refused to acknowledge the
authority
of the Roman 8.
William Smith - 1844 - Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities - b
Asotus.
Varro and Festus when examining
of all his productions was a history of Rome in into the meaning of certain uncommon words, quote
dactylic hexameters, commencing with the loves from “ Ennius in Asoto,” or as Scaliger, very erro-
of Mars and Rhea, and reaching down to his own neously, insists “in Sotadico. ” The subject and
times. The subject was selected with great judg- nature of this piece are totally unknown. Many
The picturesque fables, romantic legends, believe it to have been a comedy.
and chivalrous exploits with which it abounded, VI. Epicharmus. From a few remnants, amount-
afforded full scope for the exercises of his poetical ing altogether to little more than twenty lines, we
powers ; he was enabled to testify gratitude to gather that this must have been a philosophical
wards his personal friends, and to propitiate the didactic poem in which the nature of the gods, the
nobles as a body, by extolling their own lofty human mind and its phaenomena, the physical
deeds and the glories of their sires; and perhaps structure of the universe and various kindred
no theme could have been chosen so well calcu-topics, were discussed. From the title we con-
lated to awaken the enthusiasm of all ranks clude, that it was translated or imitated from
anong a proud, warlike, and as yet unlettered Epicharmus the comic poet, who was a disciple of
people. Ilis fancy was cramped by none of those Pythagoras and is known to have written De
fetters imposed by a series of well ascertained | Rerum Natura.
ment.
## p. 19 (#35) ##############################################
ENNIUS.
19
ENNODIUS.
on the mde
litious of the
chronicles of
- the beautiful
ve been taken
Fever, was al-
contest with
escribed with
- the seventh
Escd over alto-
Frut. 19. )
as a dmmatist,
s an epic bard.
Fous, appear to
ations from the
being in most
have been pre-
1chilles, Achilles
tantler, Andro-
eas, Crespłontos,
Hectoris litra,
genia, Nalez,
Nenica, Nept
Threstes; and
ng to the class
(perhaps Co-
ubtful), Puncra-
e sources from
- the editions of
th the disserta-
end of this ar-
ad Hor. Sat. i.
nat. ad Tercat.
which less than
xtant, but from
we were composed
From this circum-
ed their appelle-
VII. Phagetica, Phagesia, Hedyphagetica. These the different portions, but to have made considera-
and many other titles have been assigned to a work ble additions to the relics previously discovered.
upon edible fishes, which Ennius may perhaps have The new verses were gathered chiefly from a work
translated from Archestratus. [Archestratus] | by L. Calpurnius Piso, a contemporary of the
Eleven lines in dactylic hexameters have been younger Pliny, bearing the title De Continentia
preserved by Apuleius exhibiting a mere catalogue Veterum Poetarum ad Trajanum Principem, a MS.
of names and localities. They are given, with of which Merula tells us that he examined hastily
some preliminary remarks, in Wernsdorf's Poet. in the library of St. Victor at Paris, accompanying
Lat. Min. vol. i. pp. 157 and 187. See also this statement with an inexplicable and most sus-
Apuleius, Apolog. p. 299 ed. Elmenh. ; P. Pith- picious remark, that he was afraid the volume
oeus, Epigramm. vel. iv. fin. ; Parrhas. Epist. . 65; would be stolen. It is certain that this codex, if
Trillerus, Observatt. crit. i. 14; Scaliger Catalect. it ever existed, has long since disappeared, and the
vel. poet. p. 215; Turneb. Advers. xxi. 21; Salmas. lines in question are regarded with well-merited
ad Solin. p. 794, ed. Traj. ; Burmann, Anthol. Lat. suspicion. (Niebuhr, Lectures on Roman History,
iii. 135; Fabric. Bibl. Lat. lib. iv. c. 1. $ 7. edited by Dr. Schmitz, Introd. p. 35; Hoch, De
VIII. Epigrammata. Under this hend we have Ennianorum Annalium Fragmentis a P. Merula
two short epitaphs upon Scipio Africanus, and one auctis, Bonn, 1839. )
upon Ennius himself, the whole in elegiac verse,
The Annales from the text of Merula were re-
extending collectively to ten lines.
printed, but not very accurately, with soine trifling
IX. Protreptica. The title seems to indicate additions, and with the fragments of the Punic
that this was a collection of precepts exhorting the war of Naevius, by E. S. (Ernst Spangenberg),
reader to the practice of virtue. We cannot, how- 8vo. Lips. 1825.
ever, tell much about it nor even discover whether The fragments of the tragedies were carefully
it was written in prose or verse, since one word collected and examined by M. A. Delrio in his
only is known to us, namely pannibus quoted by Syntagma Tragoediae Latinae, vol. , i. Antv. 4to,
Charisius.
