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b540 HYPERIDES; HYPSAEUS.
the battle of Crannon, in B. C. 322, when aill hopes 7; Hermog. 1. c.; Dionys. Din. 5, 6.) But his
had vanished, Hyperides fled to Aegina, where. he orations were distinguished above all by their exwas overtaken by the emissaries of Antipater, and quisite elegance and gracefulness, which were calput to death in a most cruel manner. (Plut. Phoc. culated to produce a momentary rather than a
29, Dem. 28, Vit. X. Orat. p. 849; Phot. Bibl. lasting and moral impression. In his private life,
Cod. 265.) Hyperides seems to have been less above censure
Hyperides must have appeared before the public than in his political life, for.his loose conduct was
on many occasions, both in the courts of justice and attacked by Timocles and Philetaerus, two comic
in the assembly of the people. The number of poets of the time. (Athen.'viii. pp. 34l, 342, xiii.
orations attributed to him was seventy-seven, but p. 590.) He seems also to have been particularly
even the ancient critics rejected twenty-five of them partial to the fair sex, and that at the expense of
as spurious. (Plut. p. 849, d.) The titles of sixty- his own son Glaucippus. (Alciphr. Epist. 30one (for more are not known) are enumerated by 32; comp. Westermann, Ibid. ~~ 60, 61; G. KiessWVestermann (Gesch. d. Griech. Beredtsamk. p. 307, ling, de Hyperide Orat. AtS. Comsmerntat. II., Hild&c.). The most important among them appear burghausen, 1837, 4to.; Droysen, Gescll. des Helto have'been the Ax1hAaKeds (Dem. de Coron. p. lenism. vol. i. pp. 70, 705, &c.) [L. S.]
271; Plut. pp. 840, c, 850, a), the e7radp0os (of HYPERI'ON ('Trepfiwv), a Titan, a son of
which a considerable fragment is preserved in Sto- Uranus and (e, and married to his sister Theia,
baeus, Floril. cxxiv. 36), the orations against or Euryphaessa, by whom he became the father of
Aristogeiton, Demades, Demosthenes, and for Helios, Selene, and Eos. (Hes. Thleog 134, 371,
Phryne. But of all these orations none has come &c.; Apollod. i. 1. ~ 3, 2. ~ 2.) Homer uses the
down to us, and all we have is a considerable name in a patronymic sense applied to Helios, so
number of fragments, few of which are of any that it is equivalent to Hyperionion or Hyperionlength. Some critics have supposed that the oration ides; and Homer's example is imitated also by
wrepl.rW~v rpos'AAeh'avbpov euv0lccOYv, which is other poets. (Hom. Od. i. 8, xii. 132, II. viii. 480;
printed among those of Demosthenes, is the work Hes. 77weog. 1011; Ov. Alet. xv. 406.) Apolloof Hyperides, as is suggested by Libanius in his dorus (iii. 12. ~ 5) mentions a son of Priam of the
argument to it; and the same was believed by name of Hyperion. [L. S.]
Reiske in regard to the first oration against Aris- HYPERMNESTRA ('Tlrepuv4apa), a daugh-togeiton, but there is nothing to prove that either ter of Thestius and Eurythemis, and the wife of
of these speeches is the work of Hyperides. Hopes Oicles, by whom she became the mother of Amphih;ave been raised from time to time of the possibility araus. Her tomb was shown at Argos. (Apollod.
of recovering some or all the orations of Hyperides. i. 7. ~ 10; Pans. ii. 21. ~ 2.) One of the daughters
J. A. Brassicanus (Prae. fad Salvianuen), who of Danaus was likewise called Hypermnestra.
lived at the beginning of the seventeenth century, [LYNCEUS.] [L. S.]
states that he himself saw at Ofen, in the library HYPE'ROCHE ('Tlrep6oXf), according to the
of king Mathias Corvinus, a complete copy of Hy- Delian tradition, was one of the two maidens who
perides, with numerous scholia. Taylor (Praef. ad were sent by the Hyperboreans to Delos, to convey'Demosth. vol. iii.) likewise states that he saw a thither certain sacred offerings, enclosed in stalks
MS. containing some orations of Hyperides, but of wheat. She and her companion having died in
nothing has yet been published, and it seems that Delos, were honoured by the Delians with certain
Brassicanus as well as Taylor was mistaken. As ceremonies, described by Herodotus (iv. 33therefore we have nothing to form an independent 35). [C. P. M.1]
opinion on the merits of Hyperides as an orator, HYPE'ROCHUS ('T7r~poXos), the generally
we must acquiesce in the judgment which some of acknowledged author of a metricalaccount of Cumae,
the ancients have pronounced upon him. That he mentioned by Athenaeus (xii. p. 528, d.), and Palwas regarded as a great orator is attested by the sanias (x. 12. ~ 8), who refers to what he had
fact of his speeches being incorporated in the canon written respecting the Cumaean sybil. [C. P. M.]
of the ten Attic orators, and of several distinguished HYPNOS. [SOMNUS.]
grammarians, such as Didymus of Alexandria and HYPSAEUS, a cognomen of the Plautia Gens
Aelius Harpocration, having written commentaries at Rome. 1. C. PLAUTIUS VENNO HYPSAEUS,
upon them. (Harpocrat. s. v. AevOpmos Zeu's; was consul for the first time in B.C. 347. His
Suid. s. v.'Ap7roKpa7iwv.) Hyperides did not bind year of office was memorable for the reduction of
himself to any particular model; his oratory was the interest on loans to the twenty fourth part of
graceful and powerful, thus holding the middle be- the sum borrowed, or 4 and one-sixth per cent.
tween the gracefulness of Lysias and the over- Hypsaeus was consul again in B. C. 341, when the
whelming power of Demosthenes. (Dionys. Di- war with Privernum and with the Volscian league
narch. 1; Longin. de Sublim. xxxiv. 1, &c.) His was committed to him. He defeated the Priverdelivery is said to have been wanting in liveliness. natians, and took from them two-thirds of their
(Plut. p. 850, a.) His style and diction were pure public land, and he compelled the Volscians to reAttic, though not quite free from a certain manner- treat, ravaged their territory as far as the sea-coast,
ism, especially in certain words; in the selection and consecrated the arms of the slain "Luae Maand arrangement of his words he is said to have tri." (Liv. vii. 27, viii. 1.)
been less careful. (Cic. Brut. 82, 84; Quintil. 2. L. PLAUTIUS HYPSAEUS, was praetor in
xii. 10. ~ 22; Hermog. de Form. Orat. ii. 11; B.C. 189, and obtained the Nearer Spain for his
Dionys. Dinarcd. 7; Longin. 1. c.) He treated province. (Liv. xxxvii. 47, 50.)
the subjects under discussion with great skill and 3. L. PLAUTIUS HYPSA4EUS, a son probably of
a ready wit, and, although he sometimes had the the preceding, was praetor in Sicily during the
appearance of carelessness, the exposition of his Servile War, B. C. 134-132, and routed by the
subject and the argumentation are spoken of as de- insurgent slaves. (Flor. iii. 19. ~ 7.)
serving of imitation.. (Cic. Orat. 31, de Orat. iii. 4. MI, PLAUTiUS HYPSABUS, consul in. c.