Hyrieus¹

Meaning

1. masculinesingularHyrieus (legendary Boeotian who sired the giant Orion).
   c. 1st century BCE or CE, Hyginus mythographus, Fabulae CXCV. ORIONMercury brought out the hide of the bull which Hyrieus had sacrificed to them; they urinated on it and buried it underground, whence was born Orion.
   Aristomachus autem dicit quemdam Hyriea fuisse Thebis, Pindarus autem in insula Chio. […] Ex quo postea natum puerum, quem Hyrieus e facto Uriona appellaret. Sed venustate et consuetudine factum est, ut Orion vocaretur.Aristomachus says that there lived a certain Hyrieus at Thebes; Pindar puts him on the island of Chios. […] From this, later on, a child was born whom Hyrieus called Urion from the happening, though on account of his charm and affability he came to be called Orion. “From this” (Ex quo) refers to the event mentioned in the fabulae cxcv. orion quotation (which see above).c. 1st century BCE or CE, Hyginus mythographus, De Astronomia II.XXXIV

Declension

Origins

From Ancient Greek Ὑριεύς (Hurieús).

In the Academy Smith's classical dictionaries

Meaning

1. adjectiveOf or belonging to Hyrieus.
   At pater Heliadum radios ubi tinxerit undis, et cinget geminos stella serena polos, tollet humo validos proles Hyriea lacertos;But when the father of the Heliades shall have dipped his rays in the billows, and heaven’s twin poles are girdled by the stars serene, the offspring of Hyrieus [i.e. Orion] shall lift his mighty shoulders above the earth: on the next night the Dolphin will be visible.8 CE, Ovidius, Fasti 6.719

Declension

Origins

Equivalent to Hyrieus + -ius, as if from Ancient Greek *Ὑριεῖος (*Hurieîos).

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