the time of
Peisistratus
and his sons, about B.
William Smith - 1844 - Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities - b
A.
B.
]
Cherwise unknown
are mentioned by
zubon proposed to
ποδος; but our
fficient to justify
(L. S. ]
ician, author of
thopoeia ac Loco
Materiae prae
He is beliered
i the sixth cen-
that he refers
rather than to
I scarcely have
of the kingly
is mentioned in a passage of Quintilian, where the mation of the present text of the Basilica, appears
text is very doubtful, as an ortor referred to by from his being several times named in the text it-
Cicero, but no such name occurs in any extant self, as in iii. p. 258, where he cites Theophilus;
work of the latter. —(Plut. Brut. 2 ; Quintil. x. 6. ii
. p. 560, where he cites the Code of Justinian;
$ 4, and Spalding's note).
(W. R. ] i. 99, where he cites the Novells of Justinian.
E'NALUS ("Evalos). The Penthelides, the According to the Scholium on the Basilica (ii. p.
first settlers in Lesbos, had received an oracle from 548, ed. Heimbach), be seems to have written
Amphitrite commanding them to sacrifice a bull to notes upon the Digest. That he was alive after
Poseidon and a virgin to Amphitrite and the Nethe death of Justinian appears from Basil. iii. p.
reides, as soon as they should, on their journey to 230 (ed. lleimbach), where he cites a Novell of
Lesbos, come to the rock Mesogeion. The leaders of Justin. On the other hand, Assemanni thinks that
the colonists accordingly caused their daughters to lie wrote after the composition of the Basilica,
draw lots, the result of which was, that the daugh which, in the Scholium, Basil. i. p. 262, he appears
ter of Sminthcus or Phincus was to be sacrificed. to cite ; but it is very likely that here, as in many
When she was on the point of being thrown into other places, that which was originally a citation
the sea, her lover, Enalus, embraced her, and leaped from the Digest has been subsequently changed for
with her into the deep. But both were saved by convenience into a reference to the Basilica. In
dolphins. Once the sca all around Lesbos rose in Busil. iii. p. 440, he cites Gregorius Doxapater,
such high billows, that no one ventured to ap- whom Pohi (followed by Zachariae), on the sup-
proach it ; Enalus alone had the courage to do so, posed authority of Montfaucon, places in the first
and when he returned from the sea, he was fol- half of the 12th century; but we have shewn
lowed by polypi, the greatest of which was carry- [Doxapater] that there is no ground for identi-
ing a stone, which Enalus took from it, and dedi- fying Gregorius Doxapater with the Doxapater
cated in a temple. (Plut. Scpt. Sapient. Conviv. p. mentioned by Montfaucon.
163, c, de Sollert, animal. p. 984. d. ) (L. S. ] An eminent jurist of the time of Justinian is
ENANTIOʻPHANES. Cujacius, in his Pre- frequently cited in the Basilica, and in the Scholia
face to the 60th book of the Basilica, prefixed to on that work by the appellation of the Anonymous.
the 7th volume of Fabrot's edition of that work, This writer composed an Index or abridgment of
supposes Enantiophanes to be the assumed name the Novells of Justinian, and was the author of
of a Graeco-Roman jurist, who wrote nepl évautio- Paratitla (a comparison of parallel passages) in the
Qaywv, or concerning the explanation of apparent Digest. To this work the treatise on apparently
legal inconsistencies; and Suarez (Notit. Basil. discordant passages would form a natural sequel;
$ 35) says that Photius, in his Nomocanon, men- and Mortreuil (Histoire du Droit Byzantin, i. p.
tions having written such a work. Fabricius, in a 296) makes it probable that Enantiophanes and
note upon the work of Suarez (which is inserted the Anonymous were the same persons; for in
in the Bibliotheca Graeca), states that Balsamo, in Basil. vi. p. 251 Schol. , a passage is ascribed to
his Preface to the Nomocanon of Photius, refers to Enantiophanes, which, in Basil. vi. p. 260, Schol. ,
Enantiophanes. Assemanni, however, shews (Bill. is attributed to the Anonymous.
Jur. Orient. ii. 18, p. 389) that there is no reason Biener (Geschichte der Novellen Justinians, p.
for attributing a work nepi vartiopavwv to Pho- 56) threw out the conjecture, that the Anonymous
tius, that there is no passage in his Nomocanon was no other than Julianus, the author of the Latin
relating to such a work, and that the sentence Epitome of the Novells; and Zachariae (Anecdota,
in which Balsamo is supposed by Fabricius to refer p. 204–7) attempts to establish this conjecture.
to Enantiophanes has no such meaning. The Mortreuil seems disposed to identify the three.
