)
alphabetical manner, though it appears that this ERYMANTHUS ('Epúpavsos).
alphabetical manner, though it appears that this ERYMANTHUS ('Epúpavsos).
William Smith - 1844 - Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities - b
de Nat.
Deor.
iii.
23), or brated in honour of the god.
(Paus.
l.
c.
; Athen.
of Zephyrus and Iris (Plut. A mat. 20; Eustath. xiii. p. 561. ) Besides Sparta, Samos, and Parion
ad Hom. p. 555), or, lastly, a son of Zeus by his on the Hellespont, he was also worshipped at
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EROTIANUS.
ERYNANTHUS.
51
Athens, where he had an altar at the entrance of | 8vo. Greek and Latin, containing also the glos.
the Academy. (Paus. i. 30. § 1. ) At Megara his saries of Galen and Herodotus, a learned and
statue, together with those of Himeros and Pothos, copious commentary, and good indices. It has also
stood in the temple of Aphrodite. (Paus. i. 43. $ 6, been published with soine editions of the works of
comp. iii. 26. § 3, vi. 24. § 5, vii. 26. § 3. ) Hippocrates.
(W. A. G. )
Among the things sacred to Eros, and which fre EROʻTIUS, ricarius and quaestor, one of the
quently appear with him in works of art, we may commission of Sixteen, appointed by Theodosius
mention the rose, wild beasts which are tamed by | in A. D. 435, to compile the Theodosian Code.
him, the hare, the cock, and the ram. Eros was a He does not appear, however, to have taken any
favourite subject with the ancient statuaries, but distinguished part in its composition. (DIODORUS,
his representation seems to have been brought to vol. i. p. 1018. )
(J. T. G. )
perfection by Praxiteles, who conceived him as a ERUÄCIA GENS, plebeian. Only one member
full-grown youth of the most perfect beauty. (Lu- of this gens is mentioned in the time of the repub-
cian, Am. ii. 17; Plin. H. N. xxxvi. 4, 5. ) In lic, namely, C. Erucius, the accuser of Sex. Roscius of
later times artists followed the example of poets, Ameria, whom Cicero defended in B c. 80. From
and represented bim as a little boy. (ilirt, Mytlul. Cicero's account he would appear to have been a
Bilderb. ii. p. 216, &c. ; Welcker, Zeitschrift für man of low origin. (Cic. pro Rosc. 13, 16, 18–
die alte l'unst, p. 475. ) Respecting the connexion 21, 29, 32. ) His name also appears as one of the
between Eros and Psyche, see PsychE. (L. S. ] accusers of L. Varenus, who was likewise defended
EROS ("Epws ) occurs in three ancient Latin by Cicero, but in what year is uncertain. (Vao
inscriptions as the name of one or more physicians, RENUS. ] He was called by Cicero in his speech
one of whom is supposed to have been physician for Varenus Antoniaster, that is, an imitator of the
to Julia, the daughter of the emperor Augustus. orator Antonius. (Cic. Fragm. pro Varen, 8, p.
There is extant a short work, written in bad 443, ed. Orelli. ). The Ericius ('Epikuos) who is
Latin, and entitled “ Curandarum Aegritudinum mentioned by Plutarch (Sull. 16, 18) as one of
Muliebrium ante et post Partum Liber unicus," Sulla's legates in the Mithridatic war, is supposed
which has sometimes been attributed to Eros. by Drumann (Gesch. Roms, vol. iii. p. 68) to be a
The style, however, and the fact that writers are false reading for Hirtius, but we ought perhaps to
quoted in it who lived long after the time of read Ericius.
Augustus, prove that this supposition is not correct. Under the empire, in the second century after
It has also been attributed to a female named Christ, a family of the Erucii of the name of Clarus
Trotula, under whose name it is generally quoted ; attained considerable distinction. [CLARUS. ]
but C. G. Gruner, who has examined the subject E'RXIAS. [Ergias. )
in a dissertation entitled Neque Eros, neque ERYCI'NA ('Epurívn), a surname of Aphrodite,
Trotula, sed Salernitanus quidam Medicus, isque derived from mount Eryx, in Sicily, where she had
Christianus, Auctor Libelli est qui De Morbis a famous temple, which was said to have been built
Mulierum inscribitur" (Jenae, 1773, 4to. ), proves by Eryx, a son of Aphrodite and the Sicilian king
that this also is incorrect. The work is of very Butes. (Diod. iv. 83. ) Virgil ( Aen. v. 760) makes
little value, and is included in the Aldine collec- Aeneias build the temple. Psophis, a daughter of
tion, entitled “ Medici Antiqui omnes qui Latinis Eryx, was believed to have founded a temple of
Litteris," &c. , fol. , Venet. 1547, and in the collec- Aphrodite Erycina, at Psophis, in Arcadia. (Paus.
