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

ELVA. FEMMENIDAE. 11
ELQLOPS ("ENXoi~), a son' of Ion or TithonuS, fought'at' the Lake Regillus, where he commanded
-from whom Ellopia in Euboea derived its name. the left wing.' The lays of that battle sung of his
(Strab.,x. p. 445; Steph. Byz. s. v.'EAo7rtia; combat-with Octavius Mamilius, by whom his arm
Eustath. ad Hornz. p. 280.) [L. S.] was pierced through. (Liv. ii. 19; Dionys. v. 58,
ELPE'NOR('EAnrjvwp), one of the companions vi. 2, 4, 5, 11.)
of Odysseus, who were metamorphosed by Circe 2. L. AEBUTIUS T. F. T. N. ELVA, son of the
into swine, and afterwards back into men. In- preceding, consul with P. Servilius Priscus Structus:toxicated with wine, Elpenor one day fell asleep in B. c. 463, was carried off in his consulship by
on the roof of Circe's residence, and in lis attempt the great plague which raged at Rome in that year.
to rise he fell down and broke his neck. (Hom. (Liv. iii. 6; Dionys. ix. 67; Diod. xi. 79; Oros.
Od. x. 550, &c.) When Odysseus was in the ii. 12.)
lower world, he'met the shade of Elpenor, who. 3. POSTUIUrs AEBUTIus ELVA CORNICEN, conimplored him to burn his body and to erect a sul with M. Fabius Vibulanus in B. C. 442, in
monument to him- (Od. xi. 57.) After his return'which year a colony was founded at Ardea, and
to the island- of Circe, Odysseus complied with magister equitum to the dictator Q. Servilius Pristhis request of his friend. (Od. xii. 10, &c.; comp. cus Structus in B. C. 435. (Liv. iv. 11, 21; Diod.
Juven. xv. 22; Ov. Ibis, 487.) Elpenor was xii. 34.)
painted by Polygnotus in the Lesche at Delphi. 4. M. AEBUTIUS ELVA, one of the triumviri
(Paus. x. 29.) Servius (ad Aen. vi. 107) relates for founding the colony at Ardea in B. c. 442.
that Elpenor was killed by Odysseus himself for (Liv. iv. 11.)
necromantic purposes. [L. S.] 5. M. AEBUTIUS ELVA, praetor in B.C. 168,
ELPI'DIUS ('EAriLos), is called a remarkable when he obtained Sicily as his province. (Liv.
man and fond of learning. Leontius, in his com- xliv. 17.)
mentary on the "Phaenomena" of Aratus, says, E'LYMUS ('EAvlios), a Trojan, -a natural son
that he- had constructed for Elpidius a sphaera ac- of Anchises and a brother of Eryx. (Tzetz. ad
cording to the description of Aratus, and Fabricius Lycop]. 959.) Previous to the emigration of
(Bibl. Gr. iv. p. 94, note) supposes that this Elpi- Aeneias, Elymus and Aegestus had fled from Troy
dius is the same as the patrician who was sent as to Sicily, and had settled on the banks of the river
ambassador to Chaganus, king of the Avari, in the Crimisus, in the country of the Sicani. When
first year of the reign of the emperor Mauritius, afterwards Aeneias also arrived there, he built for
and who is mentioned by Cedrenus and other them the towns of Aegesta and Elyme, and the
writers of that period. [L. S.] Trojans who settled in that part of Sicily called
ELPI!DI US, or HELPIDIUS ('EA7rlbLos), one themselves Elymi, after Elymus. (Dionys. Hal.
of the physicians of Theodoric the Great, king of A. R. i. 52, &c.) Strabo (xiii. p. 608) calls him
the Ostrogoths, A. D. 493-526,whom he attended Elymnus, and- says that he went to Sicily with
in his last illness. (Procop. de Bello Goth. lib. i. Aeneias, and that they together took possession of
p, 167, ed. Hiischel.) lie was a Christian, and Eryx and Lilybaeum.- Elymus was further bein deacon's orders, and probably a native of Milan. lieved to have founded Asca and Entella in Sicily.
There is extant a letter to him from king Theo- (Virg. Aen. v. 73, with Servius's note.) [L. S.]
doric (ap. Cassiod. Variar. iv. 24), and four from EMANUEL. [MANrUEL.]
Ennodius. (Epist. vii. 7, viii. 8, ix. 14, 21; ap. EMA'THION ('H/uaicowv), a son of Tithonus
Sirmondi Opera, vol. i.) [W. A. G.] and Eos, and a brother of Memnon. (Hes.
ELPINI'CE ('EArwtvlKzf), daughter of Miltiades, Theog. 985.) He was king of Arabia, and was
and sister of Cimon. According to some accounts slain by'Heracles. (Apollod. ii. 5. ~ 11; Q. Smyrn.
she was only his:half-sister, and he therefore made iii. 300.) There are two other mythical personages
her his wife, the Athenian law permitting marriage of this name. (Ov. Met. v. 105; Virg. Aen. ix.
with a sister, if she was not o,uoeJfr'plo. He gave' 571.) [L. S.]
her, however, afterwards in marriage to Callias, who E'MATHUS ('Hpaeos), a son of Macedon and
bad fallen in love with her, and who made this the brother of Pierus, from whom Emathia, that is
condition of paying for Cimon the fine which had Macedonia, was believed to have derived its name.
been imposed uponMiltiades. [vol.i. p.567,b.] The (Eustath. ad Hom. p. 980.) The daughters of
character of Elpinice does not' stand high, and we Pierus (the Pierides) are sometimes called after
hear of a suspected intrigue of her's with Polyg- their uncle Emathides. -(Ov. lMet. v. 669.) [L. S.]
notus, the painter. When Cimon was accused of E'MILUS ('EptAos) of Aegina, made the gold
having taken bribes from Alexander I., king of and ivory statues of the Hours sitting on thrones
Macedonia, Elpinice went to Pericles to entreat his in the temple of Hera at Olympia. (Pans. v. 17.
forbearance. He put her off at the time with a ~ 1.) There is no other mention of this artist,
jest, but he refrained on the trial from pressing and -there can-be no doubt that Valckenaer is right
strongly the charge against her brother. Cimon is in reading uAJALs. Some MSS. give'ElutAts and
said also to have negotiated with Pericles, through A/uALts.' [SMILIS.] [P. S.]
Elpinice, the terms on which he was to return EMME'NIDAE ('EluuteviGa), a princely family
from exile. (Plut. Cim. 4, 14, Pericl. 10; Nepos, at Agrigentum, which traced its origin to the
Cim. 1.) [E. E.] mythical hero Polyneices. Among its members
ELVA, the name of a patrician family of the we know Emmenides (from whom the family deAebutia gens. rived its name) the father of Aenesidamus, whose
1. T. AEBUTIUS T. F. ELVA, consul with P. Ve- sons Theron and Xenocrates are celebrated by
turius Geminus Cicurinus in B.C. 499, in which Pindar as victors at the great games of Greece.
year Fidenae was besieged and Crustumeria taken. Theron won a prize at Olympia, in 01. 76 (B. C.
In the following year, according to the date of 476), in the chariot-race with four fiull-grown
most annalists, Elva was magister equitum to the horses, and Xenocrates gained prizes in the horsedictator A. Posturmius Albinus in the great battle race at the Pythian, Isthmian, and -Panathenlaic