08), and was said to have taken with him to presbyter, and Thomas, principal of the convent of
Troy the sons of Theseus, who had been entrusted St.
Troy the sons of Theseus, who had been entrusted St.
William Smith - 1844 - Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities - b
1155.
) The fabulous island of Electris was be- to Anaxo, the daughter of Alcaeus, by whom he
lieved to have received its name from her. (Apol- had several children. (Apollod. ii. 4. § 5, &c. )
lon. Rhod. i. 916. )
The tradition about him is given under Amphi-
3. A sister of Cadmus, from whom the Electrian TRYON. Another Electryon is mentioned by Dia
gate at Thebes was said to have received its name.
dorus (iv. 67).
(L. S. )
(Paus. ix. 8. $ 3; Schol. ad Apollon. Rhod. i. 916. ) ELECTRYONE (Ηλεκτρυώνη), a daughter of
4. A daughter of Agamemnon and Clytaemnes- Helios and Rhodos. (Diod. v. 56; Schol
. ad Pind.
tra, is also called Laodice. (Eustath. ad Hom. p. 01. vii. 24. ) The name is also used as a patrony-
742. ) She was the sister of Iphigeneia, Chrysothe- mic from Electryon, and given to his daughter,
mis, and Orestes. The conduct of her mother and Alcmene. (Hes. Scut. Herc. 16. ) (L. S. ]
Aegisthus threw her into grief and great suffering, ELECTUS. [ECLECTUS. )
and in consequence of it she became the accomplice ELEIUS ('Harios). 1. A son of Poseidon and
of Orestes in the murder of his mother. Her story, Eurydice, the daughter of Endymion, was king of
according to Hyginus (Fab. 122), runs thus : On the Epeians and father of Augeas. (Paus. v. 1.
receiving the false report that Orestes and Pylades S 6, &c. )
had been sacrificed to Artemis in Tauris, Aletes, 2. A son of Amphimachus and king of Elis.
the son of Aegisthus, assumed the government of In his reign the sons of Aristomachus invaded
Mycenae ; but Electra, for the purpose of learning Peloponnesus. (Paus. v. 3. & 4. )
the particulars of her brother's death, went to Del- 3. A son of Tantalus, from whom the country
phi. On the day she reached the place, Orestes of Elis was believed to have received its name.
and Iphigeneia likewise arrived there, but the (Steph. Byz. s. v. HA1s. )
(L. S. ]
same messenger who had before informed her of E'LEOS ("Eneos), the personification of pity or
the death of Orestes, now added, that he had been mercy, had an altar in the agora at Athens. - The
sacrificed by Iphigeneia Electra, enraged at this, Athenians,” says Pausanias (i. 17. $ 1), “ are the
snatched a firebrand from the altar, with the in- only ones among the Hellenes that worship this
tention of putting her sister's eyes out with it. divine being, and among all the gods this is the
But Orestes snddenly came to the spot, and made most useful to human life in all its vicissitudes. "
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ELEUTHER.
9
ELIAS.
Those who implored the assistance of the Athe ELEUTHEREUS ('EAevőepeús), a surname of
nians, such as Adrastus and the Heracleidae, ap- Dionysus, which he derived either from Eleuther,
proached as suppliants the altar of Eleos. (Apollod. or the Bocotian town of Eleutherae ; but it may
ii. 8. & 1, iii. 7. $ 1; Schol. ad Soph. Oed. Col. also be regarded as equivalent to the Latin Liber,
258. )
[L. S. ] and thus describes Dionysus as the deliverer of man
ELEPHANTIS, the writer of certain amatory from care and sorrow. (Paus. i. 20. $ 2, 38. & 8;
works (molles Elephantidos libelli), the character of Plut. Quaest. Rom. 101. ) The form Eleutherius is
which is sufficiently evident from the notices con- certainly used in the sense of the deliverer, and
tained in Martial and Suetonius. We know not occurs also as the surname of Zeus. (Plut. Sympos.
