 men, in the very teeth of the Roman fleet. Minoa, and quickly made himself master of Agri-
Thus reinforced, Himilco renewed his attacks upon gentum. Here he was joined by Ilippocrates from
the works of the besiegers; and though repulsed Syracuse ; and following Marcellus, who retreated
in a first sally, he ultimately succeeded in burning before him, he advanced to the banks of the
all the battering engines and other works of the Anapus. But the Roman camp was too strong to
Romans. This decisive blow compelled the con- be forced, and Ilimilco, feeling confident that the
suls to turn the siege into a blockade: nor werc Syracusans could be left to their own resources,
they able to make even this effectual, as they turned liis attention to the other cities of Sicily.
could not succeed in cutting off the besieged alto- The spirit of hostility to Rome was mpidly spread-
gether from their communications by sea. The ing among these, and several openly declared in
next year ( B. C. 249) the great victory of Adherbal favour of the Carthaginians. Murgantia, where
at Drepanum rendered the Carthaginians once great part of the Roman magazines had been col-
more masters of the sea; and Ilimilco is again lected, was betrayed into the hands of Himilco ;
mentioned as co-operating with Carthalo after that and the still more important fortress of Enna was
event, in the attempt to destroy the Roman squa- only prevented from following its example by the
dron, which still kept guard before Lilybaeum. barbarous massacre of its inhabitants by the orders
The enterprise was only partially successful; but of the Roman governor, Pinarius. [Pinarius. ]
from this time the communications of the city by Bat in the following spring (212) the surprise of
sea appear to have been perfectly open. The the Epipolae by Marcellus, which put him in pos-
name of Himilco occurs once more in the following session of three out of the five quarters of Syracuse,
year as opposing the operations of the consuls more than counterbalanced all these advantages of
Caecilius and Fabius, but this is the last we the Carthaginians. Himilco saw the necessity of
hear of him ; and we have no means of judging an immediate effort to relieve Syracuse, and again
how long he continued to hold the comnand of advanced thither in conjunction with Hippocrates.
Lilybaeum, or when he was succeeded by Gisco, But their attacks on the Roman lines were re-
whom we find in that situation at the conclusion pulsed; and a pestilence, caused by the marshy
of the war. (Polyb. i. 41-43, 53 ; Diod. Exc. ground on which they were encamped, broke out
Hoeschel. xxiv, 1; Zonar. viii. 15, 16. )
in their army, which carried off Himilco, as well as
6. A Carthaginian, who commanded the fleet his colleague, Hippocrates. (Liv. xxiv. 35-39,
of Hasdrubal in Spain in 217 B. C. He was at- xxv. 23, 26; Zonar. ix. 4. )
tacked by Cn. Scipio at the mouth of the Iberus, 10. A Carthaginian officer, who commanded the
and conipletely defeated, twenty-five ships out of Punic garrison at Castulo in 206 B. c. , when that
forty taken, and the rest driven to the shore, where city was betrayed into the hands of Scipio by the
the crews with difficulty made their escape. (Liv. Spaniard Cerdubellus. (Liv. xxviji. 20. )
xxii, 19, 20; Polyb. iii. 95, by whom he is called 11. Surnamed PHAMAEAS or PHAMEAS (ba-
Hamilcar. See HAMILCAR, No. 10. )
malas, Appian ; Pauéas, Zonar. ), commander of the
7. A Carthaginian senator, who is represented Carthaginian cavalry in the third Punic war.
by Livy (xxiii. 12) as a warm supporter of the Being young, active, and daring, and finding him-
Barcine party, and as upbraiding Hanno with his self at the head of an indefatigable and hardy body
opposition, when Mago brought to Carthage the of troops, he continually harassed the Roman
tidings of the victory at Cannae. It is possible generals, prevented their soldiers from leaving the
that he is the same who was soon after sent to camp for provisions or forage, and frequently at-
Spain with an army to hold that province, while tacked their detachments with success, except, it is
Hasdrubal advanced into Italy (Liv. xxiii. 28); said, when they were commanded by Scipio. By
but this is a mere conjecture. It is remarkable these means he became an object of terror to the
that the Himilco just referred to, though entrusted Romans, and contributed greatly to the success of
with so important a command, is not again men- the Carthaginian army under Hasdrubal, especially
tioned in history; at least there are no sufficient on occasion of the march of Manilius upon New
grounds for identifying him with any of those here pheris. But in the course of this irregular warfare
after enumerated.
