and an officer of reputation, either accompanied
He assiduously cultivated science and literature.
He assiduously cultivated science and literature.
William Smith - 1844 - Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities - b
MONACHUS.
(Of CONSTANTINOPLE, No.
nonncing him as a murderer and a robber, and re- 1 2 ; and of XANTHOPULI, No. 13. )
fusing to admit him to communion. Photius was 9. MONACHUS. Among the MSS. of the Rer.
consequently deposed and banished (A. D. 867), George Wheeler, formerly canon of Durham, was a
and Ignatius restored. In effecting this change, work entitled Liber ad Constantium, by Ignatius
the emperor was supported by the pope, Nicholas the monk, whether of Constantinople or of Xan-
I. , whose enmity to Photius had been increased thopuli, or a third person distinct from either,
by a dispute as to the extent of their respective we have no means of determining. (Catalogus
jurisdictions in the eighth general council, as- MStorum Angliae et Hiberniae ; Fabric. Bibl. Gr.
sembled at Constantinople A. D. 869, the deposi- vol. vii. p. 45. )
tion of Photius and the restoration of Ignatius 10. PHILOSOPHUS. [Of SelyBRIA, No. 12. ]
were ratified. An expression of the continuator of 11. SCEUOPHYLAX. [Of ConsTANTINOPLE,
Theophanes, that the emperor compelled Photius / No. 2. )
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ILIONEUS.
569
ILLUS.
12. Of SELYBRIA. There is (or was) in the longer under ene control of the god. (Ov. Mlel.
Library of St. Mark in Venice, among the Greek vi. 261; Niobe. )
MSS. , a Commentarius in Aristotelis Scripta Logica, 2. A Trojan, son of Phorbas was killed by
by Ignatius, Metropolitan of Selybria, a prelate of Peneleus. (Hom. Il. xiv. 489, &c. )
unknown date. There is also extant in MS. a 3. One of the companions of Aeneas. (Virg.
work by the same writer, Bíos Kal Tohitela TWY Aen. i. 120. )
αγίων θεοστέπτων μεγάλων βασιλέων και ισαπο- 4. A Trojan who was slain by Diomedes. (Q.
στόλων Κωνσταντίνου και Ελένης, Vita et Con- | Smyrn. xviii. 180. )
(L. S. )
versatio, &c. , Constantini et Helenue. (Fabric. Bild. ILISSIADES (INooiádes), a surname of the
Gr. vol. iii. p. 210, vol. vii. p. 46. )
Muses, who had an altar on the Ilissus in Attica.
13. Of XANTHOPULI, a monastery apparently at (Paus. i. 19. $ 6. )
(L. S. ]
or near Constantinople, was the friend of Callistus ILITHYIA. (EiLEITHYIA. ]
11. , patriarch of Constantinople, who occupied that ILLUS, a leading personage in the troubled
see about the close of the 14th or the beginning of reign of the Byzantine emperor Zeno, who reigned
the 15th century. Callistus had been a monk of the A. D. 474–491. His name is variously written
same monastery, and the two friends were united "IXAos (which is the most common form), 'Ixós,
in the authorship of a work recommending a mo "Inovs, *14. dos, and 'Indoūs, and by Latin writers,
nastic life, and giving directions for it. The work is Illus, Ellus, and HYLLUS. Victor of Tunes in
cited by their contemporary Symeon, archbishop of one place calls Lim Patricius, mistaking his title of
Thessalonica, in his Ecclesiasticus Dialogus adversus Patrician for a proper name.
omnes Ilaereses. (Allatius, De Symeonibus, p. 185, Illus was an Isaurian, but the time and place of
ed. Paris, 1664 ; Fabric. Bill. Gr. vol. vii. p. his birth are unknown. He is said to have held
46. )
various offices under the Emperor Leo I. (A. D.
