IAPYDES.
 

IBYCUS.
 

 reserved from him the knowledge cf medicine

 and the prophetic art: he cured ^Eneas of the

 wound received by him in the war against La¬

 tinus.]

  Iapydes ('ldirvbeg or Ta7rot5ec), a warlike and

 barbarous people in the north of Dlyricum, be¬

 tween the Rivers Arsia and Tedanius, were a

 mixed  race, partly  Illyrian and  partly  Celtic,

 who tattooed their bodies.   They were subdued

 by  Augustus.  Their  eountry  was  called Ia-

 h-dia.

  Iapi gia ('Ic-rvyia: 'Idirvyeg), the name given

by the Greeks to the south of Apulia, from Ta¬

rentum  and  Brundisium to the Promontorium

Iapygium (now  Cape Leuca), though it is some¬

times applied to the whole of Apulia, Vid. Apu¬

 lia.  The  name is  derived from  the mythical

 lapyx.

  Iapyx (Td7rwf).  1. Son of Lycaon and brother

of Daunus and Peueetius, who  went as  leaders

of a colony to  Italy.  According to others, he

was a Cretan, and a brother of  Icadius, or a son

of Daedalus and a Cretan woman, from  whom

the  Cretans who migrated to Italy derived the

name  of  Iapyges.—2.  The westnorthwestern

 wind, blowing off the coast of Iapygia (Apulia),

 m the  south  of Italy,  and consequently, favor¬

 able to persons  crossing over to Greece.   It was

 the same as the dpy'mTiig of the Greeks.

  Iarbas  or  Hiarbas, king  of the  Gaetulians,

 and son of Jupiter Ammon by a Libyan nymph,

 sued in vain  for the hand of Dido in marriage.

 For details, vid. Dibo.

  Iardanes  ('lapbdvnc), a king of  Lydia, and

 father of Omphale, who is hence called lardanis.

  Iardanes  or Iardanus ('lapddvng, 'Idpbavcg).

 1. (Now Jordan), a river in Elis.—2. A river in

 the north of Crete, whieh  flowed near the town

 Cydonia.

  Iasion  or  Iasius ('laoiuv, 'Idawg), son of  Ju¬

 piter (Zeus) and Electra, the daughter of Atlas,

 or son of Corythus  and Electra.  At the wed¬

 ding of Ms   sister Harmonia, Ceres (Demeter)

 fell in love with him, and in a thrice-ploughed

 field (rplTToXog) she  became by him  the  mother

 of Pluton or  Plutus in Crete;'Jupiter (Zeus), in

 consequence,  killed  Iasion with  a flash of light

 ning.   Others represent him as living to an ad¬

 vanced age as the husband of Ceres (Demeter).

 In  some traditions  Iasion and  his brother Dar¬

 danus  are said to have carried the palladium to

 Samothrace,  and there to  have been instructed

 in the mysteries of Ceres (Demeter) by  Jupiter

 (Zeus).    Others relate that Iasion, being  in¬

 spired by Ceres (Demeter) and Cora  (Proser¬

 pina), travelled  about in Sicily and  many other

 countries, and  every where  taught  the  people

 the mysteries of Ceres (Demeter).

  Iasis, i. e,  Atalante, the daughter of Iasius.

   [IXsrus ('luotog).    1.  King of Orchomenos,

 father of  Amphion.—2. Vid. Iasion.]

   Iaso (Tcktu), i. e. Recovery, a daughter  of

  /Esculapius  or  Amphiaraus, and  sister  of Hy-

 giea, was worshipped as the goddess  of recovery.

   Iassius or Iassicls Sinus ('laoiKbg KoXirog:

  uow  Gulf of  Mandeliyeh), a large  gulf on the

  western coast  of Caria, between the peninsulas

  of Miletus  and Myndus,  named  after the city

  of lassus, and called also Bargylieticus Sinus

  (BapyvXinriK.bg koAttoc) from another city which

  stood upon it, namely, Bargylia.

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  Iassus cr lAsus (flaaoog, "laaog: 'laoevg : ruinn

at Asyn-Kalessi), a city of Caria, on the lassiua

Sinus, founded by Argives and further colonized

by Milesians.

  Iasub (Trro-of).  1.  An Arcadian, ion  of Ly

curgus and  Cleophile or Eurynome, brother of

Ancaaus,  husband of Clymene, the daughter cf

Minyas, and father of Atalante.  He is likewise

called Iasius and Iasion.—2. Father of AmpMon,

and king  of the Minyans.—[3. Son of Triopas,

grandson  of  Phorbas,  brother  of  Agenor, and

father of Io, according  to one account, was king

of Argos.—4.  Son of Sphelus,  a leader of the

Athenians before Troy, slain by -iEneas.]

  Iazyges ('Id&yeg), a powerful Sarmatian peo¬

ple, who  originally dwelt on the  coast of the

Pontus Euxinus and the Palus Maeotis,  but  in

the reign of Claudius settled  near the Quadi  in

Daeia, in the country bounded  by the  Danube,

the Theiss, and the Sarmatian Mountains.   They

are generally called Sarmatc Iazyges or simply

Sarmatc, but Ptolemy gives them  the  name of

Iazyges Metanastas, on  account of their  migra¬

tion.   The Iazyges were in close  alliance with

the Quadi, along with whom they frequently at¬

tacked the Roman  dominions, especially Mcesia

and Pannonia.  In the  fifth  century they were

conquered by the Goths.

  Iberia ('I6npla : southern part of Georgia), a

eountry of Asia,  in  the centre  of  the  isthmus

between   the  Black  and  Caspian  Seas, was

bounded on the north  by the Caucasus, on the

west by  Colchis, on the east by Albania, and on

the south by  Armenia.  It was surrounded on

every  side by  mountains, through which there

were  only four  passes.  Sheltered  by these

mountains and watered  by the  Cyrus (now

Kour) and  its upper tributaries, it was famed

for a fertility of which its modern name (from

Veopybg) remains a  witness.   Its inhabitants,

Iberes ("Unpeg)  or  iBERr, were, and  are still,

among the  most perfect specimens of  the Cau¬

casian race.  The ancients believed them to be

of the same family as the Assyrians and Medes,

whom they were thought to resemble  in their

customs.  They were more  civilized than their

neighbors in Colchis and  Albania, and 'were di¬

vided  into  four  castes:  1.  The  nobles, front

whom two  kings were chosen; 2. The priests,

who were also the magistrates; 3. The soldiers

and  husbandmen ; 4. The slaves, who  perform¬

ed all public and mechanical work.  The chief

employment of  the  Iberians  was agriculture.

The Romans first became acquainted with the

country  through  the expedition of  Pompey  in

B.C. 65; and  under  Trajan  it was subjected  to

Rome.   In  the fifth century it was conquered

by the  Persian  king   Sapor.   No connection

can be traced between the Iberians of Asia and

those of Spain.

   Iberus (1%3oc or "IBnp : now Ebro), the prin¬

cipal river in the northeast of Spain, rises among

the  mountains of the  Cantabri, near Juliobriga,

flows southeast tiirough a great plain  between

the  Pyrenees and the  Mons Idubeda, and falls

into  the  Mediterranean near Dertosa, after

forming  a Delta.

   Ibycus ("IBvKog), a  Greek lyric poet, was  a

native of Rhegium, and spent  the best part  of

Ms lif'j  at Samos,  at the court of Polycrate«i

about B.C.  540.  It is related that, travelling