Eruthalion, a man killed by Nestor in a war between the Pylians and Arcadians. Homer, Iliad.
Ergăne, a river whose waters intoxicated as wine.——A surname of Minerva. Pausanias, bk. 5, ch. 14.
Ergenna, a celebrated soothsayer of Etruria. Persius, satire 2, li. 26.
Ergias, a Rhodian who wrote a history of his country.
Ergīnus, a king of Orchomenos, son of Clymenus. He obliged the Thebans to pay him a yearly tribute of 100 oxen, because his father had been killed by a Theban. Hercules attacked his servants, who came to raise the tribute, and mutilated them, and he afterwards killed Erginus, who attempted to avenge their death by invading Bœotia with an army. Pausanias, bk. 9, ch. 17.——A river of Thrace. Mela, bk. 2, ch. 2.——A son of Neptune.——One of the four brothers who kept the Acrocorinth, by order of Antigonus. Polyænus, bk. 6.
Erginnus, a man made master of the ship Argo by the Argonauts, after the death of Typhis.
Eribœa, a surname of Juno. Homer, Iliad, bk. 5.——The mother of Ajax Telamon. Sophocles.
Eribotes, a man skilled in medicine, &c. Orpheus.
Erĭcētes, a man of Lycaonia, killed by Messapus in Italy. Virgil, Æneid, bk. 10, li. 749.
Erichtho, a Thessalian woman famous for her knowledge of poisonous herbs and medicine. Lucan, bk. 6, li. 507.——One of the Furies. Ovid.—Hesiod, bk. 2, li. 151.