A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology. By various writers. Ed. by William Smith. Illustrated by numerous engravings on wood.

HALESUS. TIAMILCAR. 3'25;
adas. (Thuc. v. 11.) It is probably this same as a relation of Agamemnon, after'whose death he
-Hagnon who in the Samian war, B. c. 440, led, fled to Italy, whence he is called Agamemnoniees,
with Thucydides and Phormion, a reinforcement of At;ides, or A1yolices. The town of Falerii derived
forty ships to' Pericles; and, without question, it its name from: him. (Ov. Amor. iii. 13. 31, Fast.
is he who in the second year of the Peloponnesian iv. 74; Serv. ad Vibg. Aen. vii. 695, 723; Sil.,war, B. C. 430, was on the board of generals, and Ital. viii. 476.) Another mythical personage of the:succeeding, with Cleopompus, to the command of same name is mentioned by Ovid. (Met. xii.
the force which Pericles had used on the coast of 462.) [L. S.]
-Peloponnesus, conveyed it, and with it the in- HA'LIA ('A?,ta). 1. One of the Nereides
fection of the plague to the lines of Potidaea. After (Hom. II. xviii. 42; Apollod. i. 2. ~ 6); but the
losing by its ravages 1500 out of 4000 men, Hag- plural, Haliae, is used as a name for marine nymphs
non returned. (Thuc. ii. 58.) - We hear of him in general. (Soph. Philoct. 1470; Callim. Hynin. in
again in the same quarter, as accompanying Odryses Dian. 13.)
in his great invasion. (Thuc. ii. 95.) 2. A sister of the Telchines in Rhodes, by whom
It may be a question whether or not it is the Poseidon had six sons and one daughter, Rhodos
same Hagnon again, who is named as the father of or Rhode, from whom the island of Rhodes reTheramenes. (Thuc. viii. 68.) According to Ly- ceived its name. Halia, after leaping into the sea,
sias (p. 426 Reiske), he was one of the -rpodovAXo received the name of Leucothea, and was worchosen from the elder citizens, after the news of shipped as a divine being by the Rhodians. (Diod.
the Sicilian defeat, to form a sort of executive coun- v. 55; comp. RHODos.) [L. S.]
cil. (Thuc. viii. 1.) Lysias accuses him of having HALIACMON ('AxAtaKuwv), a son of Oceanus
in this capacity paved the way for the revolution and Thetys, was a river god of Macedonia. (Hes.
of the 400. Xenophon, in the mouth of Critias Thleog. 341; Strab. vii. p. 330.) [L. S.]
(Hellen. ii. 3. ~ 30), speaks of Theramenes as HALIARTUS ('AAiapros), a son of Thersanhaving at first received respect for the sake of his der, and grandson of Sisyphus, was believed to
father Hagnon, whom he thus seems to imply was have founded the town of Haliartus in Boeotia.
a man of note. The Scholia on the Frogs of Aris- He is further- said to have been adopted with
tophanes (11. 546 and 1002) say that Hagnon only Coronus by Athamas, a brother of Sisyphus. (Paus.
adopted him, and refer in the latter place to Eu- ix. 34. ~ 5; Eustath. ad Irom. p. 268.) [L. S.]
polis for confirmation. Of the founder of Amphi- RALIME'DE ('A;AXu1~), one of the Nereides.
polis, Polyaenus relates a story. In accordance (Hes. T/leog. 255; Apollod. i. 2. ~ 6.) [L. S.]
with an oracle, he dug up from the plain of Troy HALIRRHO'THIUS ('AAXqppLOos), a son of
the bones of Rhesus, took them, and buried them Poseidon and Euryte. He attempted by violence
on the site of his new settlement. He made a to seduce Alcippe, the daughter of Ares and Agrautruce of three days with the opposing Thracians; los, but he was taken by surprise by Ares, who
and, using an equivocation parallel to that of Pa- killed him. (Apollod. iii. 14..~ 2; Eurip. Elect.
ches (Thuc. iii. 34), laboured hard at his fortifica- 1261; Pind. 01. xi. 73.) [L. S.]
tions during the three nights, and on the return of HALITHERSES ('AA0eEporIs), a son of Mastor
the enemy was strong enough to maintain himself. of Ithaca. He was a soothsayer, and during the
(Polyaen. vi. 53.) [A. H. C.] absence of Odysseus he remained behind in Ithaca
HALCY'ONE. [ALCYONE.] and assisted Telemachus against the suitors of
HALCYONEUS ('AAiKvovev's), a son of An- Penelope. (Hom. Od. ii. 157, 253, xxiv. 451.)
tigonus Gonatas, king of Macedonia. We know Another mythical personage of this name is mennothing of the time of his birth, but we find him tioned by Pausanias. (vii. 4. ~ 1.) [L. S.]
already grown up to manhood in B. C. 272, when HA'LIOS ("ALos), the name of two mythical'
Antigonus advanced into the Peloponnesus to oppose personages, one a Lycian, who was slain by Odysthe schemes of Pyrrhus, and he accompanied his seus (Hom. 1/. v. 678), and the other a son of Alfather on that expedition. During the night attack cinous and Arete. (Od. viii. 119.) [L. S.]
on Argos, by which Pyrrhus attempted to force his HALMUS ("AApuos), a son of Sisyphus, and
way into the city, Halcyoneus was dispatched by father of Chryse and Chrysogeneia. He was reAntigonus with a body of troops to oppose him, garded as the founder of the Boeotian town of
and a vehement combat took place in the streets. Halmones. (Paus. ix. 34. ~ 5, ii. 4. ~ 3.) [L. S.]
In the midst of the confusion, word was brought to HALOSYDNE ('AAoao'8v7), that is, " the seaHalcyoneus that.Pyrrhus was slain; he hastened fed," or the sea-born goddess, occurs as a surname
to the spot, and arrived just as Zopyrus had cut off of Amphitrite and Thetys. (Hom. Od. iv. 404, 11.
the head of the fallen monarch, which Halcyoneus xx. 207.) [L. S.]
carried in triumph to his father. Antigonus up- HAMADRYAS. [NYMPIHA.]braided him for his barbarity, and drove him an- HAMARTO'LUS, GEO'RGIUS. [GEORGIUs,
grily from his presence. Taught by this lesson, literary, No. 27.]
when he soon after fell in with Helenus, the soil of HAMILCAR ('Afk[Kcas and'AMLAXap, the latter
Pyrrhus, he treated him with respect, and con- form occurs in Appian only). The two last sylladucted him in safety to Antigonus. (Plut. Pyrr/h. bles of this name are considered by Gesenius (Lin —
34.) It appears from an anecdote told by Aelian guae Phoeniciae MIonaumenta, pp. 399, 407) to be( V. H. iii. 5) and Plutarch (De Consolat. 33) that the same with Melcarth, the tutelary deity of the
Halcyoneua was killed in battle during the lifetime Tyrians,called by the Greeks Hercules, and that the
of Antigonus, but on what occasion we are not in- signification of the name is " the gift of Melcarth.'
formed.- [E. H. B.] The name appears to have been one'of common
- HALE'SUS, a chief of the Auruncans and occurrence at Carthage, but,. from the absence of
Oscans. He was the son of a soothsayer, and family names, and even in most cases of' patrony:was allied with Turnus, but was slain by'Evander. mics, among the Carthaginians, it is often impi
(Virg. Aen. vii. 723, x..411, &c.) He is described possible to. discriminate or identify with certainty
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