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Charles - 1867 - Classical Dictionary
For everything in nature hav-
ing injurious as well as beneficial effects, the bounte-
ous earth itself becomes grim, as it were, and displeased
with mankind, and this is Ceres-Erinnys. In the Ar-
cadian legends of this goddess, and in the concluding
choruses of the Eumenidesof /Eschylus, maybe dis-
cerned ideas of this nature. (Midler, Eumen , p 191,
? eqq. --Ketght ley's Mythology, p. 196, seq. )
Eripbyle, a sister of Adrastus, kir. g of Argos, who
married Amphiaraus. She was daughter of Talaus and
Lysimachc. (For an account of the legend connected
with her name, consult the article Amphiaraus. )
Eris, the Greek name for the goddess of Discord.
'Vid Di scordia. )
Eri<<ichthon, a Thessalian, son of Triops, who de-
iided Ceres, and cut down her sacred grove. This
impiety irritated the goddess, who afflicted him with
continual hunger. This infliction gave occasion for
the exercise of the filial piety and power of self-trans-
formation of the daughter of Erisichthon, who, by her
assuming various forms, enabled her father to sell her
over and over again, and thus obtain the means of liv-
ing after all his property was gone. (Nicander, ap.
Anion. Lib. , 17. ) He was driven at last by hunger lo
feed on his own limbs. {Odd, Met. , 8, 733, seqq. --
Tzetz. ad Lycophr. , 1393. --Compare the account of
Callimachus, H. in Cer. , 32, teqq. )--This legend ad-
mits of a very simple explanation. Erisichthon is a
name akin to Erusibe (epvaiSq) or "mildew;" and
Hellanicus (ap. Athen , 10, p. 416) said that he was
also called JElhon (AiOuv) or " burning," from his in-
satiate hunger. The destructive mildew is therefore
the enemy of Ceres, to whom, under jhe title of Ery-
iib,a, the Rhodians prayed to avert it. {Midler, Pro-
legom. , 162. --Keighlley's Mythology, p. 177. )
Eaos, the god of Love, the same with the Cupido
of the Latins. This deity is unnoticed by Homer. In
the Theogony (v. 120) he is one of the first of beings,
md produced without parents. In the Orphic hymns
ne is the son of Kronos. (Schol. ad Apoll. Rhod. , 3,
26. ) Sappho made him the offspring of Heaven and
Earth (Id. ib. ), while Simonides assigned him Venus
and Mars for parents. (Id. ib) In Olen's hymn to
Ilithyia (Pwisan. , 9, 27, 2), this goddess was termed
the mother of Love; and Alcsnis said, that "well-
sandaled Iris bore Love to Zephyrus of golden locks"
(ap. Plut:. , Amat. , 20). --The cosmogonic Eros of
Hesiod is apparently a personification of the principle
of attraction, on which the coherence of the material
world depends. Nothing was more natural than to
term Venus the mother of Love; but the reason for so
calling Ilithyia, the goddess who presides over child-
birth, is not equally apparent: it was possibly meant
to express the increase of conjugal affection produced
by the birth of children. The making Love the off-
spring of the Westwind and the Rainbow would seem
to be only a poetic mode of expressing the well-known
fact, that the Spring, the season in which they'most
prevail, is also that of Love. (Thcognis, 1275. ) In
the bucolic and some of the Latin poets, the Loves
are spoken of in the plural number, but no distinct
offices are assigned them. (Thcocnt , 7, 96. --2? ion,
1, passim. --Horat. , Od. , 1,19, 1. )--Thespis in Bceo-
na B4S the place in which Eros was most worshipped.
The Thespians used to celebrate games in his honour
? ? on Mount Helicon. These were called Erotia. Eros
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M:n. ,ed. Hudson. --Clcsias, cd. Bahr,p. 359. --Cut-
tius, 8, 9, 14. ) Afterward, when the Greeks learned
die existence of an Indian Ocean, the term Erythraean
Sea waa applied merely to the sea below Arabia, and
to the Arabian and Persian Gulfs. In this latter sense
Strabo uses the name. Herodotus follows the old ac-
ceptation of the word, according to the opinion prev-
alent in his age. The appellation was probably de-
rived from Edom (Esau), whose descendants were
oil id Idumaeans, and inhabited the northern parts of
Arabia. (Wahl, Alien, p. 316. ) They navigated
upon the Red Sea and Persian Gulf, and also upon the
Indian Ocean; and the Oriental name Idumcean signi-
fying red, the sea of the Idumaeans was called the Red
Sea and the Erylhnean Sea ('Epvdpu da/. aana). Vid.
