HERODOTUS

INDEXIschenoiin, an Aeginetan, vn. 181Isis, an Egyptian deity, identified by Herodotus with Demeter,q.v. ; represented with a cow's head, n. 41, rv. 186 ; her templeat Busiris, n. 59Ismaris, lake in Thrace, on Xerxes' route, vn. 109Ismenian, epithet of Apollo at Thebes, i. 52, 92, v. 59, vm.134Issedones, a people living north of the Caspian, probably,i. 201,iv. 13, 16, 32; their customs, rv. 26Isthmus of Corinth, Greek council of war there, vn. 172 ;decisionto guard it, vm. 40; to withdraw the fleet thither fromSalamis, vm. 56; decision reversed, vm. 63; fortificationof the isthmus, vm. 71 ; Peloponnesian policy of holding it,IX. 7-10; Greek advance from the isthmus, IX. 19; dedicationof spoils of war there, vm. 121, ix. 81Istria, a Milesian colony at the mouth of the Ister, n. 33Istrus (Ister, Danube), compared to the Nile, n. 26, 33; itscourse and tributaries, rv. 47-50; bridged by Darius, iv. 89;Ister ten days' journey from the Borysthenes, iv. 101 ; Darius'recrossing of the river, iv. 141 ;unknown country N. of theIster, v. 9 (some other unimportant reff.)Italia, river Crathis there, I. 145 ;Democedes in Italy, m. 136-138; Metapontium, iv. 15; adventures of Dorieus in Italy,v. 43, 44; Athenian threat to migrate to Siris in Italy, vm.62Itanus, a town in Crete, iv. 151Ithome, a hill and town in Messenia, ix. 35 (but the reading isdoubtful),lyrcae, a Scythian hunting tribe, iv. 22Labda, mother of Cypselus, despot of Corinth, v. 92Labdacus of Thebes, father of La'ius, v. 59Labraunda, in Caria; temple of a war-god there, v. 119Labynetus, (1) ruler of Babylon, i. 74. (2) His son, also rulerof Babylon, temp. Cyrus, I. 77, 188Lacedaemon (and Sparta); Lycurgus' legislation, I. 65, 66;Croesus' friendship with Lacedaemon, i. 69; Lacedaemon warwith Argos, I. 82; with Tegea,I. 67, 68; attack on Samos,m. 4447, 54-56; Theras' colonising expedition from Lacedaemon,iv. 147149 ;state of Sparta under Cleomenes, v.39-43 ;Lacedaemonian invasion of Attica to expel the Pisistratids,v. 63-65, 70-76; feud between Spartan kings, and350