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par. i. by five youths of the Nasamones. (C. P. M. )
p. 46, note ; Cotelerius, Ecclesiuc Graecae Monu- ETEMUNDIS, the name prefixed to an epi-
menta, vol. i. p. 445, &c. ; Fabric. Bibl. Graec. , gram of two lines to be found in Burmann, Anthol.
vol. ix. p. 282, vol. xi. p. 395, Bibliotheca Mediae Lat. ii. 283, or n. 547, ed. Meyer, but of whom
et Infimae Latinitatis, vol. ii. p. 109 ; Catalogus nothing is known.
(W. R. )
MSlorum Bibliothecae Regiac, vol. ii. , Paris, 1701. ) ETEOCLES ('Eteokañs. ) 1. A son of Andreus
3. The Persian. The Acta of the Martyrs, and Evippe, or of Cephisus, who was said to have
Saints Jonas and Barachisius in the Acla Sunc- been the first that offered sacrifices to the Charites
torum of the Bollandists, are a version of a Greek at Orchomenos, in Boeotia. (Paus. ix. 34. 9 5, 35.
narrative, then, and probably still, extant in the Li- $ 1; Theocrit. xvi. 104 ; Schol ad Pind. Ol. xiv. );
brary of the Republic of Venice, purporting to be Müller, Orchom. p. 128. )
drawn up by Esaias. the son of Adam, one of the 2. A son of Oedipus and Jocaste. After his
horsemen (“eques,") of Sapor, King of Persia, un- father's flight from Thebes, he and his brother
der whom the martyrs suffered. (acta Sanctorum, Polyneices undertook the government of Thebes
Martii, vol. iii. p. 770, &c. ) (J. C. M. ] by turns. But, in consequence of disputes having
ESQUILI'NUS, a name of several families at arisen between the brothers, Polyneices fled to
Rome, which they obtained from living on the Adrastus, who then brought about the expedition of
Esquiline hill. The name also occurs as an agno- the Seven against Thebes. [ADRASTUS. ) When many
men to distinguish a member or a branch of a par- of the heroes had fallen, Eteocles and Polyneices
ticular family from others of the same name. resolved upon deciding the contest by a single com-
1. An agnomen of P. Licinius Calvus, both bat, but both the brothers fell. (Apollod. iii. 5. $ 8,
father and son. (Calvus, Nos. 1, 2. ]
6. SS 1, 5, &c. ; Paus. ix. 5. Ø 6; comp. Eurip.
2. An agnomen of L. MINUCIUS AUGURINUS Phoen. 67; JOCASTE. )
('L. S. )
and Q. MINUCIUS AUGURINUS, though, according ETEOCLUS ('Etéokłos) a son of Iphis, was,
to the Fasti, Augurinus would be the agnomen and according to some traditions, one of the seven heroes
Esquilinus the cognomen. [AUGURINUS II. , Nos. who went with Adrastus against Thebes. He had
3, 4. )
to make the attack upon the Neïtian gate, where
3. L. or M. Sergius Esquilinus, one of the he was opposed by Megareus. (Aeschyl. Sept. c.
second decemvirate, B. C. 450. (Liv. iii. 35 ; Theb. 444, &c. ; Apollod. iii. 6. § 3. ) He is said to
Dionys. x. 58, xi. 23. )
have won a prize in the foot-race at the Nemean
4. An agnomen of the VIRGINII Tricosti. games, and to have been killed by Leades. (A pol-
Almost all the members of the Virginia gens had lod. iii. 6. 88 4, 8. ) His statue stood at Delphi,
the surname Tricostus, and those who dwelt on the among those of the other Argive heroes. (Paus. x.
