Fluellen, ib. iv, 7; eldest son of Edward III, 'died before his father' (2 Hen. VI, ii, 2).

The D. of York (Edmund of Langley) reminds Bolingbroke of the time when 'brave Gaunt, thy father, and myself Rescued the Black Prince, that young Mars of men, From forth the ranks of many thousand French' (Rich. II, ii, 3), but no historical foundation for this statement is known.

The Clown, All's Well, iv, 5, jests on the 'great prince' who 'has an English name the black prince, sir, alias the prince of darkness.'

Edward, Prince of Wales (1453–71). Only s. of Henry VI; knighted by the King 1461 (after the 2nd battle of St Albans); taken by his mother, Q. Margaret, into France 1462; took refuge in Lorraine ; returned to England, and was taken prisoner and slain at Tewkesbury.

D.P. 3 Hen. VI. i, 1] protests against being disinherited by his father; declares that he will not see the King again until he returns 'with victory from the field'; departs with Q. Margaret. ii, 2] is knighted by Henry before York. ii, 5] (at Towton) urges Henry to flee. iii, 3] (with Q. Margaret at the French Court) pledges himself to wed Warwick's daughter. (iv, 6) is summoned from France by Henry. v, 4] (at Tewkesbury) shares his mother's 'valiant spirit,' despite misfortunes. v, 5] is made prisoner; boldly calls King Edward a traitor, and reviles 'lascivious Edward,' 'perjur'd George,' and 'misshapen Dick'; is stabbed to death by the three brothers.

Mtd. as husband of 'Warwick's youngest ['eldest,' in 3 Hen. VI, iii, 3] daughter' (Rich. III, i, 1); Anne Neville (q.v.) laments him as her slaughtered husband, ib. i, 2; Richard's share in his death, ib. ib.; his death referred to by Margaret, ib. i, appears in Clarence's dream, ib. i, 4; referred to by Anne, ib. iv, 1, and by Q. Margaret, ib. iv, 4 (2); his ghost appears to Richard at Bosworth, ib. v, 3.

(3);

Some discrepancy exists in the Chronicles as to the precise manner of Edward's death. In Hol. iii, 688 (following Hall), it is stated that he was slain by Clarence, Gloucester, Dorset, and Hastings; in a Cottonian MS. quoted by Buck, Hist. of Life and Reign of Richard III, p. 81, it is stated that Gloucester 'onely of all the great persons stood still and drew not his sword'; in Warkworth's Chronicle (Camden Society, No. 10, p. 18) the Prince is merely related to have been 'slayne in the field.'

In Rich. III, i, 4, Clarence appears as the murderer, while in i, 2, Richard, after declaring that the deed was King Edward's, appears to accept Anne's accusation against himself.

Egeus. D.P. M.N.D. 'An Athenian lord' (Rowe). i, 1] lays a complaint before Theseus

against his daughter Hermia, in that, ‘bewitched' by Lysander, she refuses to wed Demetrius ; he claims the 'privilege of Athens' to dispose of her as he thinks fit. iv, 1] recognizes Hermia asleep in the wood, near Lysander; begs 'the law upon his head,' but Theseus 'overbears his will.' See PHILOSTRATE.

The spelling of F,, 'Egaeus,' confirms the pronunciation indicated metrically.

[Egistus.] See POLIXENES.

Eglamour. D.P. T.G.V. 'Agent for Silvia in her escape' (F1). (i, 2) ‘a knight wellspoken, neat and fine.' iv, 3] is appealed to by Sil., as one who has loved and lost, and now vows chastity, to escort her secretly to Mantua; he consents 'at any cost.' v, 1] meets her, as agreed. (v, 2) Thurio vows vengeance on him. (v, 3) is separated from Silvia and pursued by outlaws. ('Eglamore' in st. dir. iv, 3, Ff.)

C. and M. Lamb (Tales from Sh.) speak of E. as 'a worthy old gentleman'; but it is nowhere hinted that he is elderly, and the outlaws explicitly refer to him as 'nimble-footed' (v, 3). It may be doubted whether 'Sir E.' of i, 2, is intended to be identical with Silvia's escort. (Sir Eglamour, or Eglamore, was one of the Knights of the Round Table in Arthurian legend, and a dragon-slayer.)

Egypt (1). Country of E. 'Sees Helen's beauty in a brow of E.' (M.N.D. v, 1); (cf. Cleopatra 'with Phoebus' amorous pinches black' (Ant. Cl. i, 5) ). 'I'll rail against all the first-born of E.' (A.Y.L. ii, 5; cf. Exod. xi, 5); 'would not be a queen for all the mud in E.' (Hen. VIII, ii, 3).

In Ant. Cl. mtd. 37 times (in no instance qualified by an epithet): i, 1, 5 (4); ii, 1 (2), 2 (6), 3 (3), 5 (2), 6, 7; iii, 3, 6, 8, 9 (2), 10 (2); iv, 1, 10, 12, 13 (2); v, 2 (5).

