Indutiomarus, a Gaul, conquered by Cæsar, &c. Cæsar, Gallic War.
Inferum mare, the Tuscan sea.
Ino, a daughter of Cadmus and Harmonia, who nursed Bacchus. She married Athamas king of Thebes, after he had divorced Nephele, by whom he had two children, Phryxus and Helle. Ino became mother of Melicerta and Learchus, and soon conceived an implacable hatred against the children of Nephele, because they were to ascend the throne in preference to her own. Phryxus and Helle were informed of Ino’s machinations, and they escaped to Colchis on a golden ram. See: [Phryxus]. Juno, jealous of Ino’s prosperity, resolved to disturb her peace; and more particularly because she was of the descendants of her greatest enemy, Venus. Tisiphone was sent, by order of the goddess, to the house of Athamas; and she filled the whole palace with such fury, that Athamas, taking Ino to be a lioness, and her children whelps, pursued her, and dashed her son Learchus against a wall. Ino escaped from the fury of her husband, and from a high rock she threw herself into the sea, with Melicerta in her arms. The gods pitied her fate, and Neptune made her a sea deity, which was afterwards called Leucothoe. Melicerta became also a sea god, known by the name of Palæmon. Homer, Odyssey, bk. 5.—Cicero, Tusculanæ Disputationes; de Natura Deorum, bk. 3, ch. 48.—Plutarch, Convivium Septem Sapientium, ch. 5.—Ovid, Metamorphoses, bk. 4, fable 13, &c.—Pausanias, bks. 1, 2, &c.—Apollodorus, bk. 2, ch. 4.—Hyginus, fables 12, 14, & 15.
Inōa, festivals in memory of Ino, celebrated yearly with sports and sacrifices at Corinth. An anniversary sacrifice was also offered to Ino at Megara, where she was first worshipped, under the name of Leucothoe.——Another in Laconia, in honour of the same. It was usual at the celebration to throw cakes of flour into a pond, which, if they sunk, were presages of prosperity; but if they swam on the surface of the waters, they were inauspicious and very unlucky.
Inous, a patronymic given to the god Palæmon, as son of Ino. Virgil, Æneid, bk. 5, li. 823.
Inōpus, a river of Delos, which the inhabitants suppose to be the Nile, coming from Egypt under the sea. It was near its banks that Apollo and Diana were born. Pliny, bk. 2, ch. 103.—Flaccus, bk. 5, li. 105.—Strabo, bk. 6.—Pausanias, bk. 2, ch. 4.
Insŭbres, the inhabitants of Insubria, a country near the Po, supposed to be of Gallic origin. They were conquered by the Romans, and their country became a province, where the modern towns of Milan and Pavia were built. Strabo, bk. 5.—Tacitus, Annals, bk. 11, ch. 23.—Pliny, bk. 3, ch. 17.—Livy, bk. 5, ch. 34.—Ptolemy, bk. 3, ch. 1.
Intaphernes, one of the seven Persian noblemen who conspired against Smerdis, who usurped the crown of Persia. He was so disappointed for not obtaining the crown, that he fomented seditions against Darius, who had been raised to the throne after the death of the usurper. When the king had ordered him and all his family to be put to death, his wife, by frequently visiting the palace, excited the compassion of Darius, who pardoned her, and permitted her to redeem from death any one of her relations whom she pleased. She obtained her brother; and when the king expressed his astonishment, because she preferred him to her husband and children, she replied that she could procure another husband, and children likewise; out that she could never have another brother, as her father and mother were dead. Intaphernes was put to death. Herodotus, bk. 3.
Intemelium, a town at the west of Liguria, on the sea-shore. Cicero, [♦]Letters to his Friends, bk. 8, ch. 14.
[♦] ‘Div.’ replaced with ‘Letters to his Friends’