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Ia, the daughter of Midas, who married Atys, &c.
Iacchus, a surname of Bacchus, ab ἰαχειν, from the noise and shouts which the bacchanals raised at the festivals of this deity. Virgil, Eclogues, poem 6; Georgics, bk. 1, li. 166.—Ovid, Metamorphoses, bk. 4, ch. 15.——Some suppose him to be a son of Ceres; because in the celebration of the Eleusinian mysteries, the word Iacchus was frequently repeated. Herodotus, bk. 8, ch. 65.—Pausanias, bk. 1, ch. 2.
Iader, a river of Dalmatia.
Ialēmus, a wretched singer, son of the muse Calliope. Athenæus, bk. 14.
Ialmĕnus, a son of Mars and Astyoche, who went to the Trojan war with his brother Ascalaphus, with 30 ships, at the head of the inhabitants of Orchomenes and Aspledon, in Bœotia. Pausanias, bk. 2, ch. 37.—Homer, Iliad, bk. 2, li. 19.
Iāly̆sus, a town of Rhodes, built by Ialysus, of whom Protogenes was making a beautiful painting when Demetrius Poliorcetes took Rhodes. The Telchines were born there. Ovid, Metamorphoses, bk. 7, fable 9.—Pliny, bk. 35, ch. 6.—Cicero, bk. 2, Letters to Atticus, ltr. 21.—Plutarch, Demetrius.—Ælian, bk. 12, ch. 5.
Iambe, a servant-maid of Metanira, wife of Celeus king of Eleusis, who tried to exhilarate Ceres, when she travelled over Attica in quest of her daughter Proserpine. From the jokes and stories which she made use of, free and satirical verses have been called Iambics. Apollodorus, bk. 1, ch. 5.
Iamblĭcus, a Greek author who wrote the life of Pythagoras, and the history of his followers, an exhortation to philosophy, a treatise against Porphyry’s letter on the mysteries of the Egyptians, &c. He was a great favourite with the emperor Julian, and died A.D. 363.
Iamenus, a Trojan killed by Leonteus. Homer, Iliad, bk. 12, lis. 139 & 193.