. The illustrated companion to the Latin dictionary and Greek lexicon; forming a glossary of all the words representing visible objects connected with the arts, manufactures, and every-day life of the Greeks and Romans, with representations of nearly two thousand objects from the antique. ings (stragula), whichcovered both sides of the animal. E PIT OR I (tyopoi). Literally,overseers; but the word was espe-cially used as the title of five magis-trates elected annually by the people ofSparta, to whom very great politicalpowers were entrusted, which enabledthem to exercise a control over theking
. The illustrated companion to the Latin dictionary and Greek lexicon; forming a glossary of all the words representing visible objects connected with the arts, manufactures, and every-day life of the Greeks and Romans, with representations of nearly two thousand objects from the antique. ings (stragula), whichcovered both sides of the animal. E PIT OR I (tyopoi). Literally,overseers; but the word was espe-cially used as the title of five magis-trates elected annually by the people ofSparta, to whom very great politicalpowers were entrusted, which enabledthem to exercise a control over thekings and all the other magistrates;and thus, in the Dorian constitutions,the Ephori enjoyed a position some-what analogous to that of the tribunesat Rome. Aristot. PoliL ii. 10. iii. 7. EPIBATiE (eTrigaTcu). Marinesof the Greek navy ; a body of troopswho served exclusively on boardship, entirely distinct from the landforces, from the seamen, and therowers. (Herod, vi. 12. Hirt. 11. Vitruv. ii. 8. 14.) TheRomans designated the marines oftheir navy by the term Classiarii. EPICHYSIS (Mxvns). A Greek;ug, with a small and narrow lip, out of which wine was poured at an en-tertainment into the cup from whichit was drunk; and adopted by theRomans, as they advanced in civili-. zation, instead of the less elegantguttus, previously used by them for asimilar purpose. (Plant. Bud. v. Varro, L. L. v. 124.) The illus-tration represents an epichysis, withthe receiving cup of glass, from aPompeian painting, and a Nereidpouring wine out of one into a patera,from a painting of Stabia. In allthe numerous pictures of Pompeii,&c, which represent the act of pour-ing wine from a jug, the jug is con-stantly formed with a small neck andnarrow lip, like those exhibitedabove; which identifies the epichysis,and establishes its difference from theeiver, or water jug (gutturnium, irpo-Xoos), which had a thicker throat andwider lip. EPIC CPUS (Mkuwos). Pro-perly, a Greek word, used to desi
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