Έναντιοφανών βιβλίον is cited in Basil. v. p. 726. In order to facilitate investigation, we subjoin a
Enantiophanes (Basil. vi. p. 250) cites his own list (formed from Reiz and Fabricius) of passages
book de Legatis et Mortis Causa Donationibus, and in the Basilica where the name of Enantiophanes
the Napaypaon, or annotation, of Enantiophanes is occurs.
cited in Basil. vii. p. 496. The period when the ju- Basil
. i. pp. 70, 99, 100, 109, 260, 408, 262,
rist lived who bears this name, has been a subject | 265, 266, ii. pp. 540, 500, 609, 610, 628, iii.
of much dispute. Reiz (ad Theophilum, pp. 1234, pp. 43, 170, 258, 318, 393, 394, 412, v. p. 726,
1236) thinks that Enantiophanes wrote before the vi. 250, 251, 260, vii. 496, 499, 565, 640, 641.
composition of the Basilica, and marks his name (Heimbach, de Basil. Orig. pp. 76-79. ) [J. T. G. )
with an asterisk as an ascertained contemporary of ENAREʻPHORUS ('Evapń popos), a son of
Justinian. In Basil. iii. p. 318 Enantiophanes Hippocoön, was a most passionate suitor of Helen,
calls Stephanus his master ; but this is by no when she was yet quite young. Tyndareus, there
means conclusive. Assemanni, misled by Papado fore, entrusted the maiden to the care of Theseus.
poli, thinks that the Stephanus here meant lived (Apollod. iii. 10. § 5; Plut. Thes. 31. ) Enare
under Alexius Comnenus, and was not the Stepha- phorus had a heroum at Sparta. (Paus. iii. 15.
nus who was one of the compilers of Justinian's $ 2. )
(L. S. )
Digest. The contemporary of Justinian, however, EVA'RETE. (AEOLUS, No. 1. ]
was undoubtedly the person intended; but Stepha- ENCE'LADUS ('Eykénados), a son of Tarta-
nus was one of those early Graeco-Roman jurists rus and Ge, and one of the hundred-armed giants
who, like Domninus, Patricius, and Cyrillus, are who made war upon the gods. (Hygin. Fub. Praef.
thought by Zachariae (Anecdota, p. viii. ) to have p. 1 ; Virg. Aen, iv. 179 ; 0v. Ep. ex Pont. ii. 2.
been called by subsequent jurists masters or teachers 12, Amor. iii. 12. 27. ) He was killed, according
in a general sense. (Compare Busil. 11. tit. i. s. 67, to some, by Zeus, by a flash of lightning, and bu-
sch. ed. Heimbach, i. p. 616. ) Zachariae places ried under mount Aetna (Virg. Aen. iii. 578); and,
Enantiophanes among the jurists who lived before according to others, he was killed by the chariot of
the time of Basileius Macedo. (Ilist. Jur. Gr. Rom. Athena (Paus. viii. 47. § 1), or by the spear of
Delius, $ 20. 1, 2. ) That he lived before the for- | Seilenus. (Eurip. Cyclops, 7. ) In his flight Athena
us Rhenanus,
betoric, Basil.
l all be found
· F. Pitloeus,
[W. R. }
ous spectre,
beings. It
sent out by
as believed
iss and the
94, Eodes,
ressed the
to fee and
roll. ii. 4. )
sumed the
of aitract-
blood like
led among
25; Suid.
L. S. ]
anion, as
whom he
nerit, on
to what
hodian
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16
ENDOEUS.
ENDYMION.
a
threw upon him the island of Sicily. (Apollod. i.
the time of Peisistratus and his sons, about B. c.
