Erycīna, a surname of Venus from mount Eryx, where she had a temple. She was also worshipped at Rome under this appellation. Ovid, Fasti, bk. 4, li. 874.—Horace, bk. 1, ode 2, li. 33.
Ery̆manthis, a surname of Callisto, as an inhabitant of Erymanthus.——Arcadia is also known by that name.
Erymanthus, a mountain, river, and town of Arcadia, where Hercules killed a prodigious boar, which he carried on his shoulders to Eurystheus, who was so terrified at the sight that he hid himself in a brazen vessel. Pausanias, bk. 8, ch. 24.—Virgil, Æneid, bk. 6, li. 802.—Pliny, bk. 4, ch. 6.—Cicero, Tusculanæ Disputationes, bk. 2, ch. 8; bk. 4, ch. 22.—Ovid, Metamorphoses, bk. 2, li. 499.
Ery̆mas, a Trojan killed by Turnus. Virgil, Æneid, bk. 9, li. 702.
Erymnæ, a town of Thessaly. Pausanias, bk. 8, ch. 24.——Of Magnesia.
Erymneus, a peripatetic philosopher, who flourished B.C. 126.
Ery̆mus, a huntsman of Cyzicus.
Erythea, an island between Gades and Spain, where Geryon reigned. Pliny, bk. 4, ch. 22.—Mela, bk. 3, ch. 6.—Propertius, bk. 4, poem 10, li. 1.—Silius Italicus, bk. 16, li. 195.—Ovid, Fasti, bk. 5, li. 649.——A daughter of Geryon. Pausanias, bk. 10, ch. 37.
Erythīni, a town of Paphlagonia.
Erȳthræ, a town of Ionia opposite Chios, once the residence of a Sybil. It was built by Neleus the son of Codrus. Pausanias, bk. 10, ch. 12.—Livy, bk. 44, ch. 28; bk. 38, ch. 39.——A town of Bœotia. Livy, bk. 6, ch. 21.——One in Libya,——another in Locris.