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

~562 IDATIUS. IDOMENEUS.
Idas and Lynceuas. The latter, whose eyes were this conclusion, although acquiesced in by Roncalli,
so keen that he could see through every thing, dis- is not generally admitted.
covered Castor through the trunk of the oak, and These Fasti Consulares, Descriptio Consulbum, or
pointed him out to Idas, who killed him. Poly- Fasti Idatiani, were first published by Sirmond
deuces, in order to avenge his brother, pursued along with the Chronicle, but in a more perfect
athem and ran Lynceus through with his spear. shape by Labbe, in his Nova Bibliotheca MSS. fol.
1ldas, in return, struck Polydeuces with a stone so Paris,.1658, and will be found in the Bibliotheca
tviclently, that he fell and fainted; whereupon Zeus Max. Patrum, in the Bibliotheca Patrumn, of Galslew I-das with a flash of lightning. (Apollod. iii. land, in the Venice edition of Sirmond, in Roncalli,
11. ~ 2; Tzetz. ad Lycoph. 511, 549; Ov. Fast. and in Risler, as referred to above, and also in
v. 700, &c.) This fight between the Aphareidae Thesaurus Antiquitatum Romanarurn of Graevius,
and the Dioscuri, which is placed by some writers vol. xi. p. 246. (See the dissertations of Roncalli
in Messenia, by others in Laconia, and by Ovid in and of Risler, of which the substance is given by
the neighbourhood of Aphidna, is related, with Biihr. Geschichte der Rom. Litterat. Suppl. Band.
sundry variations, by Theocritus (xxii. 137, &c.), ~ 45.) [W. R.]
Pindar (Nern. x. 60, &c.; comp. Paus. iv. 2. ~ 4, IDE (AIRl). 1. A daughter of Melissus and
13. ~ ]), and Hyginus (Fab. 80). The tomb Amaltheia, and sister of Adrasteia, one of the
of the Aphareidae was shown at Sparta as late as Idaean nymphs, to whom Rhea entrusted-the infant
the time of Pausanias (iii. 13. ~ 1), who, however, Zeus to be educated. (Apollod. i. 1. ~ 6.) She
thinks that in reality they had been buried in was represented, with other nymphs, on the altar
Messenia, where the fight had taken-place. They of Athena Alea at Tegea. (Paus. viii. 47, ~ 2.)
were represented in a painting, together with their 2. An Idaean nymph, by whom Zeus became
father Aphareus, in a temple at Messene. (Paus. the father of the Idaean Dactyls. (Etymol. Magn.
iv. 31, ~ 9.) Idas alone was represented on the p. 465.)
chest of Cypselus in the act of leading Marpessa 3. A daughter of Corybas, by whom Lycastus,
out of the temple of Apollo, who had carried her the son of Rhadamanthys, became the father of
off. (Paus. v. 18. ~ 1.) Minos. (Diod. iy. 60.)
5. Two mythical heroes distinguished in the 4. A nymph by whom Hyrtacus became'the
war against Thebes, the one of Onchestus, and father-of Nisus. (Virg. Aen. ix. 177.) [L. S.]
the other of Taenaras. (Stat. Theb. vi. 553, vii. IDMON ('I8u6wv), a son of Apollo and Asteria,
588.) [L. S.] the daughter of Coronus (Schol. ad Apollon. Rhod.
IDA'TIUS, IDA'CIUS, or ITHA'CIUS, not i. 139), or, according to others, of Apollo, by All
to mention sundry other variations of the MSS., a tianeira, of Ampycus, or of Apollo and Cyrene.
native of Limica, in Gallicia, flourished during the (Orph. Arg. 185, &c., 721; Apollon. Rhod. i.
latter half of the fifth century, was in all probability 139, &c.; Hygin. Fab. 14; comp. Val. Flacc. i.
an ecclesiastic, and is known to us as the author of 228.) He was one of the soothsayers who accoma Chronicum arranged according to the succession panied the Argonauts: his name signifies "the
of. emperors, which commences A. D. 379, the point knowing," and has been considered to be a mere
where Hieronymus breaks off, and extends down epithet of Thestor or Mopsus. (Schol. ad Apollon.
to A. D. 46:9, thus embracing a period of ninety Rhod. i. 139.) He joined the expedition of the
years. In addition to the mere enumeration of Argonauts, although he knew beforehand that
names and dates, a short account of the principal death awaited him. He was killed in the country
occurrences is inserted, referring chiefly to Spanish of the Mariandynians by a boar or a serpent; or,
affairs, and from A. D. 427 Idatius advances his according to others, he died of a disease. (Apollod.
own personal testimony to the truth of the events i. 9. ~ 23; Apollon. Rhod. i. 140, 443, ii. 815,
recorded. He seems to have executed his task &c.; Val. Flacc. v. 2, &c.) The Megarians and
with much care, and although a few errors have Boeotians who were to found Heracleia, were combeen detected here and there, the compilation must manded by Apollo to build the town round the
be regarded as a valuable repertory of naked his- tomb of the hero, and to worship him as the protorical facts. tector of the place. (Apollon. Rhod. ii. 846, &c.)
The greater portion of this Chronicle was printed There are three other mythical personages of the
in the Antiquae Lectiones of Canisius, 4to. 1601, name of Idmon. (Apollod. ii. 1. ~ 5; Ov. let.
and in the first edition of the Thesaurus Temporum vi. 8, 138; Stat. Theb. iii. 389.) [L. S.]
of J. J. Scaliger, fol. Lug, Bat. 1606, but it was first IDOMENEUS ('I0ouevevs), a son of Deucapublished in a complete form, from an ancient MS., lion, and grandson of Minos and Pasiphae; and
by Sirmond, Paris, 1619 (Opera, fol. Venet. 1728, hence he traced his pedigree to Zeus and Helios.
vol. ii. p. 228), and will be found in the second He was a man of great beauty, and is mentioned
edition of Scaliger's Thesaurus, fol. Amst. 1658; among the suitors of Helen. (Hom. n. xiii. 450,
in the Bibliotheca Max. Patr. Lug. Bat. 1677, vol. &c., Od. xix. 181; Paus. v. 25. ~ 5; Apollod. iii.
vii. p. 1231; in the Bibliotheca Patrum of Galland, 3. ~ 1; Dict. Cret. i. 1; Hygin. Fab. 81.) He is
vol. x. p. 323; in the Vett. Lat. Script. Chron. of sometimes called Lyctius or Cnosius, from the
Roncalli, Patav. 1787; and in the Chronica Medii Cretan towns of Lyctus and Cnosus. (Virg. Aen.
Aevi of Risler, Tubing. 1798. iii. 400; Diod. v. 79.) In conjunction with MeriSirmond found in his MS. immediately after the ones, the son of his half-brother Molus, he led the
Chronicurm a set of fasti, exhibiting a complete ca- Cretans in 80 ships against Troy, and was one of
talogue of the Roman consuls from the institution the bravest heroes in the Trojan war. He offered
of the office, in the year of the city 245, down to to fight with Hector, and distinguished himself
A. D. 468, together with a few notices of the most especially in the battle near the ships, where he
remarkable transactions of the fourth and fifth cen- slew several Trojans. (Hom. Il. ii. 645, &c., iii.
turies-a production which, from some resemblance 230, iv. 251, v. 43, vii. 165, xiii. 361, &c., xvi.
in style, he supposed to belong also to Idatius,; but 345.) Philostratus (Her. 7) even relates that while