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31991INDEX OF NAMES, PLACES, AND SUBJECTS
31992rade of Plato, 6. 283;
31993spent 13
31994years with the priests at Heliupolis,
319958. 83;
31996astronomical observatories
31997of, in Aegypt and near Cnidus, 8. 8
31998Eudoxus
31999of Cyzicus
32000(fi. about 130
32001B.C.),
32002navigator
32003and
32004adventurer.
32005His
32006voyages
32007about
32008Libya
32009are
32010described
32011by
32012Poseidonius
32013and
32014Strabo.
32015Went to Aegypt in reign
32016of Euergetes the Second, and set
32017sail
32018for
32019India,
320201. 377;
32021visited
32022Dicaearcheia, Massalia, and Gades,
320231. 381; again set sail for India, but
32024abandoned voyage and visited King
32025Bogus, 1. 383; urged Bogus to make
32026the expedition, 1. 383, 389
32027Euhemerus the Messenian (fl. about
32028310
32029B.c.), author
32030of a work
32031on
32032Sacred
32033History;
32034by Strabo
32035dis-
32036credited
32037and
32038called
32039the
32040“ Ber-
32041gaean,’’ 1.173, 391, 401; his “‘ Land
32042of Panchaea,’’ an invention, 3. 191,
32043193
32044Eulaeus River, the, in Susis, 7. 161;
32045has the lightest of all waters and is
32046used by the Persians, 7. 187
32047Eumaeus
32048the
32049swine-herd;
32050feigned
32051story of Odysseus told to, about
32052Tlium, 6. 73
32053Eumedes, sent by Ptolemy to hunting-
32054ground
32055for
32056elephants,
32057founded
32058Ptolemais, 7. 319
32059Eumelus, son of Admetus, 1. 165; the
32060domain of, in Thessaly, 4. 423, 426,
32061437, 447, 451
32062Eumeneia, the parts round, in Phrygia
32063Epictetus, 5. 505
32064Eumenes of Cardia, private secretary
32065to Philip and Alexander, obtained
32066Cappadocia, Paphlagonia and Pon-
32067tus after death of Alexander, but
32068was defeated and slain by Anti-
32069gonus
32070(316
32071B.C.);
32072removed
32073the
32074treasures from the fortress Cyinda
32075when he revolted from Antigonus,
320766. 343;
32077held out for a long time
32078(three years) when besieged at the
32079Cappadocian fortress Nora, 6. 357
32080Eumenes, brother of Philotaerus and
32081father of Eumenes I the ruler of
32082Pergamum, 6. 165
32083Eumenes I (ruler of Pergamum, 263-
32084241 B.C.), conquered Antiochus the
32085son of Seleucus near Sardeis, 6, 165
32086Eumenes II, son of Attalus I and
32087332
32088Apollonis, king of Pergamum (197--
32089159 B.c.), fought with the Romans
32090against Antiochus the Great and
32091Perseus, and in return received all
32092the country this side the Taurus
32093that
32094belonged
32095to
32096Antiochus,
320975.
32098507, 6. 167; received Telmessus
32099in
32100Lycia from the Romans, 6. 317
32101Eumenes, the Grove of, on the Arabian
32102Gulf, 7. 323; Harbour of, 7. 327
32103Eumolpus
32104the
32105musician,
32106son
32107of
32108Poseidon, king of the Thracians, and
32109reputed founder of the Eleusinian
32110Mysteries, once occupied Attica, 3.
32111287, 5. 109
32112Euneos, son of Jason and king of
32113Lemnos, 1. 165, 171; gave ransom
32114for Lycaon, 1. 151
32115Eunomia,
32116a
32117work
32118by
32119‘Tyrtaeus,
32120quoted, 4. 123
32121Eunomus, the cithara-bard, of Locri
32122Epizephyrii, in Bruttium, 3. 35
32123ene Harbour, the, at Alexandria,
3212427
32125Eunus, a native of Apameia in Syria,
32126became a slave of a certain Anti-
32127genes at Enna in Sicily, and about
32128136 B.C. became the leader of the
32129Sicilian slaves in the First Servile
32130War
32131(for a full account
32132of his
32133amazing
32134activities,
32135see
32136Diodorus
32137Siculus, 34. 2. 5-18); his activities
32138at Enna and elsewhere, 3. 81, 83, 85
32139Euonymus
32140(Panaria),
32141one
32142of the
32143Liparaean Isles, 3. 99
32144Eupalium in Western Locris, 4. 387
32145Eupatoria in Phanaraea in Cappadocia
32146Pontica, so called by Mithridates
32147Eupator,
32148but was
32149enlarged
32150and
32151called Magnopolis by Pompey, 5.
32152429
32153Eupatorium,
32154Fort,
32155in the Crimea,
32156founded by Diophantus the general
32157of Mithridates, 3. 247 (see footnote
321582)
32159Euphorion, apparently Euphorion of
32160Chalcis,
32161grammarian,
32162poet,
32163and
32164librarian, of whose works only frag-
32165ments remain; apocopé in, 4. 131;
32166on
32167‘“‘the
32168waters
32169of the Mysian
32170Ascanius,”’ 5. 465, 6. 373
32171Euphrantas Tower, the, on the Great
32172Syrtis, 8. 199
32173Euphrates
32174River,
32175the,
32176flows
32177from
32178Armenia southwards, and with the
p. 345
32179INDEX OF NAMES, PLACES, AND SUBJECTS
32180Tigris encloses Mesopotamia, 1. 305;
32181description of course of, 5, 297, 319,
32182321;
32183the
32184Zeugma
32185on,
321865.
32187307;
32188empties into the Red Sea (1), 5. 327;
32189borders on Mesopotamia and emp-
32190ties into the Persian Gulf, 5. 329;
32191confused with the Halys, 5. 363;
32192distance to, from Mazaca, 5. 365;
32193separates
32194Acilisené
32195from
32196Lesser
32197Armenia, 5, 425; the road leading
32198to, from the coast, 6. 311; mouth of,
321993000 stadia from Babylon, 7. 163;
32200flows
32201through
32202Babylon,
322037. 199;
32204navigable to Babylon, and rises to
32205flood-tide at beginning of summer,
322067. 205; Polycleitus on, 7. 213; dis-
32207tances from, to the Tigris, 7. 229
32208Euphronius,
32209the Alexandrian gram-
32210marian
32211(fl. in the third century
32212B.C.), author of the Priapeia and
32213calls Priapus ‘‘the Orneatan,’’ 4.
32214205
32215Euréeis River, the, in the territory of
32216Scepsis, 5. 115
32217Euripides,
32218the
32219tragic
32220poet;
32221the
32222Bacchae of, defective in geographical
32223accuracy, 1. 99; the Phaéthon of,
32224quoted on Aethiopia, 1. 123; lays
32225blame of Trojan War on Zeus, 2.
32226189;
32227the Archelaiis of, quoted on
32228the Pelasgians and Danaans, 2. 345;
32229in his Jon and Rhadymanthys calls
32230‘*Euboea’’
32231the island ‘a neigh-
32232bouring city to Athens,’’ 4. 97, 99;
32233in his Aeolus, on the kingdom of
32234Salmoneus in Elis, 4. 99; describes
32235Laconia
32236and
32237Messenia,
32238making
32239several
32240false statements, 4 141,
32241143;
32242says
32243Danaiis
32244decreed
32245that
32246all
32247Pelasgians
32248should
32249be
32250called
32251Danaans, 4. 163;
32252uses the terms
32253“*Mycenae’’ and
32254‘“ Argos’’ syno-
32255nymously,
322564. 187;
32257on the Acro-
32258corinthus,
322594. 193;
32260associates the
32261sacred
32262rites in honour of Mother
32263Rhea with those of Dionysus, 5.
32264101;
32265the Palamedes of, quoted, 5.
32266103; contradicted by Demetrius of
32267Scepsis
32268in regard
32269to worship
32270of
32271Mother
32272Rhea,
322735. 113;
32274on
32275the
32276“sickly plight ’’ of ‘‘ things divine ””
32277when a country is devastated, 5.
32278213; says certain barbarous tribes
32279in the Caucasus lament new-born
32280babes and bury their dead with joy,
322815. 291; on the myth of Augé and
32282her child Telephus, 6. 135; wrong
32283in regard to Marsyas, 6. 137; took
32284entire course of Anaxagoras, 6. 245;
32285on the expedition of Dionysus to
32286Asia, 7. 9; on the oracle at Delphi,
322877. 287
32288Euripus, the, at Rome, 6. 37
32289Euripus,
32290the,
32291at Chalcis;
32292changes
32293current seven times a day, 1. 205,
322944. 291; caused by earthquake, 1.
32295223; spanned by bridge two plethra
32296long, 4. 281; description of, 4. 289;
32297530 stadia from Thermopylae,
322984.
32299393; included by Chalcidians withia
32300the walls
32301of Chalcis
32302in time
32303of
32304Alexander the Great, 5. 13
32305Euromus
32306in
32307Caria;
32308geographical
32309position of, 6. 209, 291
32310Europe; maximum distance from, to
32311Libya, 1. 403, 409;
32312length of, 1.
32313411 (‘‘Iberia’’ on that page is an
32314error for ‘‘ Libya’’); runs out into
32315several promontories, 1. 417;
32316the
32317most irregular in shape of the three
32318continents, 1. 467; general descrip-
32319tion
32320of, 1. 485-493;
32321blessed by
32322nature, 1. 487; abounds with cattle,
32323but wild
32324animals
32325scarce, 1. 459;
32326Iberia the first part of, 2.3; eastern
32327parts and boundaries
32328of, 3. 151;
32329separated from Asia by the Cim-
32330merian Bosporus, 3. 239; borders on
32331Asia along the Tanais River, 5. 183;
32332perhaps larger than Libya, 8. 155;
32333almost the whole of, held by the
32334Romans, 8. 211
32335Europus (called by Homer
32336“ Titare-
32337sius ’’) River, the, marks the boun-
32338dary between Macedonia and Thes-
32339saly, 3. 311, 335, 4. 443
32340Turopus in Media (see Rhaga in Media)
32341Eurotas (Iri) River, the, flows from
32342the territory of Megalopolis, 4. 47;
32343empties
32344between
32345Gythium
32346and
32347Acraeae, 4, 129;
32348marvellous
32349cir-
32350curmatenes pertaining to, 3. 93, 4.
32351Eurus, the wind, 1. 105
32352Eurycleia; nurse of Odysseus; statue
32353of, in the temple of Artemis at
32354Ephesus, 6. 229
32355Durycles,
32356ruler
32357of the Lacedaemo-
32358nians, took
32359Cythera
32360as
32361his own
32362private property, 4. 127;
32363abused
32364333
p. 346
32365INDEX OF NAMES, PLACES, AND SUBJECTS
32366the friendship of Julius Caesar, 4,
32367137, and was banished, 4. 139
32368Eurycydeium, the, a sacred precinct
32369in Triphylia, 4. 59
32370Eurydicé, the mother of Philip the son
32371of Amyntas, 3. 309
32372Eurylochus, drove the serpent called
32373Cychreides out of Salamis, 4. 253
32374Eurylochus the Thessalian, destroyed
32375the Phocian Crisa in the Crisaean
32376War (about 595 B.C.), 4. 351
32377Eurymedon, the Athenian general, on
32378the second Sicilian expedition (425
32379B.C.), rebuilt the Messenian Pylus, 4.
32380111
32381Eurymedon
32382River, the, flows from
32383the
32384Selgic mountains
32385into Pam-
32386phylia, 5. 485, 6. 325
32387Eurypon the
32388son
32389of
32390Procles, the
32391Lacedaemonian ruler, 4. 141
32392Eurypontidae,
32393the;
32394descendants
32395of
32396Eurypon, the Lacedaemonian ruler,
323974,141
32398Eurypylus,
32399son
32400of Euaemon;
32401the
32402domain of, in Thessaly, 4. 407, 413,
32403421, 433, 435, 437
32404Eurypylus, son of Telephus; Cos the
32405island of, 5.175; country of, sacked
32406by Achilles; slain by Neoptolemus,
324076.15; domain of, 6. 21, 135, 137
32408Eurysthenes, and Procles, the Hera-
32409- cleidae, took possession of, and re-
32410organised, Laconia,
324114. 133,
32412235;
32413drew up the Spartan Constitution,
32414according to Hellanicus, 4. 139
32415Eurystheus, succeeded Sthenelus
32416as
32417king of Mycenae,
324184. 185; death
32419and burial of, 4. 187
32420“ Eurystheus’ Head, ”
32421at Tricoryn-
32422thus, where the head of Eurystheus
32423was buried, 4. 187
32424Eurytanians, ‘the, in Aetolia, 5. 17, 29
32425Eurytion, the neat-herd of Geryon,
324262. 49
32427Eurytus, the Homeric, the Oechalian,
324284. 31, 71, 433;
32429the son of, met
32430-Telemachus at Pherae, 4. 145
32431Eusebeia near the Taurus (see Tyana)
32432Euthydemus, king of the Bactrians,
32433caused Bactriana to revolt from the
32434i
32435of Syria and Media, 5. 275;
32436father of the Demetrius who made
32437many conquests in Asia, 5. 281
32438Euthydemus of Mylasa in Caria, great
32439orator, wealthy, and thought worthy
32440334
32441of the foremost honour in Asia, 6.
32442295
32443Euthymus, the Locrian pugilist, fought
32444Polites at Temesa in Bruttium, 3. 15
32445Eutresis, the Homeric, a small village
32446of the Thespians, where Zethus and
32447Amphion
32448are said to have lived
32449before reigning over Thebes, 4, 323
32450Euxine Sea, the (or Pontus, g.v.), for-
32451merly had no outlet at Byzantium,
32452and hasshallow waters, 1.183; dimen-
32453sions and shape of, 1. 479; beavers
32454of, yield castor of superior medicinal
32455quality, 2. 107;
32456called
32457‘‘ Axine”’
32458(‘‘ Inhospitable’’) in Homer’s time,
324598. 189; divided into two seas by
32460the strait between Capes Criumeto-
32461pon and Carambis, 3. 235; visible
32462from Haemus Mountain, 3. 251;
32463Dioscurias occupies the most easterly
32464point of, 5. 209; numerous colonies
32465of Miletus on, 6. 207
32466Euxynthetus,
32467lover
32468of the Cretan
32469Leucocomas, 5. 139
32470Evander, mythical Arcadian founder
32471of Rome, 2. 385
32472Evanthes, founder
32473of Locri Epize-
32474phyriiin Italy (about 700 B.C.), 3. 29
32475Evenus (formerly
32476called Lycormas,
32477now Fidari) River, the, in Aetolia,
32478empties into the sea, 3. 311, 4. 15,
324795. 29; 630 stadia from Mt. Chalcis
32480and 670 from Actium, 5. 63
32481Evenus River, the, flows past Pitané
32482in Mysia in Asia, 6. 131
32483Evergetae, the, in Asia, visited by
32484τ Alexander, 7. 145
32485Evergreens, the, abundant in Armenia,
324865. 322: found in India, 7. 97, and
32487in Gordyaea, 7. 233
32488“* Evoe saboe,’’ a cry uttered in the
32489ritual of Sabazius and the Mother,
324905. 109
32491Excision, a Judaean rite, 7. 285;
32492a
32493rite of the Aegyptians, 8. 153
32494Exedra, the, of the Museum at Alex-
32495andria, 8. 35
32496Exitanians (see “ Sex ’’ and ‘* Hexi’”’),
32497the city of the, in Iberia, 2. 81, 135
32498F
32499Fabaria the island (see Borkum)_
32500-
32501Fabius Maximus Cunctator (consul 233
32502. and 228 B.C., and appointed dic-
p. 347
32503INDEX OF NAMES, PLACES, AND SUBJECTS
32504tator 217 B.C.), removed the colossal
32505statue of Heracles from Tarentum
32506to Rome, 3. 107
32507Fabius
32508the
32509historian
32510(the Quintus
32511Fabius Pictor, who fl. about 220 B.c.,
32512oldest Roman annalist, and wrote
32513his work in Greek, or possibly the
32514Fabius Pictor, a later annalist, who
32515wrote his work in Latin);
32516on the
32517wealth of the Sabini, 2. 377
32518Falerii, a town in Italy, 2. 365
32519Falernian wine, the, 2. 399, 437
32520Faliscum, Aequum, in Italy, 2. 365,
32521367
32522Famine, because of mice, or rats, in
32523Cantabria, 2. 113; avoided in Italy
32524by unfailing supply of millet in
32525Cisalpine Celtica, 2.331; among the
32526Sabini, 2. 465
32527Fanary, Cape (see Parthenium)
32528Fanum Fortunae (see Fortune, Temple
32529of)
32530Fasces, the Roman; the use of, trans-
32531ferred from Tarquinia, 2. 339
32532Faustulus, the swineherd who reared
32533Romulus and Remus, 2. 381
32534Faventia (Faenza), on the Aemilian
32535Way, 2. 327
32536Fawns, the, in India, 7. 125
32537Felicudi (see Phoenicaceae)
32538Fennel (see Hippomarathi)
32539Fennel
32540(Marathon)
32541Plain,
32542the,
32543in
32544Iberia, 2. 95
32545Feodosia (see Theodosia)
32546Ferentinum, a town in Italy, 2. 365;
32547on the Latin Way, 2. 411
32548Fermo (see Firmum Picenum)
32549Feronia (Sant’ Antimo), at the foot
32550of Mt. Soracte; remarkable sacred
32551rites at, 2. 367
32552Ferrajo, Porto, in Aethalia (Elba) (see
32553Argoiis)
32554Ferrets, Libyan, bred for the destruc-
32555tion of hares, 2. 35; in Maurusia,
32556as large as cats, 8. 163
32557Festi, a former boundary of Roman
32558territory, 2. 383
32559Fidari River, the (see Evenus River)
32560Fidenae (Serpentara) near Veii, 2. 365,
32561383
32562Fig; the ‘* Antiocheian’’ dried, pro-
32563duced in great quantities at Antio-
32564cheia on the Maeander, 6. 189; the
32565sycamorus in Aegypt like a, 8. 149
32566“* Fig-tree, Under the’’ (now Galata),
32567a harbour five stadia from the Horn
32568of the Byzantines, 3. 281
32569Fig-tree, the, in Hyrcania;
32570produc-
32571tivity of, 1. 273, 5. 251; a tree in
32572Celtica like, whose sap is deadly,
325732. 251
32574Fig-trees, wild, abundant below the
32575ancient site of Ilium, 6. 71
32576Filibedjik (see Philippi)
32577Fimbria, Roman quaestor (86 B.C.),
32578slew the consul Valerius Flaccus in
32579Asia, assumed
32580command
32581of the
32582Roman army, and ruined Ilium, but
32583was overthrown by Sulla, 6. 55
32584Finisterre, Cape (see Nerium)
32585Fire, worshipped by the Persians, 7.175
32586Firmum Picenum (Fermo), in Pice-
32587num, 2. 429
32588Fish; caught in the ice at the Strait
32589of Kertch, 3. 225;
32590the skins of,
32591used as wraps and bed-covers in
32592Pharusia in Libya, 8. 169
32593Fish-salting industry, the, in Turde-
32594tania and about the Pontus, 2. 15,
3259533;
32596at New Carthage, 2. 89;
32597in
32598Elea in Italy, 8.5; on Lake Lych-
32599nidus, 3. 309; at Zuchis in Libya,
326008. 195
32601Flaminian Way, the, 2. 367, 371
32602Flamininus, Titus Quintius, conquered
32603Philip the son of Demetrius and
32604king of Macedonia at Oynoscephalae
32605in Thessaly, 4. 445
32606Flaminius, Gaius, the Elder (consul
32607223 and 217 B.O.), conquered by
32608Hannibal, 2. 369
32609Flaminius, Gaius, the Younger (consul
32610with Marcus Lepidus 187 B.c.), the
32611builder of the Flaminian Way, from
32612Rome to Ariminum, 2. 331
32613Flax, sown in rainy seasons in India,
326147. 21
32615Fleece, the golden; an explanation of
32616the origin of myth of, 5. 215
32617Flute, the, used by the Illyrian Dar-
32618danians,
326193. 265; invented by Sei-
32620lenus and Marsyas and Olympus,
326215. 103, 105;
32622the ‘* bombyces,’’ 5,
32623107; the Berecyntian and Phrygian,
326245. 109
32625Flute-players, and citharists, played
32626the accompaniment to the Pythian
32627Nome at Delphi, 4. 363
32628Flute-reed, the, produced by a marsh
32629in Boeotia, 4. 325
32630335
p. 348
32631INDEX OF NAMES, PLACES, AND SUBJECTS
32632Formiae (Mola di Gaeta), in Italy, 2.
32633395; founded by the Laconians, and
32634formerly called Hormiae, 2. 397
32635Fortune, the Temple of (Fanum For-
32636tunae); on the Metaurus River, 2.
32637371;
32638at Praeneste, noted
32639for its
32640oracles, 2. 417; two temples of, on
32641Latin Way, 2. 461; at Rome, built
32642by Leucullus
32643and
32644adorned
32645with
32646statues brought from Corinth by
32647Mummius, 4. 201, 203
32648Foruli(Civita Tommasa), in the Sabine
32649country, 2. 375
32650Forum, the Roman;
32651the temple of
32652the Dioscuri (Castor and Pollux)
32653in, 2. 393; description of, 2. 409
32654Forum
32655Cornelium
32656(Imola),
32657on
32658the
32659Aemilian Way, 2. 327
32660Forum Flaminium, 2. 373
32661Forum Julium (Fréjus), in Gallia Nar-
32662bonensis, a naval station 600 stadia
32663from Massalia, 2. 191
32664Forum Sempronium, on the Flaminian
32665Way, 2. 373
32666France (see Celtica)
32667Frankincense, used in Pisidia, 5. 483 ;
32668produced
32669in the region
32670of Cape
32671Deiré, 7. 333; in the country of the
32672Sabaeans in Arabia, 7. 347;
32673pro-
32674duced from trees, 7. 365
32675Fregellae (Ceprano), in Latium, form-
32676erly a famous city, 2. 397, 413
32677Fregena (Maccaresa), a town between
32678Cossa and Ostia, 2. 363
32679Frentani, country of the, borders on
32680Apulia, 8. 127, 135
32681Frigid Zone, the, the diet of the people
32682near, 2. 261
32683Frigid Zones, the; uninhabitable be-
32684cause of the cold, 1. 371
32685Frosts, the; severe at mouth of Lake
32686Maeotis, 1. 277, 3. 225
32687Frusino, on the Latin Way, 2. 411
32688Fucinus, Lake (Lago di Fucino), like
32689@ sea in size, 2. 425
32690Fundanian wine, the, 2. 399
32691Fundi (Fondi), on the Appian Way,
326922. 399
32693[εἰ
32694Gale in Persis; the royal palace at,
3269517. 59
32696Gabala, a town in Syria, near Laodi-
32697ceia, 7. 255
32698336
32699Gabales, the, a tribe in Aquitania,
327002. 217
32701Gabiané,
32702a province
32703of Elamais in
32704Asia, 7. 223
32705Gabii (Castiglione), between the Latin
32706and Valerian Ways, on the Praenes-
32707tine Way, and equidistant from
32708Rome and Praeneste;
32709has a great
32710stone-quarry, 2. 415, 417
32711Gabinius
32712(consul
3271358 B.C., proconsul
32714of Syria 57 B.C.), slew Archelatis
32715and restored Ptolemy to his king-
32716dom, 5. 437;
32717deceived by Arche-
32718laiis,
327198.
3272045;
32721restored
32722Ptolemy
32723Auletes to his throne, 8. 47
32724Gabinius, the Roman historian, tells
32725marvellous stories about Maurusia,
327268. 171
32727Gabreta Forest (Bohmer Wald, Forest
32728of the Bohemians);
32729geographical
32730position of, 3. 165
32731Gadaris in Phoenicia, seized by the
32732Judaeans, 7. 277; noxious lake at,
327337. 297
32734Gadeira (or Gades, now Cadiz), ship-
32735masters from, sailed beyond mouth
32736of Lixus River (in Maurusia), and
32737visited by Eudoxus of Cyzicus, 1.
32738381;
32739outside the Pillars, 1. 493;
32740separated from Turdetania by narrow
32741strait, and distant from Calpé about
32742750 stadia, 2. 17; distance from, to
32743Sacred Cape, 2. 19, 49; fame of,
32744due to being allies of the Romans,
327452. 21; identified with ancient Ery-
32746theia, 2. 49; stories of merchants
32747of, about the Lotus-eaters, 2. 83;
32748whither runs the main road, 2. 97;
32749description
32750of, 2. 129-157;
32751geo-
32752graphical position of, 2. 129; the
32753founding of, by the Tyrians, 2. 135;
32754regarded by many as containing the
32755Pillars of Heracles, and as being the
32756end of land and sea, 2. 137; has a
32757peculiar kind of tree, 2. 155, 157
32758Gaditanian Knights, the 500, 2. 131
32759Gaditanians, the; habits and numbers
32760of, 2. 131; recall an oracle on the
32761founding of Gades by the Tyrians,
327622. 135
32763Gaéta (see Caita)
32764Gaetulians, the, largest of the Libyan
32765tribes, 8. 159;
32766live deep in the
32767interior of Libya, 8. 173, 195
32768Gaezatae, the, one of the largest tribes
p. 349
32769INDEX OF NAMES, PLACES, AND SUBJECTS
32770of the Celti;
32771once seized Roman
32772territory, 2. 311, in Cispadana, 2.
32773323; destroyed by the Romans, 2.
32774325
32775Gaius
32776Julius,
32777son
32778of Eurycles the
32779Lacedaemonian ruler, 4, 139
32780Galabrii, the, a Dardanian tribe in
32781Illyria, thought to be the ancestors
32782of the Italian Calabrians;
32783have an
32784ancient city, 3. 265
32785Galactophagi (*‘ Curd-eaters ’’), the Ho-
32786meric, are wagon-dwelling Scythians
32787and Sarmatians, 3. 179, 181, 189,
32788195, 197, 205, 209, 243, 5. 419; by
32789Apollodorus called a fabrication of
32790Homer, 5. 423
32791Galata, the Harbour of (see “ Fig-tree,
32792Under the’’)
32793Galatia;
32794in Greater Phrygia, a terri-
32795tory seized by Tectosages from Cel-
32796tica, who were “‘ Galatians ’’ (Gauls),
327972. 205; description and history of,
327985. 467-473; has three tribes, 5. 467,
32799471;
32800bas
32801a Council
32802and
32803twelve
32804Tetrarchs, 5. 469
32805Galatians (Gauls), the; emigrations of,
328061. 227; inhabit country as far west
32807as Gades, according to Hratosthenes,
328081. 411; rank their mines with those
32809of Turditanians,
328102. 41;
32811language
32812and physique of, 2. 163;
32813trained
32814by the Massaliotes to write Greek,
328152. 179; as a whole, by the Greeks
32816called ‘* Celti,’’ 2. 211; the fourteen
32817tribes of, between the Garumna and
32818Liger, 2. 213; in common dedicated
32819temple to Augustus at Lugdunum,
328202. 223; the Cisalpine, accorded civic
32821rights
32822by the Romans,
328232. 299;
32824defeated Rome (390 B.C.), 2. 339,
32825341; captured Rome, 3. 141; the
32826“* Genuine ”’ (i.e. Germans), 3. P53;
32827the Scordiscan,
328283. 169;
32829in Asia,
32830extent of territory of, 5. 345;
32831in
32832Asia, given over to the hereditary
32833Tetrarchs by Pompey, 5. 373; some
32834of, settled in Paphlagonia, 5. 383;
32835overran the country subject to the
32836Attalic and Bithynian kings in Asia
32837Minor, and
32838finally,
32839by voluntary
32840cession, received the present Galatia,
328415. 469; occupied a part of Greater
32842Phrygia, 5. 485; onsets of, in Asia
32843Minor, 5. 495; who crossed over to
32844Asia, found Ilium lacking in walls,
328456. 53; conquered by Attalus I, 6.
32846167; tribe of, said by Apollodorus
32847to be more recent than the time of
32848Ephorus, 6. 361, 367
32849Galatic Gulf (Gulf of Lyons), the, on
32850the southern side of Celtica, 1. 491,
328512. 5, 181, 215
32852Galatic Gulfs, the two, 2. 119
32853Galatic (Gallic, or Celtic) race (the
32854Gauls, the); the traits and habits of,
328552. 237-249;
32856are war-mad, 2. 237;
32857are akin to the Germans, 2. 239;
32858the armour of, 2. 241; structure of
32859the homes of,
328602. 243; havethreesets
32861of men who are held in particular
32862honour, 2. 245;
32863barbaric customs
32864of, 2. 247
32865Galatic tribes, the, beyond the Rhenus
32866and Celtica, 3. 151, 153
32867Galaxidi (see Oeantheia)
32868Galazze (see Calatia)
32869Galeotae, the;
32870a kind of fish caught
32871in the Strait of Messina, also called
32872sword-fish and dog-fish, 1. 87
32873Galepsus, between the mouths of the
32874Strymon and Nestus Rivers, 3. 355;
32875rased to the ground by Philip, 3. 359
32876Galilee, 7. 281
32877Gallesius, Mt., between Ephesus and
32878Colophon, 6. 233
32879Galli, the (priests of Cybelé), eunuchs
32880at the Plutonium at Hierapolis in
32881Phrygia, 6. 187
32882Gallia Aquitanica (see Aquitania)
32883Gallia Belgica, 2. 167 (footnote 2), 223
32884Gallia Lugdunensis, 2. 167 (footnote
328851), 223 (footnote 3)
32886Gallia Narbonensis (see Narbonitis)
32887Gallikos River (see Echedorus River)
32888Gallipoli (see Callipolis)
32889Gallo, Cape (see Acritas)
32890Gallo-Graecia, a part of Phrygia in
32891Asia Minor, ceded to the Galatae,
328921. 497, 5. 469
32893Gallus, Aelius (see Aelius Gallus)
32894Gallus,
32895Cornelius
32896(see
32897Cornelius
32898Gallus)
32899Gallus
32900River,
32901the,
32902which
32903rises
32904at
32905Modra
32906in Phrygia
32907Hellespontica,
32908joins the Sangarius, 5. 379
32909Gamabrivii,
32910the, an indigent German
32911tribe, 3. 159
32912Gambarus, competent ruler in Syria,
329131. 255
32914Games, the Actian, at Nicopolis in
32915337
p. 350
32916INDEX OF NAMES, PLACES, AND SUBJECTS
32917Greece, 3. 305; the Eleutherian, at
32918Plataea, where the victor received a
32919crown, 4. 327; the Nemean, 4. 187;
32920the Olympian, 4 87, 91-95;
32921the
32922Pythian, 4. 361; the quinquennial,
329234t Neapolis
32924near
32925Alexandria
32926in
32927Aegypt, 8. 41
32928Gandaris in India, subject to Porus,
329297. 53
32930Gandaritis, a district in India, 7. 45
32931Gangamé, an instrument with which
32932fish are caught in the ice at the
32933Strait of Kertch, 3. 225
32934Ganges, the city, in India, 7. 125
32935Ganges River, the, in India, 7. 17;
32936has many tributaries, and is the
32937largest river in India, 7. 19; largest
32938of all rivers, 7. 61, 63; course of,
329397. 125
32940Gangitis, a stone found in Gordyaea
32941which
32942is avoided
32943by reptiles, 7.
32944233
32945Gangra, a small town and fortress in
32946Paphlagonia, residence of Morzeus,
329475. 453
32948Ganymede, snatched away either at
32949Harpagia
32950or
32951at
32952the
32953Dardanian
32954Promontory in the Troad, 6. 27, 59
32955Garabuza, Cape (see Cimarus)
32956Garamantes, the, in Libya; geograph-
32957ical position of land of, 8. 195, 207,
32958209
32959Gardiki (see Larisa Kremasté)
32960Gardinitza (see Opus in Lecris)
32961Garescus in Macedonia,
32962one of the
32963cities destroyed by Cassander, 3.
32964343, 361
32965Gargano (see Garganum)
32966Garganum
32967(Gargano),
32968the promon-
32969tory, in Apulia, 3. 131;
32970distance
32971from, to Brundisium, 3. 133; the
32972deep gulf at, 3. 135
32973Gargara in Aeolis in Asia; territory
32974of, 6. 13, 99; onthe Gulf of Adramyt-
32975tium, 6. 103, 115; founded by the
32976people of Assus, 6. 117
32977Gargarians, the, live on the borders
32978τοῦ the Amazons, 5. 233;
32979cohabit
32980with
32981the Amazons,
32982and
32983live
32984in
32985Themiscyra, 5. 235
32986Gargarum, a place high up on Mt. Ida,
329876. 13
32988Gargarus, Mt., the Homeric, a sum-
32989mit of Mt. Ida, 6. 11
32990Gargettus (near
32991Garito
32992in Attica),
32993338
32994where the headless body of Eurys-
32995theus was buried, 4. 187
32996Garindaeans, the, in Arabia, coast of,
329977. 343
32998Garmanes (Sramans), the, in India,
329997.99; life and tenets of, 7. 103
33000Garonne River, the (see Garumna)
33001Garsauira, a town on the borders of
33002Lycaonia, said once to have been
330038 metropolis, 5. 359
33004Garsaiira in Cappadocia, near Soatra,
330055. 475; the road through, 6. 309
33006Garsauritis, oue of the ten prefectures
33007of Cappadocia, 5. 349
33008Garumna
33009(Garonne)
33010River,
33011the,
33012navigable
33013and
33014empties
33015into
33016the
33017ocean,
330182.
33019211;
33020approximately
33021parallel to the Pyrenees, 2. 213;
33022whence is one of the four passages
33023to Britain, 2. 253
33024Gascogne, Gulf of, 1. 491 (footnote 2)
33025Gastuniotikos River, the (see Peneius
33026River, the, in Elis)
33027“‘ Gasys,’’ a Paphlagonian name used
33028in Cappadocia, 5. 415
33029Gaudos, 3. 103;
33030called the Isle of
33031Calypso by Callimachus, 3. 193
33032Gaugamela
33033(‘‘Camel’s
33034House’’),
330358
33036village in Aturia, where Dareius was
33037conquered and lost his empire, 7.
33038197
33039Gauls, the (see Galatic race, Celti, and
33040Galatians)
33041Gaza, in Phoenicia, harbour and city,
330427. 277; sandy country of, 7. 279
33043Gazaca (near Leilan), royal summer
33044residence of kings of Atropatian
33045Media, 5. 305
33046Gazacené
33047in
33048Cappadocia;
33049Paphla-
33050gonian names prevalent in, 5. 417
33051Gazaeans, the, a tribe in Syria, 7. 239
33052Gazelles
33053(see
33054Deer),
33055the,
33056in
33057the
33058Scythian plains, 3. 249; many, in
33059Gazelonitis in Cappadocia Pontica,
330605. 393; in India, 7. 125; horns of,
33061used as weapons by the Simi in
33062Aethiopia, 7.325; in Arabia, 7. 343 ;
33063abound in Maurusia in Libya, 8. 163
33064Gazelon, a city in Gazelonitisin Cappa-
33065docia Pontica, 5. 395
33066Gazelonitis
33067in Cappadocia
33068Pontica,
33069fertile, level, and has gazelles and
33070fine sheep, 5. 393;
33071Paphlagonian
33072names prevalent ia, 5, 417; boun-
33073daries of, 5. 443
p. 351
33074INDEX OF NAMES, PLACES, AND SUBJECTS
33075Gaziura in Cappadocia Pontica, an
33076ancient royal residence now deserted,
330775. 397
33078Gedroseni, the, in Asia, 7. 143
33079Gedrosia, land of the Ichthyophagi.
330801. 501; produces spices, nard, and
33081myrrh, 7. 133;
33082geographical posi-
33083tion of, 7. 141; often suilers crop
33084failures, 7. 153
33085Gedrosii,
33086the, in Asia, geographical
33087position of, 7. 143
33088Gela in Campania (see Acherrae)
33089Gela (near Terranova) in Sicily, no
33090longer inhabited, 3. 83
33091Gelae,
33092the,
33093in Asia;
33094geographical
33095position of, 5. 233, 249, 259
33096Gelo, tyrant of Syracuse, visited by
33097Magus, a navigator, 1. 377; drove
33098the Chalcidians out of Euboea in
33099Sicily, 5. 23
33100Geloans, the, possess Acragas, 3. 81
33101Genauni, the;
33102geographical position
33103of the, 2. 281
33104Genetes
33105River, the, in Cappadocia
33106Pontica, 5. 399
33107Genethlialogists (or astrologers), the
33108Chaldaean, 7. 203
33109Gennesaritis, Lake, in Syria, 7. 261
33110Genua
33111(Genoa),
33112situated
33113near
33114the
33115beginning of the Alps and the Apen-
33116nines, being the emporium of the
33117Ligures, 2. 263, 267; inhabited by
33118Ligures, 2. 271, 303; the road from,
33119to Placentia, 2. 329
33120“Geographer, the’’ (Strabo), gruffly
33121asserts that Homer’s ‘“‘Aea’’ is a
33122certain spring, and not
33123‘‘ earth,”’
331248. 347
33125Geography, science of, and utility of,
331261. 3, 31, 37; definition of, 1. 27;
33127blunders from
33128ignorance
33129of, and
33130successes from knowledge of, 1. 35,
3313137; more important than political
33132science, and should lean to utility,
331331. 39;
33134involves
33135a knowledge
33136of
33137geometry and astronomy,
331381. 41;
33139knowledge of, enlarged by spread
33140of empires,
331411. 49;
33142revised
33143by
33144Eratosthenes,
331451. 231;
33146division of
33147earth into five zones in harmony
33148with, 1. 369; seeks to define boun-
33149daries of inhabited world by one of
33150the two temperate zones, 1. 371;
33151must take for granted certain physi-
33152cal and mathematical principles, 1.
33153419;
33154must rely on geometry, as
33155geometry
33156on astronomy,
33157and
33158as-
33159tronomy on physics,
331601. 423;
33161the
33162proper task of, 1. 455, 465, 505;
33163inquires into relative positions of
33164countries, 1. 469; scope of, 1. 505,
331652. 167, 3. 9, 133, 4. 417, 5. 497;
33166difficulties
33167of, in the matter
33168of
33169determining boundaries, 3. 291; the
33170dry part of, 6. 211; subject treated
33171in a poem of Alexander of Ephesus,
331726. 231; rivers useful in the matter
33173of boundariesin, 7.43; the province
33174of 7. 67
33175Geometry ; fundamentaltogeography,
331761. 423, 429; Eudoxus of Cnidus an
33177expert in, 4. 241; invented by the
33178Aegyptians, 7. 271; originated in
33179Aegypt, 8. 11
33180Georgi
33181(‘‘Farmers’’),
33182the,
33183in
33184the
33185Tauric Chersonesus, 3. 243; some-
33186times engage in piracy, 3. 245
33187Gephyraeans, the;
33188another name of
33189the Tanagraeans, 4. 293
33190Geraestus (Mandilo), Cape, in Euboea,
33191about
331921200
33193stadia
33194from
33195Cape
33196Cenaeum,
331975.
331983;
33199mentioned
33200by
33201Homer, and has a notable temple
33202of Poseidon, 5. 11
33203Gerania (Makriplagi) Mt., 4. 195 (see
33204footnote 5)
33205Geranius, a river called, in Coelé Elis,
332064. 33
33207Gerena (or Gerenia), in Messenia, falsi-
33208fied by certain writers as being the
33209home of the Gerenian
33210Nestor, 3.
33211193, 4. 33, 85, 113
33212Gerenia, by some identified with the
33213Homeric Enopé, 4. 115
33214Gerenus, a place called, in Coelé Elis,
332154. 33
33216Geres, a Boeotian, founder of Teos,
332176. 201
33218Gergitha,
33219near
33220the sources
33221of the
33222Caicus, whither Attalus transferred
33223the Gergithians of the Troad, 6.
33224139
33225Gergitha in the Troad, colonised from
33226the Cymaean Gergithes, 6. 35
33227Gergithes, in the territory of Cymé,
33228founded Gergitha in the Troad, 6.
3322935
33230Gergithians, the, in the Troad, trans-
33231ferred to Gergitha near the sources
33232of the Caicus, 6. 139
33233339
p. 352
33234INDEX OF NAMES, PLACES, AND SUBJECTS
33235Gergithium, in the territory of Lamp-
33236sacus, rich in vines, 6. 35
33237Gergithium, in the territory of Cymé
33238near Phryconian Larissa, 6. 37
33239Gergovia
33240(Gergovie),
33241near
33242which
33243Julie Caesar fought Vercingetorix,
33244. 219
33245Gergovie (see Gergovia)
33246Germanic
33247tribes,
33248the,
33249beyond
33250the
33251Rhenus
33252and
33253the
33254Ister,
332553. 151,
33256153
33257Germanic War, the, 2. 231
33258Germanicus, the Younger, son of Nero
33259Claudius Drusus and Antonia;
33260his
33261triumph over the Cherusci, 3. 161
33262Germanicus, son of Tiberius Caesar,
33263assists his father, 3. 147
33264Germans, the, joined by the Sequani
33265in their war upon Italy, 2. 225;
33266Kinsmen
33267of the
33268Gauls,
332692.
33270239;
33271country of, overrun by Italians, 2.
33272281;
33273now
33274being fought by the
33275Romans, 3. 143;
33276called Germani
33277(‘‘Genuine’’
33278Galatae)
33279by
33280the
33281Romans, 3. 153; the country and
33282tribes of, 3. 153-173; enemies to
33283the Romans, 3. 217
33284Germany, divided into two parts by
33285Albis River, 1.51; bounded by the
33286Rhine and Danube, 1. 491, 493
33287Geron, a river in Coelé Elis, 4. 33
33288“* Gerontes’’ (‘‘ old men’’), the word
33289for “‘senators’’ among the Laco-
33290nians and the Massaliotes, 3. 323;
33291in Crete and Sparta, 5. 151, 159
33292Gerrha in Arabia, on the road from
33293Phoenicia to Aegypt, 7. 279;
33294in-
33295habited by Chaldaeans exiled from
33296Babylon, 7. 303
33297Gerrha in Phoenicia, formerly covered
33298with shoal water, 1. 185, 207
33299Gerrhaeans,
33300the,
33301convey
33302aromatics
33303from Arabia to Palestine, 7. 343;
33304riches of, 7. 349
33305Gerrhaeidae, a harbour, 30 stadia from
33306Teos, 6. 239
33307Geryon, the neat-herd of, 2. 49; kine
33308of, sought by Heracles, 2. 57, 385,
33309445;
33310adventures of, in Erytheia,
333112. 133
33312“ Geta,’
33313the name
33314given
33315a Getan
33316slave in Attica, 3. 213
33317Getans,
33318the;
33319border
33320on the Ister
33321River, 1. 493;
33322geographical posi-
33323tion of, 8. 173; precise boundaries
33324340
33325of, uncertain, 3.175;
33326religion among,
33327and abstention
33328of, from meat, 3.
33329185; have regarded their priest, or
33330the counsellor of the king, as god,
333313. 187; held the region on the far
33332side of the Ister, 3. 201; straight-
33333forwardness of, 3. 203; expedition
33334of Lysimachus against, 3. 203, 217;
33335history of, 3. 211-217; the language
33336of, the same as that of the Dacians,
333373. 215; the Desert of, flat and water-
33338less, 3. 217, 221; border on the
33339Ister, 3. 251; regarded the prophets
33340Zameolxis and Decaeneus as gods,
333417. 289
33342Gezatorix, the country of, in western
33343Paphlagonia, 5. 451
33344Ghuiloje More (see Sapra, Lake)
33345Giants, the, in the Phlegraean Plain,
333462.
33347439,
33348447;
33349the
33350lLeuternian,
33351shrouded
33352by Mother
33353Earth
33354at
33355Leuca, 3. 119; in earlier times lived
33356on Pallené (the Macedonian penin-
33357sula now called Kassandra), 3. 349,
33358351; attacked Aphrodité at Phana-
33359goreia near the Cimmerian Bosporus,
33360but were slain by Heracles, 5. 201
33361Gibraltar (see Calpé), the strait at, for-
33362merly non-existent and how formed,
333631. 183, 191, 207
33364Gigartus, a stronghold of robbers at
33365foot of Mt. Libanus, 7. 263
33366Gindarus in Syria, 7. 247
33367“‘Ginni’’ (stunted horses or mules),
33368the, among the Ligures, 2. 267
33369Giraffe (see Camelopard)
33370Girdles, the, of the Amazons, made
33371of skins of wild animals, 5, 233;
33372made of hair in Aethiopia, 8. 147
33373Gladiators, the Roman,
33374trained
33375at
33376healthful
33377Ravenna,
333782. 315;
33379ex-
33380travagantly
33381entertained
33382by
33383the
33384Campani, 2. 467
33385Glass-sand, the, in Phoenicia, 7. 271
33386Glass vessels, imported to Britain from
33387Celtica, 2. 259
33388Glass-ware, the, at Rome, 7. 273
33389Glass-workers, the, at Alexandria, 7.
33390273
33391Glaucé (not named), the spring at
33392Corinth, connected with Peirené,
333934, 193
33394Glaucias the tyrant, fled for refuge to
33395Sidené in time of Croesus, 6. 83
33396Glaucopium, falsified by some writers,
p. 353
33397INDEX OF NAMES, PLACES, AND SUBJECTS
33398according to Callimachus,
333993. 193
33400(see footnote 11)
33401Glaucus of Anthedon;
33402the scene of
33403the myth
33404of, near Anthedon,
334054,
33406299
33407Glaucus of Potniae near Thebes, who
33408was torn to pieces by the Potnian
33409mares, 4. 313
33410Glaucus, the Gulf, in southern Asia
33411Minor, 6. 265
33412Glaucus
33413Pontius
33414(the
33415Greek
33416text
33417should be emended to read Potnius
33418or Potnieus
33419instead
33420of Pontius),
33421the, of Aeschylus, 5. 15
33422Glaucus River, the, empties into the
33423Phasis, 5. 211, 219
33424Glissas, the Homeric, a settlement in
33425Mt. Hypatus in Boeotia, 4. 327
33426Globe,
33427the,
33428of Crates;
33429with
33430map
33431thereon, 1. 449
33432“* Glossographer,”’ the;
33433of Lampsacus, 6. 37
33434Glycera
33435the
33436courtesan,
33437native
33438of
33439Thespiae, dedicated to the Thespians
33440the Eros of Praxiteles which the
33441latter gave her, 4. 319
33442Glycys Limen
33443(‘‘ Sweet Harbour ’’)
33444in Epeirus, into which the Acheron
33445River empties,
334463. 299
33447Gnathia (see Egnatia)
33448Gnats, the, ‘‘ which spring from the
33449flames and sparks at mines,’’
334505.
33451323; large, drive the lions out of a
33452certain region of Aethiopia at time
33453of rising of dog-star, 7. 321
33454Gnomon, the; relation of, to shadow,
334551. 267, 289; casts no shadow at mid-
33456day at summer tropic in Syené, 8.
33457129
33458Goat, a, nursed Zeus at Aegium in
33459Achaea, 4, 223
33460Goats;
33461the Scyrian are excellent, 4.
33462427; small in Aethiopia, 8. 143
33463God, the true, according to Moses, 7.
33464283;
33465worshipped as the immortal
33466being by the Aethiopians, 8. 147
33467Gogany, Mt., near Mika (see Cogaeo-
33468n
33469Neoptolemus
33470um
33471Gogarené in Armenia;
33472geographical
33473position
33474of, 5. 321;
33475annexed
33476to
33477Armenia, 5. 325
33478Gold, mined at Cotinae in Iberia, 2.
3347925;
33480greatest
33481quantity
33482and
33483best
33484quality
33485of, found
33486in Turdetania,
33487and
33488how
33489obtained,
334902.
3349139,
3349241;
33493found in the Cemmenus (Cevennes)
33494Mountains, and at the foot of the
33495Pyrenees, and in gold-dust in form
33496of nuggets, 2. 41;
33497‘‘ white gold,”
33498effloresces from the soil in Artabria,
334992. 45; produced in Britain, 2. 255;
33500mines of, in Bastetania in Iberia, 2.
3350181;
33502abundant
33503in land of Tecto-
33504sages,
335052. 205;
33506bullion found
33507at
33508Tolosa (Toulouse), 2. 207; abund-
33509ant among the Tarbelliin Aquitania,
335102. 215; washing of, in land of the
33511Salassi, 2. 277;
33512found in land of
33513Noric Taurisci, 2. 291; mine of, at
33514Vercelli in Italy, 2. 333; obtained
33515by means
33516of troughs and fleecy
33517skins
33518in
33519the
33520Caucasus,
335215. 215;
33522abundant in the land of the Massa-
33523getae in Asia, 5. 267; inthe country
33524of Musicanus in India, 7. 61; said
33525to be mined by ants (ant-lions) in
33526India, 7. 65, 121; abundant among
33527Sabaeans and Gerrhaeans in Arabia,
335287. 349, and among Nabataeans in
33529Arabia,
335307.
33531369;
33532found
33533on
33534the
33535island Meroé in the Nile, 8. 143
33536Gold-dust, once brought down in great
33537quantities by the Pactolus River in
33538Lydia, 6. 173;
33539carried down by
33540rivers in India, 7. 97, 121;
33541by a
33542riverin Carmania, 7.153; by ariver
33543in the country
33544of the Debae
33545in
33546Arabia, 7, 345
33547Gold mines, the, in Pithecussae, 2.
33548457;
33549at Datum, and in Crenides,
33550in Macedonia, 3. 355;
33551in Syspiritis
33552in Armenia,
335535. 329;
33554at Astyra
33555above Abydus in the Troad, now
33556scant, like those on Mt. Tmolus, 6.
3355745; source of Priam’s wealth, 6. 369 ;
33558in India,
335597. 53, 77;
33560in Arabia,
33561contain beryls and emeralds, 7. 351
33562Gold nuggets, found in land of Paconia,
335638. 355;
33564of large size, found in a
33565certain region in Arabia, 7. 345;
33566uses and sale of, 7. 347
33567Gold-solder (see Chrysocolla)
33568Gold-washing and iron-works in the
33569land of Aquileia and the Eneti, 2.
33570319
33571Golden fleece, the; an explanation of
33572origin of myth of, 5. 215
33573Golden
33574Horn,
33575the,
33576at
33577Byzantiura
33578(see Horn of the Byzantines)
33579Golden vessels, the, in India, 7, 123
33580341
p. 354
33581INDEX OF NAMES, PLACES, AND SUBJECTS
33582Gomphi (Palaeo-Episkopi), a strong-
33583hold in Thessaly, 4. 431
33584Gonnus, a Perrhaebian city, 4. 443
33585Gonoessa, the Homeric, 4. 185
33586Gorbeus, on the Sangarius Liver, in
33587Galatia, royal residence of Castor
33588the
33589son
33590of Saocondarius,
33591where
33592Deiotarus,
33593Castor’s
33594father-in-law,
33595slew him and his own daughter, 5.
33596473
33597Gordium, on the Sangarius River in
33598Galatia, 5.473; home of Cleon and
33599by him enlarged into acity, which he
33600named Juliopolis, 5. 497
33601Gordius, the king, once lived on the
33602Sangarius River, 5. 473
33603Gordus in the Troad, 6. 89
33604Gordyaea, borders on the Tigris, 5.
33605299; borders on Babylonia, 7. 203;
33606places in, assigned to Tigranes by
33607Pompey, 7. 231; very productive,
33608and a haunt of lions, 7. 233
33609Gordyaean Mountains, the, in Asia,
336105. 299
33611Gordyaeans,
33612the, by the
33613ancients
33614called
33615Carduchians;
33616subject
33617to
33618the king of Armenia, and later to
33619the Romans, 7. 231
33620Gordyené in Asia, stadia through, still
33621unmeasured, 1. 303;
33622geographical
33623position of, 5.321; said to have been
33624settled
33625by Gordys
33626the
33627son
33628of
33629Neoptolemus, 7. 233
33630Gordys, son of Triptolemus, said to
33631have settled in Gordyené in Asia,
336327. 233, 243
33633Gorgipia, in the Syndic territory, near
33634the Cimmerian Bosporus, 5, 199
33635Gorgon, the, myth of, 1. 69
33636Gorgons, the; home of, an invention,
336373. 191
33638Gorgus,
33639the
33640son
33641of Cypselus
33642the
33643tyrant
33644of Corinth, founded
33645Am-
33646bracia,
336473. 303;
33648with
33649his father
33650dug
33651canal
33652through
33653isthmus
33654of
33655Leucas, 5. 33
33656Gorgus, the mining expert, on the
33657gold and silver mines in India, 7.
3365853
33659Goritza (see Demetrias)
33660Gortyn (see Gortyna)
33661Gortyna (or Gortyn), one of the three
33662famous cities in Crete, 5. 127;
33663at
33664one
33665time
33666took
33667precedence
33668over
33669Cnossus,
336705. 129;
33671description
33672of,
33673342
336745. 137;
33675800 stadia from Cydonia,
336765. 139
33677Gortyniain Macedonia (see Gortynium)
33678Gortynians, the; war of, against the
33679Cnossians, 5. 135
33680Gortynium (or Gortynia)
33681in Mace-
33682donia, 3. 325
33683Gorys, a city in India, 7. 45
33684Goths, the (see Butones)
33685Governor, the, at Alba, a young noble,
336862. 379
33687Graces,
33688the;
33689temples
33690of, at
33691Or-
33692chomenus, 4. 337
33693Graea, the Homeric, in Boeotia, near
33694Oropus, by some
33695identified
33696with
33697Tanagra, 4. 183, 293, 319
33698Graecia, Magna, in Italy, occupied by
33699Greeks, 3.7
33700Grain, abundance of, exported from
33701Turdetania in Iberia, 2. 33;
33702not
33703produced in territory of Massalia,
337042.175
33705Granicus River, the, in the Troad,
337066. 5;
33707where
33708Alexander
33709utterly
33710defeated
33711the satraps
33712of Dareius,
337136. 27; rises in a hill of Mt. Ida, 6.
3371485, 87
33715Grape-vine, the; productivity of, in
33716Hyrcania, 1. 273;
33717does not grow
33718or else does not bear fruit about the
33719Borysthenes
33720or
33721in the
33722part of
33723Celtica on the ocean, 1. 275; buried
33724during winter in southern districts
33725of Celtica
33726and
33727about
33728Bosporus,
337291. 275, 277; the wild, in India, 7.
3373097
33731Grapes, produced in the territory of
33732Massalia, 2. 175; abundant in the
33733land of the Sabini, 2.375; bunches
33734of, two
33735cubits
33736(in length?)
33737in
33738Margiana,
337395. 279;
33740abundant
33741in
33742Themiscyra,
337435. 397;
33744among the
33745Sydracae in India, fall off before
33746they ripen because
33747of excessive
33748rains, 7. 11
33749Gras, great-grandson of Orestes, with
33750Aeolians occupied Lesbos, 6. 7
33751Grass, used as food by the Aethiopians,
337528. 143
33753Grass-hoppers (tetligae), the, on the
33754Halex River in Bruttium, 3. 33
33755Gravisci, a small town in Italy between
33756Cossa and Ostia, 2. 363
33757Gravity, the centre of, 1. 27, 41; the
33758law of, 1. 425
p. 355
33759INDEX OF NAMES, PLACES, AND SUBJECTS
33760Greece, education in, by poetry, 1.55;
33761a country of mountains and rocks,
337621. 487;
33763bounded by the Ister, 1.
33764493;
33765the more direct route from,
33766to Italy, is to Brundisium, 8, 123;
33767well known
33768by Homer,
337693. 195;
33770geographical
33771position
33772of, 3. 249;
33773the whole of, originally, and most
33774of now, inhabited by barbarians, 3.
33775287;
33776northern districts belonging
33777to, 8. 295; washed on two sides by
33778the Aegaean,
337793. 297;
33780in earliest
33781times
33782held by the Pelasgians, 3.
33783313;
33784includes Macedonia, 3. 327;
33785detailed description
33786of, 4. 3-395;
33787has the same
33788number
33789(four)
33790of
33791tribes as dialects, 4. 5; consists of
33792five peninsulas, 4. 9-13; as a whole
33793called ‘‘ Argos’’ by Homer, 4. 155,
33794163;
33795the three peninsulas of, 4.
33796239; the hegemony of, lost by the
33797Lacedaemonians in the battles at
33798Leuctra and Mantineia, 4, 335; the
33799“* omphalos’’ (‘‘ navel’’) at Delphi
33800the centre of, 4. 355;
33801Chalcis and
33802Corinth called ‘‘ the fetters’’’ of, by
33803Philip, 4. 391; with Thessaly and
33804other
33805lands
33806now
33807ἃ
33808praetorial
33809Province, 8, 215
33810Greek, onomatopoetic words abound
33811in, 6. 305
33812Greek culture, preserved at Neapolis,
338132. 449
33814Greek decorum and usages in Cumae
33815in Italy, 2. 439
33816Greeks, the, wrongly named the three
33817continents,
338181.
33819245;
33820as
33821against
33822barbarians,
338231. 247;
33824interested
33825in
33826government, arts, and in science of
33827living,
338281.
33829487;
33830upbuilders
33831of
33832Europe,
338331. 489;
33834custom
33835of, in
33836offering hecatombs, followed by the
33837Lusitanians in Iberia, 2. 75, and also
33838in marrying, 2. 77; most talkative
33839of men, 2. 117; most of, represent
33840Pillars of Heracles as near Strait of
33841Gibraltar, 2. 137;
33842beloved by the
33843Massaliotes,
338442. 179;
33845500 notable,
33846at Comum in Italy, 2.313; founded
33847Rome, according
33848to Coelius,
33849the
33850Roman historian, 2. 385;
33851kinship
33852of, with
33853the
33854Romans,
338552. 391;
33856had the repute of wisdom in choos-
33857ing sites of cities, 2. 405; founded
33858Praeneste
33859and
33860Tibur,
338612.
33862417;
33863sometimes
33864make
33865vows,
338662. 465;
33867occupied Magna Graecia in Italy,
338688.7; held the seaboard of Sicily, 3.
3386973;
33870call
33871Iapygia
33872‘‘ Messapia,”
338738. 103;
33874took sides with the Car-
33875thaginians,
33876and hence were later
33877subdued by the Romans, 8. 141,
33878143; named the Cimbri ‘‘ Cimmer-
33879ians,’’ 8. 169; supposed the Getans
33880were Thracians, 3. 175; regard the
33881Scythians
33882as
33883the most
33884straight-
33885forward of men, 3. 199, and held
33886in
33887high
33888esteem
33889Anacharsis
33890and
33891Abaris,
338928.
33893201;
33894once
33895received
338962,100,000 medimni of grain from
33897Leuco,
33898king
33899of
33900the
33901Cimmerian
33902Bosporians,
339033. 243;
33904certain
33905of,
33906inhabit the seaboard of the Pro-
33907pontis, the Hellespont, the Gulf of
33908Melas, and the Aegaean Sea, 3. 295;
33909call
33910the
33911Thracian
33912paeonismos
33913“‘titanismos,”’ 8. 363; as a whole
33914were called “ Argives’’ because of
33915the fame of Argos, 4. 163; wiped out
33916Mardonius and 300,000 Persians at
33917Plataea, 4. 325; the Thessalians the
33918most ancient composite part of, 4.
33919393; discussion of religion of, 5, 93;
33920callthe ministers of Rhea “ Curetes,”’
339215. 99; founded Panticapaeum and
33922other
33923cities
33924in
33925the
33926Cimmerian
33927Bosporus, 5. 197; call the boats of
33928certain Asiatic pirates ‘‘ camarae,”’
339295. 203;
33930knew the circuit of the
33931Caspian
33932Sea,
339335.
33934245;
33935caused
33936Bactria
33937to
33938revolt,
33939and
33940became
33941masters of Ariana and India, 5. 279;
33942took
33943possession
33944of Eucratidia
33945in
33946Bactria, and also held Sogdiana, 5.
33947251;
33948joined by the Sinopeans in
33949many struggles, 5. 387; migrations
33950and invasions of, in ancient times,
339515. 489;
33952inhabited Rhodes and Cos
33953before
33954the Trojan War, 5. 495;
33955colonised Asia, 6. 3, 5; witlessness
33956of, at Troy, 6. 71; rased Ilium to
33957the ground, 6. 83; Theophanes of
33958Mitylené the most illustrious of, 6.
33959145; the Rhodians friendly to, 6.
33960269; caused Bactriana to revolt from
33961the Syrian kings, 7.5; many beliefs
33962of, like those of the Indians, 7. 103;
33963avenged by Alexander in Persis, 7.
33964165;
33965learned geometry from the
33966Aegyptians
33967and
33968astronomy
33969and
33970343
p. 356
33971INDEX OF NAMES, PLACES, AND SUBJECTS
33972arithmetic
33973from
33974the Phoenicians,
339757. 271; according to Moses, wrong
33976in modelling gods in human form, 7.
33977283;
33978in their governments follow
33979the mandates of both gods and men,
339807.
33981287;
33982hated
33983by
33984the
33985earlier
33986Aegyptian kings, 8. 29; progenitors
33987of one class of the people at Alex-
33988andria, 8. 51; learn astronomy and
33989astrology from the Aegyptians and
33990Chaldaeans, 8. 85;
33991a colony
33992of,
33993settled by King Macipsas at Cirta in
33994Masylia in Libya, 8. 183
33995Grium, Mt., by some identified with
33996the Homeric
33997‘‘ mountain
33998of the
33999Phtheires,’’ 6. 209
34000Groats, made from Campanian wheat,
34001superior to rice or any other grain-
34002food, 2. 435
34003Grosphus, the, a kind of spear used by
34004the Gauls, 2. 243
34005Grumentum (Saponara) in Italy, 3. 11
34006Grynium in Asia Minor, where is a
34007temple of the Grynian Apollo, 6.
34008159
34009Guadalquivir River, the (see Baetis)
34010Guadiana River, the (see Anas)
34011Gubbio in Italy (see Iguvium)
34012Guinea-fowls,
34013the, on the fabulous
34014Electrides Islands, 2. 319; numer-
34015ous, on an island of Myus Harbour
34016in the Arabian Gulf, 7. 317
34017Gum, arabic (see Acantha)
34018Gum, a substance like, in Pisidia, used
34019as frankincense, 5. 483
34020Guneus, the domain of, in Thessaly,
340214. 443
34022Guranii, the, in Asia, 5. 335
34023Gurk River, the (see Corcoras)
34024Gyaros, one of the Cyclades Islands,
340255.165; the poverty of, 5. 167
34026Gygaea,
34027the
34028Homeric,
34029mother
34030of
34031Mnesthles and Antiphus, 6. 175
34032Gygaea (later called Coloé), Lake, the
34033Homeric, where is the temple of
34034Coloénian Artemis, 6. 173
34035Gygas, Cape, near Dardanus in the
34036Troad, 6. 41
34037Gyges, king of Lydia, deposited gifts
34038in treasure-house
34039at Delphi with
34040name
34041inscribed
34042thereon, 4 359;
34043permitted the Milesians to found
34044Abydus, 6. 41; source of wealth of,
340456. 371
34046Gymunasia, the, at Neapolis, 2. 449
34047344
34048Gymnasium,
34049the, near Nicopolis in
34050Epeirus, 3. 305; in the city Elis, 4.
3405123;
34052at Sinopé in Paphlagonia, 5.
34053389; at Nysain Asia Minor, 6. 257;
34054at Alexandria, 8. 41
34055Gymnesian (Balearic) Islands, the, 1.
34056473; once plagued by hares, 2. 35;
34057lie off Tarraco, 2. 91; geographical
34058position of, 2. 123; description of,
340592. 125-129; by some said to have
34060been founded by the Rhodians after
34061their departure from Troy;
34062also
34063called ‘* Balearides’’—and explana-
34064tion of two names of, 6. 277
34065Gymnesians, the, inhabitants of the
34066Balearic Islands, spoken of as best
34067of slingers, 2. 125; forced to appeal
34068to the Romans because of pest of
34069rabbits, 2. 129
34070Gymnosophists, the, revered by the
34071Indians, 7. 289
34072Gynaeconopolis in Aegypt, 8. 73
34073Gyrton (or Gyrtoné), in Thessaly, a
34074Magnetan and Perrhaebian city, in
34075which Peirithotis and Ixion ruled,
340768. 335, 337, 339, 4. 437; near Mt.
34077Pelion and the Peneius, 4. 447, 453
34078Gyrtoné (see Gyrton), the Homeric,
34079subject to Polypoetes, 4. 437, 453
34080Gyrtonians, the, in Thessaly, in earlier
34081times called *‘ Phlegyae,’’ 4. 447
34082Gythium
34083(Palaeopoli,
34084near
34085Mara-
34086thonisi), naval station
34087of Sparta,
340884.47; 240 stadia from Sparta, 4. 127
34089H
34090Hades, a myth, 1.79; associated with
34091night and Tartarus, 2. 51; placed by
34092Homer at ‘‘ the ends of the earth,”
34093in the far west, 2. 57; the entrance
34094to, at Avernus, 2. 441-445; much
34095revered in Triphylia, 3. 387; sacred
34096precinct of, in Triphylia, 4. 51, 53;
34097a statue of, dedicated with that of
34098Athené at her temple near Coroneia,
340994, 325
34100Hadylius, Mt., in Phocis, extends over
34101a distance of 60 stadia, 4. 373
34102Haemon;
34103Thessaly, or a part of it,
34104named
34105‘‘ Haemonia’”’ after, by his
34106son Thessalus, 4. 453; the father of
34107the
34108Oxylus
34109who,
34110from
34111Aetolia,
34112settled Elis, 5. 77
p. 357
34113INDEX OF NAMES, PLACES, AND SUBJECTS
34114Haemonia, a former name of Thessaly,
34115or of a part of it, 1. 169, 4. 453
34116Haemus Mountain (the Balkans), the,
34117near
34118the Euxine, compared
34119with
34120Alps, 2. 293;
34121is the largest and
34122highest mountain in that part of the
34123world, and cleaves Thrace almost
34124in the centre, 3. 251; occupied by
34125tribes of brigands, 8. 275; reaches
34126the sea at Naulochus,
341273. 279;
34128a
34129boundary of Macedonia, 8. 329, 361
34130Hagii
34131Apostoli
34132in Macedonia
34133(see
34134Pella)
34135Hagion Oros, Gulf
34136of (see Singitic Gulf)
34137Hagios Dimitrios, Cape (see Sepias,
34138Cape)
34139Hagios Elios, Mt. (see Oché)
34140Hagios
34141Georgios,
34142the
34143island
34144(see
34145Belbina)
34146Hagios Georgios River, the (see Asopus
34147in Argolis and Sicyonia)
34148Hagios Nikolaos, Cape (see Astypalaca,
34149Cape)
34150Halae Araphaenides (Rafina), on the
34151eastern coast of Attica, where is the
34152temple of Artemis Tauropolus,
341534.
34154273; passage to, from Marmarium in
34155Euboea, 5. 11
34156Halae in Boeotia, a village,
34157‘* where
34158that part of the Boeotian coast
34159which
34160faces Huboea
34161terminates,”
341624. 297, 377
34163Halesian
34164Plain,
34165the,
34166Lectum, 6. 97
34167Halex River, the, marks the boundary
34168between the territories of Rhegium
34169and Locri Epizephyrii, 3. 33
34170Haliacmon
34171(Vistritza)
34172iver,
34173the,
34174flows into the Thermaean Gulf, 3.