There were three Ignatii, respectively described 457–474), and to have been an intimate friend of
as Chrysopolitanus Abbas, Metropolita Claudiopoli- | Zeno, apparently before his accession. But we first
tanus, and Lophorum Episcopus, among the cor- read of liim in Zeno's reign and in hostility to
respondents of Photius, in the ninth century that emperor. Basiliscus, brother of the empresa
(Photius, Epistolae, ed. Montacutii); and an dowager Verina, the widow of Leo, had expelled Zeno
Ignatius Abbas (not to be confounded with No. from Constantinople (A. D. 475) and sent an army
6) among the correspondents of Theodore Studita in pursuit of him under Illus and his brother Tro-
in the eighth or ninth century. (Theodorus Stu- condus (whose name is variously written Tpókordos,
dita, Epistolae, lib. ii. ep. 24, apud Simond, Opera | Tρoκoύνδος, Τροβούνδος, Προκούνδος, Πρόμoνδος,
Varia, vol. v. ) Several ancient Oriental writers and Dekoûvdos, and by the Latin writers Trocundus
and prelates of the name, Syrians or Armenians, and Tricundius) into Isauria, where Zeno had taken
are mentioned by Assemani in bis Bibliotheca Ori-refuge. The brothers defeated the fugitive empe-
entalis. The liturgies composed by some of these ror (July, A. D. 476) and blockaded him on a hill
are given in a Latin version in Renaudot's Liturg. called by the people near it “ Constantinople. "
Orient. (Fabric. Bill. Gr. vol. vii. p. 47. ) [J. C. M. ] (Suidas, 8. v. Zúvwv. ) During the blockade Illus
ILAEIRA (ʻladespa), a daughter of Leucippus and Trocondus, instigated by the senate of Con-
and Philodice, and a sister of Phoebe, together with stantinople, with whom Basiliscus had fallen into
whom she is often mentioned by the poets under odium and contempt, and themselves discontented
the name of Leucippidae. Both were carried off by with the usurper, were prevailed on by the pro-
the Dioscuri, and llaeira became the wife of Castor. mises and gifts of Zeno to embrace his side, and
(Apollod. ï. 10. 9 3; Schol. ad Lycoph. 511. ) [L. S. ) to march with united forces towards the capital.
İ’LIA. (Rhea Silvia. )
At Nice in Bithynia they were met by the troops
ILIOʻNA ('Ilwva), a daughter of Priam and of Basiliscus under his nephew and general Ar-
Hecabe, is not mentioned by the earlier poets and matus, or Harmatus ('Apuatos or "Apuatos), or
mythographers, but the later ones relate of her the Harmatius ; but he, too, was gnined over, and Basi-
following story. At the beginning of the Trojan liscus, forsaken by his supporters, was dethroned
war her parents entrusted to her her brother Poly- and put to death (A. D. 477). [BasilisCUS. ]
dorus, for she was married to Polymnestor or Poly- Illus was sole consul A. D. 478, and in 479 he
mestor, king of the Thracian Chersonesus. Iliona, was instrumental in crushing the dangerous revolt
with more than sisterly affection, brought up Poly- of Marcian, grandson of the Byzantine emperor of
dorus as if he had been her own child, and repre- that name [MARCIANUS), and son of Anthemius,
sented her own son Deipylus as Polydorus. When emperor of the West (ANTHEMIUS). Marcian
Troy was taken and destroyed, the Greeks, de had married Leontia, daughter of the late Emperor
sirous of destroying the whole race of Priam, pro Leo by Verina, and sister of Ariadne, Zeno's wife.
mised Polymnestor a large sum of money and the His revolt took place at Constantinople, where he
hand of Electra, if he would kill Polydorus. Polym- defeated the troops of Zeno and besieged him in the
nestor accepted the proposal, but killed his own palace. For a moment Illus wavered, but his failing
son Deipylus, whom he mistook for Polydorus. The courage or fidelity was restored by the assurances
latter thus escaped ; and after having subsequently of an Egyptian soothsayer whom he patronised.
learned Polymnestor's crime, he and Iliona put out Marcian's forces were corrupted by Illus ; and
the eyes of Polymnestor, and then slew him. This Marcian himself, with his brothers Procopius and
legend was used by Pacuvius and Accius as sub- Romulus, was taken. The brothers escaped, but
jects for tragedies. (Hygin. Fab. 109, 240; Horat. Marcian was sent, either to Tarsus in Cilicia, and
Sat. ii. 3, 64; Serv. ad Aen. i. 653; Cic. Acad. ï. made a priest in the church there, or to the foot of
27, Tuscul. i. 44. )
(L. S. ) Papurius (Nanovotos), or Papyrius, a stronghold in
ILIONEUS (ʻIALoveús). 1. A son of Amphion Isauria, then used as a state prison. Trocondus,
and Niobe, whom Apollo would have liked to save, the brother of Illus, was consul A. D. 482 ; and
because he was praying; but the arrow was no | Illus himself enjoyed the dignities of valricius and
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570
ILLUS.
