F.

Farrah-rud, river, i. 447.
Festivals, of the Egyptians, ii. 86; of the
Greeks, 1. Apaturia, i. 230; 2. Carneia,
iv. 141; 3. Hyacinthia, 312; 4. Olym-
pia, 141; 5. Panionia, i. 230; 6. Theo-
phania, 150; 7. Thesmophoria, iii.
312; 8. of Juno at Argos, i. 140; 9.
of Diana at Brauron, iii. 423; 10. of
Cybele at Cyzicus, 55; festival at Ba-
bylon, i. 263; at Samos, ii. 370; at
Sunium, iii. 386; at Athens, 404; Per-
sian festival, ii. 393; Ethiopian fes-
tivals in honour of Bacchus, 404;
Bacchic festival of the Budini, iii. 79;
festival of the Auseuns, 128; names
of Greek festivals terminate in the
letter a, i. 231.

Fire-signals, iv. 125, 311.

Fish of the Nile, ii. 101; dried, 108;
their habits, 129; in Lake Mœris, ii.
196; in Lake Prasias, iii. 186.
Flutes, male and female, i. 132.
Fortification, Egyptian, ii. 217.
Fountain of the Sun, iii. 131; of Apollo

at Cyrene, 109; of Peirene at Corinth,
242; of Enneacrunus, 422; of Gar-
gaphia, iv. 325.

Fox-goose, ii. 103.

Furies, temple of, iii, 102; see Eume-
nides.

cluded in satrapies, ii. 402; serve in
army of Xerxes, iv. 53; general account
of, 175.

Garamantians, iii. 124, 132.

Gargaphia, fountain of, iv. 325, 347.
Gauanes, iv. 303.

Γαυλός, ii. 431.

Gebel-Berkel, ii. 33, 35.
Gebeleïzis, iii. 70.

Gela, history of, iv. 105.
Geleon, iii. 222.

Geleontes; see Teleontes.

Gelo, his ancestry, iv. 105; becomes king
of Syracuse, 108; receives the Greek
embassy, 109; his war with Carthage,
113.

Geloni, iii. 79.

Gelonus, son of Hercules, iii. 7.
-, city, iii. 78, 84.

Genealogies of Hecatæus, i. 39.
Geographers before Herodotus, i. 41.
Geography, general, of Herodotus, iii. 26;
his geography of Scythia, 168.
Geometry, discovered by the Egyptians,
ii. 278.

Gephyræans, their Phoenician origin, iii.
214.

Geræstus, Cape, iv. 222.
Gergis, iv. 60.

Gergithæ, iii. 263; iv. 37.
Germanii, i. 211, 344.
Gerrhi, iii. 49.

the Chian, i. 136; story of, at

Sparta, iii. 384.

Glisas, river, iv. 343.
Gnats, ii. 131.

Gnomon, ii. 154, 281.
Gnurus, iii. 56.

Gobryas, ii. 387, 389, 507; his advice to
Darius, iii. 90; iv. 216; meaning of his
name, iii. 449.

Gods, Arabian, ii. 337; Babylonian and
Assyrian, i. 480; numerous in Egypt,
ii. 64, 216; length of their reign, 68,
191; eight great gods, 242; twelve of
the 2nd order, 244; 3rd order, 247;
local, 248; traceable to one original,
249; their subdivisions, 250; Greek
philosophy of, 250; their reign, 286;

GOLD.

gods of the Scythians, iii. 42; of the
Thracians, 179; of the Libyans, 137.
Gold, mines, ii. 350; value of, as com-
pared with silver, 403; finding by the
Indians, 409; European, 418.

Gonnus, iii. 219; iv. 88.

Gomates, the Magian, ii. 454, 492; mean-
ing of the name, iii. 449.
Gonsir, river, i. 447.

Gordias, father of Midas, i. 131, 143; iv.
303.

-, son of Periander, ii. 371.
Gorgo, portrayed by Herodotus, i. 110;
iii. 205; the tablet of, iv. 158.
Gorgon, ii. 126.