tion of writers “ Gynaeciorum," or " on Female viii. 24. § 3. ) From Sicily the worship of Aphro-
Diseases,” Basil. 4to, 1566. It was also published dite (Venus) Erycina was introduced at Rome
in 1778, Lips. 8vo. , together with H. Kornmann, about the beginning of the second Punic war (Liv.
“ De Virginum Statu," &c. (W. A. G. ) xxii. 9, 10, xxiii. 30, &c. ), and in B. c. 181 a tem-
EROTIA'NUS ('Epwtiavós), or, as he is some ple was built to her outside the Porta Collatina.
times called, Herodianus ('Hpwõiavos), the author (Liv. xl. 34 ; 0v. Fast. iv. 871, Rem. Amor. 549 ;
of a Greek work still extant, entitled Tô map Strab. vi. p. 272; comp. Cic. in Verr. iv. 8 ; Horat.
'Itrokpátel nézew Euvaywrh. Vocunt, quae apud Carm. i. 2. 33; Ov. Heroid. xv. 57. ) (L. S. ]
Hippocratem sunt, Collectio. Itis uncertain whether ERY'CIUS ('Epúkios), the name of two poets,
he was himself a physician, or merely a gramma- whose epigrams are in the Greek Anthology. The
rian, but he appears to have written (or at least to one is called a Cyzicene, the other a Thessalian ;
have intended to write) some other works on Hip- and, from the internal evidence of the epigrams, it
pocrates besides that which we now possess (pp. is probable that the one lived in the time of Sulla,
23, 208, ed. Franz). He must have lived (and and about B. C. 84, the other under the emperor
probably at Rome) in the reign of the emperor Hadrian. Their epigrams are so mixed up, that it
Nero, A. D. 54—68, as his work is dedicated to his is impossible to distinguish accurately between
archiater, Andromachus. It is curious as contain them, and we cannot even determine which of the
ing the earliest list of the writings of Hippocrates two poets was the elder, and which the younger.
that exists, in which we find the titles of several We only know that the greater number of the epi-
treatises now lost, and also miss several that now grams are of a pastoral nature, and belong to Ery-
form part of the Hippocratic collection. The rest cius of Cyzicus. (Brunck, Anal. vol. ii. p. 295; Ja-
of the work consists of a glossary, in which the cobs, Anth. Graec. vol. iii. p. 9, vol. xiii. pp. 891,
words are at present arranged in a partially 892; Fabric. Bibl. Graec, vol. iv. p. 474. ) (P. S.
)
alphabetical manner, though it appears that this ERYMANTHUS ('Epúpavsos). 1. A river-
mode of arrangement is not that which was adopted god in Arcadia. who had a temple and a statue at -
by the author himself. It was first published in Psophis. (Paus. viii. 24. $ 6; Aelian, V. H. ii. 33. )
Greek, 8vo. , 1564, Paris. in H. Stephani Dictiona- 2. A son of Apollo, was blinded by Aphrodite,
rium Medicum ; a Latin translation by Barth. because he had seen her in the bath. Apollo, in
Eustachius appeared in 1566, 4to. , Venet. ; the revenge, metamorphosed himself into a wild boar,
last and best edition is that by Franz, Lips. 1780, aud killed Adonis. (Ptolem. Heph. i. 306. )
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ESAIAS.
ESAIAS.