34175325, 331, 333, 339, 343, 345
34176Haliartus
34177(Mazi),
34178rightly
34179called
34180“* orassy ’’ by Homer, 1.57, 3. 189,
341814. 307, 323;
34182the Permessus and
34183Olmeius Rivers meet, and empty
34184into Lake Copais, near, 4. 307, 309;
34185near Lake Copais and
3418630 stadia
34187from Ocaleé and 60 from Alalco-
34188menium, 4. 321;
34189the spring Til-
34190phossa flows near, 4, 323; no longer
34191in
34192existence,
34193was
34194destroyed
34195by
34196Perseus, and now belongs to the
34197Athenians as gift from the Romans,
341984. 325; Amphictyonic Council used
34199to convene
34200in
34201territory
34202of, at
34203Onchestus, 4, 329
34204near
34205Cape
34206VOL. VIII.—STRABO.
34207Halicarnassus
34208(formerly
34209called
34210Ze-
34211phyra)
34212in
34213Caria,
34214founded
34215by
34216Anthes from Troezen in Argolis, 4.
34217175;
34218six
34219cities
34220united
34221into,
34222by
34223Mausolus,
342246. 119;
34225captured
34226by
34227Alexander, 6. 209, 285; people of,
34228are Dorians, 6. 271; not in exist-
34229ence
34230in Homer’s
34231time,
342326. 273;
34233description and history of, 6. 283-
34234287; famous natives of, 6. 283-285
34235Halicyrna in Aetolia, 5. 63
34236Halieis,
34237on
34238the Argolic
34239Gulf, near
34240Hermioné, 4, 171
34241Halimusii, the Attic deme, 4. 271
34242Flalisarna, a, in Cos, 6. 287
34243Halius
34244in Locris;
34245some
34246substitute
34247for ‘‘ Alopé’’ in Homeric text, 4.
34248409
34249Halizones (see Halizoni), the; bypo-
34250thesis of Demetrius about, 6. 89;
34251mentioned
34252by
34253Homer,
342546.
34255361;
34256placed in the interior by Ephorus,
342576. 365;
34258fabricated
34259by
34260Apollo-
34261dorus, 6. 369
34262Halizoni (or Halizones), the Homeric,
34263came
34264from
34265Cappadocia
34266Pontica,
342675.403; near Pallené, by some identi-
34268fied with the Homeric Halizones,
342695. 407;
34270the home of, round Phar-
34271nacia, 6. 359
34272Halonnesos, an Ionian isle near Mt.
34273Corycus in Asia, 6. 241
34274Halonnesos, the isle off Magnesia, 4.
34275427
34276“Ὁ Halonnesos,”’ the second n redund-
34277ant in, 6. 147
34278Halus in Locris, 4. 409
34279Halus in Phthiotis (see Alus), about
3428060 stadia from Itonus, founded by
34281Athamas,
34282destroyed,
34283and
34284then
34285colonised
34286by the Pharsalians,
342874.
34288409; placed by Artemidorus on the
34289seaboard, 4. 411; subject to Pro-
34290tesilatis, 4. 421, 423
34291Halys River, the, not mentioned by
34292Homer,
342933. 189; empties into the
34294Euxine on the borders of Cappa-
34295docia, 5. 345; “‘the country this
34296side’’ ruled by Croesus,
342975. 347 ;
34298confused with the Euphrates, 5. 363 ;
34299separates the Papblagonians from
34300the Pontic Cappadocians,
343015. 373;
34302course of, according to Herodotus,
34303δ. 383; named after the “* halae”’
34304(‘‘salt-works’’) past which it flows,
34305M
34306345
p. 358
34307INDEX OF NAMES, PLACES, AND SUBJECTS
34308and rises in Camisené
34309in Greater
34310Cappadocia, 5. 393
34311Hamadan (see Ecbatana)
34312Hamaxia in Cilicia Tracheia, 6. 331
34313Hamaxitans, the; territory of, 6. 101
34314Hamaxitus,
34315below
34316Lectum
34317in the
34318Troad, 6. 93, 97; where the mice
34319attacked the Teucrians, 6. 95
34320Hamilear (see Barcas Hamilcar)
34321Hams, excellent, cured in Cantabria
34322and country of the Carretanians,
343232. 101
34324Hannibal, crossed the Alps by the pass
34325leading through the country of the
34326Taurini, 2. 293 ; campaign of, against
34327the Romans, 2. 323 ; crossed marshes
34328of Cispadana only with difficulty,
343292. 329; forced to choose the more
34330difticult pass, 2. 369; expedition of,
343312. 447; besieged the Praenestini at
34332Casilinum, 2. 461; lavishly enter-
34333tained by the Campani, 2. 467;
34334joined by the Picentes,
343352. 471;
34336crushed the Brettii at Temesa, 3.
3433715; destroyed Terina, 3. 17; en-
34338slaved Tarentum, 3. 117;
34339devas-
34340tated Apulia, 3.135; invaded Italy
34341at time when the Romans were
34342fighting
34343the
34344peoples
34345about
34346the
34347Padus, during the second Cartha-
34348ginian War, 3. 141; founded Artax-
34349ata in Armenia for King Artaxias,
343505. 325; welcomed by Prusias after
34351defeat of Antiochus, 5. 457
34352Harbour, the Great, and the Eunostus,
34353at Alexandria, 8. 27, 37-39
34354Harbours, the treatises on, 4. 3
34355Harbours, The, by Timosthenes, ad-
34356miral of Ptolemy II, 4. 363
34357Hares (see Rabbits), the burrowing, in
34358Turdetania; very destructive, both
34359there and elsewhere, 2. 33, 35
34360Harma in Attica, near Phyleé, 4. 293
34361Harma in Boeotia, to be distinguished
34362from the Harma in Attica;
34363the
34364proverb about, and said to be the
34365place where Amphiaraiis and Adras-
34366tus fell, 4. 295; one of the “‘ Four
34367United Villages,’’ 4. 301, 321
34368Harmatus,
34369the
34370promontory,
34371with
34372Hydra forms the Elaitic Gulf, 6. 159
34373Harmonia, the wife of Cadmus; the
34374tomb-stone of, 1. 169; descendants
34375of, ruled over the Enchelii, 3. 307
34376Harmozi, Cape, in Carmania, 7. 301
34377346
34378Harmozicé,
34379a fortified city on the
34380Cyrus River, 5. 221
34381Harpagia in the Troad, where, accord-
34382ing tosome, Ganymede wassnatched
34383away, 6. 27
34384Harpagus, general of Cyrus the Great,
34385captured Phocaea
34386in Asia Minor
34387(about 540 B.c.), 3. 5
34388Harpalus,
34389the Macedonian
34390general,
34391slain by Thibron, one of his officers,
343928. 203
34393Harvests, the, in Masaesylia in Libya,
34394marvellous, 8. 179
34395Hasdrubal (see Asdrubal)
34396Hawk, the, worshipped by the Aegyp-
34397tians, 8. 109;
34398a peculiar kind of,
34399worshipped at Philae, 8. 131
34400Hawk Island, the, in the Arabian Gulf,
344017. 331
34402Hawks, the City of (Hieraconpolis),
34403on the Nile, south of Thebes, 8. 127
34404Heavens, the, revolve round the earth,
344051. 425; discussion of, 8. 99-101
34406Hebé (see Dia), worshipped at Phlius
34407and Sicyon, 4. 205
34408Hebrus (Maritza) River, the, in Thrace,
34409535 Roman miles from Apollonia,
344108. 293,
34411329;
34412navigable
34413for
34414120
34415stadia, to Cypsela, 3. 369; has two
34416mouths, 3. 373, 375;
344173100 stadia
34418distant from Byzantium, 3. 379
34419Hecabé, sister of the Phrygian Asius,
344206. 41
34421Hecabé’s Sema, or Tomb (see Cynos-
34422Sema)
34423Hecataeus of Miletus (b. about 540
34424B.C.), geographer and philosopher,
344251. 3; left a geographical work, 1.
3442623, which was entitled Periegesis
34427and embodied about all that was
34428known on the subject in his time;
34429wrote poetic prose, 1. 65; on the
34430Inachus
34431River,
344323. 79; calls the
34433‘City of Cimmeris’’ an invention,
344343.191; callsthe Aéus River ‘‘Aeas,””
34435saying that ‘‘ the Inachus and the
34436Aeas flow from the same place, the
34437region of Lacmus”’ (i.e. Lacmon, a
34438height of Pindus), 3. 265; says the
34439Peloponnesus was inhabited by bar-
34440barians
34441before
34442the time
34443of the
34444Greeks, 3. 285;
34445distinguishes be-
34446tween the Eleians and the Epeians,
344474, 39; in his Circuit of the Earth,
34448discusses the Alazones at length, and
p. 359
34449INDEX OF NAMES, PLACES, AND SUBJECTS
34450wins the approval of Demetrius of
34451Scepsis, 5, 407, 409, 413; author of
34452the History, 6. 207; says Mt. Lat-
34453mus is the Homeric
34454‘‘ mountain of
34455the Phtheires,’’ 6, 209
34456Hecatacus the Teian, native of Teos,
344576. 239
34458Hecaté, the goddess, 5. 95;
34459chapel
34460of, at the temple of Artemis
34461at
34462Ephesus,
344636. 229;
34464temple
34465of, at
34466Lagina in Caria, 6. 297
34467Hecaterus, grandfather
34468of nymphs,
34469satyrs and the Curetes, 5. 111
34470Hecatomnos, king of the Carians and
34471father of Mausolus, 6. 285
34472Heecatompylus (Damegam),
34473in Asia,
344741960 stadia from the Caspian Gates,
34475and royal seat of the Parthians, 5.
34476271
34477Hecatonnesi,
34478the;
34479islands
34480between
34481Asia and Lesbos, named after Heca-
34482tus (Apollo), 6. 147
34483Hector, the Trojans led by, 6. 19;
34484nephew of the Phrygian Asius, 6.
3448541; praised by the present Ilians,
344866.55; Andromaché the wife of, once
34487queen
34488of the Molossians,
344896. 57;
34490sacred precinct of, at Ophrynium,
344916. 59;
34492territory of ium subject
34493to, 6. 65; reproached by Achilles,
344946. 71;
34495father of Scamandrius, 6.
34496105; had the few remaining Cilicians
34497under his command, 6. 149
34498Hedylus of Samos or Athens, contem-
34499porary of Callimachus, and supposed
34500author of a certain elegy, 6. 379
34501“* Hedyosmos ’’ (“‘ Sweet-smelling ’’), a
34502kind of garden-mint found near the
34503Triphylian Pylus, 4. 51
34504Hegesianax (fl. 196 B.c.) of Alexan-
34505dreia in the Troad, on the lack of
34506walls at Ilium, 6. 53
34507Hegesias of Magnesia on the Maeander
34508(fl. about 2508B.C.), on the Acropolis
34509at Athens, on Hleusis, and Attica
34510in general, 4, 261, 263;
34511initiated
34512the Asiatic style of oratory, 6, 253
34513Heilesium in Boeotia, so named from
34514the ‘‘ helé’’ (‘‘ marshes’’) near it,
345154. 303, 321
34516Heleians (see Helots)
34517Heleii(‘‘ Marsh-men ’’), the, in Aethio-
34518pia, 7. 321
34519Helen, The Reclaiming of, title of a
34520tragedy by Sophocles, 6. 235
34521Helen, entertained in Sidon, 1. 149;
34522carried off by Paris, 2. 189;
34523by
34524Homer called the “ Argive,’’ 4. 165;
34525the rape of, by Theseus, at Aphidna,
345264. 263;
34527with Paris landed on the
34528island Oranaé, 4. 273; later wife of
34529Paris, 6. 65;
34530with Menelaiis, said
34531to have been entertained in Aegypt
34532by King Thon, 8. 63
34533Helené (Makronisi), the island, lies off
34534Attica between Thoricus and Cape
34535Sunium, and was
34536referred
34537to by
34538Homer as “ Cranaé,’’
345394. 273; where
34540Helen and Paris stopped, 4. 275;
3454160 stadia in length, 5. 165
34542Heleon in Boeotia, a village belonging
34543to Tanagra, named from the ‘‘ helé ’’
34544(‘‘ marshes ’’) there, 4. 297; one of
34545the ‘‘ Four United Villages,’’ 4. 301,
34546303
34547Heliadae, the, according to the mythi-
34548cal story, once took possession of
34549Rhodes, 6. 275
34550Heliades, the, story of, 2. 319
34551Helicé in Achaea, wiped out by a
34552wave from the sea (372 B.C.), 1.
34553219; description of its temple and
34554sacrifices, and of its destruction, 4,
34555185, 213, 215;
34556one of the twelve
34557cities in which the Achaeans settled,
345584. 219
34559Helicé, a, in Thessaly, mentioned by
34560Hesiod, 4. 215
34561Helicé, Is from, founded Sybaris in
34562Italy, 3. 47
34563Helicon, Mt., on which is the spring
34564called Hippucrené;
34565is visible from
34566the Acrocorinthus, 4. 195; the Per-
34567messus and Holmius Rivers rise in,
345684. 307; geographical position of, 4.
34569317; rivals Parnassus both in height
34570and in circuit, and was dedicated
34571to the Muses by the Thracians, 4.
34572319; Mychus Harbour lies below,
345734. 369;
34574consecrated to the Muses
34575by Thracians in Boeotia, 5. 107
34576“* Heliopolitae,’’ the, in Asia, led by
34577Aristonicus, 6. 247
34578Heliupolis,
34579where
34580the
34581sacred
34582ox
34583Mneuis is kept, 8. 73; once a re-
34584markable city, but now deserted, 8.
3458579; once a centre of study of philo-
34586sophy and astronomy, where Plato
34587and Eudoxus spent 13 years, 8. 83;
34588is in Arabia, 8. 85
34589347
p. 360
34590INDEX OF NAMES, PLACES, AND SUBJECTS
34591Heliupolis (Balbek), in Syria, 7. 253
34592Helius (Sun); the cattle of, a myth,
345931.79; by the Prasians called father
34594of the Corybantes,
345955. 111;
34596wor-
34597shipped by the Albanians in Asia,
345985. 229; the only god of the Mas-
34599sagetae in Asia, 5. 265; with Selené
34600(‘‘ Moon’’) determines the tempera-
34601ture of the air, 6. 207; the Colossus
34602of, at Rhodes, 6. 269; worshipped
34603by the
34604Persians,
34605who
34606call him
34607“‘Mithras,’’ 7. 175; the temple of,
34608at Heliupolis, 8. 79
34609Helius, the son of Perseus, founded
34610Helus in Laconia, 4. 129
34611Hellanicus of Lesbos (fl. about 430
34612B.C.), the first scientific chronicler
34613among the Greeks, and author of a
34614number of works, among them his-
34615tories of Troy and Persia;
34616inserts
34617myths in his histories, 1. 159; says
34618the Spartan Constitution was drawn
34619up by Eurysthenes and Procles,
34620ignoring Lycurgus, 4. 139;
34621ignor-
34622antly
34623calls
34624Napé
34625in Methymné
34626“‘Lapé,”’ 4. 383;
34627displays a con-
34628venient carelessness in discussing
34629Aetolian cities, 5. 29, 31; wrongly
34630identifies the Homeric Cephallenia
34631with
34632Taphos,
346335. 49;
34634author
34635of
34636Phoronis, on the Curetes, 5. 111;
34637tells incredible stories, 5, 247, 405;
34638makes the site of the present Ilium
34639the same as that of the Homeric,
346406. 85; calls Assus an Aeolian city,
346416. 117; a native of Lesbos, 6, 147
34642“ Hellas’’;
34643critics in dispute about
34644meaning of term, 4. 157
34645Hellas in Thessaly, the Homeric “‘ land
34646of fair women,’’ subject to Achilles,
346474. 401, 437;
34648by some called the
34649same as ‘‘ Phthia,’? 4. 403;
34650later
34651authorities on, 4. 405; the name of
34652the southern part of Thessaly, 4. 453
34653“Helle’s maidenly strait,’ Pindar’s
34654term for the ‘‘ Hellespont,’’ 3. 381
34655Hellebore, of fine quality, produced
34656at the Anticyra on the Maliac gulf,
34657but that at the Phocian Anticyra
34658better prepared, 4. 351
34659Hellen the son of Deucalion ; founder of
34660the Hellenes, 4. 209; tomb of, at
34661Melitaea in Thessaly, 4. 405;
34662the
34663southern part of Thessaly named
34664“ Hellas’’ after, 4. 453
34665348
34666Hellenes, an ancient city in Iberia
34667named after Hellen, eponymous hero
34668of the Hellenes, 2. 83
34669** Hellenes,’”’ the;
34670critics in dispute
34671about meaning of term, 4. 157
34672Hellenes, the; the Greeks in general
34673as
34674distinguished
34675from
34676the
34677bar-
34678barians, 6. 301, 365, 367
34679Hellenes, the, in Thessaly, subject to
34680Achilles,
346814. 401;
34682migrated from
34683Hellas in Thessaly to Pyrrha (later
34684called Melitaea), 4. 405
34685Hellespont, the; formerly not con-
34686nected with the Euxine, 1. 183;
34687distance from, to Meroé, 1. 257;
34688geographical position of, 1. 477;
34689the strait at, 1. 479; formed by the
34690Thracian Chersonesus, 3. 373, 375;
34691beginning of, formed by the entrance
34692into the Propontis through the nar-
34693rows, 3. 377; length and narrowest
34694breadth of, 8. 379; the various de-
34695finitions of the term, 3. 381; the
34696outer, 6. 9; ‘‘ the boundless,’’ 6. 21
34697Helli (Selli?), the, at Dodona, 3. 313,
34698315
34699Hellopia, the region of Dodona, 3. 313
34700Helmets, the, of the Amazons, made
34701of skins of wild animals, 5. 233
34702Helos in Boeotia, so named from the
34703“ helé’’ (‘‘ marshes ’’) near it, 4. 303
34704Helos (‘‘Marsh’’), the Homeric, sub-
34705ject to Nestor, 4. 71, 73
34706Helos. a place near Sparta mentioned
34707by Homer, 4. 47; “ἃ city near the
34708sea’’ in Homer’s time, 4. 73, 129;
34709‘*Hel’’ an apocopated form of, 4.
34710131
34711Helois, the, in Asia Minor, under the
34712Milesians, like the ‘‘ Mnoan class ”’
34713under the Cretans and the “* Pene-
34714stae’’ under the Thessalians, 5. 377
34715Helots (or Heleians), the, in Laconia;
34716the history of, 3. 107;
34717founded
34718Tarentum, 3. 113; discussion of, 4.
34719135; joined the Romans, 4, 139;
34720like a servile tribe in India, 7. 61
34721Helvetii (or Elvetii, g.v.), the; border
34722on the Lake of Constance and inhabit
34723plateaus, 3. 165;
34724‘‘rich in gold,”
34725joined the Cimbri, but subdued by
34726the Romans, 3 .169; see “ Toinii’’
34727and footnote, 3. 253
34728Hemeroscopeium (Dianium, now De-
34729nia), a Massaliote city, and promon-
p. 361
34730INDEX OF NAMES, PLACES, AND SUBJECTS
34731tory, in Iberia, 2. 89; where Ser-
34732torius fought, 2. 99
34733Hemispheres, the northern and south-
34734ern, divided by equator, 1. 371, 427
34735Hemp, made in quantities in Colchis,
347365. 211
34737Henetians (Enetians, q. v., Venetians),
34738the;
34739explorers,
34740and
34741founders
34742of
34743cities, 1. 177, 227; the wanderings
34744of, a traditional fact, 2. 55; came
34745from Paphlagonia and settled colony
34746in Italy,
347472. 235,
34748307;
34749observed
34750rites in honour of Diomedes, 8, 129,
34751and tell of his apotheosis in their
34752country, 3.131; held Cytorum, near
34753the Parthenius River in Asia, 5. 377
34754Heniochi, the, in Asia, 1. 495, 5. 191,
34755207; coast of, 5. 203; at one time
34756had four kings, 5. 205; country and
34757life of, 8. 211
34758Heorta, a city of the Scordisci, 3. 273
34759Hephaesteium, the, at Memphis; bull-
34760fights in the dromus of, 8. 89
34761Hephaestus,
34762the Forum
34763of (Forum
34764Vulecani,
34765La
34766Solfatara),
347672. 449;
34768grandfather of three Cabciri, 5. 115
34769Hepta Phreata (‘‘Seven Wells’’), in
34770Arabia, 7. 363
34771Heptacomitae, the, by the ancients
34772ealled Mosynoeci, occupy Mt. Scy-
34773dises above Colchis, live in trees,
34774and cut down three maniples of
34775Pompey’s army, 5. 401
34776Heptaporus (or Polyporus) River, the,
34777mentioned by Homer, 5. 421, 6. 25,
3477859, 87; flows from Mt. Ida in the
34779Troad, 6. 11; crossed seven times
34780by the same road, 6. 89
34781Heptastadium,
34782the, bridged by Xerxes,
347836. 41
34784Heptastadium, the, at Alexandria, 8.
3478527, 39
34786Hera, the Argive, worshipped by the
34787Eneti, 2. 321;
34788‘* Cupra,’’ temple of,
34789in Picenum, 2. 429;
34790the Argoan,
34791temple of, built by Jason, in Leu-
34792cania, 8. 3; the power of, as de-
34793scribed by Homer, 4. 91; temple
34794of, at Prosymna near Tiryns, 4. 169 ;
34795oracle of, between Lechaeum and
34796Pagae, 4, 197;
34797born at Argos, 4.
34798331;
34799temples of, at Pharygae in
34800Locris and at Pharygae in Argolis,
348014. 383, 385; with Hypnos came to
34802Mt. Ida, 6. 11; ancient temple and
34803shrine
34804of, in Samos,
34805had
34806three
34807colossal statues, all upon one base,
348086. 213; frightened by the Ouretes
34809when spying on Leto, 6. 223
34810Hera’s
34811Island,
34812close
34813to
34814Pillars
34815of
34816Heracles, 2.129; by some regarded
34817as one of the Pillars, 2. 137
34818es peel ancient name of Carteia,
34819. 15
34820Heracleia,
34821The (Adventures of Hera-
34822cles), supposedly written by Peisan-
34823der, 6. 281, 7. 13
34824Heracleia in Caria, 6. 291
34825Heracleia in the Crimea, 3. 231
34826Heracleia in Elis, near Olympia, 4. 99
34827Heracleia below Latmus, near Miletus,
348286. 209
34829Heracleia (Polycoro) in Leucania, in
34830the territory of Tarentum, between
34831the Aciris and Siris Rivers, 3. 49,
3483251; the seat of the general festal
34833assembly of the Greeks in southern
34834Italy, 3. 115
34835Heracleia Lyncestis (Monastir);
34836the
34837Egnatian Way runs through, 3. 295
34838Heracleia in Media, lies near Khagae,
348395. 273 ; founded by the Macedonians,
348405. 309
34841Heracleia,
34842a village of the Mitylen-
34843aeans in Asia, 6. 103
34844Heracleia Pontica
34845(Hrekli), founded
34846Chersonesus
34847Heracleotica
34848in
34849the
34850Crimea,
348513.
34852231;
34853once
34854held
34855by
34856Mithridates Eupator, 5. 371, 373;
34857by the Romans added to Cappa-
34858docia Pontica,
34859and said
34860to have
34861been founded by the Milesians, 5.
34862375; history of, 5.379; 1500 stadia
34863from the Chalcedonian temple and
34864500 from the Sangarius River, 5.
34865381;
348662000 stadia from Sinopé, 5,
34867391; not mentioned by Homer, 5,
34868417
34869Heracleia Sintica (Zerodkori), 3. 361
34870Heracleia in Syria, lies to the east of
34871Antiocheia, 7. 245, 247, 249
34872Heracleia (see Trachin), the Trachi-
34873nian, in Thessaly near Thermopylae,
34874damaged by an earthquake, 1. 225;
34875where flows an Asopus River, 4.
34876205, 313;
34877six stadia from the old
34878Trachin,
348794. 391, and forty from
34880Thermopylae, 4. 398, 415, 449
34881Heracleian Cape, the, in Cappadocia
34882Pontica, 5. 399
34883349
p. 362
34884INDEX OF NAMES, PLACES, AND SUBJECTS
34885Heracleides, the Herophileian phys-
34886ician, native of Erythrae in Asia,
348876. 243
34888Heracleides of Pontus (b. about 380
34889B.C.); pupil of Plato and Aristotle,
34890and author of numerous works on
34891a
34892variety
34893of subjects,
34894including
34895certain
34896Dialogues
34897mentioned
34898by
34899Strabo; makes a certain Magus say
34900that he had circumnavigated Libya,
349011. 377, 385;
34902on the submersion of
34903Helicé, 4.215; Platonic philosopher,
349045. 371;
34905on the sacred mice round
34906the temple of Sminthian Apollo at
34907Chrysa, 6. 95
34908Heracleiotic (or Canobic) mouth, the,
34909of the Nile, 8. 13, 63
34910Heracleitus
34911the
34912poet,
34913comrade
34914of
34915Callimachus, native of Halicarnas-
34916sus, 6. 285
34917Heracleitus of Ephesus (about 535-
34918475 B.C.), founder of metaphysics
34919and called ‘* dark philosopher ’’ be-
34920cause of the obscurity of his writ-
34921ings; on ‘‘the Bear’’ in Homer, 1.
3492211, 6. 231
34923Heracleium,
34924the, near Canobus,
34925in
34926Aegypt, 8. 65
34927Heracleium in Crete, the seaport of
34928Cnossus, 5. 129
34929Heracleium (Temple of Heracles), the,
34930at Gades; behaviour of spring in,
349312. 143, and wells in, 2. 145
34932Heracleium,
34933near Lake Maeotis,
349345.
34935197
34936Heracleium, the, in Sicily, 75 Roman
34937miles from Lilybaeum, 3. 57
34938Heracleium in Syria, 7. 247, 255
34939Heracleium, Cape (Capo Spartivento),
34940last cape of Italy, 3. 27
34941Heracleotae, the ; city of (Chersonesus
34942Heracleotica or Heracleia), in the
34943Crimea, 3. 231
34944Heracleotis, a district in the territory
34945of the Ephesians, revolted from the
34946Ephesians, 6. 233
34947Heracles, son of Zeus and Alemené;
34948invaded Iberia, 1. 7;
34949wise from
34950travel, 1. 31; mythical labours of,
349511. 69; Pillars of, 22,500 stadia dis-
34952tant from Cape Malea, 1. 93; long
34953journeys of, 1. 177; Pillars of, at
34954end of inhabited world on west, 1.
34955253, and distance from, to Pelopon-
34956nesus, 1. 403, to Strait of Sicily and
34957959
34958to Sacred Cape, 1. 407, to Massalia
34959and the Pyrenees, 1. 409, and lie in
34960the equinoctial west, 1. 411, and
34961width and length of strait at, 1.
34962469, and at most westerly point of
34963Mediterranean, 1. 485; temple and
34964altar of, on the Sacred Cape of
34965Iberia, 2. 7; said to have founded
34966Calpé in Iberia, 2. 15; expedition
34967of, in quest of kine of Geryon and
34968apples of the Hesperides,
349692. 57;
34970certain
34971companions
34972of, colonised
34973Iberia, 2. 83; temple of, on the
34974isle of Gades, and twelve labours of,
349752.133; different theories as to site
34976of Pillars of, 2. 135-143; wont to
34977erect pillars at limits of his expedi-
34978tions, 2. 139;
34979pillars of, in India,
34980no longer to be seen, 2. 141;
34981in-
34982formed
34983by Prometheus
34984of route
34985from Caucasus to the Hesperides,
349862. 187; temple of, built by Aemil-
34987ianus at confluence of the Rhod-
34988anus
34989and
34990Isar
34991Rivers,
349922.
34993197;
34994“* Monoecus,”’ temple of, on Port of
34995Monoecus (Monaco), 2. 267; Atys
34996the Lydian, a descendant of, by
34997Omphalé, 2. 337; some children of,
34998settled in Sardinia, 2.361; Harbour
34999of, at Cosa in Italy, 2. 363; enter-
35000tained
35001by
35002Evander,
35003mythical
35004founder of Rome, and destined to
35005become a god, 2. 385; temple of,
35006at Tibur, 2. 417; Fortress of (Her-
35007culaneum),
350082.
35009451;
35010completed
35011mound at Gulf Lucrinus, 2. 445;
35012the Harbour of (Tropea), in Brut-
35013tium, 3. 19; the colossal bronze
35014statue of, taken by Fabius Maximus
35015from Tarentum to the Capitolium
35016at Rome, 3. 107;
35017drove out the
35018Leuternian Giants, 3.119; defeated
35019the giants in Pallené (Kassandra)
35020the Macedonian peninsula, 3. 351;
35021connected a hollow place in Thrace
35022with the sea and thus created Lake
35023Bistonis, 3. 365;
35024the voyage of,
35025from Troy, 3. 381; father of Tlepo-
35026lemus of Ephyra, 4. 27; joined by
35027the Epeians against Augeias, 4. 39;
35028temple
35029of, in Triphylia,
350304. 65;
35031ravaged the Pylian country, slaying
35032all the twelve sons of Neleus except
35033Nestor,
350344. 81, 85;
35035humbled the
35036Eleians, 4.91; by some said to have
p. 363
35037INDEX OF NAMES, PLACES, AND SUBJECTS
35038been the first to contend
35039in the
35040Olympian
35041Games
35042and
35043win
35044the
35045victory, 4. 93; captured cities in
35046Elis, 4. 105; brought up Cerberus
35047from Hades near Cape Taenarum,
350484. 127; drove the birds away from
35049the
35050Stymphalian
35051Lake,
350524
35053161;
35054said to have driven out the Dry-
35055opians, 4. 173; the sons of, 4. 187;
35056the painting of, in torture in the
35057robe
35058of Deianeira,
350594. 201;
35060slew
35061Erginus the tyrant of the Orcho-
35062menians, 4. 335; the hot waters of,
35063at Aedepsus
35064in Euboea,
350654. 379;
35066death of, on Mt. Oeta, 4. 387; hot
35067waters near Thermopylae sacred to,
350684. 389;
35069funeral pyre of, 4. 391;
35070captured Oechalia, 4. 433; ancestor
35071of Thessalian kings, 4. 455;
35072killed
35073the ferryman Nessus at the Lycor-
35074mas (Evenus) River in Aetolia, 5.
3507529; defeated the river-god Achelous
35076and thus won the hand of Deian-
35077eira, 5. 57; drained Paracheloitis,
350785. 59; harbour and precinct of, in
35079Acarnania, from which latter the
35080“* Labours of Heracles,’’ by Lysippus,
35081was carried to Rome, 5. 61; the
35082last of the giants destroyed by, lie
35083beneath the isle Myconos, 5. 171;
35084slew
35085the
35086giants
35087who
35088attacked
35089Aphrodité at Phanagoreia near the
35090Cimmerian Bosporus, 5. 201;
35091re-
35092puted expedition of, to India, 5.
35093239; Pillars of, 30,000 stadia from
35094Issus, 5. 289; Hylas,
35095a companion
35096of, carried off by the nymphs from
35097Mt. Arganthonium
35098in Asia, and
35099Cius, a companion of, founded Cius,
351005. 457; not honoured by the Ilians,
35101because he sacked their city, 6. 61,
3510263;
35103ruined Augé the mother of
35104Telephus, 6. 135; colossal statue of,
35105in Samos, 6. 215; father of Thes-
35106salus, 6. 273;
35107expedition
35108of, to
35109India,
351107. 7-13;
35111worshipped
35112by
35113Indian philosophers, 7. 97; temple
35114of, on the Heracleium in Aegypt,
351158. 65; the City of, near the Nile,
35116holds in honour the ichneumon, 8.
35117107; said to have visited the temple
35118of Ammon, 8. 115; worshipped at
35119Meroé, 8. 147;
35120altar of, on the
35121Emporicus Gulf in Libya, 8. 161;
35122took Indian natives with him to
35123Libya, 8. 169;
35124a kind of temple
35125of, in Cyrenaea, 8. 207
35126Heracles, one of the Idaean Dactyli,
35127not the son of Zeus and Alemené,
35128said by some to have been the first
35129to contend in the Olympian Games
35130and win the victory, 4. 93
35131Heracles, Island of (see Scombraria)
35132Heracles Cornopion (‘‘ Locust-killer ’’),
35133worshipped by the Oetaeans, 6. 127
35134Heracles
35135Ipoctonus
35136(‘‘ Ips-slayer’’),
35137worshipped by the Erythraeans in
35138Mimas, 6. 127
35139Heracleidae, the, brought back the
35140Dorians, 4. 7; the return of, after
35141the Trojan War, 4. 9. 91, 107, 175;
35142guided back to the Peloponnesus by
35143Oxylus, 4. 103; under Eurysthenes
35144and Procles seized Laconia, 4. 133;
35145succeeded the Pelopidae at Mycenae
35146and Argos, 4. 187;
35147held all the
35148Peloponnesus except Achaea, 4. 211;
35149invaded Attica, but were defeated,
35150and founded Megara, 4. 251;
35151as
35152some
35153think,
35154built their
35155fleet
35156at
35157Naupactus, 4, 385; returned to the
35158Peloponnesus
35159from
35160the
35161Dorian
35162Tetrapolis, 4. 387; once inhabited
35163Rhodes, 6. 273
35164Heraea
35165(near
35166Aianni)
35167in
35168Arcadia,
35169settled either by Cleombrotus
35170or
35171Cleonymus from nine communities,
351724, 21; no longer exists, 4. 229
35173Heraeum, the Argive, 40 stadia from
35174Argos,
351754.
35176151,
35177and common
35178to
35179Argos and Mycenae, and contains
35180remarkable statues made by Poly-
35181cleitus, 4. 165, 167 (see footnote 1)
35182Heraeum, the, on the isle Samos, 6.
35183213
35184Hérault River, the (see Arauris)
35185Herculaneum (see Heracles, Fortress
35186of), 2. 451
35187Hercynian (Black) Forest, the; near
35188the sources of the Ister, 2. 287;
35189geographical
35190position
35191of, 3. 153;
35192description of, 3. 163, 165
35193Herdonia (Ordona), on the mule-road
35194between Brundisium and Beneven-
35195tum, 3. 123
35196Hermae,
35197the,
35198between
35199Syené
35200and
35201Philae; description of, 8. 131
35202Hermaea, the promontory and city
35203on the coast of Carthaginia, 8. 183,
35204191
35205351
p. 364
35206INDEX OF NAMES, PLACES, AND SUBJECTS
35207Hermagoras, contemporary of Cicero,
35208and author of The Art of Rhetoric;
35209a native of Temnus in Asia, 6. 159
35210Hermeias the tyrant of Assus, pupil
35211and benefactor of Aristotle, hanged
35212by the Persians, 6. 117
35213Hermes, a man without arms, sent to
35214pene by King Porus in India,
35215. 127
35216Hermes;
35217the god of travel, 1. 401;
35218numerous shrines of, in Elis, 4. 49;
35219at Aegyptian Thebes honoured as
35220the patron of astronomy, 8. 125
35221Hermioné (also spelled
35222‘* Hermion,”’
35223now Kastri) in Argolis, 4. 153; an
35224important city, and near it is the
35225“‘ short-cut ’’ descent to Hades, 4.
35226171; seized by the Carians, 4. 175;
35227belonged to a kind of Amphictyonic
35228League,
352294. 175;
35230mentioned
35231by
35232Homer,
352334. 181;
35234added
35235to
35236the
35237Achaean League by Aratus, 4. 217
35238Hermionic
35239Gulf, the,
35240next
35241to the
35242Argolic Gulf, extends to Aegina and
35243Epidauria, 4. 15, 149;
35244begins at
35245the town Asiné in Argolis, 4. 153
35246Hermocreon, builder of the huge altar
35247at Parium in the Troad, 5. 171, 6. 29
35248Hermodorus, the most useful man in
35249Ephesus, according to Heracleitus,
35250but was banished;
35251said to have
35252written certain laws forthe Romans,
352536. 231
35254Hermonassa in Cappadocia Pontica,
352555. 399
35256Hermonassa,
35257near
35258the
35259Cimmerian
35260Bosporus, 5. 199
35261Hermonax (site unknown), a village
35262at the mouth of the Tyras, 3. 219
35263Hermondori, the, a tribe of the Suevi,
352643. 157
35265Hermonthis,
35266city above
35267Aegyptian
35268Thebes, where Apollo and Zeus are
35269worshipped and a sacred bull kept,
352708. 127
35271Hermupolis,
35272an,
35273in
35274Aegypt,
35275near
35276Butus, on an island, and another in
35277the Sebennytic Nome, 8. 67, 69, 73
35278Hermus
35279River,
35280the, mentioned
35281by
35282Homer, 5. 421; course of, 6. 5, 13;
35283deposited
35284the
35285land
35286of
35287i
35288Phriconis, 6. 157;
35289flows past the
35290territory of Smyrna, 6. 159;
35291the
35292Plain of, 6. 171; the Pactolus and
35293Hyllus empty into, 6. 173; marks
35294352
35295a limit of the Ionian seaboard, 6.
35296197; Plain of, created by silt, 7. 23
35297Hernici, the, in Latium, 2. 379; over-
35298throw of, 2. 387; cities of, founded
35299by the Romans, 2. 415
35300Hero,
35301the Tower
35302of, near
35303Sestus,
35304whence passage is taken across to
35305Abydus, 6. 43
35306Herod (Hyrcanus?), appointed to the
35307peer of Judaea by Pompey,
35308. 299
35309Herod the Great; surnamed Samaria
35310“* Sebasté’’ (in honour of Augustus),
353117.231; palace of, at Jericho, 7. 291;
35312slinked
35313into
35314the
35315priesthood
35316of
35317Judaea, and was later given the
35318title of king by Antony and also
35319by Augustus, 7. 299
35320Herodotus, the ‘‘ Father of History ’’
35321(about 484-425 B.c.); calls Aegypt
35322“‘the gift of the Nile,’ 1. 111, 131,
353235. 357, 7. 23; includes myth in his
35324History, 1. 159; on the silting-up
35325process,
353261. 221;
35327on
35328the Hyper-
35329boreians, 1. 229; on the circumnavi-
35330gation of Libya, 1. 377, 385;
35331on
35332King Arganthonius in Iberia, 2. 59;
35333says Hyria in Iapygia was founded
35334by Cretans, 3. 121; on the straight-
35335forward character
35336of Idanthyrsus
35337the Scythian king, against whom
35338Dareius made
35339his expedition,
353403.
35341199, 201; says the Melas River was
35342not sufficient
35343to supply Xerxes’
35344army,
353453. 373;
35346says the Asopus
35347flows through a deep gorge south
35348of Trachin and empties near Ther-
35349mopylae, 4. 391;
35350says there were
35351temples of the Cabeiri at Memphis
35352in Aegypt, 5. 115; tells incredible
35353stories, 5. 247; wrong in regard to
35354the Araxes River, 5. 335;
35355on the
35356prostitutes in Lydia, 5. 341; mean-
35357ing of, on ‘‘the country this side
35358the
35359Halys
35360River,”
353615. 347;
35362by
35363“White Syrians’’ means ‘‘ Cappa-
35364docians,”’ and
35365defines the course
35366of the Halys River, 5. 383; foists
35367certain names
35368of peoples on
35369us,
353705. 405;
35371on
35372the Milyae in Asia,
353735. 491; on the Pedasians in Caria,
353746. 119;
35375tells a myth about the
35376Lesbiar Arion, the citharist, 6. 145;
35377on the several rivers that empty
35378near Phocaea,
353796. 173;
35380says the
p. 365
35381INDEX OF NAMES, PLACES, AND SUBJECTS
35382mound and tomb of Alyattes at
35383Sardeis were built mainly by prosti-
35384tutes, 6. 177, 179; native of Hali-
35385carnassus, but called the Thurian
35386because he took part in the colon-
35387isation of Thuria, 6. 283, 285;
35388on
35389the origin of the Pamphylians, 6.
35390325;
35391talks much nonsense about
35392the Nile and other things, 8. 133;
35393says that the Aegyptians knead
35394mud with their hands, but suet for
35395bread-making with their feet. 8. 151
35396Heréonpolis, on the isthmus
35397at the
35398Arabian
35399Gulf, 7. 309, 8. 71, 79;
35400revolted
35401but
35402was
35403subdued
35404by
35405Cornelius with only a few soldiers,
354068.135; parallel of latitude the same
35407as that of the Great Syrtis, 8. 199
35408Herophileian school of medicine, the,
35409at Carura, on the confines of Phrygia
35410and Caria, established in Strabo’s
35411time by Zeuxis, 5. 519
35412Herophilus, the great physician and
35413surgeon,
35414born
35415at Chalcedon
35416and
35417lived at Alexandria in the reign of
35418Ptolemy I; school of medicine of,
35419called
35420‘* Herophileian,’’ established
35421at Carura in Strabo’s time, 5. 519
35422Herostratus, set on fire the temple of
35423Artemis at Iisphesus, 6. 225
35424Herpa, a small town in Sargarausené
35425in Cappadocia,
354265. 357;
35427greatly
35428damaged by the overflow of the
35429Carmalas River, 5. 365
35430Herphae
35431in Cappadocia;
35432the road
35433through, 6. 311
35434Hesiod of Ascré in Boeotia (fl. in the
35435eighth
35436century
35437B.C.),
35438father
35439of
35440Greek
35441didactic
35442poetry.
35443Hxtant
35444works under his name are Works and
35445Days, Theogony, and The Shield of
35446Heracles.
35447His knowledge
35448of the
35449scene of the wanderings of Odysseus,
354501. 85; knows of mouths of the Nile,
354511. 107;
35452his mythical epithets and
35453fabulous stories,
354541. 157;
35455on the
35456origin of the Pelasgians,
354572. 345;
35458invented fabulous men, “‘ half-dog,”’
35459and ‘“‘long-headed,” 3. 191;
35460calls
35461the
35462Scythians
35463‘* Hippemolgi’’
35464(‘‘ Mare-milkers’’), 8. 197; in his
35465Circuit of the Earth mentions the
35466Galactophagi
35467(‘‘ Curd-eaters’’),
354683.
35469205;
35470on the Leleges, 8. 291;
35471on
35472Dodona and the Pelasgians, 3. 313;
35473on the Peirus River in Elis, 4. 43;
35474apocopé in, 4. 131; calls the Greeks
35475as a whole “‘ Hellenes’’ and “* Pan-
35476hellenes,’’ 4.157; calls Argos “‘ well-
35477watered,’
354784.
35479163
35480(footnote
354811);
35482mentions a Helicé in Thessaly, 4.
35483215;
35484on the sacred serpent called
35485“‘ Cychreides,’’
354864.
35487253;
35488ridicules
35489Ascré, his native city, 4. 315, 331;
35490describes the winding course of the
35491Cephissus River in Phocis, 4. 375;
35492on the Dotian Plain in Thessaly, 4.
35493449;
35494on the origin of Nymphs,
35495Satyrs and the Curetes, 5. 109, 111;
35496stories of, more credible than those
35497of certain
35498historians,
354995. 247;
35500a
35501native (2) of Cymé Phriconis in Asia,
35502but moved to the “‘ wretched ’’ (he
35503calls it) Ascré in Boeotia, 6. 161;
35504on the contest between Calchas and
35505Mopsus, 6. 233, 235; on the origin
35506of the Magnesians on the Maeander,
355076. 251; says that Amphilochus was
35508slain by Apollo at Soli, 6. 355
35509Hesioné, daughter of Laomedon; the
35510myth
35511of the
35512liberation
35513of, by
35514Heracles, 6. 63
35515Hesperian (Western, Ozolian) Locrians
35516(see Locrians), the, 4. 343;
35517not
35518specifically mentioned by Homer,
355194. 385
35520Hesperides, the; home of, an inven-
35521tion, 3. 191
35522Hesperides, Harbour of the, in Libya,
355238. 201
35524Hesperus the star, engraved on the
35525public seal
35526of the Hesperian,
35527or
35528Ozalian, Locrians, 4. 343
35529Hestiaea
35530of Alexandreia,
35531author of
35532a work on Homer’s /liad and quoted
35533by Demetrius of Scepsis;
35534on the
35535site of ancient Troy, 6. 73, 75
35536Hestiacotis (or Histiaeotis), one of the
35537four divisions of Thessaly, 4. 397;
35538geographical
35539position
35540of, 4. 399,
35541417, 429.
35542431, 443;
35543“ἴῃ earlier
35544times called Doris, colonised Crete,”
35545according to Andron, 5. 127
35546Heteroscian circles, the, 1. 367, 369
35547Heteroscians,
35548the,
355491.
35550509;
35551term
35552defined, 1. 517
35553Hexamili, between the Melas Gulf and
35554the Propontis (see Lysimacheia)
35555“ Hexi”’ (see ‘‘Sex’’), the name of
35556the city of the Exetanians in Iberia,
35557353
p. 366
35558INDEX OF NAMES, PLACES, AND SUBJECTS
35559according to Pomponius Mela, 2. 81
35560(footnote 4)
35561Hiberus (Ebro) River, the (see Iberus)
35562Hicetaon,
35563the
35564Homeric,
35565father
35566of
35567Melanippus, who pastured kine in
35568Percoté, 6. 19, 21
35569Hides, abundant in Sicily, 3.87; sold
35570by Asiatic nomads at T'anais, 5. 193.
35571Hidrieis, the, in Caria, not mentioned
35572by Homer, 6. 363
35573Hidrieus, second son of Hecatomnos
35574the king of the Carians, married his
35575sister Ada, and became
35576ruler of
35577the Carians, 6. 285
35578Hiera, Cape, in Lycia, 6. 319
35579Hiera (see Thermessa)
35580Hieraconpolis (see Hawks, City of)
35581Hierapetra in Crete (see Hierapytna)
35582Hierapolis
35583in
35584Mesopotamia
35585(see
35586Bambycé)
35587Hierapolis,
35588in
35589Phrygia,
35590near
35591Mt.
35592Mesogis, opposite Laodiceia, where
35593are the hot springs and the remark-
35594able Plutonium, 6. 187; water at,
35595remarkably adapted to dyeing of
35596wool, 6. 189
35597Hierapolitic marble, the, 4. 429
35598Hierapytna
35599in
35600Crete,
35601founded
35602by
35603Cyrbas, 5. 111, 123; named after
35604Pytna, a peak of Mt. Ida, 5. 113
35605Hierapytnians, the, rased Prasus to
35606the ground, 5. 139
35607Hieratica byblus (papyrus), the, 8. 61
35608Hierax (see Hawk), the, in Aegypt,
35609tame like a cat as compared with
35610those elsewhere, 8. 151
35611Hiericus (Jericho), in Judaea, 7. 281;
35612description of, 7. 291
35613Hierisos on the isthmus of Athos (see
35614Acanthus)
35615Hiero (tyrant of Syracuse 478-467
35616B.C.), colonised Pithecussae (Ischia),
356172.457 ; colonised Catana and changed
35618its name to Aetna, 3. 67; after his
35619death declared founder of the new
35620Aetna at foot of Mt. Aetna, 3. 69
35621Hierocepia in Cypros, 6. 383
35622Hierocepis in Cypros, 6. 381
35623Hierocles
35624the
35625orator,
35626a native
35627of
35628Alabanda in Caria, 6. 299
35629Hieroglyphics, the, in regard to Sesos-
35630tris the Aegyptian, 7. 313
35631Hieron, benefactor of Laodiceia, 5. 511
35632Hieron (Temple), the Chalcedonian;
356333500 stadia from, to Sinopé, 2000
35634354
35635to Heracleia Pontica, and 700 to
35636Cape Carambis, 5. 391; lies at the
35637mouth of the Pontus, 5. 455
35638Hieron
35639Oros
35640(‘‘ Sacred Mountain’’)
35641on the Propontis, discharges asphalt
35642into the sea at a place opposite
35643Proconnesus (Isle of Marmora), 3.
35644377
35645Hieronymus of Cardia, historian of the
35646first fifty years after Alexander’s
35647death; his description of Oorinth,
356484. 191 (see footnote 4); on Thessaly,
356494. 453; on the dimensions of Crete,
356505. 123
35651Hieronymus, Peripatetic and historian
35652(about 290-230
35653B.C.), a native of
35654Rhodes, 6. 279 (see references to
35655Hieronymus of Cardia;
35656especially
356574. 191 and footnote 4, and Pauly-
35658Wissowa, 8.0.)
35659Hiketides, the, of Aeschylus (see Sup-
35660pliants)
35661Himera (Bonfornello) in Sicily;
35662no
35663longer settled, 8.83; the hot springs
35664at, 3. 91
35665Himera
35666River,
35667the,
35668in
35669Sicily,
3567018
35671Roman miles from Cephaloedium,
356723. 57
35673Hipparchus of Nicaea in Bithynia (fl.
35674about 150 B.C.), the famous astrono-
35675mer and geographer;
35676discovered
35677the precession of the equinoxes, and
35678was the first to outline a system of
35679latitudes and longitudes; regarded
35680Homer as founder of geography, 1.
356815;
35682on the tides,
356831. 19;
35684wrote
35685treatise Against Eratosthenes, 1. 23;
35686on
35687eclipses,
356881. 23;
35689praised
35690by
35691Strabo, 1.53; on extent of Homer’s
35692knowledge, 1. 59;
35693notes Homer’s
35694accuracy in geography, 1. 101; says
35695strait
35696at
35697Byzantium
35698sometimes
35699stands still, 1. 205; on the levels of
35700the Mediterranean and Red Seas, 1.
35701209;
35702plots celestial phenomena of
35703inhabited places, 1. 233; on certain
35704parallels of latitude, 1. 237; con-
35705tradicts
35706Eratosthenes
35707on
35708certain
35709distances and discredits Patrocles,
357101. 257, 279; had access to library
35711at Alexandria,
357121. 259;
35713does not
35714raise
35715proper
35716objections
35717to
35718the
35719ancient maps, 1. 267, 345; follows
35720Pytheas concerning certain parallels
35721and meridians, 1. 269; on the sun,
p. 367
35722INDEX OF NAMES, PLACES, AND SUBJECTS
357231. 281;
35724trusts Pytheas,
357251. 283;
35726tries to correct Kratosthenes, 1. 289 ;
35727makes
35728false assumptions, 1. 201;
35729unfair to Eratosthenes, 1. 293. 3013
35730would correct Eratosthenes’ ‘‘ Third
35731Section,’
357321. 805;
35733his arguments
35734against
35735Eratosthenes
35736‘‘ childish,’’
357371. 315;
35738calls India four-sided and
35739rhomboidal, 1. 317; captious about
35740the
35741rough
35742estimates
35743of Eratos-
35744thenes, 1. 325; again censured by
35745Strabo
35746for fault-finding,
357471. 335;
35748rightly censures
35749Hratosthenes,
357501.
35751357; Third Book of, approved by
35752Strabo,
357531. 361;
35754accepts
35755Eratos-
35756thenes’ measurement of the earth,
357571. 437; an authority on longitudes
35758and latitudes, 1. 503; on the mea-
35759surement of the earth, 1. 505;
35760on
35761the relative positions of the Cinna-
35762mon-bearing
35763country, Syené, and
35764the equator, 1. 507; referred to by
35765Strabo as authority on northern-
35766most
35767regions
35768of Europe and
35769on
35770further
35771astronomical
35772matters,
357731.
35774617; wrote treatises on Physics and
35775Mathematics,
357764. 3; Strabo’s criti-
35777cism of, 5. 329; native of Nicaea in
35778Bithynia, 5. 467
35779Hippeis (Knights), the, in Crete and
35780Sparta, 5. 151
35781Hippemolgi (“‘Mare-milkers’’),
35782Homer’s,
35783are
35784wagon
35785- dwelling
35786Scythians and Sarmatians, 3. 179,
35787181, 187, 189, 195, 197, 205, 243,
357885. 419;
35789by Apollodorus called a
35790fabrication, 5. 423
35791Hippi, the, lie off Erythrae in Asia,
357926. 239
35793Hippobatae
35794(‘‘ Knights’’),
35795the,
35796in
35797power at Chalcis, 5. 13
35798Hippocampus, a, in hand of Poseidon,
35799in the strait at Helicé, 4. 215
35800Hippocles of Euboea (the Euboean
35801Cymé), joint founder of Cumae in
35802Italy, 2. 437
35803Hippocoén, banished Tyndareus and
35804Icarius from Lacedaemon, 5. 69
35805Hippocorona,
35806in
35807the
35808territory
35809of
35810Adramyttium, 5, 113
35811Hippocoronium in Crete, 5. 113
35812Hippocrates, the physician, a native of
35813Cos, 6. 289
35814Hippocrené (see Hippucrené)
35815Hippodrome, the, at Alexandria, 8. 41
35816Hippomaratht (horse-fennel), found in
35817Maurusia, 8. 163
35818Hipponax
35819of Ephesus
35820(fl. 546-520
35821B.C.), the iambic poet, one of the
35822Seven Wise Men, used the poetic
35823figure of “‘ part with the whole,’’ 4.
3582437; on a place called Smyrna that
35825belonged to Ephesus, 6. 201;
35826on
35827Bias, 6. 211; a native of Ephesus,
358286. 231
35829Hipponiate (Napetine) Gulf, the, in
35830Bruttium, 3. 13
35831Hipponium
35832(or Vibo Valentia, now
35833Bivona near Monteleone), in Brut-
35834tium, founded by the Locrians, 3.
3583517; naval station of, 3. 19
35836Hippopotamus, the, found in India,
35837according to Onesicritus, 7. 21, 79;
35838found in a lake near Cape Deiré in
35839Aethiopia, 7. 331
35840Hippos, the two, one near Itycé, and
35841the other farther from Cirta, towards
35842Tretum, 8. 183
35843Hippothoiis, led the Pelasgians in the
35844Trojan War, 2. 345,
358456. 153;
35846fell
35847in the fight over Patroclus, 6. 155
35848Hippotion,
35849father
35850of the
35851Homeric
35852Morys, 5. 461
35853Hippucrené
35854(or
35855Hippocrené),
35856the
35857spring opened on Helicon by the
35858winged horse Pegasus, 4, 195, 319
35859Hippus River, the, empties into the
35860Phasis, 5. 211, 219
35861Hiré, “‘ grassy,"’ the Homeric, 4. 109;
35862the present site of, 4. 115
35863Hirpini, the, a Samnite tribe; origin
35864of name of, 2. 467
35865Hispalis in Iberia, on the Baetis River,
35866colony of the Romans and famous
35867trade-centre,
358682.
3586921;
35870about
358716500
35872stadia from the sea by boat, 2. 25
35873Hispania;
35874term now used synonym-
35875ously with ‘‘ Iberia,’’ 2. 119
35876Hispellum in Italy, 2. 373
35877Histiaea
35878(later
35879called
35880Oreus)
35881in
35882Euboea, the history of, 5. 7
35883Histiaeans, the, in Euboea, forced to
35884migrate to Thessaly by the Per-
35885rhaebians, 4, 429; later called the
35886Oreitae,
35887were
35888colonists
35889from
35890the
35891Attic deme of the Histiacans, 5. 7
35892Histiaeotis
35893(see
35894Hestiaeotis)
35895in
35896Euboea, 5. 7; in Thessaly, 5. 9
35897Historians;
35898the Greek and Roman,
35899compared, 2. 117; the early, in-
35900355
p. 368
35901INDEX OF NAMES, PLACES, AND SUBJECTS
35902clude myths in their histories, 4.
359039
359043
35905Historical
35906Sketches,
35907the, of Strabo,
35908discussed Parthian usages at length,
359095. 277
35910History, the work entitled, by Poly-
35911bius, and that by Ephorus, on the
35912topography of the continents, 4. 3
35913History,
35914the,
35915of Strabo,
35916discussed
35917Parthian usages at length, 5. 277
35918History, importance of terrestrial, 1.
3591929; aim of, 1. 91; wishes for the
35920truth, 5. 235; that of the Persians,
35921Medes, and Syrians untrustworthy,
359225. 247
35923Hog-meat, the finest, shipped from
35924territory of the Sequani to Rome, 2.
35925225
35926Hogs, the, in Celtica, run wild, 2. 243;
35927great supply of, in Cisalpine Celtica,
359282. 331
35929Holmi in Cilicia, 6. 333
35930Holmi in Phrygia, the road through,
359316. 309
35932Homer, geographer and philosopher,
359331. 3; founder of geography, 1. 5;
35934quoted on movements of heavenly
35935bodies, 1. 5, 7; on people of the
35936west,
35937on
35938Zephyrus,
35939and on the
35940Elysian Plain, 1.7; on the Aethio-
35941pians, and on the Bear and Wain, 1.
359429;
35943makes
35944Oceanus surround
35945in-
35946habited world and knows about the
35947tides, 1. 13, 159; knows the Medi-
35948terranean, 1. 19;
35949the Cimmerian
35950Bosporus, 1. 21; inserts an element
35951of myth, 1. 21, 23, 59, 65, 71, 73,
3595279, 135, 171; on Heracles’ “‘ great
35953adventures,’’ 1. 31; on the rotundity
35954of the earth, 1. 43; speaks of bards
35955as disciplinarians,
359561 57;
35957his epi-
35958thets appropriate, 1 57, 91, 133;
35959the limitations of his knowledge, 1.
3596059;
35961adorns Odysseus with every
35962excellence, 1. 61; an expert in the
35963art of rhetoric, 1. 63; based works
35964on historical facts, 1. 73;
35965called
35966“* The Poet,’ 1. 77; places scene of
35967wanderings
35968of Odysseus
35969in the
35970region of Sicily and Italy, 1. 79;
35971but, according to Eratosthenes, not
3597280,1. 85; places the scene, in fancy,
35973on Oceanus, 1. 93; uses myth fora
35974useful purpose, 1. 97; the poet par
35975excellence, 1. 99; on the winds, 1.
35976356
35977105; knew of mouths of the Nile,
35978of Thebes, of Aethiopia, and of the
35979isle
35980Pharos,
359811.
35982109;
35983means
35984“‘Scythians’’ by his term
35985‘‘ No-
35986mads,’’ 1.121; on the geographical
35987position of Aethiopia, 1.125; onthe
35988cranes and pygmies, 1. 127, 263; his
35989fondness for knowledge, 1.131; did
35990not know India, 1. 143; uses figures
35991of speech,
359921. 147;
35993on Sidon, 1.
35994149; on Jason’s expedition, 1.171;
35995quoted on the purgation of seas, 1.
35996195, 197;
35997on the cold and hot
35998springs of Scamander, 1. 215; on
35999Nericus in Leucas, 1. 219; on Arné
36000and Mideia, 1. 221; present absence
36001of his cave and grotto in Ithaca due
36002to physical changes, 1. 221;
36003the
36004isle of Asteris, 1. 221; censured by
36005Eratosthenes, 1. 243;
36006quoted on
36007“‘ amputation,’ 1. 315; caused the
36008wall of the Achaeans to disappear,
360091. 393;
36010his reason
36011for dividing
36012Aethiopians
36013into two groups,
360141.
36015395; probably knew nothing about
36016India, 1. 397;
36017a riddle attributed
36018to, 2. 45; man of many voices and
36019of wide information, probably knew
36020much of Iberia and the far west,
36021and of the far north, 2. 51-59;
36022named Tartarus after Tartessis in
36023Iberia, and transferred the Cim-
36024merians to the neighbourhood of
36025Hades,
360262
3602751;
36028modelled
36029his
36030“* Planctae”’ after the “‘ Cyaneae’’
36031(‘‘ Symplegades’’), and in general
36032transferred Iliad and Odyssey from
36033domain
36034of historical fact to the
36035realm of myth, 2. 53; on the wan-
36036derings
36037of
36038Odysseus
36039and
36040other
36041heroes, 2. 55; on the Elysian Plain,
360422. 55; obtained wide information
36043from the Phoenicians, 2. 57; trans-
36044ferred scene of his mythical account
36045of wanderings of Odysseus to the
36046Atlantic, 2. 85;
36047on the breed of
36048wild
36049mules
36050in the land
36051of the
36052Heneti,
360532. 309;
36054says
36055that
36056the
36057Pelasgi colonised Crete, and calls
36058Zeus Pelasgian, 2. 345;
36059again on
36060the Pelaszi, 2. 345; not wont to
36061fabricate wholly on his own account,
360622. 357; the Necyia of, 2. 441; on
36063the Cimmerians, 2. 445; thought by
36064some to mean Temesa in Italy by
p. 369
36065INDEX OF NAMES, PLACES, AND SUBJECTS
36066“Tamassus,”
3606738. 17;
36068Islands
36069of
36070Aeolus
36071of, 3. 19;
36072scourged
36073by
36074Zoilus
36075(surnamed
36076Homeromastix,
36077** Scourge of Homer”’), 8. 79; hinted
36078at the truth when he called Aeolus
36079“steward of the winds,”’ 8. 97, 99;
36080on
36081‘‘the
36082Mysians,
36083hand-to-hand
36084fighters,’’ 3. 177, 181, 187, 189, 209;
36085on the Hippemolgi, Galactophagi,
36086and Abii, 3. 179, 181, 195, 197, 205,
36087209; accused of ignorance of distant
36088places by Apollodorus and Eratos-
36089thenes,
36090but
36091conceded
36092accurate
36093knowledge of places near by, never
36094using an inappropriate epithet, 3.
36095189-199; placed the wanderings of
36096Odysseus
36097in
36098Oceanus,
360993.
36100193;
36101wrongly
36102reproached
36103by
36104Eratos-
36105thenes and Apollodorus for ignor-
36106ance of geography, though he knew
36107Greece and
36108also
36109regions
36110remote,
361118.
36112195;
36113correctly
36114describes
36115the
36116Seythians and other similar tribes,
361178. 199, 205; knew of the potter’s
36118wheel (/liad xviii. 600), 3. 207; did
36119not
36120invent
36121the
36122‘* Galactophagi’’
36123and the ‘“‘ Abii,’’ 3. 209, 243, 245;
36124invokes “ Zeus, Dodonaean, Pelas-
36125gian,’’ and describes the people (the
36126Selli) of Dodona, 3.313; the Odyssey
36127of, quoted on the ‘‘tomouroi
36128of
36129great Zeus’’ at Dodona; the proper
36130interpretation of his words ‘‘ them-
36131istes’’ and ‘‘ boulai,’’ 3. 317; calls
36132the Europus River ‘* Titaresius,’’ 3.
36133335;
36134by ‘* Phlegyae’’ means the
36135Gyrtonians,
361363.
36137335,
36138337;
36139calls
36140Abydon
36141on
36142the
36143Axius’
36144River
36145“* Amydon,”’ 8. 341, 343, 345; calls
36146the Axius River ‘‘ water most fair,’
361478. 343, 345; on Iphidamas, ‘“‘ whom
36148Cisses reared,’’ 8. 343, 349; on the
36149““ Sinties’’ (¢.e. ‘‘ Sinti’’) in Lem-
36150nos, 3. 367; invoked as witness by
36151some writers in regard to the extent
36152of the Hellespont, 3. 381, 383; on
36153““Rhipé,
36154Stratié,
36155and
36156windy
36157Enispé,’’ all now deserted, 3. 385,
361584. 229; the first author to discuss
36159Greece, 4. 3; calls the land of the
36160Epeians
36161Elis,
361624. 19;
36163knew
36164of
36165Pylus, both land and city, 4. 21;
36166his words not to be contradicted, 4.
3616725; mentions Cyllené in Elis, 4, 25;
36168apparently means by “‘ Ephyra’’
36169the city in Elis (five citations), 4.
3617027,
3617129;
36172distinguishes
36173between
36174places bearing the same name by
36175appropriate epithets, 4. 29; means
36176by ‘* Pylus’’ the Triphylian Pylus,
361774. 31, 33, 57; divides the Eleian
36178country
36179into
36180four
36181parts,
361824. 35;
36183often by a poetic figure names a
36184part with the whole, 4. 37; a case
36185of
36186hyperbaton
36187in,
361884
36189413
36190on
36191Athene’s visit to the Cauconians, 4,
3619245,
3619357;
36194mentions
36195Helus
36196near
36197Sparta, 4. 47; means by “‘ Pylus ’’
36198(Nestor’s home)
36199the
36200‘“‘ Lepreatic
36201(or Tryphylian) Pylus’’ and calls it
36202“ emathoeis,’’ 4. 51;
36203means that
36204Telemachus
36205found
36206the
36207Pylians
36208offering sacrifice at the temple of
36209the Samian Poseidon, and says the
36210Cauconians came as allies of the
36211Trojans, 4. 55; refers to the Eleian,
36212not the Triphylian Cauconians, 4.
3621357;
36214on Arené and Pylus, 4 61;
36215prolongs the Pylian Sea to the seven
36216cities promised by Agamemnon to
36217Achilles,
362184. 67;
36219his fame
36220and
36221knowledge, 4. 69; on the country
36222that was subject to Nestor, 4. 71,
3622373; according to his statements the
36224Pylus of Nestor could not lie on the
36225sea, 4.75; on the return voyage of
36226Telemachus from Sparta,
362274. 77;
36228only the Triphylian Pylus could be
36229the Pylus of Nestor, according to
36230his account, 4, 77-87 ; his character-
36231isation of Zeus followed by Pheidias
36232in making
36233the
36234great
36235image
36236at
36237Olympia, 4. 89;
36238‘‘ alone has seen,
36239or alone has shown the likenesses of
36240the gods”’ (e.g. in his descriptions
36241of Zeus and Hera), 4. 91; does not
36242mention the Olympian Games, but
36243certain funeral games in Elis, 4.
3624493;
36245calls
36246Lesbos
36247the ‘city
36248of
36249Macar,”’ 4. 97; most of the Pylian
36250districts mentioned in his Catalogue
36251thought to be Arcadian, 4.101; on
36252the
36253seven
36254cities
36255promised
36256by
36257Agamemnon
36258to Achilles, 4. 109;
36259on the city Helus in Laconia, 4.
36260129;
36261Catalogue
36262of,
36263quoted
36264on
36265Messé,
362664.
36267129;
36268calls
36269Laconia
36270““Achaean Argos,’’ 4,137; on the
36271journey of Telemachus to Sparta
36272via Pherae (Pharis), 4. 145;
36273his
36274357
p. 370
36275INDEX OF NAMES, PLACES, AND SUBJECTS
36276epithets applied to Lacedaemon, 4.
36277147;
36278assigns the Argolic Gulf to
36279Argolis,
362804. 153;
36281uses the word
36282“‘Argos’’
36283in
36284various
36285senses.
362864
36287155,
36288163,
36289165;
36290calls the
36291Pelo-
36292ponnesians
36293‘‘ Achaeans’’
36294in
36295a
36296special sense, nowhere speaks of
36297“‘ barbarians,’
36298and thinks
36299of all
36300Greeks
36301as
36302‘“‘ Hellenes,’”’
363034 157;
36304cases of hyperbaton and synaloepha
36305in, 4. 161; on certain cities subject
36306to Argos, 4. 167, 169;
36307on Aegina,
363084.
36309179;
36310mentions
36311some
36312places
36313in their geographical order, 4. 181,
36314but others not, 4.183; onthe places
36315subject to Mycenae and Agamem-
36316non, 4. 185;
36317appropriately calls
36318Cleonae
36319‘‘ well-built,’
363204.
36321187;
36322mentions
36323the sacrifice
36324of a bull
36325to the Heliconian Poseidon in Ionia,
36326and hence is supposed to have lived
36327after the Ionian
36328colonisation,
363294.
