The World's Progress: a Dictionary of Dates

HEATHEN DEITIES, AND OTHER FABULOUS PERSONS,

WITH THE

HEROES AND HEROINES OF ANTIQUITY.

Ablaris, a Scythian, priest of Apollo.
Abeo'na, a goddess of voyages, &c.
Abreta'nus, a surname of Jupiter.
Albron, a very voluptuous Grecian.
Aby'la, a famous mountain in Africa.
Acantha, a nymph beloved by Apollo.
Acas'tus, the name of a famous hunter.
Ace'tus, one of the priests of Bacchus.
Acha menes, the first king of Persia.
Acha'les, a trusty friend of Æneas.
Ach'eron, a son of Titan and Terra, changed into
a river of hell for assisting the Titans in their
war against Jupiter.
Achilles, son of Peleus, king of Thrace, and
Thetis, a goddess of the sea, who, being dip-
ped by his mother in the river Styx, was in-
vulnerable in every part except his right
heel, by which she held him; after signaliz-
ing himself at the siege of Troy, for his valor,
as well as cruelty, he was at length killed by
Paris with an arrow.

Acid'alia and Arma'ta, names of Venus.
Acidallus, a famous fountain of Boeotia.
A'cis, a Sicilian shepherd, killed by Polyphemus,
because he rivalled him in the affections of

Galetea.

Ac'mon, a famous king of the Titans.
Acratus, the genius of drunkards at Athens.
Aton, a celebrated hunter, who, accidentally
discovering Diana bathing, was by her turned
into a stag, and devoured by his own hounds.
Admetus, a king of Thessaly

Adonis, the incestuous offspring of Cinyras and
Myrrha, remarkably beautiful, beloved by
Venus and Proserpine.
Adras'tea, the goddess Nemesis.
Elacus, one of the infernal judges.
E'ga, Jupiter's nurse, daughter of Olenus.
Egelus, a king of Attica, giving name to the
Ægean sea by drowning himself in it.
Egina, a particular favorite of Jupiter.
Elgis, a Gorgon, whom Pallas slew.
Egle, one of the three Hesperides.
Egon, a wrestler famous for strength.
Egyptus, son of Neptune and Lybia.
Ello, one of the three Harpies.
Enelas, son of Anchises and Venus.
Bolus, the god of the winds.

Eolus, one of the four horses of the sun.
Escula'nus, a Roman god of riches.
Esculapius, the god of physic.
Ethallides, a son of mercury.

E'thon, one of the four horses of the sun.
Et'naus, a title of Vulcan.

Eto'los, a son of Endymion aud Diana. Agamemnon, a brother of Menelaus, chosen captain-general of the Greeks at the siege of Troy.

Aganippe, daughter of the river Permessus,
which flows from mount Helicon.
Age'nor, the first king of Argos.
Agenoria, the goddess of industry.
Agelas tus and Agesilaus, names of Pluto.
Aglalia, one of the three Graces.
Ajax, one of the most distinguished princes and
héroes at the siege of Troy.
Albu'nea, a famous sybil of Tripoli.
Alci'des, a title of Hercules.
Alci'nous, a king of Corcyra.
Alci'oneus, a giant slain by Hercules.
Alci'ope, a favorite mistress of Neptune.
Alcme'na, the wife of Amphitryon.
Alec'to, one of the three Furies.
Alec'tryon, or Gallus, a favorite of Mars.
Al'mus, and Alum'nus, titles of Jupiter.
Alola, a festival of Bacchus and Ceres.
Alafus, a giant who warred with Jupiter.
Amalthe'a, the goat that suckled Jupiter.
Ambarvale, a spring sacrifice to Ceres.
Ambro'sia, the food of the gods.
Am'mon, a title of Jupiter.
Amphiara'us, son of Apollo and Hypermnestra,
a very famous augur.

Amphimeldon, one of the suitors of Penelope.
Amphilon, a famous musician.
Amphitrite, the wife of Neptune.
Amyntor, a king of Epirus.
Ana'tis, the goddess of prostitution.
Ancalus, a king of Arcadia.
Andro'geus, the son of Minos.
Andromache, the wife of Hector.
Andromeda, the daughter of Cepheus and Cas-
siope, who, contending for the prize of beauty
with the Nereides, was by them bound to a
rock and exposed to be devoured by a sea
monster; but Perseus slew the monster, and
married her.

Angelrona, the goddess of silence.