1593; reprinted at Paris in 1607 and 1619: they
X. Praecepta. Very probably the same with the will be found also in the Collectanea veterum Tragi-
preceding. From the remains of three lines in corum of Scriverius, to which are appended the
Priscian we conclude that it was composed in emendations and notes of G. J. Vossius, Lug. Bat.
jambic trimeters.
8vo, 1620. The fragments of both the tragedies
XI. Sabinae. Angelo Mai in a note on Cic. De and comedies are contained in Bothe, Poetarum
Rep. ii. 8, gives a few words in prose from Lotü scenicorum fragmenta, Halberst. 8vo. 1823.
“ Ennius in Sabinis" without informing us where The fragments of the Medea, with a dissertation
he found them. Columna has pointed out that in on the origin and nature of Roman tragedy, were
Macrobius, Sat. vi. 5, we ought to read “ Ennius published by H. Planck, Götting. 4to. 1806, and
in libro Satirarum quarto " instead of Sabinarum the fragments of the Medea and of the Hecuba,
as it stands in the received text.
compared with the plays of Euripides bearing the
XII. Euhemerus, a translation into Latin same names, are contained in the Analecta Critica
prose of the lepa åraypáon of Euhemerus (EU- Poesis Romanorum scenicae reliquias illustrantia of
HEMERUS. ) Several short extracts are contained Osann, Berolin. 8vo. 1816.
in Lactantius, and a single word in the De Re (See the prefaces and prolegomena to the editions
Rustica of Varro.
of the collected fragments by Hesselius, and of the
Censorinus (c. 19) tells us, that according to annals by E. S. where the whole of the ancient
Ennius the year consisted of 366 days, and hence authorities for the biography of Ennins are quoted
it has been conjectured that he was the author of at full length ; Caspar Sagittarius, Commentatio de
some astronomical treatise. But an expression of vita et scriptis Livü Andronici, Naevii, Ennii, Caecilii
this sort may have been dropped incidentally, and Siati, &c. , Altenburg. 8vo. 1672; G. F. de Franck-
is not sufficient to justify such a supposition with enau, Dissertatio de Morbo Q. Ennii, Witt. 4to.
out further evidence.
1694 ; Domen. d'Angelis, della patria d'Ennio
The first general collection of the fragments of dissertazione, Rom. 8vo. 1701, Nap. 8vo. 1712;
Ennius is that contained in the “ Fragmenta ve Henningius Forelius, De Ennio diatribe, Upsnl.
terum Poetarum Latinorum” by Robert and Henry 8vo. 1707 ; W. F. Kreidmannus, de Q. Ennio
Stephens, Paris, 8vo. 1564. It is exceedingly im-Oratio, Jen. 4to. 1754; Cr. Cramerus, Dissertatio
perfect and does not include any portion of the sistens Horatii de Ennio effatum, Jen. 4to. 1755;
Euhemerus, which being in prose was excluded C. G. Kuestner Chrestomathia juris Enniani, &c. ,
from the plan.
Lips. 8vo. 1762. )
(W. R. )
Much more complete and accurate are “Q. Ennii ENNOʻDIUS, MAGNUS FELIX, was born
poetae vetustissimi, quae supersunt, fragmenta," at Arles about A. D. 476, of a very illustrious
collected, arranged, and expounded, by Hieronymus family, which numbered among its members and
Columna, Neapol. 4to. 1590, reprinted with consi- connexions many of the most illustrious personages
derable additions, comprising the commentaries of of that epoch. Having been despoiled while yet a
Delrio and G. J. Voss, by Hesselius, professor of boy of all his patrimony by the Visigoths, he was
history and eloquence at Rotterdam, Amstel. 4to. educated at Milan by an aunt, upon whose death
1707. This must be considered as the best edition he found himself at the age of sixteen again re-
of the collected fragments which has yet appeared. duced to total destitution. From this unhappy
Five years after Columna's edition a new position he was extricated by a wealthy marriage,
edition of the Annales was published at Leyden but having been prevailed upon by St. Epiphanius
(4to. 1595) by Paullus Merula, a Dutch lawyer, to renounce the pleasures of the world, he received
who professed not only to have greatly purified ordination as a deacon, and induced his wife to
the text, and to have introduced many important enter a convent. His labours in the service of the
corrections in the arrangement and distribution of Church were so conspicuous that he was choses
c2
as,
the public career
The measure
trochaic tetram-
noted, possibly by
4) is a dactylie
a half which we
able us to decide
entitled to term it
conium (Suidas,
r. Sat. j. 1. 16. )
hat the Scipio vas
the class of the
s when examining
mmon words, quote
Scaliger, very erro
The subject and
- unknown. Many
remnants, amount-
an twenty lines, we
deen a philosophical
ture of the gods, the
omena, the physical
nd various kindred
m the title we con-
ed or imitated from
sho was a disciple of
to have written De
a
## p. 20 (#36) ##############################################
20
ENNODIUS.