with certainty the sex of the author, nor in what vii. in fin. ; Pind. Ol. xii. 1; Sirab. ix. p. 412;
language the pieces were composed, nor whether | Tacit. Ann. xv. 64. )
[L. S. )
they were expressed in prose or verse; but the ELIAS ('Halas). This name, which is of
grammatical form of the name seems to indicate Hebrew origin, belongs to several Greek writers,
that the person in question was a female, and that chiefly ecclesiastics, of the Byzantine empire.
she was either a Greek by birth or of Greek ex- There were several prelates of the name in the
traction. By the historians of literature she is Oriental patriarchates and bishoprics, and severul
generally ranked among the poetesses. (Martial, writers, chiefly ecclesiastics, in the Oriental tongues,
Ep. xii. 43. 5; Suet. Til, 43; Priupei. iii. ; Sui- for whom see Assemanni, Bibliothecu Orientulis, and
das, s. v. 'Aotvávasoa. ) Galen quotes a treatise Fabric. Bill. Gruec. vol. ix. p. 257, xi. p. 614. We
TEMI KOOUNTIKwv by this or some other Elephantis. give only those belonging to Greek biography. In
(Fabric. Bibl. Graec. vol. viii. p. 158; comp. Span- Latin the name is frequently written Helias.
heim, de Pruestuntia et Usu Numism. Diss. ix. p. 1. 2. 3. Ellas. There were three patriarchs of
771. )
(W. R. ) Jerusalem of this name. Elias I. was patriarch from
ELEPHE'NOR ('Elepývwp), a son of Chalco A. D. 494 or 495 till his deposition by a council held
don, and prince of the Abantes in Euboea, whom at Sidon, whose decrce was enforced, A. D. 513, by the
be led against Troy in thirty or forty ships. He emperor Anastasius I. He died in exile A. D. 518.
there fell by the hand of Agenor. (Hom. Il. ii. Elias II. held the patriarchate from a. D. 760, or
540, iv. 463; Hygin. Fab. 97 ; Dict. Cret. i. 17. ) carlier, to 797, with the exception of an interval,
Hyginus calls his mother Imenarete, and Tzetzes when he was expelled by an intrusive patriarch
(ad Lycoph. 1029) Melanippe. He is also men- Theodorus. He was represented at the second
tioned among the suitors of Helen (Apollod. iii. general council of Nicaea, A. D. 787, by Joannes, a
10.
08), and was said to have taken with him to presbyter, and Thomas, principal of the convent of
Troy the sons of Theseus, who had been entrusted St. Arsenius near Babylon in Egypt: these eccle-
to his care. (Plut. Thes. 35; Paus. i. 17. $ 6. ) siastics were also representatives of the patriarchs
According to Tzetzes, Elephenor, without being of Alexandria and Antioch. Elias III. was pa-
aware of it, killed his grandfather, Abas, in con- triarch at least as early as 881, when he sent a
sequence of which he was obliged to quit Euboea. letter to Charles le Gros and the prelates, princes,
When therefore the expedition against Troy was and nobles of Gaul. A Latin version of the letter of
undertaken, Elephenor did not return to Euboea, Elias to Charlemagne (for it is scarcely probable
but assembled the Abantes on a rock on the Euri- that the original was in that language) was pub
pus, opposite the island. After the fall of Troy, lished in the Spicilegium of D'Achéry. Elias died
which, according to some accounts, he survived, he about A. D. 907. (Papebroche, Tructatus preliminaris