An'na, the sister of Pygmalion and Dido. Antelas, a giant son of Neptune and Terra; he was squeezed to death by Hercules. An'teros, one of the names of Cupid. Anteverta, a goddess of women in labor. An'thia, and Argilva, titles of Juno.

Anubis, an Egyptian god with a dog's head. Aon'ides, a name of the Muses. Apaturia, and Aphroditis, titles of Venus. Apis, son of Jupiter and Niobe, called also, Serapis, and Osiris: he first taught the Egyptians to sow corn and plant vines; after his death they worshipped him in the form of an ox, a symbol of husbandry. Arach'ne, a Lydian princess, turned by Minerva into a spider, for presuming to vie with her at spinning.

Arethu'sa, the daughter of Nereus. Argentinus, and Escula'nus, gods of wealth. Arigo, the ship that conveyed Jason and his companions to Colchis, and reported to have been the first man-of-war.

Argonauts, the companions of Jason. Arguson of Aristor, said to have had a hundred eyes; also an architect, who built the ship Argo.

Ariadne, daughter of Minos, who, from love, gave Theseus a clue of thread to guide him out of the Cretan labyrinth: being afterwards deserted by him, she was married to Bacchus, and made his priestess.

Arimas'pi, a warlike people of Scythia.
Arion, a lyric poet of Methymna.
Aristalus, son of Apollo and Cyrene.

Aristomenes, a cruel Titan.

Bellerophon, son of Glaucus, king of Ephyra, who underwent numberless hardships for refusing an intimacy with Sthenoboa, the wife of Protus, king of Argos. Bello'na, the goddess of war.

Berecynthia Malter, a title of Cybele. Berenice, a Grecian lady, who was the only person of her sex permitted to see the Olym pic games.

Berigion, a giant, slain by Jupiter.
Biblia, the wife of Duillius, who first instituted
a triumph for naval victory.
Biceps, and Bifrons, names of Janus.
Bisultor, a name of Mars.

Bilthon, a remarkably strong Grecian.
Boli'na, a nymph rendered immortal for her
modesty and resistance of Apollo.
Bolna Dela, a title of Cybele, and Fortuna.
Bonus Dalmon, a title of Priapus.
Bo'reas, son of Estræus and Heribeia, generally
put for the north wind.
Brelvis, a title of Fortuna.

Brilareus, a monstrous giant, son of Titan and Terra: the poets feign him to have had a hundred arms and fifty heads.

Brimo, and Bulbastis, names of Hecate. Briselis, daughter of Brises, priest of Jupiter,

given to Achilles upon the taking of Lyr nessus, a city of Troas, by the Greeks. Bron'tes, a maker of Jupiter's thunder. Bro'theus, a son of Vulcan, who threw himself into mount Etna, on account of his deformity.

Brumallia, feasts of Bacchus.

Bubolna, the goddess of oxen.

Aristophanes, a comic poet, born at Lindus, a Busi'ris, a son of Neptune, and a most cruel

town of Rhodes.

Asty'anar, the only son of Hector.

Astypalala, daughter of Phoenix.
Afte, the goddess of revenge.

Atlantes, a savage people of Ethiopia.
Atlas, a king of Mauritania.
Atropos, one of the three Fates.
Avernus, a lake on the borders of hell.
Averrunclus, a god of the Romans.
Auge'as, a king of Elis, whose stable of 3000
oxen was not cleansed for 30 years, yet Her-
cules cleansed it in one day.
A'vistuper, a title of Priapus.
Aurea, a name of Fortuna.
Auro'ra, the goddess of morning.
Auto'leon, a general of the Crotonians.
Autumnus, the god of fruits.

Bac'chus, the god of wine.

Bap'ta, the goddess of shame.

Barbata, a title of Venus and Fortuna.
Bas'sareus, a title of Bacchus.

Baltus, a herdsman, turned by Mercury into a loadstone.

Bau'cis, an old woman, who, with her husband Philemon, entertained Jupiter and Mercury, travelling over Phrygia, when all others refused.

tyrant; he was slain by Hercules. Byblis, the daughter of Miletus.

Cabar'ni, priests of Ceres.

Cabi'ri, priests of Cybele.
Calbrus, a god of the Phaselitæ.

Calcus, a son of Vulcan.

Cad'mus, son of Agenor and Telephessa, who, searching in vain for his sister, built the city

of Thebes, and invented 16 letters of the Greek alphabet.

