When Polymestor
latter years was a pensionary of Nero.
latter years was a pensionary of Nero.
William Smith - 1844 - Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities - b
70–73.
) After this throngh the medium of Gulussa ; but that general
disaster, the Carthaginians, apprehensive of the having offered him terms only for himself with his
danger that threatened them from Rome, sought to family and a few friends, he refused to purchase
avert it by casting the responsibility of the late his personal safety by the abandonment of his
events upon individuals, and accordingly passed sen- country. Meanwhile the siege of Carthage was
tence of banishment on Hasdrubal, together with all more and more closely pressed, and in the spring
the other leaders in the war against Masinissa. He of 146 Hasdrubal saw himself compelled to aban-
thereupon took refuge among the neighbouring don the defence of the port and other quarters of
Africans, and soon collected around his standard the city, and collect all his forces into the citadel
an army of 20,000 men, with which he awaited called Byrsa. Against this Scipio now concentra-
the issue of events. The Carthaginians found, ted all his attacks ; the ground was contested foot
when too late, that all concessions were unavailing by foot, but the Romans renewed their assaults
to conciliate their inexorable enemies; and while without ceasing, both by night and day, and gra-
they prepared for a desperate resistance within the dually advanced by burning and demolishing the
city, they hastened to recal the sentence of Has- houses along all the streets which led to the citadel
drubal, and appointed him to the chief command At length the mass of the inhabitants submitted to
without the walls, B. c. 149. His own army gave Scipio, and were received as prisoners ; the Roman
him the complete command of the open country, deserters alone, with a few others who despaired
and enabled him to secure abundant supplies to the of pardon, took refuge in the sacred precincts of the
city, while the Romans with difficulty drew their temple of Aesculapius, and still held out with the
provisions from a few detached towns on the coast. fury of desperation. Hasdrubal at first fled thither
Hovering in the neighbourhood of Carthage, with with his wife and children ; but afterwards made
out approaching close to the enemy, Hasdrubal his escape secretly to Scipio, who spared his life.
prevented them from regularly investing the city, It is said that his wife, after upbraiding him with
and, by means of his light cavalry, harassed and his weakness, threw herself and her children into
impeded all their movements. At length the Ro the flames of the burning temple. Scipio carried
man consul, Manilius, was induced to undertake him prisoner to Rome, where, after adorning the
an expedition against Nepheris, a stronghold in the triumph of his conqueror, he spent the rest of his
interior, where Hasdrubal had established his head-life in an honourable captivity in some one of the
quarters ; but far from succeeding in dislodging provincial towns of Italy. (Appian, Pun. 114, 118,
him from thence, he was repulsed with heavy loss, I 120, 126-131 ; Polyb. Exo. xxxix ; Zonar. ix.
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HATERIUS.
HATERIUS.
a
29, 30 ; Liv. Epit. li. ; Oros. iv. 22, 23 ; Flor. ii. | to be without a head ? "-An offensive question,
14. ) Polybius, from whom all our accounts of since it obliged Tiberius to declare his intentions,
this war are directly or indirectly derived, has and he gravely rebuked its author. (Suet. Tib.
drawn the character of Hasdrubal in the blackest | 29. ) When the senate broke up, Haterius repaired
colours, and probably not without prejudice : the to the palace to implore pardon. He found the
circumstances in which he was placed must have emperor walking, attended by a guard. Either to
palliated, if not excused, many arbitrary acts ; and escape his importunity (Suet. Tib. 27), or in anger
however justly he may be reproached with cruelty, at his presumption (Tac. ib. 13), Tiberius turned
there seems strong evidence of his being a man of away from Haterius who, in the energy of sup-
much greater ability than the historian is willing plication, had cast himself at his feet. Accident-
to allow. Nor must we forget that he refused to ally, or in struggling to be rid of the suppliant,
purchase his own personal safety so long as there Tiberius himself fell to the ground, and Haterius
remained even the slightest chance of obtaining narrowly avoided being slain by the guard. The
that of his country.