went to the island of Othronos near Sicily, and, de Episcopis et Patriarchis Sanctoc Hierosolymitanae
driven away thence by a dragon, he went to Ecclesiae in the Actu Sanctorum : Mai, vol. iii. with
Amantia in Illyria. (Lycophr. 1029, &c. ) [L. S. ) the Appendix in vol. vii. p. 696, &c. ; Labbe, Con-
ELEUSI'NA or ELEUSI'NIA ('Ehevonia), cilia, vol. vii. ; D'Achery, Spicileg. vol. iii. p. 363,
a surname of Demeter and Persephone, derived ed. Paris, 1723. )
from Eleusis in Attica, the principal seat of their 4. Elias of Charax. A Manuscript in the
worship. (Virg. Georg. i. 163; Phornut. N. D. library of St. Mark at Venice contains a citation,
27 ; Steph. Byz. s. r. 'Edevols. ) (L. S. ) printed by Villoison, from a Greek treatise on ver-
ELEUSIS ('Enevois), a son of Hermes and sification by “ Helias, a monk of Charax. ” Vil-
Daeira, the daughter of Oceanus. The town of loison states that the passage cited by him is, in
Eleusis in Attica was believed to have derived its several MSS. of the King's Library at Paris, im-
name from him. (Paus. i. 38. $ 7; Apollod. i. 5. properly ascribed to Plutarch. Harless incorrectly
$ 2; Hygin. Fab. 147. ) He was married to represents Villoison as speaking of two works of
Cothonea or Cyntinia (Hygin. l. c. ; Serv. ad Helias on versification, and without, or rather
Virg. Georg. i 19. )
[L. S. ) against authority, connects the name of Elias of Crete
ELEUSIS (Enevois), is quoted by Diogenes with them. Part of this work is printed by Her-
Laërtius (i. 29) as the author of a work on Achilles mann in an Appendix to his edition of Dracon of
(περί 'Αχιλλέως).
(L. S. ) Stratoniceia. [Dracox. ) (Villoison, Anecd. Graec.
ELEUTHER (’EA evońp), a son of Apollo and vol. ii. pp. 85,86; Fabric. Bibl. Graec. vol. vi. p. 338. )
Aethusa, the daughter of Poseidon, was regarded 5. ELIAS of CkETE. There are several works
as the founder of Eleutherae in Boeotia. (Steph. extant ascribed to Elias Cretensis, whom Rader,
Byz. s. o. 'EAevepal. ). He was the grandfather Cave, Fabricius, and others, suppose to have been
of Jasius and Poemander, the founder of Tanagra. Elias, bishop (or rather metropolitan) of Crete,
(Paus. ix. 20. & 2. ) He is said to have been the who took part in the second general council of
first that erected a statue of Dionysus, and spread Nicaea, d. D. 787. (Labbe, Concilia, vol. vii. )
the worship of the god. (Hygin. Fab. 225. ) There Leunclavius considers that the author was a ditier-
are two other mythical personages of the same ent person from the prelate, and places the former
name. (Plut. Quuest. Gr. 39; Steph. Byz. s. 1. in the sixth century or thereabout. (Procemium
'Ελευθεραί. )
[l. . S. )
in Sti Gregori Nuzianzeni Operu. ) Oudin, who
!
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10
ELIAS.
ELLOPION.
are extant.
has examined the subject most carefully, agrees some extracts from the same Elias in a MS. in the
with Leunclavius in distinguishing the writer from Library of St. Mark at Venice. But nothing ap-
the prelate, and deduces from the internal evidence pears to be known of the writer beyond his name.
of his works that the writer lived about A. D. 1120 (Fabric. Bibl. Graec. vol. xi. p. 616. )
or 1130.