Caduceus, Mercury's golden rod or wand. Calca, and Conserva'trix, titles of Fortuna. Caculus, a robber, son of Vulcan. Calneas, a title of Jupiter."Cal'chas, a famous Greek soothsayer. Calis'to, the daughter of Lycaon. Calli'ope, the muse of heroic poetry. Calypso, daughter of Oceanus and Thetis, who reigned in the island of Ogygia, where she entertained and became enamored of Ulysses, on his return from Troy.

Cam'bles, a gluttonous king of Lydia.

Camby'ses, the son of Cyrus, and king of the
Medes and Persians.

Cama'na, and Carna, goddess of infants.
Calnes, a title of the Furies.
Canopus, an Egyptian god.
Car'dua, a household goddess.
Carmenita, a name of Themis.
Car'na, a Roman goddess.
Carya'tis, a title of Diana.

Caslpii, a people of Hyrcania, who were said to starve their parents to death when 70 years old, and to train up dogs for war.

Cassandra, a daughter of Priam and Hecuba,

endowed with the gift of prophecy by Apollo. Castallides, the Muses, from the fountain Castalius, at the foot of Parnassus. Castor, son of Jupiter and Leda, between whom and his brother Pollux immortality was alternately shared.

Ca'tius, a tutelar god to grown persons.
Celcrops, the first king of Athens.
Cela'no, one of the three Harpies.

Centaurs, children of Ixion, half men, half horses, inhabiting Thessaly,

Cephalus, the son of Mercury and Hersa.
Cepheus, a prince of Arcadia and Ethiopia.
Cerau'nius, a title of Jupiter.

Cerberus, a dog with three heads and necks, who guarded the gates of hell.

Cereallia, festivals in honor of Ceres.
Ce'res, the goddess of agriculture.

Cerus, or Serus, the god of opportunity.

Chalcea, festivals in honor of Vulcan.

Charlites, a name of the Graces.

Cha'ron, the ferryman of hell.

Dædallion, the son of Lucifer.

Dæd'alus, an artificer of Athens, who formed the Cretan labyrinth, and invented the auger, axe, glue, plumb-line, saw, and masts and sails for ships.

Da'mon, the sincere friend of Pythias.~ Dalmon, Bonus, Dithyrambus, and Dionys ius, titles of Bacchus.

Da'nae, the daughter of Acrisius, king of Argos, seduced by Jupiter in the form of a goidea shower.

Dana'ides, or Bellides, the fifty daughters of Danaus, king of Argos, all of whom, except Hypermnestra, killed their husbands, the sous of their uncle Ægyptus, on the marriage night they were therefore condemned to draw water out of a deep well with sieves, so that their labor was without end or suc cess.

Daph'ne, a nymph beloved by Apollo.
Darda'nus, the founder of Troy.

Chimera, a strange monster of Lycia, which Da'res, a very ancient historian who Wrote an

was killed by Bellerophon.

Chitron, the preceptor of Achilles.

Chromis, a cruel son of Hercules.

Chrysaorius, a surname of Jupiter.

Chry'sis, a priestess of Juno and Argos.

Circe, a famous enchantress.

Cirrha, a cavern of Phocis, near Delphi, whence the winds issued which caused a divine rage, and produced oracular responses.

Citharides, a title of the Muses.

Clau'sina, a name of Venus.

Claw'sius, or Clu'sius, a name of Janus.

Cleo medes, a famous wrestler.

account of the Trojan war. Dela Syria, a title of Venus. Decima, a title of Lachesis. Deian'ira, the wife of Hercules.

Deida'mia, a daughter of Lycomedes, king of Scyros, by whom Achilles had Pyrrhus, while he lay concealed in woman's apparel in the court of Lycomedes, to avoid going to the Trojan war.

Deiapela, a beautiful attendant on Juno.
Deiphlobe, the Cumean sybil.

Deiph'obus, a son of Priam and Hecuba.
Delia, Delius, Diana and Apollo.

Cli'o, the Muse presiding over history, and pa- Dellas, the island where Apollo was born.

troness of heroic poets.

Clotho, one of the three Fates.
Clytemnestra, daughter of Jupiter and Leda,
killed by her son, Orestes, on account of her
adultery with Ægisthus.

Cocy'tus, a river of hell, flowing from Styx.
Colli'na, the goddess of hills.

Compitalia, games of the household gods.
Colmus, the god of festivals and merriment.
Concordia, the goddess of peace.

Conservator, and Custos, titles of Jupiter.
Con'sus, a title of Neptune.

