§ 8), who refers to what he had
fact of his speeches being incorporated in the canon written respecting the Cumaean sybil.
fact of his speeches being incorporated in the canon written respecting the Cumaean sybil.
William Smith - 1844 - Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities - b
396.
(Plut.
Vit
. X. Orat. p. who had not received any money from Harpalus ;
848, d. ; Diog. Laërt. iii. 46. ) Throughout his and it may therefore be that he was compelled to
public career he joined the patriots with the utmost act the part of an accuser, or he may have hoped
determination and his whole soul, and remained to be able to give to the matter a more favourable
faithful to them to the last, and through all the turn for Demosthenes, by coming forward as ac-
dangers and catastrophes by which Athens was cuser. But this whole transaction is involved in
weighed down successively under Philip, Alexan- great obscurity ; all we can safely say is, that
der, and Antipater. This stedfast adherence to the about this time there was a sort of rupture between
good cause may have been owing in a great measure the two orators, but whether it existed previous to
to the influence which his friend Demosthenes and the arrival of Harpalus, or whether it was brought
Lycurgus exercised upon him, for he seems to have about by the disputes respecting Harpalus, is un-
naturally been a person of a vacillating character; certain. Afterwards, however, Hyperides and De-
and Plutarch (Lc. p. 849, d. ) states that he some mosthenes became reconciled. (Plut. p. 849, b. )
times gave way to his passions, which were not His political conduct, however, was not affected by
always of the noblest kind. (Comp. Athen. viii. the enmity with Demosthenes. When the news
p. 243, xiii. p. 590. ) In philosophy he was a of Alexander's death arrived at Athens, Hyperides
pupil of Plato (Diog. Laërt. iii
. 46), and Isocrates is said to have proposed that a crown should be
trained and developed his oratorical talent. (Athen. given to lollas, who was believed to have poisoned
viii. p. 342 ; Phot Bibl. Cod. 260, p. 487. ) He the king (Plut. p. 819, e, Aler. 77 ; Arrian,
began his career by conducting lawsuits of others Anab. vii. 27); but this account is very doubtful,
in the courts of justice. (Plut. I. c. p. 448, e. ) Our though it is certain that it was mainly owing to his
information respecting his life is very meagre, but exertions that the Lamian war was brought about
it seems that he first displayed his patriotic feelings (Plut. Phoc. 23, Vit. X. Orat. pp. 848, e, 849, b;
in B. c. 358, by the sacrifices he made for the public Justin, xii. 5), and after the death of Leosthenes,
good during the expedition against Euboea, for on he delivered the funeral oration upon those who
that occasion he and his son are said to have had fallen in the war. (Diod. xvii. 3. ) But aftes
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540
HYPERIDES.
HYPSAEUS.
the battle of Crannon, in B. C. 322, when all hopes | 7 ; Hermog. l. c. ; Dionys. Din. 5, 6. ) But his
bad vanished, Hyperides fled to Aegina, where he orations were distinguished above all by their ex.
was overtaken by the emissaries of Antipater, and quisite elegance and gracefulness, which were cal-
put to death in a most cruel manner. (Plut. Phoc. culated to produce a momentary rather than a
29, Dem. 28, Vit. X. Orat. p. 849; Phot. Bibl. lasting and moral impression. In his private life,
Cod. 265. )
Hyperides seems to have been less above censure
Hyperides must have appeared before the public than in his political life, for his loose conduct was
on many occasions, both in the courts of justice and attacked by Timocles and Philetaerus, two comic
in the assembly of the people. The number of poets of the time. (Athen. viii. pp. 341, 342, xiii.
