A classical dictionary / containing a copious account of all the proper names mentioned in ancient authors with tables of coins, weights, and measures used among the Greeks and Romans and a chronological table

by John Lemprière

Hamadryădes, nymphs who lived in the country, and presided over trees, with which they were said to live and die. The word is derived from ἁμα simul, and δρυς quercus. Virgil, Eclogues, poem 10.—Ovid, Metamorphoses, bk. 1, li. 647.

Hamæ, a town of Campania near Cumæ. Livy, bk. 23, ch. 25.

Hamaxia, a city of Cilicia.

Hamilcar, the name of some celebrated generals of Carthage. See: [Amilcar].

Hammon, the Jupiter of the Africans. See: [Ammon].

Hannibal. See: [Annibal].

Hanno. See: [Anno].

Harcălo, a man famous for his knowledge of poisonous herbs, &c. He touched the most venomous serpents and reptiles without receiving the smallest injury. Silius Italicus, bk. 1, li. 406.

Harmatelia, a town of the Brachmanes in India, taken by Alexander. Diodorus, bk. 17.

Harmatris, a town of Æolia.