Cortina, the covering of Apollo's tripos.
Corybantes, and Cure'tes, riests of bele.
Creon, a king of Thebes."

Crinis, a priest of Apollo.

Crinis'sus, a Trojan prince, who could change himself into any shape.

Cra'sus, a rich king of Lydia.
Cro'nia, festivals in honor of Saturn.
Cles'ibus, a famous Athenian parasite.
Cu'nia, the goddess of new-born infants.

Cupid, son of Mars and Venus, the god of love, smiles, &c.

Cyclops, Vulcan's workmen, with only one eye in the middle of their forehead.

Cybele, the wife of Saturn.

Delphi, a city of Phocis, famous for a temple and an oracle of Apollo.

Delphicus, Didymalus, titles of Apollo.
Dem'ades, an Athenian orator.

Der bices, a people near the Caspian Sea, who punished all crimes with death.

Deucalion, son of Prometheus, and king of Thes saly, who, with his wife Pyrrha, was preserved from the general deluge, and re-peopled the world.

Dever'ra, the goddess of breeding women. Diag'oras, a Rhodian, who died for joy, because his three sons had on the same day gained prizes at the Olympic games. Diana, the goddess of hunting, &t. — Dildo, daughter of Belus, the founder and queen

of Carthage, whom Virgil fables to have burnt herself through despair, because Æneas left her.

Diles, and Dies'piter, titles of Jupiter. Din'dyme, Dindymene, titles of Cybele. Diomedes, a king of Etolia, who gained great reputation at Troy, and, accompanied by Ulysses, carried off the Palladium; also, a tyrant of Thrace.

Dilone, one of Jupiter's mistresses.
Dionysia, feasts in honor of Bacchus.

Cycnus, a king of Liguria; also a son of Nep-Dioscu'ri, a title of Castor and Pollux.

tune, who was invulnerable.

Cylle'nius, and Camillus, names of Mercury. Cynoceph'ah, a people of India, said to have heads resembling those of dogs.

Cynthia, and Cynthius, Diana, and Apollo.
Cyparissala, a title of Minerva.
Cypria, Cythere a, titles of Venus.

Di'ra, a title of the Furies.
Dis, a title of Pluto.

Discordia, the goddess of contention.
Domidulca, a title of Juno.

Domidu'cus, and Domitius, nuptial gods.
Dom'ina, a title of Proserpine.

Dry'ades, nymphs of the woods and forests.

Echion, a companion of Cadmus.

Februa, Florida, Fluo'nia, titles of Juno.
Februa, a goddess of purification.
Feb'ruus, a title of Pluto.

Eelho, daughter of Aer and Tellus, who pined Felicitas, the goddess of happiness.

away for love of Narcissus.

Edonides, priestesses of Bacchus.
Edu'ca, a goddess of new born infants.
Egeria, a title of Juno; also a goddess.
Electra, the daughter of Agamemnon and Cly.
temnestra, who instigated Orestes to revenge
their father's death on their mother and her
adulterer Ægisthus.

Eleus, and Eleuthe rise, titles of Bacchus.
Eleusin'ia, feasts in honor of Ceres and Proser-
pine.

Eloides, nymphs of Bacchus.

Empulse, a name of the Gorgons.

Endymion, a shepherd of Caria, who, for inso-
lently soliciting Juno, was condemned to a
sleep of 30 years; Luna visited him by night
in a cave of mount Latmus.

Enialius, a title of Mars.
Eniyo, the same as Bellona.
Epe'us, the artist of the Trojan horse.
Epig'ones, the sons of the seven worthies who
besieged Thebes, a second time.
Epila'nea, sacrifices to Bacchus.
Epistrophia, and Erycina, titles of Venus.
Epizeph'rii, a people of Locris, who punished
those with death that drank more wine than
physicians prescribed.
Era'to, the muse of love-poetry.
Erebus, an infernal deity, son of Chaos and Nox;
a river of hell.

Erleane, a river whose waters inebriated
Eriothonius, a king of Athens, who, being lame

and very deformed in his feet, invented
coaches to conceal his lameness.
Erin'nys, a common name of the furies.
E'ros, one of the names of Cupid.
Eros'tratus, the person who, to perpetuate his
name, set fire to the celebrated temple of
Diana at Ephesus.

