Hypatia, a far-famed lady teacher of Greek philosophy in Alexandria, distinguished for her beauty and purity of life, who, one day in 415, on her return home from her lecture-room, was massacred in the streets of the city, at the instance, of both Jews and Christians, as a propagator of paganism.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Hymettus * Hyperboreans