Echidorus, a river of Thrace. Ptolemy, bk. 3.
Echīnădes, or Echinæ, five small islands near Acarnania, at the mouth of the river Achelous. They have been formed by the inundations of that river, and by the sand and mud which its waters carry down, and now bear the name of Curzolari. Pliny, bk. 2, ch. 85.—Herodotus, bk. 2, ch. 10.—Ovid, Metamorphoses, bk. 8, li. 588.—Strabo, bk. 2.
Echīnon, a city of Thrace. Mela, bk. 2, ch. 3.
Echīnus, an island in the Ægean.——A town of Acarnania,——of Phthiotis. Livy, bk. 32, ch. 33.
Echinussa, an island near Eubœa, called afterwards Cimolus. Pliny, bk. 4, ch. 12.
Echīon, one of those men who sprung from the dragon’s teeth sown by Cadmus. He was one of the five who survived the fate of his brothers, and assisted Cadmus in building the city of Thebes. Cadmus rewarded his services by giving him his daughter Agave in marriage. He was father of Pentheus by Agave. He succeeded his father-in-law on the throne of Thebes, as some have imagined, and from that circumstance Thebes has been called Echioniæ, and the inhabitants Echionidæ. Ovid, Metamorphoses, bk. 3, li. 311; Tristia, bk. 5, poem 5, li. 53.——A son of Mercury and Antianira, who was the herald of the Argonauts. Flaccus, bk. 1, li. 400.——A man who often obtained a prize in running. Ovid, Metamorphoses, bk. 8, li. 292.——A musician at Rome, in Domitian’s age. Juvenal, satire 6, li. 76.——A statuary.——A painter.
Echionides, a patronymic given to Pentheus, as [♦]descended from Echion. Ovid, Metamorphoses, bk. 3.
[♦] ‘deseended’ replaced with ‘descended’
Echionius, an epithet applied to a person born in Thebes, founded with the assistance of Echion. Virgil, Æneid, bk. 12, li. 515.
Echo, a daughter of the Air and Tellus, who chiefly resided in the vicinity of the Cephisus. She was once one of Juno’s attendants, and became the confidant of Jupiter’s amours. Her loquacity, however, displeased Jupiter; and she was deprived of the power of speech by Juno, and only permitted to answer to the questions which were put to her. Pan had formerly been one of her admirers, but he never enjoyed her favours. Echo, after she had been punished by Juno, fell in love with Narcissus, and on being despised by him, she pined away, and was changed into a stone, which still retained the power of voice. Ovid, Metamorphoses, bk. 3, li. 358.