orations attributed to him was seventy-seven, but p. 590. ) He seems also to have been particularly
even the ancient critics rejected twenty-five of them partial to the fair sex, and that at the expense of
as spurious. (Plut. p. 849, d. ) The titles of sixty- his own son Glaucippus. (Alciphr. Epist. 30—
one (for more are not known) are enumerated by 32 ; comp. Westermann, Ibid. SS 60, 61; G. Kiess-
Westermann (Gesch. d. Griech. Beredtsamk. p. 307, ling, de llyperide Orat. Att. Commentat. II. , Hild-
&c. ). The most important among them appear | burghausen, 1837, 4to. ; Droysen, Gesch. des Hd-
to have been the Anniakós (Dem. de Coron. p. lenism. rol. i. pp. 70, 705, &c. ) (L. S. )
271 ; Plut. pp. 810, c, 850, a), the è totápos (of HYPERION ('Treplwv), a Titan, a son of
which a considerable fragment is preserved in Sto- Uranus and Ge, and married to his sister Theia,
baeus, Floril. cxxiv. 36), the orations against or Euryphaessa, by whom he became the father of
Aristogeiton, Demades, Demosthenes, and for Helios, Selene, and Eos. (Hes. Theog. 134, 371,
Phryne. But of all these orations none has come &c. ; Apollod. i. 1. $ 3, 2. & 2. ) Homer uses the
down to us, and all we have is a considerable name in a patronymic sense applied to Helios, 60
number of fragments, few of which are of any that it is equivalent to Hyperionion or Hyperion-
Jength. Some critics have supposed that the oration ides; and Homer's example is imitated also by
Tepi Twv após 'Alétav pov ouvonkwv, which is other poets. (Hom. Od. i. 8, xii. 132, II. vii. 480;
printed among those of Demosthenes, is the work Hes. Theog. 1011; 0v. Met. xv. 406. ) Apollo-
of Hyperides, as is suggested by Libanius in his dorus (iii. 12. 5) mentions a son of Priam of the
argunent to it; and the same was believed by name of Hyperion.
(L. S. ]
Reiske in regard to the first oration against Aris- HYPERMNESTRA ('Trepuvnotpa), a daugh-
togeiton, but there is nothing to prove that either ter of Thestius and Eurythemis, and the wife of
of these speeches is the work of Hyperides. Hopes Oicles, by whom she became the mother of Amphi-
have been raised from time to time of the possibility araus. Her tomb was shown at Argos. (Apollod.
of recovering some or all the orations of Hyperides. i. 7. $ 10; Paus. ii. 21. & 2. ) One of the daughters
J. A. Brassicanus (Praef. ad Salvianum), who of Danaus was likewise called Hypermnestra
lived at the beginning of the seventeenth century, (LYNCEUS. ]
(L. S. )
states that he himself saw at Ofen, in the library HYPE'ROCHE ('Trepóxn), according to the
of king Mathias Corvinus, a complete copy of Hy- Delian tradition, was one of the two maidens who
perides, with numerous scholia. Taylor (Praef. ad were sent by the Hyperboreans to Delos, to conrey
Demosth. vol. iii. ) likewise states that he saw a thither certain sacred offerings, enclosed in stalks
MS. containing some orations of Hyperides, but of wheat. She and her companion having died in
nothing has yet been published, and it seems that Delos, were honoured by the Delians with certain
Brassicanus as well as Taylor was mistaken. As ceremonies, described by Herodotus (iv. 33–
therefore we have nothing to form an independent | 35).
[C. P. M. ]
opinion on the merits of Hyperides as an orator, HYPE'ROCHUS ('Trépoxos), the generally
we must acquiesce in the judgment which some of acknowledged author of a metrical account of Cumae,
the ancients have pronounced upon him. That he mentioned by Athenaeus (xii. p. 528, d. ), and Pau-
was regarded as a great orator is attested by the sanias (x. 12.
§ 8), who refers to what he had
fact of his speeches being incorporated in the canon written respecting the Cumaean sybil. [C. P. M. )
of the ten Attic orators, and of several distinguished HYPNOS. (SOMNUS. )
grammarians, such as Didymus of Alexandria and HYPSAEUS, a cognomen of the Plautia Gens
Aclius Harpocration, having written commentaries at Rome. 1. C. PLAUTIUS VENNO HYPSAEUS,
upon them. (Harpocrat. s. . levdéplos Zeús ; was consul for the first time in B. C. 347. His
Suid. s. v. ‘Aprokpatiwv. ) Hyperides did not bind year of office was memorable for the reduction of
bimself to any particular model ; his oratory was the interest on loans to the twenty fourth part of
graceful and powerful, thus holding the middle be- the sum borrowed, or 4 and one-sixth per cent.
