Volume 2
A dictionary of Greek and Roman geography / by various writers ; edited by William Smith.
- Date:
- 1873
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: A dictionary of Greek and Roman geography / by various writers ; edited by William Smith. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![ICTODUl^UM. ProbaWy, however, there is a confusion between tlie Isle of Wight, the Isle of Portland, the Scilly Isles, and the isle just mentioned; since the name is sus- piciously like Vectis, the physical conditions being different. This view is confirmed by the text of Pliny (iv. 30), who writes, “ Timaeus historicus a , Britannia introrsus sex dierum navigatione abesse dicit insulam Mictim in qua candidum 'plumbum proveniat; ad earn Britannos vitilibus navigiis corio I circumsutis navigare.” [R- G. L,] ICTODURUM, in Gallia. The Antonine Itin. places Caturiges (^Chorges') on the road between Ebrodunum (^Emhrun') and Vapincum (^Gap'): and the Table adds Ictodurum between Caturigomagus, which is also Charges, and Vapincum. We may infer from the name that Ictodurum is some stream between Charges and Gap; and the Table places it half-way. The road distance is more than the direct line. By following the road from either of these places towards the other till we come to the stream, we shall ascertain its position. D’An- ville names the small stream the Vence; and Walckenaer names the site of Ictoduram, La I Ba^tide Vieille. [G. L.] ICULISMA, a place in Gallia, mentioned by Au- sonius {Ep. XV. 22) as a retired and lonely spot where his friend Tetradius, to whom he addresses this poetical epistle, was at one time engaged in teaching: — “ Quondam docendi munere adstrictum gravi Iculisma cum te absconderet.” It is assumed to be the place called Civitas Ecolis- mensium in the Notitia Prov. Gall., which is Angau- Ume, in the French department of Charente, on the river Charente. [G. L.] ICUS (Ikos : Eth/lKios), one of the group of islands off the coast of Magnesia in Thessaly, lay near Peparethus, and was colonised at the same time by the Cnossians of Crete. (Scymn. Chius, 582; Strab. ix. p. 436; Appian, B. C. v. 7.) The fleet of Attalus and the Rhodians sailed past Scyrus to Icus. (Liv. xxxi. 45.) Phanodemus wrote an account of this j insignificant island. (Steph. B. s. v.) It is now called Sarakina. (Leake, Narthern Greece, vol. iii. p. 312.) IDA, IDAEUS MONS (p IStj, iSa: Ida), a range of mountains of Phrygia, belonging to the sys- tem of Mount Taurus. It traverses western Mysia in many branches, whence it was compared by the ancients to the scolopendra or milliped (Strab. xiii. p. 583), its main branch extending from the south- I east to the north-west; it is of considerable height, the highest point, called Gargarus or Gargaron, rising about 4650 feet above the level of the sea. The greater part is covered with wood, and con- tains the sources of innumerable streams and many rivers, whence Homer (7^. viii. 47) calls the moun- tain 7ToAy7rf5a|. In the Homeric poems it is also described as rich in wild beasts. (Comp. Strab. xiii. pp. 602, 604 ; Horn. II. ii. 824, vi. 283, viii. 170, xi. 153, 196; Athen. xv. 8; Hor. Od. iii. 20. I 15; Ptol. V. 2. § 13; Plin. v. 32.) The highlands about Zeleia formed the northern extremity of Mount Ida, while Lectum formed its extreme point in the soath-west. Two other subordinate ranges, parting from the principal summit, the one at Cape Rhoe- teum, the other at Sigeum, may be said to enclose the territory of Troy in a crescent ; while another central ridge between the two, separating the valley of the Scamunder from that of the Simois, gave to IDALIA, IDALIUM. txi the whole the form of the Greek letter f. (Demetr. ap. Strab. xiii. p. 597.) The principal rivers of which the sources are in Mount Ida, are the Simois, Scamander, Granicus, Aesepus, Rhodius, Caresus, and others. (Horn. II. xii. 20, foil.)- The highest peak, Gargarus, affords an extensive view over the Hellespont, Propontis, and the whole surrounding country. Besides Gargarus, three other high peaks of Ida are mentioned: viz. Cotylus, about 3500 feet high, and about 150 stadia above Scepsis; Pytna; and Dicte. (Strab. xiii. p. 472.) Timosthenes (oy>. Ste^i. B. s. V. ’AAclaj/Speta) and Strabo (xiii. p. 606) mention a mountain belonging to the range of Ida, near Antandrus, which bore the name of Alex- andria, where Paris (Alexander) was believed to have pronounced his judgment as to the beauty of the three goddesses. (Comp. Clarke’s Travels, ii. p. 134; Hunt’s Journal in Walpale's Turkey, i. p. 120; Cramer’s Asia Minor, i. 120.) [L. S.] IDA (ISt/, Ptol. iii. 17. § 9 ; Pomp. Mela, ii. 7. § 12; Plin. iv. 12, xvi. 33 ; Virg. Aen. iii. 105; Solin. ii.; Avien. 676; Prise. 528), the central and loftiest point of the mountain range which tra- verses the island of Crete throughout the whole length from W. to E. In the middle of the island, where it is broadest (Strab. x. pp. 472, 475, 478), Mt. Ida lifts its head covered with snow. (Theo- phrast. H. P. iv. 1.) The lofty summits termi- nate in three peaks, and, like the main chain of wdiich it is the nucleus, the offshoots to the N. slope gradually towards the sea, enclosing fertile plains and valleys, and form by their projections the nu- merous bays and gulfs with which the coast is in- dented. Mt. Ida, now called PsiloHti, sinks down rapidly towards the SE. into the extensive plain wintered by the Lethaeus. This side of the mountain, which looks down upon the plain of Mesara, is co- vered with cypresses (comp. Theophrast. de Vent p. 405; Dion. Perieg. 503; Eustath. ad. lac.), pines, and junipers. Mt. Ida was the locality assigned for the legends connected with the history of Zeus, and there was a cavern in its slopes sacred to that deity. (Diod. Sic. V. 70.) The Cretan Ida, like its Trojan namesake, was connected with the working of iron, and the Idaean Dactyls, the legendary discoverers of metallurgy, are assigned sometimes to the one and sometimes to the other. Wood was essential to the operations of smelting and forging; and the word Ida, an appella- tive for any wood-covered mountain, was used per- haps, like the German berg, at once for a mountain and a mining work. (Kenrick, Aegypt of Herodotus, p. 278; Hock, Kreta, vol. i. p. 4.) [E. B. J.] PDACUS (‘'iSuKos), a town of the Thracian Chersonese, mentioned by Thucydides (viii. 104) in his account of the manoeuvres before the battle of Cynossema, and not far from Arrhiana. Although nothing whatever is known of these places, yet, as the Athenians were sailing in the direction of the Propontis from the Aegaean, it would appear that Idacus was nearest the Aegaean, and Ari-hiana fur- ther up the Hellespont, towards Sestus and the Pro- pontis. (Arnold, ad loc.) [E. B. J.] IDALIA, IDA’LIXJM (’iSdAior: Eth. TSaAews, Steph. B.; Plin. v. 31), a town in Cyprus, adjoining to which was a forest sacred to Aphrodite; the poets who connect this place with her worship, give no in- dications of the precise locality. (Theocr. Id. xv. 100; Virg. Aen. i. 681, 692, x. 51; Catull. Pel. et Thet. 96; Propert. ii. 13; Lucan, viii. 17.) Engel (^Kypros, vol. i. p. 153) identifies it with Dalin, de- 1](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b24872441_0002_0033.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