36330213;
36331does not mention Olenus in
36332Achaea,
363334,
36334219;
36335mentions
36336the
36337Aegaein Achaea and that in Euboea,
363384. 221;
36339calls Mt.
36340Scollis
36341‘the
36342Olenian Rock,” 4. 225; on Rhipé,
36343Stratié,
36344and Enispé, 4. 229;
36345on
36346“‘ Athens, well-built city,’ 4. 245;
36347said to have been interpolated by
36348Peisistratus, or Solon, in favour of
36349the Athenians, 4. 255;
36350does not
36351enumerate the Orchomenians with
36352the
36353Boeotians,
36354but
36355calls
36356them
36357“‘ Minyae,”’ 4. 283;
36358on Nisa and
36359Anthedon, 4. 299; mentions Copae
36360on Lake Copais, 4. 305; on “‘ grassy’
36361Haliartus and the sources of the
36362Cephissus River in Phocis, 4. 307;
36363mentions Lake Cephissis, meaning
36364Lake Hylicé, 4. 309;
36365makes the
36366first syllable of Hylé long at one
36367time and short at another, and
36368names places in Boeotia in their
36369geographical
36370order,
363714.
36372311;
36373dis-
36374cussion
36375of the various places in
36376Boeotia in the order in which they
36377are mentioned by, 4. 313-341;
36378on
36379the wealth of the temple at Delphi
36380(“ rocky Pytho’’), 4.359; mentions
36381Daulis
36382and
36383Cyparissus,
363844. 369;
36385says the Phaeacians
36386led Rhada-
36387manthys into Euboea to see Tityus,
363884. 371;
36389does not know Elateia in
36390Phocis, 4. 373; says that Patroclus
36391358
36392came from Opus in Locris, 4. 379;
36393other places in Locris mentioned by,
363944. 383-387;
36395does not expressly
36396mention the Western Locrians, 4.
36397385;
36398on
36399the
36400‘Thessalians
36401and
36402Aetolians, 4. 393; divides Thessaly
36403into ten parts, or dynasties, 4. 399
36404(see footnote 2); on the dynasty
36405of Achilles, 4. 399, of Phoenix, 4.
36406401, 415, of Protesilaiis, 4. 405, 419,
36407of Eumelus, 4, 423, of Philoctetes,
364084. 405, 425, of Eurypylus, 4. 433, of
36409Polypoetes, 4. 437, of Guneus, 4.
36410443; mentions Cape Geraestus, 5.
3641111;
36412on
36413Chalcis
36414in Aetolia and
36415Chalcisin Elis, 5. 15; says ‘‘ Achilles
36416alone knew how to hur! the Pelian
36417ashen
36418spear,”
364195. 21;
36420mentions
36421Olenus and Pylené in Aetolia, 5. 29;
36422mentions
36423the
36424‘‘ rock Leucas,’’ 5.
3642531; mentions Crocyleia and Aegi-
36426lips, 5. 33; Strabo’s interpretation
36427of references of, to the domain of
36428Odysseus, 5. 37-55; his description
36429of Ithaca, 5. 41-47; his Cephallenia
36430not to be identified with Dulichium
36431or Taphos,
364325. 47, 49;
36433on
36434the
36435islands
36436‘‘ Asteris’’ and
36437‘‘ Samos”’
36438(Samothrace),
364395. 51;
36440on
36441other
36442Aegaean isles, 5.53; on the domain
36443of Meges, 5. 59; on the subjects of
36444Mentes, 5.61; on places in Aetolia,
364455.
3644665;
36447on
36448the
36449Aetolians
36450and
36451Acarnanians,
364525. 67;
36453means that
36454the “ Curetes’’ were Aetolians, 5.
3645575;
36456on the Calydonian boar, 5.
3645787 ; on the Phaeacian “‘ betarmones,”
364585. 117; praises Cnossus above the
36459rest of the cities in Crete, 5. 127,
36460129; says Minos held converse with
36461Zeus every ninth year, 5.131; calls
36462Minos the first son of Zeus and
36463“‘suardian
36464o’er
36465Crete,’’
364665. 133;
36467calls Gortyn (Gortyna)
36468in Crete
36469“* well-walled,”’
364705. 137;
36471mentions
36472Phaestus and Rhytium in Crete,
364735. 141; speaks of Crete as at one
36474time ‘‘ possessing 100 cities’’ and as
36475at another “‘ possessing 90 cities,”’
364765. 143;
36477said to have been visited
36478by Lycurgus in Chios, where he
36479was living, 5. 153;
36480buried on the
36481isle Ios, according to some writers,
364825. 161;
36483mentions
36484some
36485of the
36486Sporades Islands, 5. 175, 177, 179;
p. 371
36487INDEX OF NAMES, PLACES, AND SUBJECTS
36488quoted in reference to the remark-
36489able soil of Albania in Asia, 5. 225;
36490stories of, more credible than those
36491of
36492certain
36493historians,
364945.
364952473
36496speaks of the Aegyptian Pharos as
36497“being out in the open sea,”’ 5.
36498357:
36499interpolated by Callisthenes,
365005. 377;
36501mentions
36502the Sangarius
36503River, which flows between Chal-
36504cedon
36505and Heracleia
36506Pontica,
365075.
36508379;
36509his
36510‘‘ Eneti’?
36511the
36512most
36513notable tribe of the Paphlagonians,
365145. 381; mentions certain places in
36515Paphlagonia, 5, 377, 387, 403, 4055
36516certain emendations to text of, 5.
36517407; certain interpolations in text
36518of,
365195.
36520409,
36521411;
36522his
36523accurate
36524knowledge of the Euxine and other
36525regions averred by Strabo, 5. 417-
36526423;
36527mentions
36528Libya
36529and
36530the
36531wind called Lips, 5. 419; Smyrna
36532by most writers called the birth-
36533place of, 5. 421;
36534on Phorcys and
36535Ascanius, leaders of ‘‘the Phrygians
36536from Ascania’’ in Phrygia, 5. 459;
36537on another Ascanius who led forces
36538from the Ascania near Nicaea—and
36539names various places in Asia Minor,
365405.
36541461;
36542makes
36543the
36544Pelasgians
36545allies of the Trojans, 5. 491;
36546on
36547Batieia in the Trojan Plain, 5. 493;
36548says that Rhodes and Cos were
36549inhabited
36550by Greeks
36551before
36552the
36553Trojan
36554War,
36555and
36556uses
36557terms
36558“« Trojans,”’ ‘* Danaans,”’ and ‘‘ Ach-
36559aeans’’
36560in broad
36561sense,
365625. 495;
36563leaves us to guess about most things,
365646. 3; on the extent of the sway of
36565the Trojans, 6. 5, 7, 9, 13;
36566dis-
36567tinguishes between Ilium (the city)
36568and Troy (the Troad), and names
36569cities sacked by Achilles, 6. 15, 17;
36570on the homes of Briseis, Chryseis,
36571Andromaché,
36572and others,
365736. 17;
36574on the Trojan leaders in the Trojan
36575War, 6. 19, 21; makes Aeolis and
36576the
36577Troad
36578one
36579country,
365806. 23;
36581names various places in the Troad,
365826. 23, 25, 33, 35; on the peoples led
36583by Asius the son of Hyrtacus, 6.
3658437, 39; on another Asius, uncle of
36585Hector, 6.41; on Aencias, leader of
36586the Dardanians,
365876. 45;
36588suggests
36589the different stages in the progress of
36590civilisation, 6. 49;
36591the Ilium of,
36592much in dispute, 6. 51; Alexander
36593the Great preserved the ‘‘ Recension
36594of the Casket’’ of, 6. 55, 57;
36595on
36596certain rivers in the Troad, 6. 59;
36597says
36598that
36599Heracles
36600once
36601sacked
36602Tlios, 6. 63;
36603on a bastard son of
36604Priam, 6. 65; names places in the
36605Troad, 6. 67, 69; on Hrineus (near
36606Ilium) and
36607on
36608the cowardice
36609of
36610Hector, 6. 71; cited in regard to
36611site of ancient Ilium, 6. 73, 75;
36612knows
36613not
36614of the
36615violation
36616of
36617Cassandra, 6. 79; expressly states
36618that Ilium was wiped out, 6. 81;
36619says the wooden image of Athené
36620at Ilium was in a sitting posture,
366216.83; calls Ida “ many-fountained,”’
366226. 85;
36623on the two springs of the
36624Scamander, and on other rivers, 6.
3662587;
36626Trojan Catalogue of, a little
36627more than 60 lines, discussed by
36628Demetrius in 30 books, 6. 91;
36629on
36630Sminthian Apollo, 6. 93; indicates
36631the origin of the Teucrians, 6. 95;
36632on Pedasus, city of the Leleges, in
36633Asia, 6. 99; says Aeneias fled from
36634Achilles to Lyrnessus, 6. 105; says
36635Aeneias was wroth at Priam,
366366.
36637107;
36638in disagreement with those
36639who make Aeneias leave Troyland,
36640but some emend the text, 6. 109; on
36641the Leleges, Carians, Paeonians, and
36642Cauconians, 6. 117;
36643on Chryseis,
36644Briseis, and others,
366456. 121;
36646on
36647Chrysa, Thebé, and Cilla, 6. 124;
36648on King Eurypylus, son of Telephus,
36649and the Ceteians, 6. 135, 137; does
36650not include Leleges, Cilicians, and
36651others,
36652in the
36653TVrojan
36654Catalogue,
366556. 149, 151; on the Pelasgians and
36656their leaders, 6. 153; by some said
36657to have been born at Cymé Phriconis
36658in Asia, 6. 161; on various peoples
36659and places in Lydia, 6. 175;
36660per-
36661haps
36662referred
36663to
36664‘‘ Meionia’’
36665as
36666“* Asia,’ 6, 179; on the Solymi, 6.
36667191;
36668on the
36669‘‘ mountain
36670of the
36671Phtheires,’’ 6. 209;
36672said once to
36673have
36674been
36675entertained
36676by Creo-
36677phylus
36678of Samos,
36679and
36680by some
36681called pupil of Creophilus, by others
36682of Aristeas the Proconnesian, 6. 219 ;
36683according
36684to some,
36685a native
36686of
36687Colophon,
366886.
36689237;
36690claimed
36691by
36692Chios, 6. 243; shrine of, at Smyrna,
36693359
p. 372
36694INDEX OF NAMES, PLACES, AND SUBJECTS
366956.
36696245;
36697especially
36698claimed
36699by
36700Smyrna, 6. 247;
36701on the “ Asian
36702meadow ’’ (Leimon), 6. 261; Rhodes
36703and Cos in existence in time of, but
36704not Halicarnassus and Cnidus, 6.
36705273; on the Carians ‘‘ of barbarian
36706speech,’’ 6. 301;
36707the ‘‘Solymi’”’
36708of, not Lycians but Milyae, 6. 321,
36709323; on the Cilicians in the Troad,
367106. 357; in his Catalogue names the
36711various Trojan allies, 6. 361; does
36712not mention the Pamphylians and
36713various other tribes, 6. 363, 367,
36714369;
36715misunderstood
36716by Apollo-
36717dorus, 6. 371,373; onthe worship of
36718Dionysus on Mt. Nysa, 7, 9, 11;
36719on the war between the pygmies and
36720the cranes, 7. 95; knows nothing
36721about the empires of the Medes and
36722Syrians, 7. 187; does not mention
36723Tyre, 7. 267;
36724on the skill of the
36725Sidonians in beautiful arts, 7. 269;
36726on the oracle of Zeus at Dodona
36727and his conversations with Minos in
36728Crete,
367297.
36730287;
36731says
36732Persephoné
36733granted reason to Teiresias after his
36734death, 7. 289; on the Aethiopians,
36735Sidonians, and Erembians, 7. 369,
36736371; on the Nile, “‘ heaven-fed river,”’
367378.21; cited in regard to Alexandria,
367388. 35;
36739on where Helen got her
36740“goodly drugs,’’ 8. 63; on the nods
36741of Zeus, 8. 115; on the Aegyptian
36742Thebes, 8. 121; Meninx (Jerba), in
36743the Little Syrtis, regarded as “‘the
36744land of the Lotus-eaters’’ of, 8. 193
36745Homereium,
36746the,
36747at
36748Smyrna,
36749a
36750quadrangular portico with shrine
36751and statue of Homer, 6. 245
36752Homeric
36753Catalogue
36754of Ships,
36755The;
36756the work of Apollodorus of Athens
36757on, 3. 187;
36758most Pylian districts
36759mentioned
36760in,
36761thought
36762to
36763be
36764Arcadian, 4. 101; writers on, have
36765supplied Strabo with materials, 4.
36766341
36767Homeridae, the, in Chios; mentioned
36768by Pindar, 6. 243, 245
36769Homolé (see Homolium in Magnesia)
36770Homolium, a city in Macedonia and
36771Magnesia close to Mt. Ossa, 3. 337,
367724, 449, 453
36773Homonadeis,
36774the,
36775in Pisidia;
36776the
36777country of, invaded by Amyntas,
367785. 477, 479, 481
36779360
36780Honey;
36781in Hyrcania,
36782drips from
36783leaves of trees, as also in Matiané
36784(in Media) and in Sacasené and
36785Araxené (districts of Armenia), 1.
36786273;
36787exported
36788from Turdetania,
367892.33; produced in the Alps, 2. 283;
36790the ‘‘ Hyblaean,’’ at Megara Hyblaea
36791in Sicily, 3. 65 ; superior in Sicily,
367928. 85; excellent, at Brundisium, 8.
36793121;
36794the best, produced on Mt.
36795Hymettus, 4. 275; in the Sporades
36796Islands, rivals that of Attica, 5.
36797179; in Colchis, generally bitter, 5.
36798211;
36799abundant
36800in Hyrcania,
36801in
36802Matiané in Media, and in Sacasené
36803and Araxené in Armenia, 5. 251;
36804a crazing kind of mixture of, made
36805by the Heptacomitae in Asia Minor,
368065. 401;
36807yielded by the palm-tree,
368087. 215; abundant in Arabia, 7. 31]
36809Hoop-trundling, at Rome, 2. 407
36810Horizon, change of, 1. 45
36811Hormina (or Hyrmina), a mountain
36812eae near Cyllené in Elis, 4,
368134
36814Horn, the, of the Byzantines, a gulf
36815resembling ἃ stag’s horn, 3. 281, 283
36816Horse, a white, sacrificed to Diomedes
36817by the Eneti, 2. 321
36818Horse-meat, eaten by the Scythian
36819Nomads, 3. 243
36820Horse-race, a, instituted by Romulus
36821in honour of Poseidon (Neptune),
368222. 385
36823Horse-raising, in Aetolia, Acarnania,
36824and Thessaly, 4. 229
36825Horses, good qualities of, determined
36826by training as well as by locality,
368271. 395; in Iberia, trained to climb
36828mountains and to obey promptly,
36829and swift, like those of Parthia, 2.
36830107;
36831superior, bred by the Eneti,
368322. 309, but practice now discon-
36833tinued, 2. 321;
36834which drink from
36835the Sybaris River in Italy are made
36836timid, 3. 47;
36837excellent, in neigh-
36838bourhood
36839of Mt.
36840Garganum
36841in
36842Apulia, 3. 131; small, in region of
36843Lake Maeotis, 3. 225;
36844castrated
36845in Scythia and Sarmatia, 3. 249;
36846the breed of, in Arcadia, Argolis,
36847and Epidauria, is most excellent,
368484,229; the, of the Amazons, 5. 233;
36849the Nesaean, originated either in
36850Greater Media or in Armenia, 5, 311,
p. 373
36851NDEX OF NAMES, PLACES, AND SUBJECTS
3685220,000 being sent annually from
36853Armenia to the Persian king, 5. 391:
36854those in Parthia, 5. 311; in India,
36855possession of, a royal privilege, 7.
3685669, 87; certain, in India, have one
36857horn and the head of a deer, 7. 93;
36858scarce in Carmania, 7. 153; more
36859than 30,000 kept at royal stud at
36860Apameia
36861in Syria,
368627. 251;
36863not
36864found at Nabataea
36865in Arabia, 7.
36866369; the, in Masaesylia, are small,
36867but quick, and obedient, 8. 167;
36868raised in great numbers between
36869the seaboard and Getulia, 8. 197
36870Horses, stunted (see Ginni)
36871Hortensius, married Marcia the wife
36872of Marcus Cato, 5. 273
36873Hot springs, the, in Pithecussae, a
36874cure for gall-stones, 2. 459
36875Hungarians, the (see Urgi)
36876Hya (see Hyampolis)
36877Hyacynthian
36878Festival,
36879the,
36880in the
36881temple
36882of Amyclaean
36883Apollo
36884in
36885Laconia, 3. 109
36886Hyameitis, one of the five capitals of
36887Messenia, 4. 119
36888Hyampeia on Parnassus, not the same
36889as Hyampolis, 4. 373
36890Hyampolis (near Vogdhani) in Phocis,
36891lies above the territory of Hyam-
36892polis, 4. 841: later called Hya by
36893some,
36894whither
36895the
36896Hyantes
36897of
36898Boeotia
36899were
36900banished,
36901is
36902far
36903inland and not to be confused with
36904Hyampeia on Parnassus, 4, 373
36905Tyantes,
36906the, lived
36907in Boeotia
36908in
36909earlier times, 3. 287, 4. 281; founded
36910a city Hya in Phocis, 4. 283; ban-
36911ished from Boeotia to Hyampolis in
36912Phocis,
369134. 373; left Boeotia and
36914settled in Aetolia, 5. 81
36915Tyarotis River, the, in India, 7. 35,
3691647, 51
36917Tybla in Sicily (see Megara Hyblaea)
36918Tyblaean
36919honey,
36920the,
36921at
36922Megara
36923Hyblaea in Sicily, 3. 65
36924Tybreas of Mylasa in Caria, greatest
36925orator in Strabo’s time, 6. 191;
36926remarkable career of, 6. 295-297;
36927provoked
36928Labienus,
36929withdrew
36930to
36931Rhodes, but returned and resumed
36932power, §. 297
36933Tybrianes (Agrianes 2), the, 8. 275
36934Hydara,
36935a
36936stronghold
36937built
36938by
36939Mithridates, 5. 425
36940Hydarnes, one of the ‘“‘Seven
36941Per
36942sians,’’ 5. 337
36943Hydaspes
36944River, the, in India,
369457.
369465, 25, 47, 49, 55, 57
36947Hydatos-Potamoi
36948(see Seleuceia
36949in
36950Pieria, in Syria)
36951Hyde, the Homeric, at foot of Mt.
36952Tmolus in Lydia, 4. 309; reputed
36953home of the Homeric
36954‘* Tychius,
36955the best of workers in hide,’’ and by
36956some identified with Sardeis, 6. 175
36957“ Hydé,’’
36958an incorrect reading,
36959for
36960‘* Hylé’’ in Boeotia, in Homer, 4.
36961309, 311
36962Hydra
36963(see Lysimachia),
36964Lake, in
36965Aectolia, 5, 65
36966Hydra, the monster, poisoned certain
36967of the Centaurs, 4. 61;
36968killed by
36969Heracles at the lake called Lerné,
36970in Argolis, 4, 151, 163
36971Hydra, the promontory, with Har-
36972matus forms the Elaitic Gulf, 6.
36973159
36974Hydraces,
36975the,
36976a
36977tribe
36978in
36979India,
36980summoned as mercenary troops by
36981Cyrus. 7. 9
36982Hydrelus, the Lacedaemonian, founded
36983a city in Asia Minor, 6. 261
36984Hydruntum (see Hydrus)
36985Hydrus (or Hydruntum, now Otranto),
36986in Iapygia, 3. 119
36987Hydrussa the island, off Attica, 4. 271
36988Hyele (see Elea)
36989“* Hyes attes,’’ a cry uttered in the
36990ritual of Sabazius and the Mother,
369915. 109
36992Hylas; Mt. Arganthonium in Asia the
36993scene of myth of, 5. 457
36994Hylé, the Homeric (Hydé not being
36995the correct
36996reading),
36997in Boeotia
36998on Lake Cephissis (Hylicé), 4. 309,
36999911. 321
37000Hylicé (the Homeric Cephissis), Lake,
370014. 309
37002Hyllus the eldest son
37003of Heracles,
37004adopted by Aegimius the king of
37005the Dorian Tetrapolis, 4. 387
37006Hyllus (now called Phrygius) River,
37007the, mentioned by Homer, 5. 421;
37008empties into the Hermus, 6. 173
37009Hylobii, the, in India, a sect of the
37010Garmanes in India, 7. 103
37011Hymettus,
37012Mt.,
37013one
37014of the
37015most
37016famous mountains
37017in Attica, has
37018marble quarries and produces the
37019361
p. 374
37020INDEX OF NAMES, PLACES, AND SUBJECTS
37021best honey
37022(especially
37023the kind
37024called “‘ acapniston,”’ near the silver
37025mines), 4, 275
37026Hypaepa, on the slopes of Mt. Tmolus,
37027near Sardeis, 6. 179
37028Hypaesia, wherein was the city Arené,
37029in Triphylia, 4. 63
37030Hypana, a small Triphylian city, 4.
3703153
37032Hypanis
37033(Bog)
37034River,
37035the,
37036flows
37037between the Tanais and the Ister
37038into
37039the
37040Huxine,
370411. 413;
37042not
37043mentioned
37044by Homer,
370453.
370461893
37047near the Borysthenes, 3. 221
37048Hypanis
37049(Gharra)
37050River,
37051the,
37052in
37053India, said to have been crossed by
37054Menander, king of Bactria, 5. 279,
37055ἢ. δ, 25, 47, 55, 57, 63
37056Hypanis (Kuban)
37057River, the;
37058the
37059Anticeites so called by some, 5. 199;
37060said to have been conducted over
37061the country of the Dandarians by
37062Pharnaces, 5. 201
37063Hypasians, the, a tribe in India, 7. 25,
3706447
37065Hypatus, Mt., in Theban territory near
37066Teumessus and the Cadmeia, 4. 327
37067Hypelaeus, a fountain near Ephesus,
370686. 203, 225
37069Hyperbaton, cases of, in Homer, 4. 41,
37070161
37071Hyperboles, 1. 133, 137, 151
37072Hyperboreans,
37073the, 1. 229, 3. 175,
370745. 245; reputed to live 1000 years,
370751.91
37076Hypereia, a spring in Thessaly, 4. 405,
37077433; in the middle of the city of the
37078Pheraeans, 4. 437
37079Hyperesia, the Homeric
37080Hyperesié,
370814. 185; belonged to the Achaean
37082League, 4. 207
37083Hypernotians, the, 1. 229
37084Hypnos
37085(‘‘Sleep’’),
37086the
37087Homeric,
37088came to Mt. Ida, 6. 11
37089Hypocremnus in Asia, between the
37090Erythraeans and the Clazomenians,
370916. 239
37092Hypothebes, the Homeric;
37093of the term, 4. 327
37094Hypsicrates (contemporary of Julius
37095Caesar,
37096and
37097author
37098of historical
37099and geographical treatises, of which
37100the exact titles are unknown), says
37101that Asander fortified the isthmus
37102of the Tauric Chersonesus against
37103362
37104meaning
37105the
37106Scythians,
371073. 245;
37108on
37109the
37110home and habits of the Amazons, 5.
37111233
37112Hypséeis River, the, in Micistia, 4. 73
37113Hyrcania, knowledge of, increased by
37114the Parthians, 1. 51; mild climate
37115and fertility of,1.273; geographical
37116position of, 5. 249, 261, 293;
37117re-
37118markable
37119fertility
37120of,
371215.
37122251;
37123rivers in, 5. 253; marvellous stories
37124about, 5. 257;
371258000 stadia from
37126Artemita
37127in Babylonia,
371285. 291;
37129εν ΟΝ kings reside in, in summer,
37130. 219
37131Hyrcanian
37132Plain, the, whither the
37133Persians brought Hyrcanian colon-
37134ists, 6. 185
37135Hyrcanian Sea (see Caspian Sea), the;
37136distance from, to the ocean on the
37137east, is about 30,000 stadia, 5. 289
37138Hyrcanians, the; extent of coast of,
37139on the Caspian Sea, 5. 245;
37140paid
37141tribute to the Persians and Mace-
37142donians,
371435. 271;
37144border on the
37145Tapyri, 5. 273, 293
37146Hyrcanium,
37147a stronghold in Syria,
37148destroyed by Pompey, 7. 291
37149Hyrcanus, son of King Alexander of
37150Judaea, overthrown
37151by Pompey,
371527. 289
37153Hyria, the Homeric, near Aulis, 4.
37154181; now belongs to Tanagra, but
37155in earlier times belonged to Thebes,
37156and is the scene of the myth of
37157Hyrieus and of the birth of Orion,
371584. 295
37159Hyria in Iapygia, founded, according
37160to Herodotus, by Cretans, must be
37161identified with Uria or Veretum, 3.
37162121
37163Hyrieans,
37164the
37165Boeotian,
37166colonised
37167Hysiae in Parasopia, 4. 297
37168Hyrieus;
37169Hyria the scene
37170of the
37171myth of, 4. 295
37172Hyrmina (see Hormina)
37173Hyrminé in Elis, a small town, no
37174longer in existence, 4. 35, 39
37175Hyrtacus, father of Asius the Trojan
37176leader, 6. 19, 37
37177Hysiae, a village in Argolis, unknown
37178to Homer, 4. 183;
37179mentioned in
37180connection with Hyria in Boeotia,
371814. 297
37182Hysiae, in Boeotia, in the Parasopian
37183country
37184near
37185Lrythrae,
37186called
p. 375
37187INDEX OF NAMES, PLACES, AND SUBJECTS
37188Hyria, and is a colony of Hyria,
37189having been founded by Nycteus
37190the father of Antiopé, 4, 297
37191Hysiatae, the; inhabitants of Hysiae
37192in Argolis, 4. 297
37193Hyssus (the Roman javelin), can be
37194used both in close combat and as 8
37195missile for hurling, 5. 19
37196Hystaspis, father of Dareius, 6. 217
371971
37198Iaccetania in Iberia, where Sertorius
37199waged war
37200against Pompey, and
37201Sextus (Pompey) against Caesac’s
37202generals, 2. 101
37203Taccetanians, the; geographical posi-
37204tion of, 2. 99
37205Iacchus
37206(Dionysus),
37207the
37208‘“* horned,”’
372097.9
37210Ialmenus, led a colony of Orchomen-
37211ians to the Pontus, after the capture
37212of Troy, 4. 341
37213Ialysus, tutelary hero of Rhodes and
37214grandson of Helius, 6. 273; son of
37215Cercaphus, 6. 275
37216Ialysus, a city in Rhodes, mentioned
37217by Homer, 6. 273; origin of name
37218of, 6. 275
37219Iamblichus, chieftain of a tribe in
37220Syria, 7. 253
37221Iambus, the, suited to reproaches (in
37222the Pythian Nome), 4. 363
37223Iamneia,
37224a
37225village
37226near
37227Iapé
37228in
37229Phoenicia, 7. 275, 277
37230Iaonians,
37231the
37232Homeric,
37233trailing tunics,’’ 4, 407
37234Iapodes, the, a mixed tribe of Illy-
37235rians and Celts, 3. 253, 259, 287
37236Iapyges,
37237the;
37238the
37239name
37240of
37241the
37242inhabitants of the country of the
37243Tarantini, 3.13; the three capes of,
372448. 39; once lived at Croton, 3. 43;
37245named after Iapyx, son of Daedalus
37246and a Cretan woman, 3, 111
37247Iapygia; the promontory of, 1. 417;
37248the
37249early
37250boundary
37251of,
372523. 533
37253called Messapia by the Greeks, 3.
37254103; forms a sort of peninsula, 3.
37255105; happy lot of part of, 3. 117;
37256called Messapia by Messapus,
372574.
37258299
37259Iapygian Cape (Capo di Leuca), the,
372601. 417, 2. 301, 3. 29, 103, 117
37261Iapyx, the son
37262of Daedalus,
37263after
37264“ with
37265whom the Iapyges were named, 3.
37266111; colonised Brundisium, 3. 121
37267Iardanus;
37268the meadow and tomb of,
37269in Triphylia, 4. 63, 67
37270Iardanus, the streams
37271of, as men-
37272tioned by Homer, 4. 45
37273“‘Tasian Argos,’’ the Homeric, 4. 155,
37274means the Peloponnesus, 4. 157
37275Tasidae,
37276the, and
37277‘‘ Iasian
37278Argos,”
37279referred to by more recent writers,
372804. 165
37281Iasion, who lived in Samothrace, was
37282struck by thunderbolt for sinning
37283against Demeter, 3. 371
37284Iasus, on an island close to Caria;
37285amusing story concerning, 6. 291
37286Iaxartes River, the, empties into the
37287Caspian Sea,
372885. 245; the boundary
37289between the Sacae and the Sogdiani,
372905. 269;
37291about 5000 stadia from
37292Bactra, 5. 271;
37293borders on Sog-
37294diana, and
37295forms
37296the boundary
37297between
37298it and
37299the nomads,
373005,
37301281;
37302empties
37303into
37304the
37305Caspian
37306Sea but should not be confused with
37307the Oxus, 5. 287
37308Iazyges, the, beyond Germany, 3. 173
37309Iberia in Asia, invaded by Pompey, 5.
37310187; bounded by the Caucasus, 5.
37311207; bounded on the north by the
37312Caucasus,
373135.
37314207;
37315detailed
37316de-
37317scription
37318of,
373195.
37320217-221;
37321four
37322passes lead into, 5, 219;
37323has four
37324castes of people, 5. 221, 323
37325Iberia in Europe;
37326wealth of, 1. 7;
37327like an ox-hide in shape, 1. 317;
37328length of, 1. 409; promontory of,
373291. 417;
37330shape and dimensions of,
373311. 4893 description of, in detail, 2.
373323-123; cold and rugged in northern
37333parts,
37334fertile
37335in southern,
373362. 3;
37337shape (like an ox-hide) and dimen-
37338sions of, 2.5; western and southern
37339sides of, 2. 11;
37340betrays signs of
37341Odysseus’
37342wanderings,
373432.
37344653;
37345wealth
37346of, 2. 57;
37347description
37348of
37349seaboard of, from the Pillars to the
37350Pyrenees, 2. 79-101;
37351colonised by
37352companions of Heracles and emi-
37353grants from Messené, 2. 83; coast
37354of, from
37355Pillars
37356to Tarraco,
37357has
37358poor harbours, but, from Tarraco to
37359Emporium,
37360fine ones, 2. 93;
37361the
37362number of its cities, the poverty of
37363much of its soil, and the traits of
37364363
p. 376
37365INDEX OF NAMES, PLACES, AND SUBJECTS
37366its people, 2. 105; animals, birds,
37367medicinal castor, copper, roots for
37368dyeing, olives, grapes, and figs in,
373692. 107;
37370variations in use of the
37371term by historians,
373722. 117, 119;
37373except Baetica, belongs wholly to
37374Augustus, being governed by two
37375legati, 2. 12L; islands off coast of,
373762. 123-159;
37377the passes leading to,
37378from
37379Italy, long barred
37380by the
37381Ligures, 2. 269; profitable mines in,
373822. 333; much of, acquired by the
37383Romans in the Third Carthaginian
37384War, 8. 141; colonised by Rhodians
37385in early times, 6. 275
37386Iberia,
37387Ulterior,
37388now
37389a praetorial
37390Province, 8. 215
37391Iberian earth, the, rivals the Sinopean,
373925. 369
37393Iberian
37394Sea, the;
37395471
37396Iberians, the Asiatic,
37397are excellent
37398subjects, but from neglect by the
37399Romans sometimes attempt revolu-
37400tions, 8. 145;
37401hold a part of the
37402Moschian country, 5. 215; perhaps
37403ΕΟ named from the gold mines in
37404their country, 5. 215; assemble for
37405war in great numbers, 5. 219
37406Iberians, the, in Europe;
37407use of the
37408term, 1. 123; migrations of western
37409Iberians to regions beyond the Pon-
37410tus and Colchis, 1. 227; traits and
37411modes of
37412life of, and why they could
37413be subdued
37414by various
37415foreign
37416nations, 2. 87;
37417armour, infantry,
37418and cavalry of, 2. 107;
37419some of,
37420sleep on the ground, 2. 109, and have
37421other barbaric customs, 2. 111; ride
37422double
37423on
37424horseback, though
37425in
37426battle one of two fights on foot,
374272. 113; commit suicide upon occa-
37428sion, and die for those to whom they
37429have ‘‘ devoted ’’ themselves, 2. 115;
37430say that the Pillars of Heracles are
37431in Gades, 2. 137; taught the sacred
37432rites of Artemis by the Massaliotes,
374332. 175;
37434more difficult to conquer
37435than the Gauls, 2. 239;
37436the first
37437barbarian settlers of Sicily, 3. 73;
37438began the war with the Romans,
374398. 143
37440Iberus (Ebro) River, the; distant about
374412200 stadia from New Carthage, 2.
3744281; the course of, 2.91; geographi-
37443364
37444definition
37445of, 1.
37446cal position of, 2.97; astone bridge
37447over, at Celsa, 2. 99; crossing of, at
37448Varia, 2. 101; formerly a boundary
37449of Iberia, 2.119; novel and peculiar
37450in respect to its overflows, 2. 155
37451Ibex, the Alpine (see footnote 5, Vol.
374521Ι., p. 289)
37453Ibis, the, found in the neighbourhood
37454of Cape Deiré in Aethiopia, 7. 331;
37455worshipped by the Aegyptians, 8.
37456109;
37457description
37458and
37459habits
37460of,
374618. 151
37462Ibiza, the isle (see Ebusus)
37463Ibycus the Greek lyric poet, of Rhegium
37464(fl. about 540 B.c.); onthe mole con-
37465necting Syracuse with the island, 1.
37466219; says the Asopus in Sicyonia
37467rises in Phrygia, 3. 79
37468Icaria, or Icaros (Nikaria), one of the
37469Sporades Islands, a famous isle, 5.
37470173;
37471the isle near Samos, where
37472Icarus fell; description of, 6. 221
37473Icarian Sea, the; extent of, 1. 477, 5.
37474173; named after the isle Icaria, 6.
37475221
37476Icarius, father of Penelopé by Poly-
37477casté, had two sons who reigned
37478over Acarnania with him, 5. 35;
37479banished from Lacedaemon, settled
37480in Acarnania, 5. 69
37481Iearos (or Icaria), colonised by Mile-
37482sians, 6. 207
37483Icaros, an island in the Persian Gulf,
37484has a temple of Apollo and an oracle
37485of Artemis Tauropolus, 7. 303
37486Icarus, son of Daedalus; story of flight
37487of, and of fall of, on the isle Icaria,
374886. 221
37489Ichnae in Thessaly, where the Ichnaean
37490Artemis is worshipped, 4. 421
37491Ichneumon, the, held in great honour
37492by the people of the City of Heracles
37493on the Nile, 8. 107; kills crocodiles
37494and asps, 8. 109;
37495indigenous to
37496Aegypt, 8. 149
37497Ichthyophagi
37498(‘‘ Fish-eaters’’),
37499the,
37500live in narrow zones beneath the
37501tropics, 1. 367, 7. 131, 153, 313, 327;
37502life and habits of, 7. 329
37503Ichthys, Cape (Catakolo) in Elis, 120
37504stadia from Cephallenia, 4. 47; lies
37505opposite Berenicé in Libya, 8. 201
37506Icizari, a strong fortress, now deserted,
37507on Lake Stephané in Cappadocia
37508Pontica, 5. 445
p. 377
37509INDEX OF NAMES, PLACES, AND SUBJECTS
37510Iconii, the, geographical position of,
375112. 195, 271
37512Iconium (Konia), capital of Lycaonia,
37513δ. 475
37514Icos, the isle off Magnesia, 4. 427
37515Ictinus, builder of the Parthenon, and
37516of the temple of Demeter at Hleusis,
375174, 257, 261
37518Ictumuli, a village near Placentia in
37519Italy, 2. 333
37520Ida, Mt., in Crete, scene of revels in
37521honour of Dionysus and his mother,
375225. 103, 113;
37523highest mountain in
37524Crete, 600 stadia in circuit, 5. 125
37525Ida, Mt., in the Troad;
37526the city
37527Dardania lies at the foot of, 3. 371;
37528iron first worked on, by the Idaean
37529Dactyli,
375305. 117;
37531lies above
37532the
37533Propontis, 5. 497; extent of, 6. 5;
37534description of, 6. 9, 11; Zeleia on
37535farthermost foot-hill of, 6. 25; bor-
37536ders on the Trojan Plain, 6. 65; the
37537two spurs of, 6. 67; rightly called
37538‘* many-fountained,’’6.85; bysome
37539said to have been named after Mt.
37540Ida in Crete, 6. 95; timber from,
37541marketed at Aspaneus, 6. 103
37542“‘ Tdaea,’’ an epithet of Rhea (q.v.)
37543Idaean Dactyli, the, identified with the
37544gods worshipped in Samothrace, 3.
37545371; by some represented as iden-
37546tical with the Curetes, 5. 87, 89;
37547discussion of, 5. 117-119
37548Idaean Gulf (see Adramyttium, Gulf
37549of), the, 6. 13
37550Idaean Mother, the (see Cybelé)
37551Idanthyrsus the Scythian king, against
37552whom Dareius made his expedition,
375538. 199, 201 (see p. 200, footnote 1);
37554overran Asia as far as Aegypt, 7. 9
37555Ideéssa, the present name of the City
37556of Phrixus in Iberia, 5. 215
37557Idiologus, the, a Roman
37558ollicial in
37559Aegypt, 8. 49
37560Idomeneus, the grandson of Minos;
37561slew Phaestus from Tarné in Lydia,
375624. 331; enemies of, said to have
37563destroyed ten cities in Crete, 5. 143;
37564mentioned by Homer, 5. 145; king
37565of Crete,
37566slew
37567Othryoneus,
37568and
37569sought the hand of Cassandra, 6. 79
37570Idomeneus, the able Lampsacenian and
37571friend of Epicurus, 6. 37
37572Idubeda, the mountain,
37573in Iberia;
37574geographical
37575position
37576of, 2.
3757797,
37578101; forms the eastern boundary
37579of Celtiberia, 2. 103
37580Idumaeans (see Nabataeans), the, a
37581tribe in Syria, 7. 239;
37582joined the
37583Judaeans, 7. 281
37584Terné (Ireland), 1. 235;
37585inhabitable
37586only after
37587a fashion, 1.237; remotest
37588northern part of inhabited world, 1.
37589271,505; scarcely habitable, 1. 279;
37590inhabitants of, complete savages, 1.
37591443; description of, 2. 259; inhabi-
37592tants of, said to be cannibals, 2. 259,
37593261
37594Tgletes, the, in Iberia, 2 119
37595Ignatia (see Egnatia)
37596Iguvium (Gubbio), in Italy, geographi-
37597cal position of, 2. 373
37598Tlan-Adassi in the Euxine (see Leucé)
37599Ilasarus, king of the Rhammanitae in
37600Arabia, 7. 361
37601Tlerda (Lerida), in Iberia; geographi-
37602cal position of, and where Sertorius
37603fought
37604his
37605last
37606battles
37607and
37608the
37609generals of Pompey were defeated
37610by Julius Caesar, 2. 99
37611Tlergetans, the, in Iberia; districts of,
37612near the Iberus, 2. 99
37613Iliad, The, of the Casket, acquired by
37614Alexander, 6. 55, 57
37615Iliad, Homer’s, transferred to realm
37616of myth, 2. 53
37617Tlians, the, befriended by Alexander,
376186. 55, and by Julius Caesar, 6. 57;
37619offer sacrifice to the four heroes,
37620Achilles, Aias, Patroclus, and An-
37621tilochus, but do not honour Hera-
37622cles, 6. 61;
37623village of, 30 stadia
37624from the present Ilium, on the site
37625of the ancient Ilium, 6. 69;
37626the
37627stretch of coast now subject to, 6.
3762879; the present, assert that ium
37629was never destroyed nor deserted,
376306. 79
37631Tlibirris, river and city of, in Celtica;
37632river of, rises in the Pyrenees, 2. 183
37633Hliocoloné, in the territory of Parium,
376346. 35
37635Tlios, the Homeric (see ium)
37636llipa, on the Baetis River in Iberia;
37637silver plentiful in region of, 2. 25;
37638about 700 stadia from the sea, 2.
37639155
37640llissus River, the, in Attica; descrip-
37641tion of course of, 4. 277
37642Ilium (the city Troy) in the Troad,
37643365
p. 378
37644INDEX OF NAMES, PLACES, AND SUBJECTS
376456.15; situated at about 170 stadia
37646from Abydus, 6. 41; the territory
37647of, 6. 45; founded by Ilus the son
37648of Dardanus—and
37649discussion
37650of
37651ancient and present site of, 6. 51;
37652the present, greatly honoured by
37653Alexander, 6. 51, and by Lysima-
37654chus, 6. 53—and later history of,
376556. 53-55;
37656present site of, not the
37657Homeric, 6. 57, 67-85; the Homeric
37658lies 30 stadia farther inland, 6. 16,
3765969;
37660once
37661sacked
37662by
37663Heracles,
37664according to Homer, 6. 63; Deme-
37665trius of Scepsis on the present and
37666ancient sites of, 6. 67; the present,
3766740 stadia from Callicomé, and the
37668Homeric only 10, 6. 69; the plain
37669in front of the present, a deposit of
37670rivers, 6 75;
37671not a trace of the
37672ancient now left, 6. 75; rased to
37673the ground, according to Lycurgus,
376746. 83; the present founded in time
37675of the Lydians, but by Hellanicus
37676identified with the Homeric, 6. 85;
37677places in sight of, 6. 97
37678Illyria, bounded by the Ister, 1. 493;
37679a part of, once inhabited by the
37680Boii, 2. 311; geographical position
37681of, 3. 249, 251, 285; a part of, laid
37682waste by the Dacians,
376833. 253; com-
37684prises the whole of the mountainous
37685country
37686that
37687stretches
37688alongside
37689Pannonia from the recess
37690of the
37691Adriatic to the Rhizonic Gulf, 3, 257
37692Iilyrian seaboard, the, well supplied
37693with harbours, and abounds with
37694the olive, and the vine, but much
37695neglected by inhabitants in earlier
37696times, 3. 269, 271
37697Illyrian tribes, the, are all south of
37698the Ister, 3. 153
37699Tilyrians, the; the Brenniand Genauni
37700are tribes of, 2. 281; use Aquileia
37701as emporium, 2. 317;
37702began the
37703war
37704with
37705the Romans,
377063. 143;
37707tattoo
37708themselves,
377093.
37710259;
37711the
37712strongest tribes of, 3. 271, 273
37713Ilus, son of Dardanus and traditional
37714founder
37715of Ilium,
37716represents
37717the
37718third stage in civilisation, 6. 49;
37719monument of, 6. 67
37720Imaiis (or Imaeus) Mt., 1. 4, 95; 8
37721part of the Caucasus, 5. 259;
37722the
37723last part of the Taurus, bordering
37724on the Indian Sea, 5. 289, 7. 15
37725366
37726{Imbrasus, the father of the Thracian
37727hero, 3. 381
37728Imbrasus River (see Parthenius River
37729in Samos)
37730Imbros, the Aegaean isle, 1. 477, 3.
37731369; settled by Pelasgians, 2. 347;
37732the Cabeiri worshipped in, 5. 115
37733Imbrus, in the Peraea of the Rhodians,
377346. 267
37735Imola (see Forum Cornelium)
37736Inachus, the city of (see Argos)
37737Inachus (Panitza) River, the, in the
37738Argolid, flows, according to Heca-
37739taeus, from Lacmus (i.e. Lacmon,
37740a height of Pindus) into Argos, 3.
3774179, 265, 305, 4. 159, 161
37742Inachus
37743River, the, in Epeirus, so
37744named
37745by Alcmaeon
37746after
37747the
37748Inachus in the Argolid, 3. 305, 309
37749Inaros, a city in Aegypt, defeated by
37750the Milesians, 8. 67
37751India;
37752eastern capes of, end of in-
37753habited
37754world
37755on
37756east,
377571. 253;
37758southern capes of, opposite Meroé,
37759. 255, 271; mild climate of north-
37760ern part of, 1. 273; called Section
37761(Sphragis) First of Asia, 1. 293;
37762rhomboidal in shape, 1. 295, 317;
37763visited by fleets in Strabo’s time,
377641. 455; largest and happiest in lot
37765of all, 1. 497; the salt-rock in, 2.
37766357; abounds in pine-trees, 5. 253;
3776715,300
37768stadia
37769from
37770the
37771Caspian
37772Gates, 5. 271; once subject to the
37773Greeks, 5. 279; shape of, on the
37774east, 5. 289; description of, 7. 3-129;
37775shape and boundaries of, 7. 15, 17;
37776traversed by numerous
37777rivers, 7.
3777819; subject to earthquakes, 7. 29;
37779produces
37780strange
37781trees,
377827.
3778333;
37784animals in, 7. 65, 77, 79; popula-
37785tion of, divided into seven castes,
377867. 67; chase of the elephant in, 7.
3778771; political administration of, 7.
3778883; the sophists in, 7. 99-117, 123,
37789125;
37790possess a part of Mt. Paro-
37791pamisus, 7. 147; serpents in, rather
37792fabulous, 7. 337; now reached by
37793large fleets, 8. 53
37794Indian Memoirs, the, on the straight-
37795forward character of the Scythians,
377963. 201
37797Indian merchandise, brought to the
37798emporium Coptus, 8. 119
37799Indians, the; called refined by Eratos-
p. 379
37800INDEX OF NAMES, PLACES, AND SUBJECTS
37801thenes, 1. 249;
37802better developed
37803and less parched than the Aethio-
37804pians, 1. 395; probably unknown
37805by Homer, 1. 397; compared with
37806the Aethiopians and Aegyptians, 7.
3780721, 41;
37808fond
37809of adornment,
37810but
37811ignorant of value of gold and silver
37812in their country, 7. 53, 55; lead a
37813simple life, 7. 87; habits and traits
37814of, 7. 89-91;
37815beliefs of, 7. 103;
37816customs and laws of, 7. 115; write
37817on closely woven
37818linen,
378197. 117;
37820worship
37821Zeus, the Ganges River,
37822and local deities, 7. 121; revere the
37823Gymnosophists,
378247.
37825289;
37826present
37827large commerce of, with the Aegyp-
37828tians, 8. 53
37829Indians, certain, accompanied Hera-
37830cles to Libya and remained there,
378318. 169
37832Indicetans,
37833the,
37834in
37835north-eastern
37836Iberia; four tribes of. 2.81; united
37837with the Emporitans, 2. 93
37838Indus River, the, in India, 7. 11;
37839forms the boundary between Ariana
37840and India, 7. 15, 17;
37841has many
37842tributaries, 7. 19,43, 55,57; changed
37843its bed because of earthquake, 7.
3784431, 47; largest of all rivers except
37845the Ganges, 7. 61;
37846the fish and
37847Carides found in, 7. 81; course of,
378487. 143
37849Infantry,
37850the, of
37851the Iberians,
378522.
37853107
37854Inhabited world, the (see World)
37855Iniada (see Thynias)
37856Inn River, the (see footnote 4, Vol. IT,
37857Ρ. 285)
37858Innessa, a hilly district at foot of Mt.
37859Aetna, 3. 69
37860Inscription, the, on the pillar at the
37861boundary between Jonia and the
37862Peloponnesus, 4. 247; at Thermo-
37863pylae, on the pillar erected by the
37864Lacedaemonians, 4, 393
37865Insubri (see Symbri), the, one of the
37866largest
37867tribes
37868of the
37869Celti,
37870once
37871seized
37872Roman
37873territory,
378742. 311;
37875geographical position of, 3. 165
37876Intemelii, the, in Italy, 2. 265
37877Intemelium, Albium, in Italy, 2. 265
37878Interamna
37879(Terni),
37880in
37881Italy;
37882geo-
37883graphical position of, 2. 373
37884Interamnium (Termini), on the Liris
37885River, 2. 413
37886Intercatia
37887in Iberia, mentioned
37888by
37889Polybius, 2. 103
37890Interocrea (Antrodoco), in the Sabine
37891country, 2. 375
37892Inundations;
37893Aegypt and Aethiopia
37894subject to, 1. 119;
37895in Iberia, at
37896flood-tides, 2. 27
37897To, said to have given birth to Epa-
37898phus at Béos Aulé (“ Cow’s Stall’’)
37899in Euboea, 5. 5; the island Euboea
37900probably so named in honour of,
379015. 7; quest of, by Triptolemus, 6.
37902345; disappeared first in Tyre, 7.
37903243
37904Tol (Caesareia), on the coast of Masae-
37905sylia in Libya, rebuilt by Juba the
37906father of Ptolemy, 8. 179
37907Tolaés, the (see Diagesbes)
37908Tolaiis, with some of children of Hera-
37909cles, settled
37910in Sardinia,
379112. 3615
37912expedition of Eurystheus against,
379134. 187
37914Tolcus (Volo) in Thessaly, the home
37915of
37916Jason; inhabitants of, and hence
37917the Argonauts, called Minyae,
379184.
37919335;
37920in early times rased to the
37921ground, and lies seven stadia from
37922Demetrias, 4. 423, 435; now a vil-
37923lage belonging to Demetrias, 4. 425
37924Tolcus, the name of the shore adjoining
37925Demetrias in Thessaly, 4. 425
37926Ion, the son of Achaeus, conquered
37927the Thracians under KEumolpus their
37928leader, and reigned over the Athe-
37929nians, reorganised their government,
37930and at his death left their country
37931named Ionia after himself, 4. 209;
37932father of Ellops, 5. 7
37933Ion of Chios, the tragic poet (fl. about
37934440 B.C.);
37935his Omphalé quoted, on
37936the Euripus, 1. 223;
37937apocopé in,
379384. 131; native of Chios, 6. 243
37939Ton, the, of Euripides, refers to Euboea
37940the island as a “" city,’ 4. 97
37941Ton River, the, on which lies the city
37942Oxineia, 3. 311
37943Ionaeum, the, a sacred precinct in
37944Triphylia, 4. 59
37945Ionia (Achaea), in the Peloponnesus,
37946occupied
37947by the Achaeans from
37948Laconia, 4. 133, 211;
37949subject to
37950Agamemnon,
379514. 167;
37952once called
37953Aegialus, or Aegialeia, 4. 207, 209
37954Tonia (Attica), the southern boundary
37955of, on Isthmus of Corinth, 2. 139,
37956367
p. 380
37957INDEX OF NAMES, PLACES, AND SUBJECTS
37958near Crommyon,
379594. 247;
37960named
37961after Ion the son of Xuthus, 4. 265
37962Tonia in Asia, a part of the Cis-Halys
37963country, 1. 497;
37964invaded by the
37965Cimmerians, 2. 51;
37966the whole of
37967what is now so called, used to be
37968inhabited by Carians and Leleges,
379693. 289; Phocaea the beginning of,
379706. 5; length of coast of, about 800
37971stadia, 6. 197, 309
37972Ioniades Nymphs, the, in Elis, who
37973cured diseases with the waters of
37974the Cytherius River, 4. 99
37975Ionian cities, the twelve, joined by
37976Smyrna, 6, 201
37977Ionian colonisations, the, in Asia, sup-
37978posed to have taken place before
37979Homer’s time, 4. 213, 6. 5; took
37980place four generations after Aeolian,
379816. 7; Androclus leader of, 6. 199
37982Ionian Gulf, the, the name of the
37983lower part of the Adriatic, 1. 475,
37984being named after Ionius, an ΠΙγ-
37985rian from the isle of Issa (Lissa), 3.
3798629, 267; at Apollonia distant 7320
37987stadia from Byzantium, or, accord-
37988ing to Polybius, 7500
37989stadia,
379903.
37991379
37992Tonian League, the, in Asia, 6. 201
37993Ionian
37994migration,
37995the,
37996known
37997by
37998Homer, 5. 51
37999Ionians, the;
38000migrations of, 1. 227;
38001colonised Siris in Italy, 3. 49;
38002all
38003sprang
38004from
38005the
38006Attic people—
38007colonised
38008Ionia
38009in
38010Asia,
380114
380125;
38013mastered the Aegialeia (Aegialus) in
38014the Peloponnesus, and changed its
38015name to Ionia, 4. 7, 207, but were
38016later driven back to Athens by the
38017Achaeans, and then sent forth to
38018colonise Caria and Lydia, 4. 209,
38019211; requested statue of Poseidon
38020at Helicé, but the people refused
38021and their city was submerged by
38022Poseidon, 4. 215; fled for refuge to
38023Helicé, but were driven out, 4. 219;
38024in early times held
38025both
38026Attica
38027and Megaris, 4. 245; often had dis-
38028putes with the Peloponnesians about
38029the boundary on the isthmus, 4.
38030251
38031Ionians, the, in Achaea, 4. 7, 137, 167,
38032215, 217, 219
38033Ionians, the, at Argos and Epidaurus,
380344.175
38035368
38036Tonians, the, in Asia, hated the Cim-
38037merians, because of their invasion
38038of Ionia, 2. 51;
38039worshipped the
38040Delphinian Apollo, 2. 173; sprang
38041from the Ionians of Attica, 4. 5;
38042founded cities on the Scythian sea-
38043board,
38044and
38045changed
38046name
38047of
38048** Axine’’ Sea to ‘‘ Euxine,’’ 8. 189;
38049expelled the Carians and the Leleges
38050from what is now called Ionia, 3.
38051289; sprang from the Ionians (i.e.
38052the Attic people), 4. 5; still worship
38053the Heliconian Poseidon and offer
38054the Pan-lonian sacrifices, 4. 213;
38055called “‘ tunic-trailing ’’ by Homer,
380565. 89; once held mastery in Asia
38057Minor, after the Trojan War, 5, 463 ;
38058now occupy Caria, 5. 509;
38059royal
38060seat of, established at Ephesus, 6.
38061199;
38062celebrate
38063the
38064Alexandreian
38065Games at a sacred precinct above
38066Chalcideis, 6. 239
38067Tonic dialect, the;
38068ancient Attic, 4, 5
38069Ionic laws, the; used at Massalia, 2.
38070175
38071Iopé (Jaffa) in Phoenicia, Jerusalem
38072visible from, 7. 275
38073Tos (Nios), the island, where, according
38074to some, Homer was buried, 5. 161
38075Iphicrates,
38076besieged
38077Stymphalus
38078in
38079Arcadia, 4. 233
38080Iphicrates, on the animals in western
38081Aethiopia,
380828. 163;
38083on the large
38084species of reed and asparagus there,
380858. 165
38086Iphidamas,
38087the
38088Homeric,
38089Cisses reared,’ 3. 343, 349
38090Iphigeneia, the supposed temple of,
38091in the land of the Taurians, 3. 231
38092(see
38093footnote
380948);
38095with
38096Orestes,
38097thought to have brought sacred rites
38098in honour of Artemis Tauropolus
38099to Comana in Cappadocia, 5. 353,
38100359
38101Tphigeneia in Tauris, the, of Euripides,
38102where
38103‘‘ Argos’’ and
38104‘‘ Mycenae”’
38105are used synonymously, 4. 187
38106Iphitus (perhaps identical with son of
38107Eurytus), celebrated the Olympian
38108Games after they had been discon-
38109tinued, 4. 105
38110Iphitus, the son of Eurytus, met Tele-
38111machus at Pherae in Messenia, 4
38112145
38113the same as the
38114“ whom
p. 381
38115INDEX OF NAMES, PLACES, AND SUBJECTS
38116Ipni in Magnesia,
38117where
38118some
38119of
38120Xerxes’ ships were destroyed, 4. 451
38121Tps, the vine-eating;
38122Heracles the
38123destroyer of, 6. 127
38124Ipsela (see Cypsela)
38125Treland (see [erné)
38126Iri River, the (see Eurotas River, the,
38127in the Peloponnesus), 4, 231
38128Tris, the Selgie (orris-root), and the
38129ointment made from it in Pisidia,
381305. 485
38131Tris River, the; silting up, at mouth
38132of, 1.193; rises in Cappadocia Pon-
38133tica and flows through Themiscyra,
381345, 395; flows through Comana and
38135Dazimonitis, and past Gaziura and
38136Amaseia, and then into Phanaraea,
381375. 397, 429, 445
38138Tron,
38139greatest
38140quantity
38141and
38142best
38143quality of, in Turditania,
381442. 39;
38145mines of, near Hemeroscopeium in
38146Iberia, 2. 89; collars of, worn by
38147women in Iberia, 2. 109; produced
38148in Britain, 2. 255; mined in island
38149Aethalia (Elba), 2. 355, 357; once
38150mined in the Lelantine
38151Plain in
38152Euboea, 5. 13; first worked on Mt.
38153Ida in the Troad, 5.117; with zinc,
38154yields ‘‘ mock-silver,’’ at Andeira in
38155Asia Minor, 6. 115; skilful emboss-
38156ing of, at Cityra in Phrygia, 6. 193;
38157first worked by the ‘Telchines in
38158Rhodes, according to some writers,
381596. 275; found on the island Meroé
38160in the Nile, 8. 143
38161Iron mines, the, in Pharnacia in Cap-
38162padocia Pontica, 5. 401, 405
38163Iron-works, the, among the Petrocorii
38164and Bituriges Cubi in Aquitania, 2.
38165217;
38166in the territory of Aquileia
38167and the HEneti, 2. 319
38168Is, of Helicé, founder of Sybaris in
38169Italy, 3. 47
38170Isander, the Homeric (see Peisander)
38171Isar (Is¢re) River, the, confluence of,
38172with the Rhodanus, 2. 195, 197
38173Isaras River, the, 2. 285 (see footnote)
38174Isaura, Old and New, in Lycaonia,
381755. 475, 6. 327
38176Isauricé, in Lycaonia, 5. 475
38177Ischia, the Italian isle (see Pithecussa)
38178Ischopolis
38179in
38180Cappadocia
38181Pontica,
38182now in ruins, 5. 399
38183Isére River, the (see Isar River)
38184lsernia (see Aesernia)
38185Isinda in Asia, 6. 193
38186Isinglass, the, in Cappadocia;
38187see 5.
38188369, footnote 2
38189Isis;
38190temple of, at Soli in Cypros,
381916. 381; temple of, on a mountain
38192near the Arabian
38193Gulf, built by
38194Sesostris, 7. 319;
38195river-land of, in
38196Aethiopia, 7. 333;
38197mythical story
38198of her hiding of body of Osiris from
38199Typhon,
382008.
3820175;
38202temple
38203of,
38204at
38205Tentyra on the Nile, 8. 119; wor-
38206shipped at Meroé, 8. 147
38207Iskuria (see Dioscurias)
38208Ismahan (see Ismarus in Thrace)
38209Ismara (see Ismarus in Thrace)
38210Ismaris, Lake, in Thrace, sends forth
38211the stream
38212called Odysseium,
382133.
38214365, 367
38215Ismarus (or Ismara, now Ismahan)
38216in Thrace, 3. 365, 367
38217Ismenus River, the, flows through the
38218plain in front of Thebes, 4. 313
38219Isodromian
38220Mother,
38221the
38222(Cybelé);
38223temple of, near Tralleis and Larisa
38224in Asia, 4, 441
38225Isola Longa, one of the Liburnides, 3.
38226259
38227Issa (or Lesbos, qg.v.)
38228Issa (Lissa), isle in the Adriatic, 1,
38229475, 3. 259
38230Tssican Sea, the, 1. 481
38231Issus, the road from, to Amisus and
38232Sinopé,
382336. 311;
38234small
38235town
38236in
38237Cilicia, 6. 345, 355
38238Issus, the Gulf of; distance from, to
38239the Huxine, 1. 255, and to the Sacred
38240Cape of Iberia, 1. 407 ; about 40,000
38241stadia from the Indian Sea, and
3824230,000 from the western extremity
38243of Europe, 5. 289
38244Ister (Karanasib), a city onthe Euxine,
382458. 275; founded by the Milesians, 3.
38246277
38247Ister (Danube) River, the; revealed to
38248geographers
38249by
38250Alexander,
38251and
38252regions beyond by the Romans, 1.
3825351;
38254rises
38255in
38256region
38257above
38258the
38259Adriatic,
382601. 211;
38261bisects eastern
38262Europe and forms a boundary of
38263Germany and other countries,
382641.
38265493; the Atesinus empties into, 2.
38266285;
38267rises
38268near
38269the
38270Suevi
38271and
38272the Black Forest, 2. 287; bisects
38273eastern Europe, and is the largest
38274European river, 8. 151; sources of,
38275369
p. 382
38276INDEX OF NAMES, PLACES, AND SUBJECTS
38277near the Hercynian Forest, 3. 163;
38278not mentioned by Homer, 3. 189, 5.
38279419; contains an island called Peucé
38280(‘Pine ’’),
382818. 201, 207; the name
38282formerly applied only to the stretch
38283of the Danube from the cataracts to
38284the Euxine Sea, 3. 215; the island
38285Peucé in, 3. 217, 223; geographical
38286divisions formed by, 8. 251, 253, 271,
38287285; once called the “ Matoas,’’1.e.,
38288in Greek,
38289‘‘ Asius,’’ and then its
38290name was changed to ‘‘ Danubis’’
38291or “‘ Daiisis,’’ 3. 385, 387 ; 3200 stadia
38292from Thessaloniceia, 4, 233; largest
38293of all rivers except the Ganges and
38294the Indus, 7. 61
38295Isthmian Games, the, not mentioned
38296by Homer, 4. 93 (and footnote);
38297a
38298source
38299of great advantage to the
38300Corinthians, 4. 189, and used to be
38301celebrated by them, 4. 197
38302Isthmian Poseidon, the; temple of,
383034, 197
38304Isthmus, the Aegyptian;
38305description
38306of, 8. 13; between Pelusium and
38307the Arabian Gulf, 10,000 stadia in
38308breadth, 8.71; between Coptus and
38309Berenicé, 8. 119-121
38310Istria, the geographical position of,
383112. 299; entire distance along coast
38312of, 3. 257
38313Istrians, the; seaboard of, 2.323; the
38314first people on the Illyrian seaboard,
383158. 257
38316Isus in Boeotia near Anthedon,
38317a
38318sacred place containing traces of a
38319city, 4. 299
38320Italian promontory, the; mentioned
38321by Eratosthenes, 1. 353
38322Italian seaboard, the, on the Adriatic,
38323is harbourless, but abounds with
38324the olive and the vine, 3. 271
38325Italians, certain tribes of the, wont to
38326overrun
38327Celtica and Germany, 2.
38328281
38329““ Ttalians,’’ the; earlier scope of the
38330term, 3. 13
38331Italica
38332in
38333Iberia
38334(identified
38335with
38336Baetis, g.v. and also footnote 2. 20),
38337near the Baetis River, 2. 21
38338Italiotes, the, are autonomous
38339with
38340the “‘ Latin right,’’ 2. 271; treated
38341cruelly by certain brigandish tribes,
383422. 283;
38343given equality
38344of civic
38345rights by the Romans,
383462. 299; the
38347319
38348oracle given out to, near Laiis in
38349Italy, 3.5; borrowed most of their
38350usages from the Achaeans (of the
38351Achaean League), 4. 211
38352Italy, a treatise on, by Antiochus of
38353Syracuse, 3. 11
38354Italy; promontory of, 1. 417; whole
38355length of, traversed by the Apen-
38356nines, 1. 491; form and dimensions
38357of, 1. 493; described in detail, 2.
38358299, 3. 147; First Portion of, 2.
38359299-333;
38360Second
38361Portion
38362of, 2.
38363333-335; Third Portion of, 2. 335—
38364369; Ombrica (Umbria) in, 2. 369-
38365373;
38366formerly
38367bounded
38368by the
38369Aesis and Rubicon Rivers, but now
38370by the Alps, 2. 371; the Sabini in,
383712. 375-377;
38372an excellent nurse of
38373animals and fruits, 2. 375; Latium
38374in, 2. 377-425; Picenum in, 2. 427—
38375429;
38376the Vestini, Marsi, Peligni,
38377and Marrucini in, 2. 429-433; the
38378Frentani in, 2. 433; Campania in,
383792. 433-471;
38380Leucania in, 3. 1-15,
3838149-55;
38382Bruttium
38383in, 3. 11-48;
38384the Old (Oenotria), 3.13, 103 ; Sicily
38385and other islands of, 3. 55-103;
38386Iapygia in, 3. 103-127; Apulia ir,
383878. 127-136; its isthmus, 3. 135; its
38388favourable
38389geographical
38390position,
38391its climate, its productivity, 3. 137;
38392its
38393rivers,
38394lakes,
38395health-resorts,
38396brave people, and wise government,
383978. 139;
38398its various conquests and
38399eventual supremacy,
384003. 139-147;
38401boundary
38402of, now
38403advanced
38404to
38405Pola, an Istrian city, 3. 257; Corinth
38406on the direct route from, to Asia, 4.
38407189
38408Italy Cispadana,
38409description
38410of, 2.
38411307-333;
38412filled
38413with
38414rivers and
38415marshes, 2. 309; the inhabitants of,
384162.311; the cities of, 2. 313; com-
38417prises country as far as Genoa, 2.
38418323;
38419famous
38420cities
38421in, 2. 325;
38422fertility of country of, 2. 331
38423Italy Transpadana, 2. 307, 323
38424Ithaca
38425(Ithaki
38426or
38427Leucade?),
38428the
38429Homeric, lies ‘‘ towards the dark-
38430ness,’’ 1.6. towards the north, 1.125;
38431absence now of Homer’s cave and
38432grotto there due to physical changes,
384331. 221; distance from, to Corcyra,
384341. 409; lies off Corinthian Gulf, 1.
38435477; “ Demus”’ not the name ofa
p. 383
38436INDEX OF NAMES, PLACES, AND SUBJECTS
38437place in, 8. 193;
38438return of Tele-
38439machus to, 4. 77; “‘sunny’’ and
38440“*rugged,”” subject to Odysseus, 5.
3844135;
38442Odysseus
38443dwelt
38444in, 5. 39;
38445description of, 5. 41-47
38446Ithaca-Leucas Problem, The; a state-
38447ment of, Appendix 5, 523-527, and
38448a Partial Bibliography, 5. 529-530
38449Ithacans,
38450the, were friends
38451of the
38452Acarnanians, 5. 67
38453Ithomé, the acropolis of Messené in
38454Messenia, 3. 113, 4. 107; one of the
38455two strategic points in the Pelopon-
38456nesus, according to Demetrius of
38457Pharos, 4. 119, 121
38458Ithomé (called Thomé), ‘‘rocky,’’ in
38459Thessaly, 4. 429, 431
38460Itium (or Itius, now almost certainly
38461Boulogne),
38462Port,
38463whence
38464Julius
38465Caesar sailed to Britain, 2. 253
38466Itonian Athené, the;
38467temple of, iu
38468plain before Coroneia, 4. 323, and
38469in Thessaly, 4. 433
38470Itonus in Thessaly, about 60 stadia
38471from
38472Halus,
384734. 409:
38474temple
38475of
38476Itonian Athené at, 4. 421
38477Ituraeans, the, in Syria, 7. 253, 263,
38478265
38479Itycé (Utica) in Libya, where Jugurtha
38480slew
38481Adarbal,
384828.