tween the gracefulness of Lysias and the over- Hypsaeus was consul again in B. C. 341, when the
whelming power of Demosthenes. (Dionys. Di- war with Privernum and with the Volscian league
nurch. 1 ; Longin. de Sublim. xxxiv. Ì, &c. ) His was committed to him. He defeated the Priver-
delivery is said to have been wanting in liveliness. natians, and took from them two-thirds of their
(Plut. p. 850, a. ) His style and diction were pure public land, and he compelled the Volscians to re-
Attic, though not quite free from a certain manner-treat, ravaged their territory as far as the sea-coast,
ism, especially in certain words ; in the selection and consecrated the arms of the slain “ Luae Ma-
and arrangement of his words he is said to have tri. ” (Liv. vii. 27, viii. 1. )
been less careful. (Cic. Brut. 82, 84 ; Quintil. 2. L. PLAUTIUS HYPSA BUS, was praetor in
xii. 10. § 22; Hermog. de Form. Orat. ii. 11; B. c. 189, and obtained the Nearer Spain for his
Dionys. Dinarch. 7; Longin. l. c. ) He treated province. (Liv. xxxvii. 47, 50. )
the subjects under discussion with great skill and 3. L. Plautius HYPSAEUS, a son probably of
a ready wit, and, although he sometimes had the the preceding, was praetor in Sicily during the
appearance of carelessness, the exposition of his Servile War, B. c. 134-132, and routed by the
subject and the argumentation are spoken of as de insurgent slaves. (Flor. ii. 19. $ 7. )
serving of imitation. (Cic. Orat. 31, de Orat. iii. 4. M. Plautius HypsABUS, consul in B. C
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541
HYPSICLES.
125, was joint commissioner with his colleague, It is generally stated that Hypsicles lived a. n.
M. Fulvius Flaccus (Flaccus, M. Fulvius, No. 160, on the authority of Suidns, who states that his
7), for resuming and re-apportioning such de teacher, Isidore the philosopher, épinoo bonoe vò
mesnes of the state as were held contrary to the rois aden pois ; hence, says Fabricius, he lived sub
provisions of the Licinian and Sempronian laws. Dicis Fratribus, and the Divi Fratres are Antoninus
(Fasti ; Val. Max. ix. 5. $ ); Obseq. 90 ; Phlegon. and Verus. (ANTONINUS Prus. ) But Fabricius (or
Trall. 10. ) Cicero (de Or. i. 36. § 166) mentions Harless) adds a note to the effect that it is possible
Hypsaeus as ill-versed in the civil law.
this Isidore may be stated to have studied under
5. P. PLAUTIUS HYPSAEUS, as tribune of the his own brothers, and that he may be the Isidore
plebs in B. c. 54, exerted himself to procure for whose life was written by DANASCIUS. August,
Cn. Pompey, whose quaestor he had been, the com- the editor of Euclid, assumes, without an allusion
mission for restoring Ptolemy Auletes to the to any other opinion, that Isidore was Isidore of
throne of Egypt. (Cic. ad Fum. i. 1. § 3. ) In Miletus, Justinian's architect, and the preceptor of
B. C. 54, Hypsaeus was a candidate for the con- EuroCiU8. Whether this last supposition be true or
Bulship, and since Milo was his opponent, he had not, it is certain that the former one must be correct,
the support of P. Clodius and his gladiators. for Suidas, at the word Syrianus, mentiona Isidore
CLAUDIUS, No. 40. ) With his fellow-candidate, " the philosopher" again, and cites Damascius by
Q. Metellus Scipio, Hypsaeus employed in his name for his information. Now Photius, who has
canvass the most open corruption and violence. given a long commentary on the life of Isidore by
In the tumults that followed the murder of Clo Damascius, repeats again and agnin that Isidore
dius, Hypsaeus and Scipio besieged the interrex, was the successor of Marinus, the successor of
M. Aemilius Lepidus, in his own house for five Proclus, and that Damascius was his fellow pupil.
days because he would not consent to hold the This brings Isidore fairly into the reign of Justi-
comitia illegally. Scipio and Hypsaeus were na- nian ; and if we look at the strong feeling of ad-
turally favourites with the Clodian mob, who miration which Eutocius and Hypsicles both ex-
carried off the fasces from the temple of Libitina press for their teachers (Hypsicles calls his the
(Dionys. iv. 15; Suet. Ner. 39), and offered great), we cannot suppose that these two Isidores
them to these candidates, before they tendered were two different persons. Again, the Isidore of
them to Cn. Pompey. Hypsaeus was singled out | Damascius was a Christian, and Suidas calls him
by Milo's faction for their especial attack. At the équent's év lepois. If an editor of Archimedes in
examination of the witnesses at Milo's trial, they the second century had been a Christian, the fact
demanded that the slaves of Hypsaeus be submitted must have been noted in many forms, and probably
to torture, and shortly afterwards, through Pom- he would have been one of the saint Isidores from
pey's law de Ambitu, they procured the banish- whom Suidas always distinguishes him by the title
ment of Hypsaeus himself for bribery in his con- of the philosopher.
sular canvass. Although he had been an active There are other strong presumptions against
partizan of Pompey's, his patron deserted him. Hypsicles having lived in the second century.