Etelocles, and Poly'nices, sons of Edipus, who

violently hated, and at last killed each other.
Evadine, daughter of Mars and Thebe, who
threw herself on the funeral pile of her hus-
band Cataneus, from affection.
Eucrates, a person remarkable fo shuffling, du-
plicity, and dissimulation.
Eumenides, a nan.e a the Furies.
Euphroslyne, one of the three Graces.
Europa, the daughter of Agenor, who, it is said,
was carried by Jupiter, in the form of a white
bull, into Crete.

Eury'ale, one of the three Gorgons.
Eurydice, the wife of Orpheus.
Eurym'one, an infernal deity.

Euterpe, the muse presiding over music.
Euthymus, a very famous wrestler.

Fer'culus, a household god.

Fere'trius, and Fulmina'tor, titles of Jupiter.
Feronia, a goddess of woods.
Fesso'nio, a goddess of wearied persons.
Fid'ius, the god of treaties.
Flam'ines, priests of Jupiter, Mars, &c.
Flo'ra, the goddess of flowers.
Furiales, or Potamides, nymphs of rivers.
Fornar, the goddess of corn and bakers.
Fortuna, or Fortune, the goddess of happiness,
&c., said to be blind.

Fulries, or Eumenides, the three daughters of
Nox and Acheron, named Alecto, Megara,
and Tisiphone, with hair composed of snakes,
and armed with whips, chains, &c.

Galate'a, daughter of Nereus and Doris, passion-
ately beloved by Polyphemus.

Gallii, castrated priests of Cybele.
Gallus, or Alec'trion, a favorite of Mars, and
changed by him into a cock.
Gamellia, a title of Juno.

Gan'ges, a famous fiver of India.
Ganymede, the cup-bearer of Jupiter.
Gelasinus, the god of mirth and smiles.
Gelo'ni, a people of Scythia, who used to paint
themselves in order to appear more terrible
to their enemies.
Gelnii, guardian angels.
Genius, a name of Priapus.

Gerlyon, a king of Spain, who fed his oxen with
human flesh, and was therefore killed by
Hercules.

Glauco'pis, a name of Minerva.
Glau'cus, a fisherman made a sea god by eating
a certain herb: also the son of Hippolochus,
who exchanged his arms of gold for the bra
zen ones of Diomede.

Gnos'sis, a name of Ariadne.
Gor'dius, a husbandman, but afterwards king of
Phrygia, remarkable for tying a knot of cords
on which the empire of Asia depended, in so
very intricate a manner, that Alexander the
Great, unable to unravel it, cut it to pieces.
Gorgons, the three daughters of Phorcys and
Ceta, Medusa, Euryale, and Stheno, who
could change into stone those whom they
looked on; Perseus slew Medusa, the prin-
cipal of them.

Gorgoph'orus, a title of Pallas.

Graces, Aglaia, Thalia, and Euphrosyne, the
daughters of Jupiter and Eurynomb; atten-
dants on Venus and the Muses.
Gradi'vus, a title of Mars.

Gylges, a Lydian, to whom Candaules, king of
Lydia, showed his queen naked, which so
incensed her that she slew Candaules, and
married Gyges; also a shepherd, who by
means of a ring could render himself invi-
sible.

Harmonis, a famous artist of Troy.
Harpallyca, a very beautiful maid of Argos.
Harpies, three monsters, Aello, Celano, and.
Ocypete, with the faces of virgins, bodies of
vultures, and hands armed with monstrous

claws.

Harpocrates, the Egyptian god of silence.
Helbe, the goddess of youth.

He brus, a river in Thrace.

He calius, a title given to Jupiter by Theseus.
Hec'ate, Diana's name in hell.

Hector, a son of Priam and Hecuba, and the

most valiant of all the Trojans.

Hecuba, the wife of Priam.

Hegelsius, a philosopher of Cyrene, who de

Hy'dra, a serpent, which had seven heads, or as
some say nine, others fifty, killed by Hereu-
les in the lake Lerna.
Hygelia, the goddess of health.
Hyllus, the son of Hercules and Dejanire.
Hy'men, the god of marriage,

Hyperion, a son of Cœlus and Terra.
Hypsip'yle, a queen of Lemnos, who was ban
ished for preserving her father when all the
other men of the island were murdered by
their kindred.

scribed the miseries of life with such a lac'chus, a name of Bacchus. gloomy eloquence, that many of his auditors Ian'the, the beautiful wife of Iphis. Killed themselves through despair. Helena, the wife of Menelaus, the most beautiful woman in the world, who, running away with Paris, occasioned the Trojan war. Hellenus, a son of Priam and Hecuba. Helicon, a famous mountain of Boeotia, dedicated to Apollo and the Muses. Hera'ia, sacrifices to Juno.

