A son of
Poseidon
and
of Orestes in the murder of his mother.
of Orestes in the murder of his mother.
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l.
c.
, X.
34.
§ 3.
) A sta-
60 many have been recorded ; had he been satisfied tue of his stood in the market-place of Elateia, and
with supping on the tongues of peacocks and another at Tegea. (Paus. x. 34. $ 3, viii. 18. $ 6. )
nightingales, with feeding lions on pheasants and 2. A prince of the Lapithae at Larissa in Thes-
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ELECTRA.
ELEOS.
saly, was married to Hippeia, by whom he became himself known to Electra All being thus cleared
the father of Caencus and Polyphemus, both of up, they travelled together to Mycenae, where
whom took part in the expedition of the Argonauts. Orestes killed the usurper Aletes, and Electra
(Hygin. Fab. 11; Ov. Niet. xii. 497. ) He is some married Pylades. The Attic tragedians, Aeschylus,
times confounded with the Arcadian Elatus. (Mül Sophocles, and Euripides, have used the story of
ler, Orchom. pp. 186, 191, 2d. edit. ) There are Electra very freely: the most perfect, however, is
four more mythical personages of this name. (Hom. that in the - Electra" of Sophocles. When Ae-
II. vi. 33, od. xxii. 268; Apollod. ii. 5. & 4; Apol- gisthus and Clytaemnestra, after the murder of
lon. Rhod. i. 101. )
[L. S. ) Agamemnon, intended to kill young Orestes also,
ELECTRA ('Haéktpa), i. e. the bright or bril. Electra saved him by sending him under the pro-
liant one.
1. A daughter of Occanus and Tethys, tection of a slave to king Strophius at Phanote in
and the wife of Thaumas, by whom she became Phocis, who had the boy educated together with
the mother of Iris and the Harpies, A öllo and his own son Pylades. Electra, in the mean-
Ocypete. (Hom. Hymn. in Cer. 419; Hes. Theog. time, was ever thinking on uking revenge upon
260; Apollod. i. 2. Ss 2, 6; Paus. iv. 33. $ &; the murderers of her father, and when Orestes had
Serv. ad Aen. iii. 212. )
grown up to manhood, she sent secret messages to
2. A daughter of Atlas and Pleionc, was one of him to remind him of his duty to avenge his fa-
the seven Pleiades, and became by Zeus the mother ther. At length, Orestes came with Pylndes to
of Jasion and Dardanus. (Apollod. iii. 10. § 1, Argos. A lock of hair which he had placed on
12. SS 1, 3. ) According to a tradition preserved | the grave of his father, was a sign to Electra that
in Servius (ad Aen. j. 32, ii. 325, iii. 104, vii. 207) her brother was near. Orestes soon after made
she was the wife of the Italian king Corythus, by himself kuown to her, and informed her that he
whom she had a son Jasion; whereas by Zeus she was commanded by Apollo to avenge the death of
was the mother of Dardanus. (Comp. Serv. ad Aen. his father. Both lamented their misfortunes, and
i. 384, iii. 167; Tzetz. ad Lycoph. 29. ) Diodorus Electra urged him to carry his design into effect.
(v. 48) calls Harmonia her daughter by Zeus. Orestes then agreed with her that he and Pylades
She is connected also with the legend about the should go into the house of Clytaemnestra, as
Palladium. When Electra, it is said, had come as strangers from Phocis, and tell her that Orestes
a suppliant to the Palladium, which Athena had was dead. This was done accordingly, and Ae-
established, Zeus or Athena herself threw it into gisthus and Clytaemnestra fell by the hand of
the territory of Ilium, because it had been sullied | Orestes, who gave Electra in marriage to his friend
by the hands of a woman who was no longer a Pylades. (Comp. Aeschyl. Eumenides, and Euri-
pure maiden, and king Ilus then built a temple to pides, Orestes. ) She became by him the mother of
Zeus. (Apollod. iii. 12. $ 3. ) According to others Medon and Strophius. Her tomb was shewn in
it was Electra herself that brought the Palladium later times at Mycenae. (Paus. ii. 16. & 5. )
to Ilium, and gave it to her son Dardanus. (Schol. 5. A servant of Helen, was painted by Polyg-
ad Eurip. Plwen. 1136. ) When she saw the city notus in the Lesche at Delphi, in the act of kneel-
of her son perishing in flames, she tore out her ing before her mistress and fastening her sandals.
