IDA, (anc. geog.) a mountain situated in the heart of Crete where broadest; the highest of all in the island; round, and in compass 60 stadia, (Strabo); the nursing-place of Jupiter, and where his tomb was visited in Varro's time. Another Ida, a mountain of Mysia, or rather a chain of mountains (Homer, Virgil), extending from Zeleia on the south of the territory of Cyzicus to Leuctum the utmost promontory of Troas. The top was called Gargara, (Homer, Strabo); and celebrated by the poets for the judgment of Paris on the beauty of the three goddesses, Minerva, Juno, and Venus, to the last of whom he gave the preference.