Juno

sent a gadfly to torment her, but she found rest on the Nile where her son Epaphus was born. Ionia. Eidnes. The colonists of Iénia—the shores E, of the Aigéan Sea—were Greeks from the W.; and Attika itself was originally called Ionia. The Yavanu of the A yrians, the Yavan of the Hebrews, and the Yavana of Hindu tradition, were Idnians. [The name may perhaps come from J or Ai “shore,” as meaning “ shore-dwellers."—-Ep,] According to Greek tradition Kodros, King of Athens, sent his younger sons Neleus and Androklés, to Iénia about 1050 Bc. Inia was conquered by the Medes and Persians under Harpagos in 545 B.c. Ior. Welsh: the sun. lord 297 Iord. Skandinavian. The earth, daughter of Nott or night. Iravata. Iravati. The base of this word is the Sanskrit ir “to go”; and Iravati is a stream or river. [In Turanian speech the meaning is the same, ir and ri signifying to “ go” or “ flow.” Akkadian a-ria “ water-flow,” or river; Turkish irmak “river.”—Ep.| Iravat, or Airfavata, is the cloud elephant of Indra; and a great Naga tribe of Kolarians was known as Iravats. Iravat was also the son of Arjuna (see Indra). The Haihayas, or Gonds, were especially called [ravats on the river Iravati, now called Rapti, or Erapatha in Pali speech. The western Iravati river (our Ravi) was the “river of Purus.” Ireland. The Ierne of Aristotle, and of Claudian, the Hibernia of Cesar, Tacitus, and Pliny, probably “western” (see Ibérés), and locally known as Innis-fiod (“the isle of woods”), or Ir-fala (‘ green land’), was also called Iberin, Iréné, Iourné, and Erin, It was never conquered by Rome, and we have no evidence that it was ever visited by Pheenicians, or ever inhabited by non-Aryans. 322