6. & 2. ) There are two other fabulous beings of 560. (Thiersch, Epochen, pp. 124, 125. ) His
this name. (Apollod. ii. 1. $ 5; Eustath. ad llom. works were: 1. In the acropolis at Athens a sit-
p. 918. )
(L. S. ) ting statue of Athena, in olive-wood, with an in-
ENCOʻLPIUS. [PetroNIUS. ]
scription to the effect that Callias dedicated it, and
ENCOʻLPIUS is named by Lampridius as the Endoeus made it. Hence his age is inferred, for
author of a life of the emperor Alexander Severus, the first Callias who is mentioned in history is the
with whom he lived upon terms of intimacy. opponent of Peisistratus. (llerod. vi. 121. ) 2. In
(Lamprid. Aler. Scr. 17, 48. )
the temple of Athena Polias at Erythrae in lonia,
A book published by Thomas Elyot, a man a colossal wooden statue of the goddess, sitting on
celebrated for his learning in the reign of Henry a throne, holding a distaff in each hand, and having
VIII. , under the title “ The Image of Governance a sun-dial (TÓNOS) on the head. 3. In connexion
(Imago Imperii) compiled of the Actes and Sen- with this statue, there stood in the hypaethrum,
tences notable of the most noble emperor Alex- before the visit of Pausanias to the temple, statues
ander Severus, translated from the Greek of Eur of the Graces and Ilours, in white marble, also by
colpius (Encolpius) into English," Lond. 1540, Endocus. 4. A statue of Athena Alea, in her
1541, 1544, 1549, 4to. , 1556, 1594, 8vo. , is a fa- temple at Tegea, made entirely of ivory, which
brication.
[W. R. ] was transported to Rome by Augustus, and set up
ENDE'IS ('Evanís), a daughter of Chiron, who in the entrance of his forum. (Paus. i. 26. & 5;
was married to Aeacus, by whom she became the vii. 5. § 4; viii. 46. § 2; Athenag. Legat. pro
mother of Peleus and Teinmon. (A pollod. iii. 12. Christ. p. 293, a. )
(P. S. ]
$ 6. ) Pausanias (ii. 29. $ 7) calls her a daughter ENDY'MION ('Evd vulwv), a youth distin-
of Sciron.
(L. S. ) guished for his beauty, and renowned in ancient
E'NDIUS (“Ev&los), of Sparta, son of Alcibiades, story by the perpetual sleep in which he spent his
member of a family whose connexion with that of life. Some traditions about Endymion refer us to
the Athenian Alcibiades had in a previous generation Elis, and others to Caria, and others again are a
introduced into the latter this Lacedaemonian name. combination of the two. According to the first set
It is he apparently who was one of the three am- of legends, he was a son of Aëthlius and Calyce, or
bassadors sent by Sparta in 420 B. c. to dissuade of Zeus and Calyce, and succeeded Aëthlius in the
Athens from the Argive alliance. They were kingdom of Elis. (Paus. v. 1. ♡ 2. ) Others again
chosen, says Thucydides, from the belief of their say that he expelled Clymenus from the kingdom of
being acceptable to the Athenians, and possibly in Elis, and introduced into the country Aeolian set-
particular with a view to conciliate his guest, Alci- tlers from Thessaly. (Apollod. i. 7. § 5, &c. ;
biades, who probably made use of this rery advan- Paus. v. 8. $ 1. ) Conon (Narrat. 14) calls him a
tage in effecting the deception by which he de- son of Zeus and Protogeneia, and Hyginus (Fab.
feated their purpose. He was elected ephor in ene 271) a son of Aetolus. He is said to hare been
autumn of 413, the time of the Atheniar disaster married to Asterodia, Chromia, Hyperippe, Neïs,
at Syracuse, and through him Alcibiades, now in or Iphianassa ; and Aetolus, Paeon, Epeius. Eury.
exile, inflicted on his country the severe blow of dice, and Naxus are called his children. He was,
bringing the Lacedaemonians to the coast of Ionia, however, especially beloved by Selene, by whom
which otherwise would at any rate have been post- he had fifty daughters. (Paus. v. 1. Ø 2. ) He
poned. His influence decided the government to caused his sons to engage in the race-course at
lend its first succour to Chios; and when the Olympin, and promised to the victor the succession
blockade of their ships in Peiraeeus seemed likely in his kingdom, and Epeius conquered his brothers,
to put a stop to all operations, he again persuaded and succeeded Endymion as king of Elis. He was
Endius and his colleagues to make the attempt. believed to be buried at Olympia, which also con-
Thucydides says, that Alcibiades was his atpikos tained a statne of his in the treasury of the Meta-
és td uátota févos; so that probably it was with pontians. (Paus. vi. 19. 8, 20. 6. ) According
him that Alcibiades resided during his stay at to a tradition, believed at Heracleia in Caria, En-
Sparta (Thục. v. 44, viii. 6, 12. ) To these dymion had come from Elis to mount Latmus in
facts we may venture to add from Diodorus (xiii. Caria, whence he is called the Latmian (Latmius;
52, 53) the further statement, that after the defeat Paus. v. 1. 64; 0v. Ars Am. iii. 83, Trist. ii.