38483181;
38484served
38485Romans as metropolis and base of
38486operations, 8. 183
38487Itymoneus, slain by Nestor, 4. 81
38488Tulis in Ceos, home of Simonides and
38489Bacchylides, 5. 169
38490Iulius,
38491descendant
38492of Aeneias
38493and
38494ancestor of Julius Caesar, 6. 57
38495Ivory, exported from Taprobané to
38496India, 1. 271; abundant among the
38497Sabaeans and Gerrhaeans in Arabia,
384987. 349
38499Ivory chains and necklaces, imported
38500to Britain from Celtica, 2. 259
38501Ivrea (see Eporedia)
38502Ivy, grows on Mt. Merus in India, 7.
38503TS ἘΝ
38504Ixia, a stronghold in Rhodes, 6. 279
38505Txion, the Lapith, reigned in Gyrton,
38506in Thessaly, 3. 335, 337; with his
38507son Peirithoiis, humbled and ejected
38508the Perrhaebians, 4. 437, 439
38509J
38510Jackal, the (see Lycus)
38511Jackals (see Wolves)
38512Jaffa (see Iopé)
38513Jason, the expedition of, 1. 75; kins-
38514man of Achilles, 1. 165; wanderings
38515and sanctuaries of, in Armenia and
38516Media, 1. 167, 177; traces of expe-
38517dition of, in Crete and Italy, 1. 169,
38518171;
38519return
38520voyage
38521of,
38522on
385238
38524mythical Ister that emptied into the
38525Adriatic, 1. 213; voyage of, through
38526the ‘‘ Symplegades’’ (Cyaneae), 2.
3852753;
38528visited
38529the
38530island
38531Aethalia
38532(Elba), 2. 357, 359; built temple of
38533Argoan Hera in Leucania,
385343. 3;
38535despatched on his expedition from
38536Tolcus by Pelias, 4. 423; expedition
38537of, to Colchis and Media, 5. 213, 391;
38538went far beyond Colchis, 5. 231,
38539239;
38540memorials
38541of, in Media and
38542Armenia, 5, 315, 333; constructed
38543outlet
38544for the Araxes
38545River
38546in
38547Armenia, 5, 335;
38548the Armenians
38549and the Medes in a way the descend-
38550ants of, 5. 337
38551Jasonia (temples dedicated to Jason),
38552in Armenia and Media, 5. 231, 315
38553Jasonium,
38554Cape,
38555in
38556Cappadocia
38557Pontica, 5. 399
38558Jasonium,
38559Mt., above
38560the Caspian
38561Gates, named after Jason, 5. 315
38562Javelin, the, used by the Iberians,
385632. 107; by the Amazons, 5. 233;
38564by the Indians, 7. 117; by the
38565Maurusians in Libya, 8. 167
38566Jayelins, the styracine, 5. 483
38567Jerba, the isle (see Meninx)
38568Jericho (see Hiericus)
38569Jerusalem, visible from Iopé, 7. 275,
38570281; the temple at, 7. 281; king-
38571dom
38572of Moses
38573at,
385747. 283-285;
38575revered
38576as a holy place even by
38577robbers, 7. 285; seized by Pompey,
38578M29
38579Jewish fashion,
38580the, of mutilation,
38581practised
38582by
38583the
38584Creophagi
38585in
38586Aethiopia, 7. 323
38587Jews, the, in Aegypt;
38588500 of, led by
38589Aelius Gallus into Arabia, 7. 357
38590Jordan River, the, in Syria, navigable,
385917. 261
38592Juba
38593I, father
38594of King
38595Juba
38596of
38597311
p. 384
38598INDEX OF NAMES, PLACES, AND SUBJECTS
38599Maurusia, with Scipio waged war
38600against Julius Caesar, 8. 169; king
38601of Masaesylia, 8.173; killed in war
38602against Caesar, 8. 181
38603Juba IT, invested by the Romans with
38604the rule, not only of Maurusia, but
38605also of other parts of Libya, 3. 143;
38606by gift of Augustus, succeeded to
38607the
38608throne
38609of
38610Maurusia,
38611but
38612recently (A.D. 19) died, 8. 169, 215;
38613father of Ptolemy, his successor, 8.
38614179
38615Jucar River, the (see Sucro)
38616Judaca,
38617a part of Syria, 7. 239;
38618geographical position of, 7. 267;
38619description and history of, 7. 281--
38620299;
38621first kings of, 7. 289;
38622later
38623Kings of, 7. 299; Aegypt difficuit to
38624enter from, 8. 71; produces good
38625palm-trees, 8. 133
38626Judaeans,
38627the, a tribe in Syria, 7.
38628239; seized Gadaris in Phoenicia,
386297. 277;
38630ancestors of, regarded as
38631Aegyptians,
386327. 281;
38633the shrewd
38634practice of, in increasing revenues,
38635adopted by certain Aegyptians, 8.
3863661;
38637are Aegyptian in origin, and
38638practise circumcision and excision,
386398. 153
38640Judicum
38641praefectus,
38642the,
38643a
38644official in Alexandria, 8. 49
38645Juggling, closely related to religion
38646and divination, 5.121
38647Jugurtha,
38648the war
38649against, caused
38650much damage in Libya, 8. 181
38651Julia Ioza, name
38652of city (Zelis in
38653Libya) transplanted to Iberia, 2. 17
38654Juliopolis in Galatia, the home
38655of
38656Cleon (see Gordium)
38657Julius Caesar (see Caesar, Julius)
38658Juncarian Plain, the, in Iberia, 2. 95
38659Jura, Mt., lies in the territory of the
38660Sequani, 2. 229; the pass over, 2.
38661291
38662Juri dicendi pracfectus, the,
386632 Roman
38664official in Aegypt, 8..49
38665Jurisconsults, the, expound the law to
38666the Romans, 5. 367
38667Jury, a trial by a, of men who mur-
38668dered the priestess at Dodona, 4.
38669285
38670Justice, Plato’s definition of, 1. 39;
38671a cardinal principle of the Scythians,
386728. 201; wherein the Scythians excel
38673all men, 3. 203
38674372
38675local
38676K
38677Kainon Chorion, an impregnable rock
38678in Cappadocia Pontica, 5. 429
38679Kalamaki (see Schoenus)
38680Kalogria, Cape (see Araxus)
38681Kalpaki (see Orchomenus, the Arca-
38682dian)
38683Kandia (see Asiné, the Hermionic)
38684Kaprena (see Chaeroneia)
38685Kapronisi, the isle (see Caprus)
38686Karadje, Cape (see Criumetopon)
38687Karanasib (see Ister)
38688Karvura, Cape (see Zoster)
38689Karystos (see Carystus)
38690Kassandra (see Pallené and Potidaea)
38691Kastriin Argolis (see Heimioné)
38692Kastri (see Pandosia, in Epeirus)
38693Kastro, Mt. (see Cynthus)
38694Kaszon, Mt., on the borders of Tran-
38695sylvania and Moldavia (see Cogae-
38696onum)
38697Kato-Akhaia (see Dymé)
38698Kavarna (see Bizoné)
38699Kavo Grosso (see Thyrides)
38700Kempten (see Cambodunum)
38701Kerembe, Cape (see Carambis)
38702Kerka River, the (see Titius River)
38703Kermes, the dye-stuff, exported from
38704‘Turdetania, 2. 33
38705Kettle, the most sacred among the
38706Gabe, presented to Augustus, 3.
3870765
38708Khaiaffa (see Macistus)
38709Kharkia (see Chalcia, the island)
38710Khelidonia Islands (see Chelidoniae)
38711Khryso (see Crisa)
38712Kiki, a fruit in Aegypt from which
38713oil is pressed, 8. 151
38714Kiladia (see Mases)
38715Kilissa-Hissar (see Tyana)
38716Kilissa-Kieui (see Ancyra in Phrygia’
38717Kimolos (see Cimolos)
38718Kisamo Kasteli (see Cisamus)
38719Kitros in Macedonia (see Pydna)
38720Klituras (see Cleitor)
38721Knights (see Hippeis), the, at Pa-
38722tavium, 2. 313
38723Koikina, Aegyptian textures made of
38724some plant, 8. 153
38725Kokhla (see Plataeae)
38726Konia (see Iconium)
38727Korakou (see Ephyra, the Corinthian’
38728Koron, or Koroni (see Asiné)
p. 385
38729INDEX OF NAMES, PLACES, AND SUBJECTS
38730Kostanza on the Euxine (see Tomis)
38731Kotroni (see Aphidna)
38732Koura River (see Cyrus River)
38733Kreisa (see Creusa in Boeotia)
38734Ktimené, ‘‘sent to Samé to wed,”’
38735according to Homer, 5. 39
38736Kunupeli, Mt. (see Cyllené, Mt.)
38737Kunupeli (see Cyllené, naval station)
38738Kuriaki in Messenia (see Erana)
38739Kurnu (see Dicaea)
38740Kurtaga (see Calydon)
38741Kurtzolares Islands (see Echinades)
38742L
38743Labana
38744Waters
38745(Bagni
38746di Grotta
38747Marozza), the, in Italy, 2. 417
38748Labicum (Monte Compatri), in Latium,
387492. 383; in ruins, 2.411
38750Labienus, praefect of Asia; the pre-
38751parations of, hindered by Cleon the
38752pirate (40-39 B.c.), 5. 497; seized
38753Mylasa
38754and
38755proclaimed
38756himself
38757Parthian Emperor, 6. 297 (see 7.
38758237, footnote 3)
38759Labotas River, the, 7. 247
38760Labranda, a village in Caria, where is
38761the temple of Zeus Labrandenus,
38762and
38763also
38764an
38765ancient
38766shrine
38767and
38768statue of Zeus Stratius, 6. 293
38769Labyrinth, the, in Aegypt;
38770number
38771of halls in, 8. 9; description of, 8.
38772103-107; might be a Memnonium,
387738. 113
38774Labyrinth, the, in Crete, 5. 131
38775Labyrinths,
38776the, in the Cyclopeian
38777caverns near Nauplia, 4. 153
38778Lacedaemon, the Minyans driven out
38779of, 4. 63; ‘‘ Ketoessan’”’ or ** Kaicta-
38780essan,’’ the Homeric; discussion of
38781epithets of, 4. 143;
38782means both
38783country
38784and
38785city,
38786and
38787includes
38788Messenia, 4. 145, 147; colonised by
38789Eurysthenes and Procles after the
38790return of the Heracleidae, 4, 235
38791Lacedaemonian women, the, praised
38792in oracle as best of all, 5. 21
38793Lacedaemonians (see Laconians), the;
38794dispute
38795of, with
38796Argives,
38797about
38798Thyreae, 1. 245; not naturally fond
38799of letters, 1. 395; themselves out-
38800raged the maidens at Limnae, 3. 23;
38801carried on war with the Messenians
38802because the latter had killed their
38803King Teleclus,
388043. 111;
38805captured
38806Messené in the twentieth year of the
38807war,
388083. 113;
38809superintended
38810the
38811Actian Games at Nicopolis, 3. 305;
38812sided with the Eleians, 4. 95, 107;
38813surrendered
38814to the Athenians
38815on
38816Sphacteria, 4. 111; had a dispute
38817with
38818the
38819Messenians
38820about
38821the
38822possession of Leuctrum in the time
38823of Philip, 4. 119;
38824destroyed Mes-
38825sené, 4, 121;
38826called Tyrtacus
38827as
38828commander in the Second Messenian
38829War, 4. 123; held the Helots as
38830state-slaves, 4. 135;
38831obtained the
38832supremacy
38833under
38834Lycurgus,
38835but
38836lost it to the Thebans, Macedonians,
38837and Romans, 4 137;
38838transferred
38839inhabitants of Asiné in Argolis to
38840Asiné in Messenia, 4,171; paid dues
38841for
38842the
38843Prasians
38844at
38845temple
38846of
38847Poseidon on Calauria, 4. 175; took
38848Aegina away from Athenians and
38849gave it back to its ancient settlers,
388504. 181;
38851won
38852Thyreae from
38853the
38854Argives, 4. 183; always preserved
38855their autonomy, 4, 185; tore down
38856long
38857walls
38858between
38859Athens
38860and
38861Peiraeus, 4. 261;
38862set 30 tyrants
38863over Athens, 4, 269; came too late
38864for battle at Marathon,
388654. 273;
38866defeated at Leuctra by Epamein-
38867ondas, fared badly in the battle at
38868Mantineia,
38869could
38870not
38871regain
38872the
38873hegemony of Greece;
38874were never
38875subject to others until the Roman
38876conquest, but were held in honour
38877by the Romans because of their
38878excellent
38879government,
388804.
38881335;
38882caused
38883the
38884Delphians
38885to
38886revolt
38887from the common organisation of
38888the Phocians (about 457 B.C.), 4.
38889371;
38890the
38891pillar
38892erected
38893by,
38894at
38895Thermopylae, in honour of Leonidas
38896and his soldiers, 4, 393; modelled
38897their constitution after that of the
38898Cretans, 5.133; colonised the island
38899Thera, 5. 161;
38900founded Selgé in
38901Pisidia, 5. 481; badly damaged the
38902Peiraeus and tore down the two
38903walls, 6. 275;
38904through Lycurgus
38905received ordinances from
38906Delphi,
389077. 287
38908Laceter, Cape, in Cos, 6. 287
38909Lacinium (Nao), Cape, 3.41; bars the
38910mouth of the Tarantine Gulf, 3. 117
38911Lacinium,
38912the,
38913on
38914Cape Lacinium
38915(Nao); has a temple of Hera, 3. 39
38916373
p. 386
38917INDEX OF NAMES, PLACES, AND SUBJECTS
38918Lacmon (see Lacmus)
38919Lacmus (or Lacmon), one ofthe heights
38920of Pindus, 3. 79
38921Laconia;
38922detailed description of, 4.
38923123-149; now has small population
38924as compared with ‘‘100 cities in
38925olden times,’’ 4. 123, 125; divided
38926into six parts by Eurysthenes and
38927Procles, the Heracleidae,
389284. 133;
38929the status of the Helots in, 4. 135;
38930under Lycurgus ruled over land and
38931sea, but was forced
38932to yield, in
38933succession, to the Thebans, to the
38934Macedonians, and to the Romans, 4.
38935137; a poor land, not easy to culti-
38936vate, 4. 141, 143; both country and
38937city (Sparta) by Homer called Lace-
38938daemon, 4. 147;
38939by Agamemnon
38940joined to territory of Mycenae, but
38941ruled by Menelaiis, 4. 167
38942Laconian Gulf, the, lies between Cape
38943Taenarum
38944(Matapan)
38945and
38946Cape
38947Malea, 4. 15, 125
38948Laconians (see Lacedaemonians), the;
38949certain customs
38950of, the same
38951as
38952those of the Lusitanians in Iberia,
389532. 71; occupied parts of Iberia, 2.
3895483; a colony of, joined the Sam-
38955nitae, 2. 465;
38956founded Lapathus
38957in Cypros, 6. 377
38958** Laconians, the Free,”’ got a kind of
38959republican constitution, 4. 139
38960Ladon River, the, in Arcadia, empties
38961into the Alpheius, 4. 47; stream of,
38962once checked because of the bleck-
38963ing up of its sources by an earth-
38964quake, 1. 223, 4. 231; sometimes
38965overflows because of its tributary,
38966the Anias, 4. 233
38967Laertes, father of Odysseus, seized
38968Nericus, 1. 219; took Nericus, and
38969was lord over the Cephallenians, 5.
3897031, 47
38971Laertes, a stronghold
38972in Cilicia, 6.
38973331
38974Laestrygonians,
38975the,
38976people, 1. 73
38977Lagaria, in Italy, astronghold founded
38978by Epeius and the Phocaeans, 3. 49
38979Lagaritan wine, the, sweet and medi-
38980cinal, 3. 49
38981Lagetas, brother of Strabo’s grand-
38982mother,
38983caught
38984betraying
38985the
38986kingdom
38987of Mithridates
38988Eupator
38989to the Romans, 5. 135
38990374
38991an
38992historical
38993Lagina in Oaria;
38994famous temple oi
38995Hecaté at, 6. 297
38996Lago di Albano (see Albanus, Lacus)
38997Lago di Fucino (see Fucinus, Lake)
38998Lago di Naftia in Sicily, 3. 91 (foot-
38999note 3)
39000Lagus, the father of Ptolemy Soter,
390013. 203, 8. 35, 43
39002Lagusa, the island, 5. 161
39003Laius in Chios, 2 shore suited to the
39004anchoring of vessels, 6. 243
39005Lamia (Zitoun), suffered from earth-
39006quake, 1. 225; lies above a certain
39007plain that extends down
39008to the
39009Maliac Gulf, and is about 30 stadia
39010from the Spercheius, 4. 411;
39011the
39012Lamian War broke out near, 4.413;
39013lies 50 stadia above the sea, 4, 419
39014Lamia, the myth of, 1. 69
39015Lamian War, the, between the Mace-
39016donians and the Athenians, 4. 413
39017Lampeia, Mt., in Arcadia, 4, 41
39018Lampians,
39019the,
39020in
39021Crete,
39022possess
39023Phoenix, 5. 123
39024Lamponia, belonged to the Aeolians
39025in Asia, 6. 117
39026Lamprey, the (see Leeches)
39027Lampreys, cause of large size of, in
39028ocean, 2. 37
39029Lamps, in Aegypt; kind of oil used
39030in, 8. 151
39031Lampsacus (Lapsaki) on the Helles-
39032pont
39033(once
39034called
39035Pityussa),
3903640
39037stadia distant from
39038Callipolis, 3.
39039377; given by Xerxes to Themis-
39040tocles, to supply him with wine, 6.
3904129, 211; description and history of,
390426. 33, 35
39043Lamptreis, the Attic deme, 4, 271
39044Lamus River, the, between Soli and
39045Elaeussa, 6. 339
39046Landi, the;
39047captives from, led in
39048triumphal procession at Rome, 3.
39049163
39050Langobardi, the, a tribe of the Suevi,
390518. 157
39052Lanuvium, 2, 421
39053Laodiceia,
39054a Greek city in Media,
39055founded by the Macedonians, 5. 309
39056Laodiceia Catacecaumené in Lycaonia ;
39057the road through, 6. 309
39058Laodiceia near Libanus, in Syria, 7.
39059263
39060Laodiceia
39061near
39062Lycus
39063in
39064Phrygia
39065Epictetus, 5. 505; description and
p. 387
39066INDEX OF NAMES,
39067history of, 5. 511; subject to earth-
39068quakes,
390695.
39070513;
39071once
39072seriously
39073damaged, but restored by Caesar,
390745.
39075517;
39076rivers
39077in
39078territory
39079of,
39080change water into stone, 6. 189;
39081the road through, 6. 309
39082Laodiceia
39083(Ladikieh)
39084in Syria
39085on
39086the
39087sea,
390887, 241; description
39089of,
390901. 249
39091Laodiceians,
39092the (near the Lycus),
39093derive splendid revenue from their
39094sheep, 5. 511
39095Laomedon;
39096Heracles
39097said
39098to have
39099sacked Ilium on account of horses
39100of, 6. 63
39101Lapathus
39102in
39103Oypros,
39104founded
39105by
39106Laconians under Praxander, 6. 377
39107Lapé (see Napé)
39108“‘Lapersae,
39109the,’’
39110the
39111Dioscuri
39112so
39113called by Sophocles, 4. 133
39114Lapis Specularis;
39115see 5. 369, foot-
39116note 2
39117Lapiths,
39118the;
39119the
39120Peneius
39121flows
39122through the cities of, 8. 333; under
39123Ixion and Peirithoiis humbled and
39124ejected the Perrhaebians, 4.437, 439;
39125according to Homer and Simonides,
39126lived intermingled with the Perr-
39127haebians, 4. 443, 445; Hieronymus
39128on, 4. 453
39129Lapsaki (see Lampsacus)
39130Laranda
39131in Lycaonia, held by Anti-
39132pater Derbetes, 5.477
39133Larimnum, a most fragrant incense,
39134produced
39135in the country
39136of the
39137Sabaeans in Arabia, 7. 349
39138Larisa in Syria, 7. 253
39139Larisa,
39140daughter
39141of
39142Piasus
39143and
39144violated by him, killed him, 6. 157
39145Larisa, the acropolis of Argos, has a
39146temple of Zeus, 4. 159, 441
39147Larisa in Attica, 4. 441
39148Larisa Cremasté (Gardiki), also called
39149Pelasgia, in the Pelasgian Plain in
39150Thessaly, shocked by earthquake,
391511. 225; subject to Protesilaiis, 4.
39152403, 419, 421, 433, 441, 453
39153Larisa, a city in Crete, 4. 441
39154Larisa, a city between Elis and Dymé,
391554. 441
39156Larisa, the Ephesian, 4. 441
39157Larisa, a village in the territory of
39158Ephesus in the Cayster Plain, once
39159@ city and had a temple of Lari-
39160saean Apollo, 6. 155, 157
39161PLACES, AND SUBJECTS
39162Larisa on the Euxine, near the end of
39163Mt. Haemus, 4. 441
39164Larisa, a place on Mt. Ossa, 4. 441
39165Larisa Pelasgia (see Larisa Cremasté)
39166Larisa
39167(Larisa Phriconis), inhabited
39168by the Pelasgi, 2. 345; near Cymé
39169in Asia, 4 441;
39170‘‘fertile’’ abode
39171of the Pelasgi, 6. 153, 157
39172Larisa in Syria, 4. 441
39173Larisa
39174(Yenicheher)
39175in
39176Thessaly,
39177suffered from earthquake, 1, 225;
39178340 stadia from Thaumaci, 240from
39179outlets of the Peneius, 4, 233; lies
39180on the Peneius River, 3, 337, 4. 333,
391815, 231, 333; had land that was de-
39182posited, and sometimes
39183washed
39184away, by the Peneius, 4, 439, 6. 157
39185Larisa, a village near Tralleis in Asia,
391864. 441
39187Larisa near Hamaxitis in the Troad,
391884. 441;
39189used
39190to belong
39191to the
39192Tenedians, 6. 93; in plain sight of
39193Tlium, 6. 153
39194Larisaean Rocks, the, 50 stadia from
39195Mitylené on the road to Methymné,
391964, 441
39197Larisaeans,
39198the,
39199on
39200the
39201Peneius
39202River, seized Perrhaebia and
39203ex-
39204acted tribute until Philip overcame
39205them, 4. 439
39206Larisian Plain, the, in Crete, 4. 441
39207Larisus
39208River,
39209the;
39210the boundary
39211between
39212Dymé
39213and
39214Buprasium,
392154. 225;
39216between Dymé and Elis,
392174. 441
39218Larius (Como), the Lake, filled by the
39219Addua River, 2. 227; geographical
39220position of, 2. 271, 273, 313; dimen-
39221sions of, 2. 295
39222Larma (see Larymna, Upper)
39223Laro!on River, the, in Italy, 2, 371
39224Lartoiacétans, the, in Iberia; fertile
39225country of, 2, 93
39226Larymna
39227(see Larymna,
39228Upper) in
39229Boeotia, a village near the mouth of
39230the Cephissus River, 4. 297
39231Larymna, Upper (Larma), in Locris,
39232annexed
39233to the Boeotian (Lower)
39234Larymna, 4. 305
39235Las (Passova), the Homeric, once cap-
39236tured by Castor and Pollux, 4. 131,
39237and
39238hence
39239the
39240inhabitants
39241were
39242called Lapersae, 4. 133
39243Lasion in Blis, 4, 27
39244Lathon River, the, empties into the
39245375
p. 388
39246INDEX OF NAMES, PLACES, AND SUBJECTS
39247Harbour
39248of
39249the
39250MHesperides
39251in
39252Libya, 6. 249, 8. 201
39253Latin country, the (see Latinm)
39254“Latin right,” the, given to Nemausus,
392552. 201; to certain Aquitani, to the
39256Auscii, and to the Convenae,
392572.
39258219
39259Latin Way, the, 2. 411, 413, 415
39260Latini, which the Turdetanians have
39261become, 2. 59; country of the, 2,
39262335; name applied by Aeneas to all
39263his subjects;
39264offered
39265sacrifice to
39266Zeus at Alba, 2. 379;
39267hold religi-
39268ous festivals at Ardea, 2.393; now
39269hold Campania as far as Sinuessa,
392702. 395; treated by the Romans as
39271partners
39272after
39273the
39274expulsion
39275of
39276Tarquinius Superbus, 3. 139; later
39277made subject, 3. 141
39278Latinus, king of the aborigines, who
39279lived
39280where
39281Rome
39282now
39283is, wae
39284killed
39285in the
39286battle
39287against the
39288Rutuli and succeeded by Aeneias, 2.
39289379
39290Latitudes (see Climatay, the, deter-
39291mined by Hipparchus, 1. 22 (footnote
392922); the observation of differences
39293in, 1. 331; of peoples, do not deter-
39294mine success of human institutions,
392951. 393; the graphic representation
39296of, 1. 463;
39297parallels of, between
39298Rome
39299and Naples,
39300and through
39301Apollonia
39302in Epeirus
39303and
39304other
39305places, and distance from, to equator
39306and other parallels, 1. 513
39307Latium (the Latin country); bounded
39308by the Tiber, 2. 335; description of,
393092. 377-425; where is Rome, 2. 377;
39310has fertile soil and produces every-
39311thing, 2. 389; the other cities and
39312roads in, 2. 409-425; present extent
39313of seaboard of, 2. 389; the cities on
39314seaboard of, 2. 391-399; Rome, 2.
39315399-409; other cities in, 2. 409-425
39316Latmian Gulf (at first called
39317‘‘ Lat-
39318mus ’’), the, near Miletus, 6. 209
39319Latmus, the gulf (see Latmian Gulf)
39320Latmus, Mt., the Homeric
39321‘‘ moun-
39322tain of the Phtheires,”’ near Miletus,
393236. 209
39324Latomiae
39325(‘‘ Quarries’’),
39326the;
39327six
39328isles in the Arabian Gulf, 7. 319, 327
39329Latopolis, on the Nile, south of Thebes,
39330worships Athené and the Latus, 8.
39331127
39332376
39333LIatus, the (a fish), worshipped
39334at
39335Latopolis on the Nile, 8. 109, 127;
39336indigenous to Aegypt, 8. 149
39337Laurel, the, in India, 7. 97; in the
39338Red Sea, 7. 305
39339Laurel
39340groves;
39341numerous
39342in the
39343region of Cape Deiré in Aethiopia,
39344(eee
39345Laurentum
39346(Torre
39347di Paterno)
39348in
39349Italy; where Aeneias put in, 2. 379;
39350geographical position of, 2. 393
39351Laurium,
39352silver-mines
39353of
39354(“ Attic
39355silver-mines’’),
393562
3935743;
39358riddie
39359applied to, 2. 45; have now failed,
393604. 275, 5. 15
39361Laiis (mear Laino),
39362in Leucania,
39363a
39364colony of the Sybaritae, 3. 5; a
39365boundary of the Brutii, 3. 13
39366Lava, the, from Aetna, solidifies, 3.
3936769, 87
39368Laviansené, one of the ten prefectures
39369of Cappadocia, 5. 349, 369; borders
39370on Culupené and Camisené, 5, 441
39371Lavican Way, the, 2. 411
39372Lavinium
39373(near Laino), named by
39374King Latinus after
39375his daughter
39376Lavinia, 2. 379; Titus Tatius mur-
39377dered
39378at,
393792. 385;
39380geographical
39381position of, 2. 393; Aeneias landed
39382at, 6. 109
39383Lead, mines of, at Castalo in Iberia,
39384= ne
39385; in the Cassiterides Islands,
393862
39387iol
39388League, the Achaean (see Achaean
39389League)
39390League,
39391a new, formed by Patrae,
39392Dymé, Tritaea, and Pharae after
39393the
39394dissolution
39395of the
39396Achaean
39397League, 4, 211
39398League, the Chrysaorian in Caria, 6.
39399299
39400League, the Lycian, 6. 313, 315
39401Lebadeia (Livadia) near Lake Copais,
394024. 331;
39403has the
39404oracle
39405of the
39406Trophonian
39407Zeus,
39408in
39409an
39410under-
39411ground chasm, 4. 333;
39412Panopeus
39413and Trachin in Phocis border on
39414region of, 4. 371
39415Lebedus in Asia, founded by Andro-
39416pompus, 6. 199;
39417great centre of
39418worship of Dionysus, 6. 237
39419Leben (Leda) in Crete, emporium of
39420Gortynia, 5. 137, 139
39421Lebinthos
39422(Levintha),
39423one
39424of the
39425Sporades Islands, 5. 173
p. 389
39426INDEX OF NAMES, PLACES, AND SUBJECTS
39427Lecce (see Lupiae)
39428Lechaeum, level of waters at, higher
39429than at Cenchreae, as was thought,
394301. 209;
39431the western harbour
39432of
39433Corinth and connected therewith by
39434long walls, 4, 197
39435Lectum, Cape; Mt. Ida in the Troad
39436extends to, 6. 5; between Tenedos
39437and Lesbos, 6. 11, 13; Hamaxitus
39438adjacent to, 6. 93;
39439has an altar
39440of the twelve gods, founded
39441by
39442Agamemnon, 6. 97
39443Leda in Crete (see Leben)
39444Leda, daughter of Thestius the Aetolian
39445and wife of Tyndareus, 5. 69
39446Leeches (lampreys) seven cubits long
39447found in a river in Maurusia
39448in
39449Libya, 8. 161
39450Leétanians,
39451the,
39452in Iberia;
39453country of, 2. 93
39454Legae, the, a Scythian people, live
39455between
39456the
39457Amazons
39458and
39459the
39460Albanians, 5. 233
39461Legati (propraetors), sent by Augustus
39462to his Provinces, 8. 213
39463Legati, two (praetorian and consular),
39464govern Caesar’s territory in Iberia,
394652. 121
39466Legatus, a, serves as assistant to a
39467praetor
39468in governing
39469Baetica
39470in
39471Iberia, 2. 121
39472Legions, three Roman, stationed in
39473Aegypt, 8. 49
39474Leibethra,
39475near Dium
39476in southern
39477Macedonia, 3. 339
39478Leibethrides,
39479the
39480cave
39481sacred
39482to
39483nymphs on Mt. Helicon,
394844. 319,
394855. 109
39486Leibethrum, in Pieria in Macedonia,
39487consecrated
39488by Thracians
39489to the
39490Muses, 4. 319, 5. 107
39491Leimon (‘‘ Meadow ’’) in Asia Minor,
39492where
39493the
39494Nysaeans_
39495celebrate
39496festivals, 6. 269
39497Leimoné (see Eloné)
39498Lelantine
39499Plain,
39500the,
39501in
39502Euboea,
39503suffered a volcanic eruption, 1. 215;
39504contains
39505disease-curing
39506fountains,
39507and once had a mine of copper and
39508iron, 5. 13;
39509an object of dispute
39510between
39511the
39512Eretrians
39513and
39514the
39515Chalcidians,
395165. 19; an object of
39517contention, 5. 85
39518Leleges, the, obtained a portion of the
39519Peloponnesus,
395203. 287;
39521Lelex the
39522fertile
39523VOL. VII{. —STRABO.
39524founder of, 8. 289; Locrus, a chief-
39525tain of, 3. 291; lived in Boeotia in
39526earlier times, 4. 281;
39527certain of,
39528settled in Pisidia, 5. 481, by aid of
39529the Cretans, 5. 491; dynasty of, 6.
3953017; majority of, placed by Homer
39531on the Gulf of Adramyttium, 6. 97;
39532Pedasus a city of, 6. 15, 99, as also
39533Assus, 6. 115, 117;
39534different from
39535the Carians, 6. 117; founded many
39536cities in Caria, seized part of Pisidia,
39537invaded Greece, became distributed
39538throughout it, and disappeared, 6.
39539119; traces of, in Caria and Miletus,
395406.
39541121;
39542closely
39543related
39544to
39545the
39546Trojans,
39547but
39548not
39549included
39550with
39551them
39552in the
39553Catalogue,
395546. 149;
39555present at the Trojan battles, 6. 151;
39556occupied parts of the Asiatic coast
39557in early times, but were driven out
39558by the Ionians, 6. 199, 205;
39559once
39560inhabited Ephesus, 6. 225; subject
39561to Minos
39562and occupied
39563Aegaean
39564isles, 6. 301; mentioned by Homer,
395656. 363
39566“ Lelegian forts,”’ the, in Caria, 8. 289
39567Lelex, founder of the tribe of the
39568Leleges, 3. 289
39569Lemenna
39570Lake (Lake of Geneva),
39571traversed by the Rhodanus River,
395722. 199; 273, 291
39573Lemnos, spared by Achilles, 1. 165;
39574the Aegaean isle, 1. 477; settled by
39575Pelasgians, 2. 347 ; lies east of Athos,
395768. 353, 365;
39577first settled
39578by the
39579Thracian Sinti, 3. 367; the Minyans
39580driven out of, 4. 63;
39581the sacred
39582rites in, 5. 89; the Cabeiri wor-
39583shipped in, 5.115
39584Lemovices, the, a tribe in Aquitania,
395852. 217
39586Lenae, the; ministers of Dionysus, 5.
3958797
39588“‘Length’’
39589and
39590‘“breadth’’;
39591geo-
39592graphical definition of, 1. 321
39593Lentil-shaped
39594pebbles,
39595the,
39596at the
39597pyramids of Gizeh and at Amaseia
39598in Pontus; explanation of, 8. 95
39599Leocorium, the, at Athens, 4. 263; has
39600a myth connected with it, 4. 265
39601Leon, the Lookout of, in Aethiopia,
396027. 333; Pillars and Altars of, 7. 335
39603Leondari (see Leuctrum)
39604Prone (Lions), City of, in Phoenicia,
39605.
39606267
39607N
39608“9171
p. 390
39609INDEX OF NAMES, PLACES, AND SUBJECTS
39610Leonidas,
39611the Spartan general,
39612de-
39613feated at Thermopylae,
396141. 37, 4.
39615393; soldiers of, dressed their hair
39616before the battle, 5. 89
39617Leonides the Stoic, native of Rhodes,
396186. 279
39619Leonidi (see Prasiae)
39620Leonnatus, comrade of Alexander the
39621Great, lost his life in the Lamian
39622War, 4. 413
39623Leonnorius, leader of the Galatae, or
39624Celts, in their expedition to Asia,
396255. 469
39626Leonteus,
39627the
39628able
39629Lampsacenian,
39630friend of Epicurus, 6. 37
39631Leontiné, inhabited by Cyclopes, 1. 73
39632Leontines,
39633the, founded Euboea
39634in
39635Sicily, 3. 83
39636Leontopolis in Phoenicia, 7. 267; in
39637Aegypt, 8. 69
39638Leopard, the, found in Maurusia in
39639Libya, 8. 163
39640Leopards, the, in India, 7. 123; fierce
39641in southern Aethiopia, 7. 335;
39642in
39643Arabia, 7. 343; in Aethiopia, 8. 145
39644Leosthenes,
39645the
39646Athenian
39647general,
39648lost his life in the Lamian War, 4.
39649413
39650Lepenu (see Stratus)
39651Lepidotus,
39652the
39653(a scale-fish),
39654wor-
39655shipped by the Aegyptians, 8. 109;
39656indigenous to the Nile, 8. 149
39657Lepidus, Marcus (consul with Gaius
39658Flaminius 187 B.C.), the builder of a
39659second Aemilian Way, from Ari-
39660minum to Aquileia, 2. 331
39661Lepontii, the, geographical position of,
396622.273; atribe of the Rhaeti, 2. 281
39663Lepra Acté (Mt. Prion), near Smyrna,
396646. 201
39665Lepreatic Pylus, the (see Triphylian
39666Pylus);
39667by Homer called
39668‘‘ ema-
39669thoeis,’’ 4. 51
39670Lepreum (near Strovitzi); the Cau-
39671conians about, 4. 45; lies south of
39672the Triphylian
39673Pylus,
3967440 stadia
39675from the sea, 4. 53; seized by the
39676Cauconians, 4. 55; settled by the
39677Eleians with inhabitants of Nestor’s
39678Pylus, 4. 95
39679Lepreus, ruler of the Arcadian Cau-
39680conians, a harsh ruler and a bad
39681man, 3. 385
39682Leprosy, cured by the water of the
39683Anigrus River in Triphylia, 4. 61
39684378
39685Leptis (see Neapolis near the Great
39686Syrtis)
39687Lerida (see Ilerda)
39688Lerius
39689(Lero),
39690the island;
39691temple of Lero, 2. 193
39692Lerné, Lake, in the Argolis, where is
39693laid the scene of the killing of the
39694Hydra by Heracles, 4, 151;
39695‘“‘a
39696Lerné of ills,’”’ and near a spring
39697called Amymoné, 4, 163
39698Lerné River, the, in Argolis, 4, 151
39699Lero (see Lerius)
39700Leros, one of the Sporades Islands, 5.
39701173; mentioned by Homer, 5. 179;
39702colonised by Milesians, 6. 207
39703Lesbian
39704wine,
39705the,
39706exported
39707to
39708Aegypt, 8. 93
39709Lesbians,
39710the, founded
39711Sestus and
39712Madytus, 3. 379;
39713once laid claim
39714to most of the Troad, and possess
39715most of the settlements there now,
397166. 65, 67
39717Lesbocles of Mitylené, contemporary
39718of Strabo, 6. 143
39719Lesbos, formerly called Issa, 1. 223;
39720the Aegaean isle, 1. 477;
39721called
39722“* Pelasgia,”
397232. 345;
39724by Homer
39725called
39726‘‘ city of Macar,’”’ 4. 97, 5.
39727421;
39728geographical position of, 6.
397295; once occupied by Gras, great-
39730grandson of Orestes, 6, 7; sacked
39731by Achilles, 6. 15; description and
39732history of, 6. 139-147;
39733metropolis
39734ef the Aeolian cities, 6. 139; home
39735of Sappho and famous men, 6.
39736141, 143, 147; equidistant (about
39737500 stadia) from Tenedos, Lemnos,
39738and
39739Chios,
397406.
39741149;
39742produces
39743excellent wine, 6. 215, 287;
39744one
39745of the seven largest islands, 6. 277
39746Lestenitza
39747River, the (See Enipeus
39748River)
39749Lethaeus River, the, in Gortyna in
39750Crete, 5. 137, 6. 249
39751Lethaeus River, the, which empties
39752into the Maeander, not mentioned
39753by Homer, 5. 421, 6. 249
39754Lethaeus
39755(Lathon?)
39756River, the, in
39757western Libya, 6. 249
39758Lethaeus River, the, near Triccé in
39759Hestiaeotis in Thessaly, 6. 249
39760Lethé (Forgetfulness), the River of,
39761in Iberia;
39762by some
39763called
39764the
39765Limaeas and by others Belion, 2.
3976669; why so called, 2. 71
39767has 4
p. 391
39768INDEX OF NAMES, PLACES, AND SUBJECTS
39769Lethus
39770the
39771Pelasgian,
39772father
39773of
39774Hippothoiis and Pylaeus, 6. 153
39775Leto, the temple of, in Macistia, 4. 78;
39776gave Poseidon Calauria for Delos,
397774. 173; the sanctuary of, on Delos,
39778where she gave birth to Apollo and
39779Artemis, 5. 163; said to have given
39780birth
39781to Apollo and Artemis
39782in
39783Ortygia, a grove near Ephesus, 6.
39784223;
39785sacred
39786precinct
39787of, in the
39788Peraea of the Rhodians,
397896. 265,
39790267; oracle of, at Butus in Aegypt,
397918. 67
39792Letoiim, the, in Lycia, 6. 317
39793Leuca, Capo di (see Iapygian Cape)
39794Leuca (‘‘ White ’’) Mts., the, in Crete,
39795are as high as Mt. Taygetus, 5. 125
39796Leuca (Santa Maria di Leuca) near
39797the
39798Iapygian
39799Cape,
39800where
39801the
39802Leuternian
39803Giants were shrouded
39804by Mother Earth, 3. 119
39805Leucadians, Polity of the, by Aristotle,
398068. 289
39807Leucadius, son of Icarius and brother
39808of Penelopé, 5. 35
39809Leucae,
39810a town
39811near Smyrna;
39812by
39813Aristonicus
39814caused
39815to
39816revolt,
398176.
39818247
39819Teucani, the;
39820territory of, 2. 307;
39821seized
39822Paestum
39823(Pesto),
398242. 469;
39825served the Romans as couriers and
39826letter-carriers, 2. 471; a colony of,
39827settled
39828in Leucania by the Sam-
39829nitae, 3. 7; conquests of, 3. 9;
39830Samnite in race, but now Romans,
398318. 11;
39832fought by Dionysius the
39833tyrant, 3. 37; enslaved the Thurii,
398348. 47
39835Leucania
39836(Lucania),
39837description
39838of,
398398. 3-11;
39840geographical position of,
398418. 13; the road through, 3. 125
39842‘* Leucas,’’ the name, after the Trojan
39843War, of the shore of Acarnania, 5.71
39844Leucas, formerly a headland, now an
39845island, 1. 219;
39846distance from, to
39847Coreyra and the Peloponnesus, 1.
39848405; once inhabited by Leleges, or
39849Teleboans, 3. 289, 291;
39850in early
39851times a peninsula of Acarnania, 5.
3985231; canal dug through isthmus of,
39853by the Corinthians, 5. 33; in the
39854domain of Odysseus, 5, 37
39855Leucas (Amaxiki),
39856a city in Acar-
39857nania, 5. 25; by Ephorus thought
39858to have been named
39859after Leu-
39860cadius
39861the
39862brother
39863of Penelopé,
398645. 35
39865Leucaspis, a harbour to the west of
39866Alexandria, 8. 57
39867Leucatas, Cape, on Leucas, whence
39868Sappho is said to have leaped into
39869the sea, 5. 33; lies 50 stadia from
39870Cephallenia,
398715. 51;
39872according to
39873some, King Cephalus was the first
39874to leap off, 5. 67
39875Leucé ([lan-Adassi), an island in the
39876Juxine 500 stadia from the mouth
39877of the Tyras River, 8. 221
39878Leucé, the plain, in Laconia, 4. 129
39879Leucé Acté, a promontory in Aegypt,
398808. 55
39881Leucé Acté, on the Propontis, 3. 377
39882Leucé Comé,
39883a large emporium
39884in
39885Nabataea in Arabia, 7. 357
39886Leuci, the, in Celtica;
39887geographical
39888position of, 2. 229
39889Leucimna, eastern headland of Cor-
39890cyra, 3. 299
39891Leucippus, sent by the Achaeans to
39892colonise Metapontium in Italy, 8. 55
39893Leuco (king of the Cimmerian Bos-
39894porus 393-353 B.C., succeeding his
39895father
39896Satyrus),
39897the
39898house
39899of,
39900straightforward and equitable, 3.
39901237,
39902239;
39903once
39904sent
39905to Athens
399062,100,000
39907medimni
39908of wheat,
399093.
39910243
39911Leucocomas, from Leben
39912in Crete,
39913lover of Euxynthetus, 5. 137, 139
39914Leucolla,
39915a harbour
39916in Oypros,
399176.
39918379
39919Leuconotus, the south wind, 1. 107,
399208. 203
39921Leucopetra, Cape (Capo dell’ Armi),
39922in which the Apennine Mountain
39923terminates, 2. 307, 3. 27
39924Leucophrys (see ‘Tenedos)
39925Leucosia
39926(Licosa),
39927an
39928island
39929off
39930Leucania, named after one of the
39931Sirens, 1. 473,
399323. 3; a fragment
39933broken off Italy, 3. 25
39934Leucothea,
39935the
39936temple
39937of, in the
39938Moschian
39939country,
39940founded
39941by
39942Phrixus, 5. 213
39943Leuctra (Parapungia), the Battle of,
39944after which
39945the Thebans
39946turned
39947ΟΥ̓́
39948Τ
39949disputes
39950to
39951the
39952Achaean
39953League for arbitration, 4, 211, 5.
399547; lies on the road from Plataeae
39955to Thespiae, 4. 335
39956379
p. 392
39957INDEX OF NAMES, PLACES, AND SUBJECTS
39958Leuctri,
39959the,
39960in
39961Boeotia,
39962founded
39963Leuctrum in Laconia, under Pelops
39964as leader, 4. 113
39965Leuctrum (Leondari) in Laconia, on
39966the Messenian
39967Gulf, a colony of
39968the Boeotian Leuctrians,
399694. 113;
39970possession of, disputed by the Mes-
39971senians with the Lacedaemonians
39972in the time of Philip, 4. 119
39973Leuctrum,
39974a deme
39975of Rhypes
39976in
39977Achaea, 4, 225
39978Leucullus (consul 74 B.C.), carried off
39979the colossal statue of Apollo in the
39980Apollonian
39981isle in the Euxine to
39982the Capitolium at Rome, 3. 277;
39983built the Temple οἵ Good Fortune
39984at Rome
39985and
39986adorned
39987it with
39988statues brought by Mummius from
39989Corinth, 4. 201, 203;
39990waged war
39991against
39992Mithridates,
39993and
39994drove
39995Tigranes out of Syria and Phoenicia,
399965. 339; presented the fortress Tomisa
39997to the ruler of Cappadocia who
39998joined him against Mithridates, 5.
39999351; captured Sinopé, and carried
40000off the globe of Billarus and the
40001statue of Autolycus, the work of
40002Sthenis, 5. 391;
40003besieged Amisus,
400045. 395; carried on war with Mithri-
40005dates Eupator, and was succeeded
40006by Pompey, 5. 435; his conference
40007with
40008Pompey,
400095.
40010471;
40011aided
40012Cyzicus
40013against
40014Mithridates,
400155.
40016503
40017Leuternia, name of the seaboard of
40018Italy at Leuca, 8. 119
40019Lexovii (or Lexobii ?), the, live on the
40020Sequana River near the ocean, 2.
40021211, 233
40022Lezini, Lake (see Melité in Acarnania)
40023Libanus, Mt., in Syria, 7. 211, 213;
40024ends at Theuprosopon, 7. 259; with
40025Mt. Antilibanus forms Coelé-Syria,
400267. 261, 265
40027Libes,
40028a priest
40029of the Chatti,
40030led
40031captive in triumph at Rome, 3. 163
40032Libo-Phoenicians, the, in Libya; the
40033territory of, 8. 195
40034Liburnians, the, have a coast 1500
40035stadia long and a city Scardo, 3.
40036259
40037Liburnides Islands, the (Arbo, Pago,
40038Isola Longa, and the rest);
40039forty
40040m pasate, in the Adriatic, 1. 475;
40041.
40042259
40043380
40044Libya, mentioned by Homer, 1. 5;
40045circumnavigators of, 1. 377; maxi-
40046mum distance from, to Europe, 1.
40047403, 409; longest passage from, to
40048Celtica,
400491.
40050443;
40051extends
40052only
40053slightly farther west than Gades,
400541. 461;
40055bounded by the Nile, 1.
40056485;
40057general
40058description
40059of,
400601.
40061499-503; shaped like a trapezium,
40062spotted
40063with
40064oases,
40065and
40066has
40067a
40068threefold division, 1. 501;
40069much
40070of, fertile, but most of, full of wild
40071beasts, 1. 503;
40072acquired by the
40073Romans
40074at time
40075of the
40076Third
40077Cathaginian War, 8. 141;
40078in part
40079turned
40080over
40081to
40082kings
40083by the
40084Romans, 3. 143; Homer ignorant
40085of, according
40086to Apollodorus,
400873.
40088189; a City of Dionysus in, which
40089“the same man
40090can
40091never
40092find
40093twice,’ 3.193; the parts above the
40094Delta, on the right, are so called,
40095as also parts round Alexandria and
40096Lake Mareotis, 8. 85; the desert
40097mountains
40098of,
40099a
40100protection
40101to
40102Aegypt, 8. 135;
40103detailed descrip-
40104tion of, 8. 155-209;
40105size, shape,
40106nature, and power of, 8. 155-157;
40107marvellous
40108stories
40109about
40110outside
40111coast of, 8. 159 ff., 171; plants and
40112animals in, 8. 163-165; the rivers
40113and climate
40114in, 8. 175; mines of
40115copper and of precious stones in, 8.
40116177-179; harvests in, 8. 179; con-
40117quests of the Romans in, 8. 181;
40118the best part of, occupied by the
40119Phoenicians, 8. 185; the true, as
40120distinguished from Libo-Phoenicia,
401218. 195; boundaries
40122of, unknown,
401238. 209; except the territory subject
40124to Juba, now a consular Province,
401258. 215; present administration of,
40126under Augustus, 8. 214-215
40127Libyan Psilli, the (see Psilli, the, in
40128Libya)
40129Libyan
40130Sea, the;
40131definition
40132of, 1.
40133471; borders on Sicily, and extends
40134from Carthaginia to the Syrtes, 3.
4013563, 297; borders on Crete, 5. 121,
40136173, 6. 375
40137Libyans, the, in general dress alike and
40138are similar in other respects, 8. 167
40139Licatii,
40140the;
40141one
40142of the
40143boldest
40144tribes
40145of the
40146Vindelici,
401472. 281;
40148the acropolis of, 2. 283
p. 393
40149INDEX OF NAMES, PLACES, AND SUBJECTS
40150Lichades Islands, the three, of Locris,
40151once
40152engulfed
40153because
40154of earth-
40155quake, 1. 223, 4. 381
40156Lichas,
40157the
40158Lichades
40159Islands
40160off
40161Locris named after, 4. 381; tomb
40162of, in Euboea, 5. 15
40163Lichas,
40164Hunting-ground
40165of,
40166near
40167Cape Deiré in Aethiopia, 7. 3313
40168Pillars and Altars of, 7. 335
40169Licosa, the isle (see Leucosia)
40170Licymna,
40171the
40172acropolis
40173of Tiryns,
40174about 12 stadia from Nauplia, 4.
40175169
40176Licymnius;
40177Licymna the acropolis
40178of Tiryns named
40179after,
401804, 169;
40181slain by Tlepolemus, his nephew’s
40182son, 6. 273
40183Liger (Loire) River, the, navigable
40184and
40185flows
40186from
40187the Cemmenus
40188Mountain to the ocean, 2. 211, 219;
40189approximately
40190parallel
40191to
40192the
40193Pyrenees, 2. 213; empties between
40194the Pictones and the Namnitae,
401952. 215; whence is one of the four
40196regular
40197passages
40198to
40199Britain,
402002.
40201253
40202“Ligues’’
40203(Ligures),
40204the
40205earlier
40206(Greek) name of the Sallyes, 2. 269
40207Ligures
40208Ingauni,
40209the;
40210name _ of
40211inhabitants of Albingaunum, 2. 263
40212Liguria (Ligustica), fortitude of women
40213in, especially at child-birth, 2. 113;
40214the geographical position of, 2. 299;
40215description of, 2. 333-337; produces
40216coarse wool, 2.333; bounded by the
40217Macra River, 2, 351
40218Ligurian Promontory, the; mentioned
40219by Eratosthenes, 1. 353
40220Ligurian Sea, the;
40221definition of, 1.
40222471
40223Ligurians (in Greek, ‘‘ Ligues ’’), the;
40224like the Celts in their modes of
40225life, 1. 491; geographical position
40226of, 2. 169, 193; precautions taken
40227against, by the Massaliotes, 2. 177;
40228the ‘‘ undaunted host’’ of, 2. 187;
40229partly Ingauni and partly Inter-
40230melii, 2. 265; the products of, 2.
40231267; barred the passes on the sea-
40232board that led from Italy to Iberia,
40233but were conquered by the Romans,
402342. 269;
40235classed as subject to the
40236praetors sent to Narbonitis, 2. 269;
40237some of, have the ‘‘ Latin right,”’
402382.
40239271;
40240the
40241pass
40242through
40243the
40244country of, 2. 293, 323; Genua the
40245emporium of, 2. 303; inhabit Trans-
40246padana,
402472.
40248307;
40249subjugated
40250by
40251Marcus Lepidus, 2, 331; bad neigh-
40252bours, 2. 353; mentioned by Hesiod,
402538. 197
40254Ligurisci (Teurisci ?), the, 3. 179
40255Ligustica (see Liguria), the country of
40256the Massaliotes, 2. 269, 299
40257Lilaea (Palaeokastro) in Phocis, where
40258are
40259the sources
40260of the Cephisus
40261River, 1. 57, 4. 307, 373, 387
40262Lilybaeum, one of the three capes of
40263Sicily,
402643. 57;
402651500
40266stadia from
40267Carthage, 3. 63, 8. 189; seized by
40268Aeneias, 6. 109
40269Limaeas (or Belion) River, the, in
40270Iberia,
402712. 69;
40272also called
40273River
40274of Lethé (Forgetfulness), 2. 71
40275Limenia in Cypros, 6. 381
40276Limnae, on the borders of Laconia and
40277Messenia, where the maidens were
40278outraged by the Lacedaemonians,
402798. 23; where is the great temple of
40280Artemis, 4. 121; a suburban part
40281of Sparta, where is the temple of
40282Dionysus, 4. 125
40283Limnae, in the Thracian Chersonesus,
402848. 373, colonised by Milesians, 6.
40285207
40286Limnaeum,
40287the;
40288the
40289temple
40290of
40291Artemis at Sparta, 4. 121; a ward
40292of Sparta, 4. 129
40293Limni (see Aegae in Euboea)
40294Limyra in Lycia, 6, 319
40295Limyrus River, the, in Lycia, 6. 319
40296Lindus, the son of Cercaphus, 6. 275
40297Lindus in Rhodes, has a place called
40298Sminthia,
402996. 97;
40300mentioned
40301by
40302Homer, 6. 273; origin of name of,
403036. 275;
40304has a famous temple of
40305Athené Lindia, founded by daugh-
40306ters of Danaiis, 6. 279
40307Linen, the, made in Colchis, famed far
40308and wide, 5. 211
40309Linen factories, the, among the Cadurci
40310in Aquitania, 2. 217
40311Lingones, the, in Celtica, separated
40312from the Sequani by the Arar River,
403132. 199, 229
40314“‘ Linguria ’’ (see Amber-gems)
40315Linum, on the shore of the Troad,
40316whence the Linusian snails, 6. 33
40317Lion, a, attacked by dogs in India, 7.
40318δῦ
40319381
p. 394
40320INDEX OF NAMES, PLACES, AND SUBJECTS
40321Lion, the, worshipped at Leontopolis,
403228. 111; found in Aethiopia, 8. 145,
40323and in Maurusia, 8. 163
40324Lioness,
40325the passion-frenzied, story
40326of, 7. 351
40327Lions, the, in India, 7. 123; feeding-
40328ground of, in Gordyaea in Meso-
40329potamia, 7. 233; a certain haunt of,
40330in Aethiopia, 7. 321; in Arabia, 7.
40331343
40332Lions, ant- (see Ant-lions)
40333Lipara (a colony of the COnidians);
40334Aeolus king of, 1. 73; eruptions
40335in, 3. 25; the largest of the seven
40336Liparaean Islands, 3. 93; formerly
40337called Meligunis, and once ruled all
40338the Liparaean Islands, 3. 95
40339Liparaean Islands, the seven (Isles of
40340Aeolus);
40341produced
40342by
40343volcanic
40344eruption, 1. 199; volcanic disturb-
40345ances in, 1. 213; called the Isles
40346of Aeolus, 1. 473; subject to erup-
40347tions, 2. 457; geographical position
40348of, 3.19; description of, 3. 93-103
40349Lippe River, the (see Lupias)
40350Lips (the south-west wind), 1. 107,
403512. 393
40352Lipso (see Aedepsus)
40353Liris (Liri in its upper course, Garig-
40354liano in its lower) River, the, flows
40355through Minturnae
40356and was
40357for-
40358merly called the ‘* Clanis,’’ 2. 397,
40359413; flows past Sora, 2. 415
40360Lisbon (see Olysipo)
40361Lissa, the island (see Issa)
40362Lissen in Crete, in the territory of
40363Phaestus, 5. 141
40364Lissus (Alessio) in Illyria, 3. 265
40365Liternum (Torre di Patria), in Cam-
40366pania, 2. 437
40367Liternus River, the, in Campania, 2.
40368437
40369Lithrus, Mt., in Asia, protects Phan-
40370aroea on the west, 5. 429
40371Livia, the Promenade of, at Rome, 2.
40372409
40373Lixus (see Lynx)
40374Lizards, two cubits long, abound in
40375Masaesylia in Libya, 8. 177
40376Lochias, the promontory in Aegypt,
40377opposite the eastern end of Pharos,
403788. 25; has a royal palace on it, 8. 39
40379Locri Epizephyrii, a city in Italy, 3. 29
40380Locria,
40381a spring
40382at Zephyrium
40383in
40384Italy, 3. 29
40385382
40386Locrian maidens, the, sent annually
40387to the temple of Athené at Lium,
403886. 79, after the Persians came into
40389power, 6. 81
40390Locrians, the, founded Hipponium in
40391Bruttium, 3. 17, and Medma, 3. 19;
40392of to-day,
40393are
40394Leleges,
403953. 289;
40396noted for their
40397‘‘ righteous laws,”’
40398dedicated pillar at Thermopylae in
40399honour of the fallen, 4. 379; the
40400Hesperian or Ozolian, the Opuntian,
40401and
40402the
40403Epicnemidian,
404044, 343;
40405built ships at Naupactus, 4. 385;
40406founded Cymé Phriconis in Asia, 6.
40407155
40408Locrians, the Epicnemidian, divided
40409by Daphnus into two parts, 4. 375;
40410nowhere bordered on the Opuntian
40411Locrians, 4. 377
40412Locrians, the Epizephyrian, in Italy,
40413believed to be the first people to
40414use written laws, and were horribly
40415abused by Dionysius the Younger,
404163. 29, 31
40417Locrians, the Hesperian, or Ozalian,
40418and the Opuntian and Epicnemidian,
404194. 343
40420Locrians, the Opuntian, named after
40421Opus, 4. 377
40422Locrians, the Ozolian, a Greek people,
404234, ὃ
40424Locris, divided into two parts by Mt.
40425Parnassus, 4. 343; detailed descrip-
40426tion of, 4. 377-393;
40427once split by
40428Daphnus into two parts, 4. 377;
40429Opus the metropolis of, 4. 379
40430Locrus, chieftain of the Leleges, 3. 291
40431Locusts (‘‘cornopes’’), gave rise to
40432Heracles
40433‘‘Cornopion,”’
404346.
40435127;
40436manner
40437of capture
40438of, by the
40439“* Locust-eaters’’
40440in Aethiopia, 7.
40441327;
40442prevalent in parts of Libya,
404438. 175
40444Locust-tree, the (see Ceratia)
40445Lolium perenne, the botanical term, 3.
4044699, footnote 7
40447Longitude (and latitude), parallels of;
40448graphic representation of, 1. 463
40449Lopadussa, an isle off the coast of
40450Carthaginia, 8. 191
40451Loryma, a rugged coast in the Peraea
40452of the Rhodians, 6. 267, 281
40453Lotus, a plant and root, growing in
40454northern Libya, 2. 83, and also in
40455the isle of Meninx off the Lesser
p. 395
40456INDEX OF NAMES, PLACES, AND SUBJECTS
40457Syrtis, 2. 85; used as food by the
40458Aethiopians,
404598. 143;
40460‘‘a kind of
40461plant and root,’’ 8. 171
40462Lotus-eaters, the, in northern Libya,
404632. 83, and also in the isle of Meninx,
404642.
4046585;
40466‘‘certain
40467migrants’’
40468in
40469western Libya, ‘‘ who feed on lotus,”’
404708. 171; in the isle of Meninx in the
40471Little Syrtis—the Homeric Lotus-
40472eaters, 8. 193
40473Luca, above Luna, in Italy, an im-
40474portant city, now in ruins, 2. 329
40475Lucani, the (see Leucani)
40476Lucania (see Leucania)
40477Lucotocia, the city of the Parisii, 2.233
40478Lucrinus, Gulf (Lake Lucrino), the, 2.
40479439, 441, 445, 447
40480Lucullus (see Leucullus)
40481Lucumo (Lucius Tarquinius Priscus),
40482the son of the Corinthian Demaratus
40483whocolonised Tarquinia in Italy, and
40484made king by the Senate and the
40485people (615 B.C.), 2. 339
40486Ludias, Lake, near Pella in Lower
40487Macedonia, whence flows the Ludias
40488River, 3. 341
40489Ludias River, the; the course of, 3.
40490339;
40491flows from Lake Ludias, 3.
40492341, 345
40493Luerio
40494River, the, borders
40495on
40496the
40497country of the Sallyes (Celtoligues),
404982. 269
40499Luerius,
40500chieftain
40501of the Arverni;
40502rich and extravagant, 2. 221
40503Lugdunum Convenarum (St. Bertrand
40504de Comminges), in Aquitania, 2. 217
40505Lugdunum (Lyon) in Celtica, lies at
40506the end of the Cemmenus Mountain,
405072. 165; geographical position of, 2.
40508199, 223;
40509an acropolis and im-
40510portant centre, 2. 289
40511Lugeum,
40512ἃ marsh (now Lake Zirk-
40513nitz), whence there is a pass leading
40514over Mt. Ocra to Tergeste, 8. 255
40515Lugii, the, a German tribe, ruled by
40516Marabodus, 3. 157
40517Luna, in Italy; the mountains above,
405182. 329; the distance from, to Ostia
40519and
40520to Pisa,
405212. 347;
40522city and
40523harbour (Bay of Spezia), 2. 349
40524Lupiae (Lecce) in Iapygia, 8. 121
40525Lupias River, the, 3. 159
40526Lusitania in Iberia, coursed by the
40527Tagus River, greatest of the Iberian
40528nations, and boundaries of, 2, 65;
40529length of, to Cape Nerium, 3000
40530stadia, and breadth much less, 2.
4053167; largest rivers in, 2. 69; thirty
40532different
40533tribes
40534in, between
40535the
40536Tagus and Artabria, finally subdued
40537by the Romans, 2. 71; meaning of
40538the term in strict sense, 2. 121
40539Lusitanians, the, in Iberia; some of,
40540transferred by the Romans, 2. 13;
40541subjected by Brutus, 2.63; most of,
40542now called Callaicans, 2, 65; traits,
40543arms, customs, habits, and religious
40544rites of, 2. 71-79; eat only one meal
40545a day, 2. 73; offer hecatombs, like
40546the Greeks, 2. 75; marry in same
40547way as Greeks, and expose the sick
40548in the same way as the Aegyptians,
405492. 77; now more tractable, and in
40550part civilised, under
40551Roman
40552in-
40553fluence,
405542, 77-79; armour of, 2,
40555107;
40556under jurisdiction
40557of prae-
40558torian lezatus, 2, 121
40559Lusonians, the, in Iberia ; geographical
40560position of, 2, 103
40561Lux Dubia (see Phosphorus)
40562Luxor (see Thebes, the Aegyptian)
40563Lycaeus (Diophorti) Mt., in Arcadia
40564(see Lyrceius, Mt.), compared with
40565the
40566Alps,
405672. 293;
40568where
40569Rhea,
40570mother of Zeus, caused a spring to
40571break forth, 4, 67; the temple of
40572Zeus
40573Lycaeus
40574near,
405754
40576229;
405778
40578famous mountain, 4. 231
40579Lycaon, the son of Pelasgus, 2. 345
40580Lyecaon, son of Priam, ransomed by
40581Euneos, 1. 151, 6. 17, 19, 23; grand-
40582son of Altes, 6. 153
40583Lycaonia in Asia, 1. 497,
405845. 345;
40585plateaus of, cold and bare of trees,
40586grazed by wild asses,
40587and have
40588extremely deep wells, 5. 473, 475;
40589once held by Amyntas, 5. 477; the
40590road through, 6. 309 ; not mentioned
40591by Homer, 6. 369
40592Lycaonians, the, not mentioned by
40593Homer, 5. 423
40594Lycastus in Crete, no longer exists, 5.
40595143
40596Lyceium, the, at Athens, has a myth
40597connected with it, 4. 265; near the
40598sources of the Hridanus, 4. 267; the
40599Ilissus River rises above, 4. 277
40600Lychnidus
40601(Ochrida),
40602on
40603the
40604(Oan-
40605davian Way, 3. 293, where are salt-
40606fish establishments, 3. 309
40607383
p. 396
40608INDEX OF NAMES, PLACES, AND SUBJECTS
40609“‘Lychnite’’
40610(Tourmaline?)
40611stones,
40612the, said to be found in Masaesylia
40613in Libya, 8. 177
40614Lychnus, the, a fish indigenous to the
40615Nile, 8. 149
40616Lycia, 4000 stadia from Alexandria,
406171. 93;
40618a part of the Cis-Halys
40619country, 1. 497;
40620colonised by the
40621Cauconians, 8. 385;
40622home of the
40623Cyclopes who helped to build the
40624walls of Tiryns, 4. 169; the Homeric,
40625in which Zeleia was situated, was
40626subject to Pandarus, 5. 461;
40627dis-
40628cussion of, 5. 491-495;
40629origin of
40630name
40631of, 5. 491;
40632the
40633present,
40634separated from the country of the
40635Cibyrans by a ridge of the Taurus,
406366. 265; description of, 6. 311-323
40637Lycians, the, were Trojans, according
40638to Homer, 5. 37, 423; two groups
40639of, the Trojan and that near Caria,
406405. 491; the same as the Homeric
40641“* Solymi ’’(?), 5. 493; by some con-
40642fused with the Carians, 5. 495, 6.
40643315;
40644in the Troad, were
40645led by
40646Pandarus, 6. 19, held Zeleia, 6. 23,
40647and “‘ fight in close combat,”’ 6. 45;
40648in southern Asia Minor, captured
40649Sardeis, 6. 179; continued to live in
40650a decent and civilised way, 6. 313;
40651by Homer made a different people
40652from the Solymi, but by others said
40653once to haye been called ‘‘ Solymi,”’
40654and
40655later
40656‘‘ Termilae,’’
40657and_
40658still
40659later named after Lycus the son of
40660Pandion, 6. 323, 361
40661Lycomedes the King, with Polemon
40662captured Arsaces at Sagylium, 5.445
40663Lycomedes, king of the isle Scyros,
40664and father-in-law of Achilles, 4. 427
40665Lycomedes,
40666priest
40667of Comana
40668in
40669Cappadocia Pontica, 5. 437
40670Lycoreia, above the temple at Delphi,
40671where the Delphians lived in earlier
40672times, 4. 351
40673Lycormas River (see Evenus River)
40674Lyctians, the, in Crete, possess Minoa,
406755. 123
40676Lyctus (or Lyttus, g.v.) in Crete, at
40677one time, with Gortyna, took prece-
40678dence over Cnossus, 5. 129; Cher-
40679ronesus
40680the seaport
40681of, 5. 143;
40682institutions at, 5. 149
40683Lycupolis, a, in the Sebennytic
40684Nome
40685in Aegypt. 8. 69
40686384
40687Lycurgus,
40688the
40689Edonian,
40690identified
40691with Dionysus, 5. 107; mentioned
40692by Homer, 7. 11
40693Lycurgus, the lawgiver, responsible
40694for the Laconian supremacy, 4. 137;
40695wrongly ignored by Hellanicus, who
40696ascribes the Spartan Constitution
40697to Eurysthenes and Procles, 4. 139;
40698a member of the house of the Eury-
40699pontidae, 4.141; sixth in descent
40700from Procles, 5. 149;
40701for a time
40702reigned
40703as
40704king
40705at
40706Sparta,
40707so-
40708journed in Crete and Aegypt, and
40709then returned home as law-giver,
407105.153; often consulted the Pythian
40711priestess at Delphi, 7. 287
40712Lycurgus, ἃ work on, by Pausanias,
40713one of the Eurypontidae, 4. 141
40714Lycurgusthe orator(b. about 396 B.C.),
40715agrees that the Homeric lium was
40716wiped out, 6. 83
40717Lycus, son of King Pandion, received
40718Euboea from his father, 4. 247, 249;
40719named the Lycians after himself,
407205.493;
40721banished from home and
40722settled in Lycia, 6. 323
40723Lycus, the (Canis lupaster, jackal),
40724worshipped at Lycopolis, 8. 111
40725Lycus (wrongly called the “* Thermo-
40726don ’’ by Eratosthenes) River, the,
40727empties into the Euxine, 5. 327 ; rises
40728in Armenia and joins the Iris River
40729in Cappadocia Pontica, 5. 397, 429
40730Lycus River, the, between Ninus and
40731Arbela, 7. 195, 197
40732Lycus River (Tchorouk Sou), the, in
40733Phrygia, joins the Maeander, 5. 511
40734Lycus River, the, in Syria, navigable,
407357. 261, 263
40736Lydia, The History of, by Xanthus, 5.
