)
tive of Crotona, mentioned by lamblichus in bis There are three other mythical personages of this
ocupy a middle place
Istophanes
.
tive of Crotona, mentioned by lamblichus in bis There are three other mythical personages of this
ocupy a middle place
Istophanes
.
William Smith - 1844 - Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities - b
d.
Hellen.
Dichtkunst, vol.
ii.
by the command of an oracle was banished for a
pt. 1, pp. 330-—-344. )
period of ten years. (Apollod. ii. 8. & 3; Paus. ii.
2. A grammarian, quoted by Athenaeus (xi. 4. & 3, 13. $ 3; Conon, Narrat. 26; Schol. ad
P. 480, f. ) as the author of a collection of Theocrit. v. 83. ) He seems to be the same as the
synonyms
[P. S. ) Hippotes who was regarded as the founder of
HIPPONI'CUS. (CALLIAS AND HIPPONICUS. ] Cnidus in Caria. (Diod. v. 9, 53; Tzetz. ad Ly-
HIPPONOIDAS (Ιππονοΐδας), a Spartan coph. 1388. )
officer under Agis II. , in the battle fought at 3. A son of Creon, who accused Medeia of the
Mantineia against the Argives and their allies, murder she had committed on his sister and his
B. C. 418. Xe was accused of cowardice for not father. (Diod. iv. 54. &c. ; Schol. ad Eurip. Med.
having obeyed the orders of Agis during the battle, 20. )
(L. S. ]
and exiled from Sparta in consequence. (Thuc. v. HIPPO'THOE ('ITToon). There are several
71, 72. )
[E. H. B. ] mythical personages of this name: 1. a daughter
HIPPOʻNOME, the mother of Amphitryon. of Nereus and Doris (Hes. Theog. 251); 2. a
[ALCAEUS, No. 1. )
daughter of Danaus (Hygin. Fab. 170. ); 3. an
HIPPOʻNOUS ('ITÓvoos), a son of Glaucus Amazon (Hygin. Fab. 163); 4. a daughter of
and Eurymede, or of_Poseidon and Eurynome Pelias and Anaxibia (Apollod. i. 9. $ 10); 5. a
(Pind. Ol. xii. 66 ; Hygin. Fab. 157), and a daughter of Nestor and Lysidice, became by Po-
grandson of Sisyphus. He was a Corinthian hero, seidon the mother of Taphius. (Apollod. ii
. 4.
and by some called Leophontes, or more commonly $ 5. )
(L. S. )
Bellerophon, Bellerophontes, or Ellerophontes, a HIPPO'THOON ('ItTobówv), an Attic hero, a
name which he is said to have received from having son of Poseidon and Alope, the daughter of Cercyon.
slain Bellerus, a distinguished Corinthian. (BELLE- He had a heroum at Athens; and one of the Attic
ROPHON. ] There are several other mythical per- phylae was called after him Hippothoontis. (De-
sonages of the name of Hipponous. (Schol. ad mosth. Epitaph. p. 1389 ; Paus. i. 5. § 2, 39. § 3,
Pind. Nem. ix. 90; Hom. n. xi. 303; Apollod. ii. 38. § 4. )
[L. S. )
6. & 3, 12. & 5. )
(L. S. ] HIPPO'THOON ('Itrolówv), a Greek tra-
ÉÞPO'STHENES ('ITTOOBévns). Two or gedian, whose exact time is unknown, but who
three Pythagorean philosophers of this name are probably lived shortly before Alexander the Great.
mentioned. (Iamb. Vit. Pyth. 36. & 267; Fabric. He is several times quoted by Stobaeus, who also
Bibl. Graec. vol. i. p. 849. ) The name also occurs cites a poet Hippothoüs, the identity of whom with
in Stobaeus (Floril. Tit. xxii. 25. p. 188, ed. Hippothoön is uncertain. He is sometimes erro-
Gesner) according to the old reading, but the neously reckoned among the comic poets, as, for
better reading is 'IntolówVTOS (HIPPOTHOÖN). example, by Fabricius. (Bibl. Graec. vol
. ii. p.
