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

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and also on the Analytica of Aristotle.' (Comp. JANNAEUS, ALEXANDER.' [ALEXANFabric. Bibl. Graec. vol. viii. p. 758, &c.; G. E. DER, p. 117.]
Hebenstreit, Dissertatio de lamblicho, philos. Syr, JANOPU'LUS, or JUNOPU'LUS, JOANLipsiae, 1764, 4to.) NES, the name given by Fabricius to a jurist of
3. A later Neo-Platonic philosopher of Apameia, the later Byzantine period. In the title to one of
who was a contemporary of the emperor Julian and his pieces, given in the Jus Graeco-Romanum of
Libanius. He has often been confounded with the Leunclavius, he is called JOANNES, the son of Joother [No. 2], but the time at which he lived, and NOPULUS, and from his office CHARTOPHYLAX.
his intimacy with Julian, clearly show that he be- ('Iwcdvvr1s xap'ooqAea6 o TroO'Icov'orov.) Falongs to a later date. The emperor, where he speaks bricius in one place gives A. D. 1370 as the date at.of him, bestows extravagant praise upon him. which lie flourished; but says in another place
(Libanius, Epist. p. 509, ed. Wolf; Julian, Epist. that he flourished before Harmenopulus, who is
34, 40; Fabric. Bibl. Graec. vol. v. p. 761. There placed by some in the twelfth century, by others
was an Iamblichus, a physician at Constantinople, in the fourteenth. [HARMENOPULUS.] The folmentioned in an epigram of Leontius, in the Greek lowing pieces are said to be by Janopulus:-1.
Anthology. [L. S.] rILT'rdKLov IIaSpTLapXLKCd, Breve Patriarchale, conIAMBU'LUS ('Id/govAos), a Greek author, cerning a man who had married his mother's second
who is known for having written a work on the cousin. It is inserted in the Jus Gr. Rom. of
strange forms and figures of the inhabitants of Leunclavius (lib. iv. p. 291), and in the heading
India. (Tzetz. Chil. vii. 144.) Diodorus Siculus or preamble is ascribed to our author, whose name
(ii. 55, &c.), who seems only to have transcribed is given as above. 2. An exposition of ecclesiastiIambulus in his description of the Indians, relates cal law, rlepi.ydtov'Tov^ BaeOlov, De Nuptiis
that the latter was made a slave by the Ethiopians, Septimi Gradus. This piece is inserted in the same
and sent by them to a happy island in the eastern collection as the foregoing (lib. iii. p. 204), but
seas, where he acquired his knowledge. The whole does not bear the name of Janopulus: it is asaccount, however, has the appearance of a mere cribed to him by Bandini. Nicolaus Comnenus
fiction; and the description which Iambulus gave Papadopoli in his Praenotiones Mystagogiae, an
of the east, which he had probably never seen, con- authority of but little weight, cites the following as
sisted of nothing but fabulous absurdities. (Lucian, works of Janopulus: - 3. Esplicatio Canonum
Verae Hist. 3; comp. Osann, Beitriige zur Griech. Poenitentialium Gregorii Thaumaturgi. 4. Respon-:s. Rum. Lit. Gesch. vol. i. p. 288, &c.) [L. S.] sum duodecimum ad Catholicos Iberiae. 5. SugIA'MENUS ('Ii4uevos), a Trojan who, together |gestio ad D. Patriarchum de Testimonio Crlericorum.
with Asius, was slain by Leonteus during the (Leunclav. Jus Gr. Rom. 11. cc.; Fabric. Bibl. Gr.
attack of the Trojans on the camp of the Greeks. vol. xi. p. 643, xii. p. 208.) [J. C. M.]
(Hom. Il. xii. 139, 193.) [L. S.] IANTHE ('IdavOi). 1. A daughter of Oceanus
IAMIDAE. [IAxMus.] and Tethys, and one of the playmates of PerIAMUS ("Icaos), a son of Apollo and Evadne, sephone. (Hom. Hymn. in Cer. 418; Hes. Tizeog,
was initiated in the art of prophecy by his father, 349; Paus. iv. 30. ~ 3.)
and was regarded as the ancestor of the famous 2. A daughter of Telestes of Crete, and the
family of seers, the Iamidae at Olympia. (Paus. vi. beloved of Iphis. (Ov. Met. ix. 714, &c.; comp.
2. ~ 3; Pind. 0O. vi. 43; Cic. De Divin. i. 41.) IPHI-s.) [L. S.]
His story is related by Pindar thus: Pitana, the JANUA'RIUTS NEPOTIA'NUS. [VALERIUS
mother of Evadne, sent her newly-born child to MAXIMUS.]
the Arcadian Aepytus at' Phaesana on the Al- JANUS and JANA, a pair of ancient Latin
pheius. There Evadne became by Apollo the divinities, who were worshipped as the sun and
mother of a boy, who, when his mother for shame moon, whence they were regarded as the highest of
deserted him, was fed with honey by two serpents. the gods, and received their sacrifices before all the
As he was found lying amid violets, he was called others. (Macrob. Sat. i. 9; Cic. de Nat. Deor. ii.
by his mother Iamus. Aepytus, who consulted 27.) The name Janus is only another form of
the Delphic oracle about, the child, received for Dianus, and Jana of Diana; but the ancients conanswer, that the boy would be a celebrated pro- nected it also with janua (door), for it was also
phet, and the ancestor of a great.family of prophets. applied to a covered passage with two entrances,
When Iamus had grown up, he descended by as the Janus medius in the forum. (Heindorf, ad
night into the waters of the river Alpheius, and Horat. Sat. ii. 3. 18.) The fact of Jana being
invoked Poseidon and Apollo, that they might identical in import with Luna and Diana is attested
reveal to him his destination. Apollo commanded beyond a doubt by Varro (de Re Rust. i. 37). We
him to follow his voice, and led him to Olympia, stated above that Janus was regarded as identical
where he gave him the power to understand and with Sol, but this does not appear to have been the
explain the voices of birds, and to foretell the case originally, for it is related that the worship
future from the sacrifices burning on the altars of of Janus was introduced at Rome by Romulus,
Zeus, so soon as Heracles should have founded the whereas that of Sol was instituted by Titus Tatius
Olympic games. (Pind. 01. vi. 28, &c.) [L. S.] (August. de Civ. Dei, iv. 23), and the priority of
JANA. [JANUS.] the worship of Janus is also implied in the story
IANEIRA ('Ia'vepa), the name of two mythical related by Macrobius (Sat. i. 9). Hence we must
personages, the one a Nereid (Hom. n. xviii. 47; infer that the two divinities were identified at a
Hes. Theog. 356), and the other a daughter of later period, and that in such a manner that the
Iphis and wife of Capaneus. (Schol. ad Pind. 01. separate idea of Sol was lost in that of Janus, for
vi. 46.) [L. S.] we find few traces of the worship of Sol, while
IANISCUS ('ICav'cos), the name of two my- that of Janus acquired the highest importance in
thical personages. (Paus. ii. 6. ~ 3; Schol. ad Aris- the religion of the Romans. Numa in his regulation
toph. P2at. 701.) tL. S.] of the Roman year called the first month Januarius,