ENNIUS 
 
 
  Ennius (The Spanish), Juan de Mena of 
Cordova (1412--4456). 
 
  Enrique' (2 syl.), brother-in-law of 
Chrysalde (2 syl.). He married secretly 
Chrysalde's sister Angelique, by whom he 
had a daughter, Agnes, who was left in 
charge of a peasant while Enrique was ab- 
sent in America. Having made his for- 
tune in the New World, Enrique returned 
and found Agnes in love with Horace, the 
son of his friend Oronte (2 syl.). Their 
union, after the usual quota of misunder- 
standing and cross purposes, was accom- 
plished to the delight of all parties.-Mo- 
li6re, L'ecole des Femmes (1662). 
 
  Entel'echy, the kingdom of Queen 
Quintessence. Pantag'ruel' and his com- 
panions went to this kingdom in search 
of the "holy bottle."--Rabelais, Pantag- 
ruel, v. 19 (1545). 
  *.* This  kingdom   of   "speculative 
science" gave the hint to Swift for his 
island of Lapu'ta. 
 
  Ephe'sian, a toper, a dissolute sot, a 
jovial companion. When Page (2 Henry 
II. act ii. sc. 2) tells Prince Henry that a 
company of men were about to sup with 
Falstaff, in Eastcheap, and calls them 
"Ephesians," he probably meant soldiers 
called fithas (" foot-soldiers "), and hence 
topers. Malone suggests that the word is 
a pun on pheese (" to chastise or pay one 
tit for tat "), and means "quarrelsome 
fellows." 
 
  Ephe'sian Poet (The), Hippo'nax, born 
at Ephesus (sixth century B. C.). 
 
  Epic Poetry (The Father of), Homer 
(about 950 B. c.). 
 
  Ep'icene (3 syl.), or The Silent Woman, 
 
 
one of the three great comedies of Ben 
Jonson (1609). 
  The other two are Volpone (2 syl., 1605), 
and The Alchemist (1610). 
 
  Epicurus. The aimde de coeur of this 
philosopher was Leontium. (See LovERs). 
 
  Epicurus of China, Tao-tse, who com- 
menced the search for "the elixir of per- 
petual youth and health" (B. c. 540). 
  *** Thomas Moore has a prose romance 
entitled The Epicure'an. Lucretius the 
Roman poet, in his De Rerum Natura, is 
an exponent of the Epicurean doctrines. 
 
  Epidaurus (That God in), Escula'pius, 
son of Apollo, who was worshipped in 
Epidaurus, a city of Peloponne'sus. Being 
sent for to Rome during a plague, he 
assumed the form of a serpent.-Livy, 
Nat. Hist., xi.; Ovid, Metaph., xv. 
           Never since of serpent kind 
  Lovelier, not those that in Illyria changed 
  HermionA and Cadmus, or the god 
  In Epidaurus. 
        Milton, Paradise Lost, ix. 507 (1665). 
  (Cadmus and his wife Harmonia [Her- 
moine] left Thebes and migrated into 
Illyria, where they were changed into 
serpents because they happened to kill 
one belonging to Mars.) 
 
  Ephial'tes (4 syl.), one of the giants 
who made war upon the gods. He was 
deprived of his left eye by Apollo, and of 
his right eye by Hercules. 
 
  Epig'oni, seven youthful warriors, sons 
of the seven chiefs who laid siege to 
Thebes.   All the seven chiefs (except 
Adrastos) perished in the siege; but the 
seven sons, ten years later, took the city 
and razed it to the ground. The chiefs 
and sons were: (1) .Adrastos, whose son 
was   Egi'aleus (4 syl.); (2) Polyniks, 
 
 
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