having accidentally fallen in with Scipio (at that
8. An officer in the army of Hannibal, who re time one of the tribunes in the Roman army), he
duced the town of Petelia in Bruttium (B. c. 216), was led by that officer into a conference, in which
after a siege of several months' duration, during Scipio induced him to abandon the cause of Car-
wbich the inhabitants had suffered the greatest thage as hopeless, and desert to the Romans. This
extremities of famine. (Liv. xxiii. 20, 30. ) This resolution he put in execution on occasion of the
conquest is ascribed by Appian (Annib. 29) to second expedition of Manilius against Nepheris
Hanno, who, in fact, held ihe chief command in (B. c. 148), when he went over to the enemy, car.
Bruttium at this time.
rying with him the greater part of the troops under
9. Commander of the Carthaginian forces in his command. He was sent by Manilius with
Sicily during a part of the second Punic war. He Scipio to Roinc, where the senate rewarded bin
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HIPPARCHUS.
HIPPARCHUS.
for his treachery with a purple robe and other HIPPARCHUS (“ITTapXos), literary: J. An
(rnaments of distinction, as well as with a sum of Athenian comic poet. Suidas (s. r. ) assigns him
money. After this he returned to Africa, but we to the old comedy ; but from what he adus, that
do not learn that he was able to render any im- “his dramas were about marriages," and from the
portant services to the Romans in their subsequent extant titles of his plays, namely, 'Avaowcóuerol,
operations. (Appian, Pun. 97, 100, 104, 107, 109; navvuxis, Oats, and Zwypápos, it is evident that
Zonar. ix. 27; Eutrop. iv. 10. ) (E. H. B.
] Hipparchus belonged to the new comedy. He was
HIOSTUS, a Sardinian, son of Ilampsicora. probably contemporary with Diphilus and Menan-
[HAMPSICORA. ]
der. (Meineke, Frag. Com. Graec. vol. i. p. 457,
HIPPAGORAS ("Inaayópas), a writer men- vol. iv. p. 431 ; Fabric. Bibl. Gracc. vol. ii. p. 451. )
tioned by Athenaeus (xiv. p. 630 A. ) as the author 2. The author of an Egyptian Iliad, from which
of a treatise Περί της Καρχηδονίων Πολιτείας. two lines are quoted by Athenaeus (in. p. 101, a. ).
(C. P. M. ] 3. A Pythagorean, contemporary with Lysis, the
HIPPAʼLCIMUS ('ITÁMiuos), a grandson of teacher of Epaminondas, about 3. c. 380. There
Boeotus, son of Itonus, and father of Pencleus. is a letter froin Lysis to Hipparchus, remonstrating
(Diod. iv. 67; Apollod. i. 9. $ 16, who, however, with him for teaching in public, which was contrary
calls him Hippalmus. )
(L. S. ] to the injunctions of Pythagoras. (Diog. Laërt.
HIPPALCMUS ("Invalkuos), the name of two viii. 42 ; lamblich. l'it. Pythag. 17 ; Synes. Epist.
mythical personages, the one a son Pelops and ad lleracl. ) Clemens Alexandrinus tells us, ihat
Hippodamein, and the other an Argonaut. (Schol. on the ground of his teaching in public, Hipparchus
ad Pind. Ol. i. 144 ; llygin. Fub. 14. ) [L. S. ] was expelled from the society of the Pythagoreans,
HIPPA'RCHIA (ʻlinapxía), born at Maroneia, who erected a monument to him, as if he had been
a town of Thrace. She lived about B. c. 328. She dead. (Strom. v. p. 574; comp. Lycurg. adr. Leocr.
was the daughter of a family of wealth and dis- 30. ) Stobaeus (Serm. cvi. ) has preserved a fragment
tinction; but having been introduced by her brother from his book Ilepi evduulas. (Fabric. Bibl. Graec.