Egypt (2). For 'King of Egypt,' i.e. Ptolemy XII (q.v.). Cleopatra is called 'E.'s widow' by Pompey, Ant. Cl. ii, 1.

Egypt (3). For 'Queen of Egypt,' i.c. Cleopatra. 'Cleo. I would I had thy inches, thou should'st know There were a heart in E.' (Ant. Cl. i, 3); 'say the tears belong to E.' (ib. ib.); 'the firm Roman to great E. sends This treasure of an oyster' (ib. i, 5); 'whither hast thou led me, E. ?' (ib. iii, 11); 'E., thou knewst too well My heart was to thy rudder tied' (ib. ib.); 'I made these wars for E.' (ib. iv, 14); 'I am dying, E.' (ib. iv, 15); 'Royal E., Empress' (ib. ib.); 'rise, E.' (ib. v, 2).

Egyptian. (a) Subst., native of Egypt. 'Thou art more puzzled than the E.s in their

fog' (T. Nt. iv, 2; cf. Exod. x, 21–3); 'an E. That had nine hours lien dead, Who was by good appliance recovered' (Per. iii, 2); 'that handkerchief did an E. to my mother give' (Oth. iii, 4; perhaps, here, 'a gypsy'); 'rare E. [Cleopatra]' (Ant. Cl. ii, 2); 'Let the E.s And the Phoenicians go a ducking' (ib. iii, 7); 'my brave E.s' (ib. iii, 11); 'this foul E. [Cleopatra]' (ib. iv, 12).

(B) Adj. 'E. thief' (T. Nt. v, 1; see THYAMIS); 'these strong E. fetters I must break' (Ant. Cl. i, 2); 'he will to his E. dish again [Cleopatra]' (ib. ii, 6); E. Bacchanals' (ib. ii, 7); 'E. admiral' (ib. iii, 10; see ANTONIAD); 'an E. puppet [Iras]' (ib. v, 2).

Egyptian, An. D.P. Ant. Cl. v, 1] brings a message from Cleopatra to Octavius. ('Messenger,' Capell.)

Acc. J. Hunter, Cleopatra herself is the 'poor Egyptian' referred to by the messenger.

Elbe. River of Europe. Mtd. as a boundary of the 'Salique land' (Hen. V, i, 2). ('Elue,' Ff.)

Elbow. D.P. M. for M. 'A simple constable.' ii, 1] brings the Clown, Pompey, before the deputies, and makes an incoherent charge against him; Elbow, who has been 'seven years and a half' a constable, boasts that he undertakes other men's duties, 'as they are chosen, . . for some piece of money.' iii, 2] explains to the (disguised) Duke the reason for his again arresting Pompey.

Eleanor, Queen. See ELINOR.

Elephant, The. Name of an inn. T. Nt. iii, 3; iv, 3.

'The E.' or 'E. and Castle,' was a well-known sign in London in Sh.'s days.

Elinor, or Eleanor (c. 1122-1204). Mother to King John; daughter and heir to William X, D. of Aquitaine; married Lewis VII of France 1137, but was divorced (John, ii, 1, 1. 125), and married Henry Plantagenet (Henry II of England) 1152, bringing her French possessions as dowry. By Henry she became mother of Richard (Coeur-de-lion), Geoffrey (father of Arthur), John, Eleanor (wife of Alfonso VIII of Castile), and other children. She took the veil two years before her death, which took place at Fontevrault in 1204.

D.P. John. i, 1] warns John against the ambition of Constance (q.v.) on her son Arthur's behalf (Hol. iii, 158); acknowledges Philip Faulconbridge as grandson. ii, 1] has an

angry altercation with Const., and declares that she can produce a will that bars Arthur's title (Hol. iii, 155–6). iii, 1] is present when the ban of excommunication is pronounced against John: protests against Philip's consequent defection. iii, 3] bids farewell to John on his departure from England. (iv, 2) her death is announced as having taken place three days after that of Const. (historically, it was three years later).

Holinshed, after attributing John's accession to the queen-mother's efforts, adds that she was much honoured and loved by the nobility, and 'being bent to prefer hir son Iohn, left no stone vnturned to estab lish him in the throne ; moreover, she 'was sore against hir nephue Arthur, rather mooued thereto by enuie conceived against his mother, than vpon any iust occasion giucn in the behalfe of the child, for that she saw, if he were king, how his mother Con. stance would looke to beare most rule within the realine of England, till hir sonne should come to lawfull age, to gouerne of himselfe' (iii, 158).

'Few women have had less justice done them in history than Eleanor. I do not speak of her moral qualities... but of her remarkable political power and her great influence not only in her husband's states, but in Europe generally; of her great energy both in early youth and in extreme old age, there can be no question.' (Stubbs, Pref. to Hist. Coll. of Walter of Coventry, vol. ii, p. xxviii.)

