Friday, March 4, 2016

M.E. XXXVIII

Entoria The daughter of a Roman countryman. Saturn ( Cronos ) who was once hospitably received by him, became, by his fair daughter, the father of four sons, Janus, Hymnus, Faustus, and Felix. Saturn taught the father of the cultivation of the vine and the preparation of wine, enjoining him to teach his neighbours the same. This was done accordingly, but the country people, who became intoxicated with their new drink, thought it to be a poison, and stoned their neighbour to death, whereupon his sons hung themselves in their grief. At a much later time, when the Romans were visited by a plague, they were told by the Delphic oracle, that the plague was a punishment for the outrage of Entoria's father and Lutatius Catulus caused a temple to be erected to Saturn on the Tarpeian rock, and in it an altar with four faces. (Plut. Parall. Gr. et Rom. 9.)

Felix A son of Saturn and Entoria. [See ENTORIA.]

Machaereus I. e. the swordsman. a son of Daetas of Delphi, who is said to have slain Neoptolemus, the son of Achilles, in a quarrel about the sacrificial meat at Delphi. ( Strab. ix. p. 421; Pind. Nem. vii. 62, with the scholiast.)

Deidamia Class. Myth. a daughter of Lycomedes who bore a son, Neoptolemus, to Achilles.

Caletor ( in the Iliad ) a cousin of Hector, slain by Telamonian Ajax.

Alphaea Class. Myth. an epithet of Artemis alluding to her rejection of Alpheus.

Tarchon Rom. Legend. the founder of the Etruscan race.

Faustus A son of Saturn and Entoria. [See ENTORIA.]

Toxeus A son of Oeneus and Althaea, was killed by Meleager. ( Apollod. i. 8. § 1; Anton. Lib. 2; comp. OENEUS.)

Aba A Thracian nymph, the mother of Ergiscus by Poseidon. ( Suidas s.v. Ergisce.)

Sebrus A son of Hippocoon, was worshipped as a hero at Sparta, where he had an heroum called Sebrium. ( Paus. iii. 15. § 1; comp. DORCEUS.)

Glaucomone One of the daughters of Nereus. ( Hes. Theog. 256; Apollod. 1. 2. § 7.)

Nacole The eponymous nymph of the town of Nacoleia in Phrygia.

Ergiscus A son of Poseidon and the nymph Aba for whom the town of Ergisca in Thrace was named. ( Suidas. s.v. Ergisce.)

Dorceus A son of Hippocoon, who had a heroum at Sparta conjointly with his brother Sebrus. The well near the sanctuary was called Dorceia and the place around it Sebrion. ( Paus. iii. 15 § 2.) It is probable that Dorceus is the same personage as the Dorcyleus in Apollodorus ( iii. 10. § 5 ), where his brother is called Tebrus.

Calybe 1. A nymph by whom Laomedon became the father of Bucolion ( Hom. Il. vi. 23; Apollod. iii. 12. § 3 ) 2. A priestess of Juno. ( Virg. Aen. vii. 419.)

Penthilus 1. A son of Orestes and Erigone, is said to have led a colony of Aeolians to Thrace. He was the father of Echetalus and Damasias. ( Paus. ii. 18. § 5, iii. 2. § 1, v. 4, § 2, vii. 6. § 2; Tzetz. ad Lyc. 1374; Strab. xiii. p. 582; Aristot. Polit. v. 8, 13.) 2. There was also a son of Periclymenus of this name. ( Paus. ii. 18. § 7.)

Tegyrius Class. Myth. a Thracian king.

Aphareus Class. Myth. the grandson of Perseus.

Oebalus Class. Myth. a Spartan king, the father of Hippocoön, Tyndareus, and Icarius.

Salpinx Class. Myth. Athena: so called because she was believed to have invented the trumpet.

Democoon ( in the Iliad ) an illegitimate son of Priam slain by Odysseus.

Euphemus Class. Myth. a son of Poseidon and Europa who aided the journey of the Argonauts.