intercession of the empress-mother, Livia, at length
14. A grandson of Masinissa hy the mother's rescued laterius from peril. We find him after-
side, but apparently a Carthaginian by birth. He wards, in A. D. 16, advocating a sumptuary law, to
was appointed to the chief command within the restrain the use of gold-plate and silk garments
walls of the city, when the Carthaginians, in B. c. (Tac. ib. ii. 33), and in 22 moving that a decree of
149, prepared for their last desperate resistance the senate, which conferred the Tribunicia Potestas
against the Roman consuls Censorinus and Mani- on Drusus, the emperor's son, be inscribed in letters
lius. How far we are to ascribe to his authority of gold, and affixed to the walls of the curia (Tac.
or directions the energetic measures adopted for the ib. iii. 57)—a useless piece of adulation, since the
defence of the city, or the successful resistance decree was little more than matter of course. If
opposed for more than a year to the Roman arms, the systematic legacy-hunter mentioned by Seneca
we know not, as his name is not again mentioned (de Ben. vi. 38) were the same Q. Haterius, it ac-
by Appian until after the defeat of Calpurnius cords well with his servility as a senator.
Piso at Hippo in the following year, B. C. 148. The reputation of Haterius was, however, higher
This success following the repeated repulses of in the rhetorical schools than in the senate. His
Manilius in his attacks on Nepheris, had greatly character as a declaimer is sketched by Seneca the
elated the Carthaginians ; and in this excitement rhetorician, who had heard him (Exrerpt. Contror.
of spirits, they seem to have been easily led to be- Proem. iv. p. 422, Bipont. ed. ), and by Seneca the
lieve a charge brought by his enemies against Has- philosopher (Ep. 40). Their accounts are confirmed
drubal of having betrayed their interests for the by Tacitus (Ann. iv. 61), and may be thus com-
sake of his brother-in-law, Gulussa. The accusa- pressed. His voice was sonorous, his lungs un-
tion was brought forward in the senate, and before wearied, his invention fertile, and his sophistical
Hasdrubal, astounded at the unexpected charge, ingenuity, though it sometimes betrayed him into
could utter a word in his defence, a tumult arose, ludicrous blunders, was extraordinary. There was
in the midst of which he was struck down, and much to applaud, more to excuse or condemn, in his -
despatched with blows from the benches of the declamation. Augustus said that his eloquence
senators used as clubs. According to Appian, his needed a drag-chain-“ Haterius poster sufflami-
destruction was caused by the intrigues of his rival nandus est”-it not only ran, but it ran down-
and namesake, No. 13. (Appian, Pun. 93, 111; hill. He had so little control over his volubility,
Oros. iv. 22. )
(E. H. B. ) that he employed a freedman to punctuate his dis-
HATERIA’NUS, the name of one of the course while speaking, and the partitions and tran-
early commentators on Virgil quoted in the sitions of his theme were regulated by this monitor.
Virgilii Maronis Interpretes Veteres, published Seneca, the philosopher (l. c. ), censures bim se
from a Verona Palimpsest, by Ang. Mai, Mediolan. verely. He began impetuously, he ceased abruptly.
1818.
(W. R. ] His manner was abhorrent from common sense,
HATE'RIUS. The name, like Adrian, Atria, good taste, and Roman usage. The evolutions of
&c. , is frequently written Aterius, but the aspirated Cicero were slow and decorous ; but the rapid
form is preferable. (Orelli, Inscr. n. 1825. ) verbiage of Haterius was suitable only to the hack-
1. HAterius, a jurist, contemporary with Cicero. nied demagogue, and excitable crowd of a Greek
[ATERIUS. )
agora. The elder Seneca frequently cites the de
2. HATERIUS was proscribed by Augustus, An- clamations of Haterius (Suas. 2, 3, 6, 7, Controv.
tony, and Lepidus, in B. C. 43, and betrayed by 6, 16, 17, 23, 27, 28, 29), but Tacitus says that
one of his slaves, who received his freedom in re his works were in his age nearly obsolete. (Ann.
compence. The sons of Haterius wished to purchase iv. 61. ) The best specimens of the rhetoric of Hate-
their father's confiscated estate, but were outbid rius are. —Sen. Suas. 6,7, and Controv. 6, Excerpt.
