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 1108 HYSIAE. baniaa, who notioed there an unfinished temple of Apollo and a sacred well. (Pans. iz. 2» § 1.) Leake observed ^ a little beyond the great road at the foot of the mountain, a great quantity of looee stones in the fields, together with some traces of ancient walls, and the mouth of a yAI or cistern, of Hellenic con- struction, now filled up." This we may conclude to be the site of Hysiae. (Leake, Northern Oreece^ vol. ii. p. 327.) Hysiae is mentioned also in the following passages: Eurip. Bacch, 751; Tbuc ilL 24, T. 83. . (^Eih. *T<rt6Tris)f a town in the Argeia, on the road from Atgos to Tegea, and at the foot of Mt Parthenium. (Pans. ii. 24. § 7, viii. 6. § 4, 54. § 7; Strab. viii. p. 376.) It appears to have been de- stroyed by the Argives, abng with Tuyns, Hyoenae, and the other towns in the ^geia, after the Persian wars (Paus. yUI. 27. § 1); but it was afterwards re- ^oTi^, and was occupied by the Argiyes in the Pe- loponnesian War as a frontier-fortress, till it was taken and destroyed a second time by the Lacedae- monians in B. c. 417. (Thuc. t. 83; Diod. zii. 81.) The defeat of the Lacedaemonians by the Argives, near Hysiae, of which Pausanias (ii. 24. § 7) speaks, is placed in b. c. 669. The ruins of Hysiae stand on an isolated hill above tbe plain of Achladdhampot (^Axf<olS6Kafiwof, from dxpdsj dxAcCr, ** a wild pear-tree," and icdfiwosy HYTANIS. " a plain "). They consist of the remains ef the aoropolis, which escaped the notice of Leake. (Leek^ M&teoj vol. ii. p. 334; Boblaye, Reektrtka, Ifc p. 48; Boss, Rtuen on Pe&TpowMS, pu 147.) HYSPIRATIS. [Cambala.] HYSSUS CTdTcroOi a smaU river in the tMt «f Pontus, 180 stadia to the east of Trapezns. (Arrian, Peripl. p. 6.) There can be little doabt that this river is the modern Souirmim; for the port-towa at its mouth, which bore the name HjfuuM or Hym portuty was afterwards called ^vadpfua (Ano- nym. Peripl, p. 13), and, according to Ptooopius {B. G, iv. 2), SoMTo^pfiocwL This port-town, ma- tioned by Arrian ({. c.) and by the Anooymns (pi 14), is called in the Tab. Peat HystiUme, and seems to have been a place of some irapoftanbe; ftr it was fortified, and had the " ooiion Apnkift rnnaat Bomanorom " for its garrisOD (NoiU. Imp. OrimL 27). [L. S.] HYSTO£, a town of Ciete, whidi the Sdioliist on Aratus {Phaen, vol. ii. p. 40, ed. Buhle) oaonectB with the Idaean nymph Gynosura, one of the nurses of Zeus. (Hock, Kreta, vol. i. p. 434.) [E.B.J.] HYTANIS or HYCTANIS, a river of Cannsnia mentioned by Pliny (vi. 23. s. 26), and which he stys washed down gold. Strabo, on the authority of Onesicritns, speiks of a similar river, bnt does not give its name (xv, p. 726). [V.] END OF THE FIBST VOLUME.