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366 HEGELOCHUS. HEGESANDER.
(v. 19. ~ 1), and he is frequently seen in vase i. 13, iii. 2, 11; Curt. iii. 1, iv. 4, vi. 11; comp.
paintings. [L.. S.] Plut. Alex. 49; Diod. xvii. 79.) [E. E.HE'CUBA. [HECABE.] HEGE'LOCHUS ('HyAoXos), an Athenian
HE'DYLE ('H8bA1),anIambic poetess,daughter tragic actor, who incurred the ridicule of the comic
of Moschine the Athenian, and mother of HEDYLUS. poets, Plato, Strattis, Sannyrion, and Aristophanes,
She wrote a poem entitled Zs6,.A7R, from which a by his pronunciation of the line of Euripides (Orest.
passage is cited by Athenaeus (vol. vii. p. 297, 269)b.). [P. S.]'EK r yp Os yav'.
HE'DYLUS ('H8avos), the son of Melicertus,
was a native of Samos or of Athens, and an epi- The scholiasts tell us that the sudden failure of the
grammatic poet. According to Athenaeus, lie actor's voice prevented him from indicating prokilled himself for love of a certain Glaucus. His perly the synaloepha, and that thus he altered
epigrams were included in the Garland of Meleager. yaA7'v', a calm, into?yaciv, a weasel. The incident
(Prooemn. 45.) Eleven of them are in the Greek furnishes a proof that elided vowels were not comAnthology (Brunck, Anal. vol. i. p. 483, vol. ii. pletely dropped in pronunciation. (Aristoph. Ran.
p. 526; Jacobs, Anth. Craec. vol. i. p. 233), but 304; Schol. in loc.; Schol. in Eurip. Orest.
the genuineness of two of these (ix. and x.) is very 269.) [P. S.]
doubtful. Most of his epigrams are in praise of HEGE'iON ('Hy~'wv), of Thasos, was a
wine, and all of them are sportive. In some he comic poet of the old comedy at Athens, but was
describes the dedicatory offerings in the temple of more celebrated for his parodies, of which kind of
Arsinoe, among which he mentions the hydraulic poetry he was, according to Aristotle, the inventor.
organ of Ctesibius. Besides this indication of his He was nicknamed 4,aK^, on account of his fondtime, we know that he was the contemporary and ness for that kind of pulse. He lived in the time
rival of Callimachus. He lived therefore in the of the Peloponnesian war, and was contemporary
reign of Ptolemy Philadelphus, about the middle of with Cratinus when the latter was an old man, and
the third century of our era, and is to be classed with Alcibiades. His parody of the Gigantonzachlia
with the Alexandrian school of poets. (Athen. was the piece to which the Athenians were listenvii. p. 297, b., viii. p. 344, f.; Casaub. ad Athen. ing, when the news was brought to them in the
xi. p. 817; Pierson, ad Moerid. p. 413; Etym. theatre of the destruction of the expedition to
Mag. s. v. aAv'rdpXrs; Callim. Epig. xxxi. in An- Sicily, and when, in order not to betray their feelthol. Graec.; Strab. xiv. p. 683; Fabric. Bibl. ings, they remained in the theatre to the end of the
Graec. vol. iv. p. 476; Jacobs, Ant/i. Graec. vol. performance. The only comedy of his- which is
xiii. p. 899.) [P. S.] mentioned is the 4LMAV7q, of which one fragment is
HEGE'LEOS ('HyTeAws), a son of Tyrsenus. preserved by Athenaeus, who also gives some
Either he or Archondas is said to have given the amusing particulars respecting him. (Aristot. Poet.
trumpet (adx\7riy) which had been invented by 2, and Ritter's note, p. 92; Athen. i. p. 5, b.; iii.
Tyrsenus to the Dorians, when, commanded by p. 108, e.; ix. pp. 406, 407; xv. pp. 698, 699;
Temenis, they marched against Argos. Hence Meineke, Hist. Crit. Coin. Graec. pp. 214, 215;
Athena at Argos was believed to have received Fabric. Bibl. Graec. ii. p. 448.)
from him the surname of cradMrq'y?. (Paus. ii. 21. 2. An Athenian orator of the time of Demo~ 3.) [L. S.] sthenes, and one of those who were induced by the
HEGE'LOCHUS ('HyeAoXos). 1. Commander bribes of Philip to support the Macedonian party.
of the Athenian forces, which successfully protected He was capitally accused by Aristogeiton, and at
the fields of the Mantineians from the Theban and last shared the fate of Phocion. According to
Thessalian cavalry, when Epaminondas threatened Syrianus, he was one of those orators who attained
the city in B. C. 362. The name of the Athenian to eminence by practice, without having studied
commander is not mentioned by Xenophon, but is the art of rhetoric. (Dem. adv. Aristog. i. p.
supplied by Diodorus. (Xen. Hell. vii. 5. ~~ 15- 784; Pseud. Aeschin. Epist. xii.; Liban. i.
17; Diod. xv. 84; Plut. de Glor. At/a. 2.) p. 471, b.; Harpocrat. s. v.; Plut. Phocion, 33,
2. One of Alexander's officers, son of Hippo- 35.)
stratus. At the battle of the Granicus, in B. C. 3. An epic poet, who celebrated in verse the ex334, he led a body of cavalry which was sent for- ploits of the Thebans under Epaminondas in the
ward to watch the enemy's movements. In the campaign of Leuctra. (Steph. Byz. s. v.'AAsedvfollowing year Amphotorus was appointed to com- apela). Aelian quotes Hegemon,v roTs AapSavKo7s
mand the fleet in the Hellespont, and Hegelochus jespots. [P. S.]
was associated with him as general of the forces, HE'GEMON ('H7yeaov), an epigrammatic poet,
with a commission to drive the Persian garrisons one epigram of whose is in the Vatican MS. of the
from the islands in the Aegean. In this he was Greek Anthology (p. 274). Nothing more is known
fully successful, the islanders being themselves of him. (Jacobs, Anth. Graec. vol. xiii. pp. 649,
anxious to throw off the Persan yoke; and he 900.) [P. S.]
brought the news of his success to Alexander in HEGE'MONE ('Hypjuovn), that is, the leader or
B. C. 331, when the king was engaged in the foun- ruler, is the name of one of the Athenian Charites.
dation of Alexandria. In the same year he com- When the Athenian ephebi took their civic oath,
manded a troop of horse at the battle of Arbela; they invoked Hegemone. (Pollux, viii. 106; Paus.
and in the confession of Philotas, in B. C. 330, he ix. 35. ~ 1.) Hegemone occurs also as a surname
is mentioned as having died in battle. According of Artemis at Sparta, and in Arcadia. (Paus. iii.
to the statements of Philotas under the torture, on 14. ~ 6, viii. 36. ~ 7, 47. ~ 4; Callim. lIymn. in
which, however, no dependence can be placed, Dian. 227; Polvaen. viii. 52.) [L. S.]
Hegelochus, indignant at Alexander's assumption HIEGESANDER ('HyirnavSpos), aGreek writer,
of divine honours, had instigated Parmenion to and a citizen of Delphi. Besides an historical
form a plot against the king's life. (Arr. Anab. work, called "Commentaries" (i7rouv'/ua'a), which