and insulted by his betrayer. His insolence, how- ex Controv. i. ; in the latter, Seneca praises the
ever, aroused the sympathy of the people, and the pathos of the declaimer. Haterius died at the end
triumvirs reduced him to his former servile con- of A. D. 26, in the cighty-ninth year of his age.
dition, and assigned him to the family of his late (Tac. Ann. iv. 61 ; Euseb. Chron. n. 2010, p. 157;
master. (Appian, B. C. iv. 29. )
Hieron. Ep. ad Pammach. adv. error. Joan. Hie-
3. Q. HATERIUS, a senator and rhetorician in rosol. ) His sons appear to have died before him.
the age of Augustus and Tiberius, and, in what (Sen. Excerpt. Controv. Proem. Bip. ed. p. 422. )
year is unknown, a supplementary consul. (Tac. It is worth noting, that Haterius is accused by
Ann. ii. 33. ) In the contest of mutual distrust Seneca (! . c. ) of archaisms, but those archaisms
and dissimulation between the senate and Tiberius were words or phrases from Cicero-so brief was
on his accession, A. D. 14 (Tac. Ann. i. 11-13), the meridian of Latin prose.
Haterius unguardedly asked the cautious emperor,
4. D. Haterius AGRIPPA, a son of the pre-
“ bow long he meant to suffer the commonwealth ceding. [AGRIPPA, p. 77 a. ]
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HECATAEUS.
5. Q. HATERIUS ANTONINUS, probably a son of Polymestor, who had murdered him, pretending
No. 4, was consul in A. D. 53. (Tac. Ann. xii. 58. ) that she was going to inform him of a treasure
He dissipated his patrimonial estate, and in his which was concealed at Ilium.
When Polymestor
latter years was a pensionary of Nero. (Tac. ib. arrived with his two sons, Hecabe murdered the
xiii. 34. ). He is thought by some to be the pro children, and tore out the eyes of Polymestor.
fessional legacy-hunter mentioned by Seneca (de Agamemnon pardoned her for the crime, and Poly-
Ben, vi. 30).
mestor prophesied to her that she should be mein-
6. HATERIUS Rufus, a Roman eques, who morphosed into a she-dog, and should leap into the
perished in the theatre at Syracuse by the awk. sea at a place called Cynoseina. (Strab. p 595 ;
wardness of a gladiator, and thereby fulfilled his Thuc. viii. 104. ) According to Ovid (Met. xiii.
dream of the previous night, that the Retiarius slew 423—575), this prophecy was fulfilled in Thrace,
him. (Val. Max. i. 7. & 8. ) (W. B. D. ) the inhabitants of which stoned her; but she was
HEBDOMA'GETES ('Ebdouaréons), a surmetamorphosed into a dog, and in this form she
name of Apollo, which was derived, according to howled through the country for a long time. (Comp.
some, from the fact of sacrifices being offered to Hygin. Fab. lll; Serv. ad Virg. Acn. iii. . ; Cic.
him on the scventh of every month, the seventh Tusc. iii. 26. ). According to other accounts she was
of some month being looked upon as the god's given as a slave to Odysseus, and in despair she
birthday. Others connect the name with the fact leaped into the Hellespont (Dict. Cret. v. 13), or
that at the festivals of Apollo, the procession was being anxious to die, she uttered such inrectives
led by seven boys and seven maidens. (Aeschyl. against the Greeks, that the warriors put her to
Sept. 804 ; Herod. vi. 57; Lobeck, Aglaoph. p. death, and called the place where she was buried
434. )
[L. S. ) KUVÒs oua, with reference to her impudent invec-
HEBE (°H6n), the personification of youth, is tives. (Dict. Cret. v. 16. ) Respecting her children
described as a daughter of Zeus and Hera (Apollod. by Priam, see A pollod. iii. 12. $ 5: comp. Pri-
i. 3. ♡ 1. ), and is, according to the Blind (iv. 2), AMUS, Hector, PARIS.
(L. S. ]
the minister of the gods, who fills their cups with HECAERGE ('Exaépyn), a daughter of Boreas,
nectar; she assists Hera in putting the horses to and one of the Hyperborean maidens, who were
her chariot (v. 722); and she bathes and dresses believed to have introduced the worship of Artemis
her brother Ares (v. 905). According to the in Delos. (Callim. Hymin, in Del. 292; Paus. i.