He had thrown himself at Pompey's feet, as he Neither Pappus, Proclus, nor Eutocius, mentions
was going from the bath to the supper-table ; but his name. Now Proclus names the commentators
Pompey rejected his entreaties, and waived him off on Euclid : it is unlikely he would have forgotten
with " Away; you will spoil my supper! ” (Cic. ad the editor who added two whole books to the
Att. iii. 8, pro Flacc. 9; Ascon. in Cic. Milon. p. 31, Elements. Moreover, he specifies it as the ulti-
36; Schol. Bob. pro Mil. p. 281, id. in Or. de Aer. al. mate object of the Elements to investigate the pro-
Mi. 341, Orelli; Cic. fragm. p. 456, vol. iv. Orelli ; perties of regular solids: it is very unlikely that
Appian, B. C. ii. 24 ; Plut. Pomp. 55 ; Val. Max. he should have suppressed the fact of two books on
ix. 5. § 3 ; Liv. Epit. 107. ). (W. B. D. ) those very solids having been written as an ap-
HYPSE'NOR (Tyuvwp), the name of two my- pendix to Euclid. Again, Marinus, in his preface
thical personages, one a son of the Trojan priest to the Data, states the Elements to consist of thir-
Dolopion, who was killed by Eurypylus (Hom. I. teen books, which is a presumption against the
v. 76, &c. ), and the other, a son of Hippasus, was additional books of Hypsicles having been added
killed by the Trojan Deiphobus. (xii. 411. ) (L. S. ) before his time. Putting all these things together,
HYPSEUS (Tabeus), a son of Peneius, and the we feel that we may confidently assert Hypsicles
Naiad Creusa, or Phillyra, the daughter of Asopus, to have written not earlier than A. D. 550.
was king of the Lapithae, and married to Chlida- Diophantus mentions Hypsicles in the work on
nope, by whom he became the father of Cyrene, polygonal numbers (prop. viii. ), and seems to attri-
Alcaea, Themisto, and Astyageia. (Pind. Pyth.
. X. Orat. p. who had not received any money from Harpalus ;
848, d. ; Diog. Laërt. iii. 46. ) Throughout his and it may therefore be that he was compelled to
public career he joined the patriots with the utmost act the part of an accuser, or he may have hoped
determination and his whole soul, and remained to be able to give to the matter a more favourable
faithful to them to the last, and through all the turn for Demosthenes, by coming forward as ac-
dangers and catastrophes by which Athens was cuser. But this whole transaction is involved in
weighed down successively under Philip, Alexan- great obscurity ; all we can safely say is, that
der, and Antipater. This stedfast adherence to the about this time there was a sort of rupture between
good cause may have been owing in a great measure the two orators, but whether it existed previous to
to the influence which his friend Demosthenes and the arrival of Harpalus, or whether it was brought
Lycurgus exercised upon him, for he seems to have about by the disputes respecting Harpalus, is un-
naturally been a person of a vacillating character; certain. Afterwards, however, Hyperides and De-
and Plutarch (Lc. p. 849, d. ) states that he some mosthenes became reconciled. (Plut. p. 849, b. )
times gave way to his passions, which were not His political conduct, however, was not affected by
always of the noblest kind. (Comp. Athen. viii. the enmity with Demosthenes. When the news
p. 243, xiii. p. 590. ) In philosophy he was a of Alexander's death arrived at Athens, Hyperides
pupil of Plato (Diog. Laërt. iii
. 46), and Isocrates is said to have proposed that a crown should be
trained and developed his oratorical talent. (Athen. given to lollas, who was believed to have poisoned
viii. p. 342 ; Phot Bibl. Cod. 260, p. 487. ) He the king (Plut. p. 819, e, Aler. 77 ; Arrian,
began his career by conducting lawsuits of others Anab. vii. 27); but this account is very doubtful,
in the courts of justice. (Plut. I. c. p. 448, e. ) Our though it is certain that it was mainly owing to his
information respecting his life is very meagre, but exertions that the Lamian war was brought about
it seems that he first displayed his patriotic feelings (Plut. Phoc. 23, Vit. X. Orat. pp. 848, e, 849, b;
in B. c. 358, by the sacrifices he made for the public Justin, xii. 5), and after the death of Leosthenes,
good during the expedition against Euboea, for on he delivered the funeral oration upon those who
that occasion he and his son are said to have had fallen in the war. (Diod. xvii. 3. ) But aftes
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540
HYPERIDES.
