Linus

This name is common to different persons whose history is confused, and who are often taken one for the other. One was son of Urania and A mph i mar us the son of Neptune. Another was son of Apollo by Psammathe, daughter of Crotopus king of Argos. Martial mentions him in his ltr. 78 , bk. 9 . The third, son of Is men i us, and born at Thebes in Bœotia, taught music to Hercules, who in a fit of anger struck him on the head with his lyre and killed him. He was son of Mercury and Urania, according to Diogenes, who mentions some of his philosophical compositions, in which he a erted that the world had been created in an instant. He was killed by Apollo for presuming to compare himself to him. Apollo dor us, however, and Pausanius mention that his ridicule of Hercules on his awkwardne in holding the lyre was fatal to him. Apollo dor us , bk. 2 , ch. 4 .— Diogenes Laërtius , bk. 1 .— Virgil , Eclogues , poem 4.— Pausanias , bk. 2 , ch. 15 ; bk. 9 , ch. 20 .――A fountain in Arcadia, whose waters were said to prevent abortion. Pliny , bk. 31 , ch. 2 .