hair for grief, and was thus placed among the stars (Paus. x. 25. § 2. )
as a comet. (Serv. ad Aen. x. 272. ) According to A sixth Electra occurs among the daughters of
others, Electra and her six sisters were placed Danaus. (Apollod. ii. 1. & 5. ) [L. S. )
among the stars as the seven Pleiades, and lost ELECTKYON ('HAEKT PÚwv), a son of Perseus
their brilliancy on seeing the destruction of Ilium. and Andromeda, was king of Mycenae or Mideia
(Serv. ad Virg. Georg. i. 138; Eustath. ad Hom. in Argolis. (Paus. ii. 25. $ 8. ) He was married
p. 1155. ) The fabulous island of Electris was be- to Anaxo, the daughter of Alcaeus, by whom he
lieved to have received its name from her. (Apol- had several children. (Apollod. ii. 4. § 5, &c. )
lon. Rhod. i. 916. )
The tradition about him is given under Amphi-
3. A sister of Cadmus, from whom the Electrian TRYON. Another Electryon is mentioned by Dia
gate at Thebes was said to have received its name.
dorus (iv. 67).
(L. S. )
(Paus. ix. 8. $ 3; Schol. ad Apollon. Rhod. i. 916. ) ELECTRYONE (Ηλεκτρυώνη), a daughter of
4. A daughter of Agamemnon and Clytaemnes- Helios and Rhodos. (Diod. v. 56; Schol
. ad Pind.
tra, is also called Laodice. (Eustath. ad Hom. p. 01. vii. 24. ) The name is also used as a patrony-
742. ) She was the sister of Iphigeneia, Chrysothe- mic from Electryon, and given to his daughter,
mis, and Orestes. The conduct of her mother and Alcmene. (Hes. Scut. Herc. 16. ) (L. S. ]
Aegisthus threw her into grief and great suffering, ELECTUS. [ECLECTUS. )
and in consequence of it she became the accomplice ELEIUS ('Harios). 1.
A son of Poseidon and
of Orestes in the murder of his mother. Her story, Eurydice, the daughter of Endymion, was king of
according to Hyginus (Fab. 122), runs thus : On the Epeians and father of Augeas. (Paus. v. 1.
receiving the false report that Orestes and Pylades S 6, &c. )
had been sacrificed to Artemis in Tauris, Aletes, 2. A son of Amphimachus and king of Elis.
the son of Aegisthus, assumed the government of In his reign the sons of Aristomachus invaded
Mycenae ; but Electra, for the purpose of learning Peloponnesus. (Paus. v. 3. & 4. )
the particulars of her brother's death, went to Del- 3. A son of Tantalus, from whom the country
phi. On the day she reached the place, Orestes of Elis was believed to have received its name.
and Iphigeneia likewise arrived there, but the (Steph. Byz. s. v. HA1s. )
(L. S. ]
same messenger who had before informed her of E'LEOS ("Eneos), the personification of pity or
the death of Orestes, now added, that he had been mercy, had an altar in the agora at Athens. - The
sacrificed by Iphigeneia Electra, enraged at this, Athenians,” says Pausanias (i. 17. $ 1), “ are the
snatched a firebrand from the altar, with the in- only ones among the Hellenes that worship this
tention of putting her sister's eyes out with it. divine being, and among all the gods this is the
But Orestes snddenly came to the spot, and made most useful to human life in all its vicissitudes. "
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ELEUTHER.
9
ELIAS.
Those who implored the assistance of the Athe ELEUTHEREUS ('EAevőepeús), a surname of
nians, such as Adrastus and the Heracleidae, ap- Dionysus, which he derived either from Eleuther,
proached as suppliants the altar of Eleos. (Apollod. or the Bocotian town of Eleutherae ; but it may
ii. 8. & 1, iii. 7. $ 1; Schol. ad Soph. Oed. Col. also be regarded as equivalent to the Latin Liber,
258. )
[L. S. ] and thus describes Dionysus as the deliverer of man
ELEPHANTIS, the writer of certain amatory from care and sorrow. (Paus. i. 20. $ 2, 38. & 8;
works (molles Elephantidos libelli), the character of Plut. Quaest. Rom. 101. ) The form Eleutherius is
which is sufficiently evident from the notices con- certainly used in the sense of the deliverer, and
tained in Martial and Suetonius. We know not occurs also as the surname of Zeus. (Plut. Sympos.