ENTELLUS.
bishop of Pavia in A. D. 511, and in 514 was eventually prompted him to devote his life to the
sent, along with Fortunatus, bishop of Catania, and service of God. It is dedicated to Elpidius, a
others, by Pope Hormisda to Constantinople in deacon and physician.
order to combat the progress of the Eutychian 7. Paraenesis didascalica ad Ambrosium et Bea-
heresy. The embassy having proved unsuccessful tum, an exhortation, in which poetry is combined
in consequence of the emperor, who was believed with prose, urging two youths to the practice of
to be favourable to the opinions in question, having virtue.
refused to acknowledge the authority of the Roman 8. Praeceptum de cellulanis episcoporum. The
pontiff, Ennodius was despatched a second time in cellulani were the contubernales whom bishops,
517, along with Peregrinus, bishop of Misenum, presbyters, and deacons were required to retain as
bearing a confession of faith, which the eastern constant companions "ad amoliendas maledicorum
churches were invited or rather required to sub calumnias. " (See Ducange, Glossar. ) In this tract
scribe. On this occasion the envoy was treated they are called concellanei
with great harshness by Anastasius, who not only 9. Petitorium quo Gerontius puer Agapiti abso-
dismissed him with ignominy, but even sought his lutus est. On the manumission of a slave by his
liſe, by causing him to embark in a crazy vessel, master in the church.
which was strictly forbidden to touch at any 10. Cerei paschalis benedictiones duae,
Grecian port. Having escaped this danger, Enno- 11. Orationes. A series of short essays or decla-
dius returned to his diocese, where he occupied mations, twenty eight in number, which the author
himself with religious labours until his death in himself names dictiones, classified according to their
1. D. 521, on the 17th of July, the day which subjects. Of these six are sacrae, seven scholasticae,
after his canonization was observed as his festival ten controversiae, five ethicae.
The works of this prelate, as contained in the 12. Carmina. A large collection of poems, most
edition of Sirmond, are the following :-
of them short occasional effusions, on a multitude
1. Epistolarum ad Diversos Libri IX. A col- of different topics, sacred and profane. Fourteen
lection of 497 letters, including one composed by are to be found interspersed among his epistles and
his sister, the greater number of them written other prose works, and one hundred and seventy-
during the pontificate of Symmachus (493—514). two form a separate collection.
They for the most part relate to private concerns The writings of Ennodius might serve as an ex-
and domestic occurrences, and hence possess little emplification of all the worst faults of a corrupt
general interest. They are remarkable for gentle style. Nothing can be more affected than the form
ness and piety of tone, but some persons have of expression, nothing more harsh than the diction.
imagined that they could detect a leaning towards They are concise without being vigorous, obscure
semipelagianism. The charge, however, has not without being deep, while the use of figurative
been by any means substantiated.
language, metaphors, and allegories, is pushed to
2. Panegyricus Theodorico regi dictus. A com- such extravagant excess that whole pages wear the
plimentary address delivered in the presence of the aspect of a long dull enigma.
Gothic monarch at Milan, or at Ravenna, or at A considerable number of the works of this
Rome, probably in the year a. D. 507. It is some father appeared in the “ Monumenta S. Patrum
times included in the collections of the “ Panegy- Orthodoxographa,” Basil. fol. , 1569 ; they were
rici Veteres," and is considered as one of the first published separately by Andr. Schottus, Tornac.
principal sources for the history of that period, 8vo. 1611, but will be found in their most complete
although obviously no reliance can be placed on and best form in the edition of Sirmond, Paris.
the statements contained in an effusion of such 8vo. 1611, and in his Opera, vol. i. fol. , Paris.
a character. [DREPANIUS. ] It will be found, 1696, and Venet. 1729; also in the Bibl, Patr.
with notes, in Manso, Geschichte des Ostgoth. Reichs, Mar. , Lugdun. 1677, vol. ix. , and in other large
collections of the fathers.