Gorgus, iii. 254, 260; iv. 70, 224.
Graces, Hill of the, iii. 125.
Greek fleet, number of ships in, iv. 219;
commanded by Eurybiades, 220; re-
tires from Artemisium, 230; anchors at
Salamis, 242; nations comprised in it
at Salamis, 245; proceeds to Samos,
373; to Mycalé, 374; to the Hel-
lespont, 379; returns home, 387.

refugees in Persia, i. 52.

troops occupy Tempe, iv. 120;
withdraw, 121; occupy Thermopylæ,
138; attacked by Medes, 143; by Im-
mortals, 143; circumvented, 147; the
final struggle, 150; march to Platea,
330; their first station, 321; defeat
Persian horse, 324; take up a new
station, 325; their order of battle, 330;
numbers, 331; distressed for water,
347; their retreat, 348; attacked by
Persians, 352; defeat them, 355; take
their camp, 357; divide the spoil, 364;
besiege Thebes, 368.

107.

tyrants described by Herodotus, i.

year, i. 141; measures, 252; vowels,
ii. 37; religion from the Egyptian, 78;
and from the Pelasgi, 80; science bor-
rowed from Egypt, 278, 280; climate,
410; cities on the Pontus, iii. 5; suffer-
ings, iii. 391.

Grinus, iii. 103.
Grittins, iii. 19.

Groves, ii. 126.

Gryneia, i. 231.

Gula, the sun-goddess, i. 503.
Gygæa, iii. 189; iv. 302.
Gygaan lake, i. 187.

Gyges, a Lydian, ii. 423; iii. 263.

king of Lydia, legend of, i. 128,
294; his offerings at Delphi, 130; his
reign, 131, 296.

Gymnastic contests, ii. 126, 271.

Gymnopædiæ, iii. 372.

Gyndes, river, i. 260, 456; iii. 211.

Gyzantians, iii. 142.

HELLENIUM.

H.

Hæmus, Mount, iii. 36.
Hagias, iv. 338.

Hair, modes of dressing, ii. 49.
Haliacmon, river, iv. 87.
Halicarnassus, i. 121.

Halys, derivation of word, i. 126; sepa-
rated the Lydian and Median empires,
166; rises in Armenia, 166; its course,
166, 170, 316; divided Phrygia from
Cappadocia, iii. 211; crossed by Xerxes,
iv. 23.

Hamath, i. 379.

Hamilcar, iv. 114.
Hamitism, i. 531.

Hand-swipe, i. 266, note 7.
Hanno, iv. 114.

Harmatidas, iv. 152.
Harmocydes, iv. 321.
Harmodius, iii. 213, 402, 411.
Haroot-rud, river, i. 447.

Harpagus, the Mede, ordered to destroy
Cyrus, i. 201; gives him to Mitradates,
202; punished by Astyages, 206;
incites Cyrus to revolt, 209; employed
as general against him, 213; insults
Astyages, 213; succeeds Mazares, 238;
attacks Phocæa, 239; reduces Ionia,
243; receives the submission of Caria,
248; reduces Lycia and Caunus, 250;
meaning of the name, iii. 449.
the Persian, iii. 349.

Hazael, i. 380.

Hea, the Fish-god, i. 492, 494.
Hebe, iv. 375.

Hebrus, river, iii. 68.

Hecatæus, i. 34, 40, 117; ii. 28; iii. 264,
422; his visit to Thebes, ii. 190.
Hector, ii. 162.

Hegesander, iii. 264.

Hegesipyla, iii. 355.

Hegesistratus, 1. king of Sigeum, iii. 247;
2. The Samian, iv. 370; 3. the Elean,
story of, iv. 340.

Hegetoridas, iv. 362.

Helen, i. 124; her visit to Egypt, ii. 158;
in Attica, iv. 360.

Helicé, i. 229.

Heliconian Neptune, i. 231.

Heliocentric system, revived by Coper-
nicus. ii. 280.

Heliopolis, ii. 3; its position, 6; its
buildings, 9.

Heliopolitans, their skill in history, ii. 3.
Helisycians, iv. 113.

