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372 HELIADAE. HELIO.
of the country, and married Andromache, by whom Heliades. (Ov. Met. ii. 340, &c.; Apollon. Rhod.
he became the father of Cestrinus. The remaining iv. 604.) [L. S.]
part of Epeirus was given to Molossus, the son of HELI'ANAX ('HAidvaO), brother of StesiPyrrhus. (Paus. i. 11. ~ 1, &c., ii. 23. ~ 6; Virg. chorus, who, according to Suidas (s. v.), was a
Aen. iii. 295, 333.) When Aeneas in his wander- lawgiver, probably in one of the states of Siings arrived in Epeirus, he was hospitably received cily. [C. P. M.]
by Helenus, who also foretold him the future HELIAS. [ELIAS.]
events of his life. (Virg. Aen. iii. 245, 374; Ov. HELICAON ('EAlKdco), a son of Antenor,
Met. xv. 438.) According to an Argive tradition, and husband of Laodice, a daughter of Priam.
Helenus was buried at Argos. (Paus. ii. 23. ~ 5.) (Hom. 11. iii. 124; Paus. x. 26. ~ 2.) [L. S.]
A different person of the same name occurs. in the HE'LICE ('HAbcK?). ]. A daughter of Lycaon,
Iliad (v. 707). [L. S.] was beloved by Zeus, but Hera, out of jealousy,
HE'LENUS C'EevoE), son of Pyrrhus, king of metamorphosed her into a she-bear, whereupon
Epeirus, by Lanassa, daughter of Agathocles. He Zeus placed her among the stars, under the name
was very young when he accompanied his father on of the Great Northern Bear. (Serv. ad Virg. Georg.
his expedition to Italy, B. c. 280; but Pyrrhus is i. 138, 246.) When Demeter invoked her, asking
said to have conceived the project, when elated for information about her lost daughter, Helice
with his first successes in Sicily, of establishing referred her to Helios. (Ov. Fast. iv. 580.) HyHelenus there as king of the island, to which as ginus (Poet. Astr. ii. 2, 13) calls her a daughter of
grandson of Agathocles he appeared to have a sort Olenus, and says that she brought up Zeus.
of hereditary claim. (Just. xviii, 1, xxiii. 3.) But 2. A daughter of Selinus, and the wife of Ion.
the tide of fortune soon turned; and when Pyrrhus The town of Helice, in Achaia, was believed to
saw himself compelled to abandon both Sicily and have derived its name from her. (Paus. vii. 1. ~ 2;
Italy, he left Helenus at Tarentum, together with Steph. Byz. s. v.)
Milo, to command the garrison of that city, the 3. A daughter of Danaus, mentioned by Hyonly place in Italy of which he still retained pos- ginus. (Fab. 170.). [L. S.]
session. It was not long before he recalled them HE'LICON ('EAhIc4'), a native of Cyzicus, a
both from thence, in consequence of the unex- friend and disciple of Plato. He was for some
pected views that had opened to his ambition in time a resident at the court of Dionysius the
Macedonia and Greece. Helenus accompanied his Younger, and was presented by him with a talent
father on his expedition into the Peloponnese of silver for having correctly predicted an eclipse of
(B. c. 272), and after the fatal night attack on the sun. (Plut. Dion. p. 966.) According to SuiArgos, in which Pyrrhus himself perished, he fell das (s. v.), he wrote a work entitled'A7ro'eA'ho-Aarca,
into the hands of Antigonus Gonatas, who how- and a treatise Iepl ALoo'1,MueLcv. [C. P. M.]
ever behaved towards him in the most magnani- HE'LICON ('EAhKW'v), the son of Acesas, of
mous manner, treated him with the utmost dis- Salamis, in Cyprus, was a celebrated artist in
tinction, and sent him back in safety to Epeirus, weaving variegated garments and hangings. He
bearing with him the remains of his father. (Just. made the war cloak ('rLT7rp7ra1Aa) which the Rhoxxv. 3, 5; Plut. Pyrrh. 33, 34.) After this we dians presented to Alexander the Great. (Plunt.
hear no more of him. Alex. 32.) Plutarch's addition to his name of the
2. A freedman of Octavian, who enjoyed a high words roV 7rahaloe, makes it probable that he lived
place in his favour. He was taken prisoner in about the time of Phidias, under whose direction
Sardinia by Maenas, the lieutenant of Sext. we know that artists of his class (7roLrcATal)
Pompey (B. c. 40), but the latter set him at liberty wrought. (Plut. Peric. 12.) The celebrated works
without ransom, in order to curry favour with AU- of Helicon and his father are mentioned under
gustus. (Dion Cass. xlviii. 30.) According to ACESAS. (M-Uller, Archhiol. d. Kunst.~ 114, n. 1,
Appian (B. C. v. 66), he was employed as a and Nackhtrige, p. 706.) [P. S.]
general by Octavian, and had reduced Sardinia not HELICO'NIUS ('EXhKcYvos), a Byzantine
long before; but Dion Cassius represents M. Lurius writer, lived in the fourth century, and did not die
as the commander in the island at the time of its before A. D. 395, since it was down to this year
capture. [E. H. B.] that his work extended. This work was a chronicle
HE'LENUS'("EXeos), a veterinary surgeon, from Adam to Theodosius the Great, divided into
who may perhaps have lived in the fourth or fifth ten books. (Suidas, s. v.'EAIC,6v; Fabric. Bibl.
century after Christ. Of his writings only some Graec. vol. xi. p. 633.) [W. P.]
fragments remain, which are to be found in the HE'LIO or HE'LION ('HAhow), magister offiCollection of Writers on Veterinary Surgery, first ciorum, A. D. 414-417, 424-427, under Theodopublished in Latin by Joannes Ruellius, Paris, sius lI. He.is also called Patricius by Olympio1530, fol., and afterwards in Greek by Simon Gry- dorus. (Comp. Cod. Theod. 6. tit. 27. s. 20. and 7.
naeus, Basil. 1537, 4to. [W. A. I.] tit. 8. s. 14.) He was commissioned by Theodosius
HELIADAE and HELIADES ('HMh6daL and to invest with the robe of Caesar, at Thessalonica,'HXctdes), that is, the male and female descendants A. D. 424, the boy Valentinian III., then in exile
of Helios, and might accordingly be applied to all [GALLA, No. 3]; and after the overthrow and
his children, but in mythology the name is given death of the usurper Joannes, he invested Valenmore particularly to the seven sons and the one tinian at Rome, A. D. 425, with the robes and
daughter of Helios by Rhode or Rhodos. Their crown of Augustus. Helio had, before these transnames are, Cercaphus, Actis, Macareus, Tanages, actions (A. D. 422), been engaged by Theodosius,
Triopas, Phaeton, Ochimus, and Electryone. These by whom he was much esteemed, in negotiating a
names, however, as well as their number, are not peace with the Persian king Varanes. (Cod. Theod.
the same in all accounts. (Diod. v. 56, &c.; Schol. 13. tit. 3. s. 17; 6. tit. 27. ss. 17, 18, 19, 20; 7.
ad Pind. 01. vii. 131, &c.) It should be observed tit. 8. s. 14; Gothofred. Prosop. Cod. Theod.; Olym-that. the sisters of Phaeton are likewise called piod. apud Phot. Bibl. Cod. 80; Socrat. H. E. vii.