40737517
40738Lydia, a part of the Cis-Halys country,
407391. 497; whence Tyrrhenus colonised
40740Tyrrhenia
40741in Italy, 2.337; colonised
40742by Ionians from Athens, 4. 209
40743Lydian Gate, the, at Adramyttium,
407446. 127
40745Lydian language, the; no trace of, now
40746left in Lydia, 6. 193
40747Lydians, the, caused flight of certain
40748Ionians to Italy, 3. 49; once held
40749the mastery after the Trojan War,
407505. 463; confused with other peoples
40751in Asia, 5.487, 495; Gyges the king
40752of, §. 41; once held Adramyttium,
p. 397
40753INDEX OF NAMES, PLACES, AND SUBJECTS
407546. 127; by Homer and others called
40755** Meionians,”’ 6. 173, by some later
40756writers, ‘‘ Maeonians,”’ 6. 173, 185;
40757seized Cabalis, 6. 191;
40758rased Old
40759Smyrna
40760to the ground,
407616. 245;
40762certain places occupied by, 6. 249,
40763255;
40764as
40765brothers
40766worship
40767the
40768Carian Zeus with the Carians and
40769Mysians,
407706. 293;
40771by the
40772poets
40773confused with other peoples, 6. 315;
40774were conquered by the Persians, 7.
40775187
40776Lydus,’”’ the name given a Lydian
40777slave in Attica, 3. 213
40778Lydus, son of Atys the Lydian, 2. 337
40779Lygaeus, grandfather of Penelopé, 5.
4078069
40781Lygdamis, king of the Cimmerians,
40782captured Sardeis, but lost his life
40783in Cilicia, 1. 229
40784Lyncestae,
40785the;
40786the
40787country
40788of
40789(Lyncestis), in western Macedonia,
40790through which the Egnatian Way
40791passes, 3. 295; became subject to
40792Arrabaeus the Bacchiad, 3. 309
40793Lyncestis, country of the Lyncestae,
40794through which the Egnatian Way
40795passes, 3. 295
40796Lyncus, in Upper Macedonia, 3. 309
40797Lynx (or Lixus) in Maurusia, 8. 159,
40798161, 165, 171;
40799fabulous tomb of
40800Antaeus and
40801a skeleton 60 cubits
40802long near, 8. 171
40803Lyon (see Lugdunum)
40804Lyon, Gulf of (see Galatic Gulf)
40805Lyrceium,
40806a village in Argolis, un-
40807known to Homer, 4. 183
40808Lyrceius,
40809Mt.,
40810near
40811Cynuria
40812in
40813Arcadia, where rises the Cephissus
40814River, 4. 159 (see footnote 2), 159,
40815375
40816Lyre (see Cithara), the seven-stringed,
40817instead of the four-stringed,
40818first
40819used by Terpander, 6. 147
40820Lyrnessus in Pamphylia, founded by
40821Trojan Cilicians, 6. 323, 357
40822Lyrnessus in the Troad, sacked by
40823Achilles, 6. 15; Aeneias fled from
40824Achilles
40825to,
408266.
40827105;
40828home
40829of
40830Briseis, 6. 121
40831Lysias, a town in Phrygia, 5. 505
40832Lysias, astrongholdin Syria, destroyed
40833by Pompey, 7. 208, 291
40834Lysimacheia (Hexamili), in the middle
40835of the isthmus between the Melas
40836Gulf and the Propontis, founded
40837(309 B.C.) by Lysimachus, 3. 373,
40838375
40839Lysimachia, in Aetolia, has now dis-
40840appeared, 5. 65
40841Lysimachia, Lake, in Aetolia, once
40842called Hydra, 5. 65
40843Lysimachus,
40844one
40845of
40846Alexander’s
40847generals and successors, obtained
40848Thrace
40849as
40850his portion, assuming
40851title of king in 306 B.c.;
40852taken
40853captive
40854and
40855released
40856by Dromi-
40857chaetes
40858the Getan
40859king
40860(about
40861291 B.C.), 3. 203, 217;
40862once used
40863Cape Tirizis as a treasury, 3. 279;
40864founded Lysimacheia (on Gallipoli),
408658. 373; changed the name of Anti-
40866gonia in the Troad to Alexandreia,
408676. 53; permitted the Scepsians to
40868return home from there, 6. 65, 105;
40869founded
40870the Asclepieium
40871in the
40872Troad, 6. 89; destroyed Astacus, 5.
40873455;
40874founded Nicaea, naming
40875it
40876after
40877his
40878wife,
40879the
40880daughter
40881of
40882Antipater, 5. 463; Pergamum the
40883treasure-hold of, 6. 163;
40884slew his
40885son
40886Agathocles,
40887overthrown
40888by
40889Seleucus Nicator, and at last slain
40890by Ptolemy
40891Ceraunus,
408926.
40893165;
40894built
40895a
40896wall round
40897the
40898present
40899Ephesus, and named it after his
40900wife Arsinoé, 6. 225; re-assembled
40901the Smyrnaeans in New Smyrna,
409026. 245
40903Lysioedi,
40904the,
40905poetry, 6. 253
40906Lysippus of Sicyon, the great sculptor,
40907contemporary
40908of
40909Alexander
40910the
40911Great;
40912made
40913a
40914colossal
40915bronze
40916statue of Heracles for Tarentum,
409178. 107;
40918‘‘ Labours of Heracles ’’ of,
40919carried from Acarnania to Rome,
409205. 61; made the
40921‘* Fallen Lion,”’
40922which Agrippa took from Lamp-
40923sacus, 6. 37
40924Lysis, accompanied the talk of the
40925Cinaedi with song, 6. 253
40926Lyttus
40927in Crete, by Homer called
40928Lyctus (q.v.), 5, 129
40929corrupters
40930of Melic
40931M
40932Ma (i.e. Enyo), the temple
40933of, at
40934Comana in Cappadocia, 5. 351
40935Macae, Cape, in Arabia, 7. 301, 305
40936385
p. 398
40937INDEX OF NAMES, PLACES, AND SUBJECTS
40938“‘Macar, the city
40939of,’’ in Homer,
40940means the island Lesbos, 4. 97
40941Macaria, a spring near Tricorynthus in
40942Attica, 4. 187
40943Macaria Plain, the, on the Pamisus
40944River, 4. 117
40945Maccaresa (see Fregena)
40946Macedon, name of an ancient chieftain
40947of Macedonia, 3. 329
40948Macedonia
40949(in earlier
40950times
40951called
40952Emathia),
409533.
40954329;
40955geographical
40956position of, 3. 249; now held by
40957Thracians,
409583. 287;
40959according
40960to
40961some
40962writers,
40963extends
40964from
40965the
40966Strymon (Struma) to the Nestus
40967(Mesta), 3. 297;
40968fortified against
40969Greece by the Peneius River, where
40970it flows through Tempé, 3. 325; a
40971part of Greece, 3. 327, 4.3; like a
40972parallelogram
40973in shape,
409743. 327;
40975boundaries of, 3. 329, 369, 4. 395,
40976399; coast of, extends from Cape
40977Sunium to the Thracian Chersonese,
409783. 333; the Epeirotic tribes annexed
40979to, 3. 369; Thrace now called, 3.
40980349; much of, as now, occupied by
40981the Paeonians, 3. 363; divided into
40982four
40983parts
40984by Paulus,
409853.
40986369;
40987countries annexed to, 4. 415, 417;
40988with the country next to Epeirus,
40989now a practorial Province, 8. 215
40990Macedonia, Lower, 3. 341, 4. 399
40991Macedonia, Upper (or Free), consisted
40992of
40993the
40994regions
40995about
40996lLyncus,
40997Pelagonia, Orestias, and Elimeia, 3.
40998309, 331, 4. 399
40999Macedonian
41000Kings,
41001the,
41002molested
41003Athens,
41004but
41005let
41006its government
41007remain democratic, 4. 269
41008Macedonians,
41009the,
41010upbuilders
41011οὗ
41012Europe, 1. 489; under Alexander,
41013believed that Heracles and Dionysus
41014preceded
41015them
41016in expedition
41017to
41018India,
410192.
41020141;
41021sided
41022with
41023the
41024Carthaginians,
41025and
41026hence
41027the
41028later conquest
41029of them
41030by the
41031Romans, 8. 141;
41032greatly reduced
41033certain
41034tribes
41035of
41036the
41037Galatae,
41038Iilyrians, and Thracians,
410393. 263;
41040subdued
41041by Paulus
41042Aemilius,
410433.
41044293; inhabit the districts between
41045the Paeonian Mountains and the
41046Strymon (Struma) River, 3. 295;
41047subjugated the Epeirote cities, 8.
41048303; the empire of, broken up by
41049386
41050the Romans, 3. 309, 345;
41051called
41052their senators “‘ peligoncs,”’ 3. 323;
41053gained the hegemony of Greece, 4.
41054137; revered the temple of Poseidon
41055on Calauria, 4. 175; dissolved the
41056Achaean League, 4. 211; reduced
41057the Dorian Tetrapolis, 4. 389; war
41058of, with the Athenians, near Lamia,
410594. 413; for a time strongly resisted
41060by the Aetolians and Acarnanians,
410615. 67; once ruled over Hyrcania,
410625. 253; gave the name “‘ Caucasus’’
41063to all the mountains which follow
41064in order after the country of the
41065Arians,
410665. 259;
41067received
41068tribute
41069from the Parthians and Hyrcanians,
410705. 271; imposed their own names on
41071conquered places, 5. 285; overthrew
41072the Persians and occupied Syria,
410735. 307; once ruled over Armenia,
410745. 337; allowed the two satrapies of
41075Cappadocia to change to kingdoms,
410765. 349; succeeded the Persians as
41077masters in Asia, 5.4635; onsets of, in
41078Asia, 5.495; certain, live about Mt.
41079Tmolus in Lydia, 6. 173;
41080Strato-
41081niceia in Caria a settlement of, 6.
41082297; once used Cyinda in Cilicia as
41083a treasury, 6. 341; gave Ariana to
41084the Indians, 7. 15; subdued the
41085Persians, 7. 159, 187; planted the
41086vine in Susis and Babylonia, 7. 173;
41087conquered
41088Dareius
41089at Gaugamela
41090near Arbela, 7. 197; seized Phoeni-
41091cia, 7. 257;
41092took possession of
41093Aegypt, and attacked
41094the Cyren-
41095aeans, 8. 203
41096Macestus River, the, in Asia, flows
41097from Ancyra and empties into the
41098Rhyndacus, 5. 503
41099Machaereus, a Delphian, slew Neop-
41100tolemus the son of Achilles, 4. 361
41101Machaerus,
411028 stronghold
41103in Syria,
41104destroyed by Pompey, 7. 291
41105Macistia, in Triphylia, separated by a
41106mountain from Pisatis, 4.49; where
41107is the temple of Leto, 4. 73
41108Macistians, the, used to have charge of
41109the temple of Poseidon at Samicum,
411104.49; revere Hades, 4, 51
41111Macistus, the Triphylian, said to have
41112colonised Eretria in Euboea, 5. 15
41113Macistus (or Platanistus,now Khaiaffa)
41114in Triphylia, seized by the Cauco-
41115nians, 3. 23, 4. 55
p. 399
41116INDEX OF NAMES, PLACES, AND SUBJECTS
41117Macra River, the (see Macras River)
41118“* Macraeones,’’ the, in Iberia, 2. 57
41119Macras (or Macra), the plain, in Syria,
41120where was
41121seen the huge fallen
41122dragon, 7. 261, 263
41123Macras
41124(Macra)
41125River,
41126the,
41127the
41128boundary between Tyrrhenia and
41129Liguria, 2. 351
41130Macri Campi, on the Aemilian Way,
411312. 327
41132Macris (‘‘ Long’’), the ancient name
41133of Euboea, 5. 3
41134Macron Teichos (‘‘ Long Wall’’) on
41135the Propontis, 3. 377
41136Macrones, the, in Cappadocia Pontica,
411375. 399
41138Macropogones, the, in Asia, 5. 191
41139Macynia, a small city in Aetolia, 5.
4114029, 63;
41141founded after the return
41142of the Heracleidae, 5. 31
41143Macyperna,
41144the
41145naval
41146station
41147of
41148Olynthus, 8. 351
41149Madaris (matara), a kind of javelin
41150used by the Gauls, 2. 243
41151Madys the Scythian chief, who over-
41152ran parts of Asia Minor, conquering
41153Cyaxares (623 B.C.);
41154his expedi-
41155tions, 1. 227
41156Madytus
41157(Maitos),
41158where
41159Xerxes’
41160pontoon-bridge was built, 3. 3775
41161founded by the Lesbians, 3. 379
41162Maeander
41163River,
41164the,
41165receives
41166the
41167waters of the Marsyas and Lethaeus
41168Rivers, 5.421; the course of, 5. 509,
41169511;
41170territory
41171near,
41172subject
41173to
41174earthquakes,
411755. 513;
41176alters the
41177boundaries
41178of
41179countries
41180on
41181its
41182banks, and is subject to fines, 5.
41183517;
41184the Lethaeus empties into,
411856. 249; 1180 stadia from Physcus
41186and 80 from Tralleis, 6. 309; Plain
41187of, created by silt, 7. 23
41188Maeandrius, on the Eneti, 5. 415
41189Maecené, in Arabia, on the borders of
41190Babylonia, 7. 307
41191Maenaca (the present site of Almune-
41192car) in Iberia, not to be confused
41193with Malaca (Malaga), 2. 81
41194Maenalus, a city in Arcadia, no longer
41195exists, 4. 229
41196Maenalus,
41197Mt.
41198(Apanokhrepa),
411998
41200famous mountain in Arcadia, 4. 231
41201Maenoba in Iberia, purposely built
41202near estuary, 2. 31
41203Maeonians, the, are the same people
41204as the Mysians and the Meionians,
412055. 405, 487, 6, 173;
41206now called
41207Lydians, 6. 155
41208Maeotae, the, on Lake Maeotis, 5.191;
41209though farmers, are no less warlike
41210than the nomads, 5. 195; names of
41211various tribes of, 5. 201
41212Maeotis, Lake (Sea of Azov), made
41213known to geographers by Mithri-
41214dates, 1. 51;
41215severe frosts at, 1.
41216277; receives waters of the Tanais,
412171. 413, 5. 193; circumference
41218of,
412199000 stadia, 1. 481; a boundary of
41220Europe, 38. 151; marsh-meadows of,
41221roamed by Scythian nomads, 8. 223;
41222coldness of region of, and descrip-
41223tion of animals there, 3.225; mouth
41224of, called the Cimmerian Bosporus,
412258. 239; dimensions of, 3. 241; Alo-
41226pecia and other islands in, 5. 195;
41227the mouth of, 5. 197; often freezes
41228over, 5. 199;
41229not mentioned by
41230Homer, 5. 419
41231Magadis, a barbarian musical instru-
41232ment, 5. 109
41233Magi,
41234the;
41235attained
41236pre-eminence
41237through superior knowledge, 1. 87;
41238among the Parthians, compose
41239a
41240part of the Council, 5. 277; attend
41241the Persian kings as counsellors, 7.
41242119; live an august life, 7.157; on
41243guard at the tomb of Cyrus at
41244Pasargadae,
412457. 167;
41246the Persian
41247superintend the sacrifices, 7. 175,
41248177, in Cappadocia, called
41249‘‘ Pyr-
41250aethi,”’ 7, 177; certain barbarian
41251customs
41252of, 7. 183, 185; deposed
41253Cambyses the son of Cyrus, 7. 189
41254Magic, closely related to religion and
41255divination, 5.121
41256Magna Graecia (see Graecia, Magna)
41257Magnesia in Caria, near the Maeander,
41258colony of Cretans and Thessalian
41259Magnesians;
41260given by Xerxes to
41261Themistocles to supply him with
41262bread,
412636. 211;
41264description
41265and
41266famous natives of, 6. 249-255; 140
41267stadia from Tralleis, 6. 309
41268Magnesia in Lydia, 5.421; at the foot
41269of Mt. Sipylus, ruined by earth-
41270quakes, 5. 487, 515; has been set
41271free by the Romans, and has been
41272damaged by recent earthquakes, 6,
41273159
41274Magnesia in Thessaly ; the boundaries
41275387
p. 400
41276INDEX OF NAMES, PLACES, AND SUBJECTS
41277of, according to present historians,
412784.407; description and history of,
412794. 423, 425; most of, annexed to
41280Macedonia,
412814. 427;
41282indistinctly
41283mentioned by Homer, 4, 445, 447;
41284Hieronymus on, 4. 453
41285Magnesians, the, in Caria, near the
41286Maeander
41287River,
41288settled
41289in the
41290Antiocheia
41291near
41292Pisidia,
412935. 507;
41294descendants of the Magnesians in
41295Thessaly, utterly destroyed by the
41296Trerans, 6. 251
41297Magnesians (or Magnetans),
41298the, in
41299Thessaly ; geographical position of,
413004, 395, 427, 447, 449;
41301Homolium
41302belongs to, 4. 449, 451; colonised
41303Magnesia on the Maeander River,
413046. 211, 251
41305Magnetans, the (see Magnesians)
41306Magnetis in Macedonia, 3. 349
41307Magnopolis in Phanaroea in Cappa-
41308docia Pontica (see Eupatoria)
41309Magoedi,
41310the, corrupters
41311of
41312Melic
41313poetry, 6. 253
41314Magus, a circumnavigator of Libya,
41315according
41316to Heracleides,
41317and
41318a
41319visitor at court of Gelo, 1. 377
41320Maitos (see Madytus)
41321Makri, Cape (see Serrhium, Cape, in
41322Thrace)
41323Makriplagi, Mt. (see Gerania)
41324Makronisi
41325the
41326island
41327(see Helené)
41328Malaca (now Malaga) in Iberia, bears
41329thestamp of a Phoenician city, 2. 81
41330Malaga (see Malaca)
41331Malaria (?), the disease, 2. 315
41332Malathria in southern Macedonia (see
41333Dium
41334Malatia (see Melitina)
41335Malaucéne (see Durio)
41336Malaiis, descendant of Agamemnon,
41337founded Phriconian Cymé in Asia,
413386.7
41339Malea (or Maleae, g.v.) Cape, distant
4134022,500 stadia from Pillars of Heracles,
413411.93; promontory ending in, 1. 417
41342Maleae, Cape, 670 stadia from Cape
41343Taenarum, 4 127, 129, 149, 151,
41344155; the sea beyond, hard to navi-
41345gate, 4. 189; the distance from, to
41346the Ister River, 4, 233, 235
41347Maleos, the Pelasgian king, 2. 365
41348Malia, Mt. (see Aegaleum)
41349Malia, southernmost promontory of
41350Lesbos, 6. 139
41351388
41352Maliac Gulf, the, next to the Opun-
41353tian Gulf, 3. 353, 4. 381; has about
41354the same length as the territory of
41355Achilles, 4. 407;
41356enumeration of
41357cities near, that were subject to
41358Achilles, 4, 413, 417, and cities on
41359coast
41360of, that
41361were
41362subject
41363to
41364Achilles, 4, 417, 419
41365Malian War, the; Styra in Euboea
41366destroyed during, 5. 11
41367Malians, the Arabian, 7. 233
41368Malians, the, in Thessaly ; geographical
41369position
41370of, 4. 395;
41371subject
41372to
41373Achilles, 4. 413, 449
41374Malli, the, a tribe in India, 7. 57
41375Mallus in Cilicia, founded by Amphi-
41376lochus and Mopsus, 6. 353; birth-
41377place of Crates the grammarian, 6.
41378355
41379Malotha, a village in Arabia, 7. 363
41380Malta (see Melité)
41381Malus, in the Troad, 6. 89
41382Malvasia (see Minoa the island)
41383Mamaiis River, the, flows past the
41384Lepreatic Pylus, 4. 51
41385Mamertine
41386wine,
41387the,
41388made
41389at
41390Messené in Sicily, rivals the best
41391of the Italian wines, 3. 67
41392Mamertini, the, a tribe of the Cam-
41393pani, settled at Messené in Sicily, 3.
4139465; got control of the city, 3. 67
41395Mamertium, in Bruttium, 3. 35
41396Mandanis, the Indian sophist, com-
41397mended Alexander, 7. 111; refused
41398to visit Alexander, 7. 121
41399Mandilo, Cape (see Geraestus)
41400“* Manes,’”?
41401a name
41402given Phrygian
41403slaves in Attica, 3. 213;
41404a name
41405used in Cappadocia, 5, 415
41406Manes River, the (see Boagrius River,
41407the, in Locris), 4. 381
41408Mangalia (see Callatis)
41409Manius Aquillius (consul 129 B.C.),
41410organised a province in Asia, 6. 249
41411Mantiané, a large lake in Armenia;
41412next to Lake Maeotis in size, 5. 327
41413Mantineia
41414(Palaeopoli)
41415in Arcadia,
41416settled by Argive colonists, 4. 21;
41417made famous
41418by the
41419Battle
41420of
41421Mantineia,
41422but no longer exists,
414234. 229, 335
41424Manto,
41425daughter
41426of Teiresias
41427the
41428prophet and mother of Mopsus by
41429Apollo, 4. 453, 8. 233, 353
41430Mantua, in Italy, 2. 311
p. 401
41431INDEX OF NAMES, PLACES, AND SUBJECTS
41432Mantudi (see Cerinthus)
41433Map, the, of the inhabited world;
41434revised
41435by Eratosthenes,
414361. 231,
41437253, 267; ‘‘ our geographical’? (Map
41438of Agrippa?), 1. 465; how to make,
414391. 449, 2. 358 (footnote 3)
41440Maps, the early, 1. 257, 267
41441Marabodus, the royal residence of, at
41442Boihaemum;
41443enjoyed
41444favour
41445of
41446Augustus and ruled many German
41447tribes, 8. 157
41448Maracanda in Sogdiana, destroyed by
41449Alexander, 5. 283
41450Maranitae, the coast of, now called
41451coast of the Garindaeans, 7. 343
41452Marathesium in Asia, once belonged
41453to the Samians, but now to the
41454Ephesians, 6. 223
41455Marathon, expedition of Hurystheus
41456to, 4. 187; belonged to the Tetra-
41457polis of Attica, 4. 209;
41458deme of
41459Attica
41460where
41461Miltiades
41462utterly
41463destroyed the Persian army, 4. 263,
41464273
41465Marathon Plain, the, in Iberia (see
41466Fennel Plain)
41467Marathonian
41468‘Tetrapolis,
41469the,
41470also
41471called Tetrapolis of Attica, founded
41472by Xuthus the son of Hellen, 4.
41473181, 209; colonised certain cities in
41474Euboea, 5. 11
41475Marathus, an ancient city in Phoenicia,
41476now in ruins, 7. 255
41477Marble, the Carystian, in Euboea, 4.
41478427,5.9
41479Marble, the Docimaean, or Synnadic,
414804. 429
41481Marble, the Hierapolitic, 4, 429
41482Marble,
41483the,
41484at Mylasa
41485in
41486Caria,
41487excellent, 6. 293
41488Marble, the Proconnesian white, at
41489New Proconnesus in the Troad, 6. 33
41490Marble,
41491the
41492Parian,
41493the
41494best
41495for
41496sculpture, 2. 357, 5. 171
41497Marble, the Pentelic, and the Hymet-
41498tian, 4. 275
41499Marble,
41500the Scyrian
41501variegated,
41502is
41503famous, 4. 427;
41504has taken prece-
41505dence at Rome, 4. 429
41506Marble, the Synnadic (see Marble, the
41507Docimaean), 5. 507
41508Marble quarries of Carrara, the, near
41509Luna, 2 349; near Pisa, 2. 353
41510Marble
41511quarry,
41512the,
41513in
41514Chios,
41515is
41516famous, 6, 243
41517Marcellus, Marcus, founder of Corduba
41518(in his third consulship, 152 B.c.),
415192.21; exacted tribute of 600 talents
41520from Celtiberia, 2. 105
41521Marcellus,
41522son
41523of Octavia,
41524was
41525a
41526popu of Nestor the Academician, 6.
4152751
41528Marcomanni,
41529the,
41530migrated
41531with
41532Marabodus to Boihaemum, 3. 157
41533Mardi (or Amardi), the;
41534extent of
41535coast of, on the Caspian Sea, 5, 245;
41536in Persis
41537and Armenia,
415385, 305;
41539a predatory tribe situated next to
41540the Persians, 5. 309, 7. 157
41541Mardonius,
41542with
41543300,000
41544Persians,
41545ΡΟ out by the Greeks at Plataea,
41546.
41547325
41548Mareia
41549(also called
41550Mareotis,
41551q.v.),
41552Lake, borders on Alexandria, and of
41553vast importance commercially,
415548.
4155531; description of, 8. 57-59, 73
41556Mare-milkers (see Hippemolgi)
41557“*Mareotic’’ wine, the, in Aegypt, is
41558excellent, 8. 59
41559Mareotis
41560(also called
41561Mareia,
41562q.v.),
41563Lake, in Aegypt, loses its baneful
41564qualities
41565because
41566of overflow
41567of
41568the Nile, 2. 315;
41569connected
41570by
41571canals with the Nile, 8. 15, 41, 73;
41572borders on Alexandria, 8. 31
41573Mare Piccolo, the harbour of Tarentum
41574(see Taras)
41575Mare’s milk, used by the Scythian
41576Nomads, 8. 243
41577Margalae, the, in Amphidolia, 4, 71
41578Margiana, mild climate, and fertility,
41579of, and huge grape-vines in, 1. 273;
41580a powerful district in Asia, 5. 2773
41581well suited to the vine, 5, 279
41582Margus
41583River,
41584the,
41585in
41586Aria
41587and
41588Margiana, 5. 277
41589Margus
41590(or Bargus,
41591now
41592Morava)
41593River, the, empties into the Ister,
415943. 273
41595Mariaba, metropolis of the Sabaeans
41596in Arabia, 7. 311; description of,
415971. 349
41598Mariandyni, the, in Asia, appear to be
41599in origin a Thracian tribe, 8. 177;
41600in Asia
41601Minor,
41602by some
41603called
41604Caucones, 5. 373; variant accounts
41605of, 5. 375; border on Paphlagonia,
416065. 383; not mentioned by Homer,
416075. 423, 6. 363
41608Mariandynus, king of part of Paphla-
41609389
p. 402
41610INDEX OF NAMES, PLACES, AND SUBJECTS
41611gonia and of the country of the
41612Bebryces,
41613and
41614left
41615the country
41616named after himself, 5. 375
41617Marisus
41618(Maros)
41619River,
41620the,
41621flows
41622through Dacia into the Danuvius,
416238. 215
41624Maritza River, the (see Hebrus River)
41625Marius, Gaius (157-86
41626B.C.), seven
41627times consul; cut a new channel for
41628the Rhodanus, 2. 189
41629Marius the Younger (consul 82 B.C.),
41630killed at Praeneste, 2. 419
41631Marmaridae, the; the country of, 8.
4163255, 207;
41633region
41634of, destitute
41635of
41636water, 8. 155
41637Marmarium
41638(Marmari)
41639in
41640Euboea,
41641where are the quarry of Carystian
41642marble and the temple of Apollo
41643Marmarinus, 5. 9
41644Marmolitis in western Paphlagonia, 5.
41645453
41646Marmolycé the goblin, myth of, 1. 69
41647Maroneia (Maronia) in Thrace, 3. 365,
41648367
41649Maros River, the (see Marisus)
41650Marriage;
41651the Samnite law on, 2.
41652467; the laws concerning, in Crete,
416535. 153; among the Massagetae in
41654Asia, 5. 265; in India, 7. 83, 91, 107,
41655109;
41656in Carmania,
416577. 153, 155;
41658in Persia, 7.179; in Assyria, 7. 225
41659Marriage-custom,
41660a,
41661among.
41662the
41663Romans
41664and
41665also
41666among
41667the
41668Tapyri in Asia, 5. 273
41669Marro River, the (see Metaurus)
41670Marrucini,
41671the,
41672in
41673Italy,
416742. 429;
41675Teate the metropolis of, 2. 431
41676Mars (see Ares), the Picus (Wood-
41677pecker) sacred to, 2. 427;
41678babies
41679dedicated to, by the Sabini, 2. 465
41680Marseilles (see Massalia)
41681“‘ Marsh-lakes,”’
41682the
41683Pelusium, 8. 75
41684Marsi, the, who live in the Apennines,
41685two,
41686above
416872. 337;
41688migrated deep into the
41689interior, 3. 155
41690Marsiaba
41691(Mariaba?)
41692in
41693Arabia,
41694belonged to the Rhammanitae, 7.
41695361
41696Marsic War, the, lasted two years, 2.
41697431
41698Marsyas, one of the inventors of the
41699flute, 5. 103, 105; scene of myth of,
417005. 511
41701Marsyas River, the, which empties
41702392
41703into the Maeander, not mentioned
41704by Homer, 5. 421; outlets of, near
41705Apameia Cibotus, 5. 509
41706Maruvium, in Italy, 2. 431
41707Masaesylia in Libya;
41708description of,
417098. 173, 195
41710Masaesylians, the; best known of the
41711Libyan Nomads, 1. 503; customs
41712and dress of, 8. 167 ; have the special
41713name of ‘‘ Nomades’’ (Numidians),
417148. 189
41715Masanasses,
41716king of Masaesylia
41717in
41718Libya,
417198. 173;
41720Cirta the royal
41721residence of, 8. 183; friend of the
41722Romans, and by them presented a
41723large domain, 8. 187
41724Mases (near Kiladia), the Homeric, in
41725Argolis, 4. 183
41726Masiani, the, a tribe in India, 7. 47
41727Masius, Mt., in Armenia;
41728a peculiar
41729custom of people on, 5. 241, 299;
41730lies
41731above
41732the
41733Mygdonians
41734in
41735Mesopotamia, 5. 319, 7. 231
41736Massabaticé, a province of Elymaea
41737in Asia, belongs to Media, or to
41738Elymaea, 5. 309, 7. 223
41739Massagetans,
41740the, waged war with
41741Cyrus the Elder, 5. 247; a Scythian
41742tribe, 5. 261; the country, valour,
41743and
41744customs
41745of,
417465.
41747263-269;
41748country of, invaded by Cyrus, 7. 9
41749Massalia (Marseilles), parallel through,
41750same as that through Byzantium,
417511. 237, 407; visited by Eudoxus of
41752Cyzicus,
417531. 381;
41754approximately
41755on same parallel as Narbo, 1. 407;
41756distance from, to Pillars of Heracles,
417571. 409;
41758situated
41759on the Galatic
41760Gulf, 1. 491; tin exported to, from
41761the Cassiterides Islands and Britain,
417622. 45; description of, 2. 173-181;
41763founded by the Phocaeans, 2. 173;
41764an educational centre, 2. 179; not
41765subject to Roman praetors, 2. 181;
41766has a large harbour, 2. 195;
41767re-
41768jected colonisers from Phocaea, 3.
417695; type of adornment of, like that
41770of Cyzicus, 5. 501; wooden image
41771of Athené at, 6.83; like Rhodes and
41772Cyzicus observes secrecy in military
41773preparations, 6. 271
41774Massaliote cities in Iberia, 2. 89
41775Massaliotes, the; geographical position
41776of, 2. 169;
41777the government, laws,
41778and religion of, and cities founded
p. 403
41779INDEX OF NAMES, PLACES, AND SUBJECTS
41780by, 2. 175; friends of the Romans,
417812. 177;
41782unfortunately joined the
41783conquered party against Caesar, 2.
41784179;
41785a meed of valour of, 2. 189;
41786fame of, 2. 213; land of, formerly
41787called Ligustica, 2. 269
41788Massilia (see Massalia)
41789Massyas Plain, the, in Syria, 7. 253,
41790263; much of, given to Berytus by
41791Agrippa, 7. 265
41792Mastaura in Asia, near Nysa, 6. 261
41793Masthles,
41794the
41795Homeric,
41796led
41797the
41798Carians, 6. 301
41799Masylia in Libya;
41800description of, 8.
41801183, 195
41802Matalum
41803in Crete, another seaport
41804of Gortynia, 5. 137; 40 stadia from
41805Phaestus, 5. 141
41806Matapan, Cape (see Taenarum)
41807Matara, a kind of javelin (see Madaris)
41808Mataurus (Mazzara ?) in Sicily, 3. 93
41809Mathematicians, the Sidonian, 7. 269
41810Mathematics,
41811the
41812treatises
41813on,
41814by
41815Poseidonius and Hipparchus, 4. 3
41816Mathematics, the principles of, intro-
41817duced by Eratosthenes into geo-
41818graphy, 1. 233;
41819LEratosthenes an
41820expert in, 8. 205
41821Matiani, the, in Asia, border on the
41822Cadusii, 5, 269, 335
41823Matiené in Media, plains of; honey
41824drips from tree-leaves in, 1. 273;
41825once
41826under
41827water,
41828according
41829to
41830Xanthus, 1. 181; bees and honey
41831in, 1. 273
41832“Matoas’’
41833(‘‘Muddy,’
41834in
41835Greek
41836“ Asius’’), once the name of the
41837Ister, 3. 385
41838Matrinus
41839(Piomba)
41840River,
41841the,
41842in
41843Picenum, 2. 429
41844Mauretania (see Maurusia)
41845Mauri (see Maurusians)
41846Maurusia (or Mauretania), in Libya;
41847detailed discussion of, 8. 155-173;
41848fabrications about, 8. 159, 171, 173;
41849mostly fertile, and productive of
41850everything,
418518. 161;
41852borders
41853on
41854western Aethiopia, 8. 163; Begus
41855the king of, 8. 165; Juba and his
41856son, the kings of, 8. 169
41857Maurusians (Mauretanians), the; Bo-
41858gus the king of, put to death by
41859Agrippa at Methoné in Messenia,
418604, 111; detailed description of the
41861country of, 8. 157-173; customs of,
418628. 167; said to be the Indians who
41863came with Heracles, 8. 169
41864Mausoleum, the, of Augustus Caesar,
418652. 409; one of the Seven Wonders,
41866at Halicarnassus, erected by Arte-
41867misia in honour of her husband
41868Mausolus, 6. 283, 285
41869Mausolus, king of Caria (377-353 B.C.),
41870united six cities into Halicarnassus,
418716. 119; the Mausoleum of, 6. 283;
41872left his kingdom to Artemisia his
41873sister and wife, 6. 285
41874Mavrika, Mt. (see Othrys, Mt.)
41875Mavromati (see Messené, capital of
41876Messenia), 4. 107
41877Mazaca in Cappadocia, called ‘* Euse-
41878beia near the Argaeus,’’ the metro-
41879polis; description of, 5.361; acity
41880of greatest importance to the kings
41881—and distance from, to the Cilician
41882Gates and other places, 5. 365, 367;
41883the road through, 6. 309
41884Mazaceni, the, in Cappadocia, have
41885stone buildings, 5. 363;
41886use the
41887laws of Charondas, 5. 367
41888Mazaei, the, a Pannonian tribe, 3. 257
41889Mazenes, ruler of the isle Oaracta in
41890the Persian Gulf, served as guide to
41891Nearchus, 7. 305, 307
41892Mazi (see Haliartus)
41893Mazusia, large headland near the end
41894of Melas Gulf, 3. 373
41895Meal, yielded by the palm-tree, 7. 215
41896Meat, used for food by the Masaesyl-
41897ians in Libya, 8. 189
41898Meats, and blood, used as food by the
41899Aethiopians, 8. 143
41900Meconé, once the name of Sicyon, 4.
41901207
41902Medeia, story of, 1. 75; an historical
41903person, 1. 167, 171; sought for by
41904the Colchians, 2. 323;
41905wished to
41906visit
41907Circé,
419082.
41909357;
41910killed
41911her
41912brother Apsyrtus in the region of
41913the Apsyrtides, 3. 259; said to have
41914introduced a certain style of dress
41915in Media, 5. 315;
41916the Medes and
41917Armenians in a way descendants of,
419185. 337
41919Medeon
41920in
41921Boeotia,
41922later
41923called
41924Phoenicis, lies near Onchestus
41925at
41926foot of Mt. Phoenicius, and on Lake
41927Copais, 4. 321
41928Medeon in Phocis, on the Crisaean
41929Gulf, 160 stadia from Boeotia, after
41930391
p. 404
41931INDEX OF NAMES, PLACES, AND SUBJECTS
41932which the Boeotian Medeon was
41933named, 4, 321, 369
41934Medes, the; geographical position of,
419351. 497, 499;
41936ancient
41937history of,
41938untrustworthy, 5. 247; once ruled
41939over Hyrcania, 5. 253;
41940border on
41941the Cadasians, 5. 269; customs of,
41942adopted
41943by the Armenians
41944and
41945Persians, 5. 313-317;
41946pride them-
41947selves upon their cavalry, 5. 331;
41948once ruled over Armenia and are in
41949a way descendants of Jason and
41950Medeia, 5. 337;
41951follow the sacred
41952rites of the Persians, 5. 341;
41953lan-
41954guage and customs
41955of, used by
41956Carmanians, 7,155; overthrown by
41957the Persians under Cyrus, 7. 157,
41958195;
41959country
41960of,
41961borders
41962on
41963Babylonia, 7. 203; wont to attack
41964the Armenians and the Babylonians,
419657. 225
41966Medi, the, a Thracian tribe bordering
41967on the Illyrian Thunatae, 3. 265;
41968some of, live in the neighbourhood
41969of the Haemus Mountain, 3. 275
41970Media, visited by Jason, 1. 177,
419715.
41972213, 231;
41973former domain
41974of, 5.
41975273; separated from Babylonia by
41976Mt. Zagrus, 5. 295, 301; description
41977of,
419785.
41979303-317;
41980divided
41981into
41982Greater
41983and
41984Atropatian
41985Media,
419865. 299, 303; annual tribute paid by,
41987to Persia, 5. 313;
41988lost Caspiané,
41989Phaunitis,
41990and
41991Basoropeda
41992to
41993Armenia,
419945.
41995325;
41996borders
41997on
41998Elamais, 7. 221; now subject to the
41999Parthians, 7. 233
42000Media, the Atropatian;
420018. peculiar
42002custom of people in, 5. 241
42003Media, the Greater, in ancient times
42004ruled over all Asia—and boundaries
42005of, 5. 307, 309;
42006description and
42007customs of, 5. 311-317
42008Medic juice, the, from the silphium in
42009Media, 5. 311
42010Medimnus of grain, a, sold for 200
42011drachmae at Casilinum, 2. 461
42012Mediolanium (Milan), once the metro-
42013polis of the Insubri, 2. 311
42014Mediolanium
42015(Saintes),
42016city of the
42017Santoni, 2. 215
42018Mediomatrici,
42019the,
42020live
42021along
42022the
42023Rhenus, 2. 229
42024Mediterranean
42025(Our
42026Sea),
42027the;
42028boundaries
42029of, 1.
4203019;
42031formerly
42032392
42033not connected
42034with the Atlantic
42035Ocean,
420361. 183;
42037its bed
42038higher,
420391. 189;
42040level lowered by outflow
42041at
42042Strait
42043of Gibraltar,
420441. 207;
42045maximum breadth of, 5000 stadia,
420461. 443; one of the four large gulfs,
420471. 467; boundaries and dimensions
42048of, 1. 471;
42049its most southerly,
42050northerly,
42051westerly,
42052and
42053easterly
42054points,
420551. 483;
42056routes
42057over,
42058for
42059ships, pass through zone
42060of fair
42061weather,
420622.
4206331;
42064probably
42065once
42066confluent with the Red Sea, 8. 99
42067Medius, the Larisaean, accompanied
42068Alexander on his Asiatic expedition,
42069(Mesima),
42070in
42071Bruttium,
42072founded by the Locrians, 3. 19
42073Medoaci, the, live in Transpadana,
420742. 323
42075Medoacus
42076(Brenta)
42077River,
42078the,
42079in
42080Italy, navigable from the sea to
42081Patavium, 2. 313
42082Medobithynians, the, are in origin a
42083Thracian tribe, 3. 177
42084Medon,
42085marshal
42086of the
42087forces
42088of
42089Philoctetes at Troy, 4. 407
42090Medulli, the, hold the loftiest peaks
42091of the Alps, 2. 195, 271; live above
42092the confluence of the Isar and the
42093Rhodanus, 2. 273
42094Medus, the son of Medeia, is said to
42095have succeeded to the empire of
42096Media, 5. 315
42097Medus River, the, in Media, 7. 165
42098Medusa, the Gorgon, from whose neck
42099Pegasus the horse sprang, 4. 195
42100Megabari, the; weapons of, 7. 339;
42101subject to the Aethiopians, 8. 7;
42102situated to the south of Aegypt, 8.
42103135
42104Megabates, the Persian admiral, slew
42105Salganeus, the Boeotian guide, near
42106the Euripus, 4, 291
42107Megabyzi, the; eunuchs who served
42108as priests at the temple of Artemis
42109at Ephesus, 6. 229
42110Megalokhorion (see Methana)
42111Megalopolis, ‘‘the
42112Great City,’’ in
42113Arcadia;
42114the Homeric Hiré near,
421154. 115;
42116added
42117to the Achaean
42118League by Aratus
42119of Sicyon, 4.
42120217; ‘‘the Great City now a great
42121desert,’
421224,
42123229;
42124like
42125Babylon,
42126now in ruins, 7. 201
p. 405
42127INDEX OF NAMES, PLACES, AND SUBJECTS
42128Megalopolitis in Cappadocia Pontica,
42129subject
42130to Queen Pythodoris,
421315.
42132431, 441
42133Meganisi (see Taphos)
42134Megara in Greece, founded by the
42135Dorians,
421364.
421377;
42138added
42139to
42140the
42141Achaean
42142League
42143by Aratus
42144of
42145Sicyon, 4. 217;
42146joined to Nisaea,
42147its naval station, by walls;
42148not
42149mentioned by Homer because not
42150yet founded, 4, 245;
42151founded by
42152the Heracleidae, and still endures,
421534. 251;
42154in early times a part of
42155Attica, 4. 257;
42156scene of myth of
42157Philomela
42158and
42159Proené,
421604.
42161369;
42162founded by Dorians after the death
42163of Codrus, 6. 271
42164Megara
42165Hyblaea
42166(formerly
42167called
42168Hybla, near Agosta) in Sicily, no
42169longer
42170existent,
421713. 63;
42172founded
42173by Theocles the Athenian and some
42174Megarians, 8. 65;
42175founded about
42176the same time as Syracuse, 3. 71
42177Megara in Syria, 7. 253
42178Megarian sect, the, of philosophers,
421794, 251
42180Megarians, the, in Greece, founded
42181Megara in Sicily, 8. 65; founded
42182Selinus in Sicily, 8. 83;
42183founded
42184Chalcedon,
42185opposite
42186Byzantium,
421878. 283; Nisaea the naval station of,
421884. 11;
42189once
42190in strife
42191with
42192the
42193Athenians
42194for
42195Salamis,
421964.
42197253,
42198255;
42199founded
42200Chalcedon
42201and
42202Astacus,
42203the
42204latter
42205with
42206the
42207Athenians, 5. 455
42208Megarians, the Hyblaean, in Sicily,
42209forced
42210by the
42211Carthaginians
42212to
42213migrate, 4. 223
42214Megarians, Polity of the, by Aristotle,
422158. 289
42216Megaris, lies on the Crisaean Gulf,
422174. 195;
42218includes
42219Crommyon,
422204.
42221239;
42222in Homer’s time a part of
42223Ionia, and obtained by Nisus the
42224son
42225of King
42226Pandion,
422274.
42228247;
42229has rather poor soil and is mostly
42230Fee by the Oneian Mountains,
42231. 201
42232Megasthenes of Chalcis (in Euboea),
42233joint founder of Cumae in Italy,
422342. 437
42235Megasthenes, ambassador of Seleucus
42236Nicator (reigned 312-328 B.C.) to
42237Sandrocottus, king of Palimbothra
42238in India;
42239author of a _historico-
42240geographical
42241work,
42242which
42243was
42244thoroughly
42245discredited
42246by Strabo
42247but
42248quoted approvingly by Hip-
42249parchus, 1. 257, 261, 265;
42250on the
42251setting of the Bears, 1. 287, 291;
42252discounts all ancient stories about
42253India, 7. 7; on the expeditions of
42254Heracles and Dionysus to India,
422557. 9; on the size of India, 7. 17,
4225619;
42257on the fertility of India, 7.
4225831;
42259on
42260the
42261size
42262of the Ganges
42263River, 7. 63; says the largest tigers
42264are found in the country of the
42265Prasii
42266in India,
422677. 65;
42268on
42269the
42270seven
42271castes
42272in India,
422737. 67-83;
42274describes the gold-mining ant-lions
42275in India, 7. 75; on the honesty and
42276habits of the Indians, 7. 87, 89, 93;
42277tells mythical stories about India,
422787. 95, 97;
42279on the two sects
42280of
42281philosophers in India, 7. 99;
42282on
42283suicide in India, 7. 119
42284Meges, the Homeric, son of Phyleus;
42285the corselet of, 4. 27; king of the
42286Echinades Islands, 5. 49, 59
42287Megillus,
42288on
42289the growing
42290of rice,
422917. 29
42292Megisté, island and city off Lycia,
42293Meionia (see Maeonia)
42294“*Meionia,’?
42295perhaps
42296applied
42297to
42298“ Asia’? sometimes, 6. 179
42299Meionians, the Homeric, are the same
42300people
42301as
42302the Mysians
42303and
42304the
42305Maeonians, 5. 405, 487; the Lydian,
42306colonised Thebé in the Troad after
42307the Trojan War, 6. 23; are Lydians,
423086. 171, 361, 865; led by Mnesthles
42309and Antiphus, according to Homer,
423106. 175; an unknown tribe, accord-
42311ing to Apollodorus, 6. 369
42312Melaena, Cape, in Chios, 6. 243
42313Melaenae
42314(or Melaniae)
42315in
42316Cilicia,
423171900
42318stadia
42319to
42320the
42321borders
42322of
42323Syria, 7. 281
42324Melaenae in the Troad, 6. 89
42325Melamphylus,
42326one
42327of
42328the
42329earlier
42330names of the Ionian Samos, 5. 53,
423316. 215
42332Melampus, first physician, and founder
42333of the
42334worship
42335of Dionysus
42336in
42337Greece,
42338used
42339the
42340water
42341of
42342the
42343Anigrus
42344River
42345in
42346‘Triphylia
42347to
42348purify the Proetides, 4. 61
42349393
p. 406
42350INDEX OF NAMES, PLACES, AND SUBJECTS
42351Melanchrus, tyrant of Mitylené, railed
42352at by Alcaeus, 6. 143
42353Melaneis, an earlier name of Eretria,
423545. 15
42355Melania (also called Melaenae
42356and
42357Melaniae) in Cilicia, 6. 333
42358Melaniae (see Melaenae)
42359Melanippé
42360the
42361prisoner,
42362pontium, 3. 53
42363Melanippus, the Homeric, pastured
42364kine in Percoté, 6. 19
42365Melanthus, king of the Messenians,
423664. 109;
42367also
42368reigned
42369over
42370the
42371Athenians, 4. 249; father of Codrus,
42372accompanied by many Pylians to
42373Athens, 6. 199
42374Melanus,
42375a
42376promontory
42377between
42378Cyzicus and Priapus, 5. 505
42379Melas, the Homeric, son of Porthaon,
423805. 75
42381Melas Gulf (Gulf of Saros), the, formed
42382by the
42383Thracian Chersonesus,
423841.
42385477, 3. 373, 375
42386Melas River, the, in Boeotia, flowed
42387through the territory of Haliartus
42388and emptied into a fissure in the
42389earth near Orchomenus,
42390but has
42391now
42392disappeared,
423934. 307;
42394flows
42395between Eudeielos and Orchomenus,
423964, 341
42397Melas
42398River,
42399the,
42400in Cappadocia,
42401spreads out into marshes and lakes
42402and renders the stone-quarry hard
42403to work, 5. 363
42404Melas River, the, in Pamphylia, 6.
42405325
42406Melas River, the, in Thessaly, flows
42407five stadia from Trachin, 4. 391
42408Melas River, the, in Thrace, which
42409flows
42410into
42411the Melas
42412Gulf, not
42413sufficient to supply the army of
42414Xerxes, 3. 373
42415Meldi, the, live on the Sequana River,
424162. 233
42417Meleager,
42418of Gadaris
42419in Phoenicia,
424207. 277
42421Meleager, with Oeneus, fought with
42422the sons of Thestius, 5. 87
42423Meleager, the palisade of, in Syria,
424247. 247
42425Meles River, the, flows past Smyrna,
424265. 421, 6. 247
42427Melia, wife of Silenus and mother of
42428the
42429Dolion
42430who
42431dwelt
42432on
42433the
42434Ascanian Lake, 5. 465, 6. 373
42435394
42436at Meta-
42437Melia, the mother
42438of Tenerus the
42439Boeotian prophet by Apollo, 4. 329
42440Meliboea (near Aghia), in Thessaly,
42441whence
42442Philoctetes
42443fled,
424443.
424459;
42446subject
42447to
42448Philoctetes,
424494.
42450427;
42451where some of Xerxes’ ships were
42452wrecked, 4, 451
42453Melilotus,
42454a tree in Masaesylia in
42455Libya whence wine is made, 8. 179
42456Melinus Harbour, the, in the Arabian
42457Gulf, 7. 323
42458Melitaea in Thessaly, formerly called
42459Pyrrha, and the tomb of Hellen
42460at, 4. 405; subject to Achilles, 4.
42461413
42462Melité (Malta),
42463off Cape Pachynus,
42464whence come the little dogs, 3. 103,
424658. 191
42466Mone (Lezini), a lake in Acarnania,
4246761
42468Melité, the Attic deme, 1. 243, 247
42469Melité, the name of Samothrace in
42470olden times, 3. 371
42471Melitené, one of the ten prefectures
42472of Cappadocia, 5. 297, 319, 343,
42473349;
42474description of, 5. 351;
42475has
42476strongholds, but no cities, 5. 357
42477Melo, leader of the Sugambri in their
42478war against the Romans, 8. 161
42479Melos (Milo),
42480one
42481of the Cyclades
42482Islands, a notable island, 5. 161;
42483most of inhabitants of, from youth
42484upwards, once slain by the Athe-
42485nians, 5, 163
42486Melpis (Melfa) River, the, flows past
42487Aquinum, 2. 413
42488Melsus
42489River,
42490the,
42491flows
42492through
42493Asturia, 2. 121
42494Memnon, son of Tithonus; tomb of,
42495above the outlet of the Aesepus
42496River, 6. 27;
42497said to have been
42498buried near Paltus in Syria, by
42499the Badas River, 7. 159;
42500called
42501Ismandes by the Aegyptians,
425028.
42503113
42504Memmnon of Rhodes, general of the
42505Persians,
42506arrested
42507Hermeias
42508the
42509tyrant of Assus, and sent him up
42510to the king of the Persians to be
42511hanged, 6. 117
42512Memnon’s Village, in the Troad, 6. 27
42513Bennonle the, in Abydus and Thebes,
42514. 113
42515Memnonium,
42516the, at Abydus near
42517the Nile, remarkable royal building
p. 407
42518INDEX OF NAMES, PLACES, AND SUBJECTS
42519of the same workmanship as the
42520Labyrinth, 8. 111-113
42521Memnonium,
42522the;
42523name
42524of
42525the
42526acropolis of Susa, 7. 159
42527Memoirs, the Aegyptian, Babylonian,
42528and Indian, on the straightforward
42529character of the Scythians, 3. 201
42530Memphis in Aegypt; temples of the
42531Cabeiri
42532and Hephaestus
42533in, de-
42534stroyed
42535by Cambyses,
425365.
42537115;
42538“‘royal
42539residence
42540of the Aegyp-
42541tians,’’ keeps the sacred bull Apis,
425428. 73,87; distance from, to Thebais,
425438. 75; a curfous kind of hall at, 8.
4254483; description of, 8. 87-89
42545Men, mythical, who are
42546‘“‘ half-dog,’’
42547or “‘long-headed,’’ or ‘* pygmies,”’
42548or “‘ web-footed,”’ or “ dog-headed,”’
42549or ‘‘ have eyes in their breasts,’’ or
42550“* one-eyed,’ invented by the poets,
425518. 191
42552Mén (see Mén Ascaeus), the temple
42553of, in the country of the Anti-
42554ocheians (at Saghir?), 5. 433
42555Mén Arcaeus (Ascaeus?), the priest-
42556hood of, at Antiocheia near Pisidia,
425575. 507
42558Mén Ascaeus;
42559temple of, near the
42560Antiocheia that is near Pisidia, 8.
42561431
42562Mén of Carus;
42563temple of, in place
42564of same name, between Carura and
42565Laodiceia, 5. 431, 519
42566Mén of Pharnaces, the temple of, at
42567Cabeira
42568in
42569Cappadocia
42570Pontica,
425715. 431
42572Menander the comic poet, of Athens
42573(b. 342 B.C.); on the polygamy of
42574the Thracians and Getans, ὃ. 183;
42575on the money and time spent by
42576women
42577on religious
42578observances,
425798. 183, 185; says that Sappho the
42580poetess was the first to leap off
42581Cape Leucatas into the sea, 5. 33;
42582on a certain law in the isle Ceos,
425835. 169; says that the isle Samos
42584“‘produces
42585everything
42586but
42587birds’
42588milk,’’
425896. 215, 217;
42590became
42591an
42592ephebus at Athens, 6. 219
42593Menander,
42594king
42595of
42596Bactria;
42597far-
42598reaching conquests of, 5. 279-281
42599Menapii, the, live on both sides of
42600the Rhenus near its mouths, 2, 231;
42601border on the Marini, 2. 253; fogs
42602among, ὦ. 207
42603Mendé, a city on Pallené, 3. 351
42604Mendes in Aegypt, where Pan and
42605a he-goat are worshipped, 8. 69
42606Mendesian mouth of the Nile, the, 8.
4260765, 71
42608Menecles,
42609the
42610orator,
42611teacher
42612of
42613Apollonius
42614Malacus
42615and
42616Apol-
42617lonius Molon, 6. 281, 299
42618Menecrates
42619of Elaea,
42620a disciple
42621of
42622Xenocrates;
42623opinions of, approved
42624by Demetrius of Scepsis, 5. 407;
42625in
42626his
42627Circuit
42628of the
42629Hellespont
42630discusses
42631the
42632Halizones,
426335. 409;
42634regards the Mysians as Lydian in
42635origin, 5. 489; in his work on the
42636Foundings of Cities discusses the
42637Pelasgians in Asia, 6. 157
42638Menecrates, pupil of Aristarchus and
42639native of Nysa in Asia, 6. 263
42640Menedemus, founder of the Eretrian
42641sect of philosophers, 4. 251, 5. 19
42642Menelaiis,
42643the brother
42644of Ptolemy
42645I; the Menelaite Nome in Aegypt
42646named after, 8. 65
42647Menelaiis, a city in Aegypt, 8. 73
42648Menelaiis, the Greek hero, destined
42649for Elysian Plain, 1. 7; travelled
42650much, and hence a wise man, 1. 29;
42651traveller
42652and
42653braggart,
426541.
42655111;
42656wanderings
42657of, 1. 137, 139;
42658the
42659prophecy uttered to, by Proteus,
426601. 141; wealthy palace of, 1. 143;
42661sojourned in Sidon, 1. 149; wander-
42662ings of, a traditional fact, 2. 55,
42663359; domain of, included Messenia,
426644. 87;
42665accompanied
42666to Troy by
42667men
42668of Pherae (Pharis),
426694. 109;
42670also held Messenia
42671as subject at
42672time of Trojan War, 4. 107, 109;
42673palace
42674of, at Sparta,
42675visited
42676by
42677Telemachus,
426784 147,
42679149;
42680came
42681into possession of Laconia, 4. 167;
42682in
42683haste
42684to
42685return
42686home
42687from
42688Troy, 5. 105;
42689said to have been
42690entertained
42691in Aegypt
42692by King
42693Thon, 8. 63; took captive Trojans
42694with him, who settled in Arabia,
426958. 95-97
42696Menelaus Harbour,
42697in Cyrenaea, 8.
42698207
42699Menestheus, port and
42700oracle of, in
42701Iberia, ἃ. 17; Greek charioteer at
42702Troy,
427034
42704255;
42705with
42706Athenians,
42707founded Elaea in Asia in Trojan
42708times, 6. 159
42709395
p. 408
42710INDEX OF NAMES, PLACES, AND SUBJECTS
42711Menesthles, the Homeric, leader of the
42712Meionians, 6. 175
42713Meninx (Jerba), the island, land of
42714the Lotus-Eaters, 1. 91, 8. 193
42715Menippus,
42716the
42717satirist,
42718native
42719of
42720Gadaris in Phoenicia, 7. 277
42721Menippus, surnamed Catocas, of Stra-
42722toniceia
42723in
42724Caria,
42725applauded by
42726Cicero above all Asiatic orators he
42727had heard, 6. 299
42728Menlaria,
42729in
42730Iberia,
42731where
42732were
42733establishments for salting fish, 2.
4273415
42735Mennaeus, father of Ptolemaeus the
42736ruler of certain places in Syria, 7.
42737253
42738Menodorus of Trailleis, contemporary
42739of Strabo;
42740learned, august, grave,
42741priest of Zeus Larisaeus, slain by
42742Dometius Ahenobarbus, 6. 257
42743Menodotus the Pergamenian, of the
42744family of Galatian tetrarchs, and
42745father of the famous Mithridates
42746the Pergamenian, 6. 169
42747Menoetius,
42748the father
42749of Patroclus,
42750lived at Opus in Locris, 4. 379
42751Menon, sent by Alexander to the gold
42752mines in Armenia, 5. 329
42753Mentana (see Nomentum)
42754Mentes, the king of Taphos, 5. 49;
42755the subjects of, in the Trojan War,
427565. 61
42757Mentor, impersonated by Athené in
42758the Odyssey, 4. 45, 57
42759Merenda (see Myrrhinus)
42760Meridian,
42761the, through
42762Meroé
42763and
42764Alexandria, 1. 233
42765Meridians, the;
42766graphic representa-
42767tion of, 1. 463
42768Mermadalis (see Mermodas) River, the,
42769flows between the countries of the
42770Amazons and certain Scythians, 5.
42771233
42772Mermodas (Mermadalis?) River, the,
42773flows through the country of the
42774Amazons and into Lake Maeotis,
427755. 235
42776Meroé, the city; geographical position
42777of, 8. 5; so named by Cambyses,
427788. 19;
42779greatest royal seat of the
42780Aethiopians, 8. 143; about 10,000
42781stadia from Alexandria
42782and
427833000
42784from the torrid zone, 8. 157
42785Meroé, largest of islands in Nile, resid-
42786ence of the king, metropolis of the
42787396
42788Aethiopians, 1. 119;
42789lies opposite
42790southern
42791capes
42792of India,
42793about
4279415,000 stadia distant from parallel
42795of Athens, 1. 255, 439;
42796distance
42797from, to Hellespont, 1. 257; longest
42798day at, has 13 equinoctial hours,
427991. 509; region of, gets no rain, 7.
4280029; ruled by a queen, and a fifteen
42801days’ journey from the Arabian
42802Gulf, 7. 321;
42803course of the Nile
42804with reference to, 8. 3;
428058 rather
42806large island, 8. 5;
42807so named by
42808Cambyses, 8. 19; description of, 8.
42809143;
42810worship and customs of in-
42811habitants of, 8. 147
42812Meropis, the Land of, an invention
42813reported by Theopompus, 3. 191
42814Merops
42815of Percoté,
42816father
42817of two
42818Trojan leaders, 6. 21, 25
42819Merops, Aethiopian king, 1. 123
42820“* Merotraphes,’’ an epithet of Diony-
42821sus, 7. 9
42822Merus, Mt., in India, 7. 11
42823Mesembria (Mesivri), on the Euxine,
42824in Thrace, founded by the Mega-
42825rians, 3. 279
42826Mesivri (see Mesembria)
42827Mesoga, a city in India, 7. 47
42828Mesogis, Mt.;
42829geographical position
42830of, 6. 183, 185, 255; produces ex-
42831cellent wine, 6. 215
42832Mesola in Messenia, by some identified
42833with the Homeric Hiré, 4. 115; by
42834Cresphontes made one of the Mes-
42835senian capitals, 4. 119
42836Mesopotamia, like a galley in shape,
428371. 299, 305; enclosed by the Tigris
42838and Euphrates, 1. 305, 499, 5. 297,
42839317, 319; description
42840of, 7. 229;
42841became subject to the Romans, 7.
42842231;
42843parts of, occupied
42844by the
42845Arabian Scenitae, 7. 233
42846Messapia, the Greek name for Iapygia,
428478. 103; forms a sort of peninsula,
428488. 105
42849Messapius, Mt., near Anthedon, named
42850after Messapus, who emigrated to
42851Iapygia and called it Messapia, 4.
42852299
42853Messapus, after whom Mt. Messapius
42854in Boeotia and Messapia in Italy
42855were named, 4, 299
42856Messé, the Homeric, by some con-
42857sidered
42858an
42859apocopated
42860form
42861of
42862Messené, 4, 129
p. 409
42863INDEX OF NAMES, PLACES, AND SUBJECTS
42864Messeis,
42865a spring
42866in Thessaly,
428674.
42868405
42869Messené, the country (see Messenia)
42870Messené, the city, capital of Messenia,
42871whose acropolis was Ithomé, cap-
42872tured after a war of nineteen years,
428738.113; not yet founded in time of
42874Trojan War (founded by Epamei-
42875nondas
42876369
42877B.C.),
428784 107;
42879like
42880Corinth, 4. 119; destroyed by the
42881Lacedaemonians, but rebuilt by the
42882Thebans and by Philip the son of
42883Amyntas, 4, 121
42884Messené
42885in
42886Sicily,
42887once
42888ruled
42889by
42890Micythus, 8. 5; 30 Roman miles
42891from Tauromenium,
428923. 59;
42893geo-
42894graphical position of, 3.63; founded
42895by the Peloponnesian Messenians,
42896and formerly called Zancle, 3. 65;
42897used by the Romans as a base of
42898operation against the Carthaginians,
42899and
42900by Pompey
42901Sextus
42902against
42903Augustus, 3. 67
42904Messenia, the country, in the Pelopon-
42905nesus, once called Messené; bounded
42906on the north by the Neda River,
429074. 67;
42908the ‘‘Aulon”
42909of, 4. 75;
42910classified
42911as subject to Menelaiis,
429124. 87;
42913detailed description of, 4.
42914107-123, 141-149; a part of Laconia
42915and subject to Menelais at time of
42916Trojan War, at that time called
42917Messené, 4, 107, 149; contained the
42918seven cities promised by Agamem-
42919non to Achilles, 4. 109, 115; Pylus
42920the naval station of, 4, 111; divided
42921by Cresphontes into five cities, 4.
42922119; four wars of, against the Lace-
42923daemonians, 4. 121, 123;
42924lauded
42925for
42926its streams
42927and fertility by
42928Euripides and Tyrtaeus, 4. 141, 143;
42929people of, incited the Heracleidae
42930to invade Attica, 4, 249
42931Messenian (or Asinaean) Gulf, the, 4,
4293215, 109; begins at Cape Acritas,
429334. 113
42934Messenian War, the, 3. 107, 111
42935Messenian Wars, the, as described by
42936Tyrtaeus, 4. 121, 123
42937Messenians, the Peloponnesian, who
42938were charged with outraging the
42939maidens at Limnae, and were co-
42940founders of Rhegium,
429413. 23;
42942an
42943advantage
42944of, in the
42945Messenian
42946War, 8. 111; geographical position
42947of, 4. 15; pretend a kinship with
42948the Pylians, 6. 199
42949Messenians, the, in Sicily, 3. 21
42950Messiné, the Strait of;
42951the reverse
42952currents at, 1. 85
42953Messoa, a ward of Sparta, 4. 129
42954Mesta River, the (see Nestus River)
42955Metabus, legendary hero of Metapon-
42956tium (Metabum), 3. 53
42957Metagonium in Libya, country of a
42958nomadic tribe, 2. 137
42959Metagonium, the promontory in Mau-
42960rusia
42961in Libya,
42962a waterless and
42963barren place, 8. 165;
42964lies opposite
42965to New Carthage, not to Massalia,
429668. 167;
42967about 6000 stadia from
42968Tretum, 8. 173
42969Metapontium (Torre di Mari), settled
42970by Pisatae from the Peloponnesus,
429712. 351; borders on country of the
42972Tarantini, 3. 13, 103, 105; history
42973of, 3. 51-55
42974Metapontus,
42975son
42976of Sisyphus
42977and
42978legendary hero of Metapontium, 8.
4297953
42980Metaurus (Marro) River, the, in Brut-
42981tium, 3. 19
42982Metellus Balearicus (consul 123 B.c.),
42983subjugated the Balearic Islands and
42984founded their cities, 2. 125;
42985colo-
42986nised them with 3000 Romans, 2.
42987127
42988Metempsychosis,
42989a doctrine
42990of the
42991Druids in Gaul, 2. 245 (see footnote)
42992Meteor, the, which fell at Aegospotami
42993during the Persian War, 3. 377
42994Methana (Megalokhorion),
42995a strong-
42996hold
42997between
42998Troezen
42999and
43000Epi-
43001daurus, 4. 177
43002Methoné in the Hermionic Gulf, near
43003which a mountain was cast up by
43004a volcanic eruption, 1. 219
43005Methoné (Eleutherokhori)
43006in Mace-
43007donia, lies about 40 stadia from
43008Pydna, 3. 341; where Philip had
43009his right eye knocked out, 3. 339,
43010345, 4. 177;
43011rased to the ground
43012by Philip, 4. 425
43013Methoné (Modon) in Messenia;
43014the
43015people of, called Phthians, 3. 385;
43016identified with the Homeric Peda-
43017sus, and is the place where Agrippa
43018put to death Bogus the king of
43019the Maurusians during the war of
43020Actium (31 B.C.), 4. 111; by some
43021397
p. 410
43022INDEX OF NAMES, PLACES, AND SUBJECTS
43023identified with the Homeric Aepeia,
430244.117
43025Methoné in Thessaly, subject to Phi-
43026loctetes; not the Methoné rased by
43027Philip, 4. 426
43028Methydrium,
43029a city in Arcadia, no
43030longer exists, 4. 229
43031Methymna in Lesbos, 4. 441, 6. 139,
43032141; home of Arion the citharist,
430336. 145
43034Methymnaeans, the, in Lesbos;
43035by
43036Myrsilus said to have founded Assus,
430376.117
43038Metrodorus, comrade of Epicurus and
43039native of Lampsacus, 6, 37
43040Metrodorus
43041of Scepsis,
43042philosopher,
43043statesman,
43044rhetorician,
43045and
43046honoured by Mithridates Eupator;
43047on the home and habits
43048of the
43049Amazons, 5. 233; two accounts of
43050death of, 6. 113, 115; in his book
43051on Habits, tells myths about Aethio-
43052pia and should be disregarded, 7.
