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

HECABE. HECATAEUS. 361
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 Polymlestor
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 PolyBen. vi. 30). mestor prophesied to her that she should be meta6. 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 Cynosema. (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.j the inhabitants of which stoned her; but she was
HEBIDOMA'GETES (c'E~opaye7ls), a sur- metamorphosed 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. 111; Serv. ad Virg. Aen. iii. 6; Cic.
him on the seventh of every month, the seventh Tuse. 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 invectives
led by seven boys and seven maidens. (Aeschyl. against the Greeks, that the warriors put her to
Sept. 804; Herod. vi. 57; Lobeck, Aqlaoph. p. death, and called the place where she was buried
434.) [L. S.] tKvJds ajlia, with reference to her impudent invecHEBE ("HCev), 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 Apollod. iii. 12. ~ 5: comp. PRIi. 3. ~ 1.), and is, according to the Iliad (iv. 2), AMUS, HECTOR, PARIS. [L. S.]
the minister of the gods, who fills their cups with HECAERGE ('Eicaep77), 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. Hymn. in Del. 292; Paus. i.
Odyssey (xi. 603; comp. Hes. Tkeog. 950), she 43. ~ 4, v. 7. ~ 4; Herod. iv. 35.) The name
was married to. Heracles after his apotheosis. Hecaerge signifies 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 surof an advanced age young again. (Ov. Met. ix. 400, name at Iulis in Cos. (Anton. Lib. 1.) [L. S.]
&c.) She was worshipped at Athens, where she HECAERGUS ('EtKaepyos),: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. II. 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. ii. 13. ~ 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 HE'CALE ('EKdA1), 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 orMaximus, 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. Tlzes. 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 ('EcKa/u7'1), a maiden of TeServius 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 ('EcKd~a), or in Latin HE'CUBA, a a slave. (Hom. It. xi. 622, xiv. 6.) [L. S.]
daughter of Dymas in Phrygia, and second wife of - HECATAEUS ('EKcaa7aos), tyrant of Cardia, is
Priam, king of Troy. (Hom. n. 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 imas a daughter of Cisseus, or the Phrygian river- mediately after his accession (B. C. 336) to undergod Sangarius and Metope. (Eurip. Hec. 3; take the perilous duty of putting down the threatEustath. 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. 2, 5; comp. Curt. vii. 1. ~ 3.) As we
stood the tents in which the captive women were find no mention of Hecataeus during- the operations
kept. Hecabe recognised the body, and sent for of Alexander in Asia, it must be presumed that