made important ccrrections in the text, and most or all the portions thus collected were reprinted by Fabriciua in his edition of the Works of Hippolytus of Portus, partly in the appendix to the 1st vol. and partly in the 2d vol. Basnage, in his edition of Canisius, made some farther additions, and the whole, with one or two additional fragments, were given in the Bihlioth. Patrum of Gallandius, vol. xiv. p. 106, &c.
Two short pieces, riepl roov l€' 'AttocttoXoji' and ITepl Twv o 'Airo(rT6u}u, which some have ascribed to Hippolytus of Portus (No. 1), the first of which had been published by Comb^fis in his Auctariuni Novum^ vol. ii. fol. Paris, and which are given by Fabricius a mong the " dubia ac supposititia," in his edition of Hippolytus, are also given by Gallandius as the productions of Hippolytus of Thebes : and Fabricius, in his Bibl, Gr. vol. vii. p. 200, considers them to be portions of his Chronicon. (Gallandius, Frolegom. to his 14th volume, p. v. ; Fabric, BihL Graec. vol. viii. p. 198 ; Cave, Hist. Litt. vol. ii. p. dQ, ed. Oxford, 1740—1743.)
Some other Hippolyti enumerated by Fabricius
{Bill. Gr. vol. vii. p. 197, &c.) are too unimportant
to require notice here.
HIPPO'MEDON ('iTnrojueSwi'), a son of Aris-
tomachus, or, according to Sophocles, of Talaus,
was one of the Seven against Thebes, where he was
slain during the siege by Hvperbius or Ismarus.
(Aeschyl. Sept. 490; Soph. Oed. CoZ. 1318; Apol-
lod. iii. 6. § 3.) [L. S.J ]
HIPPO'MEDON ('iTnro/ie'Sa)!'), a Spartan, son
of Agesilaus, the uncle of Agis IV. He must
have been older than his cousin Agis, as he is said
by Plutarch (^^s, 6) to have already distinguished
himself on many occasions in war when the young
king first began to engage in his constitutional
reforms. Hippomedon entered warmly into the
schemes of Agis, and was mainly instrumental in
gaining over his father Agesilaus to their support.
But the latter sought in fact only his own advan-
tage, under the cloak of patriotism ; and during
the absence of Agis, on his expedition to Corinth
to support Aratus, he gave so much dissatisfaction
by his administration at Sparta, that Leonidas was
recalled by the opposite party, and Agesilaus was
compelled to fly from the city. Hippomedon shared
in the exile of his father, though he had not par-
ticipated in his unpopularity. (Plut. Agis^ 6, 16.)
At a subsequent period we find him mentioned as
holding the office for Ptolemy, king of Egypt, of
governor of the cities subject to that prince on the
confines of Thrace. (Teles, ap. Stobaeum, F/or. vol.
ii. p. 82. ed. Gaisf. ; comp. Niebuhr, Kl. Schrift. p.
461 ; Schom. Gesch. Grkch. p. 100.) We learn from
Poly bins (iv. 35. § 13) that he was still living at
the death of Cleomenes, in B. c. 220, when the
crown would have devolved of right either to him
or to one of his two grandchildren, the sons of Ar-
chidamus V., who had married a daughter of Hip-
pomedon ; but their claims were disregarded, and
Lycurgus,a stranger to the royal family, was raised
to the throne. [E. H. B.]
HIPPO'MEDON ('iTTTroMe'Swi/), a Pythagorean
philosopher, a native of Aegae. He belonged to
the sect called the dKovcr/u-aTLKoi, founded bv Hip-
pasus. (lamblich. Vit. Fyth. c. 18. § 87, 36.
§ 267.) [C. P. M.]
HIPPO'MENES ('iTrTTo/ieVrjj), a son of Mega-
rous of Onchestus, and a great grandson of Posei-
don. (Ov. Met. X. 605.) Apollodorus (iii. 15. §
) calls the son of Hippomenes Megareus. (Comp.
Atalante, No. 2.) [L. S.]
HIPPO'MENES {'l-mrofi^v-ns). a descendant of
Codrus, the fourth and last of the decennial ar-
chons. Incensed at the barbarous punishment
which he inflicted on his daughter and her para-
mour, the Attic nobles rose against and deposed
him, razing his house to the ground. The archon-
ship after this was thrown open to the whole body
of nobles. (Heracl. Pont, de Fol. i. ; Nicolaus
Damasc. p. 42.) [C. P. M.]
HIPPON ('iTTTrwv), tyrant of Messana at the
time that Timoleon landed in Sicily. After the
defeat of Mamercus of Catana (b. c. 338), that
tyrant took refuge with Hippon; Timoleon followed
him, and besieged Messana so vigorously both by
sea and land, that Hippon, despairing of holding
out, attempted to escape by sea, but was seized on
board ship, and executed by the Messanians in the
public theatre. (Plut. Timol. 34.) [E. H. B.]
HIPPON ("iTTTTwt'), of Rhegium, a philosopher,
whom Aristotle {Metaphys. i. 3) considers as be-
longing to the Ionian school, but thinks unworthy
to be reckoned among its members, on account of
the poverty of his intellect. Fabricius {BiU.
Graec. vol. ii. p. 658) considers him the same as
Hippon of Metapontum, Avho is called a Pytha-
gorean, while some assign Samos as his birthplace.
He was accused of Atheism, and so got the sur-
name of the Melian, as agreeing in sentiment with
Diagoras. As his works have perished, we cannot
judge of the truth of this accusation, which Brucker
thinks may have arisen from his holding the theory
(easily deducible from the views of Pythagoras)
that the gods were great men, who had been in-
vested with immortality by the admiration and
traditions of the vulgar. He is said to have written
an epitaph to be placed on his own tomb after his
death, expressing his belief that he had become a
divinity. Some of his philosophical principles
are preserved by Sextus Empiricus, Simplicius,
Clemens Alexandrinus, and others. He held water
and fire to be the principles of all things, the latter
springing from the former, and then developing
itself by generating the universe. He considered
nothing exempt from the necessity of ultimate de-
struction. (Brucker, Hist. Grit. FUl. i. 1103;
Brandis, Gesch. d. Phil. i. 121.) [G. E. L. C]
HIPPO'NAX ('iTTTrw^al). 1. Of Ephesus, the
son of Pytheus and Protis, was, after Archilochus
and Simonides, the third of the classical Iambic
poets of Greece. (Suid. s. v. ; Strabo, xiv. p. 642 ;
Clem. Alex. Siroin. i. p. 308, d. ; Procl. Chrestom.
ap. Phot. Cod. 239, p. 319, 29, ed. Bekker ; Solin.
xl. 16.) He is ranked among the writers of the
Ionic dialect. (Gram. Leid. ad calcem Gregor.
Cor. p. 629 ; comp. Tzetz. Froleg. ad Lycoph. 690.)
The exact date of Hipponax is not agreed upon,
but it can be fixed within certain limits. The
Parian marble (^ji). 43) makes him contemporary
with the taking of Sardis by Cyrus (b.c. 546):
Pliny (xxxvi. 5. s. 4. § 2) places him at the 60th
Olympiad, b. c. 540 : Proclus (I. c.) says that he
lived under Dareius (b. c. 521 — 485): Eusebius
{Chron. 01. 23), following an error already pointt^d
out by Plutarch {de Mus. 6, vol. ii. p. 1133, c. d.),
made him a contemporary of Terpander ; and Di-
philus, the comic poet, was guilty of (or rather he
assumed as a poetic licence) the same anachronism
in representing both Archilochus and Hipponax as
the lovers of Sappho. (Atheu. xiii. p. 599, d.)
