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

t36 HYLE.' HYMEN.
594. See also the introductions prefixed to the HYLEUS ('rTAes), a hunter who was killed
editions of Schefer, Muncker, and especially of by the Calydonian boar: he must not be confounded
Van Staveren, who has collected almost every with the centaur Hylaeus. (Apollod, i. 8. ~ 2.; Ov.
thing.) [W. R.] Met. viii. 312.') [L. S.]
HYLAEUS ('TAeaos), that is, the woodman, HYLLUS ("TAAos)..1. A son of Ge, from
the name of an Arcadian centaur, who was slain by whom the river Hyllus in Lydia was believed to
Atalante, when, in conjunction with Rhoetus, he have derived its name. His gigantic bones were
pursued her. (Apollod. iii. 9. ~ 2; Callim. Hynn. shown in Lydia at a very late period. (Paus. i. 35.
in Dian. 221; Aelian, V. H. xiii. 1.) According in fin.)
to Propertius (i. 1, 13) Hylaeus had also attacked 2. A son of Heracles by Deianeira, or, according
and severely wounded Meilanion, the lover of Ata- to others, by Melite or Omphale. (Apollon. Rhod.
lante. (Comp. Ov. Ars Am. ii. 191.) According iv. 543, &c.; comp. HERACLEIDAE.) [L. S.]
to some legends, Hylaeus fell in the fight against HY'MEAS ('T/czs), a son-in-law of Dareins
the Lapithae, and others again said that he was one Hystaspis, acted as a general of his against the
of the centaurs slain by Heracles. (Virg. Georg. revolted Ionians, and was one of those who deii. 457; Serv. ad Aen. viii. 294; comp. Horat. feated the rebels near Ephesus in B.c. 499. In
Carm. ii. 12, 5.) One of the dogs of Actaeon like- the following year Hymeas took the town of
wise bore the name of Hylaeus. (Ov. i/fet. iii. Cius on the Propontis, and reduced the Aeolians
213.) [L. S.] and Gergithians, in the midst of which successes he
HYLAS ("ti'Aas), a son of Theiodamas, king of was carried off by illness. (Herod. v. 102, 111,
the Dryopes, by the nymph Menodice (Apollon. 116.) [E. E.]
Rhod. i. 1213; Hygin. Fab. 14, 271; Propert. i. HYMEN or HYMENAEUS ('TutAv or'trzA20, 6 ); or, according to others, a son of Heracles, vaLos), the god of marriage, was conceived as a handEuphemus, or Ceyx. (Schol. ad Theocrit. xiii. 7; some youth, and invoked in the hymeneal or bridal
Anton. Lib. 26.) He was the favourite of Hera- song. The names originally designated the bridal
cles, who, after having killed his father, Theioda- song itself, which was subsequently personified.
mas, took him with him when he joined the The first trace of this personification occurs in E11expedition of the Argonauts. (Apollon. Rhod. ripides (Troad. 311), or perhaps in Sappho (Fraym.
i. 131; Orph. Argon. 221, &~.) When the 73, p. 80, ed. Neue). The poetical origin of the
Argonauts landed on the coast of Mysia, Hylas god Hymen or Hymenalcus is also implied in the
went out to fetch water for Heracles; but when fact of his being described as the son of Apollo and
he came to a well, his beauty' excited the love a Muse, either Calliope, Urania, or Terpsichore.
of the Naiads, who drew him down into the (Catull. lxi. 2; Nonn. Dionys. xxxiii. 67; Schol.
water, and he was never seen again. (Comp. Val. Vatic. ad Eurip. Rhes. 895, ed. Dindorf; Schol.
Flacc. iii. 545; Orph. Argon. 637, &c.; Theocrit. ad Pind. Pyth. iv. 313; Alciphron, Epist. i. 13;
xiii. 45, &c,) Heracles himself endeavoured to Tzetz. C7Uil. xiii. 599.) Hence he is mentioned
trace him, and called out his name, but in vain; along with the sons of the Muses, Linus and Ialeand the voice of Hylas was heard from the bottom mus, and with Orpheus. Others describe him only
of the well only like a faint echo, whence some as the favourite of Apollo or Thamyris, and call
say that he was actually metamorphosed into an him a son of Magnes and Calliope, or of Dionysus
echo. While Ieracles was engaged in seeking his and Aphrodite. (Suid. s. v. ~04uvpLs; Anton. Lib.
favourite, the Argonauts sailed away, leaving He- 23; Serv. ad Aen. iv. 127, ad Virg. Eclog. viii.
racles and his companion, Polyphemus, behind. 30.) The ancient traditions, instead of regarding
He threatened to ravage the country of the My- the god as a personification of the hymeneal song,
sians unless they would find out where Hylas was, speak of him as originally a mortal, respecting
either dead or alive. (Apollon. Rhod, i. 1344.) whom various legends were related. According to
Hence, says the poet, the inhabitants of Cios an Argive tradition, Hymenaeus was a youth of
(P1russ) still continue to seek for Hylas: namely, Argos, who, while sailing along the coast of Attica,
the inhabitants of Prusa celebrated an annual delivered a number of Attic maidens from the
festival to the divine youth Hylas, and on that oc- violence of some Pelasgian pirates, and was aftercasion the people of the neighbourhood roamed wards praised by them in their bridal songs, which
over the mountains calling out the name of Hylas. were called, after him, hymeneal songs. (Eustath.
It was undoubtedly this riotous ceremony that ad Hom. p. 117.) The Attic legends described
gave rise to the story about Hylas. (Theocrit. xiii. him as a youth of such delicate beauty, that he
72; Strab. p. 564.) [L. S.] might be taken for a girl. He fell in love with a
HYLAS, a famous pantomime, who acquired a maiden, who refused to listen to him; but in the
great reputation at Rome in the time of Augus- disguise of a girl he followed her to Eleusis to the
tus. He was a disciple of Pylades, the greatest festival of Demeter. He, together with the other
master in his art at the time; but Hylas showed girls, was carried off by robbers into a distant and
such talent and skill, that the Roman public desolate country. On their landing, the robbers
could not decide which of the two was the greater. laid down to sleep, and were killed by Hymenaeus,
(Suet. Aug. 45:; Macrob. Sat. ii. 7.) [L. S.] who now returned to Athens, requesting the citiHY'LATUS ("TAaros), a surname of Apollo zens to give him his beloved in marriage, if he rederived from the town of Hyle in Crete, which was stored to them the. maidens who had been carried
sacred to him. (Lycophr. 448, with Tzetzes' note; off by the robbers. His request was granted, and
Steph. Byz. s. v. TARn; Eustath. ad Hom. p. his marriage was extremely happy. Forthis reason
596.) [L. S.] he was invoked in the hymeneal songs. (Serv. ad
HYLE ("TArl), a daughter of Thespieus, from Aen. i. 655, ad Virg. Eclog. viii. 30.) According
whom the town, of Hyle in Boeotia was believed to to others he was a youth, and was killed by the
have derived its name. (Eustath. ad Horn. p. breaking down of his house on his wedding-day
267.) [L. S.] whence he was afterwards invoked in bridal sollngs