with certainty the sex of the author, nor in what vii. in fin. ; Pind. Ol. xii. 1; Sirab. ix. p. 412;
language the pieces were composed, nor whether | Tacit. Ann. xv. 64. )
[L. S. )
they were expressed in prose or verse; but the ELIAS ('Halas). This name, which is of
grammatical form of the name seems to indicate Hebrew origin, belongs to several Greek writers,
that the person in question was a female, and that chiefly ecclesiastics, of the Byzantine empire.
she was either a Greek by birth or of Greek ex- There were several prelates of the name in the
traction. By the historians of literature she is Oriental patriarchates and bishoprics, and severul
generally ranked among the poetesses. (Martial, writers, chiefly ecclesiastics, in the Oriental tongues,
Ep. xii. 43. 5; Suet. Til, 43; Priupei. iii. ; Sui- for whom see Assemanni, Bibliothecu Orientulis, and
das, s. v. 'Aotvávasoa. ) Galen quotes a treatise Fabric. Bill. Gruec. vol. ix. p. 257, xi. p. 614. We
TEMI KOOUNTIKwv by this or some other Elephantis. give only those belonging to Greek biography. In
(Fabric. Bibl. Graec. vol. viii. p. 158; comp. Span- Latin the name is frequently written Helias.
heim, de Pruestuntia et Usu Numism. Diss. ix. p. 1. 2. 3. Ellas. There were three patriarchs of
771. )
(W. R. ) Jerusalem of this name. Elias I. was patriarch from
ELEPHE'NOR ('Elepývwp), a son of Chalco A. D. 494 or 495 till his deposition by a council held
don, and prince of the Abantes in Euboea, whom at Sidon, whose decrce was enforced, A. D. 513, by the
be led against Troy in thirty or forty ships. He emperor Anastasius I. He died in exile A. D. 518.
there fell by the hand of Agenor. (Hom. Il. ii. Elias II. held the patriarchate from a. D. 760, or
540, iv. 463; Hygin. Fab. 97 ; Dict. Cret. i. 17. ) carlier, to 797, with the exception of an interval,
Hyginus calls his mother Imenarete, and Tzetzes when he was expelled by an intrusive patriarch
(ad Lycoph. 1029) Melanippe. He is also men- Theodorus. He was represented at the second
tioned among the suitors of Helen (Apollod. iii. general council of Nicaea, A. D. 787, by Joannes, a
10. 08), and was said to have taken with him to presbyter, and Thomas, principal of the convent of
Troy the sons of Theseus, who had been entrusted St. Arsenius near Babylon in Egypt: these eccle-
to his care. (Plut. Thes. 35; Paus. i. 17. $ 6. ) siastics were also representatives of the patriarchs
According to Tzetzes, Elephenor, without being of Alexandria and Antioch. Elias III. was pa-
aware of it, killed his grandfather, Abas, in con- triarch at least as early as 881, when he sent a
sequence of which he was obliged to quit Euboea. letter to Charles le Gros and the prelates, princes,
When therefore the expedition against Troy was and nobles of Gaul. A Latin version of the letter of
undertaken, Elephenor did not return to Euboea, Elias to Charlemagne (for it is scarcely probable
but assembled the Abantes on a rock on the Euri- that the original was in that language) was pub
pus, opposite the island. After the fall of Troy, lished in the Spicilegium of D'Achéry. Elias died
which, according to some accounts, he survived, he about A. D. 907. (Papebroche, Tructatus preliminaris
went to the island of Othronos near Sicily, and, de Episcopis et Patriarchis Sanctoc Hierosolymitanae
driven away thence by a dragon, he went to Ecclesiae in the Actu Sanctorum : Mai, vol. iii. with
Amantia in Illyria. (Lycophr. 1029, &c. ) [L. S. ) the Appendix in vol. vii. p. 696, &c. ; Labbe, Con-
ELEUSI'NA or ELEUSI'NIA ('Ehevonia), cilia, vol. vii. ; D'Achery, Spicileg. vol. iii. p. 363,
a surname of Demeter and Persephone, derived ed. Paris, 1723. )
from Eleusis in Attica, the principal seat of their 4. Elias of Charax. A Manuscript in the
worship. (Virg. Georg. i. 163; Phornut. N. D. library of St. Mark at Venice contains a citation,
27 ; Steph. Byz. s. r. 'Edevols. ) (L. S.