9. Elias SINCELLUS. Leo Allatius has men-
He wrote (1) Commentaries on several of the tioned some hymns or poems addressed to the l'ir-
Orations of Gregory Nazianzen. There are gin Mary, remarkable for their beauty, piety, and
several MSS. extant of these commentaries in the elegance : he promised to publish them, but did
original Greek, but we believe they have never not fulfil his intention. Among the writers of them
been printed. A Latin version of them, partly he names Elias Syncellus. (Allatius, Notes to his
new, partly selected from former translations, was clition of Eustathius of Antioch, p. 284. )
published by Billius with his Latin version of Montfaucon mentions a black-letter MS. appa-
Gregory's works, and has been repeatedly reprinted. rently in Latin, belonging at that time to the mon-
(2. ) A Commentary on the Kaluat, Climar, astery of Caunes in Languedoc, entitled Requics
“ Scula Parudisi," or Luler of Paradise of Joannes in Clementinas, by Elias or Helias, But who
or John surnamci Schwlasticus or Climacus. This this Elias was, is not stated, nor whether the work
commentary, which has never been published, but was a version from the Greek, which the name of
is extant in MS. , is described by Rader in his the writer would lend us to suppose. A MS. en-
edition of the Climax, as very bulky. Some cx- titled Theorica et Practica, by “ Helias Salomon,"
tracts are embodied in the Scholia of a later com- is also mentioned by Montfaucon, but we know
mentator given by Rader.
nothing of the writer. (Montfaucon, Bibliotheca
(3. ) An Answer respecting virgins espoused Bibliothecarum, pp. 515, 1241. ) [J. C. M. ]
before the age of puberty. This is extant in MS. ELICAON or HELICAON ('Enikáwv), of
in the King's Library at Paris, in the catalogue of Rhegium, a Pythagorean philosopher. He is
which the author is described as the metropolitan mentioned along with other Pythagoreans, who
of Crete.
gave good and wholesome laws to Rhegium, and
(4. ) Answers to Dionysius the Monk on his endeavoured to make practical use of the phi-
seven different questions, given by Binefidius (Juris losophical principles of their master in the adminis-
Orient. Libri, iii. p. 185) and Leunclavius (Jus Gr. tration of their country. (lamblich. Vit. Pythag.
Rom. i. p. 335).
27, 30, 36. )
(L. S. )
It is not known that any other works of his ELI'CIUS, a surname of Jupiter at Rome,
Nicolaus Commenus in his Praeno- where king Numa dedicated to Jupiter Elicius an
tiones Mlystagogicae cites other works, but they are altar on the Aventine. (Liv. i. 20. ) The same
probably lost.
lieved to have received its name from her. (Apol- had several children. (Apollod. ii. 4. § 5, &c. )
lon. Rhod. i. 916. )
The tradition about him is given under Amphi-
3. A sister of Cadmus, from whom the Electrian TRYON. Another Electryon is mentioned by Dia
gate at Thebes was said to have received its name.
dorus (iv. 67).
(L. S. )
(Paus. ix. 8. $ 3; Schol. ad Apollon. Rhod. i. 916. ) ELECTRYONE (Ηλεκτρυώνη), a daughter of
4. A daughter of Agamemnon and Clytaemnes- Helios and Rhodos. (Diod. v. 56; Schol
. ad Pind.
tra, is also called Laodice. (Eustath. ad Hom. p. 01. vii. 24. ) The name is also used as a patrony-
742. ) She was the sister of Iphigeneia, Chrysothe- mic from Electryon, and given to his daughter,
mis, and Orestes. The conduct of her mother and Alcmene. (Hes. Scut. Herc. 16. ) (L. S. ]
Aegisthus threw her into grief and great suffering, ELECTUS. [ECLECTUS. )
and in consequence of it she became the accomplice ELEIUS ('Harios). 1. A son of Poseidon and
of Orestes in the murder of his mother. Her story, Eurydice, the daughter of Endymion, was king of
according to Hyginus (Fab. 122), runs thus : On the Epeians and father of Augeas. (Paus. v. 1.
receiving the false report that Orestes and Pylades S 6, &c. )
had been sacrificed to Artemis in Tauris, Aletes, 2. A son of Amphimachus and king of Elis.
the son of Aegisthus, assumed the government of In his reign the sons of Aristomachus invaded
Mycenae ; but Electra, for the purpose of learning Peloponnesus. (Paus. v. 3. & 4. )
the particulars of her brother's death, went to Del- 3. A son of Tantalus, from whom the country
phi. On the day she reached the place, Orestes of Elis was believed to have received its name.