HIPPO'STRATUS ('ITTbotpatos). 1. A bro-451 ; Welcker, die Griech. Tragöd. p. 1099; Mei-
ther of Cleopatra, the last wife of Philip of Mace- neke, Hist. Crit. Com. Graec. p. 525. ) [P. S. ]
don. (Athen. xiii. p. 557, d. )
HIPPOʻTHOUS (ʻlató800s). 1. A son of
2. A general under Antigonus, who was ap Cercyon, and father of Aepytus, who succeeded
pointed by him to command the army which he Agapenor as king in Arcadia, where he took up
left in Media, after the defeat and death of Eu- his residence, not at Tegea, but at Trapezus. (Paus.
menes, B. C. 216. He was soon after attacked by viii. 5. § 3, 45. § 4; Hygin. Fab. 173; Ov. Met.
Meleager, and others of the revolted adherents of viii. 307. )
Pithon, but repulsed them, and suppressed the in- 2. A son of Lethus, grandson of Teutamus, and
surrection. We know not at what period he was brother of Pylaeus, led a band of Pelasgian auxili-
succeeded by Nicanor, whom we find commanding aries from Larissa to the assistance of the Trojans.
in Media not long afterwards. (Diod. xix. 46, 47, While engaged in dragging away the body of
92. )
[E. H. B. ] Patroclus, he was slain by the Telamonian Ajax.
HIPPOʻSTRATUS ('ITROOTPATOS). 1. A na- (Hom. Il. ii. 840, xvii. 288, &c.
)
tive of Crotona, mentioned by lamblichus in bis There are three other mythical personages of this
ocupy a middle place
Istophanes
. He is
the former, while i
more resembles the
greatest fury, DETE
ur, when most bites
ods to his langer
n words Like Dust
the female si, 24 ft
uplet in which he sms
days in the life of a
7 he receives his si
out her corpe. "
ut a hundred lines of
ted by Welcker (Hip
raphores Frases
(Poetae Lyna Grasa,
Grec. ), and by Me
of Babrius. (Babri
## p. 496 (#512) ############################################
496
HIRTIUS.
HIRTIUS.
:
name. (Hom. Il. xxiv. 251 ; Diod. iv. 33 ; Apolo 1 (ad Att. x. 4. § 5, 11). Whether he accompanied
lod. ï. l. & 5; ii. 10. S 5. )
(L. S. ) his patron to the Spanish war in the same year, or
HIPPYS (“ITAUS or "ITUS) of Rhegium, a remained with Oppius, Balbus, and other Caesa-
Greek historian, who lived in the time of the Per- rians to watch over his interests in the capital, is
sian wars, and wrote a work on Sicily (ras Elke unknown. Whether Hirtius were one of the ten
Airds apátels) in five books, which was epitomised praetors nominated by Caesar for B. C. 46 (Dion
by Myes. He also wrote Ktíow 'Italías, no doubt Cass
. xlii. 51), and one of the ex-praetors who re-
an account of the early mythical history of Italy, ceived consular ornaments (Suet Caes. 76), is
like the works which the Romans called Origines; equally uncertain. The grounds for supposing him
Xpovina in five books; and, if the text of Suidas to have been praetor,-the inscription A. Hirtius
is correct ('Apyodoyikê '), a miscellaneous work, PR. on a coin (Eckhel, vol. v. p. 224),-apply
the fruit of leisure hours, in three books: but few equally to a prefecture of the city, and as Caesar,
critics will hesitate to accept the conjectural emen- during his frequent absences from Rome, appointed
dation of Gyraldus, 'Apyodikov. (Suid. s. v. ) many delegates, Hirtius was probably one of the
There can be no doubt that the remainder of the number. Either as praetor or city-prefect, he may
article in Suidas (oŮTOS aptos ypave rapodíar have been the author of the Lex Hirtia, for ex-
kal xwalausuv xal qana) is misplaced from his cluding the Pompeians from the magistracies. (Cic.
article 'Itnávat. (Hipponax. ] Hippys is quoted Phil. xiii. 16. ) In B. C. 47, after the close of the
by Aelian (N. A. ix. 33), by Stephanus Byzan- Alexandrian war, Hirtius met Caesar at Antioch,
tinus (s. v. 'Apkás), who says that Hippys first and exerted himself in behalf of the elder Q.