ILLYRIUS.
magister ufficiorum. He is said to have employed | reputation, who had first introduced Pamprepius
his power and influence well, and to have rendered to Ilus, and the patrician Leontius, a Syrian,
good service to the state in peace as well as in war.
and an officer of reputation, either accompanied
He assiduously cultivated science and literature. him or joined him in the East, and probably
It was perhaps his literary predilections that also his brother Trocondus. Having traversed
made him the friend and patron of Pamprepius Asia Minor they erected the standard of revolt
(Iau périOs) for whom he obtained a salary from (A. D. 483 or 481). Illus declared Leontius em-
the public revenue, and to whom also he made an peror, defeated the army of Zeno near Antioch,
allowance from his private resources. Pamprepius and having drawn over the Isaurians to his party,
was a native of Thebes, or, according to others, of and obtained possession of Papurius, released
Panopolis in Egypt, an avowed heathen, and emi- Verina, and induced her to crown Leontius at
nent as a poet, a grammarian, and especially for his Tarsus, and to send a circular letter to the imperial
skill in divining the future. Pamprepius was hated officers at Antioch, in Egypt, and the East,
both by Zeno and by the dowager empreso Verinn, by which they were prevailed on to join Illus.
and during the absence of Illus, who had gone on This important service did not, however, prevent
bome business into Isauria, they banished him on a Illus from sending Verina back to Papurius, where
charge of attempting to divine future events in she soon after closed her restless life. Zeno (A. D.
favour of Illus and against the emperor. Illus, 485) sent against the rebels a fresh army, said to
knowing that his intimacy with him had been the consist of Macedonians and Scythians (Tillemont
real cause of his banishment, received him into his conjectures, not unreasonably, that these were
household, and, on his return to the capital, took Ostro-Goths) under John "the Hunchback," or,
him with him. The date of these events is doubt- more probably, John “the Scythian," and Theo-
ful: it is possible that they occurred before Mar- doric the Ostro-Goth, who was at this time
cian's revolt, though a later date is on the whole consul. John defeated the rebels near Seleuceia
more probable.
(which town of that name is not clear, perhaps
As the weakness of Zeno's character made him the Isaurian Seleuceia) and drove them into the
jealous of all persons of influence and talent, it is fort of Papurius where he blockaded them. In this
not wonderful that the comp
ommanding position and difficulty Trocondus attempted to escape and gather
popular favour of Illus rendered him an object of forces for their relief, but was taken by the be-
suspicion, and that the emperor in various ways siegers and put to death. Illus and Leontius were
sought to rid himself of him. The ambitious Verina, ignorant of his fate, and, encouraged by Pampre-
the dowager empress, was also his enemy, and formed pius, who gave them assurance of his return and of
a plot against his life. The assassin, an Alan, em- ultimate victory, held out with great pertinacity
ployed by her, is said to have wounded Illus ; but for above three years. In the fourth year the death
this is doubtful, as historians have confounded her of Trocondus was discovered, and Illus, enraged at
plot with the later one of her daughter Ariadne. At the deceit practised on him by Pamprepius, put
any rate Verina's attempt was defeated, and Zeno, him to death. The fort was soon after taken by the
equally jealous of her and of Illus, banished her at treachery of Trocondus's brother-in-law, who had
the instance of the latter, and confined her in the been sent for the purpose from Constantinople by
fort of Papurius. There is some doubt as to the Zeno, and Illus and Leontius were beheaded (A. D.
time of these events also. Candidus places the 488) and their heads sent to the emperor.
banishment of Verina before the revolt of Marcian, Tillemont and Le Beau regard the revolt of Illus
and Theodore Lector assigns as the cause of it her as an attempt to re-establish heathenism ; but for
share in the revolt of Basiliscus. It is not unlikely, this view there seems no foundation. We do not
indeed, that this turbulent woman was twice ba- know that Illus was a heathen, though Pamprepius
nished, once before Marcian's revolt, for her con- was one : it is more likely that Illus was a man
nection with Basiliscus, and again after Marcian's of no fixed religious principles, and that his revolt
revolt, for her plot against Illus. From her prison originated either in ambition, or in a conviction
she managed to interest her daughter Ariadne, the that his only prospect of safety from the intrigues
wife of Zeno, in her favour, and Ariadne endea of his enemies and the suspicions of Zeno was the
voured to obtain her release, first from Zeno, and dethronement of the emperor. It is remarkable
then from Illus, to whom the emperor referred her. that Gibbon does not mention the name of Illus,
Illus not only refused her request, but charged her and scarcely notices his revolt. (Suidas, s. vv. Ζήνων,
with wishing to place another person on her hus HautpériOS ; Zonar. xiv. 2 ; Theophan. Chronog.
band's throne. This irritated her; and she, like pp. 103, &c. ed. Paris ; pp. 83, &c. ed. Venice ;
her mother, attempted to assassinate Illus. Jor Evagrius, H. E. iü. 8, 16, 24, 26, 27; Candidus,
nandes ascribes her hatred to another cause : he apud Phot. Bibl. cod. 79; Malchus, apud Phot
says that Illus had infused jealous suspicions into Bibl. cod. 78 ; Damascius, apud Phot. Bibl. cod.
Zeno's mind which had led Zeno to attempt her 242 ; Procop. B. V. i. 7 ; Marcellinus, Chronicon;
life, and that her knowledge of these things stimu. Victor Tun. Chronicon. ; Theodor. Lector, H. E.
lated her to revenge.
