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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ILUS (IAos). 1. A son: of Dardanus'by Batela,' comic poet, quoted by Gellius and Festus, of whose
the daughter of Teucer. Ilus died without issue, plays only one is: expressly mentioned, namely,
and left his kingdom to his brother, Erichthonius. " Neaera." Vulcatius Sedigitus assigned'him the
(Apollod. iii. 12. ~ 1, &c.) fourth place in the list of Latin comic poets. (Fes2. A son of Tros, and grandson of Erichthonius. tus, s. vv. Imbrex, Obstitum; Gell.' xiii. 22, xv.24.)
His mother was Calirrhoe, and being a great- Vossius' conjectured (De Poetis Latinis, p. 5) that
grandson of Dardanus, he is called Dardanides. this Licinius Imbrex is the same as the Licinius
(Hom. II. xi. 372.) He was a brother of Assa- Tegula mentioned by Livy [TEGULA], because
racus, Ganymedes, and Cleopatra, and married to imbrex is a species of tegula, but Festus gives the
Eurydice, the daughter of Adrastus, by whom he praenomen of Caius to the former, and Livy that
became the father of Laomedon, so that he was the of Publius to the latter.
grandfather of Priam. (Apollod. iii. 1. ~~ 1-3; I'MBRIUS (IpApLos), a son of Mentor, and
Hom. B. xx. 232, &c.) He was believed to be the husband of Mendesicaste, a daughter' of Priam,
founder of Troy (Ilion), concerning which the fol- was slain by Teucer in the Trojan war.' (Hom.
lowing story is related.'Once Ilus went to Phry- Ii. xiii. 171, &c.; Paus. x. 25. ~ 2; Eustath. ad
gia, and there won the prize as a wrestler in the Horn. p. 926.) Imbrius occurs also as a surname
games which the king of Phrygia celebrated. of Eetion, the friend of Lycaon. (Hom. II. xxi.
The prize consisted of 50 youths and 50 maidens; 43.) [L. S.]
and the king, in pursuance of an oracle, at- the IMENARETE. [ELEPHENOR.]
same time gave him a cow of different colours, re- IMMA'RADUS ('I~uzd~pasos), a son of Euquesting Ilus to build a town on the spot where molpus, and commander of the Eleusinians, slain
that cow should lie down. Ilus accordingly fol- by Erectheus. (Paus. i. 5. ~ 2, 27. ~ 5.) [L. S.]
lowed the cow until she laid down at the foot of' IMPERA'TOR, a surname of Jupiter at Praethe Phrygian hill Ate. (Steph. Byz. s. v. IAItop; neste. After the conquest of that town in B. C.
Hesych. s. v.'AVLJAoqpos; Tzetz. ad Lycoph, 29, 376, T. Quinctius brought his statue to the capitol
who gives the story somewhat differently.) There at Rome, where it was placed between the chapels
Ilus accordingly built Ilion; and after having of Jupiter and Minerva. (Liv. vi. 29.) According
prayed to Zeus to send him a sign, he found on the to Cicero (in Verr. iv. 57), he was identical with
next morning the palladium, a statue of three cubits Jupiter Urius (i. e. the sender of favourable wind),
in height, with its feet close together, holding a of the Greeks. (Comp. the commentat. on Cicero,
spear in its right hand, and a distaff in the left. and Buttmann's Lexilog. vol. ii. p. 34.) [L. S.]
