Idmon
Frieze-Dennison Vergil
- The father of Arachne, a native of Colophon, Ov. M. 6, 8.—
- B Deriv.: Idmŏnĭus, a, um, adj., of or related to Idmon, Idmonian: Arachne, Ov. M. 6, 133.—
- II A prophet in Argos, the son of Apollo and Cyrene, one of the Argonauts, Ov. Ib. 506; Hyg. Fab. 14.—
- III A Rutulian, messenger of Rutulus, Verg. A. 12, 75.—
- IV The physician of Adrastus, of Epidaurus, Stat. Th. 3, 398.
(Ἴδμων), a son of Apollo and Asteria, the daughter of Coronus (Schol. ad Apollon. Rhod. 1.139), or, according to others, of Apollo, by Antianeira, of Ampycus, or of Apollo and Cyrene. (Orph. Arg. 185, &c., 721; Apollon. 1.139, &c.; Hyg. Fab. 14; comp. V. Fl. 1.228.) He was one of the soothsayers who accompanied the Argonauts : his name signifies " the knowing," and has been considered to be a mere epithet of Thestor or Mopsus. (Schol. ad Apollon. Rhod. 1.139.) He joined the expedition of the Argonauts, although he knew beforehand that death awaited him. He was killed in the country of the Mariandynians by a boar or a serpent; or, according to others, he died of a disease. (Apollod. 1.9.23; Apollon. 1.140, 443, 2.815, &c.; V. Fl. 5.2, &c.) The Megarians and Boeotians who were to found Heracleia, were commanded by Apollo to build the town round the tomb of the hero, and to worship him as the protector of the place. (Apollon. 2.846, &c.) There are three other mythical personages of the name of Idmon. (Apollod. 2.1.5; Ov. Met. 6.8, 138; Stat. Theb. 3.389.) [L.S]
(Ἴδμων). The son of Apollo and of Asterié, daughter of Coronus; a seer who took part in the Argonautic expedition, although he foresaw that it would lead to his own death. He was killed by a wild boar in the land of the Mariandyni, in Bithynia, and was worshipped as a hero by the inhabitants of the town of Heraclea in Pontus, which was built around his grave by command of Apollo ( Rhod. i. 139).
- one of the Argonauts: Apollod. 1.9.22
- husband of Pylarge: Apollod. 2.1.5