Imbrius, a Trojan, killed by Teucer son of Mentor. He had married Medesicaste, Priam’s daughter. Homer, Iliad, bk. 13.
Imbrivium, a place of Samnium.
Imbros, now Embro, an island of the Ægean sea, near Thrace, 32 miles from Samothrace, with a small river and town of the same name. Imbros was governed for some time by its own laws, but afterwards subjected to the power of Persia, Athens, Macedonia, and the kings of Pergamus. It afterwards became a Roman province. The divinities particularly worshipped there were Ceres and Mercury. Thucydides, bk. 8.—Pliny, bk. 4, ch. 12.—Homer, Iliad, bk. 13.—Strabo, bk. 2.—Mela, bk. 2, ch. 7.—Ovid, Tristia, bk. 1, poem 10, li. 18.
Inăchi, a name given to the Greeks, particularly the Argives, from king Inachus.
Inachia, a name given to Peloponnesus, from the river Inachus.——A festival in Crete in honour of Inachus; or, according to others, of Ino’s misfortunes.——A courtesan in the age of Horace, Epode 12.
Inăchĭdæ, the name of the eight first successors of Inachus, on the throne of Argos.
Inăchĭles, a patronymic of Epaphus, as grandson of Inachus. Ovid, Metamorphoses, bk. 1, li. 704.——Also of Perseus, descended from Inachus. Ovid, Metamorphoses, bk. 4, fable 11.
Inăchis, a patronymic of Io, as daughter of Inachus. Ovid, Fasti, bk. 1, li. 454.
Inăchium, a town of Peloponnesus.
Inăchus, a son of Oceanus and Tethys, father of Io, and also of Phoroneus and Ægialeus. He founded the kingdom of Argos, and was succeeded by Phoroneus, B.C. 1807, and gave his name to a river of Argos, of which he became the tutelar deity. He reigned 60 years. Virgil, Georgics, bk. 3, li. 151.—Apollodorus, bk. 2, ch. 3.—Pausanias, bk. 2, ch. 15.——A river of Argos.——Another in Epirus.