Ilus then built a temple for the statue. (Apollod. IMPERIO'SUS, a surname of three members of
iii. 12. ~ 3.) Once, when this temple was con- the Manliagens, —L. Manlius Capitolinus Imperiosumed by fire, Ilus rescued the statue, but became sus, dictator in B. c. 363, Cn. Manlius Capitolinus
blind, as no one was permitted to see it; but he Imperiosus, consul in 359 and 357 [CAPITOLINUS,
afterwards propitiated the goddess, and recovered Nos. 8, 9, p. 605], and T. Manlius Imperiosus
his sight. (Plut. Paral. Gr. et Rom. 17.) Ilus Torquatus, dictator for the first time in 353.
is said to have expelled Tantalus or his son Pe- [TORQUATUS.]
lops from Paphlagonia, for having carried off his INA'CHIA, I'NACHIS, INACHIO'NE
brother Ganymedes. (Paus. ii. 22. ~ 4; Diod. ('IvaXe17,'IrvaXiLvq), frequently occur as surnames
iv. 74.) His tomb was shown in the neighbourhood of Io, the daughter of Inachus. (Virg. Georg. iii.
of Troy. (Hom. II. x. 415, xi. 166, 372, xxiv. 153;'Ov. Fast. iii. 658, Met. ix. 686; Aeschyl.
349; Theocrit. xvi. 75; Eustath. ad Horn. p. Prom. 591; Callim. fHymn. in Dian.:254.) Epa1353.) phus, a grandson of Inachus, bears the same sur3. A son of Mermerus, and grandson of Jason name (Ov. Met. i. 753); and so also Perseus,
and Medeia. He lived at Ephyra, between Elis merely because he was born at Argos, the city of
and Olympia; and when Odysseus came to him to Inachus. (Ov. Met. iv. 719.) [L. S.]
fetch the poison for his arrows, Ilus refused it, from I'NACHUS ('IvaXos), a river god and king of
fear of the vengeance of the Gods. (Hom. Od. i. Argos, is described as a son of Oceanus and Tethys.
259,- ii. 328; Eustath. ad Horn. p. 1415, &c.; By a Melian nymph, a daughter of Oceanus, or,
Strab. viii. p. 338.) [L. S.] according to others, by his sister Argeia, he became
IIMBRAMUS (IIygpaelos), a surnameof Hermes the father of Phoroneus and Aegialeus, to whom
(Eustath. ad Dionys. Per. 524; Steph. Byz. s. v. others add Io, Argos Panoptes, and Phegeus or
IFICpos), in which Welcker (Trilogie, p. 217) re- Pegeus. (Apollod. ii. 1. ~~ 1, 3; Hygin. Fab.
cognises a name of the Pelasgian Hermes, who went 143, 145; Tzetz. ad Lycoph. 177; Schol. ad Eurip.
from Attica to Lemnos, Imbros and Samothrace, Or. 920, 1239; Ov. Met. i. 583, &c., 640, &c.,
and is said to have been identical with Himerus. Amor. iii. 6, 25; Serv. ad Virg. Georg. iii. 153.)
He is seen on a coin of Imbros, with a patera and Inachus is the most ancient god or hero of Argos.
a knotty staff. [L. S.] The river Inachus is said to have received its name
I1MBRA'SIA ('Iju~paaoa), a surname of Artemis from the fact of Inachus throwing himself into it,
(Callim. Hymn. in Dian. 228), and of Hera, was at the time when Zeus, enraged at the reproaches
derived from the river Imbrasus, in Samos, on which which Inachus made on account of the treatment
the goddess was believed to have been born. (Apol- of Io, sent a fury to pursue him. (Plut. de Fluv.
Ion. Rhod. i. 187; Paus. vii. 4. ~ 4.) [L. S.] 18.) The river had before borne the name of CarI'MBRASUS (-'Iuepaeoos) is, according to Eu- manor or Haliacmon; and as Inachus was the first
stathius (ad Hornm. p. 985), identical with Imbra- ruler and priest at Argos, the country is frequently
mnus, the surname of Hermes; but it occurs also as called the land of Inachus. (Eurip. Or. 932; Diothe name of three mythical personages. (Hom. II. nys. i. 25; Hygin. Fab. 143.) In the disiv. 520; Virg. Aen. x. 123, xii. 343; Athen. vii. pute between Poseidoin and Hera about the posp. 283.) [L. S.]' session of Argos, Inachus decided in favour of
IMBREX, C. LICI'NIUS, an ancient Latin Hera, and hence it was said that Poseidon deprived