and Iphigeneia likewise arrived there, but the (Steph. Byz. s. v. HA1s. )
(L. S. ]
same messenger who had before informed her of E'LEOS ("Eneos), the personification of pity or
the death of Orestes, now added, that he had been mercy, had an altar in the agora at Athens. - The
sacrificed by Iphigeneia Electra, enraged at this, Athenians,” says Pausanias (i. 17. $ 1), “ are the
snatched a firebrand from the altar, with the in- only ones among the Hellenes that worship this
tention of putting her sister's eyes out with it. divine being, and among all the gods this is the
But Orestes snddenly came to the spot, and made most useful to human life in all its vicissitudes. "
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ELEUTHER.
9
ELIAS.
Those who implored the assistance of the Athe ELEUTHEREUS ('EAevőepeús), a surname of
nians, such as Adrastus and the Heracleidae, ap- Dionysus, which he derived either from Eleuther,
proached as suppliants the altar of Eleos. (Apollod. or the Bocotian town of Eleutherae ; but it may
ii. 8. & 1, iii. 7. $ 1; Schol. ad Soph. Oed. Col. also be regarded as equivalent to the Latin Liber,
258. )
[L. S. ] and thus describes Dionysus as the deliverer of man
ELEPHANTIS, the writer of certain amatory from care and sorrow. (Paus. i. 20. $ 2, 38. & 8;
works (molles Elephantidos libelli), the character of Plut. Quaest. Rom. 101. ) The form Eleutherius is
which is sufficiently evident from the notices con- certainly used in the sense of the deliverer, and
tained in Martial and Suetonius. We know not occurs also as the surname of Zeus. (Plut. Sympos.
with certainty the sex of the author, nor in what vii. in fin. ; Pind. Ol. xii. 1; Sirab. ix. p. 412;
language the pieces were composed, nor whether | Tacit. Ann. xv. 64. )
[L. S. )
they were expressed in prose or verse; but the ELIAS ('Halas). This name, which is of
grammatical form of the name seems to indicate Hebrew origin, belongs to several Greek writers,
that the person in question was a female, and that chiefly ecclesiastics, of the Byzantine empire.
she was either a Greek by birth or of Greek ex- There were several prelates of the name in the
traction. By the historians of literature she is Oriental patriarchates and bishoprics, and severul
generally ranked among the poetesses. (Martial, writers, chiefly ecclesiastics, in the Oriental tongues,
Ep. xii. 43. 5; Suet. Til, 43; Priupei. iii. ; Sui- for whom see Assemanni, Bibliothecu Orientulis, and
das, s. v. 'Aotvávasoa. ) Galen quotes a treatise Fabric. Bill. Gruec. vol. ix. p. 257, xi. p. 614. We
TEMI KOOUNTIKwv by this or some other Elephantis. give only those belonging to Greek biography. In
(Fabric. Bibl. Graec. vol. viii. p. 158; comp. Span- Latin the name is frequently written Helias.
heim, de Pruestuntia et Usu Numism. Diss. ix. p. 1. 2. 3. Ellas. There were three patriarchs of
771. )
(W. R. ) Jerusalem of this name. Elias I. was patriarch from
ELEPHE'NOR ('Elepývwp), a son of Chalco A. D. 494 or 495 till his deposition by a council held
don, and prince of the Abantes in Euboea, whom at Sidon, whose decrce was enforced, A. D. 513, by the
be led against Troy in thirty or forty ships. He emperor Anastasius I. He died in exile A. D. 518.
there fell by the hand of Agenor. (Hom. Il. ii. Elias II. held the patriarchate from a. D. 760, or
540, iv. 463; Hygin. Fab. 97 ; Dict. Cret. i. 17. ) carlier, to 797, with the exception of an interval,
Hyginus calls his mother Imenarete, and Tzetzes when he was expelled by an intrusive patriarch
(ad Lycoph. 1029) Melanippe. He is also men- Theodorus. He was represented at the second
tioned among the suitors of Helen (Apollod. iii. general council of Nicaea, A. D. 787, by Joannes, a
10.
