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

ILIONEUS. ILLUS. 569
]2. Of SELYBRIA. There is (or was) in the longer under tne control of the god. (Ov. Afet.
Library of St. Mark in Venice, among the Greek vi. 261; NIOBE.)
MSS., a Commentarius inAristotelis Scripta Logica, 2. A Trojan, son of Phorbas, was killed by
by Ignatius, Metropolitan of Selybria, a prelate of Peneleus. (Hom. II. xiv. 489, &c.)
unknown date. There is also extant in MS. a 3. One of the companions of Aeneas. (Virg.
work by the same writer, Bloo Kacl WroArELa rTCV Aen. i. 120.)
doylwv reoore'7r'roJv LEYdWV 0BairAe'rwv Kail laboro- 4. A Trojan who was slain by Diomedes. (Q.
afordowv KwvorTaT'rvov Kal'EAfvrI, Vita et Con- Smyrn. xviii. 180.) [L. S.]
versatio, &c., Constantini et Helenae. (Fabric. Bibl. ILISSIADES ('Ioraorites), a surname of the
Gr. vol. iii. p. 210, vol. vii. p. 46.) Muses, who had an altar on the Ilissus in Attica.
13. Of XANTHOPULI, a monastery apparently at (Paus. i. 19. ~ 6.) [L. S.]
or near Constantinople, was the friend of Callistus ILITHYIA. [EILEITHYIA.]
II., patriarch of Constantinople, who occupied that ILLUS, a leading personage in the troubled
see about the close of the 14th or the beginning of reign of the Byzantine emperor Zeno, who reigned
the 15th century. Callistus had been a monk of the A.D. 474-491. His name is variously written
same monastery, and the two friends were united WIAAos (which is the most common form),'IAA4T,
in the authorship of a work recommending a mo- "IAovs, "IAXos, and'IAAoo, and by Latin writers,
nastic life, and giving directions for it.'The work is ILLUS, ELLUS, and HYLLUS. Victor of Tunes in
cited by their contemporary Symeon, archbishop of one place calls him Patricius, mistaking his title of
Thessalonica, in his Ecclesiasticus Dialogus adversus Patrician for a proper name.
omnes Haereses. (Allatius, De Symeonibus, p. 185, Illus was an Isaurian, but the time and place of
ed. Paris, 1664; Fabric. Bibl. Gr. vol. vii. p. his birth are unknown. He is said to have held
46.) various offices under the Emperor Leo I. (A. D.
There were three Ignatii, respectively described 457-474), and to have been an intimate friend of
as Chrysopolitanus Abbas, Metropolita Claudiopoli- Zeno, apparently before his accession. But we first
tanus, and Lophorum Episcopus, among the cor- read of him in Zeno's reign and in hostility to
respondents of Photius, in the ninth century that emperor. Basiliscus, brother of the empress
(Photius, Epistolae, ed. Montacutii); and an dowagerVerina,the widow ofLeo,had expelled Zeno
Ignatius Abbas (not to' be confounded with No. from Constantinople (A. D. 475) and sent an army
6) among the correspondents of Theodore Studita in pursuit of him under Illus and his- brother Troin the eighth or ninth century. (Theodorus Stu- condus (whose name is variously written Tpo'covosy,
dita, Epistolae, lib. ii. ep. 24, apud Sirmond, Opera TpoKovuVoO, Tpoofv^Yos, nIpoIcorvos, IIpd'uovor,
Varia, vol. v.) Several ancient Oriental writers and:SicoOvros, and by the Latin writers Trocundus
and prelates of the name, Syrians or Armenians, and Tricundius) into Isauria, where Zeno had taken
are mentioned by Assemani in his Bibliotheca Ori- refuge. The brothers defeated the fugitive empeentalis. The liturgies composed by some of these ror (July, A. D. 476) and blockaded him on a hill
are given in a Latin version in Renaudot's Liturg. called by the people near it "'Constantinople."
Orient. (Fabric. Bibl. Gr. vol.vii. p. 47.) [J.C.M.] (Suidas, s. v. ZnUvwv.) During the blockade Illus
ILAEIRA ('IAcespa), a daughter of Leucippus and Trocondus, instigated by the senate of Conand Philodice, and a sister of Phoebe, together with stantinople, with whom Basiliscus had fallen into
whom she is often mentioned by the poets under odium and contempt, and themselves discontented
the name of Leucippidae. Both were carried off by with the usurper, were prevailed on by the prothe Dioscuri, and ilaeira became the wife of Castor. mises and gifts of Zeno to embrace his side, and
(Apollod. iii. 10.~ 3;Schol.adLycolph.511.) [L.S.] to march with united forces towards the capital.
I'LIA. [RHEA SILVIA.] At Nice in Bithynia they.were met by the troops
ILIO'NA ('IA/icva), a daughter of Priam and of Basiliscus under his nephew and general ArHecabe, is not mentioned by the earlier poets and matus, or Harmatus ('Ap1adTos or'Ap/ua'ros), or
mythographers, but the later ones relate of her the Harmatius; but he, too, was gained over, and Basifollowing'story. At the beginning of the Trojan liscus, forsaken by his supporters, was dethroned
ivar her parents entrusted to her her brother Poly- and put to death (A. D. 477). [BASILIscus.]
dorus, for she was married to Polymnestor or Poly- Illus was sole consul A. D. 478, and in 479 he
mestor, king of the Thracian Chersonesus. Iliona, was instrumental in crushing the dangerous revolt
with more than sisterly affection, brought up Poly- of Marcian, grandson of the Byzantine emperor ot
dorus as if he had been her own child, and repre- that name [MARCIANUS], and son of Anthemius,
sented her own son Deipylus as Polydorus. When emperor of the West [ANTHEMIUS]. Marcian
Troy was taken and destroyed, the Greeks, de- had married Leontia, daughter of the late Emperor
sirous of destroying the whole' race of Priain, pro- Leo by Verina, and sister of Ariadne, Zeno's wife.
rnised Polymnestor a large sum of money and the His revolt took place' at Constantinople, where he
hand of Electra, if he would kill Polydorus. Polym- defeated the troops of Zeno and besieged him in the'nestor accepted the proposal, but killed -his own palace. For a moment Illus wavered, but his failing
son Deipylus, whom he mistook for Polydorus. The courage or fidelity was restored by the assurances
latter thus escaped; and after having subsequently of an Egyptian soothsayer whom he patronised.
-learned Polymnestor's crime, he and Iliona put out Marcian's forces were corrupted by Illus; and
the eyes of Polymnestor, and then slew him. This Marcian himself, with his brothers Procopius and
legend was used by Pacuvius and Accius as sub- Romulus, was taken. The brothers escaped, but
jects for tragedies. (Hygin. Fab. 109, 240; Horat. Marcian was sent, either to Tarsus in Cilicia, and
Sat. ii. 3, 64; Serv. ad Aen. i. 653; Cic. Acad. ii. made a priest in the church there, or to the foot of
27, Tuseul. i. 44.) [L. S.] Papurius (Ha7rodoios), or Papyrius, a stronghold in
ILIONEUS ('IAiovues). 1. A son of Amphion Isauria, then used as a state prison. Trocondus,'and Niobe, whom Apollo would have liked to save, the brother of Illus, was consul A. D. 482; and
because he was praying; but the arrow was no Illus himself enjoyed the dignities of patricius and