HYPSAEUS.
the battle of Crannon, in B. C. 322, when all hopes | 7 ; Hermog. l. c. ; Dionys. Din. 5, 6. ) But his
bad vanished, Hyperides fled to Aegina, where he orations were distinguished above all by their ex.
was overtaken by the emissaries of Antipater, and quisite elegance and gracefulness, which were cal-
put to death in a most cruel manner. (Plut. Phoc. culated to produce a momentary rather than a
29, Dem. 28, Vit. X. Orat. p. 849; Phot. Bibl. lasting and moral impression. In his private life,
Cod. 265. )
Hyperides seems to have been less above censure
Hyperides must have appeared before the public than in his political life, for his loose conduct was
on many occasions, both in the courts of justice and attacked by Timocles and Philetaerus, two comic
in the assembly of the people. The number of poets of the time. (Athen. viii. pp. 341, 342, xiii.
orations attributed to him was seventy-seven, but p. 590. ) He seems also to have been particularly
even the ancient critics rejected twenty-five of them partial to the fair sex, and that at the expense of
as spurious. (Plut. p. 849, d. ) The titles of sixty- his own son Glaucippus. (Alciphr. Epist. 30—
one (for more are not known) are enumerated by 32 ; comp. Westermann, Ibid. SS 60, 61; G. Kiess-
Westermann (Gesch. d. Griech. Beredtsamk. p. 307, ling, de llyperide Orat. Att. Commentat. II. , Hild-
&c. ). The most important among them appear | burghausen, 1837, 4to. ; Droysen, Gesch. des Hd-
to have been the Anniakós (Dem. de Coron. p. lenism. rol. i. pp. 70, 705, &c. ) (L. S. )
271 ; Plut. pp. 810, c, 850, a), the è totápos (of HYPERION ('Treplwv), a Titan, a son of
which a considerable fragment is preserved in Sto- Uranus and Ge, and married to his sister Theia,
baeus, Floril. cxxiv. 36), the orations against or Euryphaessa, by whom he became the father of
Aristogeiton, Demades, Demosthenes, and for Helios, Selene, and Eos. (Hes. Theog. 134, 371,
Phryne. But of all these orations none has come &c. ; Apollod. i. 1. $ 3, 2. & 2. ) Homer uses the
down to us, and all we have is a considerable name in a patronymic sense applied to Helios, 60
number of fragments, few of which are of any that it is equivalent to Hyperionion or Hyperion-
Jength. Some critics have supposed that the oration ides; and Homer's example is imitated also by
Tepi Twv após 'Alétav pov ouvonkwv, which is other poets. (Hom. Od. i. 8, xii. 132, II. vii. 480;
printed among those of Demosthenes, is the work Hes. Theog. 1011; 0v. Met. xv. 406. ) Apollo-
of Hyperides, as is suggested by Libanius in his dorus (iii. 12. 5) mentions a son of Priam of the
argunent to it; and the same was believed by name of Hyperion.
(L. S. ]
Reiske in regard to the first oration against Aris- HYPERMNESTRA ('Trepuvnotpa), a daugh-
togeiton, but there is nothing to prove that either ter of Thestius and Eurythemis, and the wife of
of these speeches is the work of Hyperides. Hopes Oicles, by whom she became the mother of Amphi-
have been raised from time to time of the possibility araus. Her tomb was shown at Argos. (Apollod.
of recovering some or all the orations of Hyperides. i. 7. $ 10; Paus. ii. 21. & 2. ) One of the daughters
J. A. Brassicanus (Praef. ad Salvianum), who of Danaus was likewise called Hypermnestra
lived at the beginning of the seventeenth century, (LYNCEUS. ]
(L. S. )
states that he himself saw at Ofen, in the library HYPE'ROCHE ('Trepóxn), according to the
of king Mathias Corvinus, a complete copy of Hy- Delian tradition, was one of the two maidens who
perides, with numerous scholia. Taylor (Praef. ad were sent by the Hyperboreans to Delos, to conrey
Demosth. vol. iii. ) likewise states that he saw a thither certain sacred offerings, enclosed in stalks
MS. containing some orations of Hyperides, but of wheat. She and her companion having died in
nothing has yet been published, and it seems that Delos, were honoured by the Delians with certain
Brassicanus as well as Taylor was mistaken. As ceremonies, described by Herodotus (iv. 33–
therefore we have nothing to form an independent | 35).
