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

. HIPPODAMUS. HIPPOLOCtIUS. 489
Apologie des Hippocr. aend seiner IGtrundsitze went out with the colonists, and was the architect
(Leipz. 1789, 1792, 2 vols. 8vo.), contains, among of the new city. Hence he is often called a Thuother matter, a German translation of some of the rian. He afterwards built Rhodes (B. C. 408-7).
genuine treatises, with a valuable commentary. How he came to be connected with a Dorian state,
The treatise by Ermerins, De Ilippocr. Doctrina a and one so hostile to Athens, we do not know;
-Prognostice oriunda (Lugd. Bat. 1832, 4to.), de- but much light would be'thrown on this subject,
serves to be carefully studied; as also does Link's and on the whole of the life of Hippodamus, if we
dissertation, Ueber die Theorien in den Hippocra- could determine whether the scholiast on Aristotischen Schriften, nebst Bemerklungen uiber die Echt- phanes (Equit. 327) is right or wrong in identifyheit dieser Srehri/en, in the " Abhandlungen der ing him with the father of the Athenian politician
Berlin. Akadem." 1814, 1815. Gruner's Censura and opponent of Cleon, Archeptolemus. This quesLibrorurm Hiippocrateorunz qua veri a falsis, inte.gri tion is admirably discussed by Hermann (see,a suppositis segregantur, Vratislav. 1772, 8vo., con- below), but no certain conclusion can be attained.
tains a useful account of the amount of evidence in We learn from Aristotle that Hippodamus devoted
favour of each treatise of the collection, though his great attention to the political, as well as the archiconclusions are not always to be depended on. See tectural ordering of cities, and that' he wished to
also Houdart, Etudes Histor. et Crit. sur la Vie et have the character of knowing all physical science.
la Doctrine d'Hippocr. Paris, 1836, 8vo.; Petersen, This circumstance, with a considerable degree of
Hippocr. Normine quae circuntferuntur Scripta ad personal affectation, caused him to be ranlked among
Temnporis Rationes dispos. Hamburg, 1839, 4to.; the sophists, and it is very probable that much of
Meixner, Neue l'rifusng der Ecktheit und Reihefolge the wit of Aristophanes, in his Birds, is aimed at
Siimmtlicher Schriften Hippocr., Miinchen, 1836, Hippodamus. (Aristot. Polit. ii. 5, and Schneider's
1837, 8vo. [W. A. G.] note; Hesych. s. v.'I7r7roSdlAov ve'useLs; Phot. s. v.
HIPPODAMEIA ('Ir7rodsuLa). 1. A daughter'I7r7ro~d!eov v'eeose; Harpocr. s.v.'IrroSadutca;
of Oenomaus. [OENOMAUS and PELOPS.] Diod. xii. 10; Strab. xiv. p. 654; C. F. Hermann,
2. A daughter of Atrax, and wife of Peirithous. Disputatio de HIippodamo Milesio, Marburg. 1841,
[PEIRITHOUS.] 4to.) [P. S.]
3. The wife of Alcathous, and eldest daughter of HIPPOLAITIS ('IrTroXatrTLs), a surname of
Anchises, was the favourite of her parents. (Hom. Athena at Hippola in Laconia. (Paus. iii. 25.
11. xiii. 430, &c.) ~ 6.) [L. S.]
4. The real name of Briseis (the daughter of HIPPO'LOCHUS ('I7r7ro'AoXo). 1. A son of
Brises), the beloved slave of Achilles. She was Bellerophontes and Philonoe or Anticleia, and
originally married to Mynes, who was slain by father of Glaucus, the Lycian prince. (Hom. II.
Achilles at the taking of Lyrnesus. (Schol. ad Horn. vi. 197, 206; Apollod. ii. 3. ~ 2; Pind. 01. xiii.
I. i. 184; Hom; rI. ii. 689, xix. 291, &c.; 82.)'Dictys Cret. ii. 17.) 2. A son of Antimachus, was slain by Aga5. The wife of Amyntor, and mother of Phoenix. memnon. (Hom. II. xi. 145.) [L. S.]
(Eust.ad Hornm. p.762; Hom. II. ix. 450.) [L.S.] HIPPO'LOCHUS ('Il7rdAoXos). 1. One of
HIPPO'DAMAS ('I7nroSdtzas). 1. The father the thirty tyrants at Athens. (Xen. Hell. ii. 3.
of Perimela, the beloved of Achelous. [AcHErous.] ~ 2.)
2. A son of Priam, was slain by Achilles. (Hom. 2. A Thessalian, who commanded a body of
II. xx. 400; Apollod. iii. 12 ~ 5.) [L. S.] horse in the service of Ptolemy Philopator, with
HIPPO'DAMUS ('I1r7r7racos: the etymological which he deserted to Antiochus the Great, during
origin of the name is no doubt the same as that of the war in Syria, B. c. 218. He was immediately
the Homeric word ivrorapcos, which so frequently afterwards detached by Antiochus, together with
occurs as an epithet, and once as a proper name, II. Ceraeas, who had deserted about the same time, to
xi. 335; Aristophanes, however, Equit. 327, uses defend the province of Samaria. He is again
it with the a, as if it were a Doric form from'7r7ros mentioned as commanding the Greek mercenaries
and 8%iosv; but this must be by way of some joke, in the service of Antiochus at the battle of Raphia,
for we cannot suppose such an absurd compound to B. C. 217. (Polyb. v. 70, 71, 79.)
have existed as a proper name.) Hippodamus was 3. A,Thessalian, who was sent by the Larissaea most distinguished Greek architect. a native of ans, at the commencement of the war with Anti-'Miletus, and the son of Euryphon or Eurycoin. ochus (B. c. 192), to occupy Pherae with a strong
His fame rests on his construction, not of single garrison, but, being unable to reach that place, he
buildings, but of whole'cities. His first great work fell back upon Scotussa, where he and his troops
was the town of Peiraeeus, which Themistocles had were soon after compelled to surrender to Antimade a tolerably secure port for Athens, but which ochus, but were dismissed in safety. (Liv. xxxvi.
was first formed into a regularly-planned town by 9.)
Hippodamus, under the auspices of Pericles. It 4. An Aetolian, one of those sent prisoners to
has ben-'clearly shown by Muller (Attika, in Ersch Rome, at the instigation of Lyciscus, as being dis*and Giuber's Encyclopiidie, vol. vi. p. 222, and posed to favour the cause of Perseus, in preference
Dorier,l-vol. ii. p. 251, 2nd edit.) that this work to that of Rome. (Polyb. xxvii. 13.) [E. H. B.]
must be referred to the age of Pericles, not to that HIPPO'LOCHUS ('IrlrdAoxos). 1. The seof Themistocles. The change which Hippodamus cond in descent from Aesculapius, the son of Podaintroduced was the substitution of broad straight lirius and Syrne, and the father of Sostratus I.,
streets, crossing each other at right angles, for the who may be supposed to have lived in the twelfth
crooked narrow streets, with angular crossings, century B. C. (Jo. Tzetzes, Clil. vii. Hist. 155, in
which had before prevailed throughout the greater Fabr. Bibl. Graec. vol. xii. p. 680, ed. vet.)
part, if not the whole, of Greece. When the 2. The sixteenth of the family of the Asclepiadae,
Athenians founded their colony of Thurii, on the the son of Elaphus, who lived probably in the fifth.site of the ancient Sybaris (B. C. 443), Hippodamus century B. c., and was one of the chief persons in