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

ELAGABALUS. ELATUS 7
ceived information of what had: happened, de- parrots, with assembling companies of guests who
spatched Julianus -with a body of troops to quell were all fat, or all lean, or all tall, or all short, or
the insurrection. But these, instead of obeying all bald, or all gouty,.and regaling them with mock
the orders of their general, were prevailed upon to repasts; had he been content to occupy his leisure
join the mutineers. Whereupon Macrinus ad- hours in solemnizing the nuptials of his favourite
vanced in person to meet: his. rival, was signally deity with the Trojan Pallas or the African Urania,
defeated in a battle fought on the borders of Syria and iii making matches between the'gods and godand Phoenicia, and having escaped in disguise was desses all over Italy,. men might have laughed
soon afterwards discovered, brought back, and put gooduaturedly, anticipating an increase of wisdom
to death. [MACRINUS.] Tihe conqueror hastened with increasing years. But unhappily even these
to Antioch, from whence he forwarded a letter to trivial amusements were not unfrequently accomthe senate, in which he at once assumed, without panied with.cruelty and bloodshed. His earnest
waiting for the form of their consent, all the desig- devotion to that god whose minister he had been,
nations of Caesar, Imperator, son of Antoninus, and to whose favour he probably ascribed his elevagrandson of Severus, Pius, Felix, Augustus, and tion, might have. been regarded as excusable or
Proconsul, together with the tribunitian authority. even justifiable had it not been attended with
At the same time he inveighed against the persecution and tyranny. The Roman populace
treachery of Macrinus towards his master,.his. low would with easy toleration have admitted and worbirth, and his presumption in daring to adopt the shipped a new divinity, but they beheld with distitle of emperor, concluding with a promise to con- gust their emperor appearing in public, arrayed in
sult the best interests of all classes of the com- the attire of a Syrian priest, dancing wild measures
munity, and declaring that he intended to set up and chanting barbaric hymns; they listened with
Augustus, whose age when he first grasped the horror to the tales of magic rites, and of human
reins of power he compared with his own, as a victims secretly slaughtered; they could scarcely
model for imitation. No resistance to these claims submit without indignation to the ordinance that
was teAsfied. on ithe. part of. the senate or people, an: outlandish idol should take precedence of their
for we find from a curious inscription, discovered fathers' gods and of Jupiter himself, and still lese
some years ago at Rome, that the Fratres Arvales could they consent to obey the decree subsequently
assembled in the Capitol on the 14th of July, that promulgated, that it should not be lawful to offer
is scarcely -more than five weeks after.the decisive homage at Rome to any other celestial power. But
victory over Macrinus, in order to offer up their by far the blackest of his offences were his sins
annual vows for the health and safety of their young against.the decencies of both public and private
prince, who is distinguished by all the appellations life, the details of which are too horrible and too
enumerated above.. disgusting to admit of description. (Dion Cass.
Elagabalus entered upon his second consulship lxxvii. 30-41, lxxix.; Herodian, v. 4-23;
in A. D. 219, at Nicomedeia, and from thence pro- Lamprid. Elagab.; Capitolin. Macrin.; Eutrop.
ceeded to Rome, where he celebrated his accession viii. 13; Aurel. Vict. de Caes. xxiii., Epit. xxiii.)
by-magnificent games, by prodigal largesses, and A coin of Elagabalus is given under PAuLA, the
by laying the foundation of a sumptuous shrine for wife of Elagabalus. [W. R.]
his tutelary deity. Two years afterwards, when E'LAPHUS (EAhacos), the fifteenth in descent
he had rendered' himself alike odious and con- from Aesculapius, the son of Chrysus and the
temptible by all manner of follies and abominations, father of Hippolochus II., who lived probably in
he was persuaded by the politic Maesa to adopt the island of Cos in the sixth and fifth centuries
his first cousin, Alexander Severus, to proclaim B. C. (Suid. s. v.'Inr7roKpa')s; Thessali Oratio,
him Caesar, and nominate him consul-elect. Soon ap. Hippocr. Opera, vol. iii. p. 840.) [W. A. G.]
after, having repented of these steps, he endeavoured E'LARA ('EAdpa), a daughter of Orchomenus
to procure the death of his kinsman, but was frus- or Minyas, who became by Zeus the mother of the
tinted, partly by.the watchfulness of his grand- giant Tityus; and Zeus, from fear of Hera, conmother and partly by the zeal of the soldiers, with cealed her under the earth. (Apollod. i. 4. ~ I;'whom Alexander was a great favourite. A repeti- Apollon.. Rhod. i. 762; Eustath. ad Hom. p. 1583;
tion of a similar attempt the year following (A. D. MUller, Orchonz. p. 185, 2d. edit.) [L. S.]
222) proved his own destruction; for a mutiny E'LASUS (CEAaoos). There are two Trojans
having arisen among the praetorians in consequence, of this name, one of whom was slain by Patroclus
he was slain along with Soemias in the camp while and the other by Neoptolemus.. (Hom. II. xvi.
endeavouring to appease their fury. The two 696;. Pans. x. 26. ~ 1.). [L. S.]
bodies were dragged through the streets and cast E'LATUS ('Eha'os). 1. A soQn of Arcas by
into the Tiber, and hence the epithet or nickname Leaneira, Metaneira, or by the nymph Chrysopeof.Tiberinus,.one of the many applied in scorn to leia. He was a brother of Azan and. Apheidas,
the tyrant after his death. and king of Arcadia. By his wife Laodice he had'The reign of this prince, who perished at the four sons, Stymphalus, Aepytus, Cyllen, and Peage of eighteen, after having occupied the throne reus. (Apollod. iii. 9. ~ 1, 10. ~ 3; Paus. viii. 4.
for three years, nine months, and four days, dating ~ 2.) He is also called the father of Ischys (Pind.
from the battle of Antioch, was characterised Ptth. iii. 31) and of Dotis. (Steph. Byz. s.v. A.dthroughout by an accumulation of the most fantastic Tiov.) He is said to have resided on mount Cylfolly, and the most frantic superstition, together lene, and to have gone from thence to Phocis,
with impurity so'bestial that the particulars almost where he protected the Phocians and the Delphic
transcend the limits of credibility. Had he con- sanctuary against the Phlegyans, and founded the
fined himself to.the absurd practical jokes of which town of Elateia. (Paus. i..e., x. 34. ~ 3.) A staso 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. 48. ~ 6.)
nightingales, with. feeding. lions on pheasants and 2. A prince of the Lapithae at Larissa in Thes