Hellanicus of Lesbos, i. 33, 118.

Hellé, iv. 44.

Hellen, i. 152.

Hellenes, i. 152; iii. 443.

Hellenium, ii. 229.

HELLESPONT.

Hellespont, measurements, iii. 64, 65;
bridged by Xerxes, iv. 29; lashed, 29;
bridged anew, 30; crossed, 42; re-
crossed, 291; visited by the Greeks, 384.
Hellespontine cities, iii. 350.

Hellespontines, join the Ionian revolt,

iii. 254; reduced by the Persians,
260; serve in the fleet of Xerxes, iv. 69.
Hellopians, iv. 230.

Helmend, river, i. 447.

Helots, general account of, iii. 277; iv.
231, 331.
Hephæstia, iii. 425.
Heraclea, iii. 202.

Heraclidæ, i. 291; their flight, iii. 268;

their mystic genealogy, 269; their
attempts to recover their dominions,
268; iv. 326.

Heraclides of Mylasa, iii. 263.

of Cyme, i. 237; iii. 199.
Heræum, town, iii. 68.

of Samos, ii. 378; Heræum of
Argos, i. 139; account of, iii. 381.
Hercules, Assyrian, i. 510.

Egyptian, ii. 66; his temple at
Tyre and Thasos, 70.

Grecian, his age, ii. 191; dis-
tinguished from the god worshipped
by many nations, 71; Hercules in
Scythia, iii. 6; Hercules and the
Argonauts, iv. 132; death of Hercules,
136; Hercules, the progenitor of the
Lydian kings, i. 127; of the kings of
Sparta, iv. 140, 299.

-- Scythian, iii. 42, 61.

pillars of, ii. 44; iii. 6, 29,

129, 134.
Hermioné, ii. 377; iv. 5. 245, 261.
Hermionians, sell Hydrea to the Sa-

mians, ii. 377; give ships at Salamis,
iv. 245; furnish troops at Platæa, 331;
inscribed on the Delphic tripod, 390,
395.

Hermippus, iii. 336.
Hermolycus, iv. 378.
Hermophantus, iii. 251.

Hermopolis, ii. 96.

Hermotimus, story of, iv. 283.
Hermotybians, ii. 213; iv. 333.
Hermus, river, i. 152, 174, 318.
Herodotus, time of his birth, i. 2; birth-

place, 3; parents and relations, 4; edu-
cation, 5; travels, 7; doings at Hali-
carnassus, 11; his use of the Ionic dia-
lect, 12; removes to Athens, 13; recites
his History, 14; is acquainted with
Thucydides and Sophocles, 16; settles
at Thurium, 18; his companions there,
20; composes portions of his History,
23; his 2nd visit to Athens, 24; dies
at Thurium, 26; his epitaph, 27; do-

HIPPIAS.

mestic life, 27; leaves his work incom-
plete, 28; his want of books, 34; ac-
quainted with the writings of Diony-
sius of Miletus, 39; used those of
Hecatæus, 39; and of Aristeas and the
poets, 41; his observation and inquiry,
42; examined monumental inscriptions
in Greece, 44; his information relating
to Egypt, 49; to Babylon, 52; to Per-
sia, 53; his visit to Babylon, 53; his
linguistic ignorance, 57, 94; his dili-
gence, 59; his honesty, 61; his impar-
tiality, 65; his political moderation,
69; freedom from national vanity, 70;
general credulity, 71; his belief in the
divine Nemesis, 72, 76, 141; his credu-
lity on natural points, 79; his undue
love of effect, 82; his anecdotes, 83;
contrasted with Thucydides, 85; his
want of accuracy and critical judg
ment, 86; his defective geographical
knowledge, 92; his meteorological
notions, 93; mythological views, 94;
his object in writing, 97; his episodes,
78, 98; his skill in character-drawing,
103; his pathos, and sense of the ludi-
crous, 110; his variety and pictorial
description, 113; his simplicity and
elegant style, 115; his Assyrian His-
tory, 199; his notions of the geography
of Scythia, iii. 170; his observations
confirmed by modern travellers, 171.
Herodotus, the Chian ambassador, i. 5;
iv. 299.

