. He owed his elevation to thepurple to the intrigues of his grandmother JuliaMaesa (sister of Julia Domna), who circulatedthe report that Elagabalus was the offspring ofa secret commerce between Soemius and Cara-calla, and induced the troops in Syria to salutehim as their sovereign by the title of Antoninus, the 16th of May, forthwitli marched against Elagaba-lus, but was defeated near Antioch, June 8th,and was shortly afterwards put to was now acknowledged as eni]>erorby the Henate, and,
. He owed his elevation to thepurple to the intrigues of his grandmother JuliaMaesa (sister of Julia Domna), who circulatedthe report that Elagabalus was the offspring ofa secret commerce between Soemius and Cara-calla, and induced the troops in Syria to salutehim as their sovereign by the title of Antoninus, the 16th of May, forthwitli marched against Elagaba-lus, but was defeated near Antioch, June 8th,and was shortly afterwards put to was now acknowledged as eni]>erorby the Henate, and, after remaining one year atNicomedia, came in 219 to Rome, bringing thesacred stone and its attendant priests with reign of tliis prince, who perished at tho 310 ELANA ELECTEYONE age of 21, after having occupied the thronenearly four years, was characterised throughoutby an accumulation of the most fantastic follyand superstition in the worship of the Sun-god,together with the grossest impurity of life. In221 he adopted his cousin Alexander Severus,. Elagabalus, Roman Emperor, , head of Elagabalus, IMP. ANTONINVS PIVSAVG.;rev., emperor standing by an altar -with a patera in righthand and branch in left ; above, star ; INVICTVSS[A]CEKDOS AVG. and proclaimed him Caesar. Having becomejealous of Alexander, he attempted to put himto death, but was himself slain along with hismother Soemias by the soldiers, with whomAlexander was a great favourite. (; Herodian. iv. 12; Dio Cass, lxxviii. [Aelana.] Elara (EAapa), daughter of Orchomenus orMinyas, bore to Zeus the giant Tityus. Zeus,from fear of Hera, concealed her under theearth. Elatea (EActTeia: E\clt6vs). 1. (Nr. Ele-phtlia, Bu.), a town in Phocis, and the mostimportant place in the country next to Delphi,was situated near the Cephissus in a fertilevalley, which was an important pass fromThessaly to Boeotia (Strab. p. 424 ; Paus. x. 34).Elatea was thus frequently exposed to hostile
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