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ECHIDNA.
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poems mention two personages of this namc, the , but that she would not give them up, unless he
one a Trojan, who was slain by Antilochus (Il. iv. would consent to stay with her for a time. Hern-
457, &c. ), and the other a Sicyonian, who made cles complied with the request, and became by her
Agamemnon a present of the mare Aethe, in order the father of Agathyrsus, Gelonus, and Scythes.
not to be obliged to accompany him to Troy. (n. The last of them became king of the Scythians, ac-
xxiii. 293, &c. )
(L. S. ) cording to his father's arrangement, because he was
ECHESTRATUS ('Exéotpatos), son of Agis I. , the only one among the three brothers that i was
and third of the Agid line of Spartan kings. In able to manage the bow which Heracles had left
his reign the district of Cynuria on the Argive behind, and to use his father's girdle. (Herod. xiv.
border was reduced. He was the father of Labotas 8–10. )
[L. S. ]
or Leobotes, king of Sparta. (Paus. iii. 2. & 2; ECHU'NADE (ACHELOUS. ]
Herod. vii. 204. )
(A. II. C. ) ECU'ON ('Exiwr). 1. One of the five sur-
ECHETI'MÚS (*Exétipos), of Sicyon, was viving Spartae that had grown up from the dm-
the husband of Nicngorah, who was believed to have gon's teeth, which Cadmus had sown. (Apollod.
brought the image of Asclepius, in the form of a iii. 4. & 1; Hygin. Fub. 178 ; Ov. Mlet, iii. 126. )
dragon, from Epidaurus to Sicyon, on a car drawn He was married to Agave, hy whom he became the
by mules. (Paus. ii. 10. Q 3. )
[L. S. ) father of Pentheus. (Apollod. iii. 5. $ 2. ) He is
ECHETLUS ("ExeThos), a mysterious being, said to have dedicated a temple of Cybele in Boe-
about whom the following tradition was current at otia, and to have assisted Cadmus in the building
Athens. During the battle of Marathon there ap- of Thebes. (Ov. Met. x. 686. )
peared among the Greeks a man, who resembled a 2. A son of Hermes and Antianeira at Alope.
rustic, and slew many of the barbarians with his (Hygin. Fab. 14 ; Apollon. Rhod. i. 56. ) He was
plough. After the battle, when he was searched a twin-brother of Erytus or Eurytus, together with
for, he was not to be found anywhere, and when whom he took part in the Calydonian hunt, and in
the Athenians consulted the oracle, they were com- the expedition of the Argonauts, in which, as the
manded to worship the hero Echetlaeus, that is the son of Hermes, he acted the part of a cunning spy.
hero with the exétan, or ploughshare. Echetlus (Pind. Pyth. iv. 179; Ov. Met
. viii. 311; comp.
was to be seen in the painting in the Poecile, Orph. Argon. 134, where his mother is called
which represented the battle of Marathon. (Paus. Laothoë. ) A third personage of this name, one of
i. 15. § 4, 32, § 4. )
(L. S. ] the giants, is mentioned by Claudian. (Gigant.
E'CHETUS ("Exetos), a cruel king of Epeirus, 104. )
[L. S. ]
who was the terror of all mortals. He was a son ECHI'ON, a painter and statuary, who flou-
of Euchenor and PhlogeaHis daughter, Metope rished in the 107th Olympiad (13. c. 352). His
or Amphissa, who had yielded to the embraces of most noted pictures were the following: Father
her lover Aechmodicus, was blinded by her father, Liber; Tragedy and Comedy ; Semiramis passing
and Aechmodicus was cruelly mutilated. Echetus from the state of a handmaid to that of a queen,
further gave his daughter iron barleycorns, pro- with an old woman carrying torches before ber; in
mising to restore her sight, if she would grind them this picture the modesty of the new bride was ad-
into four. (Hom. Od. xviii. 83, &c. , xxi. 307 ; mirably depicted. He is ranked by Pliny and
Apollon. Rhod. iv. 1093 ; Eustath. ad Hom. p. Cicero with the greatest painters of Greece, A pelles,
1839. )
[L. S. ] Melanthius, and Nicomachus. (Plin. xxxiv. 8. s.