Odyssey (xi. 603; comp. Hes. Theog. 950), she 43. § 4, v. 7. § 4; Herod. iv. 35. ) The name
was married to Heracles after bis apotheosis. Hecaerge significs hitting at a distance; and it is
Later traditions, however, describe her as having not improbable that the story of the Hyperborean
become by Heracles the mother of two sons, Alex. maiden may have arisen out of an attribute of
iares and Anticetus ( Apollod. ii. 7. $ 7), and as a Artemis, who bore the surname of Hecaerge.
divinity who had it in her power to make persons (Anton. Lib. 13. ) Aphrodite had the same sur-
of an advanced age young again. (Ov. Met. ix. 400, name at Tulis in Cos. (Anton. Lib. I. ) (L. S. ]
&c. ) She was worshipped at Athens, where she HECAERGUS ('Exaépyos), a surname of
had an altar in the Cynosarges, near one of Hera Apollo, of the same meaning as Hecaerge in the
cles. (Paus. i. 19. $ 3. ) Under the name of the case of Artemis. (Hom. Il. i. 147. ) Here too
female Ganymedes (Ganymeda) or Dia, she was tradition has metamorphosed the attribute of the
worshipped in a sacred grove at Sicyon and Phlius. god into a distinct being, for Servius (ad Aen. xi.
(Paus. ij. 13. 9 3; Strab. viii. p. 382. )
532, 858) speaks of one Hacaergus as a teacher
At Rome the goddess was worshipped under the and priest of Apollo and Artemis. (L. S. ]
corresponding name of Juventas, and that at a very HECALE ('Exáun), a poor old woman, who
early time, for her chapel on the Capitol existed hospitably received into her house Theseus, when
before the temple of Jupiter was built there ; and he had gone out for the purpose of killing the
she, as well as Terminus, is said to have opposed Marathonian bull. As she had vowed to offer up
the consecration of the temple of Jupiter. (Liv. v. to Zeus a sacrifice for the safe return of the hero,
54. ) Another temple of Juventas, in the Circus and died before his return, Theseus himself or-
Maximus, was vowed by the consul M. Livius, dained that the inhabitants of the Attic tetrapolis
after the defeat of Hasdrubal, in B. C. 207, and was should offer a sacrifice to her and Zeus Hecalus, or
consecrated 16 years afterwards. (Liv. xxxvi. 36; Hecaleius. (Plut. Thes. 14; Callim. Fragm. 40,
comp. xxi. 62; Dionys, iv. 15, where a temple of Bentley ; Ov. Remed. Am. 747. ) (L. S. ]
Juventas is mentioned as early as the reign of HECAME'DE ('Exauvon), a rhaiden of Te-
Servius Tullius ; August. de Civ. Dei, iv. 23; Plin. nedos, and daughter of Arsinous. When Achilles
H. N. xxix. 4, 14, xxxv. 36, 22. ) (L. S. ] took the island, Hecamede was given to Nestor as
HE'CABE ('Exábn), or in Latin HE'CUBA, a a slave. (Hom. Il. xi. 622, xiv. 6. ) (L. S. ]
daughter of Dymas in Phrygia, and second wife of HECATAEUS ('Exataios), tyrant of Cardia, is
Priam, king of Troy. (Hom. Il. xvi. 716, xxii. first mentioned as one of the friends of Alexander
234; Apollod. iii. 12. & 5. ) Some described her the Great, and was selected by that monarch im-
as a daughter of Cisseus, or the Phrygian river- mediately after his accession (B. C. 336) to under-
god Sangarius and Metope. (Eurip. Hec. 3; take the perilous duty of putting down the threat-
Eustath. ad Hom. p. 1083. ) According to the ened revolt of Attalus in Asia. He crossed over
tragedy of Euripides, which bears her name, she to that continent with a considerable force, with
was made a slave by the Greeks on their taking which he joined the army of Parmenion ; but
Troy, and was carried by them to Chersonesus; after consulting with that general, he deemed it
and she there saw her daughter Polyxena sacrificed. inexpedient to attempt his object by open force,
On the same day the waves of the sea washed the and caused Attalus to be secretly assassinated.