Heroes, 1. Cyrnus, i. 242; 2. Timesius,
243; 3. Hercules, ii. 71; 4. Onesilus,
iii. 259; 5. Miltiades the elder, 354;
6. Astrabacus, 373; 7. Trojan, iv. 37;
8. Artachæes, 81; 9. Phylacus and
Autonoüs, 241; 10. Androcrates, 325.
Hero-worship, unknown to the Egyp
tians, ii. 79; existed in Assyria, i. 484.
Herophantus, iii. 93.
Herpys, iv. 341.

Hesiod, ii. 82; iii. 22.
Hexapolis, Doric, i. 227.

Hezekiah, i. 391.

Hieratic writing; see Writing.
Hiero, i. 241; iv. 107.

Hieroglyphic writing; see Writing.
Hieronymus, iv. 338.

Hill of the Graces, iii. 125.
Himera, iii. 347; iv. 113.
Himyarite Arabs, not Semitic, i. 543.
Hindoo races, ii. 406.

Hipparchus, assassination of, iii. 214;
banishment of Onomacritus by, iv. 5.
Hippias, advises his father, i. 157; em-
bittered by murder of Hipparchus, iii.
218; expelled by Cleomenes, 220; re-
called, 240; towns offered him, 247;

HIPPOBOTE.

retires to Sigêum, 247; his cause
espoused by Artaphernes, 248; con-
ducts Datis and Artaphernes to Mara-
thon, 399; his dream and its fulfil-
ment, 400.

Hippobotæ, iii. 232.

Hippoclides, story of, iii. 417.
Hippoclus, iii. 93.
Hippocoon, iii. 217.

Hippocrates, father of Pisistratus, i. 154.
-, tyrant of Gela, iii. 346; iv.

106.

father of Smindyrides, iii.413.
-, son of Megacles, iii. 418.
Hippocratides, iv. 298.
Hippolaus, Cape, iii. 40.
Hippolochus, i. 230.
Hippomachus, iv. 341.

Hipponicus, iii. 410; iv. 104.

Hippopotamus, ii. 100.
Hippys of Rhegium, i. 33.
Histiæa in Euboea, iv. 230.

Histiæotis, 1. in Thessaly, i. 153; 2. in
Euboea, iv. 121.

Histiæus of Miletus, prevents the Greeks

from breaking the bridge over the
Danube, iii. 93; rewarded by the gift
of Myrcinus, 181; forced to accom-
pany Darius to Susa, 191; is sent by
him to the coast, 256, 336; his mes-
sage to Aristagoras at Miletus, 197;
is rejected at Miletus and sails for the
Hellespont, 337; sails for Chios, 348;
is captured and put to death by the
Persians, 349.

IMPRECATIONS.

Hyksos, ii. 299.

Hylæa, iii. 13, 41, 55.

Hylleans, iii, 225; origin of the name,
268.

Hyllus, son of Hercules, iii. 269, 362;
iv. 140, 299; his death, 327.
river, i. 174.

Hymeas, conquests of, iii. 263.
Hymettus, Mount, iii. 421.
Hypachæi, iv. 67.

Hypacyris, river, iii. 41.

Hypanis, river, iii. 13, 36; account of, 39.
Hyperanthes, iv. 150, 216.

Hyperboreans, iii. 9; story of the, 22.
Hypernotians, iii. 25.
Hyperoché, iii. 24.

Hyrcanians, their ethnic character, i.
554; included in satrapies of Darius
as Paricanians, ii. 403; served in the
army of Xerxes, iv. 49; general ac-
count of, 161.

Hyrgis, river, iii. 42.
Hyria, iv. 117.

Hyroades, i. 177.

Hysiæ, iii. 230; iv. 319.
Hystanes, iv. 59.

Hystaspes, 1. son of Arsames, iv. 213;
2. a son of Darius, 216; 3. a son of
Xerxes, 217.

Inachus, i. 132.

INACHUS.

Inarus, revolt of, ii. 339, 342.

