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It is not ascertained whether Esaias the
vii. 3. & 4. ) There are two other mythical per- writer is the Esaias mentioned by Palladius. Car-
sonages of the name of Erythrus, or Erythrius, dinal Bellarmin, followed by the editors of the
from whom the Boeotian Erythrae, and the Ery- | Bibliotheca Patrum, places the writer in the seventh
thraean Sea, are said to have received their names century subsequent to the time of Palladius ; but
respectively. (Eustath. ad Hom. p. 267 ; Steph. the character of the works supports the opinion that
Byz. 8. v. 'Epub pá ; Curtius, viii. 9. ) [L. S. ) they belong to the Egyptian monk.
ERYX ("Epuk), the name of three mythical (1. ) Chapters on the ascetic and peacrful life
personages. (Diod. iv. 83; Apollod. č. 5. S 10; (Kepárala nepl do khoews wal viouxias), published
Ov. Met. v. 196. )
[L. S. ) in Greek and Latin in the Thesaurus Asceticus of
ERYXI'MACHUS ('Eputiuayos ), a Greek Pierre Possin, pp. 315-325; 4to. Paris, 1684. As
physician, who lived in the fourth century B. C. , some MSS. contain portions of this work in con-
and is introduced in the Convivium of Plato (p. nexion with other passages not contained in it, it is
185) as telling Aristophanes how to cure the probable that the Chapters are incomplete. One
hiccup, and in the mean time making a speech MS. in the King's Library at Paris is described as
himself on love or harmony ("Epws), which he * Esaiae Abbatis Capita Ascetica, in duos libros
illustrated from his own profession. [W. A. G. ) dirisa, quorum unusquisque praecepta centum com-
ESAIAS ('Hoatas), sometimes written in Latin plectitur. "
ISAIAS. 1. Of CYPRUS, lived probably in the (2. ) Precepla seu Consilia posita tironibus, a
reign of John VII. (Palaeologus) about A. D. Latin version of sixty-eight Short Precepts, pub-
1430. Nicolaus Comnenus mentions a work of lished by Lucas Holstenius, in his Codex Regula-
his, described as Oratio de Lipsanomachis, as ex- rum Monasticarum. (vol. i. p. 6. ed. Augsburg,
tant in MS. at Rome; and his Epistie in defence 1759. )
of the procession of the Holy Spirit from the Fa- (3. ) Orationes. A Latin version of twenty-
ther and the Son, in reply to Nicolaus Sclengias, nine discourses of Esaias was published by
is given by Leo Allatius in his Graecia Ortho Pietro Francesco Zini, with some ascetic writ.
dora, both in the original Greek and in a Latin ings of Nilus and others, 8vo. Venice, 1574, and
version. Two epistles of Michael Glycas, ad. have been reprinted in the Bibliotheca Patrum.
dressed to the much revered (TiulWTÁTW) monk They are not all orations, but, in one or two in-
Esaias are published in the Deliciae Eruditorum stances at least, are collections of apophthegms or
of Giovanni Lami, who is disposed to identify the sayings. Some MSS. contain more than twenty-
person addressed with Esaias of Cyprus. (Fabric. nine orations : one in the King's Library at Paris
Bibl. Graec. vol. xi. p. 395; Wharton, Appendir to contains thirty, wanting the beginning of the first;
Cave's Hist. Lill. vol. ii. p. 130, ed. Oxford, 1740-3; and one, mentioned by Harless, is said to contain
Lami, Deliciae Eruditorum, vol. viii. pp. 236-279, thirty-one, differently arranged from those in the
Florence, 1739. )
Bibliotheca Patrum.
2. Of EGYPT. Palladius in the biographical (4. ) Dubitationes in l'isionem Ezechielis. A
notices which make up what is usually termed his MS. in the Royal Library of the Escurial in Spain,
Lausiac History, mentions two brothers, Paesius is described by Montfaucon (Bibliotheca Billiotke-
(Ilariolos) and Esaias, the sons of a merchant, carum, p. 619) as containing Sermones et Dubita-
Inaró pouos, by which some understand a Spanish tiones in Visionem Ezechielis, by “ Esaias Abbas. *
merchant. Upon the death of their father they | The Sermones or discourses are probably those men-
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ESQUILINUS
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ETEONICUS.
em disto
the other
astic and
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the Latin
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mother chat
is Lisa
ns an aner
f monastic
or Art)
on of Dio-
before s
been con
Eneoncstent
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ears to have
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lished, either
Assemang
Syriac works
titles, are ter
works of this
er Esaias the
alladios. Cas
Editors of the
in the serenta
Palladius ; bat
he opinion that
tioned above. Of the Dubitationes no further ac- ETEARCHUS ('Etéapxos). 1. An ancient
count is given ; but the subject, as far as it is indi- king of the city of Àxus in Crete, who, according
cated by the title, renders it very doubtful if the to the Cyrenacan accounts, was the grandfather of
work belongs to the Egyptian Monk.
Battus I. , king of Cyrene. The story of the way
The Ascetica and Opuscula of Esaias, described in which he was induced to plan the death his
in Catalogues, are perhaps portions or extracts of daughter Phronime, at the instigation of her step-
the works noticed above. This is probably the mother, and of the manner in which she was pre-
case with the passages given by Cotelerius among served and taken to Cyrene, is told by Herodotus
the "Sayings of the Fathers. " (Palladius, Hist. (iv. 154, 155).
Inusiaca, c. 18. ed. Meursius, Leyden, 1616; 2. A king of the Ammonians, mentioned by
Tillemont, Mémoires, vol. vii. p. 426 ; Cave, Hist. Herodotus (ii. 32) as the authority for some ac-
Lil. vol. i. p. 254, ed. Oxford, 1740-3; Billiothe-counts which he heard from certain Cyrenaeans of
ca Patrum, vol. xii. p. 384, &c. ed. Lyon, 1677 ; an expedition into the interior of Africa undertaken
Assemanni, Bibliotheca Orientalis, vol. iii. 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. )
years afterwards (389), he is mentioned as being
d pearfallate
las), published
8 Asticas of
uris, 1684. As
1 work in con
ained in it, it is
omplete. Ose
i is described as
, in duos libros
ita centum con-
rita tiraita, a
Precepts, pub
3 Codex Regalo
, ed. Augsburg
sion of twenty-
published by
de ascetic unit
enice, 1574, and
liotheca Patres.
n one or two
apophthegms of
ore than twenty
Library at Paris
ining of the first;
is said to contain
from those in the
m Ezechielis. A
· Escurial in Spring
ibliotheca Bildboken
Sermores e Drobeta-
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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.