body of her last son Polydorus on the coast where (Diod. xvii.
disaster, the Carthaginians, apprehensive of the having offered him terms only for himself with his
danger that threatened them from Rome, sought to family and a few friends, he refused to purchase
avert it by casting the responsibility of the late his personal safety by the abandonment of his
events upon individuals, and accordingly passed sen- country. Meanwhile the siege of Carthage was
tence of banishment on Hasdrubal, together with all more and more closely pressed, and in the spring
the other leaders in the war against Masinissa. He of 146 Hasdrubal saw himself compelled to aban-
thereupon took refuge among the neighbouring don the defence of the port and other quarters of
Africans, and soon collected around his standard the city, and collect all his forces into the citadel
an army of 20,000 men, with which he awaited called Byrsa. Against this Scipio now concentra-
the issue of events. The Carthaginians found, ted all his attacks ; the ground was contested foot
when too late, that all concessions were unavailing by foot, but the Romans renewed their assaults
to conciliate their inexorable enemies; and while without ceasing, both by night and day, and gra-
they prepared for a desperate resistance within the dually advanced by burning and demolishing the
city, they hastened to recal the sentence of Has- houses along all the streets which led to the citadel
drubal, and appointed him to the chief command At length the mass of the inhabitants submitted to
without the walls, B. c. 149. His own army gave Scipio, and were received as prisoners ; the Roman
him the complete command of the open country, deserters alone, with a few others who despaired
and enabled him to secure abundant supplies to the of pardon, took refuge in the sacred precincts of the
city, while the Romans with difficulty drew their temple of Aesculapius, and still held out with the
provisions from a few detached towns on the coast. fury of desperation. Hasdrubal at first fled thither
Hovering in the neighbourhood of Carthage, with with his wife and children ; but afterwards made
out approaching close to the enemy, Hasdrubal his escape secretly to Scipio, who spared his life.
prevented them from regularly investing the city, It is said that his wife, after upbraiding him with
and, by means of his light cavalry, harassed and his weakness, threw herself and her children into
impeded all their movements. At length the Ro the flames of the burning temple. Scipio carried
man consul, Manilius, was induced to undertake him prisoner to Rome, where, after adorning the
an expedition against Nepheris, a stronghold in the triumph of his conqueror, he spent the rest of his
interior, where Hasdrubal had established his head-life in an honourable captivity in some one of the
quarters ; but far from succeeding in dislodging provincial towns of Italy. (Appian, Pun. 114, 118,
him from thence, he was repulsed with heavy loss, I 120, 126-131 ; Polyb. Exo. xxxix ; Zonar. ix.
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29, 30 ; Liv. Epit. li. ; Oros. iv. 22, 23 ; Flor. ii. | to be without a head ? "-An offensive question,
14. ) Polybius, from whom all our accounts of since it obliged Tiberius to declare his intentions,
this war are directly or indirectly derived, has and he gravely rebuked its author. (Suet. Tib.
drawn the character of Hasdrubal in the blackest | 29. ) When the senate broke up, Haterius repaired
colours, and probably not without prejudice : the to the palace to implore pardon. He found the
circumstances in which he was placed must have emperor walking, attended by a guard. Either to
palliated, if not excused, many arbitrary acts ; and escape his importunity (Suet. Tib. 27), or in anger
however justly he may be reproached with cruelty, at his presumption (Tac. ib. 13), Tiberius turned
there seems strong evidence of his being a man of away from Haterius who, in the energy of sup-
much greater ability than the historian is willing plication, had cast himself at his feet. Accident-
to allow. Nor must we forget that he refused to ally, or in struggling to be rid of the suppliant,
purchase his own personal safety so long as there Tiberius himself fell to the ground, and Haterius
remained even the slightest chance of obtaining narrowly avoided being slain by the guard. The
that of his country.