at Cyzicus, B. C. 410, he was sent from Sparta at 299). He is described by the poets either as a
the head of an embassy to Athens with proposals king, a shepherd, or a hunter (Theocrit. iii. 49,
for
peace of the fairest character, which were, how- xx. 37 with the Scholiast), and while he was slum-
ever, through the influence of the presumptuous bering in a care of mount Latmus, Selene came
demagogue Cleophon, rejected. Endius, as the down to him, kissed, and lay by his side. (Comp.
friend of Alcibiades, the victor of Cyzicus, would A pollon. Rhod. iv. 57. ) There also he had, in
naturally be selected ; and the account of Diodo- later times, a sanctuary, and his tomb was shewn
rus, with the exception of course of the oration he in a cave of mount Latmus. (Paus. v. I. $ 4;
writes for Endins, may, notwithstanding the Strab. xiv. p. 636. ) His eternal sleep on Latmus
silence of Xenophon, be received as true in the is assigned to different causes in ancient story.
[A. H. C. ) Some said that Zeus had granted him a request,
ENDOEUS (“Evôolos), an Athenian statuary, and that Endymion begged for immortality, eter.
is called a disciple of Daedalus, whom he is said to nal sleep, and everlasting south (Apollod. i. 7.
have accompanied when he fled to Crete. This $ 5. ); others relate that he was received among
statement must be taken to express, not the time the gods of Olympus, but as he there fell in love
at which he lived, but the style of art which he with Hera, Zeus, in his anger, punished him by
practised. It is probable that he lived at the same throwing him into eternal sleep on mount Latmus
period as Dipoenus and Scyllis, who are in the ' (Schol. ad Theocrit. iii. 49. ) Others, lastly, strto
same way called disciples of Daedalus, namely, in ; that Selene, charmed with his surpassing beauty,
main.
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ENNIUS.
17
EXXIUS.
neiis.
:
sent him to sleep, that she might be able to kiss cnemy to the Muscs, and subsequently, when
him without being observed by him. (Cic. Tuscul. Censor, dedicated a joint temple to Hercules and
i. 38. ) The stories of the fair sleeper, Endymion, the Nine. Through the son of Nobilior, Ennius,
the darling of Selenc, are unquestionably poctical when far advanced in life, obtained the rights of a
fictions, in which sleep is personified. llis name citizen, a privilege which at that epoch was
and all his attributes confirin this opinion : Endy- guarded with watchful jealousy, and very rarely
mion significs a being that gently comes over one ; / granted to an alien. From the period, however,
he is called a king, because he has power over all when he quitted Sardinia, he secins to have made
living creatures ; a shepherd, because he slumbered Rome his chief abode ; for there his great poetical
in the cool caves of mount Latmus, that is, " thic talents, and an amount of learning which must
mount of oblivion. " Nothing can be more bcau- have been considered marvellous in those days,
tiful, lastly, than the notion, that he is kissed by since he was master of three languages,—Oscin,
the soft rays of the moon. (Comp. Plat. l'hacd. p. | Latin, and Greek,-gained for him the respect
72. b; Ov. Am. i. 13. 43. ) There is a beautiful and favour of all who valued such attainments ;
statue of a sleeping Endymion in the British and, in particular, he lived upon terms of the
Muscum.
(L. S. ) closest intimacy with the conqueror of Jlannibal
ENIPEUS ("Eviteus), a river. god in Thessaly, and other members of that distinguished family.
who was beloved by Tyro, the daughter of Salmo- | Dwelling in a humble mansion on the Aventinic,
Poseidon, who was in love with her, attended by a single female slave, he maintained
assumed the appearance of Enipeus, and thus himself in honourable poverty by acting as a pro-
visited her, and she became by him the mother of ceptor to patrician youths ; and having lived on
twins, Pelias and Neleus. (Apollod. i. 9. 8. ) happily to a good agc, was carried off by a disease
Ovid (Met. vi. 116) relates that Poscidon, having of the joints, probably gout, when seventy years
assumed the form of Enipeus, begot by Iphimedeia old, soon after the completion of his great under-
two sons, Otus and Ephialtes. Another river-god taking, which he closes by comparing himself to a
of the same name occurs in Elis, who is likewise race-horse, in these prophetic lines :-
connected with the legend about Tyro. (Strab. viii. Like some brave steed, who in his latest race
p. 356. )
(L.
