HIPPOTHOON, hip-Ple-5-on, son of Nep tune and Cercyon's daughter ARipe, was ex posed, but saved and placed on the throne of his grandfather by the friendship of Theseus. HIRPINI, kir-fir-xi, a Sainmte tribe, dwelt in the south of Sansnium, between Apulia, Lucania, and Campania : their capital was /ff.culantron.
Marius, A., /ii,'-ti-us, consul with Pansa, successfully besieged Antony in Mutina, but was killed in battle, 43 B.C. He was a his torian, Caesar's friend and Cicero's pupil, and he wrote Book VIII. of Casar's Commen taries and his history of the Alexandrian and African wars.
a town of Hispania his-Ar-ni-a, called by the poets Iberia and Hes fieria (Ultinza), now Stain, a large country of Europe, separated from Gaul by the Pyrenees, and on every other side bounded by the sea. Its most ancient inhabitants were the Berl, who, mixing with the immigrant Celts, formed the Celtiberi ; there were also other tribes of Iberi, who kept distinct, and Astures, Cantabri, Vaccei, &c. Hispania was first known to the merchants of Phoenicia, from whom it passed to the Carthaginians, and, at the end of the second Punic war, to the Romans, who divided it into Clar'ierr or Tar raconen'sis, the part bounded east by the Mediterranean, west by the ocean, north by the Pyrenees and Cantabrian sea, and south by the IbErus ; and Ulttr'ior, which part was subdivided by Augustus into Lusiteinia and A:erica, the part south of the Ibetus. Hispania
was famous for its silver-mines, which em ployed 40,000 workmen and daily yielded the Romans zo,000 drachms; it gave birth to Quin tilian, Lucan, Martial, Mela, Silius, Seneca, &c. Hisfia'nus was applied to any native of Hispania, HisP4'nien'sis to any inhabitant not a native.
a country of Thessaly, south of Mounts Olympus and Ossa, anciently DORIS, from Deucalion's son Doors, was inhabited by Pelasgi, who were expelled by the Cadmmans, and these again by the Perthmbi from Hisava or Talantia) a city in Eubwa, which they had just destroyed, and whose inhabitants they took with them to Thessaly.