intercession of the empress-mother, Livia, at length
14. A grandson of Masinissa hy the mother's rescued laterius from peril. We find him after-
side, but apparently a Carthaginian by birth. He wards, in A. D. 16, advocating a sumptuary law, to
was appointed to the chief command within the restrain the use of gold-plate and silk garments
walls of the city, when the Carthaginians, in B. c. (Tac. ib. ii. 33), and in 22 moving that a decree of
149, prepared for their last desperate resistance the senate, which conferred the Tribunicia Potestas
against the Roman consuls Censorinus and Mani- on Drusus, the emperor's son, be inscribed in letters
lius. How far we are to ascribe to his authority of gold, and affixed to the walls of the curia (Tac.
or directions the energetic measures adopted for the ib. iii. 57)—a useless piece of adulation, since the
defence of the city, or the successful resistance decree was little more than matter of course. If
opposed for more than a year to the Roman arms, the systematic legacy-hunter mentioned by Seneca
we know not, as his name is not again mentioned (de Ben. vi. 38) were the same Q. Haterius, it ac-
by Appian until after the defeat of Calpurnius cords well with his servility as a senator.
Piso at Hippo in the following year, B. C. 148. The reputation of Haterius was, however, higher
This success following the repeated repulses of in the rhetorical schools than in the senate. His
Manilius in his attacks on Nepheris, had greatly character as a declaimer is sketched by Seneca the
elated the Carthaginians ; and in this excitement rhetorician, who had heard him (Exrerpt. Contror.
of spirits, they seem to have been easily led to be- Proem. iv. p. 422, Bipont. ed. ), and by Seneca the
lieve a charge brought by his enemies against Has- philosopher (Ep. 40). Their accounts are confirmed
drubal of having betrayed their interests for the by Tacitus (Ann. iv. 61), and may be thus com-
sake of his brother-in-law, Gulussa. The accusa- pressed. His voice was sonorous, his lungs un-
tion was brought forward in the senate, and before wearied, his invention fertile, and his sophistical
Hasdrubal, astounded at the unexpected charge, ingenuity, though it sometimes betrayed him into
could utter a word in his defence, a tumult arose, ludicrous blunders, was extraordinary. There was
in the midst of which he was struck down, and much to applaud, more to excuse or condemn, in his -
despatched with blows from the benches of the declamation. Augustus said that his eloquence
senators used as clubs. According to Appian, his needed a drag-chain-“ Haterius poster sufflami-
destruction was caused by the intrigues of his rival nandus est”-it not only ran, but it ran down-
and namesake, No. 13. (Appian, Pun. 93, 111; hill. He had so little control over his volubility,
Oros. iv. 22. )
(E. H. B. ) that he employed a freedman to punctuate his dis-
HATERIA’NUS, the name of one of the course while speaking, and the partitions and tran-
early commentators on Virgil quoted in the sitions of his theme were regulated by this monitor.
Virgilii Maronis Interpretes Veteres, published Seneca, the philosopher (l. c. ), censures bim se
from a Verona Palimpsest, by Ang. Mai, Mediolan. verely. He began impetuously, he ceased abruptly.
1818.
(W. R. ] His manner was abhorrent from common sense,
HATE'RIUS. The name, like Adrian, Atria, good taste, and Roman usage. The evolutions of
&c. , is frequently written Aterius, but the aspirated Cicero were slow and decorous ; but the rapid
form is preferable. (Orelli, Inscr. n. 1825. ) verbiage of Haterius was suitable only to the hack-
1. HAterius, a jurist, contemporary with Cicero. nied demagogue, and excitable crowd of a Greek
[ATERIUS. )
agora. The elder Seneca frequently cites the de
2. HATERIUS was proscribed by Augustus, An- clamations of Haterius (Suas. 2, 3, 6, 7, Controv.
tony, and Lepidus, in B. C. 43, and betrayed by 6, 16, 17, 23, 27, 28, 29), but Tacitus says that
one of his slaves, who received his freedom in re his works were in his age nearly obsolete. (Ann.
compence. The sons of Haterius wished to purchase iv. 61. ) The best specimens of the rhetoric of Hate-
their father's confiscated estate, but were outbid rius are. —Sen. Suas. 6,7, and Controv. 6, Excerpt.
and insulted by his betrayer. His insolence, how- ex Controv. i. ; in the latter, Seneca praises the
ever, aroused the sympathy of the people, and the pathos of the declaimer. Haterius died at the end
triumvirs reduced him to his former servile con- of A. D. 26, in the cighty-ninth year of his age.