Arabicus Sinus. (Curtius, 8, 9. --Plin. , 6, 23. --He-
rodot. , 1, 180, 189; 3, 93; 4, 37. --Mela, 3, 8. )
Ekyz, I. a son of Mules and Venus, who, relying
upon his strength, challenged all strangers to fight with
him in the combat of the cestus. Hercules accepted
his challenge after many had yielded to his superior
dexterity, and Eryx was killed in the combat, and
buried on the mountain. where he had built a temple
to Venus* (Virg. , Mn. , 5, 402. )--II. A mountain
of Sicily, at the western extremity of the island, and
near the city of Drepanum. It was fabled to have re-
ceived its name from Eryx, who was buried there. On
its summit stood a famous temple of Venus Erycina
{vid. Erycina), and on the western declivity was situ-
ated the town of Eryx, the approach to which from the
plain was rocky and difficult. At the distance of 30
stadia stood the harbour of the same name. (Polyb. ,
I, 55--Diod. , 24. , l. --Cie. in Ver. , 2, 8. ) The
Phoenicians most probably were the founders of the
place, and also of the temple; ant the Erycinian Ve-
nus appears to be identified with h* Astarte of the
latter people. (Compare Diod. , 4, *4. ) The r. ati-e
inhabitants in this quarter were callcu Elymi, and Eryx
is said by some to have been th"*' king. (Diod,, 4,
? 3. --Virg. , Mn. , 5, 7S9. --Ueync, Excurs. 2, ad Mn. ,
b--ApoUod. , 1, 9. --Id. , 2, b. --Hygin. , fab. , 260. )
Virgil makes . iEncas to have founded the temple: in
. his, however, he is contradicted by other authorities.
? Eneas, in fact, never was in Sicily, and therefore
the whole is a mere fable. The town was destroyed
by the Carthaginians in the time of Pyrrhus, who a
Bhort time previous had taken it by storm, and the in-
habitants were removed to Drepanum. (Diod. , 22,14.
--Id. , 23, 9. ) It soon, however, revived, owing to
the celebrity of the adjacent temple. In the first Pu-
nic war it fell into the hands of the Romans (Polyb. ,
1, 58. --Id. , 2, 7), but was surprised by Boreas, the
Carthaginian commander, and the inhabitants who es-
caped the slaughter were again removed to Drepanum.
(Until , 24, 2. ) The place never recovered from this
blow: the sanctity of the temple drew, indeed, new
inhabitants around, but the city was never rebuilt.
No traces of the temple remain at the present day.
On the summit of the mountain, now called St. Giuli-
ano, is an ancient castle, supposed to have been erect-
ed by the Saracens. (Mannert, Geogr. , vol. 9, pt. 2,
p. 383, seqq. ) Y
Esquili-* and Esquilikos Mons, one of the seven
hills of Rome, added to -he city by Servius Tullius,
who enclosed the greater part of it within the circuit
of his walls, and built his palace upon it, which he
continued to inhabit till the day of his death. We are
informed by Varro (L. L. , i, 8), that the Esquiline de-
? ? rived its name from the Latin word excullas; in proof
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E t/B
tilled dv Mcgareus, tne son of Creon, under the walls
>> Thebes. (Apcllod , 3, 6. )
Etesi^ ('Er>7<Ti'oi), winds blowing every year (iVoc)
at a stated period, over the . ? gean Sea. They came
from the north, and are hence sometimes called 'Krj-
<no* Booiai. The Etesian winds prevailed for forty
days after the setting of the Dog-star. Arrian speaks
? jf Etesian winds in the Indian Ocean, blowing from
the south, by which he evidently means the monsoons.
(Aman, Exp. Altx. , 6, 81. --Indie, 21. )
Etrvria. Vid. Hetruria.
Etadrb, a daughter of Iphis or Iphicles of Argos,
who slighted the addresses of Apollo, and married Ca-
paneus, one of the seven chiefs who went against
Thebes. When her husband had been struck with
thunder by Jupiter for his blasphemies and impiety,
and his ashes had been separated from those of the rest
of the Argives, she threw herself on his burning pile,
and perished in the flames. (Virg. , Mn. , 6, 447. --
Propert. , 1, 15, 21-- Stat. , Theb. , 12, 800 )
Evagoras, I. a king of Salamis in the island of Cy-
prus, and a descendant of Teucer son of Telamon, the
founder of that city.
When Evagoras saw the light,
'. he throne of Salamis was occupied by a Phoenician
ruler, who had obtained it by treachery. This Phoeni-
cian was afterward slain by one of the leading chief-
tains of the country, who thereupon usurped the su-
preme power, and endeavoured to seize Evagoras,
whose right to the throne was an obstacle in the way of
his ambition. Evagoras fled to Soli in Cilicia, assem-
bled there a small band of followers, returned to Cy-
prus, and, deposing the tyrant, mounted the throne of
bis ancestors. All this took place while the enfeebled
empire of Persia was scarcely able to withstand the
attacks of the victorious Greeks prior to the Pelopon-
nesian war, and had therefore no time to attend to the
affairs of Cyprus. Evagoras showed himself a wise
and politic prince, and raised the gliry of his native
island to a much higher pitch than i' nad ever attained
belore He became the patron also of arts and litera-
ture, and entertained at his court distinguished men of
all nations. It was in his dominions that Conon, the
Athenian general, sought refuge after ihe fatal battle
of ^Egos Potamos, and by his aid was enabled to pre-
pare a fleet, which restored the naval ascendancy of
his country. (Isocr. , Evag. , p. 200. --Xm. , Hist.