India, the furthest known region towards
the East, ii. 411; beyond all is desert,
406, or unexplored, iii. 28.

Indians, iv. 177; the most numerous of
all nations, ii. 403; iii. 177; conquered
by Darius, 32; included in his sa-
trapies, ii. 403; speak many languages,
406; of black complexion, 408; furnish
troops to Xerxes, iv. 53; which are
retained by Mardonius, 289; and fight
at Platæa, 332.

Indian dogs, i. 265; gold, ii. 403, 406;
bamboo, 407; customs, 407; animals
and productions, 411; heat of the sun,
409.

Indo-European race, i. 531; its appear-
ance and spread, 545.

Indus, valley of the, i. 444; course of, and
branches, i. 457; explored by Scylax,
iii. 31.

Ino, iv. 134.

Inscribed offerings, i. 44.

Inscriptions, Persian, at Pasargadæ, i.
281; Phrygian, 547; bilingual, Lycian
and Greek, at Limyra, 557; at Anti-
phellus, 588; at Leveesy, 559; Greek
at Aboosimbel, ii. 37; Persian, at
Suez, 206; Standard Inscriptions of
Nebuchadnezzar, 486; great inscrip-
tion of Darius at Behistun, 490; bilin-
gual inscription at Byzantium, iii. 66;
on the Tearus, 68; ancient Greek, seen
by Herodotus, 216; Persian, on the
tomb of Darius, iv. 207; Greek, at
Thermopylæ, 152; on Delphic tripod,

Ionians, their dialects, i. 225; their na-
tional weakness, 226; a mixed race,
229; reduced by Harpagus, 244; po-
sition in Asia Minor, 322; serve as
mercenaries in Egypt, ii. 199, 211;
their fresh troubles, iii. 192; deserted
by the Athenians, 253; aid Cyprus
against the Persians, 257; migration
to Asia, 303; reduced by the Persians,
343, 350; serve in the fleet of Xerxes,
iv. 68; solicited by Themistocles, 229;
conduct at Salamis, 271; invite the

Iron, ancient use of, ii. 119, 174.
Irrigation, i. 266.

Is, i. 253, 495.

Isagoras, iii. 221, 226, 228.
Ischenoüs, iv. 124.
Ishtar, i. 496, 521.

Isis, ii. 60; description of, 61.
Ismaris, Lake, iv. 78.

Ismenian Apollo, i. 151; iii. 216; iv.
300.

Ismi-Dagon, date of, i. 352, 355.
Issedonians, i. 275; iii. 20.

Ister, its source, ii. 43; its tributaries
and their modern names, iii. 36.
Isthmus of Corinth, iv. 96; council held
at, 100; Peloponnesians fortify, 244,
313, 314; Greeks collect at, 318, 321.
Istria, ii. 44; iii. 57.

Italy, ii. 432; iii. 11; Italian Greeks, i.
242; ii. 428, 432; iii. 11, 203, 413; iv.
116.

Itanus, iii. 103.

Ithamatres, iv. 54.

Ithamitres, iv. 297, 377.
Ithome, iii. 292; iv. 339.
Iyrcæ, iii. 16.

J.

Jaghetu, river, i. 449.
Jardanus, i. 127.
Jare-rud, river, i. 447.
Jason, iii. 127; iv. 132.
Jelum, river, i. 459.
Jenysus, ii. 334.
Jordan, river, i. 451.
Josiah, i. 418.

Judith, book of, i. 196.

Juno, her worship at Argos, i. 140; iii.
382; at Samos, ii. 233; near Platæa,
iv. 348.

Jupiter, Persian, i. 215; Carian, 245;
Babylonian, 255; Egyptian, ii. 65;
Scythian, iii. 43; various titles of, i.
560; Olympian, ii. 7; Urius, iii. 67;
Theban, 130; Lycæan, 148; Agoræus,
205; Stratius, 262; Laphystius, iv.
134; Hellenic, 313; temples of, at
Babylon, i. 255; near Mylasa, 245; at
Dodona, ii. 83; at Egyptian Thebes,