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HIPPOSTRATUS. HIPPOTHOUS. 495
Fab. Aesop. C. Lachmannus et amnic. emend., cete- list of Pythagorean philosophers. (Vit. Pyth. c. 36.
ror. poet. cheliamb. ab A. Meinekio coll. et ermend. ~ 267.)
Berol. 1845.) Several ancient grammarians wrote 2. A writer spoken of by the scholiast on Pindar
in -Hipponax, especfally Hermippus of Smyrna. (Pyth. vi. 4) as T 7re~pl atceAhas'yeveaho)y/v.
(Schol. ad Arist. Pac. 484; Athen. vii. p. 327. (Comp. Schol. ad Olyrmp. ii. 8. 16, Nem. ii. 1;
b, c.) Schol. ad Theocrit. vi. 40.) Another work by the
Contemporary with Hipponax was another iam- same author rIepl Mtlco is quoted by Phlegon
bic poet, Ananius or Ananias. The two poets are (Mirab. c. 30). [C. P. M.]
so closely connected with one another that, of the HIPPO'TADES ('I7r'ror'd6rs), a name given to
existing fragments, it is sometimes impossible to Aeolus, the son of Hippotes. (Hom. Od. x. 2;
determine which belongs to the one and which to Ov. Met. xiv. 224; Eustath. ad Hornm. p. 1644.)
the other. [L. S.]
The invention of the choliambus is by some HIPPOTAS. [HIPPITAS.]
ascribed to Ananius. One grammarian attributes HL'PPOTES ('Ir7rrJT1s). 1. The father of
the regular Choliambus to Hipponax, and the Aeolus. (Apollon. Rhod. iv. 778; comp. HIPPoIschiorrhogic verse to Ananius (see Tyrwhitt, Dis- TADEs and AEOLUS.)
sert. de Babrio, p. 17), but no reliance can be placed 2. A son of Phy]as by a daughter of Iolaus, and
on this statement. The fragments of Ananius a great-grandson of Heracles. When the Heracleiaccompany those of Hipponax in the collections dae, on their invading Peloponnesus, wereencamped
mentioned above. (Weleker, as above cited; near Naupactus, Hippotes killed the. seer Carnus,
Miuller, Hist. of Lit. of Greece, pp. 141-143; in consequence of which the army of the HeraUlrici, Gesch. d. Hellen. Dichtkunst, vol. ii. pp. 308 cleidae began to suffer very severely, and Hippotes
-316; Bode, Gesch. d. Hellen. Dichtkunst, vol. ii. by the command of an oracle was banished for a
pt. 1, pp. 330-344.) period of ten years. (Apollod. ii. 8. ~- 3; Paus. ii.
2. A grammarian, quoted by Athenaeus (xi. 4. ~ 3, 13. ~ 3; Conon, Narrat. 26; Schol. ad
p. 480, f.) as the author of a collection of Theocrit. v. 83.) He seems to be the same as the
synonyms. [P. S.] Hippotes who was regarded as the founder of
HIPPONI'CUS. [CALLIAS AND HIPPON1CUS.] Cnidus in Caria. (Diod. v. 9, 53; Tzetz. ad LyHIPPONOIDAS ('I7rirovoatas), a Spartan cop]L. 1388.)
officer under Agis II., in the battle fought at 3. A son of Creon, who accused Medeia of the
Mantineia against the Argives and their allies, murder she had committed on his sister and his
B. C. 418. He was accused of cowardice for not father. (Diod. iv. 54. &c.; Schol. ad Eurip. Jledl.
having obeyed the orders of Agis during the battle, 20.) [L. S.]
