=I-pal-ne-mo´-ani= (i.e. _He by whom we live_), a title of God, used by the ancient Mexicans. “We know him,” they reply, “The great ‘Forever-One,’ the God of gods, Ipalnemoani.”—Southey, _Madoc_, i. 8 (1805). =Iphigeni´a=,daughter of Agamemnon, king of Argos. Agamemnon vowed to offer up to Artĕmis the best possession that came into his hands during the ensuing twelve months. This happened to be an infant daughter, to whom he gave the name of Iphigenīa, but he forbore to fulfil his vow. When he went on his voyage to Troy, the fleet was wind-bound at Aulis, and Kalchas, the priest, said it was because Agamemnon had not carried out his vow; so Iphigenia, then in the pride of womanhood, was bound to the altar. Artemis, being satisfied, carried the maiden off to Tauris, where she became a priestess, and substituted a hind in her place. For parallel instances, such as Abraham and Isaac, Jephthah and his daughter, Idomeneus and his son, etc., see IDOMENEUS. When a new Iphigene, she went to Tauris. Byron, _Don Juan_, x. 49 (1821). =Iphis=, the woman who was changed to a man. The tale is this: Iphis was the daughter of Lygdus and Telethusa of Cretê. Lygdus gave orders that if the child about to be born was a girl, it was to be put to death. It happened to be a girl; but the mother, to save it, brought it up as a boy. In due time, the father betrothed Iphis to Ianthê, and the mother, in terror, prayed to Isis for help. Her prayer was heard, for Isis changed Iphis into a man on the day of espousals.—Ovid, _Metaph._, ix. 12; xiv. 699. ⁂ Cæneus [_Se.nuce_] was born of the female sex, but Neptune changed her into a man. Ænēas found her in hadês changed back again. Tirēsias, the Theban prophet, was converted into a girl for striking two serpents, and married. He afterwards recovered his sex. =Ippolito= (_Don_), Italian priest, who should never have taken orders. He is handsome, sensitive and susceptible, and has for a pupil Florida Vervain, an American girl. He loves her and tells her so. She pities him, advises him to break the shackles of his priesthood and go to America. When she departs, he succumbs to despair and Roman fever. On his death-bed he disabuses Florida’s American lover of the impression that the girl loved the priest.—W. D. Howells, _A Foregone Conclusion_ (1874). =Iras=, a female attendant on Cleopatra. When Cleopatra had arrayed herself with robe and crown, prior to applying the asps, she said to her two female attendants, “Come take the last warmth of my lips. Farewell, kind Charmian! Iras, farewell!” And having kissed them, Iras fell down dead, either broken-hearted or else because she had already applied an asp to her arm, as Charmian did a little later.—Shakespeare, _Antony and Cleopatra_ (1608). =Ireby= (_Mr_), a country squire.—Sir W. Scott, _Two Drovers_ (time, George III.).