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

:376 HELIXUS. HELLANICUS.
established -in various places, as in Elis (Paus. vi. ceived it into the Peloponnesian confederacy, in the
25. ~ 5), at Apollonia (Herod. ix. 93), Hermione 21st year of the war, B. c. 411. (Thuc. viii. 80.)
(Paus. ii. 34. ~ 10), in the acropolis of Corinth (ii. Here he appears to have remained with a contin4. ~ 7; comp. ii. 1. ~ 6), near Argos (ii. 18. ~ 3), gent from Megara. We find him at the end of the
at Troezene (ii. 31. ~ 8), Megalopolis (viii. 9. ~ 2, year B. c. 408 left with Coeratados, the Boeotian,
31. ~ 4), and several other places, especially in the in command of the place, then besieged by the
island of Rhodes, where the famous colossus of Athenians, while Clearchus went out to seek reinRhodes was a representation of Helios: it was 70 forcements. The Byzantines, whose lives were
cubits in height, and, being overthrown by an being sacrificed to leave sufficient food for the garearthquake, the Rhodians were commanded by an rison, -took the opportunity of communicating with
oracle not to erect it again. (Pind. 01. vii. 54, &c.; the besiegers; and by means of a stratagem, sucStrab. xiv. p. 652; Plin. H. N. xxxiv. 7, 17.) The ceeded in admitting them. Helixus and his colsacrifices offered to Helios consisted of white rams, league were obliged to surrender as prisoners of
boars, bulls, goats, lambs, especially white horses, war. (Xen. Hell. i. 3. ~~ 17-22; comp. Diod.
and honey. (Hom. Ii. xix. 197; Eustath. ad Hom. xiii. 66, 67.) [A. H. C.]
pp. 36,1668; Hygin. Fab. 223; Paus. iii. 20. ~ 5; HELLA'DIUS ('EXAd8iov). 1. Of Alexandria,
Herod. i. 216; Strab. xi. 513.) Among the animals a grammarian in the time of Theodosius the
sacred to him, the cock is especially mentioned. younger. Photius (cod. 145) gives a brief account
(Paus. v. 25. ~ 5.) The Roman poets, when of his AetLKdv KaTd er oXecov, which embraced
speaking of the god of the sun (Sol), usually adopt chiefly prose words. The work is again quoted by
the notions of the Greeks, but the worship of Sol Photius (Cod. 158, p. 100, a. 38 ed. Bekker) under
was introduced also at Rome, especially after the the title of Tcrv Aetewv avxxooy4. Suidas calls it
Romans had become acquainted with the East, A4Xecos 7rav'rolas XpOaLs ica'a eorToxetov, and menthough traces of the worship of the sun and moon tions also the following works by Helladius:
occur at a very early period. (Varro, de Ling. Lat. 2. "EK(PparLs pLAorI-'Ias. 3. ALo'vaos 1 Mogoea.
v. 74; Dionys. ii. 50; Sext. Ruf. Reg. Urb. iv.) 4. VEKqppao's rchv Aov'Tpav Kwv'rravarlavcY. 5.
Helios was represented on the pedestal of the'E7raivos 0eoso0uov foUT Bah0AEos. It is likely,
Olympian Zeus, in the act of ascending his chariot from the titles, that some of these works were
(Paus. v. 11. ~ 3), and several statues of him are poetical.
mentioned (vi. 24. ~ 5, viii. 9. ~ 2, 31. ~ 4); he 2. Besantinoiis, Besantinus, or Bisantinus, an
was also represented riding in his chariot, drawn Egyptian grammarian, who lived at the beginning
by four horses. (Plin. H. N. xxxiv. 3, 19; comp. of the fourth century, under the emperors Licinius
Hirt, Mythol. Bilderb. i. 35.) [L. S.] and Maximinianus, and composed four books of
HE'LlUS ("HALos), a freed-man of the emperor miscellaneous extracts, under the title of 7rpaya-.