ECHIDNA ("Exıdva), a daughter of Tartarus 19; xxxv. 7. 5. 32 ; 10. s. 36. $ 9. ) The picture
and Ge (Apollod. ii. 1. § 2), or of Chrysaor and in the Vatican, known as “the Aldobrandini Mar-
Callirrhoë (Hesiod. Thcog. 295), and according to riage,” is supposed by some to be a copy from the
others again, of Peiras and Styx. (Paus. viii. 18. * Bride" of Echion. (Kugler, Handbuch d. Kunst-
Ⓡ 1. ) Echidna was a monster, half maiden and gesch. p. 236; Müller, Arch. d. Kunst, $ 140, 3. )
half serpent, with black eyes, fearful and blood- Hirt supposes that the name of the painter of
thirsty. She was the destruction of man, and be- Alexander's marriage, whom Lucian praises so
came by Typhon the mother of the Chimaera, of highly, Action, is a corruption of Echion. (Gesch.
the many-headed dog Orthus, of the hundred- d. Bild. K'ünste, pp. 265-268. ) [P. S. ]
headed dragon who guarded the apples of the Hes- E'CHIUS ("Eylos. ) Two mythical personages
perides, of the Colchian dragon, of the Sphinx, of this name occur in the Iliad ; the one a Greek
Cerberus, Scylla, Gorgon, the Lernaean Hydra, of and a son of Mecisteus, was slain by Polites (viii.
the eagle which consumed the liver of Prometheus, 333, xv. 339), and the other, a Trojan, was slain
and of the Nemean lion. (Hes. Theog. 307, &c. ; by Patroclus. (xvi. 416. )
(L. S. ]
Apollod. ii. 3. § 1, 5. SS 10, 11, iii. 5. S 8; Hy- ECHO ('HX“), an Orcade, who when Zeus was
gin. Fab. Praef. p. 3, and Fab. 151. ) She was playing with the nymphs, used to keep Hera at a
killed in her sleep by Argus Panoptes. (Apollod. distance by incessantly talking to her. In this
ii. 1. & 2. ) According to Hesiod she lived with manner Hera was not able to detect her faithless
Typhon in a cave in the country of the Arimi, husband, and the nymphs had time to 'escape.
whereas the Greeks on the Euxine conceived her Hera, however, found out the deception, and she
to have lived in Scythia.
When Heracles, they punished Echo by changing her into an echo, that
said, carried away the oxen of Geryones, he also is, a being with no controul over its tongue, which
visited the country of the Scythians, which was is neither able to speak before any body else has
then still a desert. Once while he was asleep spoken, nor to be silent when somebody else has
there, his horses suddenly disappeared, and when spoken. Echo in this state fell desperately in love
he woke and wandered about in search of them, he with Narcissus, but as her love was not returned,
came into the country of Hylnea. He there found she pined away in grief, so that in the end there
the monster Echidna in a cave. When he asked remained of her nothing but her voice. (Ov. Met.
whether she knew anything about his horses, she iii. 356—401. ) There were in Greece certain
answered, that they were in her own possession, porticoes, called the Porticoes of Echo, on account
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of the echo which was heard there; thus, there is obtained by Näke from a comparison of Suidas
was one stoa at Hermione with a threefold, and (s. v. Ešče) with Hephaestion (xv. 13, p. 96, Gaisſ. ;
one at Olympia with a sevenfold echo. (Paus. ii. see Gaisford's note). Ecphantides was said to have
35. & 6, v. 21. $ 7. ) Compare Wiesler, Die Nymphe been assisted in composing his plays by his slave
Echo : cine kunstmythologische Abhandlung, Götein-CHOERILUS.
(P. S. )
[L. S. ) E'DECON ('Eserców), an Iberian chief, called
ECLECTUS or ELECTUS, originally, it would Edesco by Liry. He came to Scipio at Tarraco,
appear, the freedman of L. Verus, after whose in B. c. 209, and offered to surrender himself “ to
death he enjoyed the protection of M. Aurelius, the faith of the Romans," requesting, at the same
hecame subsequently the chamberlain of Ummidius time, that his wife and children, who were among
Quadratus, and after his destruction was chosen to the hostages that had fallen into Scipio's hands at
fill the same office in the household of Commodus. the capture of New Carthagc, might be restored to
The circumstances under which Eclectus, in con- him. Scipio granted his prayer, and thereby greatly
junction with Laetus and Marcia, contrived the increased the Roman intluence in Spain.
death of the tyrant and then forced the vacant Edecon was the first chief who, after the retreat
throne upon Pertinax, along with whom he eventu- of lIasdrubal to the Pyrenees, siluted Scipio as
ally perished are described elsewhere. [Com- king, --a homage which the latter know better
MODUS; LAETUS; ManCiA; PERTINAX. ) than to accept. (Polyb. x. 34, 35, 40; Liv. xxvii.
(Capitolin. Ver. 9, expressly declares that the 17, 19. )
(E. E. ]
Eclectus who was the freedman of l'erus was the EDO'NUS ('Howvós), the mythical ancestor of
individual who murdered Commodus, while in the Edones in Thrace. (Steph. Byz. s. r. 'Howvioi. )
Dion Cassius, lxxii. 4, he is first introduced as the | The name is therefore used also in the sense of
chamberlain of Quadratus. See also Dion Cass. “Thracian," and as Thrace was one of the principal
lxxii. 19, 22, lxxiii. 1 ; Capitolin. Pertin. 4, 11 ; seats of the worship of Dionysus, it further signiñes
Herodian, i. 51, &c. , ii. 1; Zonar. xii. 5. ) (W. R. ) “ Dionysiac” or “Bacchantic. " (Ov. Rem. Am.
