in fabulous history, a son of Xuthus, and Creüsa, daughter of Erechtheus, who married Helice, the daughter of Selinus king of Ægiale. He succeeded to the throne of his father-in-law, and built a city, which he called Helice, on account of his wife. His subjects received from him the name of Ionians, and the country that of Ionia. See Ionia.

tragic poet of Chios, who flourished about the eighty-second Olympiad. His tragedies were represented at Athens, where they met with universal applause. He is mentioned and greatly commended by Aristophanes, Athenæus, and others.