3. A son of Aristas and father of Arrhon, or, determined to quit the world ; one of them distri-
according to others, the son of Arcas and father of buted his whole property to the poor, the other
Xanthus. (Paus. viii. 24. § 1. ) (L. S. ] expended his in the foundation of a monastic and
E'RYMAS ('Epúuas), the name of three different charitable establishment. If the Orations men-
Trojans. (Hom. Il. xvi. 345, 415; Virg. Aen. ix. tioned below are correctly ascribed to the Esaias
702. )
(L. S. ] of Palladius, the first oration (which in the Latin
ERYSICHTHON ('Epuolxowr), that is, the version begins “Qui mecum manere vultis, audite,"
tearer up of the earth. 1. A son of Triopas, who &c. ) enables us to identify him as the brother that
cut down trees in a grove sacred to Demeter, for founded the monastery. Rufinus in his Lives of
which he was punished by the goddess with fearful the Fathers, quoted by Tillemont, mentions an anec-
hunger. (Callim. Hymn. in Ccr. 34, &c. ; Ov. Met. dote of Esaias and some other persons of monastic
viii. 738, &c. ) Müller (Dor. ii. 10. 3) thinks character, visiting the confessor Anuph or Anub
that the traditions concerning Triopas and 'Erysich-|(who had suffered in the great persecution of Dio
thon (from epevelpn, robigo) belong to an agricul- cletian, but had survived that time) just before his
tural religion, which, at the same time, refers to the death. If we suppose Esains to have been com
infernal regions.
paratively young, this account is not inconsistent
2. A son of Cecrops and Agraulos, died without with Cave's opinion, that Esaias flourished A. D.
issue in his father's lifetime, on his return from 370. Assemanni supposes that he lived about the
Delos, from whence he brought to Athens the an. close of the fourth century. He appears to have
cient image of Eileithyia. His tomb was shewn lived in Egypt.
at Prasiae. (Apollod. iii. 14. § 2 ; Paus. i. 18. $ 5, There are dispersed throngh the European li-
2. & 5, 31. & 2. )
(L. S. ) braries a number of works in MS. ascribed to Esaias,
ERYTHRUS (Epulpos) A son of Leucon, who is variously designated “Abbas," " Presbyter,"
and grandson of Athamas. He was one of the “ Eremita," " Anachoreta. " They are chiefly in
suitors of Hippodameia, and the town of Erythrae, Greek. Some of them have been published, either
in Boeotia, was believed to have derived its name in the original or in a Latin version. Assemanni
from him. (Paus, vi. 21. 97; Müller, Orchom. p. enumerates some Arabic and several Syriac works
210. 2nd edit. )
of Esaias, which, judging from their titles, are ver-
2. A son of Rhadamanthus, who led the Ery- sions in those tongues of the known works of this
thraeans from Crete to the Ionian Erythrae. (Paus. writer. 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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33
ETEONICUS.
em disto
the other
astic and
De Eva
the Latin
3, ancite,"
mother chat
is Lisa
ns an aner
f monastic
or Art)
on of Dio-
before s
been con
Eneoncstent
sished A. D.
d about the
ears to have
European -
ed to Esaias,
- Presbyter,"
re chieir in
lished, either
Assemang
Syriac works
titles, are ter
works of this
er Esaias the
alladios.
of Zephyrus and Iris (Plut. A mat. 20; Eustath. xiii. p. 561. ) Besides Sparta, Samos, and Parion
ad Hom. p. 555), or, lastly, a son of Zeus by his on the Hellespont, he was also worshipped at
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EROTIANUS.
ERYNANTHUS.
51
Athens, where he had an altar at the entrance of | 8vo. Greek and Latin, containing also the glos.
the Academy. (Paus. i. 30. § 1. ) At Megara his saries of Galen and Herodotus, a learned and
statue, together with those of Himeros and Pothos, copious commentary, and good indices. It has also
stood in the temple of Aphrodite. (Paus. i. 43. $ 6, been published with soine editions of the works of
comp. iii. 26. § 3, vi. 24. § 5, vii. 26. § 3. ) Hippocrates.
(W. A. G. )
Among the things sacred to Eros, and which fre EROʻTIUS, ricarius and quaestor, one of the
quently appear with him in works of art, we may commission of Sixteen, appointed by Theodosius
mention the rose, wild beasts which are tamed by | in A. D. 435, to compile the Theodosian Code.
