Inamămes, a river in the east of Asia, as far as which Semiramis extended her empire. Polyænus.
Inarĭme, an island near Campania, with a mountain under which Jupiter confined the giant Typhœus. It is now called Ischia, and is remarkable for its fertility and population. There was formerly a volcano in the middle of the island. Virgil, Æneid, bk. 9, li. 716.
Inărus, a town of Egypt, in whose neighbourhood the town of Naucratis was built by the Milesians.——A tyrant of Egypt, who died B.C. 456.
Incitātus, a horse of the emperor Caligula, made high priest.
Indathyrsus. See: [Idanthyrsus].
India, the most celebrated and opulent of all the countries of Asia, bounded on one side by the Indus, from which it derives its name. It is situate at the south of the kingdoms of Persia, Parthia, &c., along the maritime coasts. It has always been reckoned famous for the riches it contains; and so persuaded were the ancients of its wealth, that they supposed that its very sands were gold. It contained 9000 different nations, and 5000 remarkable cities, according to geographers. Bacchus was the first who conquered it. In more recent ages, part of it was tributary to the power of Persia. Alexander invaded it; but his conquest was checked by the valour of Porus, one of the kings of the country, and the Macedonian warrior was unwilling or afraid to engage another. Semiramis also extended her empire far in India. The Romans knew little of the country, yet their power was so universally dreaded, that the Indians paid homage by their ambassadors to the emperors Antoninus, Trajan, &c. India is divided into several provinces. There is an India extra Gangem, an India intra Gangem, and an India propria; but these divisions are not particularly noticed by the ancients, who, even in the age of Augustus, gave the name of Indians to the Æthiopian nations. Diodorus, bk. 1.—Strabo, bk. 1, &c.—Mela, bk. 3, ch. 7.—Pliny, bk. 5, ch. 28.—Curtius, bk. 8, ch. 10.—Justin, bk. 1, ch. 2; bk. 12, ch. 7.
Indibĭlis, a princess of Spain betrothed to Albutius.
Indĭgĕtes, a name given to those deities who were worshipped only in some particular places, or who were become gods from men, as Hercules, Bacchus, &c. Some derive the word from Inde et geniti, born at the same place where they received their worship. Virgil, Georgics, bk. 1, li. 498.—Ovid, Metamorphoses, bk. 14, li. 608.
Indĭgĕti, a people of Spain.
Indus, now Sinde, a large river of Asia, from which the adjacent country has received the name of India. It falls into the Indian ocean by two mouths. According to Plato, it was larger than the Nile; and Pliny says that 19 rivers discharge themselves into it, before it falls into the sea. Cicero, de Natura Deorum, bk. 2, ch. 52.—Strabo, bk. 15.—Curtius, bk. 8, ch. 9.—Diodorus, bk. 2.—Ovid, Fasti, bk. 3, li. 720.—Pliny, bk. 6, ch. 20.——A river of Caria. Livy, bk. 38, ch. 14.