Gr. ,2, 1, 19-- Corn. Nep. , Vie. Con. -- Diod. Sic,
14, 39. ) Judging from the splendid panegyric passed
upon his character by Isocrates, Evagoras was cer-
tainly a prince of rare and distinguished virtue and
merit; and his fortune for a time kept pace with his
shining qualities. Unfortunately however, he met with
reverses towards the close of his reign. Artaxerxes
Mnemon attacked his power, after the peace of Antal-
cidas had left the Asiatic Greeks at the mercy of the
Persian king. Evagoras was aided in his resistance
to the Persian arms by Amasis of Egypt, and also se-
cretly by the Athenians; but his efforts were unsuc-
cessful, and he saw himself eventually compelled to
renounce his authority over the other cities of Cyprus,
and confine himself to Salamis, paying besides an annual
tribute to Persia. He was assassinated by a eunuch,
B. C. 374. His son Nicocles succeeded him. (Diod.
Sic. , 15, 2, seqq. ) II. Grandson of the preceding.
Being deprived of hie possessions by his uncle Prota-
goras, he fled to Artaxerxes Ochus, by whose order he
was put to death.
? ? Evander, a son of the prophetess Carmenta, and
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COC
nad unguardec y cemented tliat. impolilic union. This
was peculiarly the case with the Euboean cities, since
we learn from Thucydidca (1, 114), that the whole isl-
and acknowledged the supremacy and sway of Athens
prior to the Peloponnesian war; but neither that his-
torian nor Herodotus has informed us precis"'" "hen,
and in what manner, their subjugation was effected.
On ike Athenians being compelled, after their defeat at
Coionea, to evacuate Bceotia, of which they had been
for some time masters, the Eubceans took advantage
of that circumstance to attempt emancipating them-
selves from a foreign yoke. But success did not at-
tend their efforts. As soon as the news of the revolt
had reached Athens, Pericles was despatched at the
head of a considerable force to quell the insurrection,
? n which he succeeded so effectually, notwithstanding
? he frequent diversions made by the Peloponnesians in
favour of the islanders, that they were reduced to a
more abject stale of subjection than ever (Thucyd. , 1,
114); and it was not till the unfortunate Sicilian ex-
pedition had compelled Athens to light for existence
rather than conquest, that the Eubceans ventured once
more to assert their right to independence (Thucyd. ,
8, 6); but such was the want of zeal and energy dis-
played by the Lacedaemonian government, that they
obtained no aid from that quarter until nearly the ter-
mination of the twenty-first year of the war, when at
length Hegesandridas, a Spartan admiral, came to their
support, and gained a victory over the Athenian licet;
the Eretrians then openly revolted, and their example
being quickly followed by the other towns, the whole
of Eubcea recovered its independence. This island,
however, derived but little advantage from the change
which then took place. Each city, being left to its
own direction, soon became a prey to faction and civil
broil, which ended ? >>? a more complete alavcry under
the dominion of t> rarns. Towards the commence
ment of the war between the BceoLiaus and Spartans,
we are told by Diodorus (15, 30), that the Eubceans
manifested a desire to p. ace themselves once more
under the protection of Athens. Another party, how-
ever, having declared in favour of the Thebans, a civil
war ensued, which equally exhausted both factions,
and forced them to make peace (16, 7). By the abil-
ity and judgment of Timothcus, the Athenian general,
a preponderance of opinion was decidedly created in
favour of that state (Dcmoslh. , de Cor. , p. 108. --
? sch. contr. Ctcs. , p. 479. -- Mitford's Greece, vol.
7, p. 384), which continued until overthrown by the
arts and machinations of Philip. Phocion was em-
powered by the Macedonian government to take all
the requisite measures for restoring tranquillity, and
he obtained some important successes over the Eubce-
un forces; but it does not appear that much advan-
tage was ultimately derived from his victory. After
litis period Eubcea became attached to the Macedonian
interests, until it was once more restored to freedom
by the Romans, who wrested it from Philip, the son of
Demetrius. (Lis. , 34, 51. )--This island, according
to Strabo (444), extends from the Maliac Gulf along
the coast of Locris, Bceotia, and Attica, a distance of
about one thousand two hundred stadia; its greatest
breadth nowhere exceeds one hundred and fifty stadia.
(Compare Scylax, p. 23. ) "Torn from the coast of
Boeo ia," says Pliny, ? ' it is separated by the Euripus,
the breadth of which is so insignificant as to aiiow a
bridge to be thrown across. Of its two southern prom-
? ? ontories, Geraestus looks towards Attica, Capharcus
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EUD
Baric, or Eristic sect. Endowed by nature with ?
subtle and penetrating genius, he early applied nim-
self to the study of philosophy. The writings of Par-
menides first taught him the art of disputation. Hear-
ing of the fame of Socrates, Euclid determined to at-
tend upon his instructions, and for this purpose remo-
ved from Megara to Athens. Here he "ong remained a
constant hearer and zealous disciple ol the moral phi-
losopher. And when, in consequence of the enmity
whi;h subsisted between the Athenians and Megarc-
ans, a deciee nis passed by the former, that any inhab-
itant of Megara who should be ? ? en in Athens should
forfeit his life, he frequently came to Athens by night,
from the distance of about tvroul) miles, concealed in
a long female cloak and veil, to \ isi> his master. (Aul.