Gladsheim Scand. Myth. the golden palace of Odin, of which Valhalla was a part.

Caphaurus Class. Myth. a son of Amphithemis and the grandson of Apollo.

Leucus Class. Myth. a Cretan who usurped the throne of King Idomeneus. 2. ( in the Iliad ) a brave companion of Odysseus who was killed by Antiphus in the Trojan War.

Abarbarea ( in the Iliad ) a fountain nymph.

Battus Class. Myth. 1. a peasant who saw Hermes steal the cattle of Apollo and who, on breaking his promise not to reveal what he had seen, was turned to stone. 2. a Libyan ruler who was cured of a speech impediment.

Carius Class. Myth. an epithet of Zeus, referring to his temple in Caria.

Periphas 1. ( in the Iliad ) a. a son of Epytus who served as a Trojan herald. b. the most valiant Aetolian warrior in the Trojan War. 2. Class. Myth. an Attic king whom Zeus changed into an eagle.

Dithyrambus Class. Myth. an epithet of Dionysus, meaning "child of the double door," allusion to the fact that he was born twice.

Euchenor ( in the Iliad ) a son of the soothsayer Polyidus who fought with the Greeks and was slain by Paris.

Pelagon ( in the Iliad ) a river god and the father of Asteropaeus.

Astrabacus Class. Myth. a Spartan prince who, with Alopecus, found the wooden image of Artemis that Orestes had hidden in a willow thicket.

Hyacinthides Class. Myth. the daughters of Hyacinthus who were sacrificed to save Athens from the attacking King Minos.

Nana A daughter of the river Sangarius who gave birth to Atys after being impregnated by an almond which fell from a tree grown from the genitals of Agdistis. [See ATYS.]

Zarex A hero who was believed to have been instructed in music by Apollo, and had an heroum near Eleusis. Pausanias ( i. 38. § 4 ) takes him to be a Laconian hero, and the founder of the town of Zarex in Laconia. The scholiast on Lycophron ( 500 ) describes him as a son of Carystus or Carycus, as a grandson of Chiron, and as the father of Anius by Rhoeo.

Tecmessa Class. Myth. the daughter of King Teuthras of Thrace, carried off by Telamonian Ajax when he defeated her father in war. She bore Ajax a son, Eurysaces.

Homagyrius Class. Myth. an epithet of Zeus, meaning "assembler."

Munitus Class. Myth. an illegitimate son of Laodice and Acamas.

Epytus A Trojan, who clung to Aeneas in the night, when Troy was destroyed. He was the father of Periphas, who was a companion of Julus, and who is called by the patronymic Epytides. ( Virg. Aen. ii. 340, v. 547, 579; Hom. Il. xvii. 323.)

Alba Silvius One of the mythical kings of Alba, said to have been the son of Latinus, and the father of Atys, according to Livy, and of Capetus, according to Dionysius. He reigned thirty-nine years. ( Liv. i. 3; Dionys. i. 71.)

Marica a deity worshiped in ancient Rome, sometimes as a goddess of marshes. Also called Dea Marica.

Aphesius Class. Myth. an epithet of Zeus, meaning "releaser, referring to the time he released all of Greece from a prolonged drought.

Sabus A Sabine hero, son of Sancus. [See SANCUS.]

Feretrius A surname of the god Jupiter. [See JUPITER.]

Otia The Roman personification of leisure and ease, a companion of the god Somnus.

Numitor Rom. Legend. a king of Alba Longa, the father of Rhea Silvia and the grandfather of Romulus and Remus.

Acron The king of Caenina slain by Romulus. [See ROMULUS.]