called the Arcadians apogel nivous; by Plutarch (de Cicero. (Cic. ad Att. xi. 20. ) In the following
Defoot. Orac. 23, p. 422); by the Scholiast on year he was present at the games at Praeneste,
Apollonius Rhodius (iv. 262), and, with a corrup- and during Caesar's absence in Africa lived princi-
tion of the name into 'Inilas and 'ITTEÚs, by pally at his Tusculan estate, which was contiguous
Athenaeus (i. p. 31, b. ); by a Scholiast on Euri- to Cicero's villa. (Ad Att. xii. 2. ) Though politi-
pides (Med. 9); and by Zenobius (Prov. ii. 42). cally opposed, they were on friendly terms. Cicero
Perhaps too one passage (Antig. Hist. Mir. 133), gave Hirtius lessons in oratory, and Hirtius, in
in which the name of Hippon of Rhegium occurs, return, imparted to the orator, or to the orator's
may really refer to Hippys. (Vossius, de Hist. cook, some of the mysteries of the table. (Cic. ad
Graec. pp. 19, 20, ed. Westermann. ) [P. S. ] Fam. vii. 33, ix. 6, xvi. 18; Suet. de Clar. Rhet.
HIRPI'NUS, QUI NCTIUS, a friend of Ho 1. ) Hirtius corresponded with Caesar during the
race, who, according to the received titles of his African war (Cic. ad Fam. ix. 6), and left his Tus-
poems, addressed to him an ode (Carm. ï. 11), and culan villa to meet him on his return to Italy (Id.
an epistle (Epp. i. 16). In the former of these 10. 18), and accompanied him to Rome. He did
compositions he admonishes Hirpinus to relax from not attend the dictator to the second Spanish war,
public cares, in the latter, if it relate to Hirpinus B. C. 45, but followed him to Narbonne, whence in
at all, to prefer solid to specious virtue. [W. B. D. ] a letter dated April 18, he announced to Cicero the
HI'RRIUS, C. , son perhaps of Hirrius, defeat of the Pompeians (ad Att. xi. 37). From
praetor in B. c. 88, was remembered as the first Narbo, where Caesar joined him, Hirtius sent to
private person who had sea-water stock-ponds for Cicero his reply to the orator's panegyric of Cato,
lampreys. He was so proud of these fish that he which was probably composed at Caesar's request,
would not sell them at any price, but sent some and was a prelude to his own more celebrated
thousands of them to Caesar for his triumphal treatise “ Anti-Cato. ” (Id. ad Att. xii. 40. § 1,
banquets in B. C. 46–45. Hirrius expended the 4). $ 4. ) Hirtius disputed his commendations of
rent of his houses, amounting to 12,000,000 ses Cato, but wrote in flattering terms of Cicero him-
terces, in bait for his lampreys, and sold one self (comp. ad Att. xiii. 21), who accordingly took
farm which was well stocked with them for 400,000 care to circulate freely the treatise of Hirtius. (Ad
sesterces. (Varr. R. R. ii. 5, iii. 17; Plin. H. N. stt. xii. 44, 45, 47. ) At the same time Hirtius
ix. 55. ) He is perhaps the same person with C. appears to have renewed his efforts to reconcile
Hirrius Postumius, mentioned among other volup-Q. Cicero with his son, and to have softened
tuaries by Cicero (de Fin. ii. 22. 70). (W. B. D. ] Caesar's displeasure with the father. (Ad At. xiii.
A. HI’RTIUS, A. F. , belonged to a plebeian fa- 37. 40. ) In B. C. 44 Hirtius received Belgic Gaul
mily, which came probably from Ferentinum in the for his province, but he governed it by deputy (ud
territory of the Hernici. (Orelli, Inscr. n. 589. ) He Att. xiv. 9), and attended Caesar at Rome, who
was throughout life the personal and political friend nominated him and Vibius Pansa, his colleague in
of Caesar the dictator (Cic. Phil. xiii. 11), but his the augurate, consuls for B. C. 43. (Id. ad Fam.
name would scarcely have rescued the Hirtia gens xii. 25, Phil. vii. 4. ) His long residence in the
from obscurity, had not his death marked a crisis capital had made Hirtius better acquainted with
in the history of the republic. In B. C. 58 he was the general feeling and state of parties than
Caesar's legatus in Gaul (Cic. ad Fam. xvi. 27), Caesar himself, and he joined the other leading
but was more frequently employed as a negotiator Caesarians in counselling the dictator not to dismiss
than as a soldier. In December B. C. 50, he was his guards (Vell. Pat. ii.
pt. 1, pp. 330-—-344. )
period of ten years. (Apollod. ii. 8. & 3; Paus. ii.