Gell. , 6, 10. ) Not finding his >. aUral propensity to
disputation sufficiently gratified in the tranquil method
of philosophizing adopted by Socrates, he frequently
engaged in the business and disputes of the civil
courts. Socrates, who despised forensic contests, ex-
pressed some dissatisfaction with his pupil for indul-
ging a fondness for controversy. {Diog. Laert. , 2,30. )
This circumstance probably proved the occasion of a
separation between Euclid and his master; for we find
him, after this time, at the head of a school in Megara
(Diog. Laert. ,3, 6), in which his chief employment was
to teach the art of disputation. Debates were con-
ducted with so much vehemence among his pupils, that
Timon said of Euclid, that he had carried the madness
of contention from Athens to Megara. (Diog. Locrt. ,
6,22. ) That he was, however, capable of commanding
iiis temper, appears from his reply to his brother, who,
>n a quarrel, had said, "Let me perish if I be not re-
venged on you:" "and let me perish," returned Euclid,
"it I do not subdue your resentment by forbearance,
snd make you love me as much as ever. "--In dispu-
tation, Euclid was averse to the analogical method of
reasoning, and judged that legitimate argumentation
consists in deducing fair conclusions from acknowledg-
ed premises. He held that there is one supreme
E>>od, which he called by the different names of Intel-
ligence, Providence, God; and that evil, considered as
an opposite principle to the sovereign good, has no ex-
istence. The supreme good, according to Cicero, he
denned to be, that which is always the same. In this
doctrine, in which he followed the subtlety of Parmen-
ides rather than the simplicity of Socrates, he seems to
hive considered good abstractedly as residing in the
Deity; and to have maintained, that all things which
eiist are good by their participation of the first good,
and, consequently, that there is, in the nature of things,
no real evil. --It is said, that when Euclid was asked
his opinion concerning the gods, he replied, "I know
nothing more of them than this, that they hate inquis-
itive persons. " If this apophthegm be justly ascribed to
Euclid, it may serve to prove, either that he had learn-
ed, from the precepts of Socrates, to think soberly and
respectfully concerning the Divine Nature, or that the
late of that good man had taught him caution in de-
claring his opinions. {Enfield's History of Philoxo-
Bsy, vol. I, p. 193, seqq. )--II. A celebrated mathe-
matician of Alexandres, considered by some to have
been a native of that city, though the more received
opinion makes the place of his birth to havo been un-
tiwvm. He flourished B. C. 280, in the reign of Ptol-
*my Lagus. and was professor of mathematics in the
capital of Egypt. His scholars were numerous, and
? ? imor. ir -'. em was Ptolemy himself. It is related, that
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poem on tne martyrdom of Cyprian The best edition
of the Homeroccntra is that of Teucher, Lips. , 1798,
*vo --II. The Younger, daughter of the preceding and
of Theodoaius II. , married Valentinian III. After the
assassination of her husband by Petronius Maximus,
she was obliged to marry the usurper. Eudocia, out
of indignation and revenge, called in Gcnseric, king of
the Vandals, who came to Italy, plundered Home, and
carried Eudocia with him to Africa. Some years af-
terward she was sent back to Constantinople, where
? he died, A. D. 462. --III. The widow of Constantine
Ducas, married Romanus Diogenes, an officer of dis-
tinction, A D. 1068, and associated him with her on
the thr:ne. Three years after, Michael, her son, by
means of a revolt, was proclaimed emperor, and caused
his mother to be shut up in a convent, where she spent
the rest of her life. She left a treatise on the gcreal-
ogies of the gods and heroes, which displays an ex-
-ensive acquaintance with the subject. It is printed
in Villoison's Anecdota Graca, Venct. , 1781, 2 vols.
4lo.
Eudoxus, I. a celebrated astronomer and geometri-
cian, born at Cnidus, who flourished about 370 B. C.
He studied geometry under Archytas, and afterward,
in the course of his travels, went to Egypt, and was in-
troduced to the notice of Nectancbis II. , and by him to
the Egyptian priests. He is highly celebrated for his
skill in astronomy by the ancients, though none of his
writings on this or any other branch of science are ex-
tant. The honour of bringing the celestial sphere and
the regular astronomy from Egypt to Greece, belongs
to him. After his return from Egypt, he taught astron-
omy and philosophy with great applause at Cyzicus,
and afterward removed to Athens, where he opened a
school, and was in such high repute as to be consulted
on subjects of policy as well as science by deputies
from all parts of Greece. Eudoxus is said, in fact, to
have supported his school with so much reputation as to
have excited the envy of even Plato himself. Proclus
informs us, that Euclid very liberally borrowed from
the elements of geometry composed by Eudoxus. Ci-
cero calls htm the greatest astronomer that ever lived;
and we learn from Petronius, that he retired to the top
of a very high mountain, that he might observe the ce-
lestial phenomena with more convenience than he
could on a plain or in a crowded city. Strabo says,
that the observatory of Eudoxus was at Cnidus. Vi-
truvius describes a sundial constructed by him. (Diog.