Venti The god of the winds, Roman counterparts of the Greek Anemi [See ANEMI]. In the Museum Pio Clementinum there exists a marble monument upon which the winds are described with their Greek and Latin names, viz., Septentrio ( Aparctias ), Eurus ( Euros, or southeast), and between these two Aquilo ( Boreas), Vulturnus ( Caicias) and Solanus ( Apheliates). Between Eurus and Notus ( Notos) there is only one, the Euroauster ( Euronotus); between Favonius ( Zephyrus) are marked Austro-Africus ( Libonotus), and Africus ( Lips); and between Favonius and Septentrio we find Chrus ( Iapyx) and Circius ( Thracius). The winds were represented by poets and artists in different ways; the latter usually represented with winds at their heads and shoulders ( Ov. Met. i. 264, &c.; Philostr. Icon. i. 24).

Iolaus Class. Myth. a son of Iphicles who was the nephew and trusted companion of Hercules.

Persa Class. Myth. a daughter of Oceanus and Tethys.

Abaris [Gr.] Gr. Myth. A Hyperborean sage said to have traveled upon an arrow given him by Apollo, and to have lived without food.

Epigonus [L., fr. Gr. epigonus, fr. epi after + root of gignesthai to be torn.] 1. Gr. Myth. One of the sons of the seven heroes who were beaten before Thebes ( see SEVEN AGAINST THEBES ). Thirty years after their father's defeat, with Alcmaeon as leader, they conquered and destroyed the city.

Idas [L., fr. Gr. Idas.] In Greek legend, a hero, son of Aphareus, and the inseperable companion of his brother Lynceus. He won the nymph Marpessa when Apollo wooed her. Idas and Lynceus took part in the Calydonian boar hunt and the Argonautic expedition. In a quarrel with their cousins Castor and Pollux, Idas killed Castor, Pollux slew Lynceus, and Idas was killed by Zeus.

Erichthonius Class. Myth. 1. a legendary king of Athens, a son of Hephaestus and Gaea, sometimes identified with Erechtheus. 2. a son of Dardanus who succeeded his father's throne.

Lofn Scand. Myth. a goddess to whom Odin gave permission to unite in marriage those who had been forbidden to wed.

Thera Class. Myth. a nurse of Ares. Cf. Theritas.

Abderus Class. Myth. a son of Hermes who was killed by the man-eating mares of Diomedes.

Chalciope Class. Myth. the sister of Medea.

Nyctimus Class. Myth. the younger son of Lycaon of Arcadia.

Pisander ( in the Iliad ) a captain of the Myrmidons in the Trojan War.

Oxyderces Class. Myth. an epithet of Athena, meaning "bright-eyed."

Leucon Class. Myth. a son of Athamas and Nephele who died because of his father's crimes.

Enyalius Class. Myth. an epithet of Ares, meaning "slayer."

Maemactes I. e. the stormy, a surname of Zeus, from which the name of the Attic month Maemacterion was derived. In that month the Maemacteria was celebrated at Athens. ( Plut. de Ir. cohib. 9.)

Sida 1. The wife of Orion, who was sent by Hera into Hades, because she pretended to be more beautiful than the goddess. ( Apollod. i. 4.§ 3.) 2. A daughter of Danaus, from whom a town of Laconia was believed to have derived its name. ( Paus. iii. 22.§ 9.)

Odites The name of two mythical beings, one a centaur, and the other an Ethiopian, who was slain by Clymenus at the wedding of Perseus. ( Ov. Met. xii. 457, v. 97.)

Albunea Rom. Legend. a fountain nymph noted for her prophetic powers. Also, Albuna.

Phorcys Class. Myth. 1. a sea god who fathered the Gorgons. 2. ( in the Odyssey ) the Ithacan harbor where Odysseus was left by the Phaeacians.

Neaera Class. Myth. 1. the mother, by Strymon, of Evadne. 2. the daughter of Pereus who married her cousin, King Aleus. 3. ( in the Odyssey ) a nymph, mothe of Lampetia and Phaethusa.

Meter Class. Myth. an epithet of Athena, meaning "mother."

Malevolus " The Ill-Willed," a surname of Mercury. [See MERCURIUS.]

Thersilochus ( in the Iliad ) a Trojan ally killed by Achilles.

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