43053337
43054Metropolis,
43055between
43056Ephesus
43057and
43058Smyrna, produces good wine, 6. 197,
43059215
43060Metropolis, a town in Phrygia Epic-
43061ἡ
43062tetus, 5. 505;
430636. 309
43064Metropolis, a stronghold in Thessaly,
43065with a temple of Aphrodité, 4. 431
43066Metulum, a city of the Iapodes, 2.
43067287, 3. 259
43068Mevania (Bevagna), in Italy, 2. 373
43069Mica, in Cappadocia; see 5. 369, foot-
43070note 2
43071Mice, remedy for a plague of, 2. 35;
43072a plague of, in Cantabria, 2. 113
43073Micipsas, king of Masaesylia in Libya,
430748. 173;
43075built up Cirta, the royal
43076seat, in every way, 8. 183;
43077ap-
43078pointed sovereign by the Romans,
430798. 187
43080Micythus, the ruler of Messenéin Sicily,
43081colonised Pyxus, 3. 5
43082Midaeium,
43083a city in Phrygia Epic-
43084tetus, 5. 505
43085Midas, king of Phrygia; drank bull’s
43086blood, 1. 229;
43087once lived on the
43088Sangarius River, 5. 473;
43089reigned
43090over
43091Greater
43092Phrygia,
430935.
43094485;
43095source of wealth of, 6. 371
43096“ Midas,"’
43097a name
43098given Phrygian
43099slaves in Attica, 3. 213
43100398
43101the road through,
43102Midea
43103(Dendra)
43104near
43105Tiryns,
43106now
43107deserted, 4. 169
43108Mideia (or Midea) in Boeotia, swal-
43109lowed up by Lake Copais, 1. 219,
431104. 169, 331
43111Migrations, changes resulting from,
431121. 227
43113Milan (see Mediolanium)
43114Milazzo (see Mylae)
43115Mile, the Roman, usually reckoned at
431168 stadia, but by Polybius at 84,
431178. 293
43118Milesian ambassadors, the, to Mem-
43119phis, repeated oracles in regard to
43120Alexander, 8. 117
43121Milesian wool, the, surpassed by the
43122Laodiceian, 5. 511
43123Milesians, the, founded Olbia on the
43124Borysthenes River, 3. 221, and Pon-
43125ticapaeum in the Crimea, 3. 237,
43126and Odessus in Thrace, 3. 279, and
43127Ister and Apollonia on the Euxine,
431288. 277, and, with the Clazomenians,
43129founded Cardia on the Melas Gulf, 3.
43130373; said to have founded Heracleia
43131Pontica, 5. 375; forced the Marian-
43132dyni to live as Helots,
431335. 377;
43134founded Sinopé in Paphlagonia, 5.
43135387, 391; first founders of Amisus,
431365. 395;
43137founded Lampsacus and
43138Paesus, 6. 35; founded Abydus, 6.
4313941; certain of, settled at Scepsis,
431406. 105; erected
43141(to Apollo)
43142the
43143largest temple in the world, 6. 205;
43144the numerous places colonised by,
431456. 205; invaded Aegypt in the time
43146of Psammitichus, and built the Wall
43147of the Milesians there, 8. 67
43148Miletopolis, near Lake Miletopolitis in
43149Asiatic
43150Mysia,
431515. 501; colonists
43152from, brought to Gargara, 6. 117,
43153373
43154Miletopolitis, Lake, in Asiatic Mysia,
431555. 501, 503
43156Miletus, The Capture of, by Dareius,
43157a tragedy by Phrynichus, 6. 209
43158Miletus in Asia;
43159settlements of the
43160Leleges in territory of, 3. 289; men-
43161tioned by Homer, 5. 421; founded
43162by Cretans, 5. 491; still preserves
43163traces of the Leleges, 6. 121;
43164in
43165earlier times occupied by Carians,
431666.197; founded by Neleus of Pylos,
43167according to Pherecydes, 6. 199;
43168description and history of, 6. 205-
p. 411
43169INDEX OF NAMES, PLACES, AND SUBJECTS
43170209; the Old and the New, 6. 205;
43171noted for its colonisations, 6. 207;
43172taken by force by Alexander, 6. 209;
43173about 100 stadia from Heracleia and
4317430 from Pyrrha, 6. 211
43175Miletus in Crete, no longer exists, 5.
43176143; Sarpedon from, founded Mile-
43177tus in Asia, 5. 491
43178Milk, used by Scythian nomads, 3.
43179223;
43180and by the Aethiopians, 8.
43181143, and Masaesylians, 8. 189
43182Milk, mare’s-, used by the Scythian
43183and other nomads, 3. 197
43184Millet, grown in Aquitania, 2. 215;
43185used as food by people near the
43186Frigid Zone, 2. 261;
43187produced in
43188great quantities in Cisalpine Celtica,
431892. 331; grown in Campania, 2. 437;
43190and spelt, the food of the Iapodes,
431918. 259; abounds in Themiscyra, 5.
43192397; sown in rainy seasons in India,
43193. 21; used for food in Aethiopia,
431948. 143
43195Milo, the great athlete, from Croton
43196in Italy; story of, 3. 45
43197Miltiades, utterly destroyed the Per-
43198sian army at Marathon, 4. 273
43199Milya, the mountain-range extending
43200from
43201the
43202pass
43203at Termessus
43204to
43205Sagalassas and the country of the
43206Apameians, 6. 193
43207Milyae (once called Solymi), the, not
43208mentioned by Homer, 5. 423, 6. 363 ;
43209in Lycia, named
43210‘‘ Termilae ’’ by
43211Sarpedon, but later named Lycians
43212by lLycus,
432135. 491,
43214493;
43215to
43216be
43217identified with the Homeric “ἢ Soly-
43218mi,’’ 6. 323
43219Milyas,
43220in Pisidia,
43221laid
43222waste
43223by
43224Alexander, 6. 321
43225Mimallones, the; ministers of Diony-
43226sus, 5. 97
43227Mimes (Atellanae Fabulae), 2. 395
43228Mimnernus of Colophon (ἢ. about 625
43229B.C.), the elegiac poet; on Jason’s
43230quest of the golden fleece, 1. 171;
43231in his Nanno, says that Colophon
43232was
43233founded
43234by Andraemon
43235of
43236Pylus, 6. 199; on the Smyrnaeans,
432376. 203; a native of Colophon, 6. 235
43238Mimosa
43239WNilotica,
43240the,
43241a
43242tree
43243in
43244Arabia, 7. 309
43245Minaeans, the, in Arabia, take their
43246aromatics to Palestine, 7. 311, 343
43247Mincius (Mincio) River, the, 2. 293
43248Mines, the, in Cisalpine Celtica, now
43249neglected,
432502. 333;
43251numerous
43252in
43253Italy, 3. 139; at Cabeira in Cappa-
43254docia Pontica, 5. 429; about Mt.
43255Sipylus, source of wealth of Tan-
43256talus
43257and
43258the
43259Pelopidae;
43260those
43261about Thrace and Mt. Pangaeus,
43262source of wealth of Cadmus; those
43263of gold, at Astyra near Abydus,
43264source of wealth of Priam, 6. 369;
43265those round Mt. Bermius, source of
43266wealth of Midas, and those in Lydia,
43267source of wealth of Gyges, Alyattes,
43268and Croesus, 6. 3713; of copper, gold,
43269and precious stones on the island
43270Meroé
43271in the
43272Nile,
432738. 143;
43274of
43275smaragdus (emerald), between Cop-
43276tus and Berenicé in Libya, 8. 121
43277Minius River, the (see Baenis)
43278Minoa (Settia), in Crete, a city of the
43279Lyctians, 5. 123
43280Minoa (Malvasia) in Laconia, a strong-
43281hold, 4, 151
43282Minoa in Megaris, 4. 151
43283Minoa, Cape, in Megaris, 4. 245
43284Minos,
43285king
43286of
43287Crete;
43288maritime
43289supremacy of, 1. 177; by Homer
43290placed in the Elysian Plain in the
43291far west, 2. 57; murdered at the
43292palace of Cocalus in Camici in Sicily,
432938. 85, 109;
43294voyage of, to Sicily,
432958. 121; drowned
43296Scylla,
432974. 173;
43298excellent law-giver, and lord of the
43299sea, 5. 129; held converse with Zeus,
43300but by some writers represented as
43301a harsh tyrant, 5. 131; by Homer
43302called first son of Zeus and ‘* guar-
43303dian o’er Crete,’’ 5. 133;
43304united
43305three cities into one metropolis, 5.
43306141;
43307violent towards Britomartis,
433085.
43309139;
43310published
43311laws
43312to the
43313Cretans as from Zeus, 5. 153; Sar-
43314pedon the coloniser, a brother of, 5.
43315491; the Carians once subject to, 6.
43316301; held converse with Zeus every
43317nine years and received decrees from
43318him, 7. 287
43319Minotaur, the, in Greek tragedy, 5.
43320131
43321Mint, garden-, called “ Hedyosmos”’’;
43322found in Triphylia, 4. 51
43323Minteius River (see Minyeius)
43324Minthé (Alvena), Mt., near the Tri-
43325phylian Pylus, named after a con-
43326cubine of Hades, 4, 51
43327399
p. 412
43328INDEX OF NAMES, PLACES, AND SUBJECTS
43329Minturnae (near Traetto), in Italy, 2.
43330395; midway between Formiae and
43331Sinuessa, 2. 397, 413
43332Minyans, the, one of the three tribes in
43333Triphylia, 4 23; scttlements of, in
43334Lemnos,
43335Lacedaemon,
43336Triphylia,
43337and the isle Thera, 4. 63; the in-
43338habitants of Orchomenus in Boeotia,
43339as also the Argonauts so called, and
43340in early times were
43341a rich and
43342powerful people, 4. 335
43343Minyeius
43344(or Minteius)
43345River
43346(see
43347Anigrus River), the, empties into
43348the sea near Arené, 4, 61, 63
43349Misenum
43350(Miseno),
43351named
43352Misenus, 2. 435, 439, 447, 449
43353Misenus, companion of Odysseus, 1.
4335495
43355after
43356Misogynes,
43357the,
43358Woman-hater)
43359Mithras (i.e. “ Helius,’’ the ‘‘ Sun’’),
43360worshipped by the Persians, 7. 175
43361Mithridates ‘‘ Ctistes’’ (‘‘ Founder ’’),
43362reigned 337-302 B.C.; used Cimiata
43363as base of operations, 5. 453
43364Mithridates Euergetes, king of Pontus
43365and friend to Dorylaiis, the military
43366expert
43367and
43368distant
43369relative
43370of
43371Strabo, 5.133; slain at Sinopé, and
43372succeeded by his son Mithridates
43373(Eupator)
43374who
43375was
43376only eleven
43377years old, 5. 135
43378Mithridates Eupator, king of Pontus
43379(120-63
43380B.C.),
43381most
43382formidable
43383enemy of the Romans in the East;
43384made known to geographers nor-
43385thern regions as far as Lake Maeotis
43386(Sea of Azov) and Colchis, 1. 61;
43387victor over barbarians at mouth of
43388Lake Maeotis, 1. 277; deposed by
43389the Romans, 3. 145;
43390waged war
43391with the Roxolani, 3. 223; Neopto-
43392lemus, a general of, defeated the
43393barbarians
43394in both
43395a naval and
43396cavalry engagement in the Strait of
43397Kertch, 3. 227; by request became
43398guardian
43399of Old Chersonesus,
434003.
43401233;
43402given
43403the
43404sovereignty
43405of
43406Panticapaeum
43407by
43408Parisades,
434093.
43410235,
43411239;
43412received
43413a tribute
43414of
43415180,000 medimni of grain and 200
43416talents of silver from the region of
43417the Cimmerian Bosporus,
434183. 243;
43419completely defeated by the Romans
43420at Chaeroneia (86 B.C.), 4. 3333
43421400
43422of Menander
43423(see
43424son of Mithridates Euergetes and
43425succeeded to the rule when only
43426eleven years old, 5.135; generals of,
43427completely ruined
43428Delos, 5. 167;
43429attacked by Pompey, 5. 189;
43430in
43431flight from his own country made
43432long journey in Asia, 5. 205; won
43433Colchis, but later lost it, 5. 2135
43434overthrown
43435by Pompey,
434365. 263,
43437373;
43438became king of Cappadocia
43439Pontica and other countries this
43440side and beyond the Halys River,
434415. 371, 373, 385; born and reared at
43442Sinopé, 5. 389; adorned Amisus, 5.
43443395;
43444once master of Colchis, but
43445fled from Pompey, 5. 425; the most
43446precious
43447treasuries
43448of, stored
43449at
43450Kainon Chorion in Cappadocia, and
43451later dedicated in the Capitolium at
43452Rome by Pompey, 5. 431; the war
43453of, against Leucullus and Pompey,
434545. 435; arranged terms with Sulla
43455at Dardanus in the Troad, 6. 593
43456joined by Diodorus the general, 6.
43457129;
43458Adobogion
43459the
43460mother
43461of
43462Mithridates of Pergamum said to
43463have been a concubine of, 6. 169;
43464attacked
43465Sardeis
43466and
43467absolved
43468Diodorus the Elder from blame, 6.
43469181; extended limits of precinct of
43470temple of Artemis at Ephesus as
43471place of refuge, 6. 229; Archelaiis,
43472pretended son of, married Berenicé
43473the queen of Aegypt, 8. 45
43474Mithridates
43475of Pergamum (contem-
43476porary of Strabo), robbed the oracle
43477of Phrixus, 5. 213; son of Meno-
43478dotus and Adobogion (the latter said
43479to have been a concubine of Eupa-
43480tor), friend of Julius Caesar, and
43481king of the Bosporus and other
43482countries,
43483but
43484overthrown
43485by
43486Asander, 6. 169
43487Mithridatic
43488War,
43489the,
43490resulted
43491in
43492tyrants at Athens, 4, 269; names of
43493peoples engaged in, 5. 207; brought
43494misfortune to Adramyttium, 6. 129
43495Mithridatium in the Pontus, given to
43496Bogiotarus by Pompey, 5. 469
43497Mithropastes, son of Aristes, a satrap
43498of Phrygia, banished by Dareius,
43499served as guide to Nearchus in his
43500voyage over the Persian Gulf, 7. 305
43501Mitylenaeans, the (and Cumaeans),
43502founded Aenus on the Melas Gulf,
p. 413
43503INDEX OF NAMES, PLACES, AND SUBJECTS
435048. 373; territory of, on the main-
43505land,
435066. 97;
43507Athenians
43508ordered
43509slaughter of all, from youth up, but
43510rescinded decree, 6. 145
43511Mitylené in Lesbos;
4351250 stadia from
43513the Larisaean Rocks, 4. 441; home
43514of Theophanes the historian, 5, 193;
43515largest city in Lesbos; description
43516of, and famous natives of, 6. 141,
43517148, 147
43518Mnasalces the poet, from the deme
43519called Plataeae in Sicyonia, 4. 327
43520Mneuis, the sacred ox kept at Heliu-
43521polis, 8. 79
43522Mnoan
43523class
43524of serfs, the, of the
43525Cretans, 5. 377
43526Moaphernes,
43527Strabo’s_
43528great-uncle,
43529friend of Mithridates Eupator, and
43530by
43531him
43532appointed
43533governor
43534of
43535Colchis, 5. 213; won great distinc-
43536tion but fell with Mithridates, 5. 433
43537Moasada, near the Dead Sea; a fiery
43538region, 7. 297
43539Mochus, the Sidonian, originated the
43540dogma about atoms before Trojan
43541times, 7. 271
43542“* Mock-suns ’’ (see Parhelia)
43543Modra, in Phrygia Hellespontica, 5.
43544379
43545Moeris Lake, the;
43546beaches of, like
43547sea-beaches, 1. 185; connected by
43548canal with the Nile, 8.15; like asea
43549in size and colour, 8. 97; has locks
43550for the regulation of the inflow and
43551outflow of the water, 8. 103; the
43552oasis near, 8. 113
43553Moesians
43554(see
43555Mysians),
43556the,
43557in
43558Thrace, now
43559so called, the pro-
43560genitors of the Mysians in Asia, 5.
43561375
43562Mola di Caeta (see Formiae)
43563Molochath (now Mulujah) River, the,
43564forms the boundary between Mauru-
43565sia and Masaesylia, 8. 165, 173
43566Molon (see Apollonius Molon)
43567Molossians,
43568the;
43569hold part of the
43570country
43571above
43572Acarnania
43573and
43574Aetolia,
435758. 289;
43576many
43577cities of,
43578destroyed by Paulus Aemilius, 3.
43579293;
43580a famous Epeirote tribe, 3.
43581297, 307; became subject to Pyrr-
43582hus, the grandson of Achilles, 3.
43583309;
43584succeeded
43585to
43586control
43587of
43588Dodona, 3. 315;
43589border on Thes-
43590saly, 4. 397
43591Molycreia in Aetolia, near Antirrhium,
435924. 385; founded after the return of
43593the Heracleidae, 5. 31, 63
43594Molycrian Rhium (see Antirrhium)
43595Momemphis in Libya, worships and
43596keeps a sacred cow, 8. 73
43597Monastir (see Heracleia Lyncestis)
43598Mondego River, the (see Mundas)
43599Monetium, a city of the Iapodes, 2.
43600287, 8. 259
43601Money;
43602and barter, in Lusitania in
43603Iberia, 2.75; the most valuable and
43604powerful of all things among men,
43605and determines the power of kings,
436064. 339;
43607coined, but little used in
43608Albania in Asia, 5. 227; in Persia,
436097. 185
43610Monkeys
43611(see Apes and Baboons),
43612certain, in India, are stone-rollers,
436137,
4361493
43615Monoecus (Monaco), the port of, not
43616at the beginning of the Alps, 2. 263;
43617apparently belongs to Massalia, 2.
43618267
43619Monoliths, the, in the Labyrinth, 8.
43620105, and at the fountain in Abydus,
436218. 111
43622Monommati, the, in India, a mythical
43623people, 7. 97
43624Monopolies, the, at Alexandria, 8. 55
43625Monopoly, the, on papyrus in Aegypt,
436268. 61 (see footnote 2)
43627Monte Cavo (see Alba)
43628Montesarchio (see Caudium)
43629Moon, the; rising and setting of, corre-
43630spond with tides, 1. 203; revolves
43631round earth in the zodiac, 1. 425;
43632the relation of, to the tides, 2. 149,
43633153
43634Moon (Selené), the, worshipped by the
43635Albanians in Asia, 5. 229
43636Mopsium in Thessaly, in the Pelas-
43637gian Plain, named after Mopsus the
43638Lapith, 4. 453
43639Mopsopia, an earlier name of Attica,
436404. 265; named after Mopsopus, 4,
43641453
43642Mopsopus, after whom Attica was once
43643called Mopsopia, 4. 265, 453
43644Mopsuestia in Cilicia, on the Gulf of
43645Issus, 6. 357
43646Mopsus the prophet, son of Apollo and
43647Manto, and grandson of Teiresias,
436484. 453, defeated Calchas in contest,
436496. 233, 235;
43650led peoples over the
43651401
p. 414
43652INDEX OF NAMES, PLACES, AND SUBJECTS
43653Taurus
43654into Pamphylia,
436556. 325;
43656founded Mallus in Cilicia, died in
43657duel with Amphilochus there, 6. 353,
43658355
43659Mopsus the Lapith who sailed with the
43660Argonauts, after whom Mopsium in
43661Thessaly was named, 4. 453
43662Morals, the, of the barbarians, cor-
43663rupted by ‘‘ our mode of life,’”’ 3.
43664199
43665Morava River (see Margus)
43666Morené in Asia; a part of, subject to
43667Cleon, 5. 499
43668Morgantium (or Murgantia), in Sicily,
43669took its name from the Morgetes, 3.
4367023; settled by the Morgetes, 3. 73
43671Morgetes,
43672the,
43673inhabited
43674southern
43675Italy in earlier times, 3. 23; settled
43676in Morgantium in Sicily, 3. 73
43677Morimené, one of the ten prefectures of
43678Cappadocia, 5. 349; the temple of
43679Venasian Zeus in, 5. 359
43680Morini, the, in Celtica; geographical
43681position of, 2. 233;
43682from whose
43683coast some sail to Britain, 2. 253;
43684fogs among, 2. 257
43685Moron (Al-Merim), a city on a moun-
43686tain near the Tagus River in Iberia,
43687about 500 stadia from the sea, used
43688as base of operations by Brutus, 2.
4368963
43690“‘ Mortuaries,’’ the, found at Corinth,
43691sold at high price at Rome, 4. 203
43692Morys (the Homeric), son of Hippo-
43693tion, led forces from Ascania, 5.
43694461
43695Morzeus; Gangra in Paphlagonia the
43696royal residence of, 5. 453
43697Moschian country, the, held partly by
43698the
43699Colchians,
43700partly
43701by
43702the
43703Iberians, and partly by the Ar-
43704menians, 5. 213, 215
43705Moschian
43706Mountains,
43707the,
43708in Asia
43709Minor, 5. 209, 299; joined by Mt.
43710Seydises above Colchis, 5. 401
43711Moschians, the, in the Mithridatic War,
437125. 207
43713Moses,
43714an
43715Aegyptian
43716priest;
43717his
43718tenets, and his kingdom at Jerusa-
43719lem, 7. 283-285;
43720revered as ruler
43721and prophet, 7. 289
43722Mosynoeci (see Heptacomitae),
43723the,
43724lost territory to the Armenians, 5.
43725325
43726Mouse, the, carved at foot of image of
43727402
43728Apollo at Chrysa in the Troad, 6.
4372995; the mus araneus worshipped at
43730Athribis, 8.111
43731Mudania on the Propontis (see Myrlea)
43732Muga River, the (see Clodianus)
43733Muzvgilones, the, a German tribe, ruled
43734by Marabodus, 3. 157
43735Mulberry-tree
43736(see Sycaminus,
43737the
43738Aegyptian)
43739Mule, a, tows the boat on the canal
43740alongside the Appian Way, 2. 397
43741Mules, superior, bred by the Eneti in
43742Italy, 2. 309;
43743the famous Reate-
43744breed of, in the Sabine country, 2.
43745375; wild, in Eneti (or Eneté?), 5.
43746417; in Arabia, 7. 343
43747Mules, stunted (see Ginni)
43748Mulius, the Epeian spearman, slain by
43749Nestor, 4. 29
43750Mullets, the “ dug,’’ in Celtica, 2. 183
43751Mummius, Leucius, the consul (who
43752destroyed Corinth by fire in 146
43753B.c.), 4. 121, 199;
43754personally in-
43755different to works of art, 4. 201,
43756203
43757Munda in Iberia, where the sons of
43758Pompey were defeated, 2. 21;
43759a
43760capital
43761city;
43762distance
43763from,
43764to
43765Carteia, 2. 23; the battle at, 2. 97
43766Mundas
43767(Mondego)
43768River,
43769the,
43770in
43771Iberia;
43772affords short voyages in-
43773land, 2. 67
43774Munychia, the hill at Peiraeus;
43775des-
43776cription and history of, 4. 259, 261
43777Murgantia in Sicily (see Morgantium)
43778Murviedro in Spain (see Saguntum)
43779Musaeus,
43780the
43781musician,
43782called
43783a
43784Thracian, 5. 109; a prophet often
43785consulted, 7. 289
43786Muses, the, met Thamyris the Thracian
43787singer at Dorium, 4. 71; temple of,
43788on
43789Mt.
43790Helicon,
43791dedicated
43792by
43793Thracians, 4. 319; are goddesses in
43794a special sense, and preside over the
43795choruses, 5. 95; worship of, Thra-
43796cian in origin, 5. 107, 109
43797Museum, the, at Alexandria, 8. 35
43798Music, in education, 1. 55; at Neapolis,
437992.449; brings one in touch with the
43800divine, 5. 93; our system of educa-
43801tion based on; and made synony-
43802mous with philosophy by Plato and
43803the
43804Pythagoreians,
438055.
4380695;
43807all,
43808regarded as Thracian and Asiatic in
43809origin, 5. 107
p. 415
43810INDEX OF NAMES, PLACES, AND SUBJECTS
43811Musicanus, the country of, in India,
438127. 33, produces a grain like wheat,
43813and
43814a vine from which
43815wine
43816is
43817produced,
438187.
4381935,
43820and
43821is highly
43822praised
43823by
43824Onesicritus,
438257.
4382659;
43827slavery ἃ success in country of, 7.
4382891
43829Musmones, the;
43830a kind of sheep in
43831Sardinia, 2. 363
43832Mussel-shells, found in great quanti-
43833ties in the plains of Masaesylia, 8.
43834179
43835Mussels, both large and abundant on
43836ocean-coast of Iberia, 2. 35
43837Mutina (Modéne), one of the famous
43838cities of Italy, 2. 327;
43839region of,
43840produces the finest wool, 2. 333
43841Mycalé, Mt., parts round, in earlier
43842times, occupied by Carians, 6. 197;
43843with Samos forms a narrow strait,
43844and is well supplied with figs and
43845wild animals, 6. 211, 213; in Ionia
43846opposite Samos, from which Samians
43847settled in Samothrace, 3. 371
43848Mycalessus (or Mycalettus), the Ho-
43849meric, a village in the territory of
43850Tanagra, on the road from Thebes
43851to Chalcis, 4. 293; one of the ‘* Four
43852United Villages,’’ 4. 301
43853Mycalettus (see Mycalessus)
43854Mycenae,
43855lies
4385610 stadia from
43857the
43858Argive Heraeum, 4. 151; one of the
43859two capitals, 4. 165;
43860gained the
43861ascendency, but was later destroyed
43862by the Argives, 4. 167; cities named
43863by Homer as subject to, 4. 185;
43864history of, 4. 185-187
43865Mychus (in the Galitza Gulf), the last
43866harbour (on the east) in Phocis, is
43867considered the deepest recess of the
43868Crisaean Gulf, and lies 90 stadia
43869from Creusa, 4. 317;
43870lies between
43871Mt. Helicon and Ascré, 4, 369
43872Myconos, one of the Cyclades Islands,
438735. 165; beneath which lie the last
43874of the giants destroyed by Heracles,
438755.171
43876Mygdonians,
43877the,
43878in Mesopotamia,
43879live below Mt. Masius, 5. 319; on
43880the Euphrates, 7. 231
43881Mygdonians, the, are a Thracian tribe
43882in origin, 8. 177;
43883live about Lake
43884Bolbé in Macedonia, 8. 331, 361
43885Mygdonians, the, in the Troad, δ. 499,
43886503; boundaries of confused, 5. 409
43887Mygdonis, mastered by the Paeonians,
438888. 363
43889Mylae (Milagzo) in Sicily, 25 Roman
43890miles from Cape Pelorias, 3. 57
43891Mylasa in Caria, a noteworthy city,
438926. 291;
43893description, history, and
43894notable men of, 6, 293-297
43895Mylasians,
43896the, in Caria have two
43897temples of Zeus, 6. 293
43898Myndus in Caria, 6. 119, 289
43899Mynes, “* the divine,’’ ruler of Lyrnes-
43900sus
43901in the road,
43902fell in
43903battle
43904against Achilles, 6. 15, 17, 121, 151;
43905one
43906of the two Cilician dynasties
43907subject to, 6. 121
43908Myonnesus, a town between Teos and
43909Lebedus, 6. 237
43910Myonnesus,
43911a small island
43912in the
43913Maliac Gulf, 4. 419
43914‘* Myonnesus,”’ the second n redundant
43915in, 6. 147
43916Myra in Lycia, member of the Lycian
43917League, 6. 315, 319
43918Myrcinus, on the Strymonic Gulf, 3.
43919355
43920Myriandrus in Cilicia, on the Gulf of
43921Issus, 6. 357
43922Myrina the Amazon, buried in the
43923Trojan
43924Plain,
439255. 493;
43926the
43927city
43928Myrina named after, 6. 163
43929Myrina in Asia Minor, said to have
43930been founded by the Amazons, 5.
43931237, 407; named after Myrina the
43932Amazon, 6. 163
43933Myrleia (Mudania) on the Propontis;
43934home
43935of Asclepiades
43936the
43937gram-
43938marian, 2. 83; the Halizones live in
43939mountains
43940above,
43941according
43942to
43943Menecrates, 5. 409;
43944destroyed by
43945Philip the son of Demetrius with
43946the aid of Prusias, but by the latter
43947restored
43948and named
43949‘* Apameia’’
43950after his wife, 5. 457
43951Myrmecium,
43952a little city 20 stadia
43953from Panticapaeum in the Crimea,
439548. 239, 5. 197
43955Myrmidons, The, of Aeschylus, quoted,
439566. 139
43957Myrmidons
43958(see
43959Aeginetans),
43960the
43961Homeric, in Thessaly, 4. 157; sub-
43962ject to Achilles, 4, 401; all who fled
43963with Peleus from Aegina were so
43964called by Homer, 4, 413
43965Myron the sculptor (fl. about 430 B.¢.),
43966made the three colossal statues in
43967403
p. 416
43968INDEX OF NAMES, PLACES, AND SUBJECTS
43969the temple of Hera on Samos, 6.
43970213
43971Myrrh, produced in Aethiopia near
43972Cape Deiré, 7. 331, 333, and in the
43973country of the Sabaeans in Arabia,
439747. 347; produced from trees, 7. 365
43975Myrrh trees, the, in India, 7. 133
43976Myrrhinus (Merenda), a deme on the
43977eastern coast of Attica, 4. 273
43978Myrsilus
43979of
43980Lesbos,
43981an_
43982historical
43983writer of uncertain date; says that
43984Antissa, now a city of Lesbos, was
43985formerly an island, 1. 223;
43986says
43987that Assus was founded by Methym-
43988naeans, 6. 117
43989Myrsilus, tyrant of Mitylené, railed at,
43990by Alcaeus, 6. 143
43991Myrsinus in Elis, 4. 35, 39; the present
43992Myrtuntium, 4. 41
43993Myrtle, the, in India, 7. 97
43994Myrtoan Sea, the; dimensions of, 1.
43995477, 3. 279
43996Myrtuntium, a salt-lake between Leu-
43997cas and the Ambracian Gulf, 5. 61
43998Myscellus, founder of Croton, in Italy,
439998. 43;
44000oracle
44001given
44002out
44003to, at
44004Delphi, 3. 71; came from Rhypes
44005in Achaea, 4. 225
44006Mysia (or Maeonia or Meionia) Cata-
44007cecaumené
44008(‘‘ Burnt’’),
44009in Lydia,
44010where
44011some
44012place
44013the
44014Homeric
44015“Hydé,”’ 6. 177;
44016description
44017of,
440186. 181; scene of the mythical story
44019of Typhon, according to some, 6.
44020183; produces fine wine, 6. 215
44021Mysia, bordering on the Troad, once
44022occupied by the Thracian Bebryces,
440235. 375; geographical position of, 5.
44024455, 459, 463, 505;
44025divided into
44026two parts, 5. 485, 487; name of the
44027country round Cyzicus, 6. 373
44028Mysians, the, in Asia, are the same
44029people as the Maeonians and the
44030Meionians, 5. 405;
44031not mentioned
44032by Homer, 5. 423; boundaries of,
44033confused
44034with
44035those
44036of the
44037Bi-
44038thynians and Phrygians,
440395. 459;
44040once held the mastery after the
44041Trojan War, 5. 463; settled round
44042the Ascanian Lake, 5. 463, 467;
44043apparently Thracian in origin, 5.
44044465; the abode of, in Asia, and the
44045origin of name of, 5. 487, 489, 499;
44046accounts of, go back to earlier times
44047than the Trojan War, 5. 491; cer-
44048404
44049tain
44050survivors
44051of, colonised
44052the
44053Plain
44054of Thebé after the Trojan
44055War, 6. 23, 127;
44056are next to the
44057Lydians, 6. 181, 185;
44058as brothers
44059worship the Carian Zeus with the
44060Carians and Lydians, 6. 293;
44061by
44062the
44063poets
44064confused
44065with
44066other
44067peoples,
440686. 315;
44069tribes of, men-
44070tioned by Homer, 6. 361; Apollo-
44071dorus on, 6. 373
44072Mysians (Moesians), the, in Europe,
44073were Thracians and identical with
44074the present Moesians, 8. 175;
44075dis-
44076cussion of, 8. 177-181; the Hom-
44077eric, 3. 187, 189, 195, 209, bordered
44078on the little Scordisci, 3. 273, living
44079on the far side of the Ister, and
44080colonised Mysia in Asia, 5, 487
44081Mysians, the, of Sophocles, refers to
44082land
44083of Mysia
44084as “city of the
44085Mysians,’’ 4. 99
44086Mysius River, the, in Asia, empties
44087into the Caicus, 6. 137
44088Myth, the aim of, 1. 91;
44089used by
44090Homer for a useful purpose, 1. 97
44091Mythical men and places, invented by
44092the poets, 3. 191
44093Mythology, makes Ares (Mars) the
44094father of Romulus and Remus, 2.
44095381; borders on theology, 5. 119
44096Myths, sanctioned by poets, states,
44097and lawgivers as a useful expedient,
440981.67, 71; distasteful to Strabo, but
44099must be taken into consideration,
441005. 119;
44101wrongly included by his-
44102torians, 5. 247
44103Myus in Asia, in earlier times occupied
44104by Carians, 6. 197;
44105founded by
44106Cydrelus the bastard son of King
44107Codrus, 6. 199; one of the twelve
44108Ionian cities, now incorporated into
44109Miletus, 6. 211
44110Myus Hormus (Harbour), also called
44111Aphrodité’s Harbour, on the Arabian
44112Gulf, 7. 315, 317;
44113Aelius Gallus
44114with his army sailed across to, from
44115Arabia, 7. 363; on the Red Sea near
44116Berenicé, 8. 119
44117N
44118Nabataea,
44119a
44120populous
44121country
44122in
44123Arabia, 7. 343
44124Nabataean Arabians, the;
44125Rock of,
44126on the Arabian Gulf, 7. 341
p. 417
44127INDEX OF NAMES, PLACES, AND SUBJECTS
44128Nabataeans (or Idumaeans), the, in
44129Arabia Felix, 7. 309; also dwell on
44130islands near the coast of the Arabian
44131Gulf, 7. 343; often overran Syria, 7.
44132351;
44133promised to co-operate with
44134the Romans, 7. 355; customs of,
441357. 367; have the same regard for
44136their dead as for dung, and worship
44137the Sun, 7. 369
44138Nabiani, the; a nomadic tribe between
44139Lake Maeotis and the Caspian Sea,
441405. 243
44141Nablas, a barbarian musical instru-
44142ment, 5. 109
44143Nabocodrosor, in great repute among
44144the Chaldaeans, and led an army to
44145the Pillars of Heracles, 7. 7, 9
44146Nabrissa, in Iberia, estuary at, 2. 17;
44147purposely built on estuary, 2. 31
44148Naburianus,
44149ἃ
44150famous
44151Chaldaean
44152philosopher, 7. 203
44153Nacolia, a city in Phrygia Epictetus,
441545. 505
44155Nagidus
44156in
44157Cilicia,
44158lies
44159opposite
44160Lapathus in Cypros, 6. 333, 377
44161Nahr-el-Asi River, the, in Syria (see
44162Orontes River)
44163Naides, the;
44164ministers of Dionysus,
441655. 97
44166Nanno, the, of Mimnermus, 6. 199
44167Nantuates, the, live on peaks of the
44168Alps, 2. 273
44169Nao, Capo (see Lacinium, Cape)
44170Naos, the, of an Aegyptian temple, 8.
4417181
44172Napata in Aethiopia, royal residence
44173of Queen Candacé, captured and
44174destroyed by Petronius, 8. 139
44175Napé
44176in the
44177plain
44178of Methymné,
44179ignorantly called Lapé by Hellan-
44180icus, 4. 383
44181Napetine Gulf, the (see Hipponiate
44182Gulf)
44183Naphtha (liquid asphalt), a fountain
44184of, 7.197; produced in great quan-
44185tities in Susis, 7. 215; inflammable,
441867. 217; produced in Gordyaea, 7.
44187233
44188Naples (see Neapolis)
44189Nar (Nera) River, the, flows through
44190Narna, 2. 371; through Umbria to
44191the Tiber, 2. 403
44192Narbo (Narbonne); distance from, to
44193Strait of Sicily and to Pillars of
44194Heracles, 1. 403; approximately on
44195same parallel as Massalia, 1. 407;
44196situated on the Galatic Gulf, 1. 491;
44197certain
44198distances
44199from,
442002.
44201171;
44202description
44203of, 2. 181, 183;
44204the
44205most important naval
44206station
44207in
44208Celtica, 2. 201; traftic inland from,
44209on the Atax River, 2. 211;
44210most
44211populous city in Celtica, 2. 223
44212Narbonitis in Celtica, the province of,
442132. 165, 193;
44214produces the same
44215fruits as Italy, 2. 167; description
44216of, 2. 169-193; praetors sent to, 2.
44217271;
44218the road to, 2. 291; now a
44219praetorial Province, 8. 215
44220Narcissus
44221the Eretrian,
44222the monu-
44223ment of, near Oropus, 4. 293
44224Nard, produced in India, as in Arabia
44225and Aethiopia, 7. 37, 365
44226Nard plants, the, in India, 7. 133
44227Narenta River, the (see Naro River)
44228Narna
44229(Narni), through which
44230the
44231Nar (Nera) River flows, 2. 371
44232Narni (see Narna)
44233Naro (Narenta) River, the, in Dal-
44234matia, 3. 261
44235Narthacium, subject to Achilles, 4.
44236413
44237Narthecis, an isle off Samos, 6. 213
44238Narwhals, cause of large size of, 2. 37
44239Narycus, the home of Aias in Locris,
44240king of the Opuntians, 4. 381
44241Nasamones, the, a tribe in Libya, 8.
44242199, 207
44243Nasica, P. Cornelius Scipio, reduced
44244Dalmium in Dalmatia to a small
44245city and made its plain a mere sheep
44246pasture (155 B.C.), 3. 261
44247Natiso River, the, near Aquileia, 2.
44248317
44249Nature, and Providence; discussion of
44250the work of, in regard to the earth
44251and heavens, 8. 99
44252Nauclus,
44253bastard
44254son
44255of
44256Codrus,
44257second founder of Teos, 6. 201
44258Naucratis, above Schedia in Aegypt,
44259founded by the Milesians, 8. 67, 73;
44260imported
44261Lesbian
44262wine,
442638.
4426493;
44265Doricha
44266the
44267famous
44268courtesan
44269sojourned at, 8. 95
44270Naulochus, in Thrace, a small town of
44271the Mesembriani, 8. 279
44272Naupactus
44273in Western Locris, near
44274Antirrhium, still survives, but now
44275belongs to the Aetolians, 4. 385
44276Nauplia
44277(or Nauplieis),
44278the
44279naval
44280405
p. 418
44281INDEX OF NAMES, PLACES, AND SUBJECTS
44282station of the Argives, 4, 151; near
44283the Cyclopeian caverns, 4. 153, 169;
44284inhabitants of, withdrew to Messen-
44285ia, 4. 171; belonged to a kind of
44286Amphictyonic
44287League
44288of
44289seven
44290cities, 4. 175
44291Nauplians, the; dues of, at temple of
44292Poseidon on Calauria, paid by the
44293Argives, 4. 175
44294Nauplieis (see Nauplia)
44295Nauplius, the founder of Nauplia, 4.
44296151, whom Strabo confuses with
44297Nauplius the son of Poseidon and
44298Amymoné, 4. 153 (see footnote 1)
44299Nauportus (Ober-Laibach);
44300imports
44301to, 2. 287;
44302a settlement
44303of the
44304Taurisci, 350 stadia from Aquileia,
443053. 255
44306Naustathmus, in Cyrenaea, 8. 205
44307Navigators,
44308taught
44309how
44310to
44311steer
44312course in straits by Danaiis, 1. 85
44313Naxians, the, founded
44314Callipolis in
44315Sicily, 3. 83; always shared in the
44316misfortunes of the Syracusans, but
44317not always in their fortunes, 3. 87
44318Naxos, one of the Cyclades Islands, 5.
44319165, 169
44320Naxus (on Capo di Schiso) in Sicily, no
44321longer existent, 3. 63; founded by
44322Theocles the Athenian and some
44323Chaleidians,
443243. 65;
44325founded
44326at
44327about the same time as Syracuse,
443283. 71
44329Nea, a village near Scepsis in Asia,
443305. 411;
44331between
44332Polichna
44333and
44334Palaescepsis
44335(Aenea
44336Comé?),
443376.
4433891
44339Neaethus (Neto) River, the, in Italy;
44340origin of name of, 3. 41
44341Neandria,
44342incorporated
44343into
44344Alex-
44345andreia in the Troad, 5. 113, 6. 93
44346Neandrians,
44347the,
44348in
44349the
44350Troad;
44351territory of, 6. 101
44352Neanthes
44353of Cyzicus
44354(fl. in third
44355century B.C.), voluminous writer on
44356historical
44357subjects,
44358though
44359only
44360a few fragments are extant; credits
44361Argonauts with erecting sanctuary
44362of Cybelé near Cyzicus, 1. 164
44363Neapolis in Asia, once belonged to
44364the Ephesians,
44365but now
44366to the
44367Samians, 6. 221, 223
44368Neapolis, a fort in the Crimea (site
44369unknown), built by Scilurus and his
44370sons, 3. 247
44371406
44372Neapolis (formerly called Phazemon)
44373in Cappadocia Pontica, so named by
44374Pompey, 5. 443
44375Neapolis
44376(Kavala)
44377in
44378Macedonia,
44379marks the limit of the Strymonic
44380Gulf, 3. 353, 359
44381Neapolis (Naples);
44382description of, 2.
44383449-451,
44384457;
44385Gulf
44386of,
44387called
44388“‘ Crater,’’ 2. 435; tunnel from, to
44389Dicaearchia,
443902. 445;
44391now
44392non-
44393Greek, 3. 7
44394Neapolis,
44395on the eastern
44396coast of
44397Carthaginia, 8. 191
44398Neapolis
44399(also
44400called
44401Leptis),
44402a
44403ity near
44404the
44405Great
44406Syrtis, 8,
444079
44408Neapolitans, the, once held Capreae,
444092. 459
44410Neapolitis
44411in Cappadocia
44412Pontica,
444135. 443
44414Nearchus, admiral under Alexander
44415the Great; (in 325 B.C.) made ex-
44416pedition from the mouth
44417of the
44418Indus
44419to the Persian
44420Gulf;
44421an
44422abstract of his voyage is contained
44423in Arrian’s Indica.
44424He was dis-
44425credited by Strabo, 1. 263; on the
44426Bears, 1. 291;
44427on four predatory
44428tribes in Asia, 5. 309 ; onthe ambition
44429of Alexander when in India, 7. 7;
44430on the size of India, 7.19; on the
44431alluvial deposits of various rivers,
444327. 23; on the rains in India, 7. 27; on
44433the cotton in India, 7. 33 ; attributes
44434the risings of the Nile and the rivers
44435in India to the summer rains, 7. 41;
44436on the mouths of the Indus River
44437in India, 7. 59; on the capturing of
44438elephants in India, and on the ant-
44439lions there, 7, 75; on the vicious
44440reptiles in India, 7, 77;
44441on the
44442sophists in India, 7, 115, and onthe
44443skill of the Indians in handiwork, 7,
44444117; onthe Arbies in India, 7, 129;
44445commander
44446of Alexander’s
44447fleet,
444487. 133, 135; difficult voyage of, in
44449the
44450Persian
44451Gulf,
444527.
44453149;
44454his
44455account thereof, 7. 151;
44456on the
44457language
44458and
44459customs
44460of
44461the
44462Carmanianz,
444637.
44464155;
44465on
44466the
44467seaboard of Persis, 7. 161; found
44468no native guides on voyage from
44469India to Babylonia, 7.173; navi-
44470gated the Persian Gulf, 7. 303, 305,
44471307
p. 419
44472INDEX OF NAMES, PLACES, AND SUBJECTS
44473Nebrodes Mountains, the, in Sicily,
44474lie opposite Mt. Aetna, 3. 91
44475Neco, king of Aegypt (began to reign
44476612
44477B.C.); commissioned
44478men
44479to
44480circumnavigate Libya, 1. 377, 385
44481Necos (or Necho), son of Psammitichus,
44482said to have been the first to cut
44483the canal that empties into the Red
44484Sea and the Arabian Gulf, 8. 77
44485Necropolis, a suburb of Alexandria;
44486description of, 8. 41, 57
44487** Necyia,’’ the, of Homer; the scene
44488of story of, set at Avernus in Italy,
444892. 441
44490Neda
44491(Buzi)
44492River,
44493the;
44494now the
44495boundary between
44496Triphylia and
44497Messenia, 4. 51, 67
44498Nedon
44499River,
44500the;
44501flows through
44502Messenia, 4. 87
445033; mouth of, near
44504Pherae, 4 113;
44505has
44506a notable
44507temple of Athena Nedusia, 4. 115
44508Negrana, city in Ararené in Arabia,
445091. 363
44510Negrani, the; inhabitants of Ararené
44511in Arabia, lost about 10,000 men in
44512battle with the Romans, 7. 361
44513Neilus, the river-land
44514so called, in
44515Aethiopia, 7. 333
44516Neium, the Homeric, a mountain or
44517place in Ithaca, 5. 41
44518Neleidae, the, reigned over Messenia
44519after the death of Menelaiis, 4. 107
44520Neleus River, the, in Euboea, 5. 21
44521Neleus, father of Nestor;
44522sacrifices
44523to shades
44524of sons
44525of, at Meta-
44526pontium, 8. 51;
44527‘* Pylus, the well-
44528built city of,’’ 4. 53;
44529all twelve
44530sons
44531of, except Nestor, slain by
44532Heracles,
445334. 81;
44534lived
44535in
44536Tri-
44537phylian
44538Pylus,
445394. 83;
44540founded
44541Miletus, 6. 199; Pylus the “‘ steep
44542city’
44543of, 6.
44544203;
44545fortified
44546the
44547present Miletus, 6. 205
44548Neleus, the Socratic philosopher, son
44549of Coriscus, pupil of Aristotle and
44550Theophrastus,
44551inheritor
44552of
44553their
44554libraries, and native of Scepsis, 6.
44555111
44556Nelia in Thessaly, near Demetrias, 4.
44557423
44558Nemausus
44559(Nimes),
44560in Celtica, the
44561road through, 2. 171;
44562a city of
44563importance, possessing the “‘ Latin
44564right,’’ 2. 201;
44565not
44566subject
44567to
44568Roman praetors, 2. 203
44569Nemea, where Heracles slew the lion,
44570and where the Nemean Games are
44571celebrated, 4. 187
44572Nemea River, the, forms the boundary
44573between Sicyonia and Corinthia, 4.
44574207
44575Nemean Games, the, not mentioned by
44576Homer, 4. 93 (and footnote)
44577Nemesis, the remarkable statue of, at
44578Rhamnus, 4, 263;
44579first temple of,
44580founded by King Adrastus, 6. 29;
44581no temple of, at Adrasteia in the
44582Troad,
445836. 29;
44584temple
44585of, near
44586Cyzicus, 6. 31
44587Nemorensis, Lacus, fed by “ Egeria,”’
445882. 423
44589Nemossus
44590(apparently
44591Augustone-
44592metum,
44593now
44594Clermont-Ferrand),
44595metropolis of the Arverni, 2. 219
44596Neochori (see Amphipolis in Mace-
44597donia)
44598Neocles
44599the
44600Athenian,
44601father
44602of
44603Epicurus, settled in Samos, 6. 219
44604Neo-Comitae (see Comum)
44605Neoptolemus the son of Achilles and
44606father of the Pyrrhus who reigned
44607over the Molossians, 3. 309; slain
44608by Machaerus a Delphian, the tomb
44609of, in the sacred precinct at Delphi,
446104. 361; son of Achilles and grand-
44611son of Lycomedes,
446124. 427;
44613slew
44614Eurypylus in the Troad, 6. 15
44615Neoptolemus, general of Mithridates,
44616defeated the barbarians in a naval
44617engagement in the Strait of Kertch
44618in summer and in a cavalry engage-
44619ment there in winter, 3. 227
44620Neoptolemus, the Tower of, at the
44621mouth of the Tyras, 3. 219
44622Nepeta (Nepi), a town in Italy, 2. 365
44623Nepheris,
44624a fortified city near Car
44625thage, 8. 191
44626Nepi (see Nepeta)
44627Neptune (see Poseidon)
44628Neretscha Planina Mountain, the (see
44629Barnus Mountain)
44630Nericus,
44631the Homeric,
44632belonged
44633to
44634Acarnania,
446355. 31;
44636transferred
44637to
44638the isthmus of Leucas, 5. 33; “* well-
44639built citadel,’’ 5. 41
44640Neritum,
44641the
44642Homeric;
44643famous
44644mountain on Ithaca, 5. 35; in the
44645domain of Odysseus, 5. 37, 39, 41
44646Nerium
44647(Finisterre),
44648Cape,
446492.
446507;
446513000 stadia distant from Olysipo
44652407
p. 420
44653INDEX OF NAMES, PLACES, AND SUBJECTS
44654(Lisbon), 2. 67; the end of western
44655and northern sides of Iberia, and
44656inhabited by Celtic people, 2. 67
44657Nero, Mt. (see Aenus)
44658Neroassus (see Nora)
44659Nervii,
44660the,
44661a Germanic
44662tribe
44663in
44664Celtica, 2. 231
44665Nesaea, a district in Hyrcania, 5. 253
44666Nesaean horses, the, in Media, 5. 311;
44667in Armenia, 5. 331
44668Nesson, the son of Thessalus;
44669both
44670Thessaly and Lake Nessonis named
44671after, 4. 455
44672Nessonis, Lake, in Thessaly, 4. 397;
44673the Peneius flows into, 4, 439; not
44674mentioned
44675by
44676Homer,
446774
44678445;
44679named
44680after Nesson
44681the son
44682of
44683Thessalus, 4, 455
44684Nessus, the Centaur;
44685tomb of, on
44686Taphiassus, a hillin Aetolia, 4. 385
44687Nessus the ferryman, killed by Her-
44688acles
44689at the Lycormas (Hvenus)
44690River in Aetolia, 5. 29
44691Nestor, son of Neleus, travelled much,
446921.
4469329;
44694on
44695the
44696wanderings
44697of
44698Menelaiis, 1. 139; accompanied by
44699Pisatae to Troy, 2. 351; compan-
44700ions of, founded Metapontium
44701in
44702Italy,
447033. 51;
44704called
44705by Homer
44706“the Gerenian’’ after
44707‘‘ Gerena”’
44708in Messenia,
44709according
44710to some
44711writers, 8, 198, 4. 33, 85; ruler of
44712Triphylian Pylus, 4. 19, 21, not of
44713the Pylus of Coelé Elis, 4. 23; slew
44714Mulius the Epeian spearman, son-
44715in-law
44716of Augeas,
447174. 29;
44718‘the
44719Gerenian,’’ claimed by three differ-
44720ent Pyluses, 4. 33, 113; lived in the
44721Lepreatic,
44722or
44723Triphylian
44724Pylus,
44725according to Homer (Strabo says),
447264. 51, 57;
44727Chloris the mother of,
44728from Minyeian Orchomenus, 4, 63;
44729the subjects
44730of, 4. 71, 75,
4473187;
44732various proofs of his having lived
44733at the Triphylian Pylus, 4. 77-87;
44734his recital to Patroclus of the war
44735between the Pylians and Eleians
44736proves it, 4. 79, 81; descendants of,
44737sided with the Messenians in the
44738Messenian War, 4 95;
44739not men-
44740tioned by Homer as going forth to
44741battle
44742at
44743Troy, 4
44744401;
44745knew
44746nothing about affairs in Crete after
44747he set out for Troy, 5. 145; founded
44748temple
44749of Nedusian
44750Athené
44751on
44752408
44753Ceos on his return from Troy, 5.
44754169;
44755by the more
44756recent
44757poets
44758called a Messenian, 6. 199
44759Nestus
44760(Mesta)
44761River,
44762the;
44763the
44764northern boundary of Macedonia,
447658. 297, 355, 357, 363, 365, 367
44766Netium
44767(Noja),
44768on
44769the
44770mule-road
44771between
44772Brundisium
44773and
44774Bene-
44775ventum, 3. 123
44776Neto River, the (see Neaethus)
44777New
44778Carthage
44779(Cartagena), famous
44780silver-mines at, 2. 47; founded by
44781Hasdrubal, 2. 87; a powerful city,
447822. 89; where the consular governor
44783administers justice in winter, 2. 123 ;
44784has a tree from the bark of which
44785woven stuffs are made, 2. 155
44786Nibarus, Mt., in Asia, extends as far
44787as Media, 5. 321;
44788a part of the
44789Taurus, 5. 335
44790Nicaea, daughter of Antipater, and
44791wife of Lysimachus;
44792Nicaea, the
44793metropolis
44794of
44795Bithynia,
44796named
44797after, 5. 463
44798Nicaea
44799(Antigonia),
44800metropolis
44801of
44802Bithynia, on the Ascanian
44803Lake,
44804first founded by Antigonus the son
44805of Philip, who called it Antigonia,
44806and
44807later
44808by lLysimachus,
44809who
44810changed the name to that of his
44811wife, 5. 463; description of, 5. 463-
44812465
44813Nicaea, a city in India founded by
44814Alexander, 7. 49
44815Nicaea in Locris, 4. 383; a fort near
44816Thermopylae, 4, 389
44817Nicaea
44818(Nice),
44819founded
44820by
44821the
44822Massaliotes, 2. 175, 191;
44823subject
44824to
44825the
44826Massaliotes,
44827belongs
44828to
44829Province of Narbonitis, 2. 193
44830Nicander (lived about 185-135 B.C.),
44831poet, grammarian, and physician,
44832and author of the Theriaca; on the
44833two kinds of Aegyptian asps, 8. 151
44834Nicatorium,
44835Mt.,
44836near
44837Arbela,
44838so
44839named by Alexander after his vic-
44840tory over Dareius, 7. 197
44841Nice (see Nicaea)
44842Nicephorium in Assyria, 7. 231
44843Nicias,
44844contemporary
44845of
44846Strabo,
44847native of Cos, reigned
44848as tyrant
44849over the Coans, 6. 289
44850“ Nicias, the Village of,’’ to the west
44851of Alexandria, 8. 57
44852Nicolaiis Damascenus, on the embassy
p. 421
44853INDEX OF NAMES, PLACES, AND SUBJECTS
44854from India to Augustus Caesar, 7.
44855125,
44856and
44857on
44858the
44859gifts sent
44860to
44861Augustus, 7. 127
44862Nicomedeia
44863in Bithynia, about 300
44864stadia from the Sangarius River, 5.
44865379; lies on the Astacene Gulf and
44866was named after Nicomedes I, the
44867Bithynian king (264 B.C.), 5. 455
44868Nicomedes, the son of Prusias, king
44869of Bithynia;
44870incited
44871against
44872his
44873father by Attalus 11, 6. 169; forces
44874of, utterly destroyed
44875by Mithri-
44876dates, 5. 449, 455; fought against
44877Aristonicus, 6. 247
44878Niconia
44879(near
44880Ovidiopol),
44881on
44882the
44883Tyras River, 3. 219
44884Nicophorium at Pergamum, planted
44885with a grove, 6. 169
44886Nicopolis in Acarnania;
44887Anactorium
44888an emporium of, 5, 25
44889Nicopolis,
44890near
44891Alexandria,
44892greatly
44893honoured by Augustus because of
44894his victory there, 8. 43
44895Nicopolis in Lesser Armenia, founded
44896by Pompey, 5. 425
44897Nicopolis in Cilicia, on the Gulf of
44898Issus, 6. 357
44899Nicopolis
44900Actia
44901(near
44902Prevesa)
44903in
44904Epeirus, founded by Augustus in
44905honour of his victory over Antony,
449068.301; a populous and wealthy city,
449078. 303;
44908Actian Games celebrated
44909near, and it has several dependent
44910settlements, 3. 305
44911Nicostraté,
44912mother
44913of
44914Evander,
44915mythical founder of Rome; skilled
44916in divination, 2. 385
44917Nigritae (or Nigretes?), the, and the
44918Pharusians, said to have destroyed
44919300 Tyrian cities on the western
44920coast of Libya, 8. 161;
44921use bows
44922and scythe-bearing chariots, 8. 169
44923Nikaria (see Icaria)
44924Nile (Aegyptus) River, the; mouths
44925of, 1. 107; boundary between two
44926continents, 1. 119, 129, 243, 415;
44927“* heaven-fed,’’ 1. 133; cataracts of,
44928impassable
44929for
44930ships,
449311.
44932139;
44933alluvial deposits of, 1. 193; fed by
44934rains from mountains of Aethiopia,
44935ἡ
449361. 375; navigated by Eudoxus of
44937Cyzicus, 1.377; nearly on the same
44938meridian as the Tanais, 1. 415; by
44939its overflows causes Lake Mareotis
44940to lose its baneful qualities, 2, 315;
44941VOL. VIII.—STRABO.
44942flows underground
44943for a distance
44944near its sources, 3. 93; risings of,
44945unknown to Homer, according to
44946Apollodorus, 3. 189; the silting up
44947of, like that of the Pyramus River,
44948and Aegypt called by Herodotus
44949the “αἰ of, 5. 357;
44950produces
44951huge creatures, 7. 37;
44952largest of
44953all rivers except the Ganges, Indus,
44954and Ister, 7. 61; certain fish found
44955in, 7. 79; confusion in boundaries
44956of lands caused by, gave rise to
44957science of geometry, 7. 271; joined
44958by the Astaboras, 7. 319; joined by
44959the Astasobas near Meroé, 7. 321;
44960position and description of, 8. 3-5;
44961effects like results in Aegypt and
44962Aethiopia, 8. 7; confuses bound-
44963aries, rising as high as 14 cubits,
449648. 11; forms the Delta, 8. 13-15;
44965filled from summer rains in Aethi-
44966i
44967. 17-21;
44968timely risings of,
449698.31; mouths of, 8. 65 ff.; canals of,
449708. 75
44971ff.;
44972level
44973of, marked
44974by
44975Nilometer, 8. 11,127; has numerous
44976islands,
449778.
44978133;
44979by Herodotus
44980foolishly said to rise near Syené,
449818. 133; names of fish indigenous to,
449828. 149; the fish and crocodiles in,
449838. 153; sources of, by some thought
44984to
44985be
44986near
44987the
44988extremities
44989of
44990Maurusia, 8. 161
44991Nilometer, the, in Aegypt, 8. 11, 13;
44992construction and utility of, 8. 127
44993Nimes (see
44994Namausus)
44995Nineveh (see Ninus)
44996Ninia, a city in Dalmatia, set on fire by
44997Augustus, 3. 261
44998Ninus (Nineveh), the city, founded by
44999Ninus, 1. 319; wiped out after the
45000overthrow of the Syrians (608 B.C.),
450017. 193, 195;
45002surrounded by the
45003plains of Aturia, 7. 197
45004Ninus, husband of Queen Semiramis
45005and founder of Nineveh, called a
45006Syrian, 1. 319
45007Wiobé, the, of Aeschylus, quoted, 5.
45008519
45009Niobé, given in marriage to Amphion
45010by her brother Pelops, 4. 113; the
45011home of, in Phrygia, 5. 487
45012Nios (see Ios)
45013Niphates, Mt., a part of the Taurus,
450145. 299, 301, 305, 321
45015Nisa in Boeotia, the Homeric, no-
45016o
45017499
p. 422
45018INDEX OF NAMES, PLACES, AND SUBJECTS
45019where to be scen, unless one identi-
45020fies it with Isus, 4, 299
45021Nisa in Megaris, has now disappeared,
450224. 299
45023Nisaea,
45024the
45025naval
45026station
45027of the
45028Megarians, 18 stadia from Megara
45029and joined to it by walls, 4. 11, 244;
45030betrayed to King Minos by Scylla,
450314.173; alleged by the Megarians to
45032have sent ships to Troy, 4. 255
45033Nisibis in Assyria, or Mesopotamia,
45034also called Mygdonian Antiocheia,
45035at the foot of Mt. Masius, 5. 299,
45036319, 7. 231
45037Nisus, the father of the Scylla who
45038was drowned by Minos, 4. 173; son
45039of King Pandion, received Megaris
45040from his father and founded Nisaea,
450414. 247, 249
45042Nisyrians, Isles of the, near Nisyros,
450435. 177, 179
45044Nisyros, a city on the isle Carpathos,
450455. 177, 179
45046Nisyros, one of the Sporades Islands,
45047mentioned
45048by
45049Homer,
450505.
45051175;
45052description of, 5. 177; in the high
45053sea opposite Cnidus, 6. 283;
4505460
45055stadia from Cape Laceter in Cos, 6.
45056287
45057Nitiobriges, the, a tribe in Aquitania,
450582. 217
45059Nitre-beds
45060(sodium
45061carbonate,
45062not
45063saltpetre), the two, near Momemphis
45064in Aegypt, 8. 73
45065Noarus River, the, flows near Segestica,
450663. 255; empties into the Ister, 3.
45067273
45068Nocera (see Nuceria)
45069Noega in Iberia, 2. 121
45070Noja (see Netium)
45071Nola, in Campania, 2. 453, 461
45072Nomads, the; innorth-eastern Europe,
45073of no use to the Romans and only
45074require watching, 3. 145; known by
45075Homer,
450763.
45077197;
45078have
45079become
45080morally worse under the influence of
45081“* our mode oflife,’’ 3.199; modes of
45082life of, 3. 205-209, 223; those be-
45083yond the Crimea eat horse-meat,
45084cheese,
45085and
45086curd,
450873. 243;
45088the
45089Scythian, in Asia, 5.191; the Asiatic
45090and European, used Tanais as a
45091common emporium,
450925. 193; called
45093Nabiani and Panxani, live between
45094Lake Maeotis and the Caspian Sea,
45095410
450965. 243;
45097Scythian and Sarmatian,
450985. 245, 259;
45099who live north of
45100Sogdiana in Asia, 5. 281;
45101on the
45102Arabian
45103Gulf, 7. 317;
45104call
45105the
45106elephant
45107hunters
45108‘‘ Acatharti’’
45109(‘‘ Unclean ’’), 7. 325;
45110those
45111in
45112Arabia called ‘‘ Debae’’ fight from
45113the backs of camels and subsist upon
45114their milk and flesh, 7. 345; among
45115the
45116Aethiopians,
45117often
45118attacked
45119like brigands, 8. 135; in Maurusia
45120and Masaesylia, 8. 167; in Masae-
45121sylia taught by King Masanasses
45122to be citizens, farmers, and soldiers,
451238. 187-189
45124Nomantini
45125(or Numantini),
45126the, in
45127Iberia, driven out by the Romans,
451283. 143
45129Nomarchs,
45130the, in Aegypt,
451318. 53;
45132accused of injustice by the Aethi-
45133opians, 8. 137
45134Nome,
45135the
45136Pythian
45137(see
45138Pythian
45139Nome)
45140Nomentan
45141Way,
45142the,
45143joins
45144the
45145Salarian Way at Eretum, 2. 377,
45146417
45147Nomentum (Mentana), a small town
45148in Latium, 2. 375
45149Nomes, the thirty-six, in Aegypt, 8.
451509; the Heracleiotic and Arsinoite,
451518.15; Menelaite, 8. 65; Saitic and
45152Sebennytic, 8. 67; Busirite, 8. 69;
45153Athribite,
45154Prosopite,
45155Mendesian,
45156Leontopolite, Pharbetite, and Tanite,
451578.71; Gynaeconopolite, Momemphite,
45158and Nitriote, 8. 73; Sethroite, 8. 77
45159(see footnote on page 76); Phagro-
45160riopolite,
45161and
45162Bubastite,
451638. 79;
45164Letopolite, 8. 85; Aphroditopolite,
45165Heracleote, and Arsinoite,
451668. 97;
45167Cynopolite and Nome of Oxyryn-
45168chus, 8. 109
45169Nora, now called Neroassus;
45170a lofty
45171stronghold
45172in Cappadocia,
45173where
45174Eumenes held out against a siege
45175for a long time, 5. 357; served as
45176the treasury of Sisines in Strabo’s
45177time, 5. 359
45178Noreia (Neumarkt
45179in Austria),
45180to
45181which there is a voyage of 1200
45182stadia by river from the Adriatic,
451832. 317; near which Graeus Carbo
45184fought the Cimbri, 2. 319
45185Norici, the; geographical position of,
451862. 281, 283; 3. 165
p. 423
45187INDEX OF NAMES, PLACES, AND SUBJECTS
45188Notium in Chios, a shore suited to
45189anchoring of vessels, 6. 243
45190Notu-ceras, Cape, in southern Aethi-
45191opia, 7. 333
45192Notus, the wind, 1. 105, 125; does not
45193blow in Aethiopia, 1. 229
45194Novum Comum (see Comum)
45195Nubae. the, a large tribe in Libya,
45196divided into several kingdoms, 8. 7;
45197situated to the south of Aegypt, 8.
45198135
45199Nuceria (Nocera) Alfaterna, on the
45200Sarnus River in Campania, 2. 453,
45201461
45202Nuceria (Nocera) Camellaria, where
45203the wooden utensils are made, 2. 373
45204Nuestra Senora de Oreto (see Oria)
45205Numa Pompilius, successor of Romulus
45206as king of Rome, came from Cures
45207in the Sabine country, 2. 375, 385
45208Numantia
45209(Garray,
45210near
45211Soria)
45212in
45213Iberia,
45214on the
45215Durius
45216River,
452172.
4521869,
45219101;
45220renowned
45221city of the
45222Arvacans, 2. 103
45223Numantini, the (see Nomantini)
45224Numidians,
45225the
45226(see
45227Nomades
45228in
45229Masaesylia), 1. 503
45230Numitor,
45231joint ruler
45232of Alba with
45233Amulius,
45234and
45235later
45236sole
45237ruler,
452382. 381
45239Nuts,
45240abundant
45241in Themiscyra,
452425.
45243397; the food of the Heptacomitae,
452445. 401
45245Nycteus, father of Antiopé, and from
45246Hyria in Boeotia founded Hysiae,
452474, 297
45248Nycticorat
45249(night-crow),
45250the,
45251in
45252Aegypt, of a peculiar species, 8. 151
45253Nymphaeum,
45254the,
45255near
45256Apollonia
45257in Illyria;
45258a rock that gives forth
45259fire, and has beneath it springs of
45260warm water and asphalt, with a
45261mine of asphalt on a hill near by,
452623. 267
45263Nymphaeum (Kalati), a city in the
45264Crimea, 3. 237
45265Nymphaeum, the, in Syria, a kind of
45266sacred cave, 7. 249
45267Nymphaeum, Cape (see Athos), 3. 353
45268Nymphs,
45269grotto
45270of,
45271in
45272island
45273of
45274Ithaca, no longer to be seen, be-
45275cause of physical changes, 1. 221;
45276temples of, in the neighbourhood
45277of the
45278Alpheius
45279River,
452804.
