Hippotes
(Ἱππότης).
1. The father of Aeolus. (Apollon. 4.778; comp. Hippotades and Aeolus.)
2. A son of Phylas by a daughter of Iolaus, and a great-grandson of Heracles. When the Heracleidae, on their invading Peloponnesus, were encamped near Naupactus, Hippotes killed the seer Carnus, in consequence of which the army of the Heracleidae began to suffer very severely, and Hippotes by the command of an oracle was banished for a period of ten years. (Apollod. 2.8.3; Paus. 2.4.3, 13.3; Conon, Narrat. 26; Schol. ad Theocrit. 5.83.) He seems to be the same as the Hippotes who was regarded as the founder of Cnidus in Caria. (Diod. 5.9, 53; Tzetz. ad Lycoph. 1388.)
3. A son of Creon, who accused Medeia of the murder she had committed on his sister and his father. (Diod. 4.54. &c.; Schol. ad Eurip. Med. 20.) [L.S]
(Ἱππότης). (1) The father of Aeolus (q.v.).
(2) Son of Phylas by a daughter of Iolaüs, and hence a great-grandson of Heracles. He was banished for ten years because of his having killed the prophet Carnus during the invasion of the Peloponnesus by the Heraclidae. As an expiation for this murder, the Spartans are said to have established the festival of the Carnea (q.v.).
- banished for homicide: Apollod. 2.8.2, Paus. 2.4.3, Paus. 9.40.6
- slays Carnus and flees: Paus. 3.13.4