The Angles, ... allured with ... the fitness of the place Where the Iceni lived, did set their kingdom down ... And the East Angles’ kingdom those English did instile. Drayton, _Polyolbion_, xvi. (1613). =Ida Slater=, daughter of a charlatan calling himself Dr. Hull. She lends herself to his scheme of imposing her upon a rich, superstitious spinster as the materialization of her dead sister until the adopted mother’s kindness and the girl’s love for the dupe’s nephew impel her to confession.—Edward Bellamy, _Miss Luddington’s Sister_ (1884). =Idalia=, Venus; so called from _Idălĭum_, a town in Cyprus, where she was worshipped. =Iden= (_Alexander_), a poor squire of Kent, who slew Jack Cade, the rebel, and brought the head to King Henry VI., for which service the king said to him: Iden, kneel down. Rise up a knight. We give thee for reward a thousand marks; And will that thou henceforth attend on us. Shakespeare, _2 Henry VI._ act v. sc. 1 (1591). =Idenstein= (_Baron_), nephew of General Kleiner, governor of Prague. He marries Adolpha, who turns out to be the sister of Meeta, called “The Maid of Mariendorpt.”—S. Knowles, _The Maid of Mariendorpt_ (1838). =Idiot= (_The Inspired_), Oliver Goldsmith. So called by Horace Walpole (1728-1774). =Idleness= (_The Lake of_). Whoever drank thereof grew instantly “faint and weary.” The Red Cross Knight drank of it, and was readily made captive by Orgoglio.—Spenser, _Faëry Queen_, i. (1590). =Idom´eneus= [_I.dom´.e.nuce_], king of Crete. He made a vow when he left Troy, if the gods would vouchsafe him a safe voyage, to sacrifice to them the first living being that he encountered in his own kingdom. The first living object he met was his own son, and when the father fulfilled his vow, he was banished from his country as a murderer. ⁂ The reader will call to mind Jephthah’s rash vow.—_Judges_ xi. Agamemnon vowed to Diana to offer up in sacrifice to her the most beautiful thing that came into his possession within the next twelve months. This was an infant daughter named Iphigeni´a; but Agamemnon deferred the offering till she was full grown. The fleet, on its way to Troy, being wind-bound at Aulis, the prophet Calchas told Agamemnon that it was because the vow had not been fulfilled; accordingly Iphigenia was laid on the altar for sacrifice, but Diana interposed, carried the victim to Tauris, and substituted a hind in her place. Iphigenia in Tauris became a priestess of Diana. ⁂ Abraham, being about to sacrifice his son to Jehovah, was stayed by a voice from heaven, and a ram was substituted for the lad Isaac.—_Gen._ xxii. =Idwal=, king of North Wales, and son of Roderick the Great. (See LUDWAL). =Idyl= (_An Old Man’s)._ The old man dreams over a checquered life, since the golden days of the beautiful early summer weather, to the time when—