dition, and assigned him to the family of his late (Tac. Ann. iv. 61 ; Euseb. Chron. n. 2010, p. 157;
master. (Appian, B. C. iv. 29. )
Hieron. Ep. ad Pammach. adv. error. Joan. Hie-
3. Q. HATERIUS, a senator and rhetorician in rosol. ) His sons appear to have died before him.
the age of Augustus and Tiberius, and, in what (Sen. Excerpt. Controv. Proem. Bip. ed. p. 422. )
year is unknown, a supplementary consul. (Tac. It is worth noting, that Haterius is accused by
Ann. ii. 33. ) In the contest of mutual distrust Seneca (! . c. ) of archaisms, but those archaisms
and dissimulation between the senate and Tiberius were words or phrases from Cicero-so brief was
on his accession, A. D. 14 (Tac. Ann. i. 11-13), the meridian of Latin prose.
Haterius unguardedly asked the cautious emperor,
4. D. Haterius AGRIPPA, a son of the pre-
“ bow long he meant to suffer the commonwealth ceding. [AGRIPPA, p. 77 a. ]
a
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361
HECATAEUS.
5. Q. HATERIUS ANTONINUS, probably a son of Polymestor, who had murdered him, pretending
No. 4, was consul in A. D. 53. (Tac. Ann. xii. 58. ) that she was going to inform him of a treasure
He dissipated his patrimonial estate, and in his which was concealed at Ilium.
When Polymestor
latter years was a pensionary of Nero. (Tac. ib. arrived with his two sons, Hecabe murdered the
xiii. 34. ). He is thought by some to be the pro children, and tore out the eyes of Polymestor.
fessional legacy-hunter mentioned by Seneca (de Agamemnon pardoned her for the crime, and Poly-
Ben, vi. 30).
mestor prophesied to her that she should be mein-
6. HATERIUS Rufus, a Roman eques, who morphosed into a she-dog, and should leap into the
perished in the theatre at Syracuse by the awk. sea at a place called Cynoseina. (Strab. p 595 ;
wardness of a gladiator, and thereby fulfilled his Thuc. viii. 104. ) According to Ovid (Met. xiii.
dream of the previous night, that the Retiarius slew 423—575), this prophecy was fulfilled in Thrace,
him. (Val. Max. i. 7. & 8. ) (W. B. D. ) the inhabitants of which stoned her; but she was
HEBDOMA'GETES ('Ebdouaréons), a surmetamorphosed into a dog, and in this form she
name of Apollo, which was derived, according to howled through the country for a long time. (Comp.
some, from the fact of sacrifices being offered to Hygin. Fab. lll; Serv. ad Virg. Acn. iii. . ; Cic.
him on the scventh of every month, the seventh Tusc. iii. 26. ). According to other accounts she was
of some month being looked upon as the god's given as a slave to Odysseus, and in despair she
birthday. Others connect the name with the fact leaped into the Hellespont (Dict. Cret. v. 13), or
that at the festivals of Apollo, the procession was being anxious to die, she uttered such inrectives
led by seven boys and seven maidens. (Aeschyl. against the Greeks, that the warriors put her to
Sept. 804 ; Herod. vi. 57; Lobeck, Aglaoph. p. death, and called the place where she was buried
434. )
[L. S. ) KUVÒs oua, with reference to her impudent invec-
HEBE (°H6n), the personification of youth, is tives. (Dict. Cret. v. 16. ) Respecting her children
described as a daughter of Zeus and Hera (Apollod. by Priam, see A pollod. iii. 12. $ 5: comp. Pri-
i. 3. ♡ 1. ), and is, according to the Blind (iv. 2), AMUS, Hector, PARIS.
(L. S. ]
the minister of the gods, who fills their cups with HECAERGE ('Exaépyn), a daughter of Boreas,
nectar; she assists Hera in putting the horses to and one of the Hyperborean maidens, who were
her chariot (v. 722); and she bathes and dresses believed to have introduced the worship of Artemis
her brother Ares (v. 905). According to the in Delos. (Callim. Hymin, in Del. 292; Paus. i.
