Hy-a-cin´thus, a youth beloved by Apollo, and accidentally killed by him, changed in death to the flower, hyacinth, [67]-[68], [228].
Hy´a-des, Nysæan nymphs, nurses of infant Bacchus, rewarded by being placed as cluster of stars in the heavens, [160].
Hy´a-le, a nymph of Diana, [34].
Hy´dra, nine-headed monster slain by Hercules, [144], [149], [267], [269].
Hy-ge´i-a, goddess of health, daughter of Æsculapius, [174].
Hy´las, a youth detained by nymphs of spring where he sought water, [133].
Hy´men, the god of marriage, imagined as a handsome youth and invoked in bridal songs, [20], [185].
Hy-met´tus, mountain in Attica, near Athens, celebrated for its marble and its honey, [63].
Hy-per-bo´re-ans, people of the far North, [2].
Hy-pe´ri-on, a Titan, son of Uranus and Ge, and father of Helios, Selene, and Eos, [4], [5];