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

IDOMENEUS. IGNATIUS. 563
the Greek heroes were waiting at Aulis, Cretan lrpvPi7s, while Sintenis (ad Plut. Pericl. p..313,
ambassadors came to Agamemnon to announce that &c.) labours to show that all the passages quoted
Idomeneus would join him with one hundred Cretan above are taken from the oCcpaTLKd. The true
ships, if Agamemnon would share the supreme title of the work is, however', in all probability
command with him. After the fall of Troy, Ido- restored by a happy emendation of Sauppe (Rheinmeneus returned home in safety (Hom. Od. iii. isches Museum, p. 450, for 1843), who, in place. of
191; Diod. v. 79), though the post-Homeric tradi- the corrupt passage in Bekker's Anecdota (p. 249,
tions inform us that once in a storm he vowed to 27), o/s 8'IboluC'vms 9qel -7p1uaywy6v, reads as s.6
Poseidon to sacrifice to him whatever he should'I1oluevev's 41L'repl 87luaycorycv. The title 7repl
meet first on his landing, if the god would grant 87/uaywyo?0v agrees also much better with all the
him a safe return. The first person he met on above-mentioned passages than any of the other
landing was his own son. He accordingly sacrificed titles which have been proposed. (Sintenis, Ffils
his son; and as Crete was thereupon visited by a Excursus to Plutarch's Pericles; Vossius, De
plague, the Cretans expelled Idomeneus. He went Histor. Graec. p. 105, ed. Westermann; Clinton,
to Italy, where he settled in Calabria, and built a Fast. Hell. vol. iii. p. 488.)
temple to Athena. From thence he is said to have IDO'THEA. [EIDOTHEA.]
again migrated to Colophon, on the coast of Asia, I'DRIEUS or HI'DRIEUS ('I1piev's, Diod.;
to have settled near the temple of the Clarian'I8peu's, Strab. Arr.), king or dynast of Caria. He
Apollo, and to have been buried on Mount Cerca- was the second son of Hecatomnus, and succeeded
phus. (Serv. ad Aen. iii. 121, 401, 531, xi. 264; to the throne on the death of Artemisia, the widow
Strab. x. p. 479; Schol. ad Homrn. Od. xiii. 259.) At of his brother Maussolus, in B. c 351. Shortly
Olympia his statue, the work of Onatas,'stood after his accession he was required by the Persian
among the images of those who drew lots as to who king, Artaxerxes Ochus, to fit out an armament for
was to fight with Hector, and on his shield a cock the reduction of Cyprus, a request with which he
was represented. (Paus. v. 25. ~ 5; comp. Hom. readily complied; and having equipped a fleet of
in. vii. 161, &c.) His tomb was shown at Cnosus, 40 triremes, and assembled an army of 8000 merwhere he and Meriones were worshipped as heroes. cenary troops, despatched them against Cyprus,
~(Diod. v. 79.) Another personage of the name of under the command of Evagoras and the Athenian
Idomeneus is mentioned among the sons of Priam'. general Phocion. This is the only event of his
(Apollod. iii. 12. ~ 5.) [L. S.] reign which is recorded to us; but we' may infer,
IDO'MENEUS ('Iaogeve6s), of Lampsacus, a from an expression of Isocrates, in B. C. 346 (Phifriend and disciple of Epicurus, flourished about lipp. p. 102, e), that the friendly relations between
B. C. 310-270. We have no particulars of his him and the Persian king did not long continue;
life, save that he married Batis, the sister of San- they appear to have come even to an open rupture.
des, who was also a native of Lampsacus, and -a But the hostility of Persia did not interfere with
pupil of Epicurus. (Diog. La'rt. x. 23, 25; Strab. his prosperity, for he is spoken of by Isocrates in
xiii. p. 589; Athen. vii. p. 279. f.) Idomeneus the same passage as one of the most wealthy and
wrote a considerable number of philosophical and powerful of the princes of Asia; and Demosthenes
historical works, and though the latter were not tells us (de Pace, p. 63) that he had added to his
regarded as of verygreat authority (Plut. Dem. 23), hereditary dominions the important islands of
still they must have been of considerable value, as Chios, Cos, and Rhodes. He died of disease in
they seem to have been chiefly devoted to an iB.c. 344, after a reign of seven years, leaving the
account of the private life of the distinguished men sovereign power, by his will, to his sister Ada, to
of Greece. whom, according to the eastern custom, he had
The titles of the following works of Idomeneus been married. (Diod. xvi. 42, 45, 69; Strab.
are mentioned: 1.'IaTop~a sv KcaTa alCzoOp,- xiv. p. 656; Arr. Aaab. i, 23. ~ 8-10.) [E.H.B.]
K7;i. (Suid. s. v.) This work is probably the one
referred to by the Scholiast on Apollonius Rhodius
(i. 916), where for TpcKLcd, we should read aClaoOpacLKra. 2. kIepl TeroV wsKcparatcg. (Diog. Lairt. ii.
19,20; Athen. xiii. p. 611, d.)
We do not know for certain the title of the work
or works of Idomeneus, which contained some
account of the following persons:-of the Peisistratidae (Athen. xii. p,532, f.), of Themistocles (Athen.
xii. p. 533, d., xiii. p. 576, c.; comp. Schol. ad
Aristcsph. Vesp. 941, where Themistocles appears to COIN OF IDRIBUS.
be meant, and not Thucydides, the son of Milesius,
asthe Scholiast says), of Aristeides(Plut. Arist. 10), IDYIA or EIDYIA ('Iava), that is, the knowof Pericles (Plut. Pericl. 10, 35), of Demosthenes ing goddess, a daughter of Oceanus and Tethys,
(Plut. Dem. 15, 23; Athen. xiii. p. 592, f.), of and the wife of the Colchian king Aeetes. (Hes.
Aeschin'es (Apollon. Vit. Aesch. p. 247, ed. Bekker), Teog. 352; Apollon. Rhod. iii. 243; Hygin. Fab.
of Hyperides (Athen. xiii. p. 590, d.), and'of 25; Eustath. adHom. p. 1193.) [L. S.]
Phocion (Plut. P/oc. 4). It is not improbable JEROM. [HIERONYMUS.]
that all these persons were mentioned in one work, IGNA'TIUS ('IPyvcAros). 1. Of ANTIOCH,
to which modern writers have assigned various one of the Apostolical Fathers; called also THEOconjectural titles. Ionsius (Hist. Script. Philos. ii. PHORUS, or DEIFER (6 Oeo(dpos), a title explained
1. p. 118) conjectured that it was entitled rlspl by Ignatius himself in his conversation with the
Eve'dcewv dvspcSi, Heeren (De Font. Vit. Plut. p. 93) emperor Trajan to mean " one that has Christ in
that it was a Greek history, and Luzac (Lect. Att. his heart." Some of the Greeks, interpreting the
p. 113)' that it was styled nflpi rs swv vys'ao' epithet passively " borne or carried of God," sup00o 2