A classical dictionary / containing a copious account of all the proper names mentioned in ancient authors with tables of coins, weights, and measures used among the Greeks and Romans and a chronological table

by John Lemprière

Idya, one of the Oceanides, who married Æetes king of Colchis, by whom she had Medea, &c. Hyginus.—Hesiod.—Cicero, de Natura Deorum, bk. 3.

Jenisus, a town of Syria. Herodotus, bk. 3, ch. 5.

Jera, one of the Nereides. Homer, Iliad, bk. 18.

Jerĭcho, a city of Palestine, besieged and taken by the Romans, under Vespasian and Titus. Pliny, bk. 5, ch. 14.—Strabo.

Jerne, a name of Ireland. Strabo, bk. 1.

Jerŏmus and Jerony̆mus, a Greek of Cardia, who wrote a history of Alexander.——A native of Rhodes, disciple of Aristotle, of whose compositions some few historical fragments remain. Dionysius of Halicarnassus, bk. 1.

Jerusalem, the capital of Judæa. See: [Hierosolyma].

Jetæ, a place of Sicily. Silius Italicus, bk. 14, li. 272.

Igēni, a people of Britain. Tacitus, Annals, bk. 12, &c.

Igilium, now Giglio, an island of the Mediterranean, on the coast of Tuscany. Mela, bk. 2, ch. 7.—Cæsar, Gallic War, bk. 1, ch. 34.