The assassin whom she em- | i. 37, ii. 3, 4 ; Jornandes, de Reg. Success. c. 47 ;
ployed failed to kill Illus, but cut off his ear in the Cedrenus, Compendium ; Liberatus Diaconus, Bro-
attempt. The assassin was taken, and Zeno, who viarium Caussae Nestorianorum et Eutychianorum,
appears to have been privy to the affair, was un- c. 16, 17, apud Galland. Biblioth. Patrum, vol. x ;
able to prevent his execution.
Tillemont, Hist. des Empereurs, vol. vi ; Le Beau,
Illus, with his friend Pamprepius, now retired Bus Empire, c. 36 ; Gibbon, ch. 39. ) [J. C. M. ]
from court, first to Nice, and then, on pretence of ILLY'RIUS ('I^Xúpios), a son of Cadmus and
change of air and of procuring the cure of his Harmonia, who was born at the time when Cadmus
wound, into the East, where he was made general assisted the Encheleans in their war against the
of all the armies, with the power of appointing the Illyrians, and conquered and ruled over theine
provincial officers. Marsus, an Isaurian officer of|(Apollod. ii. 5. § 4. )
(LS. )
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IMPREX. '
571
INACHUS.
e.
ILUS (Ixos). 1. A son of Dardanus hy Bateia comic poet, quoted by Gellius and Festus, of whose
the daughter of Teucer. Ilus died without issue, plays only one is expressly mentioned, namely,
and left his kingdom to his brother, Erichthonius. Neaera" Vulcatius Sedigitus assigned him the
(Apollod. iii. 12. & 1, &c. )
fourth place in the list of Latin comic poets. (Fes-
2. A son of Tros, and grandson of Erichthonius. tus, s. vo. Imirez, Obstitum ; Gell. xii. 22, xv. 24. )
His mother was Calirrhoe, and being a great- Vossius conjectured (De Poctis Latinis, p. 5) that
grandson of Dardanus, he is called Dardanides. this Licinius Imbrex is the same as the Licininis
(Hom. Il. xi. 372. ) He was a brother of Assar Tegula mentioned by Livy (TEGULA), because
racus, Ganymedes, and Cleopatra, and married to imbrex is a species of tegula, but Festus gives the
Eurydice, the daughter of Adrastus, by whom he praenomen of Caius to the former, and Livy that
became the father of Laomedon, so that he was the of Publius to the latter.
grandfather of Priam. (Apollod. iii. 1. SS 1-3; I'MBRIUS ("Iubplos), a son of Mentor, and
Hom. Il. xx. 232, &c. ) He was believed to be the husband of Mendesicaste, a daughter of Priam,
founder of Troy (Ilion), concerning which the fal- was slain by Teucer in the Trojan war. (Hom.
lowing story is related. ” Once Ilus went to Phry. n. xiii. 171, &c. ; Paus. x. 25. & 2; Eustath. ad
gia, and there won the prize as a wrestler in the Hom. p. 926. ) Imbrius occurs also as a surname
games which the king of Phrygia celebrated. of Eetion, the friend of Lycaon. (Hom. II. xxi.
The prize consisted of 50 youths and 50 maidens ; | 43. )
[L. S. ]
and the king, in pursuance of an oracle, at the IMENARETE. [ELEPHENOR. )
same time gave him a cow of different colours, re- IMMA'RADUS ('Iunápados), a son of Eu-
questing Ilus to build a town on the spot where molpus, and commander of the Eleusinians, slain
that cow should lie down. Ilus accordingly fol. by Erectheus. (Paus. i. 5. Ø 2, 27. Ø 5. ) (L. S. )
lowed the cow until she laid down at the foot of IMPERA'TOR, a surname of Jupiter at Prac-
the Phrygian hill Ate. (Steph. Byz s. v. "Illor ; neste. After the conquest of that town in B. C.
Hesych. s. v. 'Atiónopos ; Tzetz. ad Lycoph, 29, 376, T. Quinctius brought his statue to the capitol
who gives the story somewhat differently. ) There at Rome, where it was placed between the chapels
Ilus accordingly built Ilion; and after having of Jupiter and Minerva (Liv. vi. 29. ) According
prayed to Zeus to send him a sign, he found on the to Cicero (in Verr. iv. 57), he was identical with
next morning the palladium, a statue of three cubits Jupiter Urius (i. e. the sender of favourable wind),
in height, with its feet close together, holding a of the Greeks. (Comp. the commentat, on Cicero,
spear in its right hand, and a distaff in the left. and Buttmann's Lexilog. vol. ii. p. 34. ) [L. S. ]
Ilus then built a temple for the statue. (Apollod. IMPERIO'SUS, a surname of three members of
iii. 12. & 3. ) Once, when this temple was con- the Manlia gens,-L. Manlius Capitolinus Imperia
sumed by fire, Ilus rescued the statue, but became sus, dictator in B.
