Chapter Inis-Thona to Iras of I by Brewer's Readers Handbook

I-pal-ne-mo-ani [i.e. He by whom we live], an epithet 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).

Iphigenia, daughter of Agamemnon king of Argos. (For the tale of her immolation, see under Idomeneus, p. 517.)

When, a new Iphigene, she went to Tauris.
   —Byron: Don Juan, x. 49 (1821).

N. B.—Cary, in his translation of Dante, accents the name incorrectly on the third syllable.

Whence, on the altar Iphigenia mourned
Her virgin beauty.
   —Dante: Paradise, v. (1311).

Iphis, the woman who was changed to a man. The tale is this: Iphis was the daughter of Lygdus and Telethusa of Crete. 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. Æneas found her in hadês changed back again. (See CÆNEUS, p. 164.)

Tiresias, the Theban prophet, was converted into a girl for striking two serpents, and married. He afterwards recovered his sex, and declared that the pleasures of a woman were tenfold greater than those of a man.

Iran, the empire of Persia.

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); and Dryden: All for Love (1670, etc.).