3. Libellus adversus eos qui contra synodum Martenne and Durand (Collect. Monumm. vol.
scribere praesumserunt. A powerful and argumen- v. p. 61) have added a new oration and a short
tative harangue, read before the fifth Roman | letter to Venantius.
synod held in A. D. 503, and adopted as part of (See the Vita Ennodii prefixed to the edition
their proceedings, in defence of the measures sanc- of Sirmond. A very full biography is given by
tioned by the synod of the previous year, against Funccius also, De inerti ac decrepita L. L. senec-
schismatics, and in support of the jurisdiction of tute, c. iii. § XI. , c. vi. S viii. , c. viii. Ş X. , c. 11.
the Roman pontiff generally.
$ xxxi)
(W. R. )
4. Vita beatissimi viri Epiphanü Ticinensis epis- E'NNOMUS ("Evvouos), a Mysian and ally of
copi. A biography of St. Epiphanius, his predeces- the Trojans, who was killed by Achilles. (Hom. II.
sor in the see of Pavia, who died in A. D. 496. ii. 858, xvii. 218. ) Another person of this name
This piece is valued on account of the light which occurs in the Odyssey (xi. 422). (L. S. )
it throws upon the history of the times, and is con- ENORCHES ('Evópxns), a son of Thyestes by
sidered one of the most interesting and agreeable his sister Daeta, was born out of an egg, and built
among the works of Ennodius, which, to say the a temple to Dionysus, who was hence called Dio-
truth, are for the most part rather repulsive. It nysus Enorches, though Enorches may also describe
will be found in the collections of Surius and the the god as the dancer. (Tzetz. ad Lycoph. 212;
Bollandists under the 22nd of January.
Hesych. s. o. )
[L. S. )
5. Vita beati Antonii monachi Livinensis, a pane- ENTELLUS, a Trojan, or a Sicilian hero, from
gyric upon a holy man unknown save from this whom the town of Entella, in Sicily, was believed
to have received its name. (Virg. Aen. v. 389, with
6. Eucharisticum de vita, a thanksgiving for re- Servius. ) Tzetzes (ad Lycoph. 953) states, that
covery from a dangerous malady, during which the Entella was so called from Entella, the wife of
author was first led to those thoughts which Aegestes.
[L. S. ]
P. 433.
tract.
## p. 21 (#37) ##############################################
EOS.
21
EPAENETUS.
a
E'NTOCHUS, a sculptor, whose Oceanus and mortals. (Hom. Od. v. 1, &c. , xxiii. 244 ; Virg.
Jupiter were in the collection of Asinius Pollio. Aen. iv, 129, Georg. i. 446 ; Hom. Hymn in Merc.
(Plin. H. N. xxxvi. 5. s. 4. 10. ) [P. S. ] 185 ; Theocrit. ii. 148, xiii. 11. ) In the Homeric
ENTO’RIA ('Evropia), the daughter of a Ro poems Eos not only announces the coming Helios,
man countryman. Cronos (Saturn) who was once but accompanies him throughout the day, and her
hospitably received by him, became, by his fair career is not complete till the evening; hence she
daughter, the father of four sons, Janus, Hymnus, is sometimes mentioned where one would have ex-
Faustus, and Felix. Cronos taught the father the pected Helios (Od. v. 390, n. 144); and the tragic
cultivation of the vine and the preparation of wine, writers completely identify her with Hemera, of
enjoining him to teach his neighbours the same. whom in later times the same myths are related as
This was done accordingly, but the country people, of Eos. (Paus. i. 3. § 1, iii. 18. $ 7. ) The later
who became intoxicated with their new drink, Greek and the Roman poets followed, on the whole,
thought it to be poison, and stoned their neighbour the notions of Eos, which Homer had established,
to death, whereupon his grandsons hung themselves and the splendour of a southern aurora, which
in their grief. At a much later time, when the lasts much longer than in our climate, is a favourite
Romans were visited by a plague, they were told topic with the ancient poets. Mythology repre-
by the Delphic oracle, that the plague was a punish- Bents her as having carried off several youths dis-
ment for the outrage committed on Entoria's father, tinguished for their beauty. Thus she carried
and Lutatius Catulus caused a temple to be erected away Orion, but the gods were angry at ber for it,
to Cronos on the Tarpeian rock, and in it an altar untii Artemis with a gentle arrow killed him.
with four faces. (Plut. Parall. Gr. et Rom. 9. ) [L. S. ) (Hom. Od. v. 121. ) According to Apollodorus (i.
