Epilarus, a daughter of Thespius. Apollodorus.
Epimĕlĭdes, the founder of Corone. Pausanias, bk. 4, ch. 34.
Epimĕnes, a man who conspired against Alexander’s life. Curtius, bk. 8, ch. 6.
Epimenĭdes, an epic poet of Crete, contemporary with Solon. His father’s name was Agiasarchus and his mother’s Blasta. He is reckoned one of the seven wise men by those who exclude Periander from the number. While he was tending his flocks one day, he entered into a cave, where he fell asleep. His sleep continued for 40 or 47, or according to Pliny, 57 years, and when he awoke, he found every object so considerably altered, that he scarce knew where he was. His brother apprised him of the length of his sleep, to his great astonishment. It is supposed that he lived 289 years. After death he was revered as a god, and greatly honoured by the Athenians, whom he had delivered from a plague, and to whom he had given many good and useful counsels. He is said to be the first who built temples in the Grecian communities. Cicero, de Divinatione, bk. 1, ch. 34.—Diogenes Laërtius, Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers.—Pausanias, bk. 1, ch. 14.—Plutarch, Solon.—Valerius Maximus, bk. 8, ch. 13.—Strabo, bk. 10.—Pliny, bk. 7, ch. 12.
Epĭmētheus, a son of Japetus and Clymene, one of the Oceanides, who inconsiderately married Pandora, by whom he had Pyrrha the wife of Deucalian. He had the curiosity to open the box which Pandora had brought with her [See: [Pandora]], and from thence issued a train of evils, which from that moment have never ceased to afflict the human race. Hope was the only one which remained at the bottom of the box, not having sufficient time to escape, and it is she alone which comforts men under misfortunes. Epimetheus was changed into a monkey by the gods, and sent into the island of Pithecusa. Apollodorus, bk. 1, chs. 2 & 7.—Hyginus, fable.—Hesiod, Theogony. See: [Prometheus].
Epĭmēthis, a patronymic of Pyrrha the daughter of Epimetheus. Ovid, Metamorphoses, bk. 1, li. 390.
Epĭochus, a son of Lycurgus, who received divine honours in Arcadia.
Epiŏne, the wife of Æsculapius. Pausanias, bk. 2, ch. 29.
Epiphanea, a town of Cilicia, near Issus, now Surpendkar. Pliny, bk. 5, ch. 27.—Cicero, Letters to his Friends, bk. 15, ltr. 4.——Another of Syria on the Euphrates. Pliny, bk. 5, ch. 24.
Epiphănes (illustrious), a surname given to the Antiochi, kings of Syria.——A surname of one of the Ptolemies, the fifth of the house of the Lagidæ. Strabo, bk. 17.