60 many have been recorded ; had he been satisfied tue of his stood in the market-place of Elateia, and
with supping on the tongues of peacocks and another at Tegea. (Paus. x. 34. $ 3, viii. 18. $ 6. )
nightingales, with feeding lions on pheasants and 2. A prince of the Lapithae at Larissa in Thes-
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8
ELECTRA.
ELEOS.
saly, was married to Hippeia, by whom he became himself known to Electra All being thus cleared
the father of Caencus and Polyphemus, both of up, they travelled together to Mycenae, where
whom took part in the expedition of the Argonauts. Orestes killed the usurper Aletes, and Electra
(Hygin. Fab. 11; Ov. Niet. xii. 497. ) He is some married Pylades. The Attic tragedians, Aeschylus,
times confounded with the Arcadian Elatus. (Mül Sophocles, and Euripides, have used the story of
ler, Orchom. pp. 186, 191, 2d. edit. ) There are Electra very freely: the most perfect, however, is
four more mythical personages of this name. (Hom. that in the - Electra" of Sophocles. When Ae-
II. vi. 33, od. xxii. 268; Apollod. ii. 5. & 4; Apol- gisthus and Clytaemnestra, after the murder of
lon. Rhod. i. 101. )
[L. S. ) Agamemnon, intended to kill young Orestes also,
ELECTRA ('Haéktpa), i. e. the bright or bril. Electra saved him by sending him under the pro-
liant one.
1. A daughter of Occanus and Tethys, tection of a slave to king Strophius at Phanote in
and the wife of Thaumas, by whom she became Phocis, who had the boy educated together with
the mother of Iris and the Harpies, A öllo and his own son Pylades. Electra, in the mean-
Ocypete. (Hom. Hymn. in Cer. 419; Hes. Theog. time, was ever thinking on uking revenge upon
260; Apollod. i. 2. Ss 2, 6; Paus. iv. 33. $ &; the murderers of her father, and when Orestes had
Serv. ad Aen. iii. 212. )
grown up to manhood, she sent secret messages to
2. A daughter of Atlas and Pleionc, was one of him to remind him of his duty to avenge his fa-
the seven Pleiades, and became by Zeus the mother ther. At length, Orestes came with Pylndes to
of Jasion and Dardanus. (Apollod. iii. 10. § 1, Argos. A lock of hair which he had placed on
12. SS 1, 3. ) According to a tradition preserved | the grave of his father, was a sign to Electra that
in Servius (ad Aen. j. 32, ii. 325, iii. 104, vii. 207) her brother was near. Orestes soon after made
she was the wife of the Italian king Corythus, by himself kuown to her, and informed her that he
whom she had a son Jasion; whereas by Zeus she was commanded by Apollo to avenge the death of
was the mother of Dardanus. (Comp. Serv. ad Aen. his father. Both lamented their misfortunes, and
i. 384, iii. 167; Tzetz. ad Lycoph. 29. ) Diodorus Electra urged him to carry his design into effect.
(v. 48) calls Harmonia her daughter by Zeus. Orestes then agreed with her that he and Pylades
She is connected also with the legend about the should go into the house of Clytaemnestra, as
Palladium. When Electra, it is said, had come as strangers from Phocis, and tell her that Orestes
a suppliant to the Palladium, which Athena had was dead. This was done accordingly, and Ae-
established, Zeus or Athena herself threw it into gisthus and Clytaemnestra fell by the hand of
the territory of Ilium, because it had been sullied | Orestes, who gave Electra in marriage to his friend
by the hands of a woman who was no longer a Pylades. (Comp. Aeschyl. Eumenides, and Euri-
pure maiden, and king Ilus then built a temple to pides, Orestes. ) She became by him the mother of
Zeus. (Apollod. iii. 12. $ 3. ) According to others Medon and Strophius. Her tomb was shewn in
it was Electra herself that brought the Palladium later times at Mycenae. (Paus. ii. 16. & 5. )
to Ilium, and gave it to her son Dardanus. (Schol. 5. A servant of Helen, was painted by Polyg-
ad Eurip. Plwen. 1136. ) When she saw the city notus in the Lesche at Delphi, in the act of kneel-
of her son perishing in flames, she tore out her ing before her mistress and fastening her sandals.