2. A grammarian, quoted by Athenaeus (xi. 4. & 3, 13. $ 3; Conon, Narrat. 26; Schol. ad
P. 480, f. ) as the author of a collection of Theocrit. v. 83. ) He seems to be the same as the
synonyms
[P. S. ) Hippotes who was regarded as the founder of
HIPPONI'CUS. (CALLIAS AND HIPPONICUS. ] Cnidus in Caria. (Diod. v. 9, 53; Tzetz. ad Ly-
HIPPONOIDAS (Ιππονοΐδας), a Spartan coph. 1388. )
officer under Agis II. , in the battle fought at 3. A son of Creon, who accused Medeia of the
Mantineia against the Argives and their allies, murder she had committed on his sister and his
B. C. 418. Xe was accused of cowardice for not father. (Diod. iv. 54. &c. ; Schol. ad Eurip. Med.
having obeyed the orders of Agis during the battle, 20. )
(L. S. ]
and exiled from Sparta in consequence. (Thuc. v. HIPPO'THOE ('ITToon). There are several
71, 72. )
[E. H. B. ] mythical personages of this name: 1. a daughter
HIPPOʻNOME, the mother of Amphitryon. of Nereus and Doris (Hes. Theog. 251); 2. a
[ALCAEUS, No. 1. )
daughter of Danaus (Hygin. Fab. 170. ); 3. an
HIPPOʻNOUS ('ITÓvoos), a son of Glaucus Amazon (Hygin. Fab. 163); 4. a daughter of
and Eurymede, or of_Poseidon and Eurynome Pelias and Anaxibia (Apollod. i. 9. $ 10); 5. a
(Pind. Ol. xii. 66 ; Hygin. Fab. 157), and a daughter of Nestor and Lysidice, became by Po-
grandson of Sisyphus. He was a Corinthian hero, seidon the mother of Taphius. (Apollod. ii
. 4.
and by some called Leophontes, or more commonly $ 5. )
(L. S. )
Bellerophon, Bellerophontes, or Ellerophontes, a HIPPO'THOON ('ItTobówv), an Attic hero, a
name which he is said to have received from having son of Poseidon and Alope, the daughter of Cercyon.
slain Bellerus, a distinguished Corinthian. (BELLE- He had a heroum at Athens; and one of the Attic
ROPHON. ] There are several other mythical per- phylae was called after him Hippothoontis. (De-
sonages of the name of Hipponous. (Schol. ad mosth. Epitaph. p. 1389 ; Paus. i. 5. § 2, 39. § 3,
Pind. Nem. ix. 90; Hom. n. xi. 303; Apollod. ii. 38. § 4. )
[L. S. )
6. & 3, 12. & 5. )
(L. S. ] HIPPO'THOON ('Itrolówv), a Greek tra-
ÉÞPO'STHENES ('ITTOOBévns). Two or gedian, whose exact time is unknown, but who
three Pythagorean philosophers of this name are probably lived shortly before Alexander the Great.
mentioned. (Iamb. Vit. Pyth. 36. & 267; Fabric. He is several times quoted by Stobaeus, who also
Bibl. Graec. vol. i. p. 849. ) The name also occurs cites a poet Hippothoüs, the identity of whom with
in Stobaeus (Floril. Tit. xxii. 25. p. 188, ed. Hippothoön is uncertain. He is sometimes erro-
Gesner) according to the old reading, but the neously reckoned among the comic poets, as, for
better reading is 'IntolówVTOS (HIPPOTHOÖN). example, by Fabricius. (Bibl. Graec. vol
. ii. p.