Claudius, and steward of the imperial demesnes in TriLa xp~7rTopcaOetLc, -an account of which is given
the province of Asia. He was one of Agrippina's by Photius (Cod. 279). The work is often quoted
agents in ridding herself of M. Junius Silanus, pro- in the Etymnologicum Magnum. The extracts in
consul of that province in A. D. 55. During Nero's Photius were edited, with a Latin version, by
excursion into Greece, A. D. 67-68, Helius acted Schottus, and notes by Meursius, as an appendix
as prefect of Rome and Italy. He was worthy of to the posthumous work of Meursius, De Regno
the tyrant he represented. Dion Cassius (lxiii. Laconico et Atheniensium Piraeo, Ultraj. 1686,4to,
12) says the only difference between them was reprinted in Gronovius's Thesaurus Antiq. Graec.
that the heir of the Caesars emulated the min- vol. x. 1701, fol.
strels, and the freed-man aped the heir of the 3. There is one distich in the Greek Anthology
Caesars. The borrowed majesty of Helius was under the name of Helladius. (Jonsius, Script.
equally oppressive to the senate, the equites, and Hist. Phil. i. 2, 4, p. 15; Fabric. Bibl. G'aec. vol.
the populace. He put to death Sulpicius Came- iv. p. 477, vol. vi. p. 368; vol. x. pp. 718, 772;
rinus [CAMERINUS] and his son, because they in- Brunck, Anal. vol. ii. p. 438; Jacobs,Anth. Graec.
herited the agnomen Pythicus, which Nero, since vol. iii. p. 145, vol. xiii. p. 901.)
he had sung publicly at the Pythian games, arro- 4. Bishop of Caesareia, in Cappadocia, succeeded
gated to himself. He compelled the equestrian his master, Basil the Great, in that see, A. D. 378,
order to subscribe to a statue of himself, and his and was present at the two councils of Constantiedicts of mulct, banishment, and death, were issued nople in A. D. 381 and 394. His life of St. Basil
without any reference to the emperor. The uni- is quoted by Damascenus (Orat. de Inmag. i. p. 327),
versal hatred which he incurred secured thefidelity but the genuineness of the work is doubtful.
of Helius to his master. When his urgent des- (Sozom. H. E. viii. 6; Tillemont, Mem. Eccles.
patches could not draw Nero from the spectacles vol. ix. p. 589; Cave, Hist. Lit. s. a. 378; Fabric.
and theatres of Greece, Helius precipitately quitted Bibl. Graec. vol. ix. p. 293.)
Rome, and personally remonstrated with the em- 5. Bishop of Tarsus, originally a monk, flourished
peror on allowing conspiracies to spring up on all about A. D. 431, and was remarkable for his attachsides, and in the capital itself, unchecked. After ment to Nestorius, through which he lost his
Nero's death, Helius, by the command of Galba, bishopric. He was afterwards reconciled to the
was conducted in chains through the streets of church, but he was compelled to join in the anaRome, and, with Locusta the poisoner, Patrobius, thema upon Nestorius. Six letters of his are exand other creatures of the late tyrant, put to death. tant. (Cave, Hist. Lit. s. a. 431.) [P. S.]
(Tac. Ann. xiii. 1; Suet. Ner. 23; Plut. Galb. 17; HELLANI'CUS ('EXAdavlKos). 1. Of MytiDion Cass. lxiii. 12, 18, 19, lxiv. 3.) [W. B. D.] lene in the island of Lesbos, the most eminent
HELIXUS ("EAtos)), of Megara, with a portion among the. Greek logographers. He was the son,
of the Lacedaemonian squadron, which, on its way according to some, of Andromenes or Aristomenes,
to the Hellespont, under Clearchus, was dispersed and, according to others, of Scamon (Scammon),
by a storm, made his way to Byzantium, and re- though this latter may be merely a mistake of