Hæmon, a Theban youth, son of Creon, who was so captivated with the beauty of Antigone, that he killed himself on her tomb, when he heard that she had been put to death by his father’s orders. Propertius, bk. 2, poem 8, li. 21.——A Rutulian engaged in the wars of Turnus. Virgil, Æneid, bk. 9, li. 685.——A friend of Æneas against Turnus. He was a native of Lycia. Virgil, Æneid, bk. 10, li. 126.
Hæmŏnia. See: Æmonia.
Hæmus, a mountain which separates Thrace from Thessaly, so high that from its top are visible the Euxine and Adriatic seas, though this, however, is denied by Strabo. It receives its name from Hæmus son of Boreas and Orithyia, who married Rhodope, and was changed into this mountain for aspiring to divine honours. Strabo, bk. 7, p. 313.—Pliny, bk. 4, ch. 11.—Ovid, Metamorphoses, bk. 6, li. 87.——A stage-player. Juvenal, satire 3, li. 99.
Hages, a brother of king Porus, who opposed Alexander, &c. Curtius, bk. 8, chs. 5 & 14.——One of Alexander’s flatterers.——A man of Cyzicus, killed by Pollux. Flaccus, bk. 3, li. 191.
Hagno, a nymph.——A fountain of Arcadia. Pausanias, bk. 8, ch. 38.
Hagnagora, a sister of Aristomenes. Pausanias.
Halæsus and Halēsus, a son of Agamemnon by Briseis or Clytemnestra. When he was driven from home, he came to Italy, and settled on mount Massicus in Campania, where he built Falisci, and afterwards assisted Turnus against Æneas. He was killed by Pallas. Virgil, Æneid, bk. 7, li. 724; bk. 10, li. 352.——A river near Colophon in Asia Minor. Pliny, bk. 5, ch. 29.
Halala, a village at the foot of mount Taurus.
Halcyŏne. See: [Alcyone].
Halentum, a town at the north of Sicily. Cicero, Against Verres, bk. 3, ch. 43; bk. 4, ch. 23.