hair for grief, and was thus placed among the stars (Paus. x. 25. § 2. )
as a comet. (Serv. ad Aen. x. 272. ) According to A sixth Electra occurs among the daughters of
others, Electra and her six sisters were placed Danaus. (Apollod. ii. 1. & 5. ) [L. S. )
among the stars as the seven Pleiades, and lost ELECTKYON ('HAEKT PÚwv), a son of Perseus
their brilliancy on seeing the destruction of Ilium. and Andromeda, was king of Mycenae or Mideia
(Serv. ad Virg. Georg. i. 138; Eustath. ad Hom. in Argolis. (Paus. ii. 25. $ 8. ) He was married
p. 1155. ) The fabulous island of Electris was be- to Anaxo, the daughter of Alcaeus, by whom he
lieved to have received its name from her. (Apol- had several children. (Apollod. ii. 4. § 5, &c. )
lon. Rhod. i. 916. )
The tradition about him is given under Amphi-
3. A sister of Cadmus, from whom the Electrian TRYON. Another Electryon is mentioned by Dia
gate at Thebes was said to have received its name.
dorus (iv. 67).
(L. S. )
(Paus. ix. 8. $ 3; Schol. ad Apollon. Rhod. i. 916. ) ELECTRYONE (Ηλεκτρυώνη), a daughter of
4. A daughter of Agamemnon and Clytaemnes- Helios and Rhodos. (Diod. v. 56; Schol
. ad Pind.
tra, is also called Laodice. (Eustath. ad Hom. p. 01. vii. 24. ) The name is also used as a patrony-
742. ) She was the sister of Iphigeneia, Chrysothe- mic from Electryon, and given to his daughter,
mis, and Orestes. The conduct of her mother and Alcmene. (Hes. Scut. Herc. 16. ) (L. S. ]
Aegisthus threw her into grief and great suffering, ELECTUS. [ECLECTUS. )
and in consequence of it she became the accomplice ELEIUS ('Harios). 1.
A son of Poseidon and
of Orestes in the murder of his mother. Her story, Eurydice, the daughter of Endymion, was king of
according to Hyginus (Fab. 122), runs thus : On the Epeians and father of Augeas. (Paus. v. 1.
receiving the false report that Orestes and Pylades S 6, &c. )
had been sacrificed to Artemis in Tauris, Aletes, 2. A son of Amphimachus and king of Elis.
the son of Aegisthus, assumed the government of In his reign the sons of Aristomachus invaded
Mycenae ; but Electra, for the purpose of learning Peloponnesus. (Paus. v. 3. & 4. )
the particulars of her brother's death, went to Del- 3. A son of Tantalus, from whom the country
phi. On the day she reached the place, Orestes of Elis was believed to have received its name.
and Iphigeneia likewise arrived there, but the (Steph. Byz. s. v. HA1s. )
(L. S. ]
same messenger who had before informed her of E'LEOS ("Eneos), the personification of pity or
the death of Orestes, now added, that he had been mercy, had an altar in the agora at Athens. - The
sacrificed by Iphigeneia Electra, enraged at this, Athenians,” says Pausanias (i. 17. $ 1), “ are the
snatched a firebrand from the altar, with the in- only ones among the Hellenes that worship this
tention of putting her sister's eyes out with it. divine being, and among all the gods this is the
But Orestes snddenly came to the spot, and made most useful to human life in all its vicissitudes. "
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ELEUTHER.
9
ELIAS.
Those who implored the assistance of the Athe ELEUTHEREUS ('EAevőepeús), a surname of
nians, such as Adrastus and the Heracleidae, ap- Dionysus, which he derived either from Eleuther,
proached as suppliants the altar of Eleos. (Apollod. or the Bocotian town of Eleutherae ; but it may
ii. 8. & 1, iii. 7. $ 1; Schol. ad Soph. Oed. Col. also be regarded as equivalent to the Latin Liber,
258. )
[L. S. ] and thus describes Dionysus as the deliverer of man
ELEPHANTIS, the writer of certain amatory from care and sorrow. (Paus. i. 20. $ 2, 38. & 8;
works (molles Elephantidos libelli), the character of Plut. Quaest. Rom. 101. ) The form Eleutherius is
which is sufficiently evident from the notices con- certainly used in the sense of the deliverer, and
tained in Martial and Suetonius. We know not occurs also as the surname of Zeus. (Plut. Sympos.