him, the hare, the cock, and the ram. Eros was a He does not appear, however, to have taken any
favourite subject with the ancient statuaries, but distinguished part in its composition. (DIODORUS,
his representation seems to have been brought to vol. i. p. 1018. )
(J. T. G. )
perfection by Praxiteles, who conceived him as a ERUÄCIA GENS, plebeian. Only one member
full-grown youth of the most perfect beauty. (Lu- of this gens is mentioned in the time of the repub-
cian, Am. ii. 17; Plin. H. N. xxxvi. 4, 5. ) In lic, namely, C. Erucius, the accuser of Sex. Roscius of
later times artists followed the example of poets, Ameria, whom Cicero defended in B c. 80. From
and represented bim as a little boy. (ilirt, Mytlul. Cicero's account he would appear to have been a
Bilderb. ii. p. 216, &c. ; Welcker, Zeitschrift für man of low origin. (Cic. pro Rosc. 13, 16, 18–
die alte l'unst, p. 475. ) Respecting the connexion 21, 29, 32. ) His name also appears as one of the
between Eros and Psyche, see PsychE. (L. S. ] accusers of L. Varenus, who was likewise defended
EROS ("Epws ) occurs in three ancient Latin by Cicero, but in what year is uncertain. (Vao
inscriptions as the name of one or more physicians, RENUS. ] He was called by Cicero in his speech
one of whom is supposed to have been physician for Varenus Antoniaster, that is, an imitator of the
to Julia, the daughter of the emperor Augustus. orator Antonius. (Cic. Fragm. pro Varen, 8, p.
There is extant a short work, written in bad 443, ed. Orelli. ). The Ericius ('Epikuos) who is
Latin, and entitled “ Curandarum Aegritudinum mentioned by Plutarch (Sull. 16, 18) as one of
Muliebrium ante et post Partum Liber unicus," Sulla's legates in the Mithridatic war, is supposed
which has sometimes been attributed to Eros. by Drumann (Gesch. Roms, vol. iii. p. 68) to be a
The style, however, and the fact that writers are false reading for Hirtius, but we ought perhaps to
quoted in it who lived long after the time of read Ericius.
Augustus, prove that this supposition is not correct. Under the empire, in the second century after
It has also been attributed to a female named Christ, a family of the Erucii of the name of Clarus
Trotula, under whose name it is generally quoted ; attained considerable distinction. [CLARUS. ]
but C. G. Gruner, who has examined the subject E'RXIAS. [Ergias. )
in a dissertation entitled Neque Eros, neque ERYCI'NA ('Epurívn), a surname of Aphrodite,
Trotula, sed Salernitanus quidam Medicus, isque derived from mount Eryx, in Sicily, where she had
Christianus, Auctor Libelli est qui De Morbis a famous temple, which was said to have been built
Mulierum inscribitur" (Jenae, 1773, 4to. ), proves by Eryx, a son of Aphrodite and the Sicilian king
that this also is incorrect. The work is of very Butes. (Diod. iv. 83. ) Virgil ( Aen. v. 760) makes
little value, and is included in the Aldine collec- Aeneias build the temple. Psophis, a daughter of
tion, entitled “ Medici Antiqui omnes qui Latinis Eryx, was believed to have founded a temple of
Litteris," &c. , fol. , Venet. 1547, and in the collec- Aphrodite Erycina, at Psophis, in Arcadia. (Paus.
tion of writers “ Gynaeciorum," or " on Female viii. 24. § 3. ) From Sicily the worship of Aphro-
Diseases,” Basil. 4to, 1566. It was also published dite (Venus) Erycina was introduced at Rome
in 1778, Lips. 8vo. , together with H. Kornmann, about the beginning of the second Punic war (Liv.
“ De Virginum Statu," &c. (W. A. G. ) xxii. 9, 10, xxiii. 30, &c. ), and in B. c. 181 a tem-
EROTIA'NUS ('Epwtiavós), or, as he is some ple was built to her outside the Porta Collatina.
times called, Herodianus ('Hpwõiavos), the author (Liv. xl. 34 ; 0v. Fast. iv. 871, Rem. Amor. 549 ;
of a Greek work still extant, entitled Tô map Strab. vi. p. 272; comp. Cic. in Verr. iv. 8 ; Horat.
'Itrokpátel nézew Euvaywrh. Vocunt, quae apud Carm. i. 2. 33; Ov. Heroid. xv. 57. ) (L. S. ]
Hippocratem sunt, Collectio. Itis uncertain whether ERY'CIUS ('Epúkios), the name of two poets,
he was himself a physician, or merely a gramma- whose epigrams are in the Greek Anthology. The
rian, but he appears to have written (or at least to one is called a Cyzicene, the other a Thessalian ;
have intended to write) some other works on Hip- and, from the internal evidence of the epigrams, it
pocrates besides that which we now possess (pp. is probable that the one lived in the time of Sulla,
23, 208, ed. Franz). He must have lived (and and about B. C. 84, the other under the emperor
probably at Rome) in the reign of the emperor Hadrian. Their epigrams are so mixed up, that it
Nero, A. D. 54—68, as his work is dedicated to his is impossible to distinguish accurately between
archiater, Andromachus. It is curious as contain them, and we cannot even determine which of the
ing the earliest list of the writings of Hippocrates two poets was the elder, and which the younger.
