Ida

, a nymph of Crete, who went into Phrygia, where she gave her name to a mountain of that country. Virgil , Æneid , bk. 8 , li. 177 .――The mother of Minos  II. ――A celebrated mountain, or more properly a ridge of mountains in Troas, chiefly in the neighbourhood of Troy. The abundance of its waters became the source of many rivers, and particularly of the Simois, Scamander, Æsep us, Granicus, . It was on mount Ida that the shepherd Paris adjudged the prize of beauty to the godde Venus. It was covered with green woods, and the elevation of its top opened a fine extensive view of the Hellespont and the adjacent countries, from which reason the poets say that it was frequented by the gods during the Trojan war. Strabo , bk. 13 .— Mela , bk. 1 , ch. 18 .— Homer , Iliad , bk. 14 , li. 283 .— Virgil , Æneid , bks. 3, 5, . — Ovid , Fasti , bk. 4 , li. 79 .— Horace , bk. 3 , ode 11.――A mountain of Crete, the highest in the island, where it was reported that Jupiter was educated by the Corybantes, who, on that account, were called Idæi. Strabo , bk. 10 .