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

16 ENDOEUS.: ENDYMION.
threw upon him the island of Sicily. (Apollod. i. the time of Peisistratus and his sons, about n. c:
6. ~ 2.) There are two other fabulous beings of 560. (Thiersch, Epoclen, pp. 124, 125.) His
this name. (Apollod. ii. 1. ~ 5; Eustath. ad Hom. works were: 1. Inll the acropolis at Athens a sitp. 918.) [L. S.] ting statue of Athena, in olive-wood, with an inENCO'LPIUS. [PETRONIUS.] scription to the-effect that Callias dedicated it, and
ENCO'LPIUIS is named by Lampridius as the Endoeus made it. Hence his age is inferred, for
author of a life of the emperor Alexander Severus, the first Callias who is mentioned in history is the
with whom he lived upon terms of intimacy. opponent of Peisistratus. (Herod. vi. 121.) 2. In
(Lamprid. Alex. Sev. 17, 48.) the temple of Athena Polias at Erythrae in Ionia,
A book published by Thomas Elyot, a man a colossal wooden statue of the goddess, sitting on
celebrated for his learning in the reign of Henry a throne, holding a distaff in each hand, and having
VIII., under the title " The Image of Governance a sun-dial (7roAos) on the head. 3. In connexion
(Imago Imperii) compiled of the Actes and Sen- with this statue, there stood- in the hypaethrum,
tences notable of the most noble emperor Alex- before the visit of Pausanias to the temple, statues
ander Severus, translated from the Greek of Eu- of the Graces and Hours, in white marble, also by
colpius (Encolpius) into English," Loend. 1540, Endoeus. 4. A statue of Athena Alea, in her
1541., 1544, 1549, 4to., 1556, 1594, 8vo., is a fa- temple at Tegea, made entirely of ivory, which
brication. [W. R.] was transported to Rome by Augustus, and set up
ENDE'IS ('Ev8,jfs), a daughter of Chiron, who in the entrance of his forum. (Paus. i. 26. ~ 5;
was married to Aeacus, by whom she became the vii. 5. ~ 4; viii. 46. ~ 2; Athenag. Leqat. pro
mother of Peleus and Telamon. (Apollod. iii. 12. Ch-rist. p. 293, a.) [P. S.]
~ 6,): Pausanias (ii. 29. ~ 7) calls her a daughter ENDY'MION ('EYvuvfav), a youth distinof Sciron. [L. S.] -guished for his beauty, and renowned in ancient
E'NDIUS (CEv~os), of Sparta, son of Alcibiades, story by the perpetual sleep in which he spent his
member of a family whose connexion with that of life.. Some traditions about Endymion refer us to
theAthenianAlcibiades had ina previous generation Elis, and others to Caria, and others again are a
introduced into the latter this Lacedaemonian name. combination of the two. According to the first set
It is he apparently who was one of the three am- of legends, he was a son of Aethlius and Calyce,orbassadors sent by Sparta in 420 B. C. to dissuade of Zeus and Calyce, and succeeded Ai'thlius in the
Athens from the Argive alliance. They were kingdom of Elis. (Paus. v. 1. ~ 2.) - Others again
chosen, says Thucydides, from the belief of their say that he expelled Clymenus from the kingdom of'
being acceptable to the Athenians, and possibly in Elis, and introduced into the country Aeolian setparticular with a view to conciliate his guest, Alci- tlers from Thessaly. (Apollod. i. 7. ~.5, &c.;
biades, who probably made use of this very advan- Paus. v. 8. ~ 1.) Conon (ANarrat. 14) calls him a
tage in~ effecting the deception by which he de- son of Zeus and Protogeneia, and Hyginus (Fab.
feated their purpose. He was elected ephor in the 271) a son of Aetolus. He is said to have been
autumn of 413, the time of the Athenian disaster married to Asterodia, Chromia, Hyperippe, NeYs,
at Syracuse, and through him Alcibiades, now in or Iphianassa; and Aetolus, Paeon, Epeins. Euryexile, inflicted on his country the severe blow of dice, and Naxus are called his children. He was,
bringing the Lacedaemonians to the coast of Ionia, however, especially beloved by Selene, by whom
which otherwise would at any rate have been post- he had fifty daughters. (Paus. v. 1. ~ 2.) He
poned. His influence decided the government to caused his sons to engage in the race-course at
lend its first succour to Chios; and when the Olympia, and promised to the victor the succession
blockade of their ships in Peiraeeus seemed likely in his kingdom, and Epeius conquered his brothers,
to put a stop to all operations, he again persuaded and succeeded Endymion as king of Elis. He was
Endius and his colleagues to make the attempt. believed to be buried at Olympia, which also conThucvdides says, that Alcibiades was his 7rasrpsJr tained a statue of his in the treasury of the Metaes a 4dmla e'vos; so that probably it was with pontians. (Paus. vi. 19. e 8, 20. ~ 6.) According
him that Alcibiades resided during his stay at to a tradition, believed at Heracleia in Caria, EnSparta. (Thuc. v. 44, viii. 6, 12.) To these dymion had come from Elis to mount Latmus in
facts we may venture to add from Diodorts (xiii. Caria, whence he is called the Latmian (Latmius;
52, 53) the further statement, that- after the defeat Pans. v. 1. e 4; Ov. Ars Am. iii. 83, Trist. ii.
at Cyzicus, B. C. 410, he was sent from Sparta at 299). He is described by the poets either as a
the head of an embassy to Athens with proposals king, a shepherd, or a hunter (Theocrit. iii. 49,
for peace of the fairest character, which were, how- xx. 37 with the Scholiast), and while he was slumever, through the influence of the presumptuous bering in a cave of mount Latmus, Selene came
demagogue Cleophon, rejected. Endius, as the down to him, kissed, and lay by his side. (Comp.
friend of Alcibiades, the victor of Cyzicus, would Apollon. Rhod. iv. 57.) There also he had, in
naturally be selected; and the account of Diodo- later times, a sanctuary, and his tomb was shewn
rus, with the exception of course of the oration he in a cave of mount Latmus. (Paus. v. 1. ~ 4;
writes for Endius, may, notwithstanding the Strab. xiv. p. 636.) His eternal sleep o'n Latmus
silence of- Xenophon, be received as true in the is assigned to different causes in ancient story.
main. [A. H. C.] Some said that Zeus had granted him- a request,
ENDOEUS ('Evoloor), an Athenian statuary, and that Endymion begged for immortality, eteris called a disciple of Daedalus, whom he, is said to nal sleep, and everlasting youth (Apollod. i. 7.
have accompanied when he fled to Crete. This ~ 5.); others relate that he was received among
statement must be taken to express, not the time the gods of Olympus, but as he there fell in love
at which he lived, but the style of art which he with Hera, Zeus, in his anger, punished him by
practised. It is probable that he lived at the same throwing him into eternal sleep on mount Latmus.
period as Dipoenus and Scyllis, -who are in the (Schol. ad T/eocrit. iii. 49.) Others, lastly, state
-same way called disciples of Daed!ilus, namely, in that Selene, charmed with his surpassing beauty,