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

548.A ILEMUS. TAMBLICHUS.
lotheu as. Historia Religiosa, c. I; Theodofus Lector, of poetry lost its popularity, and was ridiculed by
-H. E. i. 10; Theophasies, Chronog. pp. 16, 28, ed. the comic poets. Ialemus thei became synonymous
Paris, pp. 29, 52, ed. Bonn; Niceph. Callisti, with cold and frosty poetry, and was used in this
H.E. ix. 28, xv. 22; Labbe, Concilia, l. cc.; Cave, sense proverbially. (Schol. ad Eurip. Orest. 1375,
Hist. Litt. vol. i. p. 189, ed. Oxford, 1740- ad Apollon..Rhod. iv. 1304; Zenob. iv. 39.) [L. S.]
1743; Oudin, De Scriptor.- Eccles. vol. i. col. 321,'IA'LMENUS ('IdApuEvos), a son of Ares and
322; Tillemont, AMlmoires, vol. vii. p. 260, &c.; Astyoche, and brother of Ascalaphus of the BoeoFabric. Bibl. Graec. vol. ix. p. 299; Bollandus, tian Orchomenos. (Hom. II. ii. 512, &c.) Others:Acta Sanctorum Julii, vol. iv. p. 28, &c.; Assemani, call him an Argive and a son of Lycus and Pernis
IBiblioth. Oriental. vol. i. p. 17, &c.) (Hygin. Fab. 97, 159),. and mention him among
14. PSYCHRISTUS or PSYCOCHRISTUS. [See the Argonauts (Apollod. i. 9. ~ 16) and the
~No. 1.] suitors of Helena. (Apollod. iii. 10. ~ 8; Paus.
15. SAIIENS, or the WIsE. [See No. 3.] ix. 37, in fin.) After' the destruction of Troy, he
16. SARUENsIS, or of SARUG. [See No. 3.] is said to have wandered about with the Orchome17. A SYRIAN monk, disciple of the monk Maro nians on the Pontus, and to have founded colonies
or Maron (from whom, indirectly, the Maronites on the coast of Colchis. (Strab. ix. p.'416;
of Syria derive their name), and a contemporary of Eustath. ad Horn. p. 272.) [L. S.]
the ecclesiastical historian Theodoret, who has IA'LYSUS ('IadAvros), a son of Cercaphus and
given a long account of him in his Philotheus. He Cydippe or Lysippe, and grandson of Helios. He
became so eminent for his sanctity, that the em- was a brother of Lindus and Cameirus, in conperor Leo I. Thrax, when he wished to gather junction with whom he possessed the island of
the opinions of the leading ecclesiastics as to the Rhodes, where he was regarded as the founder of
validity of the election of Timotheus Aelurus, the town of Ialysus. Pindar calls him the eldest
patriarch of Alexandria, about A. D. 460, wrote' among the three'brothers. (Olynip. vii. 74, with
to the various prelates of the Eastern church, and the Schol.; Diod. v. 57; Eustath. ad Horn. p.
to, Jacobus, Symeon Stylites, and Baradatus, all 315.) lalysus was represented as a hero in a very
three eminent ascetics, for their judgment in the famous painting by Protogenes. [L. S.]
matter. The answer of Jacobus is described IAMBE ('Idc/Aue),' a Thracian woman, daughter
by Photius as written with great simplicity of of Pan and Echo, and a slave of Metaneira, the
style, but full of the Holy Spirit: and of wisdom. wife of Hippothoon. Others call her a slave of'Jacobus and Theodoret were united by the closest Celeus. The extravagant hilarity displayed at the
-ties of friendship; and when Jacobus died, he was festivals of Demeter in Attica was traced to her;
buried in the *same tomb with his friend. The for it is said that, when Demeter, in her wanderyear of Jacobus' death is not stated: he was still ings in search of her daughter, arrived in Attica,
alive in 460, when he replied to Leo's letter; but Iambe cheered the mournful'goddess by her jokes,
as he is said not to have very long survived Theo- (Hom. Hymn. in Cer. 202; Apollod. i. 5. ~ 1;'doret, who died A. D. 457 or 458, he must have Diod. v. 4; Phot. Bibl. Cod. 239. p. 319, ed.