ENYA'LIUS ('Evvárdos), the warlike, fre- 4. $ 4) Eos carried Orion to Delos, and was ever
quently occurs in the Iliad (never in the Odyssey) stimulated by Aphrodite. Cleitus, the son of
either as an epithet of Ares, or as a proper name Mantius, was carried by Eos to the seats of the
instead of Ares. (xvii. 211, ii. 651, vii. 166, viii. immortal gods (Od. xv. 250), and Tithonus, by
264, xiii. 519, xvii. 259, xviii. 309, XX. 69 ; comp. whom she became the mother of Emathion and
Pind. Oh xiii. 102, Nem. ix.
of all his productions was a history of Rome in into the meaning of certain uncommon words, quote
dactylic hexameters, commencing with the loves from “ Ennius in Asoto,” or as Scaliger, very erro-
of Mars and Rhea, and reaching down to his own neously, insists “in Sotadico. ” The subject and
times. The subject was selected with great judg- nature of this piece are totally unknown. Many
The picturesque fables, romantic legends, believe it to have been a comedy.
and chivalrous exploits with which it abounded, VI. Epicharmus. From a few remnants, amount-
afforded full scope for the exercises of his poetical ing altogether to little more than twenty lines, we
powers ; he was enabled to testify gratitude to gather that this must have been a philosophical
wards his personal friends, and to propitiate the didactic poem in which the nature of the gods, the
nobles as a body, by extolling their own lofty human mind and its phaenomena, the physical
deeds and the glories of their sires; and perhaps structure of the universe and various kindred
no theme could have been chosen so well calcu-topics, were discussed. From the title we con-
lated to awaken the enthusiasm of all ranks clude, that it was translated or imitated from
anong a proud, warlike, and as yet unlettered Epicharmus the comic poet, who was a disciple of
people. Ilis fancy was cramped by none of those Pythagoras and is known to have written De
fetters imposed by a series of well ascertained | Rerum Natura.
ment.
## p. 19 (#35) ##############################################
ENNIUS.
19
ENNODIUS.
on the mde
litious of the
chronicles of
- the beautiful
ve been taken
Fever, was al-
contest with
escribed with
- the seventh
Escd over alto-
Frut. 19. )
as a dmmatist,
s an epic bard.
Fous, appear to
ations from the
being in most
have been pre-
1chilles, Achilles
tantler, Andro-
eas, Crespłontos,
Hectoris litra,
genia, Nalez,
Nenica, Nept
Threstes; and
ng to the class
(perhaps Co-
ubtful), Puncra-
e sources from
- the editions of
th the disserta-
end of this ar-
ad Hor. Sat. i.
nat. ad Tercat.
which less than
xtant, but from
we were composed
From this circum-
ed their appelle-
VII. Phagetica, Phagesia, Hedyphagetica. These the different portions, but to have made considera-
and many other titles have been assigned to a work ble additions to the relics previously discovered.
upon edible fishes, which Ennius may perhaps have The new verses were gathered chiefly from a work
translated from Archestratus. [Archestratus] | by L. Calpurnius Piso, a contemporary of the
Eleven lines in dactylic hexameters have been younger Pliny, bearing the title De Continentia
preserved by Apuleius exhibiting a mere catalogue Veterum Poetarum ad Trajanum Principem, a MS.
of names and localities. They are given, with of which Merula tells us that he examined hastily
some preliminary remarks, in Wernsdorf's Poet. in the library of St. Victor at Paris, accompanying
Lat. Min. vol. i. pp. 157 and 187. See also this statement with an inexplicable and most sus-
Apuleius, Apolog. p. 299 ed. Elmenh. ; P. Pith- picious remark, that he was afraid the volume
oeus, Epigramm. vel. iv. fin. ; Parrhas. Epist. . 65; would be stolen. It is certain that this codex, if
Trillerus, Observatt. crit. i. 14; Scaliger Catalect. it ever existed, has long since disappeared, and the
vel. poet. p. 215; Turneb. Advers. xxi. 21; Salmas. lines in question are regarded with well-merited
ad Solin. p. 794, ed. Traj. ; Burmann, Anthol. Lat. suspicion. (Niebuhr, Lectures on Roman History,
iii. 135; Fabric. Bibl. Lat. lib. iv. c. 1. $ 7. edited by Dr. Schmitz, Introd. p. 35; Hoch, De
VIII. Epigrammata. Under this hend we have Ennianorum Annalium Fragmentis a P. Merula
two short epitaphs upon Scipio Africanus, and one auctis, Bonn, 1839. )
upon Ennius himself, the whole in elegiac verse,
The Annales from the text of Merula were re-
extending collectively to ten lines.
printed, but not very accurately, with soine trifling
IX. Protreptica. The title seems to indicate additions, and with the fragments of the Punic
that this was a collection of precepts exhorting the war of Naevius, by E. S. (Ernst Spangenberg),
reader to the practice of virtue. We cannot, how- 8vo. Lips. 1825.
ever, tell much about it nor even discover whether The fragments of the tragedies were carefully
it was written in prose or verse, since one word collected and examined by M. A. Delrio in his
only is known to us, namely pannibus quoted by Syntagma Tragoediae Latinae, vol. , i. Antv. 4to,
Charisius.