Laerl, 8, 86, seqq. --Cic, de Div. , 2, 42. --Petron. ,
Arb. , 88, 4. --Strab. . \19. --Vitruv. , 9, 9. ) He died
B. C. 352. His works are lost, but they served as ma-
terials to Aratus for the composition of his poem enti-
tled the Phenomena. (Sckoll, Hut. Lit. Gr. , vol. 3,
p. 8. )--II. A native of Cyzicus, sent by Ptolemy VII. ,
Euergeles, on a voyage to India, and, some years af-
ter, on a second voyage by Cleopatra, widow of that
prince. It appears that he subsequently attempted the
circumnavigation of Africa. (For an account of his
movements, consult remarks under the article Africa,
page 79, col.
ing injurious as well as beneficial effects, the bounte-
ous earth itself becomes grim, as it were, and displeased
with mankind, and this is Ceres-Erinnys. In the Ar-
cadian legends of this goddess, and in the concluding
choruses of the Eumenidesof /Eschylus, maybe dis-
cerned ideas of this nature. (Midler, Eumen , p 191,
? eqq. --Ketght ley's Mythology, p. 196, seq. )
Eripbyle, a sister of Adrastus, kir. g of Argos, who
married Amphiaraus. She was daughter of Talaus and
Lysimachc. (For an account of the legend connected
with her name, consult the article Amphiaraus. )
Eris, the Greek name for the goddess of Discord.
'Vid Di scordia. )
Eri<<ichthon, a Thessalian, son of Triops, who de-
iided Ceres, and cut down her sacred grove. This
impiety irritated the goddess, who afflicted him with
continual hunger. This infliction gave occasion for
the exercise of the filial piety and power of self-trans-
formation of the daughter of Erisichthon, who, by her
assuming various forms, enabled her father to sell her
over and over again, and thus obtain the means of liv-
ing after all his property was gone. (Nicander, ap.
Anion. Lib. , 17. ) He was driven at last by hunger lo
feed on his own limbs. {Odd, Met. , 8, 733, seqq. --
Tzetz. ad Lycophr. , 1393. --Compare the account of
Callimachus, H. in Cer. , 32, teqq. )--This legend ad-
mits of a very simple explanation. Erisichthon is a
name akin to Erusibe (epvaiSq) or "mildew;" and
Hellanicus (ap. Athen , 10, p. 416) said that he was
also called JElhon (AiOuv) or " burning," from his in-
satiate hunger. The destructive mildew is therefore
the enemy of Ceres, to whom, under jhe title of Ery-
iib,a, the Rhodians prayed to avert it. {Midler, Pro-
legom. , 162. --Keighlley's Mythology, p. 177. )
Eaos, the god of Love, the same with the Cupido
of the Latins. This deity is unnoticed by Homer. In
the Theogony (v. 120) he is one of the first of beings,
md produced without parents. In the Orphic hymns
ne is the son of Kronos. (Schol. ad Apoll. Rhod. , 3,
26. ) Sappho made him the offspring of Heaven and
Earth (Id. ib. ), while Simonides assigned him Venus
and Mars for parents. (Id. ib) In Olen's hymn to
Ilithyia (Pwisan. , 9, 27, 2), this goddess was termed
the mother of Love; and Alcsnis said, that "well-
sandaled Iris bore Love to Zephyrus of golden locks"
(ap. Plut:. , Amat. , 20). --The cosmogonic Eros of
Hesiod is apparently a personification of the principle
of attraction, on which the coherence of the material
world depends. Nothing was more natural than to
term Venus the mother of Love; but the reason for so
calling Ilithyia, the goddess who presides over child-
birth, is not equally apparent: it was possibly meant
to express the increase of conjugal affection produced
by the birth of children. The making Love the off-
spring of the Westwind and the Rainbow would seem
to be only a poetic mode of expressing the well-known
fact, that the Spring, the season in which they'most
prevail, is also that of Love. (Thcognis, 1275. ) In
the bucolic and some of the Latin poets, the Loves
are spoken of in the plural number, but no distinct
offices are assigned them. (Thcocnt , 7, 96. --2? ion,
1, passim. --Horat. , Od. , 1,19, 1. )--Thespis in Bceo-
na B4S the place in which Eros was most worshipped.
The Thespians used to celebrate games in his honour
? ? on Mount Helicon. These were called Erotia. Eros
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M:n. ,ed. Hudson. --Clcsias, cd. Bahr,p. 359. --Cut-
tius, 8, 9, 14. ) Afterward, when the Greeks learned
die existence of an Indian Ocean, the term Erythraean
Sea waa applied merely to the sea below Arabia, and
to the Arabian and Persian Gulfs. In this latter sense
Strabo uses the name. Herodotus follows the old ac-
ceptation of the word, according to the opinion prev-
alent in his age. The appellation was probably de-
rived from Edom (Esau), whose descendants were
oil id Idumaeans, and inhabited the northern parts of
Arabia. (Wahl, Alien, p. 316. ) They navigated
upon the Red Sea and Persian Gulf, and also upon the
Indian Ocean; and the Oriental name Idumcean signi-
fying red, the sea of the Idumaeans was called the Red
Sea and the Erylhnean Sea ('Epvdpu da/. aana). Vid.
