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.INO. IO. 57b
marksuponthebanks: The referenceisincorrect, and 1.07; comp. 229; Schol. ad Pind. Hypoth. Isthm.
the passage cited by Rigaltius has not. been found by p. 514,. ed. Boeckh.) According to a Megarianl
subsequent inquirers. (Auctores Rei Agrariae, ed. tradition, the body of Ino was washed on the coast
Goes. p. 167, n. p. 220-232.) [J. T. G.] of Megara, where she was found and buried by
INO ('IaLC), a daughter of Cadmus and Har- two virgins; and it is further said that there she
monia, and the wife of Athamas, who married her received the name of Lpucothea. (Paus. i. 42. ~
in addition to his proper wife Nephele, but according 8.) [L. S.]
to some, not till after the death of Nephele. After INOUS, that is, the son of Ino, a name given
her death and apotheosis, Ino was called Leuco- to Melicertes and Palaemon. (Virg. 4en. v. 823,
thea. The common story about her is related under GeoVg. i. 437.).[L. S.]
ATHAMAS, P. 393; but there are great variations INSTEIUS CAPITO. [CAPITo.]
in the traditions respecting her, which probably INTAPHERNES ('IvTarp'pv-s), one of the
arose from the fact of the story having been made seven conspirators against the two Magi, who
great use of by the Greek poets, especially the usurped the Persian throne upon the death of
dramatists, among whose lost tragedies we find the Cambyses. In the attack which the conspirators
titles of Athamas, Ino, and Phrixus. It here re- made against the Magi, Intaphernes lost an eye.
mains for us to mention the principal traditions He was shortly after put to death by Dareius in
about the latter period of her life and her apothe- consequence of the following circumstances. Upon
osis. After the supposed death of Ino, and after tie accession of Dareius, the other conspirators had
his flight from Boeotia, Athamas married Themisto; stipulated for free admission to the king at all
but when he was informed that Ino was still living times, with one exception; and when the royal
as a Bacchant in the valleys of Mount Parnassus, he servants upon a certain occasion refused Intaphernes
secretly sent for her. Themisto, on hearing this, admission to the king's person, he mutilated them,
resolved to kill the children of Ino. With this which raised the suspicion.of the king that a plot
object in view, she ordered one of her slaves at had been formed against himself. Dareius accordnight to cover her own children with white, and ingly sentenced Intaphernes and all his family to
those of Ino with black garments, that she might be put to death; but moved by the lamentations
know the devoted children, and distinguish them of his wife, the king allowed her to rescue one from
from her own. But the slave who received this death. She selected her brother, alleging, accordcommand was Ino herself in disguise, who changed ing to the well-known tale, that she might obtain
the garments in such a manner as to lead Themisto another husband and other children, but, since her
to kill her own children. When Themisto dis- father and mother were dead, she could never have
covered the mistake, she hung herself.' (Hygin. another brother. Dareius spared, in addition, the
Fab. 1-5.) Other traditions state that Athamas, life of her eldest child, but killed all the other
when Hera visited him and Ino with madness for members of the family with Intaphernes. (Herod,
having brought -up Dionysus, killed Learchus, one iii. 70, 78, 118, 119.)
of his sons by Ino, and when he was on the point INTERCIDONA. [DEVERRA.]
of killing also the other, Melicertes, Ino fled with INTONSUS, i. e. unshorn, a surname of Apollo
him across the white plain in Megaris, and threw and Bacchus, alluding to the eternal youth of these
herself with the boy (or, according to Eurip. N1ed. gods, as the Greek youths allowed their hair to
1289, with her two sons) into the sea. Melicertes grow until they attained the age of manhood,
is stated in some traditions to have previously died though in the case of Apollo it may also allude to
in a cauldron filled with boiling water. (Eustath. his being the god of the sun, whence the long floatad Hoem. p. 1543; Plut. Sympos. v. 3; Ov. Met. ing hair would indicate the rays of the sun. (Hom.
iv. 505, 520, &c.; Tzetz, ad Lycoph. 229.) Ac- II. xx. 39, Hymn. in Apoll. 134; Horat. Epod.
cording to Plutarch (Quaest. Rom. 13), Ino killed xv. 9; Tibullh i. 4. 34; Ov. Met. iii. 421, Amost.
her own son, as she had become mad from jealousy i. 14. 31; Martial, iv. 45.) [L. S.]
of an Aetolian slave, of the name of Antiphera, and INVI'DIA, the personification of envy, is dePlutarch recognised an allusion to that story in a scribed as a daughter of the giant Pallas and Styx.
ceremony observed at Rome in the temple of Ma- (Hygin. Fab. Praef.; Ov. Met. ii. 760.) [L. S.]
tuta, who was identified with Leucothea; for no fe- IO 10 ('1). The traditions about this heroine are
male slave was allowed to enter the temple of Ma- so manifold, that it is impossible to give any getuta at her festival, with the exception of one, who neral view of them without some classification; we
received a box on the ears from the matrons that shall therefore give first the principal local trawere present. Hyginus (Fab. 2; comp. Paus. ii. ditions, next the wanderings of Io, as they are
44. ~ 11) states, that Athamas surrendered Ino described by later writers, and lastly mention the
and her son Melicertes to Phrixus to be killed, various attempts to explain the stories about her.
because she herself had attempted to kill Phrixus. 1. Local traditions.-The place to which the leBut when Phrixus was on the point of committing gends of Io belong, and where she was closely
the crime, Dionysus enveloped him in darkness connected with the worship of Zeus and Hera, is
and.thus saved Ino. Athamas, who was thrown Argos. The chronological tables of the priestesses
by Zeus into a state of madness, killed Learchus; of'Hera at Argos placed Io at the head of the list
and Ino, who leaped into the sea, was raised to the of priestesses, under the name of Callirhoe, or Calrank of a divinity, by the desire of Dionysus. lithyia. (Preller, de Hellan. Lesb. p. 40.) She is
Others relate that Leucothea placed Dionysus with commonly described as a daughter of Inachus, the
herself among the gods. (Plut. de Frat. Am. in fin.) founder of the worship of Hera at Argos, and by
After her lear into the sea, Leucothea was carried others as a daughter of lasus or Peiren. Zeus
by a dolphin to the coast of Corinth, which was loved Io, but on account of Hera's jealousy, he
governed by Sisyphus, a brother of Athamas, who metamorphosed her into a white cow. Hera thereinstituted the. Isthmian games and an annual sa- upon asked and obtained the cow from Zeus) and
crifice in honour of the two. (Tzetz. ad Lycopl. placed her under the care of Argus Panoptes, who