08), and was said to have taken with him to presbyter, and Thomas, principal of the convent of
Troy the sons of Theseus, who had been entrusted St. Arsenius near Babylon in Egypt: these eccle-
to his care. (Plut. Thes. 35; Paus. i. 17. $ 6. ) siastics were also representatives of the patriarchs
According to Tzetzes, Elephenor, without being of Alexandria and Antioch. Elias III. was pa-
aware of it, killed his grandfather, Abas, in con- triarch at least as early as 881, when he sent a
sequence of which he was obliged to quit Euboea. letter to Charles le Gros and the prelates, princes,
When therefore the expedition against Troy was and nobles of Gaul. A Latin version of the letter of
undertaken, Elephenor did not return to Euboea, Elias to Charlemagne (for it is scarcely probable
but assembled the Abantes on a rock on the Euri- that the original was in that language) was pub
pus, opposite the island. After the fall of Troy, lished in the Spicilegium of D'Achéry. Elias died
which, according to some accounts, he survived, he about A. D. 907. (Papebroche, Tructatus preliminaris
went to the island of Othronos near Sicily, and, de Episcopis et Patriarchis Sanctoc Hierosolymitanae
driven away thence by a dragon, he went to Ecclesiae in the Actu Sanctorum : Mai, vol. iii. with
Amantia in Illyria. (Lycophr. 1029, &c. ) [L. S. ) the Appendix in vol. vii. p. 696, &c. ; Labbe, Con-
ELEUSI'NA or ELEUSI'NIA ('Ehevonia), cilia, vol. vii. ; D'Achery, Spicileg. vol. iii. p. 363,
a surname of Demeter and Persephone, derived ed. Paris, 1723. )
from Eleusis in Attica, the principal seat of their 4. Elias of Charax. A Manuscript in the
worship. (Virg. Georg. i. 163; Phornut. N. D. library of St. Mark at Venice contains a citation,
27 ; Steph. Byz. s. r. 'Edevols. ) (L. S. ) printed by Villoison, from a Greek treatise on ver-
ELEUSIS ('Enevois), a son of Hermes and sification by “ Helias, a monk of Charax. ” Vil-
Daeira, the daughter of Oceanus. The town of loison states that the passage cited by him is, in
Eleusis in Attica was believed to have derived its several MSS. of the King's Library at Paris, im-
name from him. (Paus. i. 38. $ 7; Apollod. i. 5. properly ascribed to Plutarch. Harless incorrectly
$ 2; Hygin. Fab. 147. ) He was married to represents Villoison as speaking of two works of
Cothonea or Cyntinia (Hygin. l. c. ; Serv. ad Helias on versification, and without, or rather
Virg. Georg. i 19. )
[L. S. ) against authority, connects the name of Elias of Crete
ELEUSIS (Enevois), is quoted by Diogenes with them. Part of this work is printed by Her-
Laërtius (i. 29) as the author of a work on Achilles mann in an Appendix to his edition of Dracon of
(περί 'Αχιλλέως).
(L. S. ) Stratoniceia. [Dracox. ) (Villoison, Anecd. Graec.