Arabicus Sinus. (Curtius, 8, 9. --Plin. , 6, 23. --He-
rodot. , 1, 180, 189; 3, 93; 4, 37. --Mela, 3, 8. )
Ekyz, I. a son of Mules and Venus, who, relying
upon his strength, challenged all strangers to fight with
him in the combat of the cestus. Hercules accepted
his challenge after many had yielded to his superior
dexterity, and Eryx was killed in the combat, and
buried on the mountain. where he had built a temple
to Venus* (Virg. , Mn. , 5, 402. )--II. A mountain
of Sicily, at the western extremity of the island, and
near the city of Drepanum. It was fabled to have re-
ceived its name from Eryx, who was buried there. On
its summit stood a famous temple of Venus Erycina
{vid. Erycina), and on the western declivity was situ-
ated the town of Eryx, the approach to which from the
plain was rocky and difficult. At the distance of 30
stadia stood the harbour of the same name. (Polyb. ,
I, 55--Diod. , 24. , l. --Cie. in Ver. , 2, 8. ) The
Phoenicians most probably were the founders of the
place, and also of the temple; ant the Erycinian Ve-
nus appears to be identified with h* Astarte of the
latter people. (Compare Diod. , 4, *4. ) The r. ati-e
inhabitants in this quarter were callcu Elymi, and Eryx
is said by some to have been th"*' king. (Diod,, 4,
? 3. --Virg. , Mn. , 5, 7S9. --Ueync, Excurs. 2, ad Mn. ,
b--ApoUod. , 1, 9. --Id. , 2, b. --Hygin. , fab. , 260. )
Virgil makes . iEncas to have founded the temple: in
. his, however, he is contradicted by other authorities.
? Eneas, in fact, never was in Sicily, and therefore
the whole is a mere fable. The town was destroyed
by the Carthaginians in the time of Pyrrhus, who a
Bhort time previous had taken it by storm, and the in-
habitants were removed to Drepanum. (Diod. , 22,14.
--Id. , 23, 9. ) It soon, however, revived, owing to
the celebrity of the adjacent temple. In the first Pu-
nic war it fell into the hands of the Romans (Polyb. ,
1, 58. --Id. , 2, 7), but was surprised by Boreas, the
Carthaginian commander, and the inhabitants who es-
caped the slaughter were again removed to Drepanum.
(Until , 24, 2. ) The place never recovered from this
blow: the sanctity of the temple drew, indeed, new
inhabitants around, but the city was never rebuilt.
No traces of the temple remain at the present day.
On the summit of the mountain, now called St. Giuli-
ano, is an ancient castle, supposed to have been erect-
ed by the Saracens. (Mannert, Geogr. , vol. 9, pt. 2,
p. 383, seqq. ) Y
Esquili-* and Esquilikos Mons, one of the seven
hills of Rome, added to -he city by Servius Tullius,
who enclosed the greater part of it within the circuit
of his walls, and built his palace upon it, which he
continued to inhabit till the day of his death. We are
informed by Varro (L. L. , i, 8), that the Esquiline de-
? ? rived its name from the Latin word excullas; in proof
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E t/B
tilled dv Mcgareus, tne son of Creon, under the walls
>> Thebes. (Apcllod , 3, 6. )
Etesi^ ('Er>7<Ti'oi), winds blowing every year (iVoc)
at a stated period, over the . ? gean Sea. They came
from the north, and are hence sometimes called 'Krj-
<no* Booiai. The Etesian winds prevailed for forty
days after the setting of the Dog-star. Arrian speaks
? jf Etesian winds in the Indian Ocean, blowing from
the south, by which he evidently means the monsoons.
(Aman, Exp. Altx. , 6, 81. --Indie, 21. )
Etrvria. Vid. Hetruria.
Etadrb, a daughter of Iphis or Iphicles of Argos,
who slighted the addresses of Apollo, and married Ca-
paneus, one of the seven chiefs who went against
Thebes. When her husband had been struck with
thunder by Jupiter for his blasphemies and impiety,
and his ashes had been separated from those of the rest
of the Argives, she threw herself on his burning pile,
and perished in the flames. (Virg. , Mn. , 6, 447. --
Propert. , 1, 15, 21-- Stat. , Theb. , 12, 800 )
Evagoras, I. a king of Salamis in the island of Cy-
prus, and a descendant of Teucer son of Telamon, the
founder of that city.
When Evagoras saw the light,
'. he throne of Salamis was occupied by a Phoenician
ruler, who had obtained it by treachery. This Phoeni-
cian was afterward slain by one of the leading chief-
tains of the country, who thereupon usurped the su-
preme power, and endeavoured to seize Evagoras,
whose right to the throne was an obstacle in the way of
his ambition. Evagoras fled to Soli in Cilicia, assem-
bled there a small band of followers, returned to Cy-
prus, and, deposing the tyrant, mounted the throne of
bis ancestors. All this took place while the enfeebled
empire of Persia was scarcely able to withstand the
attacks of the victorious Greeks prior to the Pelopon-
nesian war, and had therefore no time to attend to the
affairs of Cyprus. Evagoras showed himself a wise
and politic prince, and raised the gliry of his native
island to a much higher pitch than i' nad ever attained
belore He became the patron also of arts and litera-
ture, and entertained at his court distinguished men of
all nations. It was in his dominions that Conon, the
Athenian general, sought refuge after ihe fatal battle
of ^Egos Potamos, and by his aid was enabled to pre-
pare a fleet, which restored the naval ascendancy of
his country. (Isocr. , Evag. , p. 200. --Xm. , Hist.
