Hyrneto and Hyrnetho, a daughter of Temenus king of Argos, who married Deyphon son of Celeus. She was the favourite of her father, who greatly enriched her husband. Apollodorus, bk. 2, ch. 6.—Pausanias, bk. 2, ch. 19.
Hyrnĭthium, a plain of Argos, near Epidaurus, fertile in olives. Strabo, bk. 6.
Hyrtăcus, a Trojan of mount Ida, father to Nisus, one of the companions of Æneas. Virgil, Æneid, bk. 9, lis. 177 & 406. Hence the patronymic of Hyrtacides is applied to Nisus. It is also applied to Hippocoon. Virgil, Æneid, bk. 5, li. 492.
Hysia, a town of Bœotia, built by Nycteus, Antiope’s father.——A village of Argos.——A city of Arcadia.——The royal residence of the king of Parthia.
Hyspa, a river of Sicily. Silius Italicus, [♦]bk. 14, li. 228.
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Hyssus and Hyssi, a port and river of Cappadocia on the Euxine sea.
Hystaspes, a noble Persian, of the family of the Achæmenides. His father’s name was Arsames. His son Darius reigned in Persia after the murder of the usurper Smerdis. It is said by Ctesias that he wished to be carried to see the royal monument which his son had built between two mountains. The priests who carried him, as reported, slipped the cord with which he was suspended in ascending the mountain, and he died of the fall. Hystaspes was the first who introduced the learning and mysteries of the Indian Brachmans into Persia, and to his researches in India the sciences were greatly indebted, particularly in Persia. Darius is called Hystaspes, or son of Hystaspes, to distinguish him from his royal successors of the same name. Herodotus, bk. 1, ch. 209; bk. 5, ch. 83.—Ctesias, Fragments.
Hystieus. See: [Histiæus].