that exists, in which we find the titles of several We only know that the greater number of the epi-
treatises now lost, and also miss several that now grams are of a pastoral nature, and belong to Ery-
form part of the Hippocratic collection. The rest cius of Cyzicus. (Brunck, Anal. vol. ii. p. 295; Ja-
of the work consists of a glossary, in which the cobs, Anth. Graec. vol. iii. p. 9, vol. xiii. pp. 891,
words are at present arranged in a partially 892; Fabric. Bibl. Graec, vol. iv. p. 474. ) (P. S.
)
alphabetical manner, though it appears that this ERYMANTHUS ('Epúpavsos). 1. A river-
mode of arrangement is not that which was adopted god in Arcadia. who had a temple and a statue at -
by the author himself. It was first published in Psophis. (Paus. viii. 24. $ 6; Aelian, V. H. ii. 33. )
Greek, 8vo. , 1564, Paris. in H. Stephani Dictiona- 2. A son of Apollo, was blinded by Aphrodite,
rium Medicum ; a Latin translation by Barth. because he had seen her in the bath. Apollo, in
Eustachius appeared in 1566, 4to. , Venet. ; the revenge, metamorphosed himself into a wild boar,
last and best edition is that by Franz, Lips. 1780, aud killed Adonis. (Ptolem. Heph. i. 306. )
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ESAIAS.
ESAIAS.
3. A son of Aristas and father of Arrhon, or, determined to quit the world ; one of them distri-
according to others, the son of Arcas and father of buted his whole property to the poor, the other
Xanthus. (Paus. viii. 24. § 1. ) (L. S. ] expended his in the foundation of a monastic and
E'RYMAS ('Epúuas), the name of three different charitable establishment. If the Orations men-
Trojans. (Hom. Il. xvi. 345, 415; Virg. Aen. ix. tioned below are correctly ascribed to the Esaias
702. )
(L. S. ] of Palladius, the first oration (which in the Latin
ERYSICHTHON ('Epuolxowr), that is, the version begins “Qui mecum manere vultis, audite,"
tearer up of the earth. 1. A son of Triopas, who &c. ) enables us to identify him as the brother that
cut down trees in a grove sacred to Demeter, for founded the monastery. Rufinus in his Lives of
which he was punished by the goddess with fearful the Fathers, quoted by Tillemont, mentions an anec-
hunger. (Callim. Hymn. in Ccr. 34, &c. ; Ov. Met. dote of Esaias and some other persons of monastic
viii. 738, &c. ) Müller (Dor. ii. 10. 3) thinks character, visiting the confessor Anuph or Anub
that the traditions concerning Triopas and 'Erysich-|(who had suffered in the great persecution of Dio
thon (from epevelpn, robigo) belong to an agricul- cletian, but had survived that time) just before his
tural religion, which, at the same time, refers to the death. If we suppose Esains to have been com
infernal regions.
paratively young, this account is not inconsistent
2. A son of Cecrops and Agraulos, died without with Cave's opinion, that Esaias flourished A. D.
issue in his father's lifetime, on his return from 370. Assemanni supposes that he lived about the
Delos, from whence he brought to Athens the an. close of the fourth century. He appears to have
cient image of Eileithyia. His tomb was shewn lived in Egypt.
at Prasiae. (Apollod. iii. 14. § 2 ; Paus. i. 18. $ 5, There are dispersed throngh the European li-
2. & 5, 31. & 2. )
(L. S. ) braries a number of works in MS. ascribed to Esaias,
ERYTHRUS (Epulpos) A son of Leucon, who is variously designated “Abbas," " Presbyter,"
and grandson of Athamas. He was one of the “ Eremita," " Anachoreta. " They are chiefly in
suitors of Hippodameia, and the town of Erythrae, Greek. Some of them have been published, either
in Boeotia, was believed to have derived its name in the original or in a Latin version. Assemanni
from him. (Paus, vi. 21. 97; Müller, Orchom. p. enumerates some Arabic and several Syriac works
210. 2nd edit. )
of Esaias, which, judging from their titles, are ver-
2. A son of Rhadamanthus, who led the Ery- sions in those tongues of the known works of this
thraeans from Crete to the Ionian Erythrae. (Paus. writer. 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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