Esquiline had the surname Esquilinus, just as 10. § 2 ; Eustath. ad Hom. p. 1042. ) (L. S. )
those living on the Caelian hill had the surname ETEONICUS ('Eteóvikos), a Lacedaemonian,
CaelioMONTANUS. Two members of the gens have who in B. C. 412 was lieutenant under the admiral
the surname Esquilinus, namely, OPITER Virgi- Astyochus, and assisted him in his unsuccessful
NIOS Tricostus ESQUILINUs, who was consul in operations against Lesbos. (Thuc. viii. 23. ) He
B. C. 478, filling the place of C. Servilius Structus was afterwards harmost in Thasos, but in 410,
Ahala, who died in his year of office (Fasti), and together with the Lacedaemonian party, was ex-
his grandson, L. VIRGINIUS TRICOSTUS Esquili- pelled by the Thasians. (Xen. Hell. i. 1. $ 32. )
NUS, consular tribune in B. C. 402. The conduct | In 406 we find him serving under Callicratidas,
of the siege of Veii was entrusted to the latter and who left him to blockade Conon in Mytilene, while
his colleague M'. Sergius Fidenas, but in conse he himself went to meet the Athenian reinforce-
quence of their private enmity the campaign was a ments. After the battle of Arginusae, by means
disastrous one. The Capenates and Falisci ad- of a stratagem, Eteonicus succeeded in drawing off
vanced to the relief of Veii. The two Roman the land forces to Methymna, while he directed
generals had each the command of a separate camp: the naval forces to make with all speed for Chios,
Sergius was attacked by the allies and a sally from where he found means of rejoining them not long
the town at the same time, and let himself be afterwards. In the course of his stay here, he,
overpowered by numbers, because he would not with considerable energy and promptitude, defeated
ask his colleague for assistance, and Virginius a plot formed by some of the troops under his
would not send it because it was not asked. In command to seize Chios. (Xen. Hell. i. 6. & 26,
consequence of their misconduct, they were forced 36, &c. , ii. 1. § 1, &c. ) It is probably this Éteo-
to resign their office before their year had expired. nicus whom we find mentioned in the Anabasis
In the following year they were brought to trial (vii. 1. 8 12) apparently serving as an officer under
and condemned by the people to pay a heavy fine. Anaxibius at Byzantium. (B. C. 400. ) Eleven
(Liv, v. 8, 9, 11, 12. )
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EVAEMON.
EVAGORAS.
stationed as harmost in Aegina. (Xen. IIell. v. EVAE'NETUS (Evaivetos), the name of two
1. & 1. )
[C. P. M. ) commentators on the Phaenomena of Aratus, who
ETEOʻNUS ('Etewvós), a descendant of Bocotus are mentioned in the introductory commentary still
and father of Eleon, from whom the Bocotian town extant (p. 117, ed. Victor.
), but conceming whom
of Eteonos derived its name. (Eustath. ad Ilom. p. nothing is known.
(L. S. )
265. )
(L. S. ) EVAENETUS, of Syracuse and Catana, was
ETLEVA. (GENTIUS. )
one of the chief makers of the Sicilian coins. (Mül-
ETRUSCILLA, HERE'NNIA, wife of the ler, Archäol. d. K'unst, p. 428. ) [P. S. )
emperor Decius. The name not being mentioned EVAGES (Evdyas), of Hydrea, was, according
in history, it was a matter of dispute to what to Dionysius (ap. Steph. Byz. το. Υδρεία), an
princess the coins bearing the legend Ilerennia illiterate and quite uneducated shepherd, but yet
Etruscilla Augusta were to be assigned, until a a good comic poet. Meineke thinks this statement
stone was found at Carscoli with the inscription insufficient to give him a place among the Greek
Herenniae. CUPRESSENIAE. ETRUSCILLAE. A 1o. comedians. (Ilist
. Crit. Com. Graec. p. 528. ) (P. S. )
CONIUGI. D. N. DECI. AUG. MATRI. Augg. NN. EVA'GORAS (Evayópas), the name of two
ET. CastroR. S. P. Q. , from which, taken in com- mythical personages. (Apollod. i. 9. § 9, iii. 12.
