Jasonĭdæ, a patronymic of Thoas and Euneus, sons of Jason and Hypsipyle.
Iasus, a king of Argos, who succeeded his father Triopas. Pausanias, bk. 2, ch. 16.——A son of Argus, father of Agenor.——A son of Argus and Ismena.——A son of Lycurgus of Arcadia.——An island, with a town of the same name, on the coast of Caria. The bay adjoining was called Iasius sinus. Pliny, bk. 5, ch. 28.—Livy, bk. 32, ch. 33; bk. 37, ch. 17.
Iaxartes, now Sir or Sihon, a river of Sogdiana, mistaken by Alexander for the Tanais. It falls into the east of the Caspian sea. Curtius, bks. 6 & 7.—Pliny, bk. 6, ch. 16.—Arrian, bk. 4, ch. 15.
Iazĭges, a people on the borders of the Palus Mæotis. Tacitus, Annals, bk. 12, ch. 29.—Ovid, Tristia, bk. 2, li. 191; ex Ponto, bk. 4, poem 7, li. 9.
Ibēria, a country of Asia, between Colchis on the west, and Albania on the east, governed by kings. Pompey invaded it, and made great slaughter of the inhabitants, and obliged them to surrender by setting fire to the woods where they had fled for safety. It is now called Georgia. Plutarch, Lycurgus, Antonius, &c.—Dio Cassius, bk. 36.—Florus, bk. 3.—Flaccus, bk. 5, li. 166.—Appian, Wars in Spain.——An ancient name of Spain, derived from the river Iberus. Lucan, bk. 6, li. 258.—Horace, bk. 4, ode 14, li. 50.
Ibērus, a river of Spain, now called Ebro, which, after the conclusion of the first Punic war, separated the Roman from the Carthaginian possessions in that country. Lucan, bk. 4, li. 335.—Pliny, bk. 3, ch. 3.—Horace, bk. 4, ode 14, li. 50.——A river of Iberia in Asia, flowing from mount Caucasus into the Cyrus. Strabo, bk. 3.——A fabulous king of Spain.
Ibi, an Indian nation.
Ibis, a poem of the poet Callimachus, in which he bitterly satirizes the ingratitude of his pupil the poet Apollonius. Ovid had also written a poem which bears the same name, and which, in the same satirical language, seems, according to the opinion of some, to inveigh bitterly against Hyginus the supposed hero of the composition. Suidas.
Iby̆cus, a lyric poet of Rhegium, about 540 years before Christ. He was murdered by robbers, and at the moment of death he implored the assistance of some cranes which at that moment flew over his head. Some time after, as the murderers were in the market-place, one of them observed some cranes in the air, and said to his companions, αἰ Ἰβυκου ἐκδικοι παρεισιν, there are the birds that are conscious of the death of Ibycus. These words and the recent murder of Ibycus raised suspicions in the people; the assassins were seized and tortured, and they confessed their guilt. Cicero, Tusculanæ Disputationes, bk. 4, ch. 43.—Ælian, Varia Historia.——The husband of Chloris, whom Horace ridicules, bk. 3, ode 15.
Icadius, a robber killed by a stone, &c. Cicero, De Fato, ch. 3.