“We sit by our household fires together, Dreaming the dreams of long ago; Then it was balmy summer weather, And now the valleys are laid in snow; Icicles hang from the slippery eaves; The wind blows cold—’tis growing late; Well, well! we have garnered all our sheaves, I and my darling, and we can wait.” Richard Realf (1866). =Iger´na, Igerne= (_3 syl._), or =Igrayne= (_3 syl._), wife of Gorloïs, duke of Tintag´il, in Cornwall. Igerna married Uther, the pendragon of the Britons, and thus became the mother of Prince Arthur. The second marriage took place a few hours after the duke’s death, but was not made public till thirteen days afterwards.—Sir T. Malory, _History of Prince Arthur_ (1470). =Igna´ro=, foster-father of Orgoglio. The old dotard walked one way and looked another. To every question put to him, his invariable answer was, “I cannot tell.”—Spenser, _Faëry Queen_ i. (1590). ⁂ Lord Flint, chief minister of state to one of the sultans of India, used to reply to every disagreeable question, “My people know, no doubt; but I cannot recollect.”—Mrs. Inchbald, _Such Things Are_ (1786). The Italian witnesses summoned on the trial of Queen Charlotte, answered to almost every question, “non mi ricordo.” ⁂ The “Know-Nothings” of the United States, replied to every question about their secret society, “I know nothing about it.” =Igna´tius= (_Brother_), Joseph Leycester Lyne, monk of the order of St. Benedict. _Ignatius (Father)_, the Hon. and Rev. George Spencer, superior of the order of Passionists (1799-1864). =Ig´noge= (_3 syl._), daughter of Pan´drasus of Greece, given as wife to Brute, mythical king of Britain. Spenser calls her “Inogene” (_3 syl._), and Drayton “Innogen.”—Geoffrey, _British History_, i. 11 (1142). =I.H.S.= In German, =I= [esus], =H= [eiland], =S= [eligmacher], i.e. _Jesus_, _Saviour_, _Sanctifier_. In Greek, =Ι= [ησους], =Ἡ= [μετερος] =Σ= [οτηρ], i.e. _Jesus, our Saviour_. In Latin, =I= [esus], =H= [ominum], =S= [alvator], i.e. _Jesus, Men’s Saviour_. Those who would like an English equivalent may adopt =J= [esus], =H= [eavenly] =S= [aviour]. The Latin equivalent is attributed to St. Bernardine of Sienna (1347). =Ilderton= (_Miss Lucy and Miss Nancy_), cousins to Miss Vere.—Sir W. Scott, _The Black Dwarf_ (time, Anne). =Il´iad= (_3 syl._), the tale of the siege of Troy, an epic poem in twenty-four books, by Homer. Menelāos, king of Sparta, received as a guest, Paris, a son of Priam, king of Troy. Paris eloped with Helen, his host’s wife, and Menelaos induced the Greeks to lay siege to Troy, to avenge the perfidy. The siege lasted ten years, when Troy was taken and burned to the ground. Homer’s poem is confined to the last year of the siege.