nonncing him as a murderer and a robber, and re- 1 2 ; and of XANTHOPULI, No. 13. )
fusing to admit him to communion. Photius was 9. MONACHUS. Among the MSS. of the Rer.
consequently deposed and banished (A. D. 867), George Wheeler, formerly canon of Durham, was a
and Ignatius restored. In effecting this change, work entitled Liber ad Constantium, by Ignatius
the emperor was supported by the pope, Nicholas the monk, whether of Constantinople or of Xan-
I. , whose enmity to Photius had been increased thopuli, or a third person distinct from either,
by a dispute as to the extent of their respective we have no means of determining. (Catalogus
jurisdictions in the eighth general council, as- MStorum Angliae et Hiberniae ; Fabric. Bibl. Gr.
sembled at Constantinople A. D. 869, the deposi- vol. vii. p. 45. )
tion of Photius and the restoration of Ignatius 10. PHILOSOPHUS. [Of SelyBRIA, No. 12. ]
were ratified. An expression of the continuator of 11. SCEUOPHYLAX. [Of ConsTANTINOPLE,
Theophanes, that the emperor compelled Photius / No. 2. )
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ILIONEUS.
569
ILLUS.
12. Of SELYBRIA. There is (or was) in the longer under ene control of the god. (Ov. Mlel.
Library of St. Mark in Venice, among the Greek vi. 261; Niobe. )
MSS. , a Commentarius in Aristotelis Scripta Logica, 2. A Trojan, son of Phorbas was killed by
by Ignatius, Metropolitan of Selybria, a prelate of Peneleus. (Hom. Il. xiv. 489, &c. )
unknown date. There is also extant in MS. a 3. One of the companions of Aeneas. (Virg.
work by the same writer, Bíos Kal Tohitela TWY Aen. i. 120. )
αγίων θεοστέπτων μεγάλων βασιλέων και ισαπο- 4. A Trojan who was slain by Diomedes. (Q.
στόλων Κωνσταντίνου και Ελένης, Vita et Con- | Smyrn. xviii. 180. )
(L. S. )
versatio, &c. , Constantini et Helenue. (Fabric. Bild. ILISSIADES (INooiádes), a surname of the
Gr. vol. iii. p. 210, vol. vii. p. 46. )
Muses, who had an altar on the Ilissus in Attica.
13. Of XANTHOPULI, a monastery apparently at (Paus. i. 19. $ 6. )
(L. S. ]
or near Constantinople, was the friend of Callistus ILITHYIA. (EiLEITHYIA. ]
11. , patriarch of Constantinople, who occupied that ILLUS, a leading personage in the troubled
see about the close of the 14th or the beginning of reign of the Byzantine emperor Zeno, who reigned
the 15th century. Callistus had been a monk of the A. D. 474–491. His name is variously written
same monastery, and the two friends were united "IXAos (which is the most common form), 'Ixós,
in the authorship of a work recommending a mo "Inovs, *14. dos, and 'Indoūs, and by Latin writers,
nastic life, and giving directions for it. The work is Illus, Ellus, and HYLLUS. Victor of Tunes in
cited by their contemporary Symeon, archbishop of one place calls Lim Patricius, mistaking his title of
Thessalonica, in his Ecclesiasticus Dialogus adversus Patrician for a proper name.
omnes Ilaereses. (Allatius, De Symeonibus, p. 185, Illus was an Isaurian, but the time and place of
ed. Paris, 1664 ; Fabric. Bill. Gr. vol. vii. p. his birth are unknown. He is said to have held
46. )
various offices under the Emperor Leo I. (A. D.
