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

EVAN1ER. EVANTHES. 89
Ephesus (:Epemacact). There are a few other per- ~.Rome in B. c. 50, in a part of the house of Memsons of the same name, concerning whom nothing mius, and was on friendly terms with Cicero, from
of interest is known. (Xen. Hell. iv. 1. ~ 40; whose letters we learn that he was a sculptor. He
Aentiol. Graec. vi. 262.) [L. S.] seems to have been a freedman of M. Aemilius
EVANDER (Eivaipos). 1. A son of Hermes Avianius. (Ad Fam. vii. 23, xiii. 2.) [L. S.]
by an Arcadian nymph, a daughter of Ladon, who EVANDER, AULA'NIUS, a sculptor and silis called Themis or Nicostrata, and in Roman tra- ver chaser, born at Athens, whence he was taken
ditions Carmenta or Tiburtis. (Paus. viii. 43. ~ 2; by M. Antonius to Alexandria. At the overPlut. Quaest. Rom. 53; Dionys. A. R. i. 31; throw of Antony he fell into the power of Octavian,
Serv. ad Aen. viii. 336.) Evander is also called a and was carried among the captives to Rome, where
son of Echemus and Timandra. (Serv. ad' Aen. he executed many admirable works. Pliny menviii. 130.) About sixty years previous to the tions a statue of Diana at Rome by Timotheus,
Trojan war, Evander is said to have led a Pelas- the head of which was restored by Evander. (Plin.
gian colony from Pallantium in Arcadia into Italy. xxxvi. 5. s. 4. ~ 10; Thiersch, Epochen, pp. 303,
The cause of this emigration was, according to 304.) Some writers suppose that Horace refers to
Dionysius, a civil feud among the people, in which his works (Sat. i. 3. 90), but the passage seems to
the party of Evander was defeated, and therefore be rather a satirical allusion to vases prized for
left their country of their own accord. Servius, their antiquity-as old as king Evander. [P. S.]
on the other hand, relates that Evander had killed EVA'NEMIJS (Esidveyos), the giver of favourhis father at the instigation of his mother, and able wind, was a surname of Zeus, under which
that he was obliged to quit Arcadia on that ac- the god had a sanctuary at Sparta. (Paus. iii. 13.
count. (Serv. ad Aen. viii. 51; comp. Ov. Fast. i. ~ 5; comp. Theocrit. xxviii. 5.) [L. S.]
480.) He landed in Italy on the banks of the EVA'NGELUS (EociyyeAos), the bearer of
Tiber, at the foot of the Palatine Hill, and was good news. Under this name the shepherd Pixohospitably received by king Turnus. According darus had a sanctuary at Ephesus, where he ento Servius (ad Aen. viii. 562), however, Evander joyed heroic honours, because he had found a
took possession of' the country by force of arms, quarry of beautiful marble, of which the Ephesians
and slew Herilus, -king of- Praeneste, who had built a temple. (Vitruv. x. 7.) [L. S.]
attempted to expel him. He built a town Pallan- EVANO'RIDAS (EJavop(las) an Elean, wae
tium, which was subsequently incorporated with one of the prisoners. taken by Lycus of Pharae,
Rome, and from which the names of Palatium and the lieutenant-general of the Achaeans, in B.C
Palatinus were believed to have arisen. (Varro, 217, when he defeated EURIPIDES the. Aetolian,
de Ling. Lat. v. 53.) Evander is said to have who had been sent, at the request of the Eleans,
taught his neighbours milder laws and the arts of to supersede the former commander Pyrrhias. (Popeace and social life, and especially, the art of lyb. v. 94.) Pausanias (vi. 8) mentions Evanoridas
writing, with which he himself had been made as having won the boys' prize for wrestling at the
acquainted by Heracles (Plut. Quaest. Rom. 56), Olympic and Nemean games, and as having drawn
and music; he also introduced among them the up a list of the Olympic victors, when he afterworship of the Lycaean Pan, of Demeter, Poseidon, wards held the office of'EAAavot[c7q. (See Dict.
Heracles, and Nice. (Liv. i. 5; Dionys. i. 31, &c.; of Ant. pp. 663, 664.) [E. E.]
Ov. Fast. i. 471, v. 91; Paus. 1. c.) Virgil (Aen. EVANTHES (Eiav0eis). 1. Of Cyzicus, is
viii. 51) represents Evander as still alive at the quoted by Hieronymus (adv. Jovin. ii. 14) as an
time when Aeneias arrived in Italy, and as forming authority for the opinion, that at the time of Pygan alliance with him against the Latins. (Comp. malion people were not vet in the habit of eating
Serv. ad Aen. viii. 157.) Evander had a son Pal- meat. Whether he is the same as the Evanthes
las, and two daughters, Rome and Dyna. (Virg. of Cyzicus who, according to Pausanias (vi. 4.
Aen. viii. 574;. Serv. ad Aen. i. 277; Dionys. i. ~ 10) gained a prize at the Olympian games, is
32.) He was worshipped atPallantium in Arcadia, unknown.
as a hero, and that town was subsequently hon- 2. Of Miletus, is mentioned as an author by
oured by the emperor Antoninus with several pri- Diogenes Laertius (i. 29), and seems to have been
vileges. Evander's statue at Pallantium stood by an historian, but is otherwise unknown.
the side of that of his son Pallas. At Rome he 3. Of Samos, a Greek historian, who is menhad an altar at the foot of the Aventine. (Paus. tioned only by Plutarch. (Sol. 11.) There are
viii. 44. ~ 5; Dionys. 1. c.) several passages in which authors of the' name of
2. A son of Priam. (Apollod. iii. 12. ~ 5; Diet. Evanthes are referred to; but, their native counCret. iii. 14.) tries not being stated, it is uncertain whether those
3. A son of the Lycian king Sarpedon, who passages refer to any of the three Evanthes here
took part in the Trojan war. (Diod.v.79.) [L.S.] specified, or to other persons of the same name.
EVANDER (Eiavspos), a Phocian, was the Thus' Pliny (H. N. viii. 22) quotes one Evanthes
pupil and successor of Lacydes as the head of the whom he calls inter auctores Graeciae non spretus,
Academic School at Athens, about B. c. 215. Evan- and from whose work he-gives a statement respectder himself was succeeded by his pupil Hegesinus. ing some religious rite observed in Arcadia. One
Concerning the opinions and writings of this philo- might therefore be:inclined to think him the same
sopher nothing is known. (Diog. Lairt. iv. 60; as the Evanthes who is quoted by the Scholiast on
Cic. Acad. ii. 6.) Several Pythagoreans of the Apollonius Rhodius (i. 1063, 1065) as the author
name of Evander, who were natives of Croton, of /vOcdc. Athenaeus (vii. p. 296) speaks of an
Metapontum, and Leontini, are mentioned by epic poet Evanthes, of whose productions he menlamblichus (Vit. Pyth. 36), and a Cretan Evander tions a hymn to Glaucus. [L. S.]
occurs in Plutarch. (Lysand. 23.) [L. S.] EVANTHES (Eda'dvts), a painter of unknown
EVANDER, AVIA'NIUS, or, as we read in date, two of whose pictures, in the temple of Zeus
some MSS., AVIA'NUS EVANDER, lived at Casius at Pelusium, are described very minutely,