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takes occafion to rally the pagans for guarding fo care- Greeks to theTrojan war with a fleet of ninety fjiips. Dnr- 
fully the ftatues of their gods, who, if they were really - - - J ■- ’ ' ’ >i- <w, 
‘prefent jn their images, might fave their worfhippers the 
trouble of fecuring them from thieves and robbers. 
As to the adoration which the ancient pagans paid to 
the ftatues of their gods, it is certain, that the wifer and 
more fenfible heathens confidered them only as fimple re- 
prefentations or figures defigned to recal to their minds 
the memory of their gods. This was the opinion of Varro 
and Seneca ; and the fame fentiment is clearly laid down 
■an Plato, who maintains, that images are inanimate, and that 
all the honour paid to them has refpeft to the gods whom 
they reprefent. But, as to the vulgar, they were ftupid 
enough to believe the ftatues themfeives to be gods, and 
to pay divine worfhip to ftocks and ftones. 
Soon after the flood, idolatry feems to have been the 
prevailing religion of all the world i for, wherever we call 
our eyes at the time of Abraham, we fcarcely fee any thing 
but falfe worfhip and idolatry. And it appears from Scrip¬ 
ture, that Abraham’s forefathers, and even Abraham him- 
feif, were for a time idolaters. The Hebrews were indeed 
tfxprefsly forbidden to make any reprefentation of God ; 
ing this celebrated war he rendered hjmfelf famous by his 
val'our, and (taughtered many of the enemy. At his return 
from the Trojan war, he made a vow to Neptune in a 
dangerous tempeft, that, if he efcaped from the fury of the 
feas and ftorms, he would offer to the god whatever liv¬ 
ing creature firit prefented itfelf to his eye on the Cretan 
fhore. This was no other than his fon, who came to 
congratulate his father upon his fafe return. Idomeneus 
performed his promiie to the god ; and the inhumanity 
and raflmefsof this facrifice rendered him fo odious in the 
eyes of his fubjects, that he left Crete, and migrated in 
queft of a fettlement. He came to Italy, and founded a 
city on the coaft of Calabria, which he called Salcntum. 
He died in an extreme old age, after he had had the fatis- 
faction of feeing his new kingdom flourifh, and his fub- 
jefts happy. According to the Greek fcholiaft of Lyco- 
phron, idomeneus, during his abfence in the Trojan war, 
entrufted the management of his kingdom to Leucos, to 
whom he promifed his daughter Clifithere in marriage at 
his return. Leucos at firft%overned with moderation, but 
he was perfuaded by Nauplius king of Euboea to put to 
they were not fo much as to look upon an idol; and, from death Meda the wife of his mafter, with her daughter 
the time of the Maccabees to the deftru&ion of Jerufalem, Clifithere, and to leize the kingdom. After thefe violent 
the Jews extended this precept to the making the figure meafures he ftrengthened himfelf on the throne of Crete, 
of any man ; by. the law of Mofes, they were.obliged to 
deftroy all the images they found, and were forbidden to 
«pply any of the gold or filver to their own ufe, that no 
One might receive the leaft profit from any thing belong¬ 
ing to an idol. Of this the Jews, after they had fmarted 
for.their idolatry, were fo fenfible, that they thought it 
unlawful to ufe any vefiel that had been employed in fa- 
Ci'ificingto a falfe god, to warm themfeives with the wood 
of a grove after it was cut down, or to (belter themfeives 
Under its fiiade. But the preaching of the Chriftiari reli¬ 
gion, wherever it prevailed, entirely rooted out idolatry, 
as did aifo that of Mahomet, which is built on the wor- 
(hip of one God. It muft not, however, be forgotten, 
that the Proteftant Chriftians charge thofe of the church 
of Rome with paying an idolatrous kind of worfhip to the 
pictures or image's of faints and martyrs ; before thefe, 
they burn lamps and wax-candles; before thefe, they burn 
incenfe, and, kneeling, offer up their vows and petitions; 
they, like the pagans, believe that the faint to whom the 
image is dedicated, prefides in a particular manner about 
its fhrine, and works miracles by the intervention of its 
image ; and that, if the image was deftroyed or taken 
away, the faint would no longer perform any miracle in 
that place. See Iconoclast, p. 754. 