bination with medals, it appears that her designa- $ 5; Schol. ad Apollon. Rhod. i. 156. ) [L. S. ]
tion in full was Annia Cupresse nia llercnnia Etrus- EVA GORAS (Evaybpas). 1. King of Salamis
cilla. (Muratori, p. 1036, 4 ; Mnffei, Mus. l'cron. in Cyprus. He was sprung from a family which
p. 102; Eckhel, vol. vii. p. 347. ) (W. R. ] claimed descent from Teucer, the reputed founder
ETRUSCUS, HERE'NNIUS, son of the em- of Salamis; and his ancestors appear to have been
peror Decius, upon whose accession in A. D. 249 he during a long period the hereditary rulers of that
received the appellations of Cacsar and Princeps city under the supremacy of Persia. They had,
Juventutis. In 251 he was consnl, was admitted however, been expelled (at what period we are not
to a participation in the title of Augustus, and to- told) by a Phoenician exile, who obtained the so-
wards the close of the year was slnin along with vereignty for himself, and transmitted it to his
his father in a bloody battle fought against the descendants: one of these held it at the time of
Goths in Thrace. [Decius. ] We gather from the birth of Evagoras, the date of which there is no
coins that his designation at full length was Q. means of fixing with any degree of accuracy; but
Ilerennius Etruscus Messius Trajanus Decius, the he appears to have been grown up, though still a
names llerennius Etruscus being derived from his young man, when one Abdymon, a native of Cit-
mother Herennia Etruscilla, while the rest were tium, conspired against the tyrant, put him to
inherited froin his sire. (Aurel. Vict. de Caes. xxix. death, and established himself in his place. After
Epit. xxix. ; Zonar. xii. 20. ) (W. R. ] this the usurper sought to apprehend Evagoras,
ETRUSCUS ('Etpovo kós), of MESSENE, the probably from jealousy of his hereditary claim to
author of a single epigram in the Greek Anthology. the government, but the latter made his escape to
(Brunck, Anal. vol. ii. p. 307; Jacobs, vol. iii. p. 20. ) Cilicia, and, having there assembled a small band
Nothing more is known of him. Martial (vi. 83, of followers, returned secretly to Salamis, attacked
vii. 39) mentions an Etruscus who was banished the tyrant in his palace, overpowered his guards,
by Domitian. (Jacobs, Anth. Graec. vol. xiii. p. and put him to death. (Isocr. Erag. pp. 191–195;
892. )
[P. S. ] Diod. xiv. 98; Theopomp. ap. Phot. p. 120, a ;
ETUTA. [Gestius. ]
Paus. ii. 29. $ 4. ) After this Evagoras established
ETYMOCLES ('Et vuokaņs) was one of the his authority at Salamis without farther opposition.
three Spartan envoys who, happening to be at If we may trust his panegyrist, Isocrates, his rule
Athens at the time of the incursion of Sphodrias was distinguished for its mildness and equity, and
into Attica (B. C. 378), were arrested by the Athe- he promoted the prosperity of his subjects in every
nians on suspicion of having been privy to the way, while he particularly sought to extend his
attempt Their assurances, however, to the con- relations with Greece, and to restore the influence
trary were believed, and they were allowed to de- of Hellenic customs and civilization, which had
part. Etymocles is mentioned by Xenophon and been in some degree obliterated during the period
Plutarch as a friend of Agesilaus, and we hear of of barbarian rule. (Isocr. Erag. pp. 197—198. )
him again as one of the ambassadors sent to nego- He at the same time greatly increased the power of
tiate an alliance with Athens in B. C. 369. (Xen. his subject city, and strengthened his own resources,
Hell
. v. 4. SS 22, 23, 32, vi. 5. $ 33; Plut. Ayes. specially by the formation of a powerful fleet.
25. )
[E. E. ) Such was his position in B. C. 405, when, after the
ÉVADNE (Eváðun. ) 1. A daughter of Poseidon defeat at Aegospotami, the Athenian general Conon
and Pitane. Immediately after her birth, she was took refuge at Salamis with his few remaining gal-
carried to the Arcadian king Aepytus, who brought | lies. Evagoras had already received, in return for
She afterwards became by Apollo the mo- some services to Athens, the rights of an Athenian
ther of Jamus. (Pind. Ol. vi. 30; Hygin. Fab. 175. ) citizen, and was on terms of personal friendship
2. A daughter of Iphis, or Philax. (Eurip. Suppls with Conon (Isocr. Erag. p. 199, e. ; Diod. xii.
985; Apollod. ii. 7. 9 1; Hygin. Fab. 256. See 106): hence he zealously espoused the Athenian
CapangUs. ) There are three other mythical per- cause. It is said to have been at his intercession
sonages of the same name. (Apollod. ii. 1. $ 2; Ov. that the king of Persia determined to allow Conon
Amor, iii. 6. 41 ; Diod. iv. 53. ) [L. S.