Meteocles to Crates, an ugly and deformed Cynic vol. i. pp. 847, 886. )
(Crates of THEBES], she conceived such a violent 4. Of Stageira, a relation and disciple of Aris-
passion for him, that she informed her parents that totle, who mentions him in his will. (Diog. Laërt.
if they refused to allow her to marry him, she v. 12. ) Suidas (s. r. ) mentions his works ti åpper
should kill herself. They begged Crates to per- και θήλυ παρά τους θεούς and τίς ο γάμος. Pro-
suade her out of this strange fancy, and he certainly bably he is the same as the Hipparchus mentioned
appears to have done his best to accomplish their in the will of Theophrastus, and the father of He
wishes, since he exhibited to her his humpback gesias. (Diog. Laërt. v. 51, 56, 57. )
and his wallet, saying, “ Here is the bridegroom, Other persons of the name are mentioned by
and this is his fortune. ” Hipparchia, however, Fabricius. (Bibl. Graec. vol. iv. p. 31. ) [P. S. )
was quite satisfied, declaring that she could not HIPPARCHUS ("Intapxos). We must give
find any where, a handsomer or a richer spouse. a few words to the explanation of our reason for
They were accordingly married, and she assumed deferring all such account of Hipparchus as his
the Cynic dress and manners, and plunged into all | fame requires to another article. The first and
possible excesses of eccentricity. Suidas says that greatest of Greek astronomers bas left no work of
she wrote some treatises, amongst others, questions his own which would entitle him to that character:
addressed to Theodorus, sumamed the Atheist. it is entirely to Ptolemy that our knowledge of
There is an epigram on her by Antipater, in the him is due. In this respect, the parallel is very
Anthology, in which she is made to say, twv de close between him and two others of his race, each
κυνών έλόμαν ρωμαλέον βίοτον, and to pronounce | one of the three being the first of his order in point
herself as much superior to Atalanta as wisdom is of time. Aesop and Menander would only have
better than hunting. (Diog. Laërt. vi. 96 ; Me been known to us by report or by slight fragments,
nage, Historia Mulierum Philosopharum, 63 ;| if it had not been for Phaedrus and Terence : it
Brucker, Hist. Crit. Phil. ii. 2. 8. ) [G. E. L. C. ] would have been the same with Hipparchus if it
HIPPARCHUS, son of Peisistratus. [Per had not been for Ptolemy. Had it happened that
SISTRATUS, and PeisistRATIDAE. ]
Hipparchus had had two names, by the second of
HIPPARCHUS (“InTapxos), historical. 1. Of which Ptolemy, and Ptolemy only, had referred to
the borough of Cholargae in Attica, a distant re him, we should have had no positive method of
lation of his namesake the son of Peisistratus, is identifying the great astronomer with the writer
mentioned as the first person banished by ostracism of the commentary on Aratus. And if by any
from Athens. (Plut. Nic. 11. )
collateral evidence a doubt had been raised whether
2. Of Euboea, one of the warmest partisans of the two were not the same, it would probably have
Philip of Macedon, who rewarded him for his zeal been urged with success that it was impossible the
by appointing him, together with Automedon and author of so comparatively slight a production could
Cleitarchus, to be rulers, or, as Demosthenes calls have been the sagacious mathematician and dili-
them tyrants, of Eretria, supported by a force of gent observer who, by uniting those two charac-
mercenary troops. (Dem. Phil. iii. p. 125, de Cor. ters for the first time, raised astronomy to that
p. 324, ed. Reiske. ) From an anecdote mentioned rank among the applications of arithmetic and gea
by Plutarch (Apophth. p. 178), it appears that metry which it has always since preserved. This
Philip entertained for him feelings of warm per- is the praise to which the Hipparchus of the Syn-
sonal regard.
taxis is entitled ; and as this can only be ga-
3. A freedman of M. Antony, in whose favour thered from Ptolemy, it will be convenient to refer
he enjoyed a high place, notwithstanding which he the most important part of the account of the former
was one of the first to go over to Octavian. He to the life of the latter ; giving, in this place, only
afterwards established himself at Corinth. (Plut. as much as can be gathered from other sources. And
Ant. 67. )
[E. H. B. ] such a course is rendered more desirable by the cir-
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477
HIPPARCHUS.
HIPPARINUS.
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disciple of Aris-
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be father of He
cumstance that the boundary between the discoveries | περί της των απλανών συντάξεως και του κατα-
of Hippurchus and those of Ptolemy himself is in | στηριγμού και εις τους αρίστους (αστερισμούς ? ),
several points a question which can only be settled which may be the same as the above. 2. Tepl
from the writings of the latter, if at all.
μεγεθών και αποστημάτων, mentioned by Pappus
Strabo, Suidas, &c. , state that Hipparchus was and Theon. A further account of this work is
of Nicaea, in Bithynia ; and Ptolemy (De Adpar. given under PTOLEMA EUS. Kepler had a manu-
Inerrant. sub fin.
