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

4 ECPHANTIDES..EGILIUS.
of the echo which was heard there.; thus, there is obtained by Niike from a comparison of Suidas
was one stoa at Hermione with a threefold, and (s. v. EvFe) with Hephaestion (xv. 13, p. 96, Gaisf.;
one at Olympia with a sevenfold echo. (Paus. ii. see Gaisford's note). Ecphantides was said to have
35. ~ 6, v. 21. ~ 7.) CompareWiesler, Die Nympl7e been assisted in composing his plays by his slave
Echo: eine kunstmythologische AbAandlung, G ttin- CHOERILUS. [P. S.]
gen, 1844. [L. S.] E'DECON ('EeecKWV), an Iberian chief, called
ECLECTUS or ELECTUTS, originally, it would Edesco by Livy. He came to Scipio at Tarraco,
appear, the freedman of L. Verus, after whose in B. c. 209, and offered to surrender himself " to
death he enjoyed the protection of M. Aurelius, the faith of the Romans," requesting, at the same
became subsequently the chamberlain of Ummidius time, that his wife and children, who were among
Quadratus, and after his destruction was chosen to the hostages that had fallen into Scipio's hands at
fill the same office in the household of Commodus. the capture of New Carthage, might be restored to
The. circumstances under which Eclectus, in con- him. Scipio granted his prayer, and thereby greatly
junction with Laetus and Marcia, contrived the increased the Roman influence in Spain.
death of the tyrant and then forced the vacant Edecon was the first chief who, after the retreat
throne upon Pertinax, along with whom he eventu- of Hasdrubal to the Pyrenees, saluted Scipio as
ally perished, are described elsewhere. [COM- king, -a homage which the latter knew better
Mobvs; LAETUS; MARCIA; PERTINAX.] than to accept. (Polyb. x. 34, 35, 40; Liv. xxvii.
(Capitolin. Ver. 9, expressly declares that the 17, 19.) [E. E.]
Eclectus who was the freedman of Verus was the EDO'NUS ('HMcvos), the mythical ancestor of
individual who murdered Commodus, while in the Edones in Thrace. (Steph. Byz. s. v.'Hhwstoi.)
Dion Cassius, lxxii. 4, he is first introduced as the The name is therefore used also in the sense of
chamberlain of Quadratus. See also Dion Cass. "Thracian," and as Thrace was one of the principal
lxxii. 19, 22, lxxiii. 1; Capitolin. Pertin. 4,.11; seats of the worship of Dionysus, it further signifies
Herodian, i..51, &c., ii. 1; Zonar. xii. 5.) [W. R.] "Dionysiac" or "Bacchantic." (Ov. Rein. Am.
Q. ECLO'GIUS or EULO'GIUS. According 593; Hor. Carms. ii. 7. 27.) [L. S.]
to the commonly received text of Suetonius (Vitell. EDU'LICA or EDUSA, a Roman divinity,
), Q. Eclogius or Eulogius was the author of a who was worshipped as the protectress of children,
little work on the history and genealogy of the and was believed to bless their food, just as Potina
Vitellii, in which the origin of the family was and Cuba blessed their drinking and their sleep.
traced from Faunus, king of the Aborigines. It (Augustin, de Civ. Dei, iv. 11; Varro, ap. Non.
must be remarked, however, that the existence of p. 108; Arnob. iii. 25; Donat. ad Terent. Phormn.
a writer bearing this appellation depends upon a i. 1, 11.) [L. S.]
conjectural emendation of Casaubon, who supposes EERIBOEA. [ERtBOEA.]
that his name at full length was Q. Vitellius Eclogius EETION ('He[iwv), a king of the Placian Thebe
or Eulogiuzs, and that he was a freedman of the in Cilicia, ald father of Anldromache and Podes.
emperor whose pedigree he investigated. [W. R.] (Hom. II. vi. 396, xvii. 575.) He and seven of
*ECPHA'NTIDES ('EKcpaViT1s), an Athenian his sons were, slain by Achilles (//. vi. 415, &c.),
comic poet of the old comedy, flourished after who proposed the mighty iron ball, which Eetion
Magnes, and a little before Cratinus and Tele- had once thrown, and which had come into the
cleides. (Niike, Choerilus, p. 52.). He is called possession of Achilles, as one of the prizes at the
by Aspasius (ad Aristot. Eth. Nicom. iv. 2) aV, funeral games of Patroclus. (Il. xxiii. 826, &c.)
apXa[c.w 7raXar4'ra'ov,roe7'ir,, which words some Among the booty which Achilles made in the
writers understand as implying that he was town of Edtion, we find especial mention of the
older than Chionides and Magnes. But we have horse Pedasus and the phorminx with a silver
the clear testimony of Aristotle (Poet. v. 3), that neck, on which Achilles played in his tent. (II.
all the poets before Magnes furnished their cho- xv. 153, ix. 186.) There are two other mythical
ruses at their own expense, whereas the name personages of this name. (11. xxi. 40, &c.; Pans.
of a person who was choragus for Ecphantides is ii. 4. ~ 4.) [L. S.]
mentioned also by Aristotle. (Polit. viii. 6.) EGE'RIA. [AEGERIA.]
Again, a certain Androcles, to whom Cratinus and EGE'RIUS, the son of Aruns, who was the
Telecleides often refer, was also attacked by Ec- brother of L. Tarquinius Priscus [ARUNs, No. 1],
phantides, who could not, therefore, have flourished was born after the death of his father; and as Delong before those poets. (Schol. Aristoph. Vesp. maratus, the father of Aruns, died shortly after the
1182.) The date of Ecphantides may be placed death of his son without knowing that his daughterabout O1. 80 (B. C. 460), and onwards. The mean- in-law was pregnant, none of his property was left
ing of the surname of Kanrvlas, which was given to to Egerius, from which circumstance, according to
Ecphantides by his rivals, has been much disputed, the legend, he derived his name. When the town
but it seems to imply a mixture of subtlety and of Collatia was taken by his uncle Tarquinius
obscurity. He ridiculed the rudeness of the old Priscus, Egerius was left in command of the place,
Megaric comedy, and was himself ridiculed on the and henceforth received, according to Dionysius,
same ground by Cratinus, Aristophanes, and the surname of Collatinus (though this name is
others. (Hesych. s. v. KaorvY'as; Schol. Aristoph. usually confined to his son L.Tarquinius Collatinus).
IVesp. 151; Nike, Clkoeril. p. 52; Lehrs, Quaest. Egerius was afterwards sentagainst Fidenae in comEpic. p. 23; Meineke, p. 36.) mand of the allied forces of Rome. [COLLATINUS.]
There is only one certain title of a play by Ec- (Liv. i. 34, 33 8; Dionys. iii. 50, 57, comp. iv. 64.)
phantides extant, namely, the CarTVpo,, a line of EGESI'NUS. [HEGESINUS.]
which is preserved by Athenaeus (iii. p.96, b., c.). EGESTA. [ACES] ES.]
Another play, nu'pavvos, is ascribed to him by L. EGI'LIUS, one of the three commissioners
Nike on conjectural grounds; but Meineke as- who superintended the foundation of the colony
cribes it to Autiphasies. Another title, AoJvvaos, planted at Luca, B.C. 177. (Liv.xli. 17.) [C.P.M.]