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

370 IIEIUS.' HELENA.
foot in a species of stocks, intending to put him to priceless, Verres purchased from their reluctant
death; but Hegesistratus cut his foot off with a owner at a nominal price, borrowed without returnknife, escaped from prison, and fled to Tegea, ing, or seized without apology, until both the house
which was then at war with the Lacedaemonians. and lararium of Heius were stripped bare of every
He was hired by Mardonius, and acted as sooth- work of art, except one ancient piece, probably of
sayer for the Persians at the battle of Plataea, B. C. Pelasgian manufacture, which was neither beautiful
479; some time after which he fell again into the nor curious enough for the praetor's cabinet.
hands of the Spartans, at Zacynthus, and was put Verres had been equally unscrupulous with the
to death by them. (Herod. ix. 37.) money and property of Heius, who declared, when
3. A Samian, was among those who were sent from examined by Cicero, that so far from consenting to
Samos to Leotychides, the Spartan king, in com- the sale of his statues, no price could have induced
mand of the Greek fleet at Delos, to urge him to him to alienate them from the Heian inheritance.
come to the aid of the Ionians against the Persians. (Cic. in Verr. ii..5, iv. 2, 7, 67, v. 18.) [W. B. D.]
Leotychides accepted the name Hegesistratus HE'LARA ('EAdp-), a daughter of Orchomenus,(conductor of the army) as a good omen, and com- became by Zeus tlie mother of Tityus, but the god,
plied with the request. The result was the battle from fear of Hera, concealed her under the earth.
of Mycale, B.C. 479. (Herod. ix. 90-92.) [E. E.] (Apollod. i. 4. ~ 1; Apollon. Rhod. i. 762; Strab.
HEGE'TOR ('Hy1Twp), a surgeon, who- pro- ix. p. 423.) [L. S.]
bably lived at Alexandria at the end of the second HELEIUS (EAstos), a son of Perseus and
or the beginning of the first century B. C., as he is Andromeda, who joined Amphitryon in the war
apparently mentioned by Galen as a contemporary against the Teleboans, and received from him the
of several physicians who lived at Alexandria islands of the Taphians. (Apollod. ii. 4. ~~ 5, 7;
about that time. (De Dignose. Puls. iv. 3, vol. viii. Schol. ad Horn. II. xix. 116; Strab. viii. p. 363,
p. 955.) He certainly lived before Apollonius where he is called UEALos.) [L. S.]
Citiensis, by whom he is quoted, and one of his HE'LENA ('EA6r'q), a daughter of Zeus and
opinions controverted. (Dietz, Schol. in Hisppocr. Leda, and the sister of Polydeuces and Castor;
et Gal. vol. i. pp. 34, 35, 41.) He was one of the some traditions called her a daughter of Zeus by
followers of Herophilus, and wrote a work entitled Nemesis. (Apollod. iii. 10. ~ 6; Hygin. Fab. 77;
nepl A1TlcLv, De Causis, of which nothing remains. Schol. ad Callins. Hymn. in Dian. 232.) She was
This work has been attributed to Herophilus by of surpassing beauty, and is said to have in her
Dr. Marx (De Heroph. rita, &c. pp. 11, 58), who youth been carried off by Theseus, in conjunction
considers the word'H7yTCwp in Apollonius to be, with Peirithous to Attica. When therefore Theseus
not a proper name, but a sort of honorary title ap- was absent in Hades, Polydeuces and Castor
plied to Herophilus; but that both these suppo- (the Dioscuri) undertook an expedition to Attica.
sitions are wrong has been pointed out by a writer Athens was taken, Helena delivered, and Aethra,
in the Brit. and For. Med. Rev. vol. xv. pp. 109, the mother of Theseus, was taken prisoner, and
110. [W. A. G.] carried by the Dioscuri, as a slave of Helena, to
HE'GIAS. [HEGESIAS.] Sparta. (Hygin. Fab. 79; comp. Paus. i. 17. ~ 6,
HEIMA'RMENE (Elupapsw'v7), the personifica- 41. ~ 5, ii. 22. ~ 7.) After her return to Sparta,
tion of fate. [MOIRAE.] princely suitors appeared from all parts of Greece
HEIUS ('HeLos), the name of an ancient and (Hygin. Fab. 81; Apollod. iii. 10. ~ 8), but, after
noble family at Messana in Sicily. They were a consultation with Odysseus, who was likewise
probably hereditary clients of the Claudii. (Cic. one of them, Tyndareus, the husband of Leda,
in Verr. iv. 3; comp. c. 17.) gave her in marriage to Menelaus, who became by
1. CN. HEIUS, one of the judices in the judicium her the father of Hermione, and, according to
Albianum, B. C. 74. (Cic. pro Cluent. 38.) [CLv- others, of Nicostratus also. She was subsequently
ENTIUS.] seduced and carried off by Paris to Troy. [PARIS;
-2. HEIUS, a citizen of Lilybaeum in Sicily, and MENELAUS.] Ptolemaeus Hephaestion (4) mena ward of C. Claudius Pulcher, curule aedile in tions six other mythical personages of the same
B. C. 99. He was one of the many Sicilians whom name: 1. a daughter of Paris and Helena; 2. a
Verres, while praetor, robbed of money and works daughter of Aegisthus and Clytaemnestra; 3. a
of art. (Cic. in Verr. iv. 17.) daughter of Epidamnius; 4. a daughter of Faustulus,
~ 3. C. HEIUS, the principal citizen of Messana in the shepherd who brought up Romulus and Remus;
Sicily, and head of the deputation which Verres 5. a daughter of Tityrus; and -6. a daughter of
persuaded or compelled that city to send to Rome Micythus, the beloved of Stesichorus. [L. S.]
in B.C. 70, to give evidence in his favour, when HE'LENA, FLA'VIA JU'LIA. 1. The
impeached by Cicero. But Heius, although he mother of Constantine the Great, was unquestiondischarged his public commission, was in his own ably of low origin, perhaps the daughter of an innperson; an important witness for the prosecution. keeper, but the report chronicled by Zosimus, and
He had, indeed, been one of the principal sufferers not rejected by Orosius, that she was not joined in
from the praetor's'rapacity. Before the administra- lawful wedlock to Chlorus seems to be no less
tion of Verres Heius. was the possessor, by long destitute of foundation than the monkish legend
inheritance, of some of the rarest and most perfect which represents her father as a British or Calespecimens of Grecian art. Among them were the donian king. When her husband was elevated to
famous Eros in marble by Praxiteles; an equally the dignity of Caesar by Diocletian, in A. D. 292,
celebrated Heracles: in bronze, by Myron; Cane- he was compelled to repudiate his wife, to make
phoroe, by Polycletus; and Attalic tapestry, as way for Theodora, the step-child of Maximianus
rare and much more costly than the Gobelin tapestry Herculius: but the necessity of such a divorce is
of modern times. All these ancestral treasures of in itself a sufficient proof that the existing marriage
the Heian family, some of which being the furni- was regarded as regular and legal. Subsequently,
ture of the family-chapel, were sacred as well as when her son succeeded to the purple, Helena was