Gr. ,2, 1, 19-- Corn. Nep. , Vie. Con. -- Diod. Sic,
14, 39. ) Judging from the splendid panegyric passed
upon his character by Isocrates, Evagoras was cer-
tainly a prince of rare and distinguished virtue and
merit; and his fortune for a time kept pace with his
shining qualities. Unfortunately however, he met with
reverses towards the close of his reign. Artaxerxes
Mnemon attacked his power, after the peace of Antal-
cidas had left the Asiatic Greeks at the mercy of the
Persian king. Evagoras was aided in his resistance
to the Persian arms by Amasis of Egypt, and also se-
cretly by the Athenians; but his efforts were unsuc-
cessful, and he saw himself eventually compelled to
renounce his authority over the other cities of Cyprus,
and confine himself to Salamis, paying besides an annual
tribute to Persia. He was assassinated by a eunuch,
B. C. 374. His son Nicocles succeeded him. (Diod.
Sic. , 15, 2, seqq. ) II. Grandson of the preceding.
Being deprived of hie possessions by his uncle Prota-
goras, he fled to Artaxerxes Ochus, by whose order he
was put to death.
? ? Evander, a son of the prophetess Carmenta, and
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COC
nad unguardec y cemented tliat. impolilic union. This
was peculiarly the case with the Euboean cities, since
we learn from Thucydidca (1, 114), that the whole isl-
and acknowledged the supremacy and sway of Athens
prior to the Peloponnesian war; but neither that his-
torian nor Herodotus has informed us precis"'" "hen,
and in what manner, their subjugation was effected.
On ike Athenians being compelled, after their defeat at
Coionea, to evacuate Bceotia, of which they had been
for some time masters, the Eubceans took advantage
of that circumstance to attempt emancipating them-
selves from a foreign yoke. But success did not at-
tend their efforts. As soon as the news of the revolt
had reached Athens, Pericles was despatched at the
head of a considerable force to quell the insurrection,
? n which he succeeded so effectually, notwithstanding
? he frequent diversions made by the Peloponnesians in
favour of the islanders, that they were reduced to a
more abject stale of subjection than ever (Thucyd. , 1,
114); and it was not till the unfortunate Sicilian ex-
pedition had compelled Athens to light for existence
rather than conquest, that the Eubceans ventured once
more to assert their right to independence (Thucyd. ,
8, 6); but such was the want of zeal and energy dis-
played by the Lacedaemonian government, that they
obtained no aid from that quarter until nearly the ter-
mination of the twenty-first year of the war, when at
length Hegesandridas, a Spartan admiral, came to their
support, and gained a victory over the Athenian licet;
the Eretrians then openly revolted, and their example
being quickly followed by the other towns, the whole
of Eubcea recovered its independence. This island,
however, derived but little advantage from the change
which then took place. Each city, being left to its
own direction, soon became a prey to faction and civil
broil, which ended ? >>? a more complete alavcry under
the dominion of t> rarns. Towards the commence
ment of the war between the BceoLiaus and Spartans,
we are told by Diodorus (15, 30), that the Eubceans
manifested a desire to p. ace themselves once more
under the protection of Athens. Another party, how-
ever, having declared in favour of the Thebans, a civil
war ensued, which equally exhausted both factions,
and forced them to make peace (16, 7). By the abil-
ity and judgment of Timothcus, the Athenian general,
a preponderance of opinion was decidedly created in
favour of that state (Dcmoslh. , de Cor. , p. 108. --
? sch. contr. Ctcs. , p. 479. -- Mitford's Greece, vol.
7, p. 384), which continued until overthrown by the
arts and machinations of Philip. Phocion was em-
powered by the Macedonian government to take all
the requisite measures for restoring tranquillity, and
he obtained some important successes over the Eubce-
un forces; but it does not appear that much advan-
tage was ultimately derived from his victory. After
litis period Eubcea became attached to the Macedonian
interests, until it was once more restored to freedom
by the Romans, who wrested it from Philip, the son of
Demetrius. (Lis. , 34, 51. )--This island, according
to Strabo (444), extends from the Maliac Gulf along
the coast of Locris, Bceotia, and Attica, a distance of
about one thousand two hundred stadia; its greatest
breadth nowhere exceeds one hundred and fifty stadia.
(Compare Scylax, p. 23. ) "Torn from the coast of
Boeo ia," says Pliny, ? ' it is separated by the Euripus,
the breadth of which is so insignificant as to aiiow a
bridge to be thrown across. Of its two southern prom-
? ? ontories, Geraestus looks towards Attica, Capharcus
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EUD
Baric, or Eristic sect. Endowed by nature with ?
subtle and penetrating genius, he early applied nim-
self to the study of philosophy. The writings of Par-
menides first taught him the art of disputation. Hear-
ing of the fame of Socrates, Euclid determined to at-
tend upon his instructions, and for this purpose remo-
ved from Megara to Athens. Here he "ong remained a
constant hearer and zealous disciple ol the moral phi-
losopher. And when, in consequence of the enmity
whi;h subsisted between the Athenians and Megarc-
ans, a deciee nis passed by the former, that any inhab-
itant of Megara who should be ? ? en in Athens should
forfeit his life, he frequently came to Athens by night,
from the distance of about tvroul) miles, concealed in
a long female cloak and veil, to \ isi> his master. (Aul.