4528149;
45282are ministers of Dionysus, 5. 97;
45283origin of, 5. 111; called Cabeirides,
45284worshipped in Samothrace, 5. 115
45285Nysa
45286in Caria,
45287near
45288Mt. Mesogis;
45289territory of, on the far side of the
45290Maeander, 6. 185;
45291description of,
452926. 257; famous
45293natives of, 6. 263;
45294the road through, 6. 309
45295Nysa,
45296a
45297village
45298in
45299Helicon,
45300sub-
45301stituted by some editors for the
45302Homeric
45303“ Nisa,’ 4. 301
45304Nysa in India, said
45305to have been
45306founded by Dionysus, 7. 11
45307Nysa,
45308Mt.,
45309in
45310India,
45311sacred
45312to
45313Dionysus, 7. 9, 11
45314Nysaei, the, a tribe in India, 7. 47
45315O
45316Oak (the stunted oak, Quercus cocci-
45317fera), grows at bottom of (Mediter-
45318ranean) sea (?) and on dry land in
45319Iberia, 2. 37
45320Oak-tree, the sacred, at Dodona, 3.
45321315, 317; transplanted from Thes-
45322saly, 3.321; revered because it was
45323thought to be the earliest plant
45324created and the first to supply men
45325with food, 3. 323
45326Oaracta, an isle in the Persian Gulf,
45327ruled over by Mazenes, 7. 305
45328Oases, the, in Libya; called ‘* Auases,’’
453291, 501; three of, classed as subject
45330to Aegypt, 8. 23; their geographi-
45331cal position, 8. 113
45332Obelisks,
45333the,
45334at
45335MHeliupolis
45336and
45337aheles two of, brought to Rome,
453386 7
45339Ober-Laibach (see Nauportus)
45340Obidiaceni, the, a tribe of the Maeotae,
453415. 201
45342Obodas, king of the Nabataeans in
45343Arabia, cared
45344little about public
45345affairs, 7. 357, 363
45346Observatory, astronomical, of Eudoxus
45347at Cnidus, 1.461; in Aegypt, 8. 85
45348Obulco, through which runs the main
45349road,
453502. 21;
45351and
45352where
45353Julius
45354Caesar
45355arrived
45356in 27 days from
45357Rome, 2. 97
45358Ocaleé (or Ocalea) in Boeotia, midway
45359between
45360Haliartus and Alalcome-
45361nium, 30 stadia from each, and near
45362Lake Copais, 4, 321
45363Ocean, the, movement of, subject to
45364periods like those of the heavenly
45365411
p. 424
45366INDEX OF NAMES, PLACES, AND SUBJECTS
45367-
45368bodies and in accord with the moon,
453692.149; the Northern, 3. 153
45370Oceanus, surrounds inhabited world,
453711.
453725-19;
45373extends
45374along
45375entire
45376southern
45377seaboard,
453781. 127;
45379lies
45380between the northern and southern
45381hemispheres, 1. 429
45382Ocelas,
45383a
45384companion
45385of
45386Antenor,
45387founded Opsicella in Iberia, 2. 83
45388Ocelum (Avigliana) in north-western
45389Italy, the road to, 2. 171, 327
45390“ Oché,”’ a former name of Euboea, 5. 7
45391Oché (Hagios Elias), Mt., the largest
45392mountain in Euboea, 5. 7
45393Ochrida, Lake (see Lychnidus)
45394Ochus River, the; traverses Hyrcania,
453955. 253; oil found near, by digging,
453965.285; different views as to identity
45397of, 5. 285, 287
45398Ochyroma, an acropolis above Ialysus
45399in Rhodes, 6. 279
45400Ocra (Alpis Julia, now Nanos), Mt.,
45401almost joins the Albian Mountain
45402(Mt. Velika), 2. 265, 287, 303; be-
45403tween Aquileia and Nauportus, 3.
45404255
45405Ocricli (Otricoli), on the Flaminian
45406Way, 2. 367; near the Tiber, 2. 371
45407Octavia, sister of Caesar and mother of
45408Marcellus, 6. 351
45409Ocypodes, the, in India, run faster
45410than horses, 7. 95
45411Odeium, the, at Athens, 4. 265
45412Odessus (Varna), in Thrace, founded
45413by the Milesians, 3. 279, 369
45414Odius,
45415the Homeric,
45416leader
45417of the
45418Halizones, 5. 403, 407, 409
45419Odomantes, the, in northern Greece,
45420over whom Rhesus ruled, 3. 359
45421Odomantis in Armenia; Artaxias the
45422king of, 5. 325
45423Odrysae, the, neighbours of the Bessi
45424in Thrace, and by some defined as
45425extending
45426from
45427the
45428Hebrus
45429to
45430Odessus, 3. 369, 371
45431Odrysses River, the, near Alazia, flows
45432out
45433of Lake
45434Dascylitis
45435through
45436Mygdonia, 5. 409
45437Odysseia, a city in Iberia, is sign that
45438Odysseus wandered thither, 2. 53, 83
45439Odysseium, a stream issuing from Lake
45440Ismaris in Thrace, 3. 367
45441Odysseus, as characterised by Homer,
454421.
4544361,
4544463;
45445wanderings
45446of,
45447an
45448historical fact, 1. 73; the historical
45449412
45450scene of his wanderings, 1. 79, 85,
4545193;
45452the wanderings of, to Italy,
45453Sicily, Iberia, and other places, a
45454traditional fact, signs of, 2. 53-55;
45455memorials of, in temple of Athené
45456at Odysseia in Iberia, 2. 83; scene
45457of wanderings
45458of, transferred by
45459Homer to the Atlantic, 2.85; trans-
45460ferred by Homer to Oceanus, 2. 357,
45461359; asort of bowl once belonging
45462to, to be seen on the Circaeum in
45463Italy, 2. 393; visited the oracle of
45464the dead at Avernus, 2. 441; Baius,
45465a companion of, 2. 447;
45466built a
45467sanctuary of Athené on the Cape of
45468Sorrento, 2. 455;
45469Draco a com-
45470panion of, 3. 5;
45471Polites a com-
45472panion of, 3. 15; wanderings of,
45473placed by Homer in Oceanus, 3.
45474193; went to Ephyra “in search of
45475a man-slaying drug,’’ 4. 27; had the
45476Cephallenians at his side at Troy, 4.
45477255; all subjects of, called Cephal-
45478lenians by Hom2r, 5, 35, 49 ; Cephal-
45479lenia subject to, 5. 47, 49; in the
45480Odyssey
45481speaks
45482of “the
45483ninety
45484cities’’ in Crete, 5. 143; came in
45485contact with no Greeks in his wan-
45486derings, 5. 145; the feigned story of,
45487to Eumaeus, about Ilium, 6. 73;
45488returned Chryseis to her father, 6.
45489125, 127; altar of, in Meninx, land
45490of the lotus-eaters, 8. 193
45491Odyssey, the, of Homer (see Homer)
45492Oeantheia
45493(Galaxidi)
45494in
45495Western
45496Locris, 4. 387
45497Oeaso (Oyarzun)
45498in Iberia at the
45499western end of the Pyrenees, 2. 99
45500Oechalia in Aetolia, near the Eury-
45501tanians, 5. 17
45502Oechalia
45503in Euboea,
45504destroyed
45505by
45506Heracles, 5. 17
45507Oechalia,
45508whence
45509Thamyris_
45510the
45511Thracian came, 4. 71, 5. 17; “ΠΟΥ͂
45512called Andania’’ (now Sandani), 4.
4551375, 115;
45514“‘city of Eurytus,’’ by
45515historians placed in three different
45516countries, 4. 31, 433
45517Oechalia, the Trachinian, 5. 17
45518Oechalia, near Triccé, 5. 17
45519Oedanes River, the, in India, 7, 125
45520Oedipus, said to have been reared by
45521Polybus at Tenea, 4. 199
45522Oeneiadae, Old and New, in Acarnania,
455235. 25, 61
p. 425
45524INDEX OF NAMES, PLACES, AND SUBJECTS
45525Oeneiadae in Thessaly, in the Oetacan
45526country, 4. 415
45527Oeneus, the king, father of Defaneira
45528and father-in-law
45529of Heracles,
455305.
4553157, 59; avenged by Alemaeon and
45532Diomedes, 5. 71; son of Porthaon,
45533and ‘‘lived in Pleuron and steep
45534Calydon’’
45535in Aetolia,
455365. 75, 85;
45537fought with the sons of Thestius, 5.
4553887
45539Oeniadae (see Oeneiadae)
45540Oenoanda in Phrygia, 6. 193
45541Qenoé,
45542name
45543of two Attic demes;
45544proverb applied to the Marathonian
45545Oenoé, 4. 181 (see footnote 4); be-
45546longed to the Tetrapolis of Attica,
455474. 209
45548Oenoé, a stronghold in Corinthia, 4.
45549197; situated in the inmost recess
45550of the Corinthian Gulf, 4. 317
45551Oenoé (Boenoa) in Elis, identified with
45552the Homeric Ephyra, 4. 27
45553Oenoé, a town on the isle Icaria, 6, 221
45554Oenomaiis, famous ruler of Pisatis,
455554.95; by some called king of Eleia,
455564, 97
45557Oenoné, wife of Alexander (Paris);
45558. tomb of, 6. 65
45559Oenoparas River, the, in Syria, 7. 247
45560Oenops, father of Satnius, mentioned
45561by Homer, 6. 99, 151
45562Oenotri, the, formerly held a part
45563of Leucania, 3. 7; earlier scope of
45564the term, 3. 13;
45565at war with the
45566Metapontians, 3. 53
45567Oenotria, alone formerly called Italy,
455682.299; earlier name of the territory
45569of the Brettii, 3. 11
45570Oenotrides
45571Islands,
45572the,
45573off Italy,
455748. 5;
45575are fragments
45576broken
45577off
45578from Italy, 3. 25
45579Oeta, Mt. (or Oetaean Mountains, q.v.)
45580Oetaean Mountains, the, 4. 11, 343,
45581349, 387;
45582extend from Thermo-
45583pylae to the Ambracian Gulf, the
45584part verging toward Thermopylae
45585being 200 stadia in length, 4, 389,
45586397, 401, 449
45587Oetaeans, the; geographical position
45588of, 4. 345, 387;
45589worship Heracles
45590Cornopion, 6. 127
45591Oetylus (Vitylo),
45592the Homeric,
45593on
45594the Messenian Gulf, 4. 109;
45595by
45596some called Baetylus (Boetylus?),
455974. 113
45598Oeum in Locris, castle near Opus,
45599ruined by earthquake, 1. 225
45600Ogyges, last king of the Achaeans
45601in the Peloponnesus, 4. 211
45602Ogygia,
45603the
45604island,
45605the
45606home
45607of
45608Calypso, 1. 95
45609“ Ogygia,’’ the name of Boeotia when
45610Cecrops ruled it, 4. 307
45611Ogyris, the isle, lies in the high sea
456122000 stadia from
45613Carmania,
45614and
45615contains
45616the grave
45617of Erythras,
45618after whom the Erythraean (Red)
45619Sea was named, 7. 305
45620Oil, found by digging in the earth
45621near the Ochus River in Asia, 5.
45622285; of sesame, used in Babylonia,
456237. 215
45624Olané, a strong fortress in Armenia,
456255. 327
45626Olbé in Cilicia, founded by Ajax, 6.
45627343
45628Olbia, on the Borysthenes River (see
45629Borysthenes)
45630Olbia (Houbes or Hyéres?), founded
45631by the Massaliotes, 2. 175, 191
45632Olbia in Pamphylia, 367 stadia from
45633Cape Hiera, 6. 319; a large fortress,
456346. 323
45635Oleastrum, near Saguntum, in Iberia,
456362. 91
45637Olené, near Acgium, 4. 223
45638Olenian
45639Rock, the, in Elis, 4. 35;
45640surmised to be what is now called
45641Scollis, 4. 41
45642Olenus,
45643the
45644Homeric,
45645in
45646Aetolia,
45647destroyed by the Aeolians, 5. 29,
4564865; mentioned by Homer, 4. 221
45649Olenus (Palaea-Akhaia),
45650in Achaea,
45651refused to join the ‘* new league ”’
45652with Patrae and Dymé, 4, 213;
45653one of the twelve cities in which
45654the Achaeans settled (inhabitants
45655of, transferred to Dymé), where is
45656the notable
45657temple
45658of Asclepius,
4565940 stadia from Dymé and 80 from
45660Patrae;
45661not mentioned by Homer,
456624. 219; now deserted, 4. 227
45663Olgassys,
45664Mt., in Paphlagonia,
45665has
45666many temples, 5. 449
45667Oliaros
45668(Antiparos),
45669one
45670Cyclades Islands, 5. 165
45671Oligarchs, the 400, at Athens, 4. 269
45672“ Oligasys,’”’
45673a
45674Paphlagonian
45675name
45676used in Cappadocia, 5, 415
45677Olisipo (see Olysipo)
45678of
45679the
45680413
p. 426
45681INDEX OF NAMES, PLACES,
45682AND SUBJECTS
45683Olive, the, produced in the territory of
45684Massalia,
456852.
45686175;
45687abundant
45688in
45689country of the Sabini, 2. 375, about
45690Venafrum,
456912. 437,
45692and
45693on
45694the
45695Italian and Illyrian coasts of the
45696Adriatic,
456973. 271; not to be found
45698in the region below the Caspian
45699Gates,
457005.
45701311;
45702abundant
45703in
45704Armenia,
457055. 323, in Melitené
45706in
45707Cappadocia, 5. 351, in the region of
45708Mt. Taurus, 5. 483; grows in the
45709Red Sea, 7. 305
45710Olive-groves, numerous in the region
45711of Cape Deiré in Aethiopia, 7. 331
45712Olive oil, of best quality and in large
45713quantities,
45714exported
45715from
45716‘Tur-
45717detania, 2. 33; used by the Lusi-
45718tanians instead of butter, 2. 75;
45719that at Genua, 2. 267;
45720bartered
45721by the Iilyrians
45722at Aquileia,
457232.
45724317; the best produced at Vena-
45725frum, 2. 415;
45726cures the infested
45727vine
45728when
45729smeared
45730on
45731it with
45732asphaltic earth, 3. 267
45733Olive-trees, abound in the territory of
45734Sinopé in Paphlagonia, 5. 393, and
45735in Phanaroea in Cappadocia Pon-
45736tica, 5.427; not found in Carmania,
457377. 153; found on two islands
45738off
45739Myus Harbour in the Arabian Gulf,
457407. 315;
45741the Aethiopic,
45742on
45743three
45744islands in the Arabian Gulf, yield a
45745sap that has medicinal value, 7. 343 ;
45746in the Arsinoite Nome, 8. 97
45747Olizon
45748in Thessaly,
45749now
45750a village
45751belonging
45752to Demetrias,
457534. 423;
45754subject to Philoctetes, 4. 427
45755Olmeius
45756River,
45757the, and the
45758Per-
45759messus,
45760flow
45761from
45762Mt.
45763Helicon,
45764meet, and empty into Lake Copais
45765near Haliartus, 4. 307, 309
45766Olmiae, the promontory in Corinthia
45767on the Corinthian
45768Gulf, 4. 197;
45769120 stadia from Creusa, 4. 317
45770Oloosson,
45771the Homeric,
45772subject to
45773Polypoetes, 4. 437; so called from
45774its white soil, 4, 441
45775Olophyxis, a city of Athos, 3. 358,
45776357
45777Olympené, one of the two divisions of
45778Mysia in Asia, 5. 487
45779Olympia,
45780in
45781Pisatis,
457824.
4578323;
45784the
45785Alpheius flows past, 4. 47; annual
45786festival in honour of Artemis at,
457874. 49;
45788description
45789of, 4. 87-95;
45790414
45791always the site of the Olympian
45792Games, 4. 93; gave Pisatis great
45793renown, 4. 97; certain cities near,
457944. 101; temple of, once in charge
45795of the Achaeans
45796and
45797later the
45798Aetolians, 4. 103; the land round
45799ὑπὸ temple at, once inundated, 4.
458002
45801Olympiads,
45802the, instituted
45803by the
45804Eleians, 4. 91, the winner of the
45805stadium-race
45806in
45807the
45808first
45809being
45810Corebus the Eleian, 4, 93
45811Olympian Games, the; the greatest
45812in the world, 4. 87; invented by
45813the Eleians, 4. 91; though some say
45814by Heracles,
45815one
45816of the Idaean
45817Dactyli, and others by Heracles
45818the son of Zeus and Alcmené, but
45819not mentioned by Homer, 4. 93;
45820celebrated by Iphitus and later by
45821Pheidon, 4. 105
45822Olympic
45823victors, the, from Croton
45824in Italy, 3. 43, 45
45825Olympicum (or Olympium) at Athens,
45826the, left half finished by the king
45827(Antiochus Epipbanes) who dedi-
45828cated it, 4, 265, 295
45829Olympium,
45830the,
45831at
45832Athens
45833(see
45834Olympicum)
45835Olympus, one of the inventors of the
45836flute, 5. 103, 105;
45837scene of myth
45838of, as of Marsyas and Apollo, 5.
45839509
45840Olympus in Lycia, member of the
45841Lycian League, 6. 315; a large city,
458426. 319
45843Olympus, Mt., in Greece, compared
45844with the Alps, 2. 293; belongs to
45845Macedonia, 3. 335, 337, 339; Mt.
45846Ossa split off from, by earthquakes,
458474. 397; Mt. Titarius joins, 4. 443;
45848the
45849Muses
45850were
45851worshipped
45852on,
458535. 107; said once to have been the
45854abode of Aeneias, 6. 107
45855Olympus,
45856Mt., in Cypros, between
45857Amathus and Cape Curias, 6. 379
45858Olympus, Mt., in eastern Cypros, hasa
45859temple of Aphrodité Acraea, 6. 377
45860Olympus (also called Phoenicus), Mt.,
45861in Lycia,
458626. 319;
45863where
45864is the
45865stronghold of Zenicetus, 6, 339
45866Olympus, not the Mysian; the name
45867of four peaks of Mt. Ida, 5, 103
45868Olympus, the Mysian mountain near
45869Mt.
45870Ida, 5, 103;
45871flocks
45872on,
458735,
p. 427
45874INDEX OF NAMES, PLACES, AND SUBJECTS
45875105; description and geographical
45876position of, 5, 497, 499
45877Olympus, Mt. in Pisatis, 4, 97
45878Olynthus, destruction of, as mentioned
45879by Demosthenes, 1. 465; settled by
45880Chalcidians, 8. 331; was 70 stadia
45881from Potidaea, and Macyperna, on
45882the Toronaean Gulf (Gulf of Kas-
45883sandra), was the naval station of,
45884and (see Cantharolethron) the beetle
45885called
45886‘‘ Cantharos’’
45887cannot
45888live
45889there, 8. 351; the cities subject to,
45890colonised by Chalcis, 5. 13
45891Olysipo (Lisbon), fortified by Brutus,
458922. 63
45893Omanus, a Persian deity; temple of,
45894at Zela
45895in Cappadocia,
458965. 263;
45897customs observed
45898in temples
45899of,
45900ΠΞ ἘΠῚ
45901Ombri (Umbri), the (see Ombrici)
45902Ombrica (Umbria); geographical posi-
45903tion of, 2. 335, 337; the pass leading
45904through,
459052. 369;
45906description
45907of,
459082. 369-373
45909Ombrici (Umbri), the, Ravenna now
45910vecupied by some of, 2. 315; have
45911intermingled with the Romany 2.
45912325; Ariminum and Ravenna are
45913settlements of, 2. 327; long at war
45914with the Sabini, 2. 465; country of,
45915colonised by Aeginetans, 4, 181
45916Omphalé; Atys the Lydian a descen-
45917dant of, by Heracles. 2. 337
45918Omphalion, father of Pantaleon, the
45919Pisatan general, 4. 123
45920Omphalos (“‘ navel’’), the, at Delphi,
45921the centre of Greece and of the
45922inhabited world, 4. 355
45923Onchesmus
45924(Santa
45925Quaranta),
45926the
45927harbour opposite Corcyra, 8. 299
45928Onchestus;
45929Medeon, at foot of Mt.
45930Phoenicius, lies near, and Onchestus
45931lies near Lake Copais, 4. 321; the
45932Amphictyonic Council used to meet
45933at, 4. 327;
45934situated on a height,
45935has a sacred precinct of Poseidon
45936and is bare of trees, but by Alcaeus
45937is wrongly
45938placed
45939near
45940the
45941ex-
45942tremities of Mt. Helicon, 4, 329
45943Oneian
45944(‘‘Ass’’)
45945Mountains,
45946the,
459474. 195 (see footnote 5), 251
45948Onesicritus (companion of Alexander
45949on expedition to India), wrote a
45950biography of Alexander the Great,
45951including a description of Asiatic
45952countries traversed by Alexander,
45953particularly India, and accompanied
45954the admiral Nearchus on a voyage
45955from the Indus River to the Persian
45956Gulf, but discredited by Strabo, 1.
45957263; reports the bad, not the good,
45958traits and customs of the Sogdians
45959and
45960Bactrians,
459615. 281;
45962on
45963the
45964Iliad of the Casket, 6. 56 (footnote
459651);
45966on the size of India, 7. 17;
45967says
45968that
45969the
45970hippopotamus
45971is
45972found in India, and gives the size
45973of Taprobané (Ceylon), 7. 21;
45974on
45975the growing of bosmorum in India,
459767. 29; on the flooding of the rivers
45977in India, 7. 31;
45978on the country
45979of Musicanus
45980in India,
45981and
45982on
45983the banyan tree there, 7. 33, 35;
45984on the complexion of the Aethi-
45985opians, 7. 39; tells incredible tales
45986about India, 7. 49; captured King
45987Porus
45988in India,
459897. 51;
45990on
45991the
45992mouths of the Indus River in India,
459937. 59; on the long life of elephants
45994in India, 7.75; on slavery in India,
459957.
4599691;
45997conversed
45998with
45999certain
46000sophists in India,
460017. 109-115 ; master
46002pilot of Alexander’s fleet, 7. 135;
46003on the various mines in Carmania,
460047. 153; on the Euphrates and the
46005Tigris, 7. 163;
46006on
46007the tomb
46008of
46009Cyrus at Pasargadae, and also on
46010the tomb of Dareius, 7. 167
46011Onesii, the hot springs of, in Aqui-
46012tania, 2. 217
46013Onion-market,
46014the,
46015Phoenicia, 7. 277
46016Onoba in Iberia, purposely built near
46017estuary, 2. 31
46018Onomarchus
46019the
46020Phocian
46021general,
46022robbed the temple at Delphi, 4.
46023359, 361
46024Onomatopoetic words, abound in the
46025Greek language, 6. 308
46026Onthurian
46027rite, the, transmitted
46028to
46029Metropolis from Onthurium, 4, 431
46030Onthurium in Thessaly, incorporated
46031into Metropolis, 4. 431
46032Onugnathus
46033(Elaphonisi),
46034Cape,
46035a
46036low-lying peninsula off which lies
46037Cythera, 4. 127;
46038has a harbour,
460394. 129
46040Onyx
46041stone,
46042slabs
46043of, found
46044near
46045pee by the miners of Archelaiis,
46046. 369
46047at
46048Ascalon
46049in
46050415
p. 428
46051INDEX OF NAMES, PLACES, AND SUBJECTS
46052Ophelas
46053(or Ophellas)
46054of Pella
46055in
46056Macedonia, ruler of Cyrené (322—
46057308 B.C.) and a historian;
46058wrote
46059a Circumnavigation of Libya, but
46060added a number of fabrications, 8.
46061159
46062Ophians, the, in Aetolia, 5. 29
46063Ophiodes, an island in the Arabian
46064Gulf; topaz found in, 7. 317
46065Ophiogeneis
46066(‘‘ Serpent-born’’),
46067the,
46068in the Troad;
46069mythical story of,
460706. 31
46071Ophiussa (A
46072fsia), one of the Pityussae ;
46073description of, 2. 125
46074Ophiussa, an earlier name of Rhodes,
460756. 273
46076Ophiussa, on the Tyras River, 3. 219
46077Ophlimus,
46078Mt.,
46079in
46080Asia,
46081protects
46082Phanaroea on the west, 5. 429
46083Ophrynium in the Troad, near which
46084is the sacred precinct of Hector,
460856. 59
46086Opici, the, once lived in Campania
46087and
46088are
46089also
46090called
46091Ausones,
460922.
46093435; ejected by the Sabini, 2. 465
46094Opis (to be identified, apparently, with
46095Seleuceia);
46096the village, about 200
46097stadia distant from the Euphrates,
460981. 305; on the Tigris River, 5. 329;
46099the
46100Tigris
46101River
46102navigable
46103to,
461047. 205
46105Opisthomarathus
46106in
46107Phocis,
46108Anticyra, 4. 369
46109Opitergium (Oderzo) in Italy, 2. 317
46110Opsicella in Iberia, founded by Ocelas,
46111a companion of Antenor, 2. 83
46112Opuntian Locrians, the, named after
46113their metropolis Opus, 4. 343
46114Opuntians, the, in Elis, claim kinship
46115with
46116the
46117Locrian
46118Opuntians,
461194.
46120379
46121Opuntians, Polity of the, by Aristotle,
461223. 289
46123Opus (near Gardinitza), damaged by
46124earthquake, 1. 225; the metropolis
46125of
46126the
46127Epicnemidian
46128Locrians,
461294, 341; the pillar dedicated by, at
46130Thermopylae;
4613115 stadia from the
46132sea and 60 from Cynus its seaport;
46133by Homer called the home of Patro-
46134clus, 4, 379
46135Oracle,
46136the,
46137of Zeus,
46138at Dodona,
46139deceived Alexander the Molossian,
461408. 17; founded by the Pelasgians,
46141now Virtually extinct, 3. 313; given
46142416
46143near
46144out to the Tyrians on the founding
46145of Gades,
461462. 135;
46147regarded by
46148Poseidonius
46149as a Phoenician
46150lie,
461512. 137;
46152of the dead at Avernus,
461532. 441, 443, 445;
46154given out at
46155Delphi to Archias, founder of Syra-
46156cuse, and to Myscellus, founder of
46157Croton,
461588.
4615971;
46160to
46161Phalanthus,
46162coloniser of Tarentum, 3. 109;
46163in
46164regard to the exchange of Delos
46165for Calauria and Delphi for Cape
46166Taenarum,
461674
46168173;
46169‘ Blest
46170is
46171Corinth,
46172but Tenea for me,’’ 4.
46173199; ordering Xenophon to buy a
46174plot of land for Artemis in Elis,
461754. 223;
46176at Dodona, advised the
46177Boeotiaus to commit sacrilege, 4,
46178285; in regard to flashes of light-
46179ning through Harma, 4. 293;
46180at
46181Delphi,
46182personally
46183consulted
46184by
46185‘gamemnon,
461864. 347;
46187of Apollo,
46188on Mt. Ptoiis, 4.329; of Trophonian
46189Zeus at Lebadeia, 4. 333; at Delphi,
46190described, 4. 353, the most truthful
46191of all oracles, 4. 355;
46192consulted
46193by Croesus and other foreigners,
461944. 357; devised by Apollo to help
46195mankind,
461964. 365;
46197of Abae,
46198in
46199Phocis,
462004.
46201369;
46202given
46203out
46204to
46205people of Aegium, meaning that
46206the Chalcidians are the best of all
46207fighters,
462085. 21;
46209for sleepers,
46210at
46211Aniaricé in Asia, 5. 251; in regard
46212to the Pyramus
46213River,
462145, 353;
46215oi the Sibyl, requiring the Romans
46216to bring to Italy certain statues
46217from
46218Galatia
46219and Epidaurus,
462205.
46221471; of Apollo Actaeus at Adrasteia,
46222abolished, as also that at Zeleia,
462236. 29; to the Teucrians, to remain
46224“where
46225the
46226earth-born
46227should
46228attack them,’’ 6. 95;
46229at Ammon,
46230and those of Sibylla, 8. 113
46231Oracles, the, at Delphi, given out in
46232words, but, at the temple of Ammon
46233and other places, mostly by nods
46234and signs, 8. 115
46235Orange, in France (see Arausio)
46236Oratory, the Asiatic style of, initiated
46237by Hegesias, 6. 253
46238Orbelus, Mt. (Perim-dagh),
46239on
46240the
46241northern boundary of Macedonia,
462428. 329
46243Orbis River, the, rises in the Cem-
46244menus Mountain, 2. 183
p. 429
46245INDEX OF NAMES, PLACES, AND SUBJECTS
46246Oreaorci, a town in Galatia;
46247region
46248of, cold and bare of trees, grazed
46249by wild asses, and has extremely
46250deep wells, 5. 473, 475
46251Orcheni, the, a tribe of the Chaldaean
46252philosophers, 7. 203
46253Orchistené, in Armenia, has a large
46254cavalry, 5. 323
46255Orchomenians, the, called by Homer
46256‘* Minyae,”’ joined the Thebans and
46257helped the Thebans to drive out
46258the Pelasgians and the Thracians,
462594. 283; Homer gives catalogue of,
46260separating them from the Boeotians,
462614. 335;
46262Lake Copais dry ground
46263and tilled in time of, 4. 339; emi-
46264grated when the waters overflowed
46265the plain, 4. 341; Mt. Acontius lies
46266near, and the Cephissus River flows
46267through, 4, 375
46268Orchomenus (Kalpaki), the Arcadian,
46269‘* abounding in flocks,’’ 4. 29;
46270no
46271longer exists, 4. 229
46272Orchomenus (Skripu), the Boeotian,
46273“* Minyeian,’’ 4. 29, 175; Chloris the
46274mother of Nestor came from, 4. 633
46275the site of, 4. 305, 333; a fissure in
46276the earth opened up near, admitting
46277the Melas River, and the Cephissus
46278River flows near, 4. 307; occupied
46279by the Boeotians after the Trojan
46280War,
462814. 323;
46282by Homer
46283called
46284“Minyeian,’’ and extremely wealthy,
462854, 335, 339
46286Orchomenus near Carystus in Euboea,
462874, 341
46288Ordona (see Herdonia)
46289Oreitae, the, a tribe in Asia, 7. 129
46290Oreitae,
46291the,
46292in Euboea,
46293formerly
46294called Histiaeans;
46295Philistides the
46296tyrant
46297of, 5. 7; fought
46298by the
46299Ellopians, 5. 9
46300Oreithyia, snatched up by Boreas the
46301North Wind, 3. 175
46302Ores, found in mountains between the
46303Anas and Tagus Rivers, 2. 25
46304Orestae, the, an Epeirote tribe, 3. 307,
46305327, 341; annexed to Macedonia,
463064. 417
46307Orestes, son of Agamemnon, said to
46308have occupied Orestias and left it
46309bearing
46310his name,
46311and
46312to have
46313founded
46314a city which
46315he called
46316Argos Oresticum, 3.307; Tisamenus
46317the son of, powerful king of Achaea,
463184. 211;
46319sons of, despatched the
46320Aeolian fleet from Aulis to Asia,
463214. 283;
46322with Iphigeneia, thought
46323to have brought sacred
46324rites
46325in
46326honour of Artemis Tauropolus to
46327Comana in Cappadocia, 5. 353, 359;
46328first leader of the Aeolian colonisa-
46329tions, but died in Arcadia, 6. 7
46330Orestes,
46331the,
46332of
46333Euripides,
46334where
46335“Argos ’’ and ‘* Mycenae’”’ are used
46336synonymously, 4. 187
46337Orestias, occupied by Orestes and so
46338named by him, 8. 307; used to be
46339called a part of Upper Macedonia,
463408. 309;
46341geographical position of,
463428. 325; said to have been the earlier
46343name of Pelagonia, 3. 363
46344Oretania, borders on Turdetania, 2.
4634519; cities of, Castalo and Oria, very
46346powerful, 2. 65; mountain-chain in,
4634781: traversed by the Baetis, 2.
46348Oretanians, the, in Iberia; geographi-
46349cal position of, 2. 13, 65, 81, 103;
46350extend almost to Malaca, 2. 105
46351Oreus (Histiaea in early times, now
46352Orei) in Huboea; walls and houses
46353of, collapsed because of earthquake,
463541. 223; Philistides the tyrant
46355of,
46356and site and history of, 5. 7, 9
46357Oria,
46358a
46359district
46360of
46361Histiaeotis
46362in
46363Euboea, 5. 7
46364Oria (see Uria)
46365Oria (now, apparently, Nuestra Senora
46366de Oreto), in Iberia;
46367a powerful
46368city, 2. 65
46369Oricum (Frico), in Illyria, 8. 267
46370Orion, the;
46371the bird in India that
46372has the sweetest voice, 7. 123
46373Orion, reared at Oreus in Euboea, 5. 9
46374Ormenium (or Orminium) in Thessaly ;
46375territory of, now regarded as belong-
46376ing to Magnesia, 4. 407; inhabitants
46377of, transferred to Demetrias, 4. 423 ;
46378@ village at the foot of Mt. Pelion,
4637927 stadia from Demetrias and 20
46380from Jolcus, 4. 433, and the home
46381of Phoenix, 4. 435
46382Ormenus
46383the
46384king,
46385grandfather
46386of
46387Phoenix; the ditferent accounts of,
463884. 435
46389Orminium (see Ormenium)
46390Ornaments,
46391barbaric,
46392of women
46393in
46394Iberia, 2. 109, 111
46395Orneae
46396in
46397Argolis;
46398unknown
46399to
46400417
p. 430
46401INDEX OF NAMES, PLACES, AND SUBJECTS
46402Homer, and bears the same name
46403as the city between Corinth and
46404Sicyon, 4. 183
46405Orneae near Corinth, now deserted,
46406formerly well peopled and had a
46407highly revered temple of Priapus,
464084. 205, 6. 27
46409Orneiae, the Homerie (see Orneae),
464104.185
46411Ornithes
46412(‘‘ Birds’’), City of (Orni-
46413thopolis), between Tyre and Sidon,
464147. 271
46415Ornithopolis (see Ornithes)
46416Oroatis River, the, in Persis, 7. 155;
46417about 2000 stadia from the Pasiti-
46418gris, 7. 163
46419Orobiae, or Orobia, in Euboea, now
46420Rovias (destroyed by a tidal wave
46421426 B.C.), near Aegae, 4.297; where
46422was an oracle of Apollo Selinuntius,
464235.7
46424Orodes, the Parthian king, surnamed
46425“* Arsaces,’’ 7. 63, 237 (footnote 3)
46426Orontes, descendant of Hydarnes, once
46427held Armenia, 5. 337
46428Orontes
46429River
46430(Nabhr-el-Asi),
46431the
46432(formerly
46433called
46434Typhon),
46435flows
46436underground for a distance between
46437Apameia and Antiocheia,
464383. 93;
464391130 stadia from Orthosia, 6. 333;
46440course of, 6. 357; in Syria, 7. 243;
46441course
46442of, 7. 245, 247, 249, 251;
46443sources of, 7. 265
46444Oropus, on the common boundary of
46445Attica and Boeotia; has often been
46446disputed territory, 1. 245, 4, 273;
46447across
46448the strait
4644940 stadia from
46450Eretria,
464514. 289,
46452291;
46453temple
46454of
46455Amphiaraiis and monument of Nar-
46456cissus near, 4, 293
46457Oros, Hieron (see Hieron Oros)
46458Orospeda, the mountain, in Iberia;
46459geographical position of, 2. 97
46460Orpheus, lived at Pimpleia in southern
46461Macedonia;
46462wizard, musician, and
46463soothsayer, 3. 339;
46464Thamyris the
46465Thracian like, 3. 357; the rites of,
46466originated among the Thracians, 5.
46467105;
46468a Thracian himself, 5. 109;
46469a prophet often consulted, 7. 289
46470Orphic arts, the, 5. 121
46471Orris-root (see Iris, the Selgic)
46472Orthagoria in Thrace, 3, 367
46473Orthagoras, says the isle Ogyris lies
464742000 stadia from Carmania, 7, 305
46475418
46476Orthanés, Attic deity similar to Pria-
46477pus, 6. 29
46478Orthé, the Homeric, subject to Poly-
46479poetes, 4. 437; by some called the
46480acropolis of the Phalannaeans, 4,
46481439
46482Orthopolis, ἃ city in Macedonia, 3. 361
46483Orthosia in Caria, 6. 261
46484Orthosia in Phoenicia, 7. 255, 259,
46485265;
464863650 stadia from Pelusium
46487and 1130 from the Orontes River,
464887. 281
46489Orthosia in Syria, 3900 stadia from
46490Pelusium, 6. 333
46491Ortilochus, the home of, in Pherae,
46492visited by Telemachus, 4, 147
46493Orton (Ortona), the port-town of the
46494Frentani, 2. 433
46495Ortospana in Asia; geographical posi-
46496tion of, 5. 271
46497“Ortygia,’”’ name of nurse at travail
46498of Leto, 6. 223
46499Ortygia, a grove above Ephesus, said
46500to be the scene of the travail of
46501Leto,
46502whose
46503nurse
46504was
46505named
46506“* Ortygia,’’ 6. 223
46507Ortygia, the earlier name of Rheneia,
46508the desert isle near Delos, 5. 167
46509Ortygia, the island off Syracuse, 3.
4651075, 79
46511Osca (Huesca), in Iberia; geographical
46512position of, and where Sertorius was
46513killed, 2. 99
46514Oscan tribe, the Sidicini an, 2. 435
46515Osci, the; country and dialect of, 2.
46516395; have disappeared, 2.413; the
46517mountains of, 2. 435;
46518once held
46519Herculaneum and Pompeii, 2. 453
46520Osimo (see Auxumum)
46521Osiris, the asylum of, in Aegypt, 8.
4652273; mythical story of, 8.75; same
46523as the bull Apis, 8. 87;
46524rites at
46525temple of, 8. 117
46526Osismii (Ostimii), the, live on a pro-
46527montory in Celtica, 2. 237
46528Ossa, Mt., in Greece, broken off from
46529Olympus, 1. 223; neighbourhood of,
46530once inhabited by the Aenianians,
465311. 227; compared with the Alps, 2.
46532293; belongs to Thessaly, 3. 335;
46533held by Demetrias, 4. 393, 425;
46534split off from Mt. Olympus by earth-
46535quakes, 4, 397 ; the Dotian Plain lies
46536near, 4,449; the voyage along coast
46537of, long and rough, 4, 451
p. 431
46538INDEX OF NAMES, PLACES, AND SUBJECTS
46539Ossa, Mt., in Pisatis, 4. 97
46540Ossero Island (see Apsyrtides)
46541Ossonoba in Iberia, purposely built
46542near estuary, 2. 31
46543Ostia, receives exports from Turde-
46544tania, 2.35; the port of the Roman
46545navy, 2. 335;
46546distance from, to
46547Luna, 2. 347; various distances to,
465482. 363, 365; first city on seaboard
46549of Latium, and founded by Ancus
46550Marcius, 2. 391
46551Ostimians, the, falsified by Pytheas,
465521. 235; cape of, 1. 239
46553Ostimii, the (see Osismii)
46554Ostrich, the;
46555a bird similar to, in
46556Aethiopia, 7. 325
46557Othryadas, the Lacedaemonian general,
46558won victory over the Argives, 4. 183
46559Othryoneus of Cabesus, slain by Ido-
46560meneus, 6. 79
46561Othrys (Mavrika), Mt., in Thessaly,
46562whence flows the Hnipeus River, 4.
4656399, 409, 421
46564Otranto (see Hydrus)
46565Otreus;
46566Otroea
46567on
46568the borders
46569of
46570Bithynia supposedly named after,
465715. 465
46572Otroea, a town above the Ascanian
46573Lake and onthe borders of Bithynia,
465745. 465
46575““Otus,
46576a
46577Cyllenian,
46578chief
46579of the
46580Epeians’’ (Homer), from the city
46581Cyllené in Elis, 4. 25, 5. 49
46582Ovidiopol (see Niconia)
46583Ovis musimon (see Musmones)
46584Ovrio-kastro (see Rhamnus)
46585Oxeiae (the Homeric 'Thoae) Islands,
46586the, 5. 55; subject to Meges, 5. 59
46587Oxen,
46588fattened
46589on
46590date-stones
46591in
46592Babylonia, 7. 215; in Nabataea in
46593Arabia are large, 7. 369
46594Ox-hide, a;
46595Iberia shaped like, 1.
46596489, 2.5
46597Oxineia, on the Ion River, 120 stadia
46598from Azorus in Pelagonia, 3. 311
46599Oxus, the fortified rock of, in Sogdiana,
46600seized by Alexander, 5. 285
46601Oxus River, the; easily navigable, 1.
46602275; mouth of, 4800 stadia from
46603the Caspian Sea, 5. 245; traverses
46604Hyrcania, 5. 253; the Arachoti and
46605Massagetae live along, 5. 269; forms
46606boundary
46607between
46608Sogdiana
46609and
46610Bactria, 5. 281;
46611empties into the
46612Caspian Sea, 5. 287
46613Oxyartes, kept his daughter Rhoxana,
46614who is said to have married Alex-
46615ander, at the fortified rock of Sisi-
46616mithres, 5. 283, 285
46617Oxyathres,
46618brother of Dareius and
46619father of Amastris, 5. 385
46620Oxya-tree, the, abounds in the neigh-
46621bourhood of Mt. Olympus in Asia,
466225. 489
46623Oxybii, the, a tribe of the Ligures,
46624. 265
46625Oxybius Harbour, the, so named from
46626the Oxybian Ligures, 2. 195
46627Oxylus, the Eleian, son of Haemon
46628and
46629descendant
46630of Aetolus
46631and
46632leader of the Heracleidae, 4.9; with
46633the Aetolians,
46634returned
46635with the
46636Heracleidae, settled with the Epei-
46637ans, enlarging Coelé Elis and seizing
46638Olympia, 4. 91; Ephorus’ account
46639of, 4.103; coloniser of Elis, 4. 235;
46640crossed
46641over
46642from
46643Aetolia
46644and
46645settled Elis; statue of, in market-
46646place of the Eleians, 5. 77
46647Oxyrynchus, near the Nile, where the
46648oxyrynchus (‘* sharp-snouted ”’ fish)
46649is revered, and where is a temple of
46650Oxyrynchus, 8. 109
46651Oxyrynchus, the, a fish indigenous to
46652the Nile, 8. 149
46653Oyarzun in Iberia (see Oeaso)
46654Oysters, both large and abundant on
46655the ocean-coast of Iberia, and the
46656reason why, 2. 35, and in the Tagus
46657River, 2. 65, and near the outlets
46658of the Rhodanus, 2. 191
46659Oyster-shells,
46660found
466612000
46662or
466633000
46664stadia inland;
46665explanation
46666of, 1.
46667181; found in great quantities in
46668the plains of Masaesylia, 8. 179
46669Ozolian, or Hesperian (q.v.), Locrians,
46670the, have the star Hesperus
46671en-
46672graved on their public seal, 4, 343;
46673geographical position of, 4. 349, 377;
46674origin of name of, 4. 385;
46675were
46676colonists
46677from
46678the
46679Epicnemidian
46680Locrians, and colonised Epizephyrii
46681in Italy, 4. 387
4668212
46683Paches, the Athenian
46684general, cap-
46685tured Mitylené and Troy (427 B.0.),
466866. 79
46687Pachynus (Passero), Cape, in Sicily;
46688419
p. 432
46689INDEX OF NAMES, PLACES, AND SUBJECTS
46690distance from, to Criumetopon in
46691Crete and to Strait of Sicily, 1. 407;
46692one of the three capes of Sicily, 3.
4669355, 57;
4669450 Roman
46695miles from
46696Camarina and 36 from Syracuse, 3.
4669759; 4000 stadia from the Alpheius,
466988. 61;
466994600
46700stadia
46701from
46702Cape
46703Taenarum, 4, 127
46704Pacorus (eldest son of Orodes the king
46705of Parthia, with Labienus overran
46706Syria and part of Asia Minor, but
46707was defeated in 39 B.C. by Ventidius,
46708a legate of Antony.
46709Again invaded
46710Syria but
46711fell
46712in battle there);
46713reverses of, 7. 237; killed by Venti-
46714dius, 7. 247
46715Pactolus
46716River,
46717the,
46718rises
46719in Mt.
46720Tmolus, 5. 421; once brought down
46721quantities of gold-dust, 6. 173
46722Pacton, a boat made of withes, used at
46723Philae, an isle in the Nile, 8. 131
46724Pactyé on the Propontis, 3. 373, 375,
46725377
46726Pactyes,
46727Mt.,
46728in the
46729territory
46730of
46731Ephesus, 6. 249
46732Padua (see Patavium)
46733Padus (Po) River, the, 2. 271; the
46734largest of all European rivers except
46735the Ister, 2. 227, 271, 273, 295, 307,
46736309, 311, 313, 327, 329, 435
46737Paean, the, to Apollo, originated at the
46738slaying of the Python by Apollo at
46739Delphi, 4. 367
46740Paeanismos, the, of the Thracians,
46741called titanismos by the Greeks, 3.
46742363
46743Paeans,
46744the
46745Cretic,
46746invented
46747by
46748Thales, 5. 147; adopted at Sparta,
467495. 151
46750Paeonia, boundaries of, 3. 251, 275,
46751325, 553;
46752land of, contains gold
46753nuggets,
467543. 355;
46755the Axius and
46756Strymon Rivers flow from, 3. 361;
46757traditions about, 3. 363
46758Paeonians, the, in Asia, mentioned by
46759Homer, 6.117; in Trojan battles, 6.
46760151
46761Paeonians, the, a Thracian tribe, lived
46762in Amphaxitis, t.e. on both sides of
46763the Axius River, 3. 331, 333, 341,
46764345; in early times, as now, occu-
46765pied much of Macedonia, 3. 363
46766Paerisades (see Parisades)
46767Paeseni, the, in the Troad, changed
46768their abode to Lampsacus, 6. 35
46769420
46770Paestan Gulf, the (see Poseidonian
46771Gulf)
46772Paesus (or Apaesus), a city and river
46773between Parium and Lampsacus, 6.
467743 Gone colonised by Milesians,
46775Pagae
46776(Psatho),
46777a
46778stronghold
46779in
46780Megaris,
46781nearly 350 stadia from
46782Peiraeus, 4.197, 243 ; situated in the
46783ratte recess of the Corinthian Gulf,
46784Pagasae (Angistri) in Thessaly, sea-
46785port of Pherae, and 90 stadia from
46786it, 4. 423
46787Pagasitic Gulf,the; position of, onthe
46788Aegaean, 3. 353, 4, 425, 433
46789Pago, one of the Liburnides, 3. 259
46790Pagrae, a stronghold near Antiocheia
46791in Syria, 7. 247
46792Palacium, a fort in the Crimea (site
46793unknown), built by Scilurus and his
46794sons, 3. 247
46795Palacus, son of Scilurus, a prince in the
46796Tauric Chersonese, assisted by the
46797Roxolani in his war against Mithri-
46798dates, 3. 223, 235
46799“ Palae,’’ apparently a native Iberian
46800word for “‘ nuggets,’’ 2. 41
46801Palaea in Asia, 130 stadia from An-
46802deira, 6. 131
46803Palaea, a town in Cypros, 6. 379
46804Palaea-Akhaia (see Olenus in Achaea)
46805Pelsehybuas (Old Byblus) in Syria, 7.
46806Palaeo-Episcopi (see Gomphi)
46807Palaeo-Episcopi (see Tegea)
46808Palaeokastro in Euboea (see Eretria)
46809Palaeokastro (see Lilaea in Phocis)
46810Palaeokastro near Navarino (see Pylus,
46811the Messenian)
46812Palaeokastro (see Thuria)
46813Palaeopoli near Klituras (see Cleitor)
46814Palaeopoli (see Mantineia)
46815Palaepaphos
46816in Cypros, where is a
46817Level of the Paphian Aphrodité, 6.
46818Palaephaetus, author of a work On
46819Incredible
46820Things;
46821opinions
46822of,
46823approved by Demetrius of Scepsis,
46824= 101: on the Homeric Halizones,
46825Palaepharsalus in Thessaly; Pompey
46826fled from, to Aegypt, 8. 47
46827Palaerus in Acarnania, 5. 25, 61
46828Palaescepsis
46829(Old
46830Scepsis),
46831in the
p. 433
46832INDEX OF NAMES, PLACES, AND SUBJECTS
46833Troad, 6. 89, 91, 101; lay near the
46834highest part of Mt. Ida, but its
46835inhabitants were removed to the
46836present Scepsis, 60 (260?) stadia
46837lower down, 6. 105
46838Palaestine, whither
46839Minaeans
46840and
46841Gerrhaeans convey their aromatics,
468421. 343
46843Palamedes, The, of Euripides, quoted,
468445. 103
46845Palamedes, the son of Nauplius, 4. 151
46846Palatium,
46847the,
46848walled
46849by the
46850first
46851founders of Rome, 2.3993; the works
46852of art on, 2. 409
46853Paleis, a city in Cephallenia, 5. 47, 49,
4685451
46855Palermo (see Panormus)
46856Palestrina (see Praeneste)
46857Palibothra (or Palimbothra) in India,
46858on the Ganges River, 7. 17, 125;
46859description of, 7. 68
46860Palici, the, territory of, in Sicily, has
46861craters that spout up water, 3. 91
46862Palinthus (Plinthus ?), the name of the
46863tomb of Danaiis at Argos, 4. 163
46864Palinuro, Cape (see Palinurus)
46865Palinurus
46866(Palinuro),
46867Cape
46868of, in
46869Italy, 3. 5
46870Paliurus, in Cyrenaea, 8. 207
46871Pallades,
46872or
46873pallacides
46874(‘* dedicated
46875maidens’’),
46876the,
46877at
46878Aegyptian
46879Thebes, 8. 125
46880Pallantia (Palencia), in Iberia, belongs
46881to the Arvacans, 2. 103
46882Pallas,
46883‘‘ breeder of giants,’’
46884son of
46885King Pandion,
46886received
46887southern
46888Atthis (Attica) from his father, 4.
46889247, 249
46890Pallené (in earlier times called Phlegra,
46891but now Kassandra), the Macedo-
46892nian peninsula, 3. 349; where the
46893Trojan women set on fire the ships
46894of their Greek
46895captors,
468963. 351;
46897colonised by the Eretrians, 5, 13
46898Palm, the; most abundant in Baby-
46899lonia, at Susa, and on the coast of
46900Persis and Carmania, 7. 201;
46901360
46902uses of, 7. 215; limited cultivation
46903of, by Judaeans, in order to increase
46904revenues,
469058. 61;
46906in general not
46907of good species in Aegypt, though
46908good in Judaea, 8. 133; found in
46909abundance in Aethiopia, 8. 145
46910Palma, a city on the larger of the
46911Gymunesiae, 2. 128
46912Palm-trees, great grove of, in Plain
46913of Jericho, 7. 291;
46914abundant
46915in
46916region of Cape Deiré in Aethiopia,
469177.331; excellent grove of, near Cape
46918Poseidium on the Arabian Gulf, 7.
46919341
46920Palms, the sweet-smelling, in Arabia,
469211. 347
46922Palmys, the Homeric, led forces from
46923Ascania, 5. 461
46924Paltus in Syria, where Memnon was
46925buried, 7. 159, 255
46926Pamboeotian Festival, the, held at the
46927temple of Athené near Coroneia, 4.
46928325
46929Pamisus (Mavrozumenos) River, the,
46930flows in Messenia, and is not the
46931boundary
46932between
46933Laconia
46934and
46935Messenia, as HKuripides says, 4. 87,
46936117, 143
46937Pamisus River, the, a torrential stream
46938flowing near
46939the Laconian Leuc-
46940trum, 4. 119
46941Pamisus (or Amathus) River, the, in
46942Triphylia, flows past the Lepreatic
46943Pylus, 4. 21, 31, 51, 119
46944Pamphylia in Asia;
46945the Chelidoniae
46946Islands at beginning of coast of, 5.
46947295;
46948borders
46949on
46950Lycia,
469516. 311;
46952description of, 6. 323-325
46953Pamphylian Sea, the, 1. 481; boun-
46954daries of, 6. 375
46955Pamphylians,
46956the,
46957in
46958Asia,
46959not
46960mentioned by Homer,
469615. 423, 6.
46962363;
46963do not wholly abstain from
46964piracy, 5. 4813; engaged in piracy,
46965and gained mastery of the sea as
46966far as Italy,
469676. 313;
46968said to be
46969descendants
46970of
46971the
46972peoples
46973led
46974from Troy by Calchas and Amphilo-
46975chus, 6. 325
46976Pan, the god, worshipped at Mendes
46977in Aegypt, 8. 69; and at Meroé, 8.
46978147
46979Panaenus,
46980the painter,
46981assisted
46982his
46983uncle Pheidias in making the image
46984of Zeus in the temple at Olympia,
46985and
46986also
46987made
46988many
46989paintings
46990therefor, 4. 89
46991Panaetius the philosopher;
46992Apollo-
46993nius of Nysa the best of disciples of,
469946. 263; native of Rhodes, 6. 279;
46995reputed to have been pupil of Crates
46996of Mallus, 6. 355
46997Panaria (see Euonymus)
46998421
p. 434
46999INDEX OF NAMES, PLACES, AND SUBJECTS
47000Panchaea, the Land of, an invention
47001reported by Euhemerus, 3. 191
47002Pandareus
47003(see
47004Pandarus),
47005the
47006Homeric, said to haye been from
47007Lycia, 6. 317
47008Pandarus, the Homeric; Lyciasubject
47009to,
470105.
47011461;
47012‘“‘glorious
47013son
47014of
47015Lycaon ”’ and leader of the Lycians
47016in the Trojan War, 6. 19;
47017wor-
47018shipped at Pinara in Lycia, and
47019identified with the Homeric Pan-
47020dareus, 6. 317
47021Pandateria (Ventotene), small island
47022epposite Minturnae in Italy, 1. 473,
47023. 399
47024Pandion, king of Atthis (Attica), 4.
47025247; father ofthe Lycus whosettled
47026in Lycia, 5. 493, 6. 323
47027Pandion, the king, in India, sent gifts
47028to Augustus Caesar, 7. ὃ
47029Pandora, the mother of Deucalion;
47030southern Thessaly named after, 4.
47031453
47032Pandosia (Castel Franco or Anglona ?),
47033in Bruttium;
47034a strong
47035fortress,
47036where Alexander the Molossian was
47037killed, 3. 17
47038Pandosia (Kastri) in Thesprotia, 8. 17,
47039301
47040Paneium (Sanctuary of Pan), the, at
47041Alexandria; description of, 8. 41
47042Pangaeum (Pirnari), Mt., near Philippi
47043in Macedonia, has gold and silver
47044mines, 3. 355, 363; mines at, source
47045of wealth of Cadmus, 6. 369
47046“‘Panhellenes,”’
47047critics
47048in
47049dispute
47050about meaning of term, 4. 157
47051Pan-Ionian festival, the, at Panionium
47052in Asia, 6. 221
47053Pan-Ionian
47054sacrifices,
47055the, in Asia
47056Minor, 4, 213
47057Panionium, the, on the seaboard of the
47058Ephesians, where the Pan-Ionian
47059festival is held, and where sacrifices
47060are performed in honour of the Heli-
47061conian Poseidon, 6. 221
47062Panitza River (see Inachus, in the
47063Argolid)
47064Panna, a Samnite city, 2. 463
47065Pannonia, description of, 3. 253
47066Pannonians, the; country of, 2. 289;
47067names of tribes of, and position of
47068territory of, 3. 257, 271
47069Panopeans, the; boundary of territory
47070of, 4. 373
47071422
47072Panopeus
47073(or Phanoteus,
47074g.v.)
47075in
47076Phocis, lies above the territory of
47077Orchomenus, 4. 341; near Lebadeia,
47078native land of Epeius, and scene of
47079the myth of Tityus, 4. 371
47080Panopolis, an old settlement of linen-
47081workers, 8. 111
47082Panormo (see Panormus)
47083Panormus, the harbour, near Ephesus,
47084where
47085is a temple
47086of Ephesian
47087Artemis, 6. 223
47088Panormus (Panormo), the seaport of
47089Oricum (Eriko), in Illyria, 3. 267;
47090a large harbour at centre of the
47091Ceraunian Mountains, 3. 299
47092Panormus
47093(Palermo)
47094in
47095Sicily,
4709635
47097Roman
47098miles
47099from
47100the
47101Himera
47102River, 3. 57; has a Roman settle-
47103ment, 3. 81
47104Pans, the, with wedge-shaped heads,
471051-288: attendants of Dionysus, 5.
47106105
47107Pantaleon, the Pisatan general, who
47108joined the Messenians in the Second
47109Messenian War, 4. 123
47110Pantellaria (see Cossura)
47111Panticapaeum (Kertch), the metro-
47112polis of the Bosporians; the frosts
47113at, 1.277; acolony ofthe Milesians,
47114long ruled as a monarchy, 3. 237;
47115the
47116greatest
47117emporium,
471183. 239;
47119founded
47120by the Greeks, 5. 197;
47121metropolis of the European Bos-
47122porians, 5. 199
47123Panxani, the;
47124a nomadic tribe be-
47125tween Lake Maeotis and the Caspian
47126Sea, 5. 243
47127Panypertaté, meaning of, in Homer as
47128applied to Ithaca, 5. 41, 43
47129Paphlagonia, the Heneti of, settled a
47130colony
47131in
47132Italy,
471332.
47134235,
47135307;
47136the Cauconiatae in, identified with
47137the Cauconians who came as allies
47138of the Trojans, 4. 55; borders on
47139Cappadocia, 5. 345; certain parts
47140of, once held by Mithridates Eupa-
47141tor, 5. 371;
47142certain places in, 5.
47143449-453;
47144Deiotarus, son of Castor
47145and surnamed Philadelphus, the last
47146king of, 5, 453
47147Paphlagonian
47148kings, the;
47149failed, 3. 145
47150Paphlagonians,
47151the, not mentioned
47152by Homer, 3. 189;
47153the Eneti (or
47154Heneti) the most notable tribe of,
47155line
47156of,
p. 435
47157INDEX OF NAMES, PLACES, AND SUBJECTS
471585. 381; the boundaries of country
47159of—and by Herodotus called the
47160“‘White
47161Syrians,’’
471625.
47163383,
47164385;
47165Homer ignorant of seaboard of, 5.
47166423;
47167have many temples on Mt.
47168Olgassys, 5. 449;
47169tribes of, men-
47170tioned by Homer, 6. 361
47171Paphus
47172in
47173Cypros,
47174founded
47175by
47176Agapenor, 6, 381, 383
47177Papyrus
47178(see Byblus);
47179transported
47180from Tyrrhenia to Rome, 2. 367;
47181found round the edges of a lake
47182near Cape Deiré in Aethiopia, 7. 331
47183Paracheloitae in Phthiotis, subject to
47184Achilles, 4. 412
47185Paracheloitis,
47186tm
47187Acarnania
47188and
47189Aetolia;
47190formed by silt from the
47191Acheloiis River, 5.57; rendered dry
47192by Achilles, 5. 59
47193Parachoathras, Mt., the, in Armenia,
471945. 259, 299, 319; the Cadusii live
47195at foot of, 5. 269
47196Paradeisus, a place in Syria, 7. 265
47197Paradoxes, the, of the Stoics, 2. 145
47198Paraetacae (see Paraetaceni), the, in
47199Aturia;
47200the Araxes
47201River
47202flows
47203from country of, 7.165; country of,
47204borders on Babylonia, 7. 193, 203
47205Paraetacené, borders on Carmania, 7.
47206221
47207Paraetaceni,
47208the;
47209the mountainous
47210country of, 5. 301;
47211a predatory
47212tribe
47213bordering
47214on
47215Greater
47216Ar-
47217menia and Persia, 5. 309, 7. 173,
47218but engage mainly in agriculture,
472197. 221
47220Paraetonium (or Ammonia) in Aegypt,
47221a city on the coast west of Alexan-
47222dria, 8. 55; Alexander set out from,
47223to the temple of Ammon, 8. 115
47224Paralus, founded Clazomenae in Asia,
472256. 201
47226Paralysis, afflicted the Roman soldiers
47227in Arabia, 7. 359
47228Parapotamia,
47229the,
47230of the Arabian
47231chieftains, 7. 255
47232Parapotamia in Phocis (or Parapo-
47233tamii, q.v.)
47234Parapotamii in Phocis, through which
47235flows the Cephissus River, 4. 307;
47236near Mt. Acontius,
472374. 341;
47238geo-
47239graphical position of, according to
47240Theopompus, 4. 373;
47241the narrow
47242pass near, 4. 375
47243Parasang, the Persian, equals 60 stadia
47244according to some, but 30 or 40
47245according to others, 5, 287
47246Parasopia, in the Trachinian Heracleia,
47247through which the Asopus
47248flows,
472494. 313;
47250in the Oetaean country
47251(see Parasopias), 4. 415
47252Parasopias
47253(see
47254Parasopia
47255in
47256the
47257Trachinian
47258Heracleia),
47259in
47260the
47261Oetaean country, 4. 415
47262Parasopii, a village in the Trachinian
47263Heracleia, 4. 205, 313
47264Parasopii, the, in Boeotia,
47265divided
47266into
47267several
47268settlements
47269by the
47270Asopus River, 4. 315
47271Parati, the, a tribe in Sardinia, 2. 361
47272“ Pareisactus,’’
47273nickname
47274of
47275the
47276Ptolemy from Syria, 8. 37
47277Parhelia, the, in the clouds (“ mock-
47278suns ’’), 3. 227
47279Parian
47280marble,
47281the;
47282sculpture, 5. 171
47283Parians, the, in the Troad, founded the
47284island Paros, later called Pharos, in
47285the Adriatic, 3. 261, 263; founded
47286Thasos, as also Parium on the Pro-
47287pontis, 5. 169; curried favour with
47288the Attalic kings, and thus gained
47289more territory, 6. 31
47290Parians, the, a tribe of Daae above
47291Lake Maeotis, 5. 275
47292Paris,
47293with
47294Helen,
47295entertained
47296in
47297Sidon, 1. 149;
47298would have saved
47299Greeks and barbarians from ruin if
47300he
47301had
47302been’
47303shipwrecked
47304on
47305voyage to Sparta, 2. 189; stopped
47306with Helen on the island ‘* Cranaé”’
47307(Helené, now Makronisi), 4. 273;
47308tomb of, in Cebrenia in the Troad,
473096. 65;
47310the Judgment of, said to
47311have taken place on Mt. Alexan-
47312dreia above Antandrus, 6. 103
47313Parisades (or Paerisades), king of the
47314Cimmerian Bosporus, presented his
47315country to Mithridates, 8, 235, 237;
47316regarded as god, 8, 239
47317Parisii, the, live about the Sequana
47318(Seine) River, 2. 233
47319Parisus (or Tisia, now Theiss) River,
47320the, the boundary between Illyria
47321and Dacia, 3. 253 (see footnote 4)
47322Parium, city in the Troad, founded
47323by the Parians, 6, 9; noted for
47324its altar, its sides beinga stadiumin
47325length, 5, 171; temple of Apollo
47326Actaeus and Artemis, transferred |o0,
47327423
47328the
47329best
47330for
p. 436
47331INDEX OF NAMES, PLACES, AND SUBJECTS
47332from Adrasteia, 6. 29; description,
47333mythical story, and founders of, 6.
4733431
47335Parma, a famous city in Cispadana, 2.
47336327
47337Parmenides of Elea in Italy (b. about
47338510 B.C.), philosopher and poet, and
47339author of didactic poem On Nature,
47340of which only fragments remain;
47341originator of division of earth into
47342five
47343zones,
473441. 361;
47345the Pytha-
47346goreian, 3. 3
47347Parmenio, built temple of Jason at
47348Abdera in Thrace, 5. 333
47349Parmenio, father of Philotas, put to
47350death
47351at Ecbatana
47352by order
47353of
47354Alexander, 7. 145
47355Parnassus, Mt., compared with the
47356Alps, 2. 293; borders on Orestis, 3.
47357327; visible from Acrocorinthus, 4.
47358195;
47359rivalled by Helicon both in
47360height and in circuit, 4.319; belongs
47361to Phocis, forms its western boun-
47362dary, divides Locris into two parts,
47363and extends into Doris, 4. 343, 349;
47364the whole
47365of, considered
47366sacred
47367because of its caves and other places
47368that are deemed holy, 4. 345;
47369a
47370beetling cliff of, 4.371; the Western,
47371or Ozalian, Locrians separated from
47372the Epicnemidiansand Opuntians by,
473734.377; at right angles to Mt. Oeta,
473744. 389
47375Paropamisadae, the, a tribe of moun-
47376taineers, 1. 497; in India, 7, 13, 25,
47377141;
47378geographical position of, 7.
47379143
47380Paropamisus,
47381Mt.,
47382a
47383part
47384of the
47385Caucasus,
473865. 259;
47387Bactriana lies
47388alongside, 5. 269; in India, 7. 15,
4738945, 143, 147
47390Paroraea,
47391the,
47392in Epeirus,
47393whence
47394flows the Aratthus River, 3. 303
47395Paroraei, the, an Epeirote tribe, 3. 307
47396Parorbelia, a district of Macedonia, 3.
47397361
47398Paroreatae, the, in the mountains of
47399Triphylia, 4. 59
47400Paros, the island; the marble-rock in,
474012. 357; an Asopus River in, 4. 205;
47402one of the Cyclades Islands, 5. 165;
47403noted for its marble, 5. 171; the
47404home of Scopas the sculptor, 6. 95
47405Parrhasians (also called Parsians), the,
47406in Asia, 5. 249
47407424
47408Parrhasians, the, in the Peloponnesus,
474094.19; an ancient Arcadian tribe, 4,
47410227
47411Parrhasius the celebrated painter (fl.
47412about 400 B.C.), native of Ephesus,
474136. 231
47414Parsians, the (see Parrhasians)
47415Parsley (see Staphylini), an herb like,
47416in Iberia, yields a deadly poison
47417used for suicide, 2. 115
47418Parthenia, one of the earlier names of
47419the Ionian Samos, 5. 53, 6. 215
47420Partheniae (“‘ Children of Virgins’’),
47421the,
47422deprived
47423of the
47424rights
47425of
47426citizenship after the Messenian War,
474278. 107, 109;
47428colonised Tarentum,
474298. 109, 113
47430Parthenias
47431(Bakireika)
47432River,
47433the,
47434flows near Olympia, 4. 101
47435Parthenium in the Crimea, a village
47436on the Cimmerian Bosporus where
47437the strait is narrowest, 3. 241, 5. 197
47438Parthenium, Cape (Cape Fanary), in
47439the Crimea, 3. 233
47440Parthenius (Roinos), Mt., a famous
47441mountain in Arcadia, 4. 183, 231
47442Parthenius River, the, on the borders
47443of Bithynia and Paphlagonia, 5.
47444377, 385; origin of name of, 5. 381
47445Parthenius (Imbrasus) River, the, in
47446Samos, 5. 53
47447-
47448Parthenon, the, at Athens, built by
47449Ictinus,
474504. 257;
47451wherein
47452is the
47453niaee statue of Athené by Pheidias,
47454. 261
47455Parthenopé, one of the Sirens; monu-
47456ment of, in Neapolis (Naples), 1.
