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LEFT I I^ 1, the ninth letter and the third vowel in the English alphabet. It has two principal sounds: (1) a long sound, as in bind, find, and in all words of one syllable ending in e, as in fine, wine, etc.; (2) a short sound, as in fin, bill, fill, etc. Besides these it has also three minor sounds: (1) as in dirk, first, etc.; (2) the French sound, as in intrigue, ma- chine, etc.; and (3) the consonantal sound of y, when followed by a vowel, as in Christian, million, etc. With a and e, i makes several digraphs, as in wail, neigh, field, seize, friend; with o it forms a proper diphthong, as in oil. A, i, and u are by philologists called the primitive vowels, and from them all the various vowel sounds in the Aryan lan- guage have been developed. As a prefix, i was used in Middle English to repre- sent the A. S. ge as in iwis = gewiss. lACCHUS (yak'us), the Eleusinian name of Bacchus. lALYSXJS (yal'e-sus), a city of Rhodes, founded by the Phoenicians. Its history goes back to about 1300 B. c. and it is alluded to by Pindar. eye-pedicel on each side, but no actual eye. Four species are known, all recent, from the Atlantic Ocean and the Coral Sea. lanthina fragilis is found in nearly every sea, and has helped to extend the range of other species parasitic on its shell. lAPETUS (yap'e-tus), regarded by the ancient Greeks as the father of the human race, son of Uranus and Ge, and father of Atlas and Prometheus, is sup- posed to be the Japheth of Genesis. In astronomy, the name given to the earth or outside satellite of Saturn, discovered in 1671 by J. D. Cassini. It revolves round Saturn in a period of about 79V3 days. IBADAN, a city of Africa in Nigeria. The chief industry is agriculture. Pop. is about 150,000. IB AGUE, or IBAQUE (e-ba'ga), a town of the Republic of Colombia, de- partment of Tolima, about 70 miles W. of Bogota. Pop. about 25,000. IBEA, a name vaguely applied to Brit- ish East Africa or the East African Pro- tectorate. IAMBIC (e-am'bik or i-am'bik), in IBERIA (ib-e'-re-a or i-be're-ii), in prosody a foot consisting of one short ancient geography: (1) A fertile district and one long syllable, or one unaccented in Asia, between the Euxine and Caspian and one accented. The iambic meter seas, which consisted of a plain sur- having been originally, according to rounded by mountains, a part of modern Aristotle, employed in satirical poems, Georgia. (2) An ancient name of the term "iambics" came to be used as Spaiiij from its river, the Iberus (Ebro) equivalent to a satire or lampoon. lANTHE (I-an'the), a mythology, a girl of Crete, who married Iphis; one of the Oceanides; one of the Nereides. IAN MACLAREN. See WatsON, John. lANTHINA (I-an'the-na), in zo61og^ the violet snail; a genus of mollusks, family Haliotidse. The shell is thin, translucent, trochiform; the aperture four-sided; the animal with a large head, muzzle-shaped, with a tentacle and an The Iberi or Iberians, probably the most ancient European nation, formed the basis of the population of Italy, Gaul, Spain, and Lusitania (Portugal). Their language still lives in the Basque. The Celts, who entered the country later, were intermingled with them, the con- joined people being called Celtiberians. IBEBIS (i-ber'-is), a candy-tuft; a ge- nus of cruciferous plants, family Thlas- pidce. I. amara, the bitter candy-tuft— a plant with white or purplish flowers. IBERNIA. See Hibernia. 105