Hercules, the son of Jupiter and Alcmena, re-
markable for his numerous exploits and
dangerous enterprises.

Heribe'ia, the wife of Astreus.
Her'ma, statutes of Mercury.
Hermes, a name of Mercury.
Hermione, a daughter of Mars and Venus, mar-
ried to Cadmus; also a daughter of Mene.
laus and Helena, married to Pyrrhus.
Hero, a beautiful woman of Sestos, in Thrace,
priestess of Venus; Leander, of Abydos,
loved her so tenderly that he swam over the
Hellespont every night to see her; but being
at length unfortunately drowned, she threw
herself into the sea, through despair.
Herodotus, a very famous historian of Halicar-
Herophila, the Erythræan sybil.
Hersilia, the wife of Romulus,
Hesperus, or Vesper, the evening star.
Hesperides, the daughters of Hesperus; Egle,
Arethusa, and Hesperethusa, who had a gar-
den bearing golden apples, watched by a
dragon, which Hercules slew, and bore away
the fruit.

nassus.

He'sus, a name of Mars among the Gauls.
Hippias, a philosopher of Elis.
Hippocampi, Neptune's horses.
Hippocrene, a fountain at the bottom of mount
Helicon, dedicated to Apollo.

Hippolytus, the son of Theseus and Antiope or
Hyppolite, who refused intimacies with his
stepmother Phædro. At the request of
Diana, Esculapius restored him to life,
after he had been thrown from his chariot,
and dragged through the woods till he was
torn in pieces.

Hippo'na, the goddess of horses and stables.
Historia, the goddess of history.
Horten'sis, a name of Venus.
Ho'rus, a title of the sun.
Hostilina, a goddess of corn.
Hy'ades, the seven daughters of Atlas and

Ethra; Ambrosia, Eudora, Coronis, Pasithoe, Plexaris, Pytho, and Tyche. They were changed by Jupiter into seven stars. Hybla, a mountain in Sicily, universally famous for its thyme and bees.

lape'tus, a son of Colem and Terra.
Iarbas, a cruel king of Mauritania.
Ica'rius, the son of Oebalus, who, having re-
ceived from Bacchus a bottle of wine, went
into Attica, to show men the use of it; but,
making some shepherds drunk, they thought
he had given them poison, and therefore
threw him into a well.

Ica'rus, the son of Daedalus, who, flying with his
father out of Crete into Sicily, and soaring
too high, melted the wax of his wings, and
fell into the sea, thence called the Icarian

sea.

F'da, a mountain near Troy.
Ida'a Mater, a name of Cybele.
Ida'i Dact'yli, a priest of Cybele.
Idalia, a name of Venus.
Id'mon, a famous soothsayer.
Ido'thea, Jupiter's nurse.
Ili'one, the eldest daughter of Priam.
llis'sus, a river in Attica.

I'lus, the son of Tros and Callirrhoe, from whom
Troy was called Ilium.
Imperator, a name of Jupiter.
Infachis and I'ses, names of lo.
Ino, daughter of Cadmus and Hermiones, and
wife of Athamas.

Intercido'na, a goddess of breeding women.
Interdu'ca, and Juga, names of Juno.
Inuus, and Inc'ubus, names of Pan.
lo, daughter of Inachus, transformed by Jupi
ter into a white heifer; but afterwards re-
suming her former shape, was worshipped
as a goddess by the Egyptians, under the
name of Isis.

Iph'iclus, the twin brother of Hercules.
Iphigenia, daughter of Agamemnon and Cly."

temnestra, who, standing as a victim ready
to be sacrificed to appease the rage of Diana,
was, by that goddess, transformed into a
white hart, carried to Tauris, and made her
priestess.

Iphis, a prince of Cyprus, who hanged himself
for love; also a daughter of Lygdas.
Iph'itus, son of Praxonides, who instituted
Olympic games to Hercules.

Pris, the daughter of Thaumas; she was Juno's
favorite companion, and her messenger on
affairs of discord, &c.

tys, the son of Tereus and Progne, murdered and served up by his mother at a banquet before Tereus, in revenge for his having vio lated her sister Philomela.

Irilon, the son of Phlegyas, who was fastened in hell to a wheel perpetually turning round, for boasting that he had lain with Juno.

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