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Hyăcinthus or -os, i, m., = Ὑάκινθος,

a beautiful Spartan youth, son of Oebalus, beloved by Apollo, and accidentally killed by a blow of his quoit; from his blood sprang the flower of the same name, marked with the exclamation AI, Ov. M. 10, 162 sq.; Hyg. Fab. 272; Plin. 21, 11, 38, § 66; Serv. Verg. E. 3, 63.—Plur.: sed gladiator erat; facit hoc illos Hyacinthos, i.e. as beautiful as Hyacinthus, Juv. 6, 110.—
- B Hyăcinthĭa, ōrum, n., the festival in honor of Hyacinthus, in Sparta, Ov. M. 10, 219.—
II Hence, hyăcinthus or -os, i, m., the hyacinth, not, however, our hyacinth, but either the blue iris or fleur-de-lis, Iris Germanica, Linn.; the corn-flag or gladiolus, Gladiolus communis, Linn.; or the rocket larkspur, Delphinium Ajacis, Linn.; Plin. 21, 11, 38, § 66; Verg. E. 3, 63; 6, 53; id. G. 4, 183; id. A. 11, 69; Col. poët. 10,100.—Hence,
- B Transf., f., a precious stone of the color of a hyacinth (perh. our sapphire or a dark-colored amethyst), Plin. 37, 9, 41, § 125 sq.; Vulg. Exod. 25, 4; Inscr. Orell. 2510.

1. Hyacinthus (od. -os), ī, m. (Ὑάκινθος), ein lazedämonischer Jüngling, von Apollo geliebt, aber auch von ihm durch einen unglücklichen Wurf getötet, indem Zephyrus, der Nebenbuhler Apollos, aus Eifersucht den von Apollo geworfenen Diskus dem schönen Knaben an den Kopf trieb, worauf aus seinem Blute nach der Mythe die Blume Hyazinthe (s. 2. hyacinthus) entsproßte, in deren Blätterstreifen man die Buchstaben AI AI, als Wehklagelaut Apollos, od. das Y, als Anfangsbuchstaben des Namens Hyazinthus, fand, Ov. met. 10, 184–215. Plin. 21, 66. – Dav. Hyacinthia, iōrum, n. (Ὑακίνθια), das Hyazinthusfest, ein dreitägiges Fest, das die Lazedämonier jährlich dem Hyazinthus zu Ehren feierten, indem am ersten Tage Heroen- u. Totenopfer, an den beiden übrigen apollinische Festzüge u. Wettspiele stattfanden, Ov. met. 10, 219.

1 Hўăcinthus (-thŏs), ī, m. (Ὑάκινθος), Hyacinthe [jeune Lacédémonien métamorphosé en fleur par Apollon] : Ov. M. 10, 162.

Hyacinthus en -os, ī m Spartaanse jongeling, lieveling v. Apollo, die hem door een ongelukkige discusworp doodde; uit het bloed v. Hyacinthus liet Apollo de hyacint groeien.

Hyacinthus

(Ὑάκινθος).

1. The youngest son of the Spartan king Amyclas and Diomede (Apollod. 3.10.3; Paus. 3.1.3, 19.4), but according to others a son of Pierus and Clio, or of Oebalus or Eurotas (Lucian, Dial. Deor. 14; Hyg. Fab. 271.) He was a youth of extraordinary beauty, and beloved by Thamyris and Apollo, who unintentionally killed him during a game of discus. (Apollod. 1.3.3.) Some traditions relate that he was beloved also by Boreas or Zephrus, who, from jealousy of Apollo, drove the discus of the god against the head of the youth, and thus killed him. (Lucian, l. c; Serv. ad Virg. Eelog. 3.63; Philostr. Imag. 1.24; Ov. Met. 10.184.) From the blood of Hyacinthus there sprang the flower of the same name (hyacinth), on the leaves of which there appeared the exclamation of woe AI, AI, or the letter Υ, being the initial of Ὑάκινθος. According to other traditions, the hyacinth (on the leaves of which, howeve those characters do not appear) sprang from the blood of Ajax. (Schol. ad Theocrit. 10.28; comp. Ov. Met. 13.395, &c., who combines both legends; Plin. Nat. 21.28.) Hyacinthus was worshipped at Amyclae as a hero, and a great festival, Hyacinthia, was celebrated in his honour. (Dict. of Ant. s. r.)

Hyacinthus

2. A Lacedaemonian, who is said to have gone to Athens, and in compliance with an oracle, to have caused his daughters to be sacrificed on the tomb on the Cyclops Geraestus, for the purpose of a learned of delivering the city from famine and the plague, under which it was suffering during the war with Minos. His daughters, who were sacrificed either to Athena or Persephone, were known in the Attic legends by the name of the Hyacinthides, which they derived from their father. (Apollod. 3.15.8; Hyg. Fab. 238; Harpocrat. s. v.) Some traditions make them the daughters of Erechtheus, and relate that they received their name from the village of Hyacinthus, where they were sacrificed at the time when Athens was attacked by the Eleusinians and Thracians, or Thebans. (Snid. s.v. Παρθένοι; Demnosth. Epilaph. p. 1397; Lycurg. c. Leocrat. 24; Cic. p. Sext. 48; Hyg. Fab. 46.) The names and numbers of the Hyacinthides differ in the different writers. The account of Apollo dorus is confused: he mentions four, and repre sents them as married, although they were sacriticed as maidens, whence they are sometimes called simply αἱ πάρθενοι. Those traditions in which they are described as the daughters of Erechtheus confouiud them with Agraulos, Herse, and Pandrosos (Schol. ad Apollon. Rhod. 1.211), or with the Hyades. (Serv. ad Aen. 1.748.) [L.S].

Hyacinthus

(Ὑάκινθος). (1) Son of King Amyclas, of Amyclae in Laconia, and of Diomedes. He was beloved for his beauty by Apollo and Zephyrus. As Apollo was one day teaching the boy how to play at quoits, on the banks of the river Eurotas, the wind-god in his jealousy drove the quoit with such violence against the head of Hyacinthus that the blow killed him. From his blood Apollo caused a flower of the same name to spring up, with the exclamation of woe, AI, AI, marked upon its petals. (See Aiax.) Hyacinthus, like Adonis, is a personification of vegetation, which flourishes in the spring-time, but is scorched and killed by the glowing heat of the summer sun, which is symbolized by the quoit or discus.

(2) The flower sprung from the blood of Hyacinthus, described in the older poets as dark but later as rather light; so that several flowers have been included under the name.

(3) The jacinth, or perhaps the sapphire.

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