Entel´echy, the kingdom of Queen Quintessence. Pantag´ruel´ and his companions went to this kingdom in search of the "holy bottle."—Rabelais, Pantagruel, 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 IV. 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 féthas ("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 aimée de coeur of this philosopher was Leontium. (See LOVERS).
Epicurus of China, Tao-tse, who commenced the search for "the elixir of perpetual youth and health" (B.C. 540).