Odyssey (xi. 603; comp. Hes. Theog. 950), she 43. § 4, v. 7. § 4; Herod. iv. 35. ) The name
was married to Heracles after bis apotheosis. Hecaerge significs hitting at a distance; and it is
Later traditions, however, describe her as having not improbable that the story of the Hyperborean
become by Heracles the mother of two sons, Alex. maiden may have arisen out of an attribute of
iares and Anticetus ( Apollod. ii. 7. $ 7), and as a Artemis, who bore the surname of Hecaerge.
divinity who had it in her power to make persons (Anton. Lib. 13. ) Aphrodite had the same sur-
of an advanced age young again. (Ov. Met. ix. 400, name at Tulis in Cos. (Anton. Lib. I. ) (L. S. ]
&c. ) She was worshipped at Athens, where she HECAERGUS ('Exaépyos), a surname of
had an altar in the Cynosarges, near one of Hera Apollo, of the same meaning as Hecaerge in the
cles. (Paus. i. 19. $ 3. ) Under the name of the case of Artemis. (Hom. Il. i. 147. ) Here too
female Ganymedes (Ganymeda) or Dia, she was tradition has metamorphosed the attribute of the
worshipped in a sacred grove at Sicyon and Phlius. god into a distinct being, for Servius (ad Aen. xi.
(Paus. ij. 13. 9 3; Strab. viii. p. 382. )
532, 858) speaks of one Hacaergus as a teacher
At Rome the goddess was worshipped under the and priest of Apollo and Artemis. (L. S. ]
corresponding name of Juventas, and that at a very HECALE ('Exáun), a poor old woman, who
early time, for her chapel on the Capitol existed hospitably received into her house Theseus, when
before the temple of Jupiter was built there ; and he had gone out for the purpose of killing the
she, as well as Terminus, is said to have opposed Marathonian bull. As she had vowed to offer up
the consecration of the temple of Jupiter. (Liv. v. to Zeus a sacrifice for the safe return of the hero,
54. ) Another temple of Juventas, in the Circus and died before his return, Theseus himself or-
Maximus, was vowed by the consul M. Livius, dained that the inhabitants of the Attic tetrapolis
after the defeat of Hasdrubal, in B. C. 207, and was should offer a sacrifice to her and Zeus Hecalus, or
consecrated 16 years afterwards. (Liv. xxxvi. 36; Hecaleius. (Plut. Thes. 14; Callim. Fragm. 40,
comp. xxi. 62; Dionys, iv. 15, where a temple of Bentley ; Ov. Remed. Am. 747. ) (L. S. ]
Juventas is mentioned as early as the reign of HECAME'DE ('Exauvon), a rhaiden of Te-
Servius Tullius ; August. de Civ. Dei, iv. 23; Plin. nedos, and daughter of Arsinous. When Achilles
H. N. xxix. 4, 14, xxxv. 36, 22. ) (L. S. ] took the island, Hecamede was given to Nestor as
HE'CABE ('Exábn), or in Latin HE'CUBA, a a slave. (Hom. Il. xi. 622, xiv. 6. ) (L. S. ]
daughter of Dymas in Phrygia, and second wife of HECATAEUS ('Exataios), tyrant of Cardia, is
Priam, king of Troy. (Hom. Il. xvi. 716, xxii. first mentioned as one of the friends of Alexander
234; Apollod. iii. 12. & 5. ) Some described her the Great, and was selected by that monarch im-
as a daughter of Cisseus, or the Phrygian river- mediately after his accession (B. C. 336) to under-
god Sangarius and Metope. (Eurip. Hec. 3; take the perilous duty of putting down the threat-
Eustath. ad Hom. p. 1083. ) According to the ened revolt of Attalus in Asia. He crossed over
tragedy of Euripides, which bears her name, she to that continent with a considerable force, with
was made a slave by the Greeks on their taking which he joined the army of Parmenion ; but
Troy, and was carried by them to Chersonesus; after consulting with that general, he deemed it
and she there saw her daughter Polyxena sacrificed. inexpedient to attempt his object by open force,
On the same day the waves of the sea washed the and caused Attalus to be secretly assassinated.
body of her last son Polydorus on the coast where (Diod. xvii.