Cherwise unknown
are mentioned by
zubon proposed to
ποδος; but our
fficient to justify
(L. S. ]
ician, author of
thopoeia ac Loco
Materiae prae
He is beliered
i the sixth cen-
that he refers
rather than to
I scarcely have
of the kingly
is mentioned in a passage of Quintilian, where the mation of the present text of the Basilica, appears
text is very doubtful, as an ortor referred to by from his being several times named in the text it-
Cicero, but no such name occurs in any extant self, as in iii. p. 258, where he cites Theophilus;
work of the latter. —(Plut. Brut. 2 ; Quintil. x. 6. ii
. p. 560, where he cites the Code of Justinian;
$ 4, and Spalding's note).
(W. R. ] i. 99, where he cites the Novells of Justinian.
E'NALUS ("Evalos). The Penthelides, the According to the Scholium on the Basilica (ii. p.
first settlers in Lesbos, had received an oracle from 548, ed. Heimbach), be seems to have written
Amphitrite commanding them to sacrifice a bull to notes upon the Digest. That he was alive after
Poseidon and a virgin to Amphitrite and the Nethe death of Justinian appears from Basil. iii. p.
reides, as soon as they should, on their journey to 230 (ed. lleimbach), where he cites a Novell of
Lesbos, come to the rock Mesogeion. The leaders of Justin. On the other hand, Assemanni thinks that
the colonists accordingly caused their daughters to lie wrote after the composition of the Basilica,
draw lots, the result of which was, that the daugh which, in the Scholium, Basil. i. p. 262, he appears
ter of Sminthcus or Phincus was to be sacrificed. to cite ; but it is very likely that here, as in many
When she was on the point of being thrown into other places, that which was originally a citation
the sea, her lover, Enalus, embraced her, and leaped from the Digest has been subsequently changed for
with her into the deep. But both were saved by convenience into a reference to the Basilica. In
dolphins. Once the sca all around Lesbos rose in Busil. iii. p. 440, he cites Gregorius Doxapater,
such high billows, that no one ventured to ap- whom Pohi (followed by Zachariae), on the sup-
proach it ; Enalus alone had the courage to do so, posed authority of Montfaucon, places in the first
and when he returned from the sea, he was fol- half of the 12th century; but we have shewn
lowed by polypi, the greatest of which was carry- [Doxapater] that there is no ground for identi-
ing a stone, which Enalus took from it, and dedi- fying Gregorius Doxapater with the Doxapater
cated in a temple. (Plut. Scpt. Sapient. Conviv. p. mentioned by Montfaucon.
163, c, de Sollert, animal. p. 984. d. ) (L. S. ] An eminent jurist of the time of Justinian is
ENANTIOʻPHANES. Cujacius, in his Pre- frequently cited in the Basilica, and in the Scholia
face to the 60th book of the Basilica, prefixed to on that work by the appellation of the Anonymous.
the 7th volume of Fabrot's edition of that work, This writer composed an Index or abridgment of
supposes Enantiophanes to be the assumed name the Novells of Justinian, and was the author of
of a Graeco-Roman jurist, who wrote nepl évautio- Paratitla (a comparison of parallel passages) in the
Qaywv, or concerning the explanation of apparent Digest. To this work the treatise on apparently
legal inconsistencies; and Suarez (Notit. Basil. discordant passages would form a natural sequel;
$ 35) says that Photius, in his Nomocanon, men- and Mortreuil (Histoire du Droit Byzantin, i. p.
tions having written such a work. Fabricius, in a 296) makes it probable that Enantiophanes and
note upon the work of Suarez (which is inserted the Anonymous were the same persons; for in
in the Bibliotheca Graeca), states that Balsamo, in Basil. vi. p. 251 Schol. , a passage is ascribed to
his Preface to the Nomocanon of Photius, refers to Enantiophanes, which, in Basil. vi. p. 260, Schol. ,
Enantiophanes. Assemanni, however, shews (Bill. is attributed to the Anonymous.
Jur. Orient. ii. 18, p. 389) that there is no reason Biener (Geschichte der Novellen Justinians, p.
for attributing a work nepi vartiopavwv to Pho- 56) threw out the conjecture, that the Anonymous
tius, that there is no passage in his Nomocanon was no other than Julianus, the author of the Latin
relating to such a work, and that the sentence Epitome of the Novells; and Zachariae (Anecdota,
in which Balsamo is supposed by Fabricius to refer p. 204–7) attempts to establish this conjecture.
to Enantiophanes has no such meaning. The Mortreuil seems disposed to identify the three.