1593; reprinted at Paris in 1607 and 1619: they
X. Praecepta. Very probably the same with the will be found also in the Collectanea veterum Tragi-
preceding. From the remains of three lines in corum of Scriverius, to which are appended the
Priscian we conclude that it was composed in emendations and notes of G. J. Vossius, Lug. Bat.
jambic trimeters.
8vo, 1620. The fragments of both the tragedies
XI. Sabinae. Angelo Mai in a note on Cic. De and comedies are contained in Bothe, Poetarum
Rep. ii. 8, gives a few words in prose from Lotü scenicorum fragmenta, Halberst. 8vo. 1823.
“ Ennius in Sabinis" without informing us where The fragments of the Medea, with a dissertation
he found them. Columna has pointed out that in on the origin and nature of Roman tragedy, were
Macrobius, Sat. vi. 5, we ought to read “ Ennius published by H. Planck, Götting. 4to. 1806, and
in libro Satirarum quarto " instead of Sabinarum the fragments of the Medea and of the Hecuba,
as it stands in the received text.
compared with the plays of Euripides bearing the
XII. Euhemerus, a translation into Latin same names, are contained in the Analecta Critica
prose of the lepa åraypáon of Euhemerus (EU- Poesis Romanorum scenicae reliquias illustrantia of
HEMERUS. ) Several short extracts are contained Osann, Berolin. 8vo. 1816.
in Lactantius, and a single word in the De Re (See the prefaces and prolegomena to the editions
Rustica of Varro.
of the collected fragments by Hesselius, and of the
Censorinus (c. 19) tells us, that according to annals by E. S. where the whole of the ancient
Ennius the year consisted of 366 days, and hence authorities for the biography of Ennins are quoted
it has been conjectured that he was the author of at full length ; Caspar Sagittarius, Commentatio de
some astronomical treatise. But an expression of vita et scriptis Livü Andronici, Naevii, Ennii, Caecilii
this sort may have been dropped incidentally, and Siati, &c. , Altenburg. 8vo. 1672; G. F. de Franck-
is not sufficient to justify such a supposition with enau, Dissertatio de Morbo Q. Ennii, Witt. 4to.
out further evidence.
1694 ; Domen. d'Angelis, della patria d'Ennio
The first general collection of the fragments of dissertazione, Rom. 8vo. 1701, Nap. 8vo. 1712;
Ennius is that contained in the “ Fragmenta ve Henningius Forelius, De Ennio diatribe, Upsnl.
terum Poetarum Latinorum” by Robert and Henry 8vo. 1707 ; W. F. Kreidmannus, de Q. Ennio
Stephens, Paris, 8vo. 1564. It is exceedingly im-Oratio, Jen. 4to. 1754; Cr. Cramerus, Dissertatio
perfect and does not include any portion of the sistens Horatii de Ennio effatum, Jen. 4to. 1755;
Euhemerus, which being in prose was excluded C. G. Kuestner Chrestomathia juris Enniani, &c. ,
from the plan.
Lips. 8vo. 1762. )
(W. R. )
Much more complete and accurate are “Q. Ennii ENNOʻDIUS, MAGNUS FELIX, was born
poetae vetustissimi, quae supersunt, fragmenta," at Arles about A. D. 476, of a very illustrious
collected, arranged, and expounded, by Hieronymus family, which numbered among its members and
Columna, Neapol. 4to. 1590, reprinted with consi- connexions many of the most illustrious personages
derable additions, comprising the commentaries of of that epoch. Having been despoiled while yet a
Delrio and G. J. Voss, by Hesselius, professor of boy of all his patrimony by the Visigoths, he was
history and eloquence at Rotterdam, Amstel. 4to. educated at Milan by an aunt, upon whose death
1707. This must be considered as the best edition he found himself at the age of sixteen again re-
of the collected fragments which has yet appeared. duced to total destitution. From this unhappy
Five years after Columna's edition a new position he was extricated by a wealthy marriage,
edition of the Annales was published at Leyden but having been prevailed upon by St. Epiphanius
(4to. 1595) by Paullus Merula, a Dutch lawyer, to renounce the pleasures of the world, he received
who professed not only to have greatly purified ordination as a deacon, and induced his wife to
the text, and to have introduced many important enter a convent. His labours in the service of the
corrections in the arrangement and distribution of Church were so conspicuous that he was choses
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20
ENNODIUS.