There were three Ignatii, respectively described 457–474), and to have been an intimate friend of
as Chrysopolitanus Abbas, Metropolita Claudiopoli- | Zeno, apparently before his accession. But we first
tanus, and Lophorum Episcopus, among the cor- read of liim in Zeno's reign and in hostility to
respondents of Photius, in the ninth century that emperor. Basiliscus, brother of the empresa
(Photius, Epistolae, ed. Montacutii); and an dowager Verina, the widow of Leo, had expelled Zeno
Ignatius Abbas (not to be confounded with No. from Constantinople (A. D. 475) and sent an army
6) among the correspondents of Theodore Studita in pursuit of him under Illus and his brother Tro-
in the eighth or ninth century. (Theodorus Stu- condus (whose name is variously written Tpókordos,
dita, Epistolae, lib. ii. ep. 24, apud Simond, Opera | Tρoκoύνδος, Τροβούνδος, Προκούνδος, Πρόμoνδος,
Varia, vol. v. ) Several ancient Oriental writers and Dekoûvdos, and by the Latin writers Trocundus
and prelates of the name, Syrians or Armenians, and Tricundius) into Isauria, where Zeno had taken
are mentioned by Assemani in bis Bibliotheca Ori-refuge. The brothers defeated the fugitive empe-
entalis. The liturgies composed by some of these ror (July, A. D. 476) and blockaded him on a hill
are given in a Latin version in Renaudot's Liturg. called by the people near it “ Constantinople. "
Orient. (Fabric. Bill. Gr. vol. vii. p. 47. ) [J. C. M. ] (Suidas, 8. v. Zúvwv. ) During the blockade Illus
ILAEIRA (ʻladespa), a daughter of Leucippus and Trocondus, instigated by the senate of Con-
and Philodice, and a sister of Phoebe, together with stantinople, with whom Basiliscus had fallen into
whom she is often mentioned by the poets under odium and contempt, and themselves discontented
the name of Leucippidae. Both were carried off by with the usurper, were prevailed on by the pro-
the Dioscuri, and llaeira became the wife of Castor. mises and gifts of Zeno to embrace his side, and
(Apollod. ï. 10. 9 3; Schol. ad Lycoph. 511. ) [L. S. ) to march with united forces towards the capital.
İ’LIA. (Rhea Silvia. )
At Nice in Bithynia they were met by the troops
ILIOʻNA ('Ilwva), a daughter of Priam and of Basiliscus under his nephew and general Ar-
Hecabe, is not mentioned by the earlier poets and matus, or Harmatus ('Apuatos or "Apuatos), or
mythographers, but the later ones relate of her the Harmatius ; but he, too, was gnined over, and Basi-
following story. At the beginning of the Trojan liscus, forsaken by his supporters, was dethroned
war her parents entrusted to her her brother Poly- and put to death (A. D. 477). [BasilisCUS. ]
dorus, for she was married to Polymnestor or Poly- Illus was sole consul A. D. 478, and in 479 he
mestor, king of the Thracian Chersonesus. Iliona, was instrumental in crushing the dangerous revolt
with more than sisterly affection, brought up Poly- of Marcian, grandson of the Byzantine emperor of
dorus as if he had been her own child, and repre- that name [MARCIANUS), and son of Anthemius,
sented her own son Deipylus as Polydorus. When emperor of the West (ANTHEMIUS). Marcian
Troy was taken and destroyed, the Greeks, de had married Leontia, daughter of the late Emperor
sirous of destroying the whole race of Priam, pro Leo by Verina, and sister of Ariadne, Zeno's wife.
mised Polymnestor a large sum of money and the His revolt took place at Constantinople, where he
hand of Electra, if he would kill Polydorus. Polym- defeated the troops of Zeno and besieged him in the
nestor accepted the proposal, but killed his own palace. For a moment Illus wavered, but his failing
son Deipylus, whom he mistook for Polydorus. The courage or fidelity was restored by the assurances
latter thus escaped ; and after having subsequently of an Egyptian soothsayer whom he patronised.
learned Polymnestor's crime, he and Iliona put out Marcian's forces were corrupted by Illus ; and
the eyes of Polymnestor, and then slew him. This Marcian himself, with his brothers Procopius and
legend was used by Pacuvius and Accius as sub- Romulus, was taken. The brothers escaped, but
jects for tragedies. (Hygin. Fab. 109, 240; Horat. Marcian was sent, either to Tarsus in Cilicia, and
Sat. ii. 3, 64; Serv. ad Aen. i. 653; Cic. Acad. ï. made a priest in the church there, or to the foot of
27, Tuscul. i. 44. )
(L. S. ) Papurius (Nanovotos), or Papyrius, a stronghold in
ILIONEUS (ʻIALoveús). 1. A son of Amphion Isauria, then used as a state prison. Trocondus,
and Niobe, whom Apollo would have liked to save, the brother of Illus, was consul A. D. 482 ; and
because he was praying; but the arrow was no | Illus himself enjoyed the dignities of valricius and
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ILLUS.
ILLYRIUS.
magister ufficiorum. He is said to have employed | reputation, who had first introduced Pamprepius
his power and influence well, and to have rendered to Ilus, and the patrician Leontius, a Syrian,
good service to the state in peace as well as in war.
and an officer of reputation, either accompanied
He assiduously cultivated science and literature. him or joined him in the East, and probably
It was perhaps his literary predilections that also his brother Trocondus. Having traversed
made him the friend and patron of Pamprepius Asia Minor they erected the standard of revolt
(Iau périOs) for whom he obtained a salary from (A. D. 483 or 481). Illus declared Leontius em-
the public revenue, and to whom also he made an peror, defeated the army of Zeno near Antioch,
allowance from his private resources. Pamprepius and having drawn over the Isaurians to his party,
was a native of Thebes, or, according to others, of and obtained possession of Papurius, released
Panopolis in Egypt, an avowed heathen, and emi- Verina, and induced her to crown Leontius at
nent as a poet, a grammarian, and especially for his Tarsus, and to send a circular letter to the imperial
skill in divining the future. Pamprepius was hated officers at Antioch, in Egypt, and the East,
both by Zeno and by the dowager empreso Verinn, by which they were prevailed on to join Illus.
