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

20 ENNODIUS. ENTELLUS.
bishop of Pavia in A. D. 511,'and in 51]4 was eventually prompted him to devote his life to the
sent, along with Fortunatus, bishop of Catania, and service of God. It is dedicated to Elpidius, a
others, by Pope Hormisda to Constantinople in deacon and physician.
order to combat the progress of the Eutychian 7. Paraenesis didascalica ad Ambrosium et Beaheresy. The embassy having proved unsuccessful turn, an exhortation, in which poetry is combined
in consequence of the emperor, who was believed with prose, urging two youths to the practice of
to be favourable to the opinions in question, having virtue.
refused to acknowledge the authority of the Roman 8. Praeceptum de cellulanis episcoporum. The
pontiff, Ennodius was despatched a second time in cellulani were the contubernales whom bishops,
517, along with Peregrinus, bishop of Misenum, presbyters, and deacons were required to retain as
bearing a confession of faith, which the eastern constant companions "ad amoliendas maledicorum
churches were invited or rather required to sub; calumnias." (See Ducange, Glossar.) In this tract
scribe. On this occasion the envoy was treated they are called concellanei.
with great harshness by Anastasius, who not only 9. Petitorium quo Gerontlius puer Agapiti absodismissed him with ignominy, but even sought his lutus est. On the' manumission of a slave by his
life, by causing him to embark in a crazy vessel, master in the church.
which was strictly forbidden to touch at any 10. Cerei paschalis benedictiones duae.
Grecian port. Having escaped this danger, Enno- 11. Orationes. A series of short essays or decladius returned to his diocese, where he occupied mations, twenty eight in number, which the author
himself with religious labours until his death in himself names dictiones, classified according to their
A. D. 521, on the 17th of July, the day which subjects. Of these six are sacrae, seven schoiasticae,
after his canonization was observed as his festival. ten controversiae, five ethicae.
The works of this prelate,' as contained in the 12. Carmina. A large collection of poems, most
edition of Sirmond, are the following:- of them short occasional effusions, on a multitude
1. Epistolarumn ad Diversos Libri IX. A col- of different topics, sacred and profane. Fourteen
lection of 497 letters, including one composed by are to be found interspersed among his epistles and
his sister, the greater number of them written other prose works, and one hundred and seventyduring the pontificate of Symmachus (493-514). two form a separate collection.
They for the most part relate to private concerns The writings of Ennodius might serve as al exand domestic occurrences, and hence. possess little emplification of all the worst faults of a corrupt
general interest. They are remarkable for gentle- style. Nothing can'be more affected than the form
ness and piety of tone, but some persons have of expression, nothing more harsh than the diction.
imagined that they could detect a leaning towards They are concise without being vigorous, obscure
semipelagianism. The charge, however, has not without being deep, while the use of figurative
been by any means substantiated. language, metaphors, and allegories, is pushed to
2. Panegyricus -Theodorico regi dictus. A com- such extravagant excess that whole pages wear the
plimentary address delivered in the presence of the aspect of a long dull enigma.
Gothic monarch at Milan, or at Ravenna, or at A considerable number of the works of this
Rome, probably in the year A. D. 507. It is some- father appeared in the " Monumenta S. Patrum
times included in the collections of-the " Panegy- Orthodoxographa," Basil. fol., 1569; they were
rici Veteres," and is considered as one of the first published separatelyby Andr. Schottus, Tornac.
principal sources for the history of that period, 8vo. 1611, but will be found in their most complete
although obviously no reliance can be placed on and best form in the edition'of Sirmond, Paris.
the statements contained in an effusion of such 8vo. 1611, and in his Opera, vol. i. fol., Paris.
a character. [DErPANIvUS.] It will be found, 1696, and Venet. 1729; also in the Bibl. Patr.
with notes, in Manso, Geschickte des Ostgoth. Reichs, Mlrax., Lugdun. 1677, vol. ix., and in other large
p. 433. collections of the fathers.
3. Libellus adversus eos qui contra synoduns Martenne and Durand (Collect. Monummnz. vol.
scribere praesumserunt. A powerful and argumen- v. p. 61) have added a new oration and a short
tative harangue, read before the fifth Roman letter to Venantius.
synod held in A. D. 503, and adopted as part of (See the Vita Ennodii prefixed to the edition
their proceedings, in defence of the measures sane- of Sirmond. A very full biography is given by
tioned by the synod of the previous year, against Funccius also, De inerti ac decrepita L. L. senecschisinatics, and in support of the jurisdiction of tete, c. iii. ~ xx., c. vi. ~ viii., c. viii. ~ x., c. 11.
the Roman pontiffgenerally. ~ xxxi) [W. R.]
4. Vita beatissimi virn Epiphanii Ticinensis epis- E'NNOMUS ('Evvoosr), a Mysian and ally of
copi. A biography of St.'Epiphanius, his predeces- the Trojans, who was killed by Achilles. (Hom. II.
sor in the see of Pavia, who died in A. D. 496. ii. 858, xvii. 218.) Another person of this name
This piece is valued on account of the light which occurs in the Odyssey (xi. 422). [L. S.]
it throws upon the history of the times, and is con- ENORCHES ('EvspXvs), a son of Thyestes by
sidered one of the most interesting and agreeable his sister Daeta, was born out of an egg, and built
among the works of Ennodius, which, to say the a temple to Dionysus, who was hence called Diotruth, are for the most part rather repulsive. It nysus Enorches, though Enorches may also describe
will'be found in the collections of Surius and the the god as the dancer. (Tzetz. ad Lycoph. 212;
Bollandists under the 22nd of January. Hesych. s. v.). [L. S.]
5. Vita beati Antonii monachi Livinensis, a pane- ENTELLUS, a Trojan, or a Sicilian hero, from
gyrie upon a holy man unknown save from this whom the town of Entella, in Sicily, was believed
tract. to have received its name. (Virg. Aen. v. 389, with
6. Eetharisticumn de vita; a thanksgiving for re- Servius.) Tzetzes (ad Lycoph. 953) states, that
covery from a dangerous malady, during which the Entella was so called from Entella, the wife of
author was first led to those thoughts which Aegestes. LL. S.]