I'DOLET, f. A little idol. Afof much ufed. 
TDOLISM, f. The worfhip of idols ; 
How wilt thou reafon with them, how refute 
Their idolifms ? Milton. 
I'jDOLIST, f. A worfhipper of images. A poetical word-. 
I to God have brought 
Diihonour, obloquy, and op'd the mouths 
Of idolijls and atheifts. Milton. 
To I'DOLIZE, v. a. To love or reverence to adoration. 
—-P; 
and Idomeneus at his return found it impoflible to expel 
the ufnrper. 
IDOM'ENI, a town of European Turkey, in the pro¬ 
vince of Macedonia: twenty-fix miles north-north-eafl of 
Edefla. 
IDO'NEOUS, adj. [idoneus, Lat.] Fit; proper; conveni¬ 
ent; adequate.—You entangle, and fo fix their faline part, 
by making them corrode fome idoneous body. Boyle. —An 
ecclefiaftical benefice is fometimes void de jure & faElo, 
and then it ought to be conferred on an idoneous perfon. 
Ayliffe. 
ID'RIA, a town of Germany, in the county of Goritz, 
celebrated for its mines of quickfilver : eighteen mile* 
north-eaft of Goritz. 
IDRIAL'US, the fon of Euromus of Caria, brother to 
Artemifia, who fucceeded to Maufolus, and invaded Cy¬ 
prus. 
ID'STEIN, a town of Germany, twelve miles north of 
Mentz, and twenty-two fouth-weft of Wetzlar. Lat. 50^ 
10. N. Ion. 25. 50. E. Ferro. 
ID'SU, a province of Japan. 
ID'SU, or Toosju, a province of Japan. 
IDSIEME, or FucniMr, a province of Japan. 
IDSU'MI, or Sansju, a province of Japan. 
IDSU'MO, or Unsju, a province of Japan. 
IDU'ME, or Idume'a, a country of Syria, famous for 
palm-trees. Gaza is its capital, where Gambyfes depofited 
his riches, as he was going to Egypt. See Edom, vol. vi. 
p. 252. 
IDUME'AN, adj. [from Idumea.'] Belonging to Idumea. 
IDUME'AN ,_/1 A native of Idumea. 
IDY'IA, one of the Oceanides, who married ASetes 
king of Colchis, by whom fhe had Medea, See. 
l'DYL,f. in ancient poetry, is only a diminutive of the 
word eiJoj, and properly iigr.ifies any poem of moderate 
farcies,^ with the greateft violation of Chriftian unity, extent, without confidering the fubjeiT But, as the col 
leftion of Theocritus’s poems were called Idylia, and the 
paftoral pieces being by far the beft in that collection, the 
term idyl feems to be now appropriated to paftoral pieces. 
I. E. for id ejl, or that is.—That which raifes the natu¬ 
ral intereft of money, is the fame that raifes the rent of 
land, i. e. its aptnels to bring in yearly, to him that ma¬ 
nages it, a greater overplus of income above his rent, as a 
reward to his labour. Locke. 
JEAL'OUS, adj.^ [jaloux, Fr.] Sufpicious in love.— 
Miftrefs Ford, the honeft woman, the virtuous creature, 
denominate themfeives, not from the grand author and 
fimfher of our faith, but from the firit broaclier of their ido¬ 
lized opinions. Decay of Pitiy. 
Thofe who are generous, humble, juft, and wife, 
Who not their gold nor themfeives idolize. Denham, 
I'DOLIZING, f. The act of making an idol of any 
thing. 
IDOL'KA, a town of Lithuania, in the palatinate of 
Troki : twenty miles fouth-weft of Troki. 
rDOLSBERG, a village of Germany, in the archduchy tiat hath thr/eft/eBi^oXtV^erhufband l Shakefpcare . 
of Auftna : ten miles north-weft of Crems. ...... 
IDOMENF/US, in fabulous hiftory, fucceeded his father emprefs lies within your arms, 
Deucalion on the throne of Ci'efce. iie accoi.Tipanied the laaugnty to endine neglected chaims* Drydai % 
Yql. X. No.. 712. r 5,H Emulous. 
