Hylas

, a son of Thiodamas king of Mysia and Menedice, stolen away by Hercules, and carried on board the ship Argo to Colchis. On the Asiatic coast the Argonauts landed to take a supply of fresh water, and Hylas, following the example of his companions, went to the fountain with a pitcher, and fell into the water and was drowned. The poets have embellished this tragical story, by saying that the nymphs of the river, enamoured of the beautiful Hylas, carried him away; and that Hercules, disconsolate at the lo of his favourite youth, filled the woods and mountains with his complaints, and at last abandoned the Argonautic expedition to go and seek him. Apollo dor us , bk. 1 , ch. 9 .— Hyginus , fables 14, 271.— Virgil , Eclogues , poem 6.— Pro pert i us , bk. 1 , poem 20.――A river of Bithynia. Pliny , bk. 5 , ch. 32 .