Elizabeth (1). Queen of Edward IV (c. 1437-92); d. of Sir Richard Woodville (Earl Rivers); married Sir John Grey (killed at St Albans 1461), and three years later was privately married to Edward IV. After the King's death she took sanctuary at Westminster, but was persuaded to give up the young D. of York; her marriage with Edward was declared invalid by Parliament in 1484.

D.P. 3 Hen. VI. 'Lady Grey.' iii, 2] petitions Edward IV for the lands seized from her husband after his death at St Albans; he consents, on condition that she becomes his mistress (Hol. iii, 726); on her refusal he exclaims, 'Answer no more, for thou shalt be my queen.' iv, 1] on the King's brothers raising objections to the match, she urges that her descent was not ignoble, and that meaner than herself 'have had like fortune'; Edward reassures her. iv, 4] the King having been made prisoner, she resolves to seek sanctuary (Hol. iii, 677), to save the unborn 'heir of Edward's right.' v, 7] p.m. (Ff); her infant son is presented to his uncles.

D.P. Rich. III. 'Elizabeth, Queen of King Edward IV.' i, 3] defends herself against Gloucester's accusations of favouring her kinsfolk, and exclaims 'I had rather be a country servant-maid Than a great queen, with this condition'; listens to Q. Margaret's denunciations, and hears herself termed a

'poor painted queen,' ensnared in a 'deadly web.' ii, 1] is present at the apparent reconciliation of her kinsmen with their foes. ii, 2] her lamentations over the King's death are echoed by the Duchess of York's for Clarence. ii, 4] hears of the imprisonment of Rivers and Grey, and resolves to take sanctuary (Hol. iii, 715), exclaiming, 'I see, as in a map, the end of all.' iv, 1] is denied access to her sons in the Tower; learns that Richard is king. iv, 4] laments the death of her sons; would fain learn from Q. Margaret how to curse her enemies; after a bitter logomachy with Richard, is persuaded into a promise that she will win her daughter to be his queen, and receives from him a parting kiss; (when she has gone he declares her a 'relenting fool, and shallow, changing woman ').

The accusation of afflicting him by her witchcraft made against her by Richard (Rich. III, iii, 4) is based on Hol. iii, 722. Elizabeth's mother was Jacquetta of Luxemburg, widow of John of Lancaster, D. of Bedford-hence her claim to noble birth (Rich. III, iv, 1). Buckingham (iii, 7, 1. 184) speaks of her as mother of a many children' ('sons,' Ff); she had three by her first husband.

Elizabeth (2). E.d. to Edward IV (14651503); her marriage with the Dauphin was made a condition of peace between England and France, 1475, but was not carried out; she was promised in marriage to Henry of Richmond, then an exile, and is said to have received an offer of marriage from Richard III; married Henry VII in 1486.

'Rich. I must be married to my brother's daughter, Or else my kingdom stands on brittle glass' (Rich. III, iv, 2); 'I know the Breton Richmond aims at young Elizabeth' (ib. iv, 3; Hol. iii, 750-1); the Queen consents to the marriage, ib. iv, 5; 'let Richmond and E. . . . conjoin together' (ib. v, 4).

Elizabeth (3). Queen of England (15331603). Only child of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn. Her birth announced to Henry, Hen. VIII, v, 1; her christening procession, 5; Cranmer's prophetic panegyric,

ib. v,

ib. ib.

E. was born on Sept. 7, 1533, and baptized thrco days later. The only allusion to E. in the other plays seems to be 'the fair vestal throned by the west,' etc., of M.N.D. ii, 1.

Elizium (Ff). Elysium, abode of the blest in the lower world; cf. Virg. Aen. vi, 542, 744, et al. The spelling of Ff is that common in the 17th cent. (N.E.D.). 'Rest as... A blessed soul doth in E.' (T.G.V. ii, 7); 'My brother he is in E.' (T. Nt. i, 2); 'all night sleeps in E.' (Hen. V', iv, 1); 'sweet E.' (2 Hen. VI, iii, 2); 'Poor shadows of E.,

hence, and rest Upon your never-withering banks of flowers' (Cymb. v, 4). Metaph.: a crown within whose circuit is E.' (3 Hen. VI, i, 2); to clip E.' (V.A. 600). Alluded to: 'give me swift transportance to those fields Where I may wallow in the lily beds Propos'd for the deserver' (Tr. Cr. iii, 2); 'where souls do couch on flowers' (Ant. Cl. iv, 14). For the flowers of E. cf. Virg. Aen. vi, 883. Ellen. Daughter of Silence and goddaughter of Shallow. 'Alas! a black ouzel' (2 Hen. IV, iii, 2; i.e. a brunette).

Elsinore. Dan. Helsingör; a Danish seaport, on the Sound, birthplace of Saxo Grammaticus; it contains the fortress of Kronberg (1580). The scene of Haml. is laid at E. throughout. Mtd. Haml. i, 2; ii, 2 (3). ('Elsenoure' and 'Elsanoure,' Q1.)

The beetