Echĕlus, a Trojan chief killed by Patroclus.——Another, son of Agenor, killed by Achilles. Homer, Iliad, bks. 16 & 20.
Echembrŏtus, an Arcadian, who obtained the prize at the Pythian games. Pausanias, bk. 10, ch. 7.
Echĕmon, a son of Priam, killed by Diomedes. Homer, Iliad, bk. 5, li. 160.
Echĕmus, an Arcadian, who conquered the Dorians when they endeavoured to recover Peloponnesus under Hyllus. Pausanias, bk. 8, ch. 5.——A king of Arcadia, who joined Aristomenes against the Spartans.
Echenēus, a Phæacian. Homer, Odyssey, bk. 7.
Echĕphron, one of Nestor’s sons. Apollodorus, bk. 1, ch. 9.——A son of Priam. Apollodorus.——A son of Hercules. Pausanias, bk. 8, ch. 24.
Echepŏlis, a Trojan, son of Thasius, killed by Antilochus. Homer, Iliad, bk. 4, li. 458.
Echestrătus, a son of Agis I. king of Sparta, who succeeded his father, B.C. 1058. Herodotus, bk. 7, ch. 204.
Echevethenses, a people of Tegea in Arcadia. Pausanias, bk. 8, ch. 45.
Echidna, a celebrated monster sprung from the union of Chrysaor with Callirhoe the daughter of Oceanus. She is represented as a beautiful woman in the upper part of the body, but as a serpent below the waist. She was mother, by Typhon, of Orthos, Geryon, Cerberus, the Hydra, &c. According to Herodotus, Hercules had three children by her, Agathyrsus, Gelonus, and Scytha. Herodotus, bk. 3, ch. 108.—Hesiod, Theogony.—Apollodorus, bk. 2.—Pausanias, bk. 8, ch. 18.—Ovid, Metamorphoses, bk. 9, li. 158.