Hispulla, a lascivious woman. Juvenal, satire 6, li. 74.
Histaspes, a relation of Darius III., killed in a battle, &c. Curtius, bk. 4, ch. 4.
Hister, a river. See: [Ister].
Hister Pacuvius, a man distinguished as much by his vices as his immense riches. Juvenal, satire 2, li. 58.
Histiæa, a city of Eubœa, anciently called Talantia. It was near the promontory called Ceneum. Homer, Iliad, bk. 2.
Histiæōtis, a country of Thessaly, situate below mount Olympus and mount Ossa, anciently called Doris, from Dorus the son of Deucalion, and inhabited by the Pelasgi. The Pelasgi were driven from the country by the Cadmeans, and these last were also dispossessed by the Perrhæbeans, who gave to their newly acquired possessions the name of Histiæotis, or Estiæotis, from Estiæa, or Histiæa, a town of Eubœa, which they had then lately destroyed, and whose inhabitants they had carried to Thessaly with them. Strabo.—Herodotus, bk. 4.——A small country of Eubœa, of which Histiæa, or Estiæa, was the capital.
Histiæus, a tyrant of Miletus, who excited the Greeks to take up arms against Persia. Herodotus, bk. 5, &c.——An historian of Miletus.
Histria. See: [Istria].
Hodius, a herald in the Trojan war.
Holŏcron, a mountain of Macedon.