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Zerynthus, a town of Samothrace, with a cave sacred to Hecate. The epithet of Zerynthius is applied to Apollo, and also to Venus. Ovid, Tristia, bk. 1, poem 9, li. 19.—Livy, bk. 38, ch. 41.
Zethes, Zetes, or Zetus, a son of Boreas king of Thrace and Orithyia, who accompanied, with his brother Cailas, the Argonauts to Colchis. In Bithynia, the two brothers, who are represented with wings, delivered Phineus from the continual persecution of the Harpies, and drove these monsters as far as the islands called Strophades, where at last they were stopped by Iris, who promised them that Phineus should no longer be tormented by them. They were both killed, as some say, by Hercules during the Argonautic expedition, and were changed into those winds which generally blow eight or ten days before the dog-star appears, and are called Prodromi by the Greeks. Their sister Cleopatra married Phineus king of Bithynia. Orpheus, Argonautica.—Apollodorus, bk. 1, ch. 9; bk. 3, ch. 15.—Hyginus, fable 14.—Ovid, Metamorphoses, bk. 8, li. 716.—Pausanias, bk. 3, ch. 18.—Valerius Flaccus.
Zetta, a town of Africa, near Thapsus, now Zerbi. Strabo, bk. 17.—Hirtius, African War, ch. 68.
Zetus, or Zethus, a son of Jupiter and Antiope, brother to Amphion. The two brothers were born on mount Cithæron, where Antiope had fled to avoid the resentment of her father Nycteus. When they had attained the years of manhood, they collected a number of their friends to avenge the injuries which their mother had suffered from Lycus, the successor of Nycteus on the throne of Thebes, and from his wife Dirce. Lycus was put to death, and his wife tied to the tail of a wild bull, that dragged her over rocks and precipices till she died. The crown of Thebes was seized by the two brothers, not only as the reward of this victory, but as their inheritance, and Zethus surrounded the capital of his dominions with a strong wall, while his brother amused himself with playing on his lyre. Music and verses were disagreeable to Zethus, and, according to some, he prevailed upon his brother no longer to pursue so unproductive a study. Hyginus, fable 7.—Pausanias, bk. 2, ch. 6, &c.—Apollodorus, bk. 3, chs. 5 & 10.—Horace, bk. 1, ltr. 18, li. 41.
Zeugis, a portion of Africa, in which Carthage was. The other division was called Byzacium. Isidorus, bk. 14, ch. 5.—Pliny, bk. 5, ch. 4.
Zeugma, a town of Mesopotamia, on the western bank of the Euphrates, where was a well-known passage across the river. It was the eastern boundary of the Roman empire, and in Pliny’s age a chain of iron was said to extend across it. Pliny, bk. 5, ch. 24.—Strabo, bk. 16.—Curtius, bk. 3, ch. 7.—Tacitus, Annals, bk. 12, ch. 12.——A town of Dacia.
Zeus, a name of Jupiter among the Greeks, expressive of his being the father of mankind, and by whom all things live. Diodorus, bk. 5.
Zeuxidămus, a king of Sparta, of the family of the Proclidæ. He was father of Archidamus and grandson of Theopompus, and was succeeded by his son Archidamus. Pausanias, bk. 3, ch. 7.
Zeuxidas, a pretor of the Achæan league, deposed because he had promised to his countrymen an alliance with the Romans.