died soon after 460, if not.in that year. (Theo- Bekker; Schol. ad Nicand. Alexiph. 134.) She
doret, Philotheus s. Hist. Relig., c. 21; Evagr. was believed to have given the name to Iambic
H. E. ii. 9; Theodor. Lector, H. E. i. 11; Theoph. poetry; for some said that she hung herself in conC7eronog. p. 96, ed.' Paris, p. 173, ed. Bonn; Pho- sequence of the cutting speeches in which she had
tius, Bibl. Cod. 228, 229; Cave, Hist. Litt. vol. i. indulged, and others that she had cheered Demeter
p. 406, ed. Oxford, 1740; Assemani, Bibl. Orient. by a dance in the Iambic metre. (Eustath. ad
vol. i. p. 255.) Hom. p. 1684.) [L. S.]
18. ZANZALUS, [See No. 7.] IAMBLICHUS ('Id/gAXos), one of the phyOther Jacobi are mentioned in the Bibliotheca larchs, or petty princes of the Arab tribe of the'Graeca of Fabricius, vol. x. 236 (and see index to Emesenes. (Strab. xvi. p. 753.) He was the son
Fabricius); in the Bibliotheca Orientalis of Asse- of Sampsiceramlus, and is first mentioned by Cicero'mani; and in the Acta Sanctorum; but they do in a despatch, which he sent from Rome to Cilicia
not require distinct notice. The name appears to in B. c. 51, and in which he states that Iamblichus
have- been chiefly prevalent in Syria and Meso- had sent him intelligence respecting the movements
potamia, and scarcely to have extended to the of the Parthians, and he speaks of him as well
westward of those countries. [J. C. M.] -'disposed to the republic. (Cic. ad Fam. xv. 1.)
JACO'BUS, a patronus causarum at Constanti- In the war between Octavianus and Antony in B. c.
Iople, was one of the commission of sixteen, headed 31, lamblichus supported the cause of the latter; but
by Tribonian, who were employed by Justinian after Cn. Domitius had gone over to Octavianus,
(A. D. 530-533) to compile the Digest.: (Const. Antony became suspicious of treachery, and accordTanta, ~ 9.) [J. T. G.] ingly put Iamblichus to death by torture, along with
I'ADES, statuary. [SILANION.] several others. (Dion Cass. 1. 13.) It appears, moreIAEIRA, ('Iiselpa), one of the daughters of over, that Antony's suspicions had been excited
Nereus and Doris. (Hom. Ii. xviii. 42; Hygin. against Iamblichus by the charges of his own brother
Fab. Praefat.) Another person of this name occurs Alexander, who obtained the sovereignty after his
in Virg. Aen. ix. 673.' [L. S.] brother's execution, but was shortly afterwards
IA'LEMUS ('IadAe/os), a similar personification deprived of it by Octavianus, taken by the latter
to that of Linus, and hence also called a son of to Rome to grace his triumph, and then put to
Apollo and Calliope, and the inventor of the song death. - (Ibid. Ii. 2.) At a later period (B. c. 20),
Ialemus, which was'a kind of dirge, or at any rate the son of -Iamblichus, who bore the same name,
a song of a very serious and'mournful character, obtained from Augustus the restoration of his
and is only mentioned as sung on most melancholy father's dominions. (Ibid. liv. 9.)
occasions. (Aeschyl. Suppl. 106; Eurip. Here. IAMBLICHUS ('IadJUALXos). 1. A Syrian
Fur. 109, Suppl. 283.) In later times: this kind who lived in the time of-the emper6r Trajan. He.