. se islands was namedDulichium (AouAixiov) : at present united tothe mainland. It is mentioned by Homer, andfrom it Meges, son of Phyleus, went to the Tro-jan war. (II. ii. 625 ; Od. i. 246 ; Strab. p. 458.) Echion (Exiwy)- 1. One of the five surviv-ing Sparti who had grown up from the dragonsteeth which Cadmus had sown. He marriedAgave, by whom he became the father of Pen-theus : he assisted Cadmus in the building ofThebes. (Apollod. iii. 4; Ov. Met. iii. 126.)— 2. Son of Hermes, and Antianlra, twin-brotherof Erytus or Eurytus, wit
. se islands was namedDulichium (AouAixiov) : at present united tothe mainland. It is mentioned by Homer, andfrom it Meges, son of Phyleus, went to the Tro-jan war. (II. ii. 625 ; Od. i. 246 ; Strab. p. 458.) Echion (Exiwy)- 1. One of the five surviv-ing Sparti who had grown up from the dragonsteeth which Cadmus had sown. He marriedAgave, by whom he became the father of Pen-theus : he assisted Cadmus in the building ofThebes. (Apollod. iii. 4; Ov. Met. iii. 126.)— 2. Son of Hermes, and Antianlra, twin-brotherof Erytus or Eurytus, with whom he took partin the Calydonian hunt, and in the expeditionof the Argonauts (Pind. Pyth. iv. 179). Echo (Hx<i), an Oreade who, according tothe legend related by Ovid, used to keep Junoengaged by incessantly talking to her, whileJupiter was sporting with the nymphs. Juno,however, found out the trick that was playedupon her, and punished Echo by changing herinto an echo—that is, a being with no controlover its tongue, which is neither able to speak. Pan and the Nymph Echo. (From a lamp at Athens.)(Baumeister.) before anybody else has spoken, nor to be silent:when somebody else has spoken. Echo in thisstate fell desperately in love with Narcissus ;but as her love was not returned, she pinedaway in grief, so that in the end there remainedof her nothing but her voice. (Ov. Met. ) In another story Echo was belovedby Pan, and, because she rejected his love,was torn in pieces by shepherds, but her voicestill lived. In works of art she is sometimesrepresented with Pan. Ecphantides (E,KTiSris), one of the earliestpoets of the Old Attic Comedy, flourished 460. The meaning of the surname of Kcnr-vias, which was given to him by bis rivals, seemsto imply a mixture of subtilty and ridiculed the rudeness of the old Megariccomedy, and was himself ridiculed on the sameground by Cratinus and Aristophanes. ( Aristoph. Vesp. 151.) Edessa or Ant
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