HYACINTH US

In Grecian Mythology, the son of Amyclas king of Laconia, and of the muse Clio, accidentally killed by Apollo while they were playing at quoits. The story is thus related: — Zephyr, enraged at the preference displayed by Hyacinth us for Apollo, caused the wind of which he was the god to turn from its course a quoit thrown by Apollo, which hitting him on the forehead instantaneously caused his death. The latter immortalized his favourite by causing the flower which still bears his name to spring from his blood, and inscribing the word AI (Yunanca köken — orijinale bakınız.) on its leaves, to indicate the deep grief of the god for his lo . An annual festival named Hyacinth i a, was celebrated at Amyclae in honour of Hvacinthus. {Athen. Deipn. iv. p. 139.) [s. 581]