Q. ECLO'GIUS or EULOʻGIUS. According 593 ; Hor. Carm. ii. 7. 27. )
(L. S. )
to the commonly received text of Suetonius (Vitell. EDU'LICA or EDUSA, a Roman divinity,
1), R. Eclogius or Eulogius was the author of a who was worshipped as the protectress of children,
little work on the history and genealogy of the and was believed to bless their food, just as Potina
Vitellii, in which the origin of the family was and Cuba blessed their drinking and their sleep.
traced from Faunus, king of the Aborigines. It (Augustin, de Cir. Dei, iv. 11; Varro, ap. Non.
must be remarked, however, that the existence of p. 108; Arnob. iii. 25; Donat. ad Terent. Phorm.
a writer bearing this appellation depends upon a i. 1, 11. )
(L. S. ]
conjectural emendation of Casaubon, who supposes EERIBOEA. [ERIBOEA. )
that his name at full length was Q. Vitellius Eclogius EETION ('Hetiwv), a king of the Placian Thebe
or Eulogius, and that he was a freedman of the in Cilicia, and father of Andromache and Podes.
emperor whose pedigree he investigated. (W. R. ) (Hom. II. vi. 396, xvii, 575. ) He and seven of
ECPHANTIDES ('Ekoavtions), an Athenian his sons were slain by Achilles (11. vi. 415, &c. ),
comic poet of the old comedy, flourished after who proposed the mighty iron ball, which Eëtion
Magnes, and a little before Cratinus and Tele- had once thrown, and which had come into the
cleides. (Näke, Choerilus, p. 52. ) He is called possession of Achilles, as one of the prizes at the
by Aspasius (ad Aristot. Eth. Nicom. iv. 2) TWv funeral games of Patroclus. (1. xxiii. 826, &c. )
åpxaiw malaiÓTATOV Tointýv, which words some Among the booty which Achilles made in the
writers understand as implying that he was town of Eētion, we find especial mention of the
older than Chionides and Magnes. But we have horse Pedasus and the phorminx with a silver
the clear testimony of Aristotle (Poet. v. 3), that neck, on which Achilles played in his tent. (1l.
all the poets before Magnes furnished their cho- xv. 153, ix. 186. ) There are two other mythical
ruses at their own expense, whereas the name personages of this name. (11. xxi. 40, &c. ; Paus
of a person who was choragus for Ecphantides is ii. 4. & 4. )
[L. S. ]
mentioned also by Aristotle. (Polit
. vii. 6. ) EGE'RIA. [AEGERIA. ]
Again, a certain Androcles, to whom Cratinus and EGE'RIUS, the son of Aruns, who was the
Telecleides often refer, was also attacked by Ec- brother of L. Tarquinius Priscus (ARUNS, No. 1],
phantides, who could not, therefore, have flourished was born after the death of his father ; and as De-
long before those poets. (Schol. Aristoph. l'esp. maratus, the father of Aruns, died shortly after the
1182. ) The date of Ecphantides may be placed death of his son without knowing that his daughter-
about 'Ol. 80 (B. C. 460), and onwards. The inean-in-law was pregnant, none of his property was left
ing of the surname of Kanvías, which was given to to Egerius, from which circumstance, according to
Ecphantides by his rivals, has been much disputed, the legend, he derived his name. When the town
but it seems to imply a mixture of subtlety and of Collatia was taken by his uncle Tarquinius
obscurity. He ridiculed the rudeness of the old Priscus, Egerius was left in command of the place,
Megaric comedy, and was himself ridiculed on the and henceforth received, according to Dionysius,
same ground by Cratinus, Aristophanes, and the surname of Collatinus (though this name is
others. (Hesych. s. v. Kanvías ; Schol. Aristoph. usually confined to his son L. Tarquinius Collatinus).
V'esp. 151 ; Näke, Choeril. p. 52 ; Lehrs, Quaest. Egerius was afterwards sent against Fidenae in com-
Epic. p. 23 ; Meineke, p. 36. )
mand of the allied forces of Rome. (COLLATINUS. ]
There is only one certain title of a play by Ec- (Liv. i. 34, 38 ; Dionys. iii. 50, 57, comp. iv. 64. )
phantides extant, namely, the Latúpol, a line of EGESI'NUS. [HEGESINUS. ]
which is preserved by Athenaeus (iii.