with certainty the sex of the author, nor in what vii. in fin. ; Pind. Ol. xii. 1; Sirab. ix. p. 412;
language the pieces were composed, nor whether | Tacit. Ann. xv. 64. )
[L. S. )
they were expressed in prose or verse; but the ELIAS ('Halas). This name, which is of
grammatical form of the name seems to indicate Hebrew origin, belongs to several Greek writers,
that the person in question was a female, and that chiefly ecclesiastics, of the Byzantine empire.
she was either a Greek by birth or of Greek ex- There were several prelates of the name in the
traction. By the historians of literature she is Oriental patriarchates and bishoprics, and severul
generally ranked among the poetesses. (Martial, writers, chiefly ecclesiastics, in the Oriental tongues,
Ep. xii. 43. 5; Suet. Til, 43; Priupei. iii. ; Sui- for whom see Assemanni, Bibliothecu Orientulis, and
das, s. v. 'Aotvávasoa. ) Galen quotes a treatise Fabric. Bill. Gruec. vol. ix. p. 257, xi. p. 614. We
TEMI KOOUNTIKwv by this or some other Elephantis. give only those belonging to Greek biography. In
(Fabric. Bibl. Graec. vol. viii. p. 158; comp. Span- Latin the name is frequently written Helias.
heim, de Pruestuntia et Usu Numism. Diss. ix. p. 1. 2. 3. Ellas. There were three patriarchs of
771. )
(W. R. ) Jerusalem of this name. Elias I. was patriarch from
ELEPHE'NOR ('Elepývwp), a son of Chalco A. D. 494 or 495 till his deposition by a council held
don, and prince of the Abantes in Euboea, whom at Sidon, whose decrce was enforced, A. D. 513, by the
be led against Troy in thirty or forty ships. He emperor Anastasius I. He died in exile A. D. 518.
there fell by the hand of Agenor. (Hom. Il. ii. Elias II. held the patriarchate from a. D. 760, or
540, iv. 463; Hygin. Fab. 97 ; Dict. Cret. i. 17. ) carlier, to 797, with the exception of an interval,
Hyginus calls his mother Imenarete, and Tzetzes when he was expelled by an intrusive patriarch
(ad Lycoph. 1029) Melanippe. He is also men- Theodorus. He was represented at the second
tioned among the suitors of Helen (Apollod. iii. general council of Nicaea, A. D. 787, by Joannes, a
10. 08), and was said to have taken with him to presbyter, and Thomas, principal of the convent of
Troy the sons of Theseus, who had been entrusted St. Arsenius near Babylon in Egypt: these eccle-
to his care. (Plut. Thes. 35; Paus. i. 17. $ 6. ) siastics were also representatives of the patriarchs
According to Tzetzes, Elephenor, without being of Alexandria and Antioch. Elias III. was pa-
aware of it, killed his grandfather, Abas, in con- triarch at least as early as 881, when he sent a
sequence of which he was obliged to quit Euboea. letter to Charles le Gros and the prelates, princes,
When therefore the expedition against Troy was and nobles of Gaul. A Latin version of the letter of
undertaken, Elephenor did not return to Euboea, Elias to Charlemagne (for it is scarcely probable
but assembled the Abantes on a rock on the Euri- that the original was in that language) was pub
pus, opposite the island. After the fall of Troy, lished in the Spicilegium of D'Achéry. Elias died
which, according to some accounts, he survived, he about A. D. 907. (Papebroche, Tructatus preliminaris
went to the island of Othronos near Sicily, and, de Episcopis et Patriarchis Sanctoc Hierosolymitanae
driven away thence by a dragon, he went to Ecclesiae in the Actu Sanctorum : Mai, vol. iii. with
Amantia in Illyria. (Lycophr. 1029, &c. ) [L. S. ) the Appendix in vol. vii. p. 696, &c. ; Labbe, Con-
ELEUSI'NA or ELEUSI'NIA ('Ehevonia), cilia, vol. vii. ; D'Achery, Spicileg. vol. iii. p. 363,
a surname of Demeter and Persephone, derived ed. Paris, 1723. )
from Eleusis in Attica, the principal seat of their 4. Elias of Charax. A Manuscript in the
worship. (Virg. Georg. i. 163; Phornut. N. D. library of St. Mark at Venice contains a citation,
27 ; Steph. Byz. s. r. 'Edevols. ) (L. S.