[C. P. M. ]
opinion on the merits of Hyperides as an orator, HYPE'ROCHUS ('Trépoxos), the generally
we must acquiesce in the judgment which some of acknowledged author of a metrical account of Cumae,
the ancients have pronounced upon him. That he mentioned by Athenaeus (xii. p. 528, d. ), and Pau-
was regarded as a great orator is attested by the sanias (x. 12.
§ 8), who refers to what he had
fact of his speeches being incorporated in the canon written respecting the Cumaean sybil. [C. P. M. )
of the ten Attic orators, and of several distinguished HYPNOS. (SOMNUS. )
grammarians, such as Didymus of Alexandria and HYPSAEUS, a cognomen of the Plautia Gens
Aclius Harpocration, having written commentaries at Rome. 1. C. PLAUTIUS VENNO HYPSAEUS,
upon them. (Harpocrat. s. . levdéplos Zeús ; was consul for the first time in B. C. 347. His
Suid. s. v. ‘Aprokpatiwv. ) Hyperides did not bind year of office was memorable for the reduction of
bimself to any particular model ; his oratory was the interest on loans to the twenty fourth part of
graceful and powerful, thus holding the middle be- the sum borrowed, or 4 and one-sixth per cent.
tween the gracefulness of Lysias and the over- Hypsaeus was consul again in B. C. 341, when the
whelming power of Demosthenes. (Dionys. Di- war with Privernum and with the Volscian league
nurch. 1 ; Longin. de Sublim. xxxiv. Ì, &c. ) His was committed to him. He defeated the Priver-
delivery is said to have been wanting in liveliness. natians, and took from them two-thirds of their
(Plut. p. 850, a. ) His style and diction were pure public land, and he compelled the Volscians to re-
Attic, though not quite free from a certain manner-treat, ravaged their territory as far as the sea-coast,
ism, especially in certain words ; in the selection and consecrated the arms of the slain “ Luae Ma-
and arrangement of his words he is said to have tri. ” (Liv. vii. 27, viii. 1. )
been less careful. (Cic. Brut. 82, 84 ; Quintil. 2. L. PLAUTIUS HYPSA BUS, was praetor in
xii. 10. § 22; Hermog. de Form. Orat. ii. 11; B. c. 189, and obtained the Nearer Spain for his
Dionys. Dinarch. 7; Longin. l. c. ) He treated province. (Liv. xxxvii. 47, 50. )
the subjects under discussion with great skill and 3. L. Plautius HYPSAEUS, a son probably of
a ready wit, and, although he sometimes had the the preceding, was praetor in Sicily during the
appearance of carelessness, the exposition of his Servile War, B. c. 134-132, and routed by the
subject and the argumentation are spoken of as de insurgent slaves. (Flor. ii. 19. $ 7. )
serving of imitation. (Cic. Orat. 31, de Orat. iii. 4. M. Plautius HypsABUS, consul in B. C
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541
HYPSICLES.
125, was joint commissioner with his colleague, It is generally stated that Hypsicles lived a. n.
M. Fulvius Flaccus (Flaccus, M. Fulvius, No. 160, on the authority of Suidns, who states that his
7), for resuming and re-apportioning such de teacher, Isidore the philosopher, épinoo bonoe vò
mesnes of the state as were held contrary to the rois aden pois ; hence, says Fabricius, he lived sub
provisions of the Licinian and Sempronian laws. Dicis Fratribus, and the Divi Fratres are Antoninus
(Fasti ; Val. Max. ix. 5. $ ); Obseq. 90 ; Phlegon. and Verus. (ANTONINUS Prus. ) But Fabricius (or
Trall. 10. ) Cicero (de Or. i. 36. § 166) mentions Harless) adds a note to the effect that it is possible
Hypsaeus as ill-versed in the civil law.