Έναντιοφανών βιβλίον is cited in Basil. v. p. 726. In order to facilitate investigation, we subjoin a
Enantiophanes (Basil. vi. p. 250) cites his own list (formed from Reiz and Fabricius) of passages
book de Legatis et Mortis Causa Donationibus, and in the Basilica where the name of Enantiophanes
the Napaypaon, or annotation, of Enantiophanes is occurs.
cited in Basil. vii. p. 496. The period when the ju- Basil
. i. pp. 70, 99, 100, 109, 260, 408, 262,
rist lived who bears this name, has been a subject | 265, 266, ii. pp. 540, 500, 609, 610, 628, iii.
of much dispute. Reiz (ad Theophilum, pp. 1234, pp. 43, 170, 258, 318, 393, 394, 412, v. p. 726,
1236) thinks that Enantiophanes wrote before the vi. 250, 251, 260, vii. 496, 499, 565, 640, 641.
composition of the Basilica, and marks his name (Heimbach, de Basil. Orig. pp. 76-79. ) [J. T. G. )
with an asterisk as an ascertained contemporary of ENAREʻPHORUS ('Evapń popos), a son of
Justinian. In Basil. iii. p. 318 Enantiophanes Hippocoön, was a most passionate suitor of Helen,
calls Stephanus his master ; but this is by no when she was yet quite young. Tyndareus, there
means conclusive. Assemanni, misled by Papado fore, entrusted the maiden to the care of Theseus.
poli, thinks that the Stephanus here meant lived (Apollod. iii. 10. § 5; Plut. Thes. 31. ) Enare
under Alexius Comnenus, and was not the Stepha- phorus had a heroum at Sparta. (Paus. iii. 15.
nus who was one of the compilers of Justinian's $ 2. )
(L. S. )
Digest. The contemporary of Justinian, however, EVA'RETE. (AEOLUS, No. 1. ]
was undoubtedly the person intended; but Stepha- ENCE'LADUS ('Eykénados), a son of Tarta-
nus was one of those early Graeco-Roman jurists rus and Ge, and one of the hundred-armed giants
who, like Domninus, Patricius, and Cyrillus, are who made war upon the gods. (Hygin. Fub. Praef.
thought by Zachariae (Anecdota, p. viii. ) to have p. 1 ; Virg. Aen, iv. 179 ; 0v. Ep. ex Pont. ii. 2.
been called by subsequent jurists masters or teachers 12, Amor. iii. 12. 27. ) He was killed, according
in a general sense. (Compare Busil. 11. tit. i. s. 67, to some, by Zeus, by a flash of lightning, and bu-
sch. ed. Heimbach, i. p. 616. ) Zachariae places ried under mount Aetna (Virg. Aen. iii. 578); and,
Enantiophanes among the jurists who lived before according to others, he was killed by the chariot of
the time of Basileius Macedo. (Ilist. Jur. Gr. Rom. Athena (Paus. viii. 47. § 1), or by the spear of
Delius, $ 20. 1, 2. ) That he lived before the for- | Seilenus. (Eurip. Cyclops, 7. ) In his flight Athena
us Rhenanus,
betoric, Basil.
l all be found
· F. Pitloeus,
[W. R. }
ous spectre,
beings. It
sent out by
as believed
iss and the
94, Eodes,
ressed the
to fee and
roll. ii. 4. )
sumed the
of aitract-
blood like
led among
25; Suid.
L. S. ]
anion, as
whom he
nerit, on
to what
hodian
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16
ENDOEUS.
ENDYMION.
a
threw upon him the island of Sicily. (Apollod. i.
the time of Peisistratus and his sons, about B. c.
