Halesa, a town of Sicily. Cicero, Against Verres, bk. 2, ch. 7; Letters to his Friends, bk. 13, ltr. 32.
Halesius, a mountain and river near Ætna, where Proserpine was gathering flowers when she was carried away by Pluto. Columella.
Halia, one of the Nereides. Apollodorus.——A festival at Rhodes in honour of the sun.
Haliacmon, a river which separates Thessaly from Macedonia, and falls into the Sinus Thermaicus. Cæsar, Civil War, bk. 3, ch. 36.—Pliny, bk. 31, ch. 2.—Herodotus, bk. 7, ch. 127.
Haliartus, a town of Bœotia, founded by Haliartus the son of Thersander. The monuments of Pandion king of Athens, and of Lysander the Lacedæmonian general, were seen in that town. Livy, bk. 42, chs. 44 & 63.—Pausanias, bk. 9, ch. 32.——A town of Peloponnesus.
Halicarnassus, now Bodroun, a maritime city of Caria, in Asia Minor, where the mausoleum, one of the seven wonders of the world, was erected. It was the residence of the sovereigns of Caria, and was celebrated for having given birth to Herodotus, Dionysius, Heraclitus, &c. Maximus Tyrius, bk. 35.—Vitruvius, On Architecture.—Diodorus, bk. 17.—Herodotus, bk. 2, ch. 178.—Strabo, bk. 14.—Livy, bk. 27, chs. 10 & 16; bk. 33, ch. 20.
Halicyæ, a town of Sicily, near Lilybæum, now Saleme. Pliny, bk. 3, ch. 8.—Cicero, Against Verres, bk. 2, ch. 33.—Diodorus, bk. 14.
Halieis, a town of Argolis.
Halimede, a Nereid.
Halirrhotius, a son of Neptune and Euryte, who ravished Alcippe daughter of Mars, because she slighted his addresses. This violence offended Mars, and he killed the ravisher. Neptune cited Mars to appear before the tribunal of justice to answer for the murder of his son. The cause was tried at Athens, in a place which has been called from thence Areopagus (ἀρης Mars, and παγος village), and the murderer was acquitted. Apollodorus, bk. 3, ch. 14.—Pausanias, bk. 1, ch. 21.