and during the absence of Illus, who had gone on This important service did not, however, prevent
bome business into Isauria, they banished him on a Illus from sending Verina back to Papurius, where
charge of attempting to divine future events in she soon after closed her restless life. Zeno (A. D.
favour of Illus and against the emperor. Illus, 485) sent against the rebels a fresh army, said to
knowing that his intimacy with him had been the consist of Macedonians and Scythians (Tillemont
real cause of his banishment, received him into his conjectures, not unreasonably, that these were
household, and, on his return to the capital, took Ostro-Goths) under John "the Hunchback," or,
him with him. The date of these events is doubt- more probably, John “the Scythian," and Theo-
ful: it is possible that they occurred before Mar- doric the Ostro-Goth, who was at this time
cian's revolt, though a later date is on the whole consul. John defeated the rebels near Seleuceia
more probable.
(which town of that name is not clear, perhaps
As the weakness of Zeno's character made him the Isaurian Seleuceia) and drove them into the
jealous of all persons of influence and talent, it is fort of Papurius where he blockaded them. In this
not wonderful that the comp
ommanding position and difficulty Trocondus attempted to escape and gather
popular favour of Illus rendered him an object of forces for their relief, but was taken by the be-
suspicion, and that the emperor in various ways siegers and put to death. Illus and Leontius were
sought to rid himself of him. The ambitious Verina, ignorant of his fate, and, encouraged by Pampre-
the dowager empress, was also his enemy, and formed pius, who gave them assurance of his return and of
a plot against his life. The assassin, an Alan, em- ultimate victory, held out with great pertinacity
ployed by her, is said to have wounded Illus ; but for above three years. In the fourth year the death
this is doubtful, as historians have confounded her of Trocondus was discovered, and Illus, enraged at
plot with the later one of her daughter Ariadne. At the deceit practised on him by Pamprepius, put
any rate Verina's attempt was defeated, and Zeno, him to death. The fort was soon after taken by the
equally jealous of her and of Illus, banished her at treachery of Trocondus's brother-in-law, who had
the instance of the latter, and confined her in the been sent for the purpose from Constantinople by
fort of Papurius. There is some doubt as to the Zeno, and Illus and Leontius were beheaded (A. D.
time of these events also. Candidus places the 488) and their heads sent to the emperor.
banishment of Verina before the revolt of Marcian, Tillemont and Le Beau regard the revolt of Illus
and Theodore Lector assigns as the cause of it her as an attempt to re-establish heathenism ; but for
share in the revolt of Basiliscus. It is not unlikely, this view there seems no foundation. We do not
indeed, that this turbulent woman was twice ba- know that Illus was a heathen, though Pamprepius
nished, once before Marcian's revolt, for her con- was one : it is more likely that Illus was a man
nection with Basiliscus, and again after Marcian's of no fixed religious principles, and that his revolt
revolt, for her plot against Illus. From her prison originated either in ambition, or in a conviction
she managed to interest her daughter Ariadne, the that his only prospect of safety from the intrigues
wife of Zeno, in her favour, and Ariadne endea of his enemies and the suspicions of Zeno was the
voured to obtain her release, first from Zeno, and dethronement of the emperor. It is remarkable
then from Illus, to whom the emperor referred her. that Gibbon does not mention the name of Illus,
Illus not only refused her request, but charged her and scarcely notices his revolt. (Suidas, s. vv. Ζήνων,
with wishing to place another person on her hus HautpériOS ; Zonar. xiv. 2 ; Theophan. Chronog.
band's throne. This irritated her; and she, like pp. 103, &c. ed. Paris ; pp. 83, &c. ed. Venice ;
her mother, attempted to assassinate Illus. Jor Evagrius, H. E. iü. 8, 16, 24, 26, 27; Candidus,
nandes ascribes her hatred to another cause : he apud Phot. Bibl. cod. 79; Malchus, apud Phot
says that Illus had infused jealous suspicions into Bibl. cod. 78 ; Damascius, apud Phot. Bibl. cod.
Zeno's mind which had led Zeno to attempt her 242 ; Procop. B. V. i. 7 ; Marcellinus, Chronicon;
life, and that her knowledge of these things stimu. Victor Tun. Chronicon. ; Theodor. Lector, H. E.
lated her to revenge.
