(adj.adj.Subst.) : Īnăchus or -os, i, m., = Ἴναχος
* The first king of Argos, father of Io and Phoroneus, Hor. C. 2, 3, 21; 3, 19, 1; Verg. A. 7, 372; Lact. 1, 11, 20. Also, a river in Argolis named for king Inachus, now Banitza, Plin. 4, 5, 9, § 17; Ov. M. 1, 583; 642 sq.; Verg. A. 7, 792; Stat. Th. 4, 119.
* Derivv.
* Īnăchĭus, a, um, adj., Inachian;poet. also, i. q. Argive or Grecian: juvenca,i. e. Io.Verg. G. 3, 153; hence also: bos,i. e. Isis, identified with Io,Ov. F. 3, 658: ira,i. e. of Juno against Io,Petr. 139: Argi (governed by Inachus, or on the river Inachus), Verg. A. 7, 286: undae,i. e. of the river Inachus,Val. Fl. 4, 397; but also of the Lernean Sea (of Lerna, near Argos), Luc. 4, 634: rex,i. e. Adrastus, king of Argos,Stat. Th. 2, 145: litus, i. e. Argolic or Grecian, Ov. F. 5, 656: urbes,Verg. A. 11, 286: natae,Val. Fl. 8, 148: Linus (as the son of the Argive Psamathe),Prop. 2, 13 (3, 4), 8: Perseus (as the son of the Argive Danaë),Claud. in Ruf. 1, 278.
* Īnă-chus, a, um, adj., the same: pubes,i. e. Grecian,Stat. Th. 8, 363.
* Īnăchĭ-des, ae, m., a male descendant of Inachus; so Perseus (cf. in the preced.), Ov. M. 4, 720; Epaphus (as the son of Io), id. ib. 1, 753; in plur., the Argives, Stat. Th. 3, 365. — Īnăchis, ĭdis, f., Inachian; or subst., a female descendant of Inachus: ripae,i. e. of the river Inachus,Ov. M. 1, 640: Acrisione (as the daughter of the Argive Danaë),Verg. Cat. 11, 33.— Subst., of lo, Prop. 2, 33 (3, 31), 4; Ov. F. 1, 454; id. M. 1, 611; identified with Isis (v. above, under Inachius),id. ib. 9, 687.—In plur.: Īnăchĭdes, um, female Argives, Claud. B. G. 407.