4745783, 95, 2. 449
47458Parthenopé, among the Opici in Italy,
47459founded by the Rhodians, 6. 277
47460Parthenos,
47461the temple
47462of the, at
47463Chersonesus
47464Heracleotica
47465in the
47466Crimea, 3. 231
47467Parthia;
47468swift horses in, 2. 107, 5.
47469311;
47470description and history of,
474715. 271-277;
47472paid tribute to the
47473Persians and Macedonians, 5. 271;
47474extent
47475of, now
47476larger,
474775. 273;
47478conquered by Arsaces, 5. 275; the
47479Council
47480of, 5. 277;
47481borders
47482on
47483Media, 5. 307
47484Parthian empire, the; eastern boun-
47485dary of, 7. 235
47486Parthian kings, the, wont to spend
47487the winter at Ctesiphon, but the
p. 437
47488INDEX OF NAMES, PLACES, AND SUBJECTS
47489summer
47490at
47491Ecbatana
47492and
47493in
47494Hyrcania, 7. 219
47495Parthian War, the, 5. 437
47496Parthians,
47497the;
47498have
47499added
47500to
47501knowledge
47502of geography,
475031. 49;
47504geographical position
47505of, 1. 499;
47506haye now yielded to the pre-emin-
47507ence of the Romans, 3. 145; have
47508sent to Rome the trophies of their
47509former victory, 3. 147; the supre-
47510macy
47511of,
47512disclosed
47513more
47514geo-
47515graphical knowledge,
475165. 247; once
47517ruler
47518over
47519Hyrcania,
475205.
475212533;
47522Heeatompylus the royal seat of, 5.
47523273;
47524the Council of, described, 5.
47525277; wrested the satrapies Turiva
47526and Aspionus away from Eucratides,
475275. 281;
47528use Ecbatana as summer-
47529residence for their kings, 5. 303,
47530307;
47531wont to plunder Atropatian
47532Media,
475335. 305;
47534joined Labienus
47535against Mylasa in Caria, 6. 297;
47536got possession of region on far side
47537of the
47538Euphrates,
475396. 329,
47540331;
47541give the surname ‘* Arsaces ’’ to all
47542their kings,
475437. 63;
47544geographical
47545position of, 7. 145; now rule over
47546the
47547Persians,
475487.
47549159;
47550present
47551empire of, 7. 173, 233;
47552now rule
47553over the Medes and Babylonians,
47554but never once over the Armenians,
475557.
47556225;
47557friendly
47558towards
47559the
47560Romans, but defended themselves
47561against Crassus, and later sent to
47562Augustus
47563the
47564trophies
47565of their
47566victory, 7. 237
47567Parthica, The, of Apollodorus, 7. 5
47568Parthini, the, an Illyrian tribe, 3. 307
47569Partridge, the, famous painting of,
47570at Rhodes, by Protogenes, 6. 269,
47571271; larger than a vulture, sent to
47572Augustus by King Porus in India,
475737. 127
47574Partridges, the, in India, as large as
47575geese, 7. 95
47576Paryadres, Mt., in Asia, 5. 209, 299;
47577geographical
47578position
47579of, 5. 319,
47580401;
47581contained
47582several
47583fortified
47584treasuries of Mithridates,. 5. 425;
47585protects Phanaroea, 5. 429
47586Parysatis,
47587by
47588barbarians
47589called
47590Pharziris, 7. 373
47591Pasargadae, royal palace, treasures,
47592and tombs at, 7. 159; description
47593of tomb of Cyrus at, 7. 165
47594Pasiani, the, in Asia, helped to take
47595away Bactriana from the Greeks,
475965. 261
47597Pasitigris River, the; the name of the
47598Tigris River at its outlets, 7. 161,
47599163
47600Passo di Civita (see Teanum Apulum)
47601Patala, a notable city in India, 7. 59
47602Patalené
47603in
47604India,
47605occupied
47606by
47607Euthydemus the king of Bactria,
476085. 281;
47609similar to the Delta of
47610Aegypt, 7. 19, 25; is an island, 7. 57
47611Patara
47612in Lycia, has a temple of
47613Apollo;
47614by Ptolemy Philadelphus
47615named the Lycian Arsinoé, 6, 317
47616Patarus, founder of Patara in Lycia,
476176. 317
47618Patavium (Padua), like Gadeira, has
47619500 knights, 2. 131;
47620an important
47621city, 2. 313;
47622region of, produces
47623wool of medium quality, 2. 333
47624Pateischoreis, the, a tribe in Persis, 7.
47625157
47626Patmos, the isle, 5. 173
47627Patrae (Patras), made up of seven
47628communities, 4, 23; member of a
47629new league after the dissolution of
47630the Achaean League, 4. 211;
47631one
47632of the 12 Achaean cities, 4. 219;
47633where the Romans settled a large
47634part of the army after the Battle
47635of Actium;
47636a very populous city,
47637and has a fairly good anchoring-
47638place, 4. 225
47639Patraeus, a village on the Cimmerian
47640Bosporus, 5. 197, 199
47641Patras (see Patrae)
47642Patrocles
47643(about
47644312-261 _ B.C.);
47645Macedonian general under Seleucus
47646I and Antiochus I, explorer, author
47647of
47648geographical
47649treatises
47650now
47651lost, and regarded as trustworthy by
47652Strabo, 1. 259, 261, 265;
47653on the
47654distance from the southern capes of
47655India to the Caucasus Mountains, 1.
47656255; discredited by Hipparchus, 1.
47657257, 261; governor in the Orient,
476581. 281;
47659on the Cadusii and the
47660Caspian Sea, 5. 251;
47661on the Oxus
47662River, 5. 253; says the mouths of
47663the Oxus and Jaxartes Rivers are
4766480
47665parasangs
47666distant
47667from
47668one
47669another, 5. 287;
47670on the possible
47671voyages from India to Hyrcania,
47672δ. 289; on the length of India, 7. 17
47673425
p. 438
47674INDEX OF NAMES, PLACES, AND SUBJECTS
47675Patroclus, told by Nestor of the war
47676between the Pylians and Eleians,
476774. 79;
47678Palisade of, an island off
47679Attica, 4. 271; came from Opus in
47680Locris,
47681according
47682to Homer,
476834
47684379; involuntarily slew Aeanes, 4.
47685381; the subjects of, like those of
47686Achilles, called Myrmidons, 4. 413;
47687monument of, near Sigeium in the
47688Troad,
476896.
4769061;
47691Hippothoiis
47692the
47693Pelasgian fell in fight over, 6. 155
47694Paulus, Aemilius Macedonicus (consul
47695182
47696and
47697168
47698B.c.),
47699overthrew
47700Perseus
47701and
47702the
47703Macedonians,
47704destroyed 70 cities of the Epeirotes,
47705and enslaved
47706150,000
47707people,
477083.
47709293;
47710captured
47711Perseus,
47712annexed
47713the Epeirotic tribes to Macedonia,
47714and divided the country into four
47715parts
47716for
47717the
47718purposes
47719of
47720ad-
47721ministration, 3. 369
47722Pausanias, of the house of the Agidae
47723and king of Sparta (408-394 B.C.),
47724when
47725in exile wrote
47726a work on
47727Lycurgus, 4. 141
47728Pavia (see Ticinum)
47729Pavlitza in Arcadia (see Phigalia)
47730Pax Augusta, in Iberian Celtica, 2. 61
47731Paxi (see Sarpedon, Cape)
47732Pearls,
47733found
47734in
47735India,
477367.
47737119;
47738valuable, found near an island at the
47739beginning of the Persian Gulf, 7. 307
47740Pears, abundant
47741in Themiscyra,
477425.
47743397; the wild, in Persia, 7. 181
47744Pebbles,
47745lentil-shaped
47746(see
47747Lentil-
47748shaped pebbles)
47749Pedalium, Cape, in Cypros, 6. 379
47750Pedasa, in territory of Halicarnassus,
477516. 119
47752Pedasians, the, in Caria, mentioned
47753by Herodotus, 6. 119
47754Pedasis,
47755a district
47756in Caria,
47757once
47758contained eight cities founded by
47759the Leleges, 6. 119
47760Pedasum, a town in the territory of
47761Stratoniceia, 6. 119
47762Pedasus,
47763‘‘steep,’’
47764in
47765the
47766Troad,
47767sacked by Achilles, and belonged to
47768the Leleges, 6. 15, 151; mentioned
47769by Homer, 6. 99; no longer exists,
477706. 119
47771Pedasus,
47772‘‘ vine-clad,’’ the Homeric,
477734. 109;
47774identified with Methoné
47775(Modon) in Messenia, and one of the
47776seven
47777cities
47778promised
47779by Aga-
47780426
47781memnon to Achilles, 4, 111, 115;
47782Pee identified with Coroné, 4.
477831
47784Pederasty, in Crete;
47785description of
47786the custom concerning, 5. 155-159
47787Pedonia, an isle off Aegypt, 8. 57
47788Pegasus,
47789the
47790winged
47791horse
47792which
47793sprang from the neck of Gorgon
47794Medusa,
47795caught
47796at
47797the
47798spring
47799Peirené by Bellerophon, 4. 195
47800Peiraeus, the seaport of Athens, once
47801an island, 1. 217; 350 stadia from
47802Schoenus, nearly the same from
47803Pagae, and 330 from Sunium, 4.
47804241; once included with Munychia
47805within the same walls—and Psyt-
47806talia
47807(Lipsokutali)
47808called
47809the
47810““eye-sore’”’ of, 4. 259; connected
47811with Athens by walls 40 stadia
47812long, which were torn down by the
47813Lacedaemonians and by Sulla, 4.
47814261;
47815built by the architect who
47816built Rhodes, but no longer endures,
47817being
47818badly
47819damaged
47820by
47821the
47822Romans and later by Sulla, 6. 275
47823“ Peiraeus,’’
47824the
47825name
47826given
47827to
47828Amisus
47829on
47830the
47831Euxine
47832by the
47833Athenians, 5. 395
47834Peirené, the spring on Acrocorinthus,
478354. 193; lies above the Sisypheium,
478364.195
47837Peirithoiis the Lapith, companion of
47838Theseus;
47839long journeys of, 1. 177;
47840reigned in Gyrton in Thessaly, 3.
47841335, 337; drove the Centaurs into
47842the land of the Aethices on Mt.
47843Pindus, 4. 417;
47844with his father
47845Ixion humbled
47846and
47847ejected
47848the
47849Perrhaebians, 4. 437, and himself
47850forced the Centaurs
47851out
47852of Mt.
47853Pelion, 4. 439
47854Peiros the hero, son of Imbrasus, from
47855Aenus and leader of the Thracians
47856in the Trojan War, 3. 331
47857Peirossus,
47858a district
47859held
47860by the
47861Cyziceni, 6. 33
47862Peirus River (see Acheloiis River in
47863Elis), the, a large river flowing past
47864Olenus in Achaea, 4, 219
47865Peirustae, the, a Pannonian tribe, 3.
47866257
47867Peisander the son of Bellerophon, who
47868fell in the battle against the Solymi,
47869slain by Ares; tomb of, in Phrygia,
478705. 493, 6. 191
p. 439
47871INDEX OF NAMES, PLACES, AND SUBJECTS
47872Peisander, the poet, supposed author
47873of
47874a
47875work
47876entitled
47877Heracleia,
47878native of Rhodes, 6. 281, 7. 13
47879Peisistratus, the son of Nestor, who
47880accompanied Telemachus to Sparta,
478814. Τὸ
47882Peisistratus,
47883the tyrant
47884of Athens
47885(sixth century B.C.), said to have
47886interpolated Homer in favour of the
47887Athenians, 4. 253, 255; reigned at
47888Athens, 4. 269
47889Pelagonia, in Upper Macedonia, 3. 309 ;
47890used to be called Tripolitis (‘* Coun-
47891try of three cities’’), 3. 311;
47892said
47893to have been oalled
47894Orestias
47895in
47896earlier times, 3. 363;
47897one of four
47898divisions of Macedonia, 3. 369
47899Pelagonian Tripolites, the, 3. 307
47900Pelagonians, the, identified with the
47901Paeonians, and with the Titans, 3.
47902363; annexed to Macedonia, 4. 417
47903Pelamydes, the, a kind of tunny-fish
47904abundant in the ‘‘ Golden Horn”’
47905at Byzantium, 8. 281
47906Pelamydes-fisheries,
47907the,
47908and Byzantium, 5. 389
47909“ Pelargi’’(?.e. ““Storks’’),
47910the Athenian
47911name for the Pelasgi, 2. 347
47912‘“* Pelasgia,’’ an epithet of Lesbos, and
47913once the name of the Peloponnesus,
47914ὦ. 345
47915““Pelasgian
47916Argos,’’
47917the
47918Homeric,
47919means Thessaly, 4 155;
47920subject
47921to Achilles, 4. 401;
47922by some re-
47923garded as
47924a Thessalian
47925city, by
47926others as the plain of the Thessalians,
479274. 403
47928Pelasgian Plain, the, 160 stadia in
47929length, 4, 423; names of cities in,
479304, 453
47931Pelasgians,
47932the,
47933founded
47934Caere
47935(Caerea, now Cervetri) in Italy, 2.
47936341;
47937discussion
47938of, 2. 343-347;
47939an
47940ancient
47941tribe
47942that
47943spread
47944throughout Greece, 2. 343;
47945men-
47946tioned by Homer, Ephorus, Hesiod,
47947Aeschylus and Huripides,
479482. 345,
47949and by Anticleides and others, 2.
47950347;
47951colonised Italy, 2. 365, 453;
47952obtained
47953a portion
47954of the Pelo-
47955ponnesus,
479568. 287;
47957founded
47958the
47959oracle of Zeus at Dodona, and said
47960to have been the earliest people to
47961hold dominion in Greece, 3. 313;
47962some of, settled on the peninsula of
47963at Sinopé
47964Athos, 3. 357;
47965an Arcadian and
47966wandering
47967tribe,
479684. 55;
47969named
47970Danaiins
47971by
47972Danaiis,
479734
47974163;
47975once sojourned at Athens and were
47976called
47977‘* Pelargi’’
47978(‘‘ Storks’’),
479794.
47980265;
47981with the Thracians, ejected
47982the Phoenicians from Thebes, but
47983the latter returned, and drove out
47984the former to Athens, 4. 283, 319;
47985during
47986the
47987war
47988consulted
47989the
47990Pelasgian oracle of Zeus at Dodona,
479914. 285; once inhabited the plains of
47992Thessaly
47993and
47994Magnetis,
479954 453;
47996“ goodly,’’ in Crete, 5. 125;
47997the
47998Cauconians a tribe of, according to
47999some, 5. 377;
48000before the Trojan
48001War wandered over many regions
48002of Europe, 5. 491;
48003‘‘ who dwelt in
48004fertile Larisa,’’ were led by Hippo-
48005thoiis in the Trojan War, 6. 153;
48006left in bad plight, and overthrown
48007by Locrians, 6. 155, 157;
48008a great
48009race, 6. 157; in Caria, 6. 301
48010Pelasgiotes, the, in Thessaly called
48011Perrhaebians
48012and
48013Lapiths
48014by
48015Simonides, 4, 445
48016Pelasgiotis, one of the four divisions of
48017Thessaly,
480184.
48019397;
48020geographical
48021position of, 4. 399
48022Pelasgus, father
48023of the Pelasgi,
48024in
48025Arcadia, 2, 345
48026Pelegon ; Asteropaeus the son of, made
48027the expedition to Troy, 3. 363
48028Pelethronium (city ὃ, mountain?, or
48029cave
48030where
48031Cheiron
48032trained
48033Achilles ?), falsified by some writers,
48034according to Callimachus, 3. 193
48035Peleus,
48036fled from
48037Aegina,
48038and
48039his
48040people were called Myrmidons, 4.
48041413; onceruler of both the Phthians
48042and the Dolopians,
480434. 415;
48044wel-
48045comed
48046Phoenix
48047the
48048refugee
48049to
48050Phthia, 4. 435
48051Peliac (?) Festal Assembly, the, near
48052Demetrias in Thessaly, 4. 425
48053‘** Peliai,’’ the Thesprotian word for
48054“‘ old women,”’ 3. 323
48055“* Pelian ashen spear,’’ the;
48056‘* Achilles
48057alone knew how to hurl,’’ 5. 21
48058Pelias, father
48059of Alcestis,
480601. 165;
48061ordered Jason’s expedition, 1. 167;
48062despatched Jason on his expedition
48063from Iolcus in Thessaly, 4. 423
48064Peligni, the, live in the Apennines, 2.
48065335, 389, 429, 431, 433
48066427
p. 440
48067INDEX OF NAMES, PLACES, AND SUBJECTS
48068“Peligones’’
48069(“‘old
48070men’’),
48071the
48072Macedonian word for “" dignitaries,”’
48073i.e. ‘‘ senators,’’ 3. 323
48074Pelinaeus, Mt., the highest mountain
48075in Chios, 6. 243
48076Pelinnaeum
48077in Thessaly,
480784.
48079431,
48080433
48081“ Pelioi,”’ the Thesprotian word for
48082“old men,’’ 3. 323
48083Pelion, Mt., compared with the Alps,
480842. 293; where is Pelethronium, 3.
48085193; belongs to Thessaly, 3. 335;
48086held by Demetrias in Magnesia, 4.
48087393
48088Pella (Hagii Apostoli), through which
48089the Egnatian Way passes, 3, 295;
48090belongs to Lower Macedonia, and
48091was enlarged and made the treasury
48092of Macedonia by Philip, who was
48093reared in it, 3, 341; made one of
48094the
48095four
48096capitals
48097of Macedonia
48098by Paulus,
480993. 369; native
48100city
48101of Philip and Alexander, became
48102the metropolis of the Macedonians,
481037, 251
48104Pella in Syria (see Apameia)
48105Pellana in Messenia, by some identified
48106with the Homeric Enopé, 4.115; a
48107Laconian place, 4. 221
48108Pellené (Zugra), the Homeric, one of
48109the
48110twelve
48111cities
48112in which
48113the
48114Achaeans settled, 4. 185, 219;
48115a
48116strong fortress 60 stadia above the
48117sea, 4, 221
48118Pellené,
48119a village between Aegium
48120and the city Pellené, where the
48121“‘ Pellenic cloaks ’’ are made, 4. 221
48122Pelodes Harbour, the, in Epeirus, 3.
48123299
48124Pelopidae, the;
48125home of, at Argos,
48126referred to by Sophocles, 4. 159;
48127came
48128from
48129Pisatis,
48130and
48131seized
48132Mycenae and Argos, 4. 187; source
48133of wealth of, 6. 369
48134Peloponnesians, the, often had dis-
48135putes with the Ionians about the
48136boundary on the Isthmus, 4. 247;
48137used Deceleia as base of operations
48138in Deceleian War, 4. 263
48139Peloponnesus, the, like a leaf of a
48140plane-tree in shape, 1. 317;
48141the
48142promontory of, 1. 353 ; distancefrom,
48143to
48144Pillars,
481451. 403;
48146to
48147Leucas,
48148Corcyra, and the Ceraunian Moun-
48149tains,
481501. 405;
48151ancient
48152northern
48153428
48154boundary of, 2. 139;
48155once called
48156Pelasgia,
481572. 345;
48158originally
48159in-
48160habited by barbarians, 8, 285, and
48161was named after Pelops, 3. 287;
48162once called Argos, and later Achaean
48163Argos, 4. 135, 155, 165;
48164Corinth
48165held the keys to, 4. 189; names of
48166the colonisers of, after the return of
48167the Heracleidae, 4. 235; the first
48168and smallest of the peninsulas in
48169Greece, 4. 239; northern boundary
48170of, near Crommyon, 4, 247; Crete
48171and its neighbouring islands belong
48172to, 5. 121
48173““Peloponnesus,’’
48174the second
48175n re-
48176dundant in, 6. 147
48177Pelops the Phrygian, brought over
48178peoples from Phrygia to the Pelo-
48179ponnesus, and named the country
48180after himself, 3. 287; son-in-law of
48181Oenomaiis
48182and
48183famous
48184ruler
48185of
48186Pisatis, 4.95; founder of Leuctrum,
48187Charadra, and Thalami (Boeoti) in
48188Laconia,
481894
48190113;
48191Troezen
48192and
48193Pittheus, the sons of, 4. 175; the
48194home of, in Phrygia, 5. 487; Cillus
48195the charioteer of, 6. 127
48196Pelorias
48197(or Pelorum,
48198now
48199Faro),
48200Cape;
48201one of the three capes of
48202Sicily, 3. 21; and with Caenys and
48203Columna
48204Rheginorum
48205forms
48206the
48207Strait of Sicily, 3. 55, 57
48208Pelorus the guide, wrongly executed
48209by the Carthaginians, 1. 35
48210Pelorus, the Tower of, 2. 139
48211Peltae, a town in Phrygia, 5. 505
48212Peltine Plain, the, in Phrygia, 6. 185
48213Pelusiac mouth, the, 1300 stadia from
48214the Canobic, 8. 7, 23, 65, 71
48215Pelusium in Aegypt; bogs about, 1.
48216185; flooded, 1. 217; 3900 stadia
48217from Syrian Orthosia, 6. 333; the
48218road to, from Phoenicia, 7. 279;
482193650 stadia from
48220Phoenician Or-
48221thosia, 7. 281;
482221300 stadia from
48223the Canobic mouth, 8. 23; Pompey
48224slain near, 8. 47; site and descrip-
48225tion of, 8. 71; distance from, to
48226vertex of Delta, 8. τὸ
48227Peneius River. the, in Armenia, named
48228aiter the Peneius
48229in Europe by
48230Armenus, 5. 335
48231Peneius (Gastuniotikos) River, the, in
48232Elis, 4. 23; empties between Cape
48233Chelonatas and Cyllené, 4. 27
p. 441
48234INDEX OF NAMES, PLACES, AND SUBJECTS
48235Peneius (Salamvria) River, the, in
48236Thessaly; mouths of, 3. 311; flows
48237through Tempé and fortifies Mace-
48238donia against Greece, 3. 325; forms
48239the
48240boundary
48241between
48242Lower
48243Macedonia and Thessaly, 8. 331;
48244flows from Mt. Pindus and through
48245Tempé, 3. 333, 335, 337; 120 stadia
48246from Pydna, 8. 359;
48247outlets of,
48248240 stadia from Larisa and 260
48249from Thessaloniceia, 4, 233; flows
48250through the middle of Thessaly, 4.
48251397, 405, 431, 433, 437; destructive
48252overflows of, 4. 439; the Titarius
48253River empties into, 4. 443;
48254men-
48255tioned by Homer, 4. 447, 449; dis-
48256charges its waters through Tempé,
48257and is more than 1000 stadia from
48258Demetrias, 4. 451;
48259deposited the
48260land of the Thessalian Larisa, 6. 157
48261Penelopé,
48262daughter
48263of Icarius
48264the
48265king of Acarnania, 4. 35; would
48266have still more wooers ‘‘if all the
48267Achaeans throughout Iasian Argos
48268could see her’’ (Homer), 4. 157;
48269father of, settled in Acarnania, 5.
4827069; waxen image of, in the temple
48271of Artemis at Ephesus, 6. 229
48272Penestae, the, serfs of the Thessalians,
482735. 377
48274Pennine Alps, the (see Poeninus)
48275Pentelicus, Mt. (see Brilessus)
48276Pentheus, brought from Scolus and
48277torn to pieces by the Bacchantes, 4.
48278313
48279Penthilus, son of Orestes, joined by
48280most of the Boeotians in his Aeolian
48281colony, 4. 287;
48282some soldiers of,
48283settled in Euboea, 5. 13; advanced
48284as far as Thrace, 6. 7
48285Pentima (see Corfinium)
48286Peparethos, the Aegaean isle, 1. 477,
48287off Magnesia, 4, 427
48288Pepernas, Marcus, captured Ariston-
48289icus in Asia and sent him to Rome;
48290died of disease, 6. 249
48291Pepper (see Corsium)
48292Perasian Artemis, the; temple of, in
48293Castabala, near Tyana, 5. 359
48294Percoté
48295in the Troad,
48296subject
48297to
48298Merops, 6. 19, 25, 37, 39
48299Perdiccas, forced by Ptolemy Soter to
48300give up body of Alexander, 8. 35;
48301lost his life in Aegypt, 8. 37
48302** Perdiccas,”’ an indecent name, 6, 149
48303Perekop, the isthmus of, forms the
48304Tauric Chersonese, 8. 229, 233
48305Perfumes, Indian, 1. 379
48306Pergamené
48307in
48308Asia;
48309position of, 5. 487
48310Pergamum;
48311the library at, built up
48312by the Attalic kings, 6. 111; Elaea
48313the seaport of, 6. 133; temple of the
48314Aspordene
48315(Asporene?)
48316Mother
48317near, 6. 147, 149; hegemony, fame,
48318wealth and history of, 6. 163-171;
48319situated on the summit of a moun-
48320tain, 6. 163; certain inhabitants of,
48321famous in Strabo’s time, 6. 169
48322Pergé in Pamphylia, 6. 323
48323Periander, arbiter of the war between
48324the Athenians and the Lesbians, 6,
4832577; not an opponent of the Athen-
48326ians, as Timaeus indicates, 6. 79
48327Sie in Euboea, seized by Ellops,
48328Bett
48329Pericles,
48330the
48331Athenian
48332statesman,
48333superintended the building of the
48334Parthenon,
483354.
483362573;
48337conquered
48338Histiaea in Euboea and colonised it
48339with 2000 Attic Histiaeans, 5. 7;
48340subdued Samos (440 B.C.), 6. 219
48341Perim-dagh (see Orbelus, Mt.)
48342Perinthus (Hregli), on the Hellespont,
48343besieged by the Paeonians, 3. 363;
48344founded by the Samians, 8. 377;
48345distance from, to Byzantium, 3. 379
48346Perioeci, the, in Laconia, joined the
48347Romans, 4. 139
48348Peripatetics, the, after Theophrastus,
48349had but few books, 6. 111
48350Periphlegethon in Italy, 1. 95
48351Periscian circles, the, 1, 367, 369
48352‘*Periscians,’’ the; term defined, 1.
48353517
48354Permessus River, the, and the Olmeius,
48355flow from Mt. Helicon, meet one
48356another,
48357and
48358empty
48359into
48360Lake
48361Copais near Haliartus, 4, 307, 325
48362Perperené in Asia, 6. 103
48363Perrhaebian immigrants, the, live on
48364the west of Mt. Pindus, 4. 417
48365Perrhaebians, the, in Thessaly;
48366the
48367Peneius River flows through some
48368cities of, 3. 333, 335, 337; subdued
48369the Histiaeans in Euboea, forcing
48370them to migrate to Thessaly, 4. 429;
48371history of, 4,437,439; humbled and
48372ejected by the Lapiths, 4, 437;
48373mentioned by Homer, 4, 443; lived
48374429
48375geographical
p. 442
48376INDEX OF NAMES, PLACES, AND SUBJECTS
48377intermingled
48378with
48379the
48380Lapiths,
48381according
48382to Simonides,
483834. 445;
48384lived about Mt. Pelion and the
48385Peneius, 4. 447; little or no trace
48386of, now preserved, 4. 449;
48387carried
48388off the Histiaeans of Euboea into
48389Thessaly, 5. 9
48390Persea, a luscious fruit in Aethiopia,
483917. 331;
48392the tree in Aethiopia, 8.
48393145, and in Aegypt, 8. 149
48394Persephoné (see Coré), the festival of,
483951. 377;
48396endowed
48397Teiresias
48398with
48399reason after his death, 7. 289
48400Persepolis, 4200 stadia from Susa, 7.
48401157;
48402royal palace, treasures, and
48403tombs at, 7. 159; second only to
48404Susa, 7. 165
48405Perseus, king of Macedonia,
48406over-
48407thrown by Paulus Aemilius, 3. 143,
48408293, 345; captured by Paulus, 3.
48409369; rased Haliartus to the ground,
484104. 325; son of Philip V the son of
48411Demetrius Il, 5. 457;
48412fought by
48413the Romans and Eumenes I, 6. 167
48414Perseus, the ancient, father of Helius,
484154. 129; founded Mycenae, 4. 185;
48416rescued by Dictys at Seriphos, 5.
48417171;
48418father of Erythras, 7 351;
48419the Watchtower of, in Aegypt, 8.
4842067; said to have visited the temple
48421of Ammon, 8. 115
48422Perseus, the constellation; star on the
48423right elbow of, slightly to north of
48424arctic circle, at 1400 stadia north of
48425the Pontus, 1. 514
48426Persia, geographical position
48427of, 1,
48428499;
48429annual tributes paid to, by
48430Cappadocia and Media, 5. 313
48431Persian battle, the, at Marathon, 4.
48432263; near Plataeae, 4. 287
48433Persian fleet, the, destroyed at Cape
48434Sepias in Magnesia, 4. 451
48435Persian Gates, the, passed through, by
48436Alexander, 7. 163
48437Persian Gulf (or Persian Sea), the; one
48438of the four large gulfs, 1. 467; the
48439Euphrates and Tigris Rivers empty
48440into, 5. 297; spouting whales in, 7.
48441149; can be crossed in one day at
48442its mouth, 7.155; borders on Baby-
48443lonia, 7. 203;
48444description
48445of, 7.
48446301-303; borders on Arabia, 8. 3
48447Persian Letters, the, on the straight-
48448toward character of the Scythians,
48449. 201
48450430
48451Persian Sea (see Persian Gulf)
48452Persian
48453War, the;
48454meteor
48455fell at
48456Aegospotami during, 3. 377;
48457the
48458sea-fight at Salamis in time of, 4.
48459179
48460Persians, the; blundered from ignor-
48461ance of geography, 1. 35; 300,000
48462wiped out by the Greeks at Plataeae,
484634. 325;
48464for a time withstood by
48465Leonidas at Thermopylae, 4. 393;
48466most of customs of, imitated by the
48467Siginni, 5. 293; overthrown by the
48468Macedonians, 5. 307;
48469once ruled
48470over Armenia, 5. 337; sacred rites
48471of, followed
48472by the Medes
48473and
48474Armenians, 5. 341; divided Cappa-
48475docia into two satrapies, 5. 3495
48476once held mastery in Asia Minor
48477after Trojan War, 5.463; onsets of,
48478in Asia, 5. 495; hanged Hermeias
48479the pupil and friend of Aristotle, 6.
48480117;
48481built
48482an
48483arcade
48484of white
48485marble on Mt. Tmolus near Sardeis,
484866. 173;
48487named the
48488‘ Hyrcanian
48489Plain ’’ and the ‘‘ Plain of Cyrus,”
484906. 185; once captured Miletus, 6.
48491209; hanged Polycrates the power-
48492ful tyrant of Samos (522 B.C.), 6.
48493217; said to have deposited treas-
48494ures in the temple of Artemis at
48495Ephesus,
484966. 227;
48497once ruled over
48498Ariana, 7. 15, 129; language and
48499customs
48500of, used
48501by the
48502Car-
48503manians, 7. 155; country, customs,
48504and history of, 7. 155-189; estab-
48505lished royal seat of their empire
48506at Susa, 7. 157; now subject to
48507the king of the Parthians, 7. 159;
48508once
48509collected
48510tributes
48511from
48512all
48513Asia, 7. 163; conquered by Alex-
48514ander, 7. 165, 169;
48515customs and
48516worship of, 7. 175-187; the hege-
48517mony of, over Asia, lasted 250 years,
485187. 189;
48519overthrew the Medes, 7.
48520195; ruined Babylon, 7. 199; con-
48521structed cataracts in the Euphrates
48522and Tigris to prevent navigation,
485237. 205;
48524seized Phoenicia, 7. 257;
48525used Ptolemais
48526in Phoenicia
48527as
48528base of operations against Aegypt,
485297. 271; revere the Magi and other
48530diviners,
485317. 289;
48532wont to guide
48533ambassadors treacherously, 8. 71
48534EEE The, of Baton the Sinopean,
48535.
48536391
p. 443
48537INDEX OF NAMES, PLACES, AND SUBJECTS
48538Persis, in Asia; description of, 7. 155-
48539189; dimensions of, 7. 157; all the
48540wealth of, carried by Alexander to
48541Susa, 7. 169; abounds with palm-
48542trees, 7. 201; lies north of Carmania,
485437. 219;
48544by some writers said to
48545produce the best frankincense, 7.
48546365
48547Perugia (see Perusia)
48548Perusia (Perugia) in Italy, 2. 365;
48549distance from, to Rome, 2. 367
48550“‘ Pessinuntis,’’an epithet of Rhea(q.v.)
48551Pessinus (Balahissar), the great em-
48552porium in Galatia; description and
48553history of the famous temple of
48554Mother Agdistis in, 5. 471
48555Pessinus River, the, in Asia Minor, 5.
48556379
48557Petalidi (see Coroné)
48558Petelia (Strongoli), founded by Philoc-
48559tetes, and the metropolis
48560of the
48561Chones, 3. 9
48562Peteon in Boeotia, the Homeric, in
48563the Theban territory near the road
48564to Anthedon, 4. 321
48565Peteos,
48566the
48567father
48568of
48569the
48570Greek
48571charioteer Menestheus, 4. 255
48572Petnelissus, a Pisidian city, 5. 481,
485736. 325
48574Petra, metropolis of the Nabataeans
48575in Arabia, 7.351; site and admirable
48576government
48577of, 7. 353;
48578receives
48579aromatics from Leucé Comé, 7. 359
48580Petreius, one of Pompey’s generals,
48581defeated
48582at Ilerda
48583in Iberia
48584by
48585Julius Caesar, 2. 99
48586Petrocorii, the, a tribe in Aquitania,
485872. 217
48588Petronius, O., ruler of Aegypt under
48589Augustus, 8.11; easily subdued the
48590Alexandrians and the Aethiopians,
485918. 137-141
48592Peucé (St. George), a large island in
48593the Ister, 3. 201
48594Peucetii (also called
48595Poedicli), the;
48596territory of, 2. 307;
48597in Apulia, 8.
48598103, 123; country of, on the sea,
48599extends
48600to Barium,
48601and
48602in the
48603interior to Silvium, 3. 127
48604Peucolaitis, a city in India, 7. 47
48605Phabda,
48606a stronghold
48607in Sidené in
48608Cappadocia Pontica, 5. 399
48609Phabra, the island, off Cape Zoster in
48610Greeco, 4. 271
48611Phacussa,
48612near
48613the
48614vertex
48615of the
48616Delta; the canal that empties into
48617the Red Sea begins at, 8. 79
48618Phaeacians, the, fancifully placed by
48619Homer in Oceanus, 1. 95; the ‘‘be-
48620tarmones’’
48621(‘‘ harmony-walkers ’’)
48622among, 5. 117
48623Phaedimus, king of the Sidonians, 1.
48624151
48625Phaedon
48626the
48627Eleian
48628philosopher,
48629founder of the Eleian sect, 4. 251
48630Phaedrus, the, of Plato, quoted on
48631Boreas, 8. 175;
48632on the fountain
48633above the Lyceium from which the
48634Tlissus flows, 4. 277
48635Phaestus, from Tarné in Lydia, slain
48636by Idomeneus, 4. 331
48637Phaestus in Crete, subject to Minos,
48638rased to the ground by the Qor-
48639tynians, 5. 141
48640Phaéthon, the story of, 2. 319
48641Phagres, near the mouth of the Stry-
48642mon River, 8. 355
48643Phagroriopolis in Aegypt, 8. 79
48644Phagrorius (or Phagrus), the, a fish
48645indigenous to the Nile. 8. 149
48646Phagrus, a fish (see Phagrorius)
48647Phalacrum (Drasti), Cape, at southern
48648extremity of Corcyra, 3. 299
48649Phalangia
48650(apparently
48651tarantulas),
48652the, in Albania in Asia, 5. 229
48653Phalanna, a Perrhaebian city close to
48654the Peneius near Tempé, 4. 439
48655Phalanthus, champion of the Spartans
48656and leader of the Partheniae in the
48657colonisation of Tarentum,
486583. 107,
48659109; lowered the prestige of Brun-
48660disium,
48661and
48662was
48663banished
48664from
48665Tarentum, but at last was buried
48666with honours at Brundisium, 3. 121
48667Phalara
48668in Thessaly,
48669destroyed
48670by
48671earthquake, 1. 225; 20 stadia from
48672the Spercheius, subject to Achilles,
486734. 419
48674Phalasarna, nearthe western extremity
48675of Crete, 5. 121
48676Phalces, the coloniser of Sicyon after
48677the return of the Heracleidae, 4, 235
48678Phalereis, the deme on the seaboard
48679next to Peiraeus, 4, 271
48680Phalerum, the Gulf of, receives the
48681waters of the Cephissus, 4. 277
48682Phalerus the Athenian, founded Soli
48683in Cypros, 6. 381
48684Phanae, a deep harbour of Chios, 6,
48685243
48686431
p. 444
48687INDEX OF NAMES, PLACES, AND SUBJECTS
48688Phanagoreia (Phanagoria,
48689Phanago-
48690reium), ἃ noteworthy city, near the
48691Cimmerian Bosporus, metropolis of
48692the Asiatic Bosporians, 3. 239, 5.
48693199
48694Phanariotikos River in Thesprotia (see
48695Acheron)
48696Phanaroea in Pontus, planted with
48697olive-trees, 1. 275;
48698the Iris River
48699flows from, 5. 395;
48700has the best
48701land in Cappadocia Pontica, 5. 427,
48702429; belongs to Queen Pythodoris,
487035. 441
48704Phanias the Peripatetic philosopher,
48705a native of Eressus in Lesbos, 6. 145
48706Phanoteus
48707(or
48708Panopeus,
48709g.v.)
48710in
48711Phocis, through which
48712fiows the
48713Cephissus River, 4, 307; near Para-
48714potamii, 4. 373
48715Phaon, beloved of Sappho and the
48716occasion of her suicide, 5. 33
48717Phara, an Achaean city; the people
48718of, called Phareis, 4, 219, 225, 227
48719Phara in Libya, burned by Scipio’s
48720cavalry, 8. 181
48721Pharae in Boeotia, near Tanagra, one
48722of the ‘‘ Four United Villages,”’ 4.
48723299, 301
48724Pharae
48725in Messenia
48726(the same
48727as
48728Pherae, g.v.), 4.115; only five stadia
48729from the sea, 4. 117; inhabitants
48730of, called Pharaeatae, 4. 227
48731Pharaea (see Pheraea) in Arcadia, 4.
48732101
48733Pharaeatae, the; name of inhabitants
48734of Pharae (Pherae) in Messenia, 4.
48735227
48736Pharcadon in Thessaly, 4, 431, 433
48737Phareis, the; inhabitants of Phara in
48738Achaea, 4, 227
48739Pharis in Messenia, the Homeric (see
48740Pherae), 4. 109 (footnote 3)
48741Pharis (Vafio) in Laconia, near Amy-
48742clae and Sparta, 4. 125; used as a
48743treasury by the Heracleidae, 4. 133
48744Pharmacussae, the; two small islands
48745off Attica, 4. 259
48746Pharnaces,
48747king of the Cimmerian
48748Bosporians,
48749said
48750at one time to
48751have conducted the Hypanis River
48752through the country of the Dandarii
48753and to have inundated it, 5. 201;
48754robbed the oracle of Phrixus, 5. 213 ;
48755contemporary of Abeacus the king
48756of the Siraces, 5. 243;
48757enslaved
48758432
48759Sinopé, 5. 389, and besieged Amisus,
487605.
48761395
48762Pharnaces, Mén of; temple of, at
48763Cabeira in Cappadocia Pontica, 5.
48764431
48765Pharnacia in Cappadocia, 3000 stadia
48766from Dioscurias, 1. 485;
48767on the
48768Euxine,
487693. 283; Pythodoris the
48770queen of, 5. 213, 427; presented by
48771Pompey to King Deiotarus, 5. 393;
48772a fortified town, 5. 399; the Pela-
48773mydes fish are first caught on coast
48774of—and it once had silver and iron
48775mines, but now only iron mines, 5.
48776401; the empire of Lesser Armenia
48777extended to, 5. 425; home of the
48778Halizoni, 6. 359
48779Pharnapates, the Parthian general (see
48780Phranicates)
48781Pharos (Lesina), the island, in the
48782Adriatic, 1. 475; founded by the
48783Parians, formerly called Paros, and
48784native land of Demetrius the Pha-
48785Tian, 3. 261
48786Pharos, the Aezyptian, a day’s run to,
48787for ἃ ship, 1. 135; once an isle, 1,
48788109, 217; tower of, compared with
48789that of Caepio in Iberia, 2. 17;
48790spoken of, by Homer, as
48791“‘ being
48792out in the open sea,’”’ 5. 357; de-
48793scription of, 8. 23; tower on, 8. 25,
4879437;
48795laid waste by Julius Caesar,
487968. 27
48797Pharsalians, the, in Thessaly, colonised
48798Halus, 4. 409
48799Pharsalus
48800(Phersala),
48801in Thessaly,
48802whence flows the Enipeus River, 4.
4880399
48804Pharsalus, Old, in Thessaly, subject
48805to Achilles, 4, 405, 413
48806Pharusians,
48807the,
48808and
48809Nigritae,
48810in
48811Libya, said to have destroyed 300
48812Tyrian cities on western coast of
48813Libya, 8.161; discussion of, 8. 169
48814Pharygaean Hera, the; temples of, at
48815Pharygae in Locris and Pharygae
48816in Argolis, 4. 383
48817Pharygium, Cape, in Phocis, 4. 369
48818‘* Pharziris,’’ barbarian name of Pary-
48819satis, 7. 373
48820Phaselis, a notable city in Lycia, 6.
48821321, 323
48822Phasis, in Colchis; voyage to, ordered
48823by King Pelias, 11 GTi
48824oe where
48825for ships is the farthermost run,”
p. 445
48826INDEX OF NAMES, PLACES, AND SUBJECTS
488275. 209; emporium of the Colchians,
488285. 211; 1400 stadia from Trapezus
48829and about 8000 from the Chalce-
48830donian Temple, 5. 399
48831Phasis River, the, in Colchis; silting
48832up, at mouth of, 1. 193; not men-
48833tioned by Homer, 8. 189; descrip-
48834tion of, 5. 211;
48835spanned by 120
48836bridges, 5. 219;
48837empties into the
48838Euxine, 5, 327
48839Phatnitic mouth of the Nile, the, 8. 65
48840Phauené, a province of Armenia, 5.
48841323
48842Phaunitis in Media, annexed to Ar-
48843menia, 5. 325
48844Phayllus the Phocian general, robbed
48845the temple at Delphi, 4. 359
48846Phazemon (see Neapolis in Cappadocia
48847Pontica)
48848Phazemonitis, in Cappadocia Pontica,
48849by Pompey named
48850Neapolitis, 5.
48851443; administration of, by Pompey
48852and later rulers, 5, 445
48853Phegus, below the ancient
48854site
48855of
48856Tlium, 6. 71
48857Pheia, Cape, the Homeric, in Elis,
488584. 45, 47, 67, 77, 79
48859Pheidias of Athens (fl. 460 B.c.), the
48860son of Charmides; made the great
48861ivory image of Zeus at Olympia, 4.
4886289; works of, larger and costlier,
48863but not as beautiful as those of
48864Polycleitus in the Argive Heraeum,
488654. 167; made the ivory statue of
48866Athené in the Parthenon, 4. 261;
48867the grandeur and beauty of works
48868of, 4. 263
48869Pheidippus, and Antiphus, the sons
48870of Thessalus, invaded Thessaly and
48871named it after their father, 4. 453;
48872leader of the Coans in the Trojan
48873War, 6. 273
48874Pheidon the Argive
48875(fl. apparently
48876about 650 B.C.), inventor of the
48877“* Pheidonian’’ standards of measure
48878and weight, and the coinage
48879of
48880money,
48881invaded
48882Elis
48883and
48884took
48885charge of the Olympian Games, 4.
48886105; deprived the Lacedaemonians
48887of their hegemony, 4. 107;
48888silver
48889first coined by, in Aegina, according
48890to Ephorus, 4. 181
48891Phellon near Olympia, 4, 51
48892Phellus in Lycia, 6. 319
48893Pheneus (near Phonia) in Arcadia, no
48894longer exists, 4. 229; the ‘‘berethra’”’
48895(‘‘ pits’’), or ‘‘ zerethra,’’ near, 4,
48896231; the deadly water of the Styx
48897near, 4. 233
48898Pherae (Kalamata) in Messenia (also
48899called Pharae, q.v.), the Homeric
48900Pharis,
48901borders
48902on
48903Thuria
48904and
48905Gerena, 4. 109, 113, 115, 147
48906Pherae in Thessaly, subject to Eume-
48907lus, lies at the end of the Pelasgian
48908Plain, and is 90 stadia from
48909its
48910seaport Pagasae, 4. 423, 453; once
48911a great city, but was destroyed, 4.
48912425; contains the fountain Hype-
48913reia, 4. 437
48914Pheraea (Pharaea ἢ) in Arcadia, 4. 101
48915Pherecydes
48916‘‘the Athenian’’
48917(from
48918Leros;
48919fl. in the fifth century B.c.,
48920and wrote, among other works, a
48921work in ten books on the mythology
48922and antiquities of Attica); wrongly
48923says that Paleis is called Dulichium
48924by Homer, 5. 49; on the Cyrbantes
48925and the Cabeiri, 5. 115; not to be
48926confused with Pherecydes of Syros,
489275. 171; on the Ionians in Asia, 6.
48928197;
48929on the contest between the
48930priests Calchas and Mopsus, 6. 235
48931Pherecydes of Syros (fl. about 560
48932B.C.), philosophical theologian, and
48933author of a work on nature and the
48934gods; one of the earliest writers of
48935Greek prose, 1.65; seems to identify
48936Gades as ‘* Erytheia,’’ the scene of
48937Geryon’s adventures, 2. 133;
48938son
48939of Babys and born in Syros, 5. 171
48940Phidaris River (see Evenus River)
48941Phigalia (near Pavlitza) in Arcadia,
48942past which the Neda flows, 4. 67
48943Philadelphia in Judaea, 7, 281
48944Philadelphia
48945in Lydia;
48946subject to
48947frequent earthquakes, 5. 515
48948Philadelphia in Mysia;
48949ever subject
48950to earthquakes, 6. 181
48951Philadelphia
48952in Syria;
48953strongholds
48954near, destroyed by Pompey, 7. 291
48955Philae, an isle above Syené; a common
48956settlement
48957of
48958Aethiopians
48959and
48960Aegyptians, visited by Strabo, 1.
48961147, 8. 131; the people of, tell a
48962mythical story about Osiris, 8. 75;
48963Ὁπος captured by the Aethiopians,
48964. 137
48965Philaeni, the Altars of the, on the
48966Great Syrtis, 2. 139, 141, 8. 199
48967433
p. 446
48968INDEX OF NAMES, PLACES, AND SUBJECTS
48969Philemon the comic poet, native of
48970Soli in Cilicia, 6. 341
48971Philetas
48972of Cos, tutor of Ptolemy
48973Philadelphus,
48974scholar,
48975poet,
48976and
48977critic;
48978his Hermeneia
48979quoted,
489802.
48981127; apocopé in, 4. 131; native of
48982Cos, 6. 289
48983Philip, author of The Carica, on the
48984Carian language, 6. 303
48985Philip,
48986son
48987of Amyntas,
48988father of
48989Alexander the Great, 3. 201; waged
48990war with Ateas, ruler of most of
48991the barbarians about Lake Maeotis,
489928. 227; settled his most villainous
48993subjectsat
48994Calybé above Byzantium,
489958. 285; appropriated to himself per-
48996sonally the country between the
48997Strymon and Nestus Rivers, 3. 297;
48998great grandson of Arrabaeus, and
48999grandson of Sirra, and son of Eury-
49000dicé, 8. 309; father of Thessalonicé,
49001after
49002whom
49003Thessaloniceia
49004was
49005named, 3. 343, 347;
49006lost his right
49007eye in battle at Methoné, 3. 345,
490084. 177 ; made the Nestus River the
49009boundary between Macedonia and
49010Thrace,
490113.
49012355,
49013357;
49014restored
49015Messené in Messenia, 4. 121; con-
49016quered
49017the Athenians, Boeotians,
49018and Corinthians at Chaeroneia, and
49019set himself up as lord of Greece,
490204. 333;
49021the plundering of Delphi
49022by the Phocians took place in the
49023time of, 4. 359; awarded Naupactus
49024in Western Locris to the Aetolians,
490254. 385;
49026took Phylacé away from
49027the Phthiotae and gave it to the
49028Pharsalians, 4. 411; destroyed the
49029Thracian Methoné, 4. 425; his con-
49030quest of places near at hand, 4. 427;
49031conquered the Larisaeans and gained
49032possession
49033of Perrhaebia,
490344. 439;
49035established Philistides as tyrant in
49036Euboea, 5.7; maltreated Olynthus
49037and its dependencies, 5. 113
49038Philip V, son of Demetrius II (reigned
49039220-178
49040B.C.), conquered
49041by the
49042Romans,
490433. 143;
49044advised to lay
49045hold of Acrocorinthus and Ithomé,
49046the two horns of Greece, 4. 119;
49047the Corinthians subject to, 4. 199;
49048called Chalcis and Corinth
49049“the
49050fetters of Greece,’’ 4. 391;
49051con-
49052quered by the Romans (197 B.C.),
490534.445; son of Demetrius and father
49054434
49055of Perseus, rased Cius (later called
49056Prusias or Prusa) to the ground, 5.
49057455, 457; Attalus I joined Romans
49058against, 6. 167
49059Philip, Pseudo-, younger brother of
49060Perseus and by him regarded as heir
49061to the throne, 3. 369; fought by
49062the Romans and Attalus IT, 6. 169
49063Philip’s Island, in the Arabian Gulf,
490647. 331
49065Philippi (in earlier times called Cre-
49066nides, then Datum, now Filibediik),
490678. 355; enlarged after the defeat of
49068Brutus and Cassius (in 42 B.C., after
49069which it was made a Roman colony),
490708. 363 ; in early times called Crenides,
490718. 365; the Battle of, 8. 47
49072Philippopolis in Macedonia, 3. 361
49073Philistides, established
49074as tyrant in
49075Euboea by Philip the son of Amyn-
49076tas, 5.7
49077Philo, wrote account of voyage to
49078Aethiopia, 1. 289
49079Philo, the Village of, lies near Pha-
49080cussa, 8. 79
49081Philochorus
49082the Athenian
49083(put to
49084death by Antigonus Gonatas shortly
49085after 261 B.C.), author of Atthis, a
49086history of Attica from earliest times
49087to 261
49088B.C.;
49089says the region of
49090Dodona was called Hellopia, 3. 313;
49091calls Tyrtaeus the poet an Athenian,
490924. 123;
49093on the domain of Nisus,
490944. 247; on the founding of 12 cities
49095by Cecrops in Attica, 4. 267; says
49096that Adrastus was saved by the
49097inhabitants of Harma, 4. 295
49098Philoctetes, founded Petelia in Italy,
490998.9; and Crimissa and other places,
491008. 11;
49101companions
49102of, founded
49103Aegesta in Sicily, 3. 81; the sub-
49104jects of, called Phthians, 3. 385;
49105the domain of, in Thessaly, 4. 405,
49106407, 425, 427, 451
49107Philodemus the Epicurean, native of
49108Gadaris in Phoenicia, 7. 277
49109Philogenes, with Athenians, founded
49110Phocaea in Asia, 6. 201
49111Philomela
49112and
49113Procne,
49114scene
49115of
49116mythical story of, was Daulis in
49117Phocis,
49118but, according to Thucy-
49119dides, Megara, 4. 369
49120Philomelium in Phrygia, to the north
49121of Phrygia Paroreia, 5. 507; the
49122road through, 6. 309
p. 447
49123INDEX OF NAMES, PLACES, AND SUBJECTS
49124Philon, builder of the arsenal near
49125Peiraeus, 4. 259
49126Philonomus, received Amyclae as a
49127gift from
49128the
49129Heracleidae
49130after
49131betraying Laconia to them, 4, 133
49132Phflopoemen (ἃ. 183 B.C.), eight times
49133General
49134of the Achaean League;
49135power of League declined after his
49136time, 4. 217
49137Philosophers, the caste of, in India,
491387. 67
49139Philosophy;
49140for
49141the
49142few,
491431. 71;
49144school
49145of,
49146at
49147Massalia,
491482. 179:
49149the Socratic, Megarian, Eleian, and
49150Eretrian sects of, 4. 251;
49151called
49152““music’’ by Plato and the Pytha-
49153goreians,
491545. 95;
49155engaged
49156in by
49157Aegyptian priests, 8. 9; the schools
49158of, at Heliupolis,
491598. 83, and
49160at
49161Aegyptian Thebes,
491628. 125;
49163Era-
49164tosthenes
49165an expert
49166in, and
49167the
49168Cyrenaic and Annicerian schools of,
49169at Cyrené, 8. 205
49170Philotaerus, brother of Dorylaiis the
49171military
49172expert
49173and
49174father
49175of
49176Dorylaiis
49177the
49178foster-brother
49179of
49180Mithridates Hupator, 5. 135
49181Philotaerus the eunuch, of Tieium,
49182brother of Eumenes and Attalus,
49183and founder of the house of the
49184Attalic
49185kings,
49186given
49187custody
49188of
49189stronghold of Pergamum by Lysi-
49190machus, but later caused Pergamum
49191to revolt, and continued lord of the
49192stronghold for twenty years, 6. 165
49193Philotaerus,
49194son
49195of Attalus
49196I and
49197brother of Eumenes II, remained a
49198private citizen, 6. 167
49199Philotas,
49200a Boeotian, founded Priené
49201(Cadmé) near the Maeander River,
492026. 199, 211
49203Philotas, son of Parmenio and general
49204of
49205Alexander,
49206led
49207his
49208cavalry
49209through the Aleian Plain in Cilicia,
492106. 355; put to death at Drangae by
49211Alexander, 7. 145
49212Philotera, sister of Ptolemy IT, 7. 315
49213Philotera on the Arabian Gulf, named
49214after the sister of Ptolemy I, 7. 315
49215Phineus, carried by Storm Winds to
49216land of the Galactophagi, according
49217to Hesiod, 3. 205
49218Phiniki (see Phoenicé in Thesprotia)
49219Phinopolis, on the coast of Thrace, 3,
49220279
49221“Phiegra’’
49222(“‘ Blazing-land’’),
49223the
49224Cumaean country called, 2. 447
49225Phlegra, the early home of the Giants
49226in Macedonia (1.6. Pallené, qg.v.)
49227Phlegraean Plain, the, 2. 437, 3. 119;
49228the setting
49229of the story
49230of the
49231Giants, 2. 439
49232Phlegyae,
49233the Homeric,
49234in
49235earlier
49236times the name of the Gyrtonians in
49237Thessaly, 8. 335, 337, 4. 447
49238Phliasia, the country formerly called
49239Araethyraea, 4, 205
49240Phligadia,
49241Mt.;
49242a mountain
49243lying
49244above the Vindelici, 2. 287
49245Phlius (Polyphengos), south of Sicyon
49246on the Asopus River, 4. 187; where
49247Dia (Hebé) is worshipped, 4. 205;
49248added to the Achaean League by
49249Aratus of Sicyon, 4. 217
49250Phoeae (*‘ Seals’’), Island of (see Seal
49251Island), in the Arabian Gulf, 7, 341
49252Phocaea
49253(Karadja-Fokia)
49254in
49255Asia
49256Minor;
49257people from, founded Elea
49258in Italy (about 540 B.c.),
492593. 5;
49260the beginning of Ionia and the end of
49261Aeolis,
492626. 5;
49263wooden
49264image
49265of
49266Athené
49267at, 6. 83;
49268three
49269rivers
49270empty near, 6. 173;
49271founded by
49272Athenians under Philogenes, 6. 201;
49273on a gulf, 6. 249; about 200 stadia
49274from Smyrna, 6. 309
49275Phocaean
49276cities,
49277or
49278colonies,
49279the;
49280Maenaca in Iberia, the farthest of,
49281in the west, 2. 81
49282Phocaeans,
49283the,
49284in Asia;
49285founded
49286Massalia, 2. 173; founded Elea in
49287Italy (about 540 B.c.), 3. 5; terri-
49288tory of, 6. 159
49289Phocian, or Sacred, War, the, kindled
49290by the plundering of Delphi, 4, 359,
49291375
49292Phocians, the, robbed the temple at
49293Delphi, and were fought by the
49294Boeotians,
492952.
49296207,
492974. 287, 359;
49298the common
49299organisation
49300of, re-
49301volt from, by the Delphians,
493024.
49303371
49304Phocis, lies on the Crisaean Gulf, 4.
49305195;
49306description and history of,
493074.
49308341-377;
49309Daphnus
49310in,
49311now
49312belongs to the Locrians,
493134, 341;
49314Delphi
49315and
49316Elateia
49317the
49318most
49319famous cities in, 4. 347;
49320Delphi
49321most
49322famops
49323of
49324all
49325cities,
49326and
49327Elateia largest of all, in, 4. 349
49328435
p. 448
49329INDEX OF NAMES, PLACES, AND SUBJECTS
49330Phocylides, the gnomic poet (b. 560
49331B.C.), on the baseness of the in-
49332habitants of Leros, 5. 173
49333Phoebia, the name given to a part of
49334Rhegium restored by Dionysius the
49335Younger, 3, 27
49336Phoebus, the ancient garden of (the
49337South), 8.175; the hinds sacred to,
493386. 379
49339Phoenicaceae, the botanical term, 3.
4934099 (footnote 7)
49341Phoenicé( Phiniki) in Thesprotia, 3.301
49342Phoenicia; position of, 1. 481; boats
49343built
49344in, by Alexander,
493457. 209;
49346a part of Syria, 7. 239; description
49347and history of, 7, 255-299; Aegypt
49348difficult to enter from, 8. 71
49349Phoenician city, Maenaca in Iberia
49350bears stamp ofa, 2. 81
49351Phoenician merchants, settlements of,
49352on
49353Emporicus
49354Gulf,
49355on
49356western
49357coast of Libya, 8. 159
49358Phoenician tribes, the, in Judaea, 7.
49359281
49360Phoenicians, the masters of Iberia,
493611. 7;
49362designated
49363constellations,
493641. 9; explorations of, before the
49365Trojan
49366War,
493671.
49368177;
49369the
49370in-
49371formants of Homer, and, until the
49372Roman empire, masters of Libya
49373and
49374Iberia,
493752.
4937657;
49377once
49378took
49379possession of the Balearic Islands,
493802. 125;
49381first to clothe their in-
49382habitants in tunics, 2.127; aclever
49383people, 2. 147;
49384alone carried on
49385commerce
49386with
49387the
49388Cassiterides
49389Islands
49390in earlier times,
493912. 157;
49392mastered Sardinia and Corsica, 2.
49393361;
49394with Cadmus occupied the
49395Cadmeia at Thebes and fortified it,
493968. 287, 4. 281, 283;
49397at Thebes,
49398were driven
49399out, and established
49400their government in Thessaly, but
49401returned, annexed the Orchomen-
49402ians, and drove out the Pelasgians
49403to Athens and the Thracians
49404to
49405Parnassus, 4. 283; often mentioned
49406by Homer, 5. 423; called the Gym-
49407nesian
49408Islands the
49409‘* Balearides,’’
494106. 277;
49411in general superior to all
49412peoples of all times in seamanship,
494137. 269;
49414invented astronomy and
49415arithmetic, 7. 271,
494168. 11;
49417to this
49418Bey omy the best part of Europe,
494198. 185
49420436
49421Phoenicius, Mt., in Boeotia; Medeon
49422at foot of, 4. 321
49423Phoenicodes
49424(or Phoenicussa),
49425dis-
49426tance from, to Ericodes, 3. 103
49427Phoenicon, a great palm-grove in the
49428Plain of Jericho, 7. 291
49429Phoenicus
49430(see Olympus,
49431Mt.,
49432in
49433Lycia)
49434Phoenicus, a harbour of Aegypt, 8.
4943555
49436Phoenicussa
49437(Felicudi),
49438one
49439of the
49440Liparaean
49441Isles, named from
49442its
49443“ palm ”
49444or“ rye-grass,”’
49445Phoenix the hero; the Phoenix River,
49446near which his tomb is to be seen,
49447named after, 4. 391;
49448domain of,
49449in Thessaly, 4. 401, 415;
49450variant
49451accounts of, according to Demetrius
49452of Scepsis, 4. 435
49453Phoenix, a settlement in Crete, 5. 123
49454Phoenix, a stronghold on top of Mt.
49455Phoenix
49456in the
49457Peraea
49458of the
49459Rhodians, 6. 265, 267
49460Phoenix River, the, named after the
49461hero Phoenix, flows into the Asopus
49462near Thermopylae, 4. 391
49463Pholegandros (Polykandros), one of
49464the Cyclades Islands, called ‘* Iron”’
49465Island by Aratus, because of its
49466ruggedness, 5. 161
49467Pholoé, Mt., an Arcadian mountain,
49468lies near Olympia, 4. 19, 101, 231
49469Phonia (see Pheneus)
49470Phoreys,
49471and
49472Ascanius,
49473‘‘led
49474the
49475Phrygians from Ascania,”’ 5, 459
49476Phoron, the harbour, in Attica, 4, 259
49477Phoroneus,
49478great-grandfather
49479of
49480nymphs, satyrs, and the Curetes,
4948111
49482Phoronis, The, of Hellanicus of Lesbos,
494835. 111
49484Phosphorus, the Shrine of, in Iberia,
49485ealled ‘‘ Lux Dubia,’’ 2. 19
49486Phraates, son of Phraates IV, sent by
49487his father as hostage to Rome, 7.
49488237, 239
49489Phraates IV (succeeded
49490his father
49491Orodes as king of Parthia, having
49492murdered
49493his
49494father,
49495his
49496thirty
49497brothers, and his own
49498son), en-
49499trusted
49500his children
49501and
49502grand-
49503children as hostages to Caesar, 3,
49504147, and has won his friendship, 7.
49505237
p. 449
49506INDEX OF NAMES, PLACES, AND SUBJECTS
49507Phranicates
49508(Pharnapates ?),
49509the
49510Parthian
49511general, fought against
49512Vintidius in Syria, 7. 247
49513Phratriae, the, at Neapolis, 2. 449
49514Phrixa, traversed by the Alpheius,
495154. 47
49516Phrixus, made voyage to Colchis, 1.
49517167; founded the temple of Leuco-
49518thea and oracle of Phrixus in the
49519Moschian country, having made his
49520expedition prior to that of Jason,
495215. 213; the City of, in Iberia, now
49522called Ideéssa, 5. 215;
49523father of
49524Cytorus, after whom Cytorum was
49525named, 5. 387
49526:
49527Phrycius, Mt., in Locris; Phryconian
49528Cymé in Asia named after, 6. 7, 155
49529Phrygia, Greater, over which Midas
49530reigned,
495315.
49532485;
49533geographical
49534position of, 5. 505
49535i
49536Phrygia, Lesser, the same as Phrygia
49537“* Hellespontica ’’ (q.v.) and Phrygia
49538‘« Epictetus ’’ (q.v.), 5. 487
49539Phrygia, Lower, once under water,
49540according
49541to
49542Xanthus,
495431.
49544181;
49545comprises Gallo-Graecia and Phry-
49546gia Epictetus, 1. 497;
49547temple of
49548Selené in, 5. 431; divided into two
49549parts, 5. 485
49550i
49551Phrygia ‘‘ Catacecaumené,’’ occupied
49552by Lydians and Mysians;
49553origin of
49554epithet of, 5. 515;
49555setting of the
49556myth of the Arimi and the throes
49557of Typhon, 5. 517
49558Phrygia Epictetus, also called Phrygia
49559Hellespontica and Lesser Phrygia;
49560comprises the Troad, 1. 497;
49561the
49562Sangarius River flows in, 5. 379;
49563borders on Bithynia, 5. 455;
49564no-
49565where touches the sea, 5. 459; the
49566cities in, 5, 505
49567Phrygia “ Hellespontica ’’ (see Phrygia
49568Epictetus),
49569in early times
49570called
49571Lesser Phrygia, and later, by the
49572Attalici,
49573Phrygia
49574‘* Epictetus ’’;
49575formerly occupied by Bithynians,
495765. 379;
49577geographical position of,
495785. 455, 457, 467
49579Phrygia Paroreia, in Phrygia Epictetus,
495805. 505; description of, 5. 507
49581Phrygian religious rites, the, 5. 105,
49582107; welcomed by the Athenians,
495835. 109
49584Phrygian tribes, certain, no longer to
49585be seen, 5. 519
49586Phrygians,
49587the,
49588are
49589Brigians,
49590a
49591Thracian tribe, 8. 177, 349, 351;
49592by some thought to have colonised
49593Paeonia,
495948. 363;
49595were
49596colonists
49597from Thrace and borrowed sacred
49598rites from there, 5. 107; seized the
49599Troad
49600after the Trojan
49601War, 5.
49602119, 463; certain
49603of, settled
49604in
49605Paphlagonia, 5. 383 ; same people as
49606the
49607Brygi
49608and
49609Bryges,
496105. 405;
49611mentioned
49612by Homer,
496135.
49614423;
49615boundaries of, confused with those
49616of Mysians and Bithynians, 5. 459;
49617lived round the Ascanian Lake, 5.
49618465;
49619accounts
49620of, go
49621back
49622to
49623earlier times than Trojan War, 5.
49624491;
49625confused
49626with Trojans by
49627tragic poets, 5. 495; colonised the
49628parts
49629about
49630Cyzicus
49631after
49632the
49633Trojan War, 6. 23; by the poets
49634confused
49635with
49636other
49637peoples,
496386.
49639315;
49640tribes
49641of,
49642mentioned
49643by
49644Homer, 6. 361; came from Europe
49645after the Trojan War, 6. 371
49646Phrygius River, the (see Hyllus River)
49647Phryni, the, in India, subdued by the
49648Greek kings of Bactria, 5. 281
49649Phrynichus
49650the
49651tragic
49652poet,
49653fined
496541000 drachmas because of his play
49655entitled
49656Zhe
49657Capture
49658of Miletus
49659by Dareius, 6. 209
49660Phrynon the Olympian victor, with
49661Athenians
49662seized
49663Sigeium
49664in the
49665Troad, 6. 75, and was unsuccessfully
49666resisted by Pittacus of Lesbos, 6.
4966775
49668Phtheires, the, a people near Miletus,
496696. 209
49670Phtheirophagi
49671(‘‘ Lice-eaters’’),
49672the,
49673in Asia, 5. 191, 207;
49674so called
49675because of their filthiness, 5. 215
49676Phthia,
49677in
49678‘Thessaly,
49679subject
49680to
49681Achilles, 4. 401, 407, 415; by some
49682called the same as
49683‘“* Hellas’”’ and
49684** Achaea,”’ 4. 403, 437
49685Phthians, the;
49686the name applied to
49687the people of Messenian Methoné
49688and to the subjects of Achilles,
49689Protesilaiis, and Philoctetes, 3. 385,
496904. 405, 407
49691Phthiotae, the Achacan, in Thessaly ;
49692ancestors of the Achaeans in the
49693Peloponnesus, 4, 211; geographical
49694position
49695of, 4, 395, 413;
49696Peleus
49697once king of, 4. 415
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