Gell. , 6, 10. ) Not finding his >. aUral propensity to
disputation sufficiently gratified in the tranquil method
of philosophizing adopted by Socrates, he frequently
engaged in the business and disputes of the civil
courts. Socrates, who despised forensic contests, ex-
pressed some dissatisfaction with his pupil for indul-
ging a fondness for controversy. {Diog. Laert. , 2,30. )
This circumstance probably proved the occasion of a
separation between Euclid and his master; for we find
him, after this time, at the head of a school in Megara
(Diog. Laert. ,3, 6), in which his chief employment was
to teach the art of disputation. Debates were con-
ducted with so much vehemence among his pupils, that
Timon said of Euclid, that he had carried the madness
of contention from Athens to Megara. (Diog. Locrt. ,
6,22. ) That he was, however, capable of commanding
iiis temper, appears from his reply to his brother, who,
>n a quarrel, had said, "Let me perish if I be not re-
venged on you:" "and let me perish," returned Euclid,
"it I do not subdue your resentment by forbearance,
snd make you love me as much as ever. "--In dispu-
tation, Euclid was averse to the analogical method of
reasoning, and judged that legitimate argumentation
consists in deducing fair conclusions from acknowledg-
ed premises. He held that there is one supreme
E>>od, which he called by the different names of Intel-
ligence, Providence, God; and that evil, considered as
an opposite principle to the sovereign good, has no ex-
istence. The supreme good, according to Cicero, he
denned to be, that which is always the same. In this
doctrine, in which he followed the subtlety of Parmen-
ides rather than the simplicity of Socrates, he seems to
hive considered good abstractedly as residing in the
Deity; and to have maintained, that all things which
eiist are good by their participation of the first good,
and, consequently, that there is, in the nature of things,
no real evil. --It is said, that when Euclid was asked
his opinion concerning the gods, he replied, "I know
nothing more of them than this, that they hate inquis-
itive persons. " If this apophthegm be justly ascribed to
Euclid, it may serve to prove, either that he had learn-
ed, from the precepts of Socrates, to think soberly and
respectfully concerning the Divine Nature, or that the
late of that good man had taught him caution in de-
claring his opinions. {Enfield's History of Philoxo-
Bsy, vol. I, p. 193, seqq. )--II. A celebrated mathe-
matician of Alexandres, considered by some to have
been a native of that city, though the more received
opinion makes the place of his birth to havo been un-
tiwvm. He flourished B. C. 280, in the reign of Ptol-
*my Lagus. and was professor of mathematics in the
capital of Egypt. His scholars were numerous, and
? ? imor. ir -'. em was Ptolemy himself. It is related, that
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EUH
poem on tne martyrdom of Cyprian The best edition
of the Homeroccntra is that of Teucher, Lips. , 1798,
*vo --II. The Younger, daughter of the preceding and
of Theodoaius II. , married Valentinian III. After the
assassination of her husband by Petronius Maximus,
she was obliged to marry the usurper. Eudocia, out
of indignation and revenge, called in Gcnseric, king of
the Vandals, who came to Italy, plundered Home, and
carried Eudocia with him to Africa. Some years af-
terward she was sent back to Constantinople, where
? he died, A. D. 462. --III. The widow of Constantine
Ducas, married Romanus Diogenes, an officer of dis-
tinction, A D. 1068, and associated him with her on
the thr:ne. Three years after, Michael, her son, by
means of a revolt, was proclaimed emperor, and caused
his mother to be shut up in a convent, where she spent
the rest of her life. She left a treatise on the gcreal-
ogies of the gods and heroes, which displays an ex-
-ensive acquaintance with the subject. It is printed
in Villoison's Anecdota Graca, Venct. , 1781, 2 vols.
4lo.
Eudoxus, I. a celebrated astronomer and geometri-
cian, born at Cnidus, who flourished about 370 B. C.
He studied geometry under Archytas, and afterward,
in the course of his travels, went to Egypt, and was in-
troduced to the notice of Nectancbis II. , and by him to
the Egyptian priests. He is highly celebrated for his
skill in astronomy by the ancients, though none of his
writings on this or any other branch of science are ex-
tant. The honour of bringing the celestial sphere and
the regular astronomy from Egypt to Greece, belongs
to him. After his return from Egypt, he taught astron-
omy and philosophy with great applause at Cyzicus,
and afterward removed to Athens, where he opened a
school, and was in such high repute as to be consulted
on subjects of policy as well as science by deputies
from all parts of Greece. Eudoxus is said, in fact, to
have supported his school with so much reputation as to
have excited the envy of even Plato himself. Proclus
informs us, that Euclid very liberally borrowed from
the elements of geometry composed by Eudoxus. Ci-
cero calls htm the greatest astronomer that ever lived;
and we learn from Petronius, that he retired to the top
of a very high mountain, that he might observe the ce-
lestial phenomena with more convenience than he
could on a plain or in a crowded city. Strabo says,
that the observatory of Eudoxus was at Cnidus. Vi-
truvius describes a sundial constructed by him. (Diog.
Laerl, 8, 86, seqq. --Cic, de Div. , 2, 42. --Petron. ,
Arb. , 88, 4. --Strab. . \19. --Vitruv. , 9, 9. ) He died
B. C. 352. His works are lost, but they served as ma-
terials to Aratus for the composition of his poem enti-
tled the Phenomena. (Sckoll, Hut. Lit. Gr. , vol. 3,
p. 8. )--II. A native of Cyzicus, sent by Ptolemy VII. ,
Euergeles, on a voyage to India, and, some years af-
ter, on a second voyage by Cleopatra, widow of that
prince. It appears that he subsequently attempted the
circumnavigation of Africa. (For an account of his
movements, consult remarks under the article Africa,
page 79, col.
