A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology. By various writers. Ed. by William Smith. Illustrated by numerous engravings on wood.

2 ECHEDEMUS. ECHEPOLUS.
EBURNUS, an agnomen of Q. Fabius Maxi- meet Publius and Lucius Scipio at Amphissa, and
mus, who was consul in B. C. 116. [MAXIMUS.] to obtain peace for the Aetolians. When the contECDE'MUS. [DEMOPHANES.] sul- Lucius refused to recede from the hard terms
E'CDICUS ('EILKOs), a Lacedaemonian, was which had been already proposed by the senate,
sent out with eight ships, in B. C. 391, to put down the Aetolians, by the advice of Echedemus, applied
the democratic party in Rhodes. On his arrival for and obtained a truce of six months, that they
however at Cnidus, he found that the forces of his might again send ambassadors on the subject to
opponents doubled his own, and he was therefore Rome. (Polyb. xxi. 2',3; Liv. xxxvii. 6, 7.) [E. E.]
obliged to remain inactive. The Lacedaemonians, ECIE'MBROTUS ('EXespoeros), an Arcadian
when they heard that he was not in a condition to flute-player (aJAo0's), who gained a prize in the
effect anything, sent Teleutias with a larger arma- Pythian games about 01. 48. 3 (B. c. 586), and
ment to supersede him. (Xen. Hell. iv. 8. ~~ 20- dedicated a tripod to the Theban Heracles, with
23;:comp. Diod. xiv. 79, 97.) [E. E.] an inscription which is preserved in Pausaniasi(x.
ECEBO'LIUS ('EK7o'JLos), a sophist of Con- 7. ~ 3), and from which we learn that he won the
stantinople, who in the reign of Constantine the prize by his melic poems and elegies, which were
Great pretended to be a Christian, but afterwards, sung to the accompaniment of the flute. [L. S.]
in the time of the emperor Julian, conducted him- ECHE'MENES ('EXesuev7s), is mentioned by
self as a zealous pagan. (Suid. s. v.; Socrat. H. E. Athenaeus (xiii. p. 601) as the author of Kp~-rtKa,
iii. 13.) [L. S.] from which a statement relating to the mythical
ECECHEI'RIA ('EKXeXELpa), that is, the ar- history of Crete is there quoted. Vossius (de Hist.
mistice or truce, which was personified and repre- Graec. p. 436, ed. Westerm.) proposes to read in
sented as a divine being at the entrance of the tem- Fulgentius (Mythol. i. 14), Echemenes for Euxepie of Zeus at Olympia; there was a statue of Iphi- menes, who is there. spoken of as the author of
tus, which Ececheiria was in the act of crowning. MvOoAoyo5onsvca, of which the first book is quoted.
(Paus. v. 10. ~ 3, 26. ~ 2.) [L. S.] But this conjecture is without support. [L. S.]
ECHECLUS ("EXeiKos), a son of Agenor, who E'CHEMON ('Exfywv), a son of Priam, who
was slain by Achilles. (Hom. II. xx. 473; Paus. x. was killed, with his brother Chromius, byDiomedes.
27.) A Trojan of the same name occurs in the (Hom. I. v. 160; Apollod.iii. 12. ~ 5.) [L. S.]
Iliad. (xvi. 692.) [L. S.] E'CHEMUS (CEXe/Uos), a son of Aeropus and
ECHE'CRATES ('EXFecpdcirl). 1. A Thessa- grandson of Cepheus, succeeded Lycurgus as king
lian, was one of those whom the ministers of Pto- of Arcadia. (Paus. viii. 4. ~ 7.) He was married
lemy Philopator, when they were preparing for to Timandra, a daughter of Tyndareus and Leda.
war with Antiochus the Great in B. c. 219, em- (Apollod. iii. 10. ~ 6.) In his reign the Dorians
ployed in the levying of troops and their arrange- invaded Peloponnesus, and Echemus succeeded in
ment into separate companies. He was entrusted slaying, in single combat, Hyllus, the son of Herawith the command of the Greek forces in Ptolemv's cles. (Paus. viii. 5. 9 1, 45. ~ 2; Schol. ad Pind.
pay, and of all the mercenary cavalry, and did Ol. x. 79.) The fight was believed to have ocgood service in the war, especially at the battle of curred on the frontier, between Corinth and MeRaphia in B. c. 217. (Polyb. v. 63, 65, 82, 85.) gara, and in the latter place Hyllus was buried.