The assassin whom she em- | i. 37, ii. 3, 4 ; Jornandes, de Reg. Success. c. 47 ;
ployed failed to kill Illus, but cut off his ear in the Cedrenus, Compendium ; Liberatus Diaconus, Bro-
attempt. The assassin was taken, and Zeno, who viarium Caussae Nestorianorum et Eutychianorum,
appears to have been privy to the affair, was un- c. 16, 17, apud Galland. Biblioth. Patrum, vol. x ;
able to prevent his execution.
Tillemont, Hist. des Empereurs, vol. vi ; Le Beau,
Illus, with his friend Pamprepius, now retired Bus Empire, c. 36 ; Gibbon, ch. 39. ) [J. C. M. ]
from court, first to Nice, and then, on pretence of ILLY'RIUS ('I^Xúpios), a son of Cadmus and
change of air and of procuring the cure of his Harmonia, who was born at the time when Cadmus
wound, into the East, where he was made general assisted the Encheleans in their war against the
of all the armies, with the power of appointing the Illyrians, and conquered and ruled over theine
provincial officers. Marsus, an Isaurian officer of|(Apollod. ii. 5. § 4. )
(LS. )
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INACHUS.
e.
ILUS (Ixos). 1. A son of Dardanus hy Bateia comic poet, quoted by Gellius and Festus, of whose
the daughter of Teucer. Ilus died without issue, plays only one is expressly mentioned, namely,
and left his kingdom to his brother, Erichthonius. Neaera" Vulcatius Sedigitus assigned him the
(Apollod. iii. 12. & 1, &c. )
fourth place in the list of Latin comic poets. (Fes-
2. A son of Tros, and grandson of Erichthonius. tus, s. vo. Imirez, Obstitum ; Gell. xii. 22, xv. 24. )
His mother was Calirrhoe, and being a great- Vossius conjectured (De Poctis Latinis, p. 5) that
grandson of Dardanus, he is called Dardanides. this Licinius Imbrex is the same as the Licininis
(Hom. Il. xi. 372. ) He was a brother of Assar Tegula mentioned by Livy (TEGULA), because
racus, Ganymedes, and Cleopatra, and married to imbrex is a species of tegula, but Festus gives the
Eurydice, the daughter of Adrastus, by whom he praenomen of Caius to the former, and Livy that
became the father of Laomedon, so that he was the of Publius to the latter.
grandfather of Priam. (Apollod. iii. 1. SS 1-3; I'MBRIUS ("Iubplos), a son of Mentor, and
Hom. Il. xx. 232, &c. ) He was believed to be the husband of Mendesicaste, a daughter of Priam,
founder of Troy (Ilion), concerning which the fal- was slain by Teucer in the Trojan war. (Hom.
lowing story is related. ” Once Ilus went to Phry. n. xiii. 171, &c. ; Paus. x. 25. & 2; Eustath. ad
gia, and there won the prize as a wrestler in the Hom. p. 926. ) Imbrius occurs also as a surname
games which the king of Phrygia celebrated. of Eetion, the friend of Lycaon. (Hom. II. xxi.
The prize consisted of 50 youths and 50 maidens ; | 43. )
[L. S. ]
and the king, in pursuance of an oracle, at the IMENARETE. [ELEPHENOR. )
same time gave him a cow of different colours, re- IMMA'RADUS ('Iunápados), a son of Eu-
questing Ilus to build a town on the spot where molpus, and commander of the Eleusinians, slain
that cow should lie down. Ilus accordingly fol. by Erectheus. (Paus. i. 5. Ø 2, 27. Ø 5. ) (L. S. )
lowed the cow until she laid down at the foot of IMPERA'TOR, a surname of Jupiter at Prac-
the Phrygian hill Ate. (Steph. Byz s. v. "Illor ; neste. After the conquest of that town in B. C.
Hesych. s. v. 'Atiónopos ; Tzetz. ad Lycoph, 29, 376, T. Quinctius brought his statue to the capitol
who gives the story somewhat differently. ) There at Rome, where it was placed between the chapels
Ilus accordingly built Ilion; and after having of Jupiter and Minerva (Liv. vi. 29. ) According
prayed to Zeus to send him a sign, he found on the to Cicero (in Verr. iv. 57), he was identical with
next morning the palladium, a statue of three cubits Jupiter Urius (i. e. the sender of favourable wind),
in height, with its feet close together, holding a of the Greeks. (Comp. the commentat, on Cicero,
spear in its right hand, and a distaff in the left. and Buttmann's Lexilog. vol. ii. p. 34. ) [L. S. ]
Ilus then built a temple for the statue. (Apollod. IMPERIO'SUS, a surname of three members of
iii. 12. & 3. ) Once, when this temple was con- the Manlia gens,-L. Manlius Capitolinus Imperia
sumed by fire, Ilus rescued the statue, but became sus, dictator in B.
