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

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Athens, where he had an altar at the entrance of 8vo.,: Greek and Latin, containing also the glosthe Academy. (Paus. i. 30. ~ 1.) At Megara his saries of'Galen and Herodotus, a learned and
statue, together with those of Himeros and Pothos, copious commentary, and good indices. It has also
stood in the temple of Aphrodite. (Paus. i. 43. ~ 6, been published with some editions of the works of
comp. iii. 26. ~ 3, vi. 24. ~ 5, vii. 26. ~ 3.) Hippocrates. [W. A. G.]
Among the things sacred to Erosj and which fre- ERO'TIUS, vicarius and quaestor, one of the
quently appear with him in works of art, we may commission of Sixteen, appointed by Theodosius
mention the rose, wild beasts which are tamed by in A. D. 435, to compile the Theodosian Code,
-him, the hare, the cock, and the ram. Eros was a He does not appear, however, to have taken any
favourite subject with the ancient statuaries, but distinguished part in its composition. [DIODORUS,
his representation seems. to have been brought to vol. i. p. 1018.] [J. T. G.]
perfection by Praxiteles, who conceived him as a ERU'CIA GENS, plebeian. Only one member
full-grown youth of the most perfect beauty. (Lu- of this gens is mentioned in the time of the repubcian, Am. ii. 17; Plin. H. N. xxxvi. 4, 5.) In lie, namely, C. Erucius, the accuser of Sex.Roscius of
later times artists followed. the example of poets, Ameria, whom Cicero defended in B. C. 80. From
and represented him as a little boy. (Hirt, Mythol. Cicero's account he would appear to have been a
Bilderb. ii. p. 216, &c.; Welcker, Zeitschrifi fur man of low origin. (Cic. pro Rose. 13, 16, 18die alte Kunst, p. 475.) Respecting the connexion 21, 29, 32.) His name also appears as one of the
between Eros and Psyche, see PSYCHE. [L. S.] accusers of L. Varenus, who was likewise defended
EROS (bEpws) occurs in three ancient Latin by Cicero, but in what year is uncertain. - [VAinscriptions as the name of one or more physicians, RENUS.] He was called by Cicero in his speech
one of whom is supposed to have been physician for Varenus Antoniaster, that is, an imitator of the
to Julia, the daughter of the emperor Augustus. orator Antonius. (Cic. Fragm. pro Varen. 8, p.
There is extant a short work, written in bad 443, edi Orelli.) The Ericius ('EpiKcos) who is
-Latin, and entitled " Curajilarum Aegritudinum mentioned by Plutarch (Sell. 16, 18) as one of
Muliebrium ante et post Partum Liber unicus," Sulla's legates in the Mithridatic war, is supposed
which has sometimes been attributed to Eros. by Drumann (Gesch.:Roms, vol. iii. p. 68) to be a
The style, however, and the fact that writers are false reading for Hirtius, but we ought perhaps to
quoted in it -who lived long after the time of read Ericius.
Augustus, prove that this supposition is not correct. Under the empire, in the second century after
It has also been attributed to a female named Christ, a familyof the Erucii of the name of Clarus
Trotula, under whose name it is generally quoted; attained considerable distinction. [CLARUS.]
but C. G. Gruner, who has examined the subject E'RXIAS. [ERGIAs.]
in a dissertation entitled "Neque Eros, neque ERYCI'NA ('EpKlvv1), a surname of Aphrodite,
Trotula, sed Salernitanus quidam Medicus, isque derived from mount Eryx, in Sicily, where she had
Christianus, Auctor Libelli est qui De Morbis a famous temple, which was said to have been built
Mulierum inscribitur" (Jenae, 1773, 4to.), proves by Eryx, a son of Aphrodite and the Sicilian king
that this also is incorrect. The work is of very Butes. (Diod. iv, 83.) Virgil (Aen. v. 760) makes
little value, and is included in the Aldine collec- Aeneias build the temple. Psophis, a daughter of
tion, entitled " Medici Antiqui omnes qui Latinis Eryx, was believed to have founded a temple of
Litteris," &c., fol., Venet. 1547, and in the collec- Aphrodite Erycina, at Psophis, in Arcadia. (Paus.
tion of writers " Gynaeciorum," or "on Female viii. 24. ~ 3.) From Sicily the worship of AphroDiseases," Basil. 4to, 1566, It was also published dite- (Venius) Erycina was introduced, at Rome
in 1778, Lips. 8vo., together with H. Kornmann, about the beginning of the second Punic war (Liv.
" De Virginum Statu," &c. [W.A.G.] xxii. 9, 10, xxiii. 30, &c.), and in B.C. 181 a temEROTIA'NUS ('Epcrwravo's), or, as he is some- ple was built to her outside the Porta Collatina.
times called, Herodianus ('HpwoeaPo's), the author (Liv., 34;- Ov. Fast. iv. 871, Rem. Amor. 549;
of a Greek work still extant, entitled T'v 7rap' Strab. vi. p. 272; comp. Cic. in Verr. iv, 8; Horat'Iriroicpre, AeS'ewpv vova'ywy4, -Vocum, quae aped Carrm. i. 2. 33; Ov. Heroid. xv. 57.) [L. S.]
Hippocratem sunt, Collectio. Itis uncertain whether ERY'CIUS ('Epv'Kos), the name of two poets,
he was himself a physician, or merely a gramma- whoseepigrams are in the Greek Anthology. The
nan, but he appears to have written (or at least to one is called a Cyzicene, the other a Thessalian;
have intended to write) some other wgorks on Hip- and, from the internal evidence of the epigrams, it
pocrates besides that which we. now possess (pp.: is probable that the one lived in the time of Sulla,
23, 208, ed. Franz). He must have lived (and and about B, C..84, the other under the emperor
probably at Rome) in the reign of the'epperor Hadrian. Their epigrams are so mixed up, that it
Nero, A. D. 54-68, as his work is dedicated t: his is impossible to distinguish accurately between
archiater, Andromachus. It is curious as contain- them, and we cannot even determine which of the
ing the earliest list of the writings of Hippocratesk two poets was the elder, and which the younger.
that exists, in which we find the titles, of several We only know that the greater number of the epitreatises now lost, and also miss several that now grams are of a pastoral nature, and belong to Eryform:part of the Hippocratic collection. The rest ciuslof Cyzicus. (Brunck, Anal.. voL ii. p. 295; Jaof the work consists of a glossary, in which the cobs, Anth. Graec. vol. iii. p. 9, vol. xiii. pp, 891,
words are at present arranged in a partially 892; Fabric. Bibl. Graec. vol. iv. p. 474.) P,. S.]
alphabetical manner, though it appears that this ERYMANTHUS ('Epv,/avyos). 1. A rivermode of arrangement is not that which was adopted god in Arcadia, who had a temple, and a statue at
by the author himself. It was first published in Psophis. (Paus. viii. 24. ~ 6; Aelian, V.H. ii. 33.)
Greek, 8vo., 1564, Paris. in H. Stephani Dictions 2. A son of Apollo, was blinded by Aphrodite,
s-mm Medicum; a Latin translation by Barth. because he had seen her in the bath. Apollo, in
Eustachius appeared in 1566, 4to., Venet.; the revenge, metamorphosed himself into a wild boar,
last and best edition is that by Franz, Lips. 1780, and killed Adonis. (Ptolem. -Ieph. i. 306.)