Selected Essays of Plutarch, Vol. II. · Plutarch
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Earth (temple of, at Delphi), 97. Echecrătēs, a ‘prophet’ of Tegyra, 121. Echinădĕs, islands off the coast of Acarnania, 134. Egypt, Egyptian, 11, 13, 14, 93, 117, 126, 140, 154, 184, 235, 283, 293, 296. Elis, Elean, a state of the Peloponnesus, 94. Ellopion, 13. Elysian, 302, 306, 317. Empedocles of Agrigentum, philosopher and poet (fl. 444), 16, 93, 98, 133, 134, 137, 235, 259, 263, 269, 272, 274, 278, 287. Endymion, 307. Epameinondas, son of Polymnis, brother of Capheisias, and friend of Pelopidas (fell at Mantineia 362), 1, 6, 9, 14, 15, 20, 21, 23, 24, 25, 27, 28, 32, 40, 43, 50. Epicharmus, of Cos and Syracuse, writer of philosophical comedies (540-450), 196. Epicūrus, of Samos, 342-270, philosopher and founder of the School of ‘The Garden’ at Athens, and Epicureans, 86, 87, 89, 92, 136, 137, 146, 163, 262. A modern ‘Epicurus’ is introduced into the Dialogue on the _Delays in Divine Punishment_, but leaves before its beginning. Epicȳdēs, 191. Epidaurus, a town and state next to Argolis, 99. Epimenĭdes, of Phaestus in Crete, a poet and prophet (fl. 600), 117, 298. Epitherses, 134. Erĕbus, 230. Erĕsus, a city of Lesbos, 140. Eretria, a city on the west coast of Euboea, 96. Erianthes, 29. Eridănus, the river Po, 193. Erinnys, the, 207. Eriphȳlē, 186. Erōs (Love), 272. Erythrae, an Ionian city, 95, 99.
Ethiopia, 196, 204, 222, 265. Euboea, 162. Eudoxus, of Cnidus, 408-355, astronomer and mathematician, and founder of the School of Cyzicus, 14, 97, 98. Eumētis, 95. Eumolpĭdas, 10. Euripides, 485 (or 480)-405, the Athenian tragedian, 59, 70, 78, 104, 107, 129, 156, 159, 160, 164, 176, 177, 178, 192. Eurycleis, 126. Eurymĕdon, a river in Pamphylia; in 469 Cimon defeated the Persians on its banks, 183. Eustrŏphus, a speaker in the First Pythian Dialogue. Euthyphron, a disciple of Socrates (see the Dialogue of Plato which bears his name), 16, 17. Fates, the, 37, 61, 308. Fortune, 89, 90. Galaxidōrus, 15, 16, 17, 19, 20, 32, 43. Galaxius, in Boeotia, 110. Gauls, 222, 234. Gedrosia, a district on the Indus and Indian Ocean (SE. part of Beloochistan), 296. Gelon, tyrant of Syracuse (d. 478), 99, 182. Getae, 190. Giants, 235. Glaucé, 87. Glaucus, 191, 230. Gorgias, of Leontini, 480-398, teacher of rhetoric (see the _Gorgias_ of Plato), 22, 137. Gorgĭdas, 8, 12, 43, 50. Great Mother, the (Cybele), 107. Great Year, the, 138. Guides, the, of the temple and treasures of Delphi, apparently two in number, 83, 85, 88, 94, 96. Cp. _Sympos._ 5, 3, and 8, 4. Gullies, the (cp. Rhetiste), 19. Gyrean, cape, 230.
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