and exiled from Sparta in consequence. (Thuc. v. HIPPO'THOE ('InrroOdrl). There are several
71, 72.) [E. H. B.] mythical personages of this name: 1. a daughter
HIPPO'NOME, the mother of Amphitryon. of Nereus and Doris (Hes. Theog. 251); 2. a
[ALCAEUS, No. 1.] daughter of Danaus (Hygin. Fab. 170.); 3. an
HIPPO'NOUS ('Ifr7ro'oos), a son of Glaucus Amazon (Hygin. Fab. 163); 4. a daughter of
and Eurymede, or of Poseidon and Eurynome Pelias and Anaxibia (Apollod. i. 9. ~ 10); 5. a
(Pind. 01. xiii. 66; Hygin. Fab. 157), and a daughter of Nestor and Lysidice, became by Pograndson of Sisyphus. He was a Corinthian hero, seidon the mother of Taphius. (Apollod. ii. 4.
and by some called Leophontes,or more commonly ~ 5.) [L. S.]
Bellerophon, Bellerophontes, or Ellerophontes, a HIPPO'THOON ('IsrroOov), an Attic hero, a
name which he is said to have received from having son of Poseidon and Alope, the daughter of Cercy on.
slain Bellerus, a distinguished Corinthian. [BELLE- He had a heroum at Athens; and one of the Attic
ROPHON.] There are, several other mythical per- phylae was called after him Hippothoontis. (Desonsages of the name of Hipponous. (Schol. ad mosth. Epitaph. p. 1389; Paus. i. 5. ~ 2, 39. ~ 3,
Pind. Nem. ix. 90; Hm;. II. xi. 303; Apollod. iii. 38. ~ 4.) [L. S.]
6. ~ 3, 12. ~ 5.) [L. S.] HIPPO'THOON ('I1r7roOo6v), a Greek traHIPPO'STHENES ('I7roaOe'r7s). Two or gedian, whose exact time is unknown, but who
three Pythagorean philosophers of this name are probably lived shortly before Alexander the Great.
mentioned. (Iamb. Vit. Pyth. 36. ~ 267; Fabric. He is several times quoted by Stobaeus, who also
Bibl. Graec. vol. i. p. 849.) The name also occurs cites a poet Hippothoiis, the identity of whom with
in Stobaeus (Floril. Tit. xxii. 25. p. 188, ed. Hippothoon is uncertain. He is sometimes erroGesner) according to the old reading, but the neously reckoned among the comic poets, as, for
better reading is'I7rmroOCwvros [HIPPOTHOiN]. example, by Fabricius. (Bibl. Gcraec. vol. ii. p.
HIPPO'STRATUS ('Ir'7rdr'paToS). 1. A bro- 451; Welcker, die Griech. Tragid. p. 1099; *Meither of Cleopatra, the last wife of Philip of Mace- neke, Hist. Crit. Com. Graec. p..525.) [P. S.]
don. (Athen. xiii. p. 557, d.) HIPPO'THOUS ('Irro'oos). 1. A son of
2. A general under Antigonus, who was ap- Cercyon, and father of Aepytus, who succeeded
pointed by him to command the army which he Agapenor as king in Arcadia, where he took up
left in Media, after the defeat and death. of Eu- his residence, not at Tegea, but at Trapezus. (Paus.
menes, B. C. 216. He was soon after attacked by viii. 5. ~ 3, 45. ~ 4; Hygin. Fab. 173.; Ov. Aet.
Meleager, and others of the revolted adherents of viii. 307.)
Pithon, but repulsed them, and suppressed the in- 2. A son of Lethus, grandson of Teutamus, and
surrection. We know not at what period he was brother of Pylaeus, led a band of Pelasgian auxilisucceeded by Nicanor, whom we find commanding aries from Larissa to the assistance of the Trojans.
in Media not long afterwards. (Diod.xix. 46,47, While engaged in dragging away the body of
92.) [E. H. B.] Patroclus, he was slain by the Telamonian Ajax.
HIPPO'STRATUS ('Isr7ro''paTos). 1. A na- (Hom. II. ii. 840, xvii. 288, &c.)
tlve of Crotona, mentioned by Iamblichus in his There are three other mythical personages of this