Iakon

See Yaquina. Iamb lich us (jam'bli-kus). [Gr. Ιάμβλιχος .] Born at Chalcis, Cæle-Syria: died about 330 A. D. A Syrian Neo platonic philosopher. He wrote many philosophical and mathematical works, of which only a few have survived. His "Life of Pythagoras" and "Exhortation to Philosophy" were edited by Kie ling (1813-15). Iapetus (i-ap'e-tus). [Gr. Ιαπετός.] In Greek mythology, a Titan, son of Uranus and Gœa, and father of Pro me the us, Epimetheus, Atlas, and Mencetius. He was thrown by Zeus into Tartar us. lapygia (i-a-pij'i-ä). [Gr. Ιαπυγία.] In ancient geography, a name used vaguely by the Greeks for Me apia or Apulia. Iapygians (1-a-pij'i-anz). See the extract. Under the general name of Iapygians were commonly included three distinct tribes, the Me a pians, the Peucetians, and the Daunians. The first-named are spoken of as the inhabitants of the Iapygian peninsula, eastward of Tarentum and Brundusium (Strab. vi. p. 401). They were generally derived from Crete, strange as it may appear (Strab. vi. p. 405; Athen. xii. p. 522, F.; Plut. Thes. c. 16; Festus, ad voc. Salentini, etc.). Probably they came in reality, like the other inhabitants of southern Italy, from the Peloponnese, where there was a place called Me a peæ . Rawlinson, Herod., iv. 139, note. Ibadan (e-bä'dän). Atown in the Yoruba country, West Africa, about lat. 7° 20′ N., long. 4° 10 E. Population, estimated, 100,000. Ibarra (e-bär'rä). The capital of the province of Imbabura, northern Ecuador, about 55 miles northeast of Quito. It was destroyed in 1868 by an earthquake which killed 3,000 of the inhabitants. Population, about 13,000, Ibea (i-be'a). The part of British East Africa formerly under control of the Imperial British East Africa Company. The name is formed from the initials of the above words. Iberia (i-bē'ri-ä). [L. Iberia , Gr. Ιβηρία , from Ibēres, Hiberes, Gr. " Ιβηρες , the inhabitants.] In ancient geography: (a) The peninsula of southwestern Europe, comprising the modern Spain and Portugal. (b) The region bounded by the Caucasus Mountains on the north, Albania on the east, Armenia on the south, and Colchis on the west. It corresponds nearly to the modern Georgia. Iberian (i-bē'ri-an) Mountains. A name sometimes given to the mountains in central and eastern Spain. Iberian Peninsula. The southwestern peninsula of Europe, comprising Spain and Portugal. Iberians (i-be'ri-anz). The ancient inhabitants of the Iberian peninsula. See the extract. For this short, dark dolichocephalic type we may adopt the usual and convenient name "Iberian." Profe or Roll est on prefers the term "Silurian," and it has been var i ously designated by other writers as the Euskarian, Basque, Berber, or Mediterranean race. By some French writers it is called the "Cro-Magnon" type, from a skull, po ibly of palæolithic age, found in a sepulchral cavern at CroMagnon in Périgord. Before the arrival of the brachycephalic Ligurian race, the Iberians ranged over the greater part of France. We trace them in the valleys of the Seine, the Oise, and the Marne, frequently in a ociation with the remains of the Ligurian invaders. If, as seems probable, we may identify them with the Aquitani, one of the three races which occupied Gaul in the time of Cæsar, they must have retreated to the neighbourhood of the Pyrenees before the beginning of the historic period. It is in this region, mainly in the valley of the Garonne, that their sepulchral caves are the most numerous. The Iberians, a short Southern dolichocephalic race, represented in the long barrows of Britain and the sepulchral caves of France and Spain. The stature averaged 5 feet 4 inches, and the cephalic index 71 to 74. They were orthognathous and swarthy. They are now represented by some of the Welsh and Irish, by the Corsicans, and by the Span ish Basques. Their affinities are African.