6. & 2. ) There are two other fabulous beings of 560. (Thiersch, Epochen, pp. 124, 125. ) His
this name. (Apollod. ii. 1. $ 5; Eustath. ad llom. works were: 1. In the acropolis at Athens a sit-
p. 918. )
(L. S. ) ting statue of Athena, in olive-wood, with an in-
ENCOʻLPIUS. [PetroNIUS. ]
scription to the effect that Callias dedicated it, and
ENCOʻLPIUS is named by Lampridius as the Endoeus made it. Hence his age is inferred, for
author of a life of the emperor Alexander Severus, the first Callias who is mentioned in history is the
with whom he lived upon terms of intimacy. opponent of Peisistratus. (llerod. vi. 121. ) 2. In
(Lamprid. Aler. Scr. 17, 48. )
the temple of Athena Polias at Erythrae in lonia,
A book published by Thomas Elyot, a man a colossal wooden statue of the goddess, sitting on
celebrated for his learning in the reign of Henry a throne, holding a distaff in each hand, and having
VIII. , under the title “ The Image of Governance a sun-dial (TÓNOS) on the head. 3. In connexion
(Imago Imperii) compiled of the Actes and Sen- with this statue, there stood in the hypaethrum,
tences notable of the most noble emperor Alex- before the visit of Pausanias to the temple, statues
ander Severus, translated from the Greek of Eur of the Graces and Ilours, in white marble, also by
colpius (Encolpius) into English," Lond. 1540, Endocus. 4. A statue of Athena Alea, in her
1541, 1544, 1549, 4to. , 1556, 1594, 8vo. , is a fa- temple at Tegea, made entirely of ivory, which
brication.
[W. R. ] was transported to Rome by Augustus, and set up
ENDE'IS ('Evanís), a daughter of Chiron, who in the entrance of his forum. (Paus. i. 26. & 5;
was married to Aeacus, by whom she became the vii. 5. § 4; viii. 46. § 2; Athenag. Legat. pro
mother of Peleus and Teinmon. (A pollod. iii. 12. Christ. p. 293, a. )
(P. S. ]
$ 6. ) Pausanias (ii. 29. $ 7) calls her a daughter ENDY'MION ('Evd vulwv), a youth distin-
of Sciron.
(L. S. ) guished for his beauty, and renowned in ancient
E'NDIUS (“Ev&los), of Sparta, son of Alcibiades, story by the perpetual sleep in which he spent his
member of a family whose connexion with that of life. Some traditions about Endymion refer us to
the Athenian Alcibiades had in a previous generation Elis, and others to Caria, and others again are a
introduced into the latter this Lacedaemonian name. combination of the two. According to the first set
It is he apparently who was one of the three am- of legends, he was a son of Aëthlius and Calyce, or
bassadors sent by Sparta in 420 B. c. to dissuade of Zeus and Calyce, and succeeded Aëthlius in the
Athens from the Argive alliance. They were kingdom of Elis. (Paus. v. 1. ♡ 2. ) Others again
chosen, says Thucydides, from the belief of their say that he expelled Clymenus from the kingdom of
being acceptable to the Athenians, and possibly in Elis, and introduced into the country Aeolian set-
particular with a view to conciliate his guest, Alci- tlers from Thessaly. (Apollod. i. 7. § 5, &c. ;
biades, who probably made use of this rery advan- Paus. v. 8. $ 1. ) Conon (Narrat. 14) calls him a
tage in effecting the deception by which he de- son of Zeus and Protogeneia, and Hyginus (Fab.
feated their purpose. He was elected ephor in ene 271) a son of Aetolus. He is said to hare been
autumn of 413, the time of the Atheniar disaster married to Asterodia, Chromia, Hyperippe, Neïs,
at Syracuse, and through him Alcibiades, now in or Iphianassa ; and Aetolus, Paeon, Epeius. Eury.
exile, inflicted on his country the severe blow of dice, and Naxus are called his children. He was,
bringing the Lacedaemonians to the coast of Ionia, however, especially beloved by Selene, by whom
which otherwise would at any rate have been post- he had fifty daughters. (Paus. v. 1. Ø 2. ) He
poned. His influence decided the government to caused his sons to engage in the race-course at
lend its first succour to Chios; and when the Olympin, and promised to the victor the succession
blockade of their ships in Peiraeeus seemed likely in his kingdom, and Epeius conquered his brothers,
to put a stop to all operations, he again persuaded and succeeded Endymion as king of Elis. He was
Endius and his colleagues to make the attempt. believed to be buried at Olympia, which also con-
Thucydides says, that Alcibiades was his atpikos tained a statne of his in the treasury of the Meta-
és td uátota févos; so that probably it was with pontians. (Paus. vi. 19. 8, 20. 6. ) According
him that Alcibiades resided during his stay at to a tradition, believed at Heracleia in Caria, En-
Sparta (Thục. v. 44, viii. 6, 12. ) To these dymion had come from Elis to mount Latmus in
facts we may venture to add from Diodorus (xiii. Caria, whence he is called the Latmian (Latmius;
52, 53) the further statement, that after the defeat Paus. v. 1. 64; 0v. Ars Am. iii. 83, Trist. ii.
