Polyphron, a prince killed by his nephew Alexander the tyrant of Pheræ.
Polytrŏpus, a man sent by the Lacedæmonians with an army against the Arcadians. He was killed at Orchomenus. Diodorus, bk. 15.
Polyxĕna, a daughter of Priam and Hecuba, celebrated for her beauty and accomplishments. Achilles became enamoured of her, and solicited her hand, and their marriage would have been consummated, had not Hector her brother opposed it. Polyxena, according to some authors, accompanied her father when he went to the tent of Achilles to redeem the body of his son Hector. Some time after, the Grecian hero came into the temple of Apollo to obtain a sight of the Trojan princess, but he was murdered there by Paris; and Polyxena, who had returned his affection, was so afflicted at his death, that she went and sacrificed herself on his tomb. Some, however, suppose that that sacrifice was not voluntary, but that the manes of Achilles appeared to the Greeks as they were going to embark, and demanded of them the sacrifice of Polyxena. The princess, who was in the number of the captives, was upon this dragged to her lover’s tomb, and there immolated by Neoptolemus the son of Achilles. Ovid, Metamorphoses, bk. 13, fable 5, &c.—Dictys Cretensis, bks. 3 & 5.—Virgil, Æneid, bk. 3, li. 321.—Catullus, poem 65.—Hyginus, fable 90.
Polyxenĭdas, a Syrian general, who flourished B.C. 192.
Polyxĕnus, one of the Greek princes during the Trojan war. His father’s name was Agasthenes. Homer, Iliad, bk. 2.—Pausanias, bk. 5, ch. 3.——A son of Medea by Jason.——A young Athenian who became blind, &c. Plutarch, Parallela minora.——A general of Dionysius, from whom he revolted.
Polyxo, a priestess of Apollo’s temple in Lemnos. She was also nurse to queen Hypsipyle. It was by her advice that the Lemnian women murdered all their husbands. Apollonius, bk. 1.—Flaccus, bk. 2.—Hyginus, fable 15.——One of the Atlantides.——A native of Argos, who married Tlepolemus son of Hercules. She followed him to Rhodes, after the murder of his uncle Licymnius, and when he departed for the Trojan war with the rest of the Greek princes, she became the sole mistress of the kingdom. After the Trojan war, Helen fled from Peloponnesus to Rhodes, where Polyxo reigned. Polyxo detained her, and to punish her as being the cause of a war, in which Tlepolemus had perished, she ordered her to be hanged on a tree by her female servants, disguised in the habit of Furies. See: [Helena]. Pausanias, bk. 5, ch. 19.——The wife of Nycteus.——One of the wives of Danaus.
Polyzēlus, a Greek poet of Rhodes. He had written a poem on the origin and birth of Bacchus, Venus, the Muses, &c. Some of his verses are quoted by Athenæus. Hyginus, Poetica Astronomica, bk. 2, ch. 14.——An Athenian archon.
Pomaxæthres, a Parthian soldier, who killed Crassus, according to some. Plutarch.
Pometia, Pometii, Pometia Suessa, a town of the Volsci in Latium, totally destroyed by the Romans, because it had revolted. Virgil, Æneid, bk. 6, li. 775.—Livy, bk. 2, ch. 17.
Pometīna, one of the tribes of the people at Rome.