ENTELLUS.
bishop of Pavia in A. D. 511, and in 514 was eventually prompted him to devote his life to the
sent, along with Fortunatus, bishop of Catania, and service of God. It is dedicated to Elpidius, a
others, by Pope Hormisda to Constantinople in deacon and physician.
order to combat the progress of the Eutychian 7. Paraenesis didascalica ad Ambrosium et Bea-
heresy. The embassy having proved unsuccessful tum, an exhortation, in which poetry is combined
in consequence of the emperor, who was believed with prose, urging two youths to the practice of
to be favourable to the opinions in question, having virtue.
refused to acknowledge the authority of the Roman 8. Praeceptum de cellulanis episcoporum. The
pontiff, Ennodius was despatched a second time in cellulani were the contubernales whom bishops,
517, along with Peregrinus, bishop of Misenum, presbyters, and deacons were required to retain as
bearing a confession of faith, which the eastern constant companions "ad amoliendas maledicorum
churches were invited or rather required to sub calumnias. " (See Ducange, Glossar. ) In this tract
scribe. On this occasion the envoy was treated they are called concellanei
with great harshness by Anastasius, who not only 9. Petitorium quo Gerontius puer Agapiti abso-
dismissed him with ignominy, but even sought his lutus est. On the manumission of a slave by his
liſe, by causing him to embark in a crazy vessel, master in the church.
which was strictly forbidden to touch at any 10. Cerei paschalis benedictiones duae,
Grecian port. Having escaped this danger, Enno- 11. Orationes. A series of short essays or decla-
dius returned to his diocese, where he occupied mations, twenty eight in number, which the author
himself with religious labours until his death in himself names dictiones, classified according to their
1. D. 521, on the 17th of July, the day which subjects. Of these six are sacrae, seven scholasticae,
after his canonization was observed as his festival ten controversiae, five ethicae.
The works of this prelate, as contained in the 12. Carmina. A large collection of poems, most
edition of Sirmond, are the following :-
of them short occasional effusions, on a multitude
1. Epistolarum ad Diversos Libri IX. A col- of different topics, sacred and profane. Fourteen
lection of 497 letters, including one composed by are to be found interspersed among his epistles and
his sister, the greater number of them written other prose works, and one hundred and seventy-
during the pontificate of Symmachus (493—514). two form a separate collection.
They for the most part relate to private concerns The writings of Ennodius might serve as an ex-
and domestic occurrences, and hence possess little emplification of all the worst faults of a corrupt
general interest. They are remarkable for gentle style. Nothing can be more affected than the form
ness and piety of tone, but some persons have of expression, nothing more harsh than the diction.
imagined that they could detect a leaning towards They are concise without being vigorous, obscure
semipelagianism. The charge, however, has not without being deep, while the use of figurative
been by any means substantiated.
language, metaphors, and allegories, is pushed to
2. Panegyricus Theodorico regi dictus. A com- such extravagant excess that whole pages wear the
plimentary address delivered in the presence of the aspect of a long dull enigma.
Gothic monarch at Milan, or at Ravenna, or at A considerable number of the works of this
Rome, probably in the year a. D. 507. It is some father appeared in the “ Monumenta S. Patrum
times included in the collections of the “ Panegy- Orthodoxographa,” Basil. fol. , 1569 ; they were
rici Veteres," and is considered as one of the first published separately by Andr. Schottus, Tornac.
principal sources for the history of that period, 8vo. 1611, but will be found in their most complete
although obviously no reliance can be placed on and best form in the edition of Sirmond, Paris.
the statements contained in an effusion of such 8vo. 1611, and in his Opera, vol. i. fol. , Paris.
a character. [DREPANIUS. ] It will be found, 1696, and Venet. 1729; also in the Bibl, Patr.
with notes, in Manso, Geschichte des Ostgoth. Reichs, Mar. , Lugdun. 1677, vol. ix. , and in other large
collections of the fathers.
3. Libellus adversus eos qui contra synodum Martenne and Durand (Collect. Monumm. vol.
scribere praesumserunt. A powerful and argumen- v. p. 61) have added a new oration and a short
tative harangue, read before the fifth Roman | letter to Venantius.
synod held in A. D. 503, and adopted as part of (See the Vita Ennodii prefixed to the edition
their proceedings, in defence of the measures sanc- of Sirmond. A very full biography is given by
tioned by the synod of the previous year, against Funccius also, De inerti ac decrepita L. L. senec-
schismatics, and in support of the jurisdiction of tute, c. iii. § XI. , c. vi. S viii. , c. viii. Ş X. , c. 11.
the Roman pontiff generally.