at Cyzicus, B. C. 410, he was sent from Sparta at 299). He is described by the poets either as a
the head of an embassy to Athens with proposals king, a shepherd, or a hunter (Theocrit. iii. 49,
for
peace of the fairest character, which were, how- xx. 37 with the Scholiast), and while he was slum-
ever, through the influence of the presumptuous bering in a care of mount Latmus, Selene came
demagogue Cleophon, rejected. Endius, as the down to him, kissed, and lay by his side. (Comp.
friend of Alcibiades, the victor of Cyzicus, would A pollon. Rhod. iv. 57. ) There also he had, in
naturally be selected ; and the account of Diodo- later times, a sanctuary, and his tomb was shewn
rus, with the exception of course of the oration he in a cave of mount Latmus. (Paus. v. I. $ 4;
writes for Endins, may, notwithstanding the Strab. xiv. p. 636. ) His eternal sleep on Latmus
silence of Xenophon, be received as true in the is assigned to different causes in ancient story.
[A. H. C. ) Some said that Zeus had granted him a request,
ENDOEUS (“Evôolos), an Athenian statuary, and that Endymion begged for immortality, eter.
is called a disciple of Daedalus, whom he is said to nal sleep, and everlasting south (Apollod. i. 7.
have accompanied when he fled to Crete. This $ 5. ); others relate that he was received among
statement must be taken to express, not the time the gods of Olympus, but as he there fell in love
at which he lived, but the style of art which he with Hera, Zeus, in his anger, punished him by
practised. It is probable that he lived at the same throwing him into eternal sleep on mount Latmus
period as Dipoenus and Scyllis, who are in the ' (Schol. ad Theocrit. iii. 49. ) Others, lastly, strto
same way called disciples of Daedalus, namely, in ; that Selene, charmed with his surpassing beauty,
main.
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sent him to sleep, that she might be able to kiss cnemy to the Muscs, and subsequently, when
him without being observed by him. (Cic. Tuscul. Censor, dedicated a joint temple to Hercules and
i. 38. ) The stories of the fair sleeper, Endymion, the Nine. Through the son of Nobilior, Ennius,
the darling of Selenc, are unquestionably poctical when far advanced in life, obtained the rights of a
fictions, in which sleep is personified. llis name citizen, a privilege which at that epoch was
and all his attributes confirin this opinion : Endy- guarded with watchful jealousy, and very rarely
mion significs a being that gently comes over one ; / granted to an alien. From the period, however,
he is called a king, because he has power over all when he quitted Sardinia, he secins to have made
living creatures ; a shepherd, because he slumbered Rome his chief abode ; for there his great poetical
in the cool caves of mount Latmus, that is, " thic talents, and an amount of learning which must
mount of oblivion. " Nothing can be more bcau- have been considered marvellous in those days,
tiful, lastly, than the notion, that he is kissed by since he was master of three languages,—Oscin,
the soft rays of the moon. (Comp. Plat. l'hacd. p. | Latin, and Greek,-gained for him the respect
72. b; Ov. Am. i. 13. 43. ) There is a beautiful and favour of all who valued such attainments ;
statue of a sleeping Endymion in the British and, in particular, he lived upon terms of the
Muscum.
(L. S. ) closest intimacy with the conqueror of Jlannibal
ENIPEUS ("Eviteus), a river. god in Thessaly, and other members of that distinguished family.
who was beloved by Tyro, the daughter of Salmo- | Dwelling in a humble mansion on the Aventinic,
Poseidon, who was in love with her, attended by a single female slave, he maintained
assumed the appearance of Enipeus, and thus himself in honourable poverty by acting as a pro-
visited her, and she became by him the mother of ceptor to patrician youths ; and having lived on
twins, Pelias and Neleus. (Apollod. i. 9. 8. ) happily to a good agc, was carried off by a disease
Ovid (Met. vi. 116) relates that Poscidon, having of the joints, probably gout, when seventy years
assumed the form of Enipeus, begot by Iphimedeia old, soon after the completion of his great under-
two sons, Otus and Ephialtes. Another river-god taking, which he closes by comparing himself to a
of the same name occurs in Elis, who is likewise race-horse, in these prophetic lines :-
connected with the legend about Tyro. (Strab. viii. Like some brave steed, who in his latest race
p. 356. )
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