2. Son of Demetrius of Cyrene by Olympias of (Paus. i. 41. ~ 3, 44. ~ 14.) After the-fall of HylLarissa, and brother of Antigonus Doson. He lus the Heracleidae were obliged to promise not to
had a son named Antigonus after his uncle. (Liv. repeat their-attempts upon Peloponnesus within the
xl. 54; see vol. i. pp. 187, 189,b.) [E. E.] next fifty or hundred years, and the Tegeatans
ECHE'CRATES ('EXEKcpI7'Ts), the name of were honoured with the privilege of commanding
three Pythagorean philosophers, mentioned by one wing of the Peloponnesian army, whenever the
lamblichus. ( Vit. Pytsl. ad fin.) inhabitants of the peninsula undertook an expedi1. A Locrian, one of those to whom Plato is tion against a foreign enemy. (Herod. ix. 26;
said to have gone for instruction. (Cic. de Fin. v. Diod. iv. 58.) The fight of Echemus and Hyllus
29.) The name Caetus in Valerius Maximus (viii. was represented on the tomb of Echemus at Tegea.
7, Ext. 3) is perhaps an erroneous reading for (Paus. viii. 53. ~ 5.) According to Stephanus of
Echecrates. Byzantium (s. v.'EKa6r'ea) Echemus accompanied
2. A Tarentine, probably the same who is men- the Dioscuri in their expedition to Attica, whereas
tioned in Plat. Ep. 9. Plutarch (Thles. 32) calls the Arcadian companions
3. Of Phlius, was contemporary with Aristox- of the Dioscuri Echedemus and Marathus. rL. S.]
enus the Peripatetic. (Diog. Laert. viii. 46; comp. ECHENE'US ('EXev7los), the eldest among the
Gell. iv. ] 1; Fabric. Bil)l. Graec. i. p. 861.) [E. E.] nobles of Alcinous in the island of the Phaeacians.
ECHECRA'TIDES ('EXecpari1sr),- a Peripa- (Hom. Od. vii. 155, xi. 341.) [L. S.]
tetic philosopher, who is mentioned among the ECHEPHRON ('Exe'ppow). 1. A son of Hedisciples of Aristotle. He is spoken of only by racles and Psophis, the daughter of Xanthus or
Stephanus of Byzantium (s. v. MiOvua), from Eryx. He was twin-brother of Promachus, and
whom we learn that he was a native of Methymna both had a heroum at Psophis. (Paus. viii. 24.
in Lesbos. ~~ 1, 3.)
Several other persons of this name, concerning 2. A son of Nestor by Eurydice or Anaxibia.
whom nothing is known beyond what is contained (Hom. Od. iii. 413; Apollod. i. 9. ~ 9.) A third
in the'passages where they occur, are mentioned Echephron is mentioned in Apollodorus. (iii. 12.
by Thucydides (i. 111), Pausanias (x. 16. ~ 4), ~ 5.) [L. S.]
Aelian ( V. H. i. 25), Lucian (Tinson, 7), and by ECHEPHY'LLIDES ('EXe(uAATn'rs), a gram-Anyte in the Greek Anthology. (vi. 123.) [L. S.] marian or historian, who is mentioned by Stephanus
ECHEDE'MUS [ECHEMUS.] of Byzantium (s. v. cpaIcT7rpia), and by the SchoECHEDE'MUS ('EXe4rq.oS), the chief of the liast on Plato's Phaedon (p. 389). [L. S.]
Athenian embassy which was sent, in B. C. 190, to -ECHEPO'LUS ('EX'7rwAos). The Homeric