Hypănis, a river of European Scythia, now called Bog, which falls into the Borysthenes, and with it into the Euxine. Herodotus, bk. 4, ch. 52, &c.—Ovid, Metamorphoses, bk. 15, li. 285.——A river of India.——Another of Pontus. Cicero, Tusculanæ Disputationes, bk. 2, ch. 39.——A Trojan who joined himself to Æneas, and was killed by his own people, who took him for one of the enemy in the night that Troy was burned by the Greeks. Virgil, Æneid, bk. 2, li. 428.
Hyparīnus, a son of Dion, who reigned at Syracuse for two years after his father.——The father of Dion.
Hypătes, a river of Sicily, near Camarina. Silius Italicus, bk. 14, li. 231.
Hypătha, a town of Thessaly. Livy, bk. 41, ch. 25.
Hypatia, a native of Alexandria celebrated for her beauty, her virtues, and her great erudition. She was assassinated 415 A.D.
Hypēnor, a Trojan killed by Diomedes at Troy. Homer, Iliad, bk. 5, li. 144.
Hyperbatus, a pretor of the Achæans, B.C. 224.
Hyperbius, a son of Ægyptus. Apollodorus.
Hy̆perbŏrei, a nation in the northern parts of Europe and Asia, who were said to live to an incredible age, even to 1000 years, and in the enjoyment of all possible felicity. The sun was said to rise and set to them but once a year, and therefore, perhaps, they are placed by Virgil under the north pole. The word signifies people who inhabit beyond the wind Boreas. Thrace was the residence of Boreas, according to the ancients. Whenever the Hyperboreans made offerings they always sent them towards the south, and the people of Dodona were the first of the Greeks who received them. The word Hyperboreans is applied, in general, to all those who inhabit any cold climate. Pliny, bk. 4, ch. 12; bk. 6, ch. 17.—Mela, bk. 3, ch. 5.—Virgil, Georgics, bk. 1, li. 240; bk. 3, lis. 169 & 381.—Herodotus, bk. 4, ch. 13, &c.—Cicero, de Natura Deorum, bk. 3, ch. 23; bk. 4, ch. 12.
Hyperea and Hyperīa, a fountain of Thessaly, with a town of the same name. Strabo, bk. 9.——Another in Messenia, in Peloponnesus. Flaccus, bk. 1, li. 375.