Hetricŭlum, now Latarico, a town in the country of the Brutii. Livy, bk. 30, ch. 19.
Hetrūria and Etruria, a celebrated country of Italy, at the west of the Tiber. It originally contained 12 different nations, which had each their respective monarch, called Lucumon. Their names were Veientes, Clusini, Perusini, Cortonenses, Arretini, Vetuloni, Volaterrani, Rusellani, Volscinii, Tarquinii, Falisci, and Cæretani. The inhabitants were particularly famous for their superstition, and great confidence in omens, dreams, auguries, &c. They all proved powerful and resolute enemies to the rising empire of the Romans, and were conquered only after much effusion of blood. Pliny, bk. 3, ch. 5.—Strabo, bk. 5.—Plutarch, Romulus.—Mela, bk. 2, ch. 4.
Heurippa, a surname of Diana.
Hexapy̆lum, a gate at Syracuse. The adjoining place of the city, or the wall, bore the same name. Diodorus, bks. 11 & 14.—Livy, bk. 24, ch. 21; bk. 25, ch. 24; bk. 32, ch. 39.
Hiarbas, or Iarbas, a king of Gætulia. See: [Iarbas].
Hiber, a name applied to a Spaniard, as living near the river Hiberus or Iberus. See: [Iberus].
Hibernia and Hybernia, a large island at the west of Britain, now called Ireland. Some of the ancients have called it Ibernia, Juverna, Iris, Hierna, Ogygia, Ivernia. Juvenal, satire 2, li. 160.—Strabo, bk. 4.—Orpheus.—Aristotle.
Hibrildes, an Athenian general. Dionysius of Halicarnassus, bk. 7.
Hicetāon, a son of Laomedon, brother to Priam and father of Menalippus. Homer, Iliad, bk. 3.——The father of Thymœtes, who came to Italy with Æneas. Virgil, Æneid, bk. 10, li. 133.
Hicētas, a philosopher of Syracuse, who believed that the earth moved, and that all the heavenly bodies were stationary. Diogenes Laërtius, Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers.——A tyrant of Syracuse. See: [Icetas].