this Isidore may be stated to have studied under
5. P. PLAUTIUS HYPSAEUS, as tribune of the his own brothers, and that he may be the Isidore
plebs in B. c. 54, exerted himself to procure for whose life was written by DANASCIUS. August,
Cn. Pompey, whose quaestor he had been, the com- the editor of Euclid, assumes, without an allusion
mission for restoring Ptolemy Auletes to the to any other opinion, that Isidore was Isidore of
throne of Egypt. (Cic. ad Fum. i. 1. § 3. ) In Miletus, Justinian's architect, and the preceptor of
B. C. 54, Hypsaeus was a candidate for the con- EuroCiU8. Whether this last supposition be true or
Bulship, and since Milo was his opponent, he had not, it is certain that the former one must be correct,
the support of P. Clodius and his gladiators. for Suidas, at the word Syrianus, mentiona Isidore
CLAUDIUS, No. 40. ) With his fellow-candidate, " the philosopher" again, and cites Damascius by
Q. Metellus Scipio, Hypsaeus employed in his name for his information. Now Photius, who has
canvass the most open corruption and violence. given a long commentary on the life of Isidore by
In the tumults that followed the murder of Clo Damascius, repeats again and agnin that Isidore
dius, Hypsaeus and Scipio besieged the interrex, was the successor of Marinus, the successor of
M. Aemilius Lepidus, in his own house for five Proclus, and that Damascius was his fellow pupil.
days because he would not consent to hold the This brings Isidore fairly into the reign of Justi-
comitia illegally. Scipio and Hypsaeus were na- nian ; and if we look at the strong feeling of ad-
turally favourites with the Clodian mob, who miration which Eutocius and Hypsicles both ex-
carried off the fasces from the temple of Libitina press for their teachers (Hypsicles calls his the
(Dionys. iv. 15; Suet. Ner. 39), and offered great), we cannot suppose that these two Isidores
them to these candidates, before they tendered were two different persons. Again, the Isidore of
them to Cn. Pompey. Hypsaeus was singled out | Damascius was a Christian, and Suidas calls him
by Milo's faction for their especial attack. At the équent's év lepois. If an editor of Archimedes in
examination of the witnesses at Milo's trial, they the second century had been a Christian, the fact
demanded that the slaves of Hypsaeus be submitted must have been noted in many forms, and probably
to torture, and shortly afterwards, through Pom- he would have been one of the saint Isidores from
pey's law de Ambitu, they procured the banish- whom Suidas always distinguishes him by the title
ment of Hypsaeus himself for bribery in his con- of the philosopher.
sular canvass. Although he had been an active There are other strong presumptions against
partizan of Pompey's, his patron deserted him. Hypsicles having lived in the second century.
He had thrown himself at Pompey's feet, as he Neither Pappus, Proclus, nor Eutocius, mentions
was going from the bath to the supper-table ; but his name. Now Proclus names the commentators
Pompey rejected his entreaties, and waived him off on Euclid : it is unlikely he would have forgotten
with " Away; you will spoil my supper! ” (Cic. ad the editor who added two whole books to the
Att. iii. 8, pro Flacc. 9; Ascon. in Cic. Milon. p. 31, Elements. Moreover, he specifies it as the ulti-
36; Schol. Bob. pro Mil. p. 281, id. in Or. de Aer. al. mate object of the Elements to investigate the pro-
Mi. 341, Orelli; Cic. fragm. p. 456, vol. iv. Orelli ; perties of regular solids: it is very unlikely that
Appian, B. C. ii. 24 ; Plut. Pomp. 55 ; Val. Max. he should have suppressed the fact of two books on
ix. 5. § 3 ; Liv. Epit. 107. ). (W. B. D. ) those very solids having been written as an ap-
HYPSE'NOR (Tyuvwp), the name of two my- pendix to Euclid. Again, Marinus, in his preface
thical personages, one a son of the Trojan priest to the Data, states the Elements to consist of thir-
Dolopion, who was killed by Eurypylus (Hom. I. teen books, which is a presumption against the
v. 76, &c. ), and the other, a son of Hippasus, was additional books of Hypsicles having been added
killed by the Trojan Deiphobus. (xii. 411. ) (L. S. ) before his time. Putting all these things together,
HYPSEUS (Tabeus), a son of Peneius, and the we feel that we may confidently assert Hypsicles
Naiad Creusa, or Phillyra, the daughter of Asopus, to have written not earlier than A. D. 550.
was king of the Lapithae, and married to Chlida- Diophantus mentions Hypsicles in the work on
nope, by whom he became the father of Cyrene, polygonal numbers (prop. viii. ), and seems to attri-
Alcaea, Themisto, and Astyageia. (Pind. Pyth.
