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HYLAS , in See also:Greek See also:legend, son of Theiodamas, See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king of the Dryopians in See also:Thessaly, the favourite of Heracles and his See also:companion on the Argonautic expedition. Having gone ashore at Kios in See also:Mysia to fetch See also:water, he was carried off by the See also:nymphs of the See also:spring in which he dipped his See also:pitcher. Heracles sought him in vain, and the See also:answer of Hylas to his thrice-repeated cry was lost in the depths of the water. Ever afterwards, in memory of the See also:threat of Heracles to ravage the See also:land if Hylas were not found, the inhabitants of Kios every See also:year on a stated See also:day roamed the mountains, shouting aloud for Hylas (See also:Apollonius Rhodius i. 1207; See also:Theocritus xiii.; See also:Strabo xii. 564; See also:Propertius 20; See also:Virgil, Ecl. vi. 43). But, although the legend is first told in Alexandrian times, the " cry of Hylas " occurs See also:long before as the " Mysian cry " in See also:Aeschylus (Persae, 1054), and in See also:Aristophanes (See also:Plutus, 1127) " to cry Hylas " is used proverbially of seeking something in vain. Hylas, like See also:Adonis and See also:Hyacinthus, represents the fresh vegetation of spring, or the water of a See also:fountain, which dries up under the See also:heat of summer. It is suggested that Hylas was a See also:harvest deity and that the ceremony gone through by the Kians was a harvest festival, at which the figure of a boy was thrown into the water, signifying the dying vegetation-spirit of the year.
See G. Turk in Breslauer Philologische Abhandlungen, vii. (1895) ; W. Mannhardt, Mythologische Forschungen (1884).
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