HIPPO'STRATUS ('ITTbotpatos). 1. A bro-451 ; Welcker, die Griech. Tragöd. p. 1099; Mei-
ther of Cleopatra, the last wife of Philip of Mace- neke, Hist. Crit. Com. Graec. p. 525. ) [P. S. ]
don. (Athen. xiii. p. 557, d. )
HIPPOʻTHOUS (ʻlató800s). 1. A son of
2. A general under Antigonus, who was ap Cercyon, and father of Aepytus, who succeeded
pointed by him to command the army which he Agapenor as king in Arcadia, where he took up
left in Media, after the defeat and death of Eu- his residence, not at Tegea, but at Trapezus. (Paus.
menes, B. C. 216. He was soon after attacked by viii. 5. § 3, 45. § 4; Hygin. Fab. 173; Ov. Met.
Meleager, and others of the revolted adherents of viii. 307. )
Pithon, but repulsed them, and suppressed the in- 2. A son of Lethus, grandson of Teutamus, and
surrection. We know not at what period he was brother of Pylaeus, led a band of Pelasgian auxili-
succeeded by Nicanor, whom we find commanding aries from Larissa to the assistance of the Trojans.
in Media not long afterwards. (Diod. xix. 46, 47, While engaged in dragging away the body of
92. )
[E. H. B. ] Patroclus, he was slain by the Telamonian Ajax.
HIPPOʻSTRATUS ('ITROOTPATOS). 1. A na- (Hom. Il. ii. 840, xvii. 288, &c.
)
tive of Crotona, mentioned by lamblichus in bis There are three other mythical personages of this
ocupy a middle place
Istophanes
. He is
the former, while i
more resembles the
greatest fury, DETE
ur, when most bites
ods to his langer
n words Like Dust
the female si, 24 ft
uplet in which he sms
days in the life of a
7 he receives his si
out her corpe. "
ut a hundred lines of
ted by Welcker (Hip
raphores Frases
(Poetae Lyna Grasa,
Grec. ), and by Me
of Babrius. (Babri
## p. 496 (#512) ############################################
496
HIRTIUS.
HIRTIUS.
:
name. (Hom. Il. xxiv. 251 ; Diod. iv. 33 ; Apolo 1 (ad Att. x. 4. § 5, 11). Whether he accompanied
lod. ï. l. & 5; ii. 10. S 5. )
(L. S. ) his patron to the Spanish war in the same year, or
HIPPYS (“ITAUS or "ITUS) of Rhegium, a remained with Oppius, Balbus, and other Caesa-
Greek historian, who lived in the time of the Per- rians to watch over his interests in the capital, is
sian wars, and wrote a work on Sicily (ras Elke unknown. Whether Hirtius were one of the ten
Airds apátels) in five books, which was epitomised praetors nominated by Caesar for B. C. 46 (Dion
by Myes. He also wrote Ktíow 'Italías, no doubt Cass
. xlii. 51), and one of the ex-praetors who re-
an account of the early mythical history of Italy, ceived consular ornaments (Suet Caes. 76), is
like the works which the Romans called Origines; equally uncertain. The grounds for supposing him
Xpovina in five books; and, if the text of Suidas to have been praetor,-the inscription A. Hirtius
is correct ('Apyodoyikê '), a miscellaneous work, PR. on a coin (Eckhel, vol. v. p. 224),-apply
the fruit of leisure hours, in three books: but few equally to a prefecture of the city, and as Caesar,
critics will hesitate to accept the conjectural emen- during his frequent absences from Rome, appointed
dation of Gyraldus, 'Apyodikov. (Suid. s. v. ) many delegates, Hirtius was probably one of the
There can be no doubt that the remainder of the number. Either as praetor or city-prefect, he may
article in Suidas (oŮTOS aptos ypave rapodíar have been the author of the Lex Hirtia, for ex-
kal xwalausuv xal qana) is misplaced from his cluding the Pompeians from the magistracies. (Cic.
article 'Itnávat. (Hipponax. ] Hippys is quoted Phil. xiii. 16. ) In B. C. 47, after the close of the
by Aelian (N. A. ix. 33), by Stephanus Byzan- Alexandrian war, Hirtius met Caesar at Antioch,
tinus (s. v. 'Apkás), who says that Hippys first and exerted himself in behalf of the elder Q.
called the Arcadians apogel nivous; by Plutarch (de Cicero. (Cic. ad Att. xi. 20. ) In the following
Defoot. Orac. 23, p. 422); by the Scholiast on year he was present at the games at Praeneste,
Apollonius Rhodius (iv. 262), and, with a corrup- and during Caesar's absence in Africa lived princi-
tion of the name into 'Inilas and 'ITTEÚs, by pally at his Tusculan estate, which was contiguous
Athenaeus (i. p. 31, b. ); by a Scholiast on Euri- to Cicero's villa. (Ad Att. xii. 2. ) Though politi-
pides (Med. 9); and by Zenobius (Prov. ii. 42). cally opposed, they were on friendly terms. Cicero
Perhaps too one passage (Antig. Hist. Mir. 133), gave Hirtius lessons in oratory, and Hirtius, in
in which the name of Hippon of Rhegium occurs, return, imparted to the orator, or to the orator's
may really refer to Hippys. (Vossius, de Hist. cook, some of the mysteries of the table. (Cic. ad
Graec. pp. 19, 20, ed. Westermann. ) [P. S. ] Fam. vii. 33, ix. 6, xvi. 18; Suet. de Clar. Rhet.
HIRPI'NUS, QUI NCTIUS, a friend of Ho 1. ) Hirtius corresponded with Caesar during the
race, who, according to the received titles of his African war (Cic. ad Fam. ix. 6), and left his Tus-
poems, addressed to him an ode (Carm. ï. 11), and culan villa to meet him on his return to Italy (Id.
an epistle (Epp. i. 16). In the former of these 10. 18), and accompanied him to Rome. He did
compositions he admonishes Hirpinus to relax from not attend the dictator to the second Spanish war,
public cares, in the latter, if it relate to Hirpinus B. C. 45, but followed him to Narbonne, whence in
at all, to prefer solid to specious virtue. [W. B. D. ] a letter dated April 18, he announced to Cicero the
HI'RRIUS, C. , son perhaps of Hirrius, defeat of the Pompeians (ad Att. xi. 37). From
praetor in B. c. 88, was remembered as the first Narbo, where Caesar joined him, Hirtius sent to
private person who had sea-water stock-ponds for Cicero his reply to the orator's panegyric of Cato,
lampreys. He was so proud of these fish that he which was probably composed at Caesar's request,
would not sell them at any price, but sent some and was a prelude to his own more celebrated
thousands of them to Caesar for his triumphal treatise “ Anti-Cato. ” (Id. ad Att. xii. 40. § 1,
banquets in B. C. 46–45. Hirrius expended the 4). $ 4. ) Hirtius disputed his commendations of
rent of his houses, amounting to 12,000,000 ses Cato, but wrote in flattering terms of Cicero him-
terces, in bait for his lampreys, and sold one self (comp. ad Att. xiii. 21), who accordingly took
farm which was well stocked with them for 400,000 care to circulate freely the treatise of Hirtius. (Ad
sesterces. (Varr. R. R. ii. 5, iii. 17; Plin. H. N. stt. xii. 44, 45, 47. ) At the same time Hirtius
ix. 55. ) He is perhaps the same person with C. appears to have renewed his efforts to reconcile
Hirrius Postumius, mentioned among other volup-Q. Cicero with his son, and to have softened
tuaries by Cicero (de Fin. ii. 22. 70). (W. B. D. ] Caesar's displeasure with the father. (Ad At. xiii.
A. HI’RTIUS, A. F. , belonged to a plebeian fa- 37. 40. ) In B. C. 44 Hirtius received Belgic Gaul
mily, which came probably from Ferentinum in the for his province, but he governed it by deputy (ud
territory of the Hernici. (Orelli, Inscr. n. 589. ) He Att. xiv. 9), and attended Caesar at Rome, who
was throughout life the personal and political friend nominated him and Vibius Pansa, his colleague in
of Caesar the dictator (Cic. Phil. xiii. 11), but his the augurate, consuls for B. C. 43. (Id. ad Fam.
name would scarcely have rescued the Hirtia gens xii. 25, Phil. vii. 4. ) His long residence in the
from obscurity, had not his death marked a crisis capital had made Hirtius better acquainted with
in the history of the republic. In B. C. 58 he was the general feeling and state of parties than
Caesar's legatus in Gaul (Cic. ad Fam. xvi. 27), Caesar himself, and he joined the other leading
but was more frequently employed as a negotiator Caesarians in counselling the dictator not to dismiss
than as a soldier. In December B. C. 50, he was his guards (Vell. Pat. ii.