ELEUTHER (’EA evońp), a son of Apollo and vol. ii. pp. 85,86; Fabric. Bibl. Graec. vol. vi. p. 338. )
Aethusa, the daughter of Poseidon, was regarded 5. ELIAS of CkETE. There are several works
as the founder of Eleutherae in Boeotia. (Steph. extant ascribed to Elias Cretensis, whom Rader,
Byz. s. o. 'EAevepal. ). He was the grandfather Cave, Fabricius, and others, suppose to have been
of Jasius and Poemander, the founder of Tanagra. Elias, bishop (or rather metropolitan) of Crete,
(Paus. ix. 20. & 2. ) He is said to have been the who took part in the second general council of
first that erected a statue of Dionysus, and spread Nicaea, d. D. 787. (Labbe, Concilia, vol. vii. )
the worship of the god. (Hygin. Fab. 225. ) There Leunclavius considers that the author was a ditier-
are two other mythical personages of the same ent person from the prelate, and places the former
name. (Plut. Quuest. Gr. 39; Steph. Byz. s. 1. in the sixth century or thereabout. (Procemium
'Ελευθεραί. )
[l. . S. )
in Sti Gregori Nuzianzeni Operu. ) Oudin, who
!
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10
ELIAS.
ELLOPION.
are extant.
has examined the subject most carefully, agrees some extracts from the same Elias in a MS. in the
with Leunclavius in distinguishing the writer from Library of St. Mark at Venice. But nothing ap-
the prelate, and deduces from the internal evidence pears to be known of the writer beyond his name.
of his works that the writer lived about A. D. 1120 (Fabric. Bibl. Graec. vol. xi. p. 616. )
or 1130.
9. Elias SINCELLUS. Leo Allatius has men-
He wrote (1) Commentaries on several of the tioned some hymns or poems addressed to the l'ir-
Orations of Gregory Nazianzen. There are gin Mary, remarkable for their beauty, piety, and
several MSS. extant of these commentaries in the elegance : he promised to publish them, but did
original Greek, but we believe they have never not fulfil his intention. Among the writers of them
been printed. A Latin version of them, partly he names Elias Syncellus. (Allatius, Notes to his
new, partly selected from former translations, was clition of Eustathius of Antioch, p. 284. )
published by Billius with his Latin version of Montfaucon mentions a black-letter MS. appa-
Gregory's works, and has been repeatedly reprinted. rently in Latin, belonging at that time to the mon-
(2. ) A Commentary on the Kaluat, Climar, astery of Caunes in Languedoc, entitled Requics
“ Scula Parudisi," or Luler of Paradise of Joannes in Clementinas, by Elias or Helias, But who
or John surnamci Schwlasticus or Climacus. This this Elias was, is not stated, nor whether the work
commentary, which has never been published, but was a version from the Greek, which the name of
is extant in MS. , is described by Rader in his the writer would lend us to suppose. A MS. en-
edition of the Climax, as very bulky. Some cx- titled Theorica et Practica, by “ Helias Salomon,"
tracts are embodied in the Scholia of a later com- is also mentioned by Montfaucon, but we know
mentator given by Rader.
nothing of the writer. (Montfaucon, Bibliotheca
(3. ) An Answer respecting virgins espoused Bibliothecarum, pp. 515, 1241. ) [J. C. M. ]
before the age of puberty. This is extant in MS. ELICAON or HELICAON ('Enikáwv), of
in the King's Library at Paris, in the catalogue of Rhegium, a Pythagorean philosopher. He is
which the author is described as the metropolitan mentioned along with other Pythagoreans, who
of Crete.
gave good and wholesome laws to Rhegium, and
(4. ) Answers to Dionysius the Monk on his endeavoured to make practical use of the phi-
seven different questions, given by Binefidius (Juris losophical principles of their master in the adminis-
Orient. Libri, iii. p. 185) and Leunclavius (Jus Gr. tration of their country. (lamblich. Vit. Pythag.
Rom. i. p. 335).
27, 30, 36. )
(L. S. )
It is not known that any other works of his ELI'CIUS, a surname of Jupiter at Rome,
Nicolaus Commenus in his Praeno- where king Numa dedicated to Jupiter Elicius an
tiones Mlystagogicae cites other works, but they are altar on the Aventine. (Liv. i. 20. ) The same
probably lost.