$ xxxi)
(W. R. )
4. Vita beatissimi viri Epiphanü Ticinensis epis- E'NNOMUS ("Evvouos), a Mysian and ally of
copi. A biography of St. Epiphanius, his predeces- the Trojans, who was killed by Achilles. (Hom. II.
sor in the see of Pavia, who died in A. D. 496. ii. 858, xvii. 218. ) Another person of this name
This piece is valued on account of the light which occurs in the Odyssey (xi. 422). (L. S. )
it throws upon the history of the times, and is con- ENORCHES ('Evópxns), a son of Thyestes by
sidered one of the most interesting and agreeable his sister Daeta, was born out of an egg, and built
among the works of Ennodius, which, to say the a temple to Dionysus, who was hence called Dio-
truth, are for the most part rather repulsive. It nysus Enorches, though Enorches may also describe
will be found in the collections of Surius and the the god as the dancer. (Tzetz. ad Lycoph. 212;
Bollandists under the 22nd of January.
Hesych. s. o. )
[L. S. )
5. Vita beati Antonii monachi Livinensis, a pane- ENTELLUS, a Trojan, or a Sicilian hero, from
gyric upon a holy man unknown save from this whom the town of Entella, in Sicily, was believed
to have received its name. (Virg. Aen. v. 389, with
6. Eucharisticum de vita, a thanksgiving for re- Servius. ) Tzetzes (ad Lycoph. 953) states, that
covery from a dangerous malady, during which the Entella was so called from Entella, the wife of
author was first led to those thoughts which Aegestes.
[L. S. ]
P. 433.
tract.
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EOS.
21
EPAENETUS.
a
E'NTOCHUS, a sculptor, whose Oceanus and mortals. (Hom. Od. v. 1, &c. , xxiii. 244 ; Virg.
Jupiter were in the collection of Asinius Pollio. Aen. iv, 129, Georg. i. 446 ; Hom. Hymn in Merc.
(Plin. H. N. xxxvi. 5. s. 4. 10. ) [P. S. ] 185 ; Theocrit. ii. 148, xiii. 11. ) In the Homeric
ENTO’RIA ('Evropia), the daughter of a Ro poems Eos not only announces the coming Helios,
man countryman. Cronos (Saturn) who was once but accompanies him throughout the day, and her
hospitably received by him, became, by his fair career is not complete till the evening; hence she
daughter, the father of four sons, Janus, Hymnus, is sometimes mentioned where one would have ex-
Faustus, and Felix. Cronos taught the father the pected Helios (Od. v. 390, n. 144); and the tragic
cultivation of the vine and the preparation of wine, writers completely identify her with Hemera, of
enjoining him to teach his neighbours the same. whom in later times the same myths are related as
This was done accordingly, but the country people, of Eos. (Paus. i. 3. § 1, iii. 18. $ 7. ) The later
who became intoxicated with their new drink, Greek and the Roman poets followed, on the whole,
thought it to be poison, and stoned their neighbour the notions of Eos, which Homer had established,
to death, whereupon his grandsons hung themselves and the splendour of a southern aurora, which
in their grief. At a much later time, when the lasts much longer than in our climate, is a favourite
Romans were visited by a plague, they were told topic with the ancient poets. Mythology repre-
by the Delphic oracle, that the plague was a punish- Bents her as having carried off several youths dis-
ment for the outrage committed on Entoria's father, tinguished for their beauty. Thus she carried
and Lutatius Catulus caused a temple to be erected away Orion, but the gods were angry at ber for it,
to Cronos on the Tarpeian rock, and in it an altar untii Artemis with a gentle arrow killed him.
with four faces. (Plut. Parall. Gr. et Rom. 9. ) [L. S. ) (Hom. Od. v. 121. ) According to Apollodorus (i.
ENYA'LIUS ('Evvárdos), the warlike, fre- 4. $ 4) Eos carried Orion to Delos, and was ever
quently occurs in the Iliad (never in the Odyssey) stimulated by Aphrodite. Cleitus, the son of
either as an epithet of Ares, or as a proper name Mantius, was carried by Eos to the seats of the
instead of Ares. (xvii. 211, ii. 651, vii. 166, viii. immortal gods (Od. xv. 250), and Tithonus, by
264, xiii. 519, xvii. 259, xviii. 309, XX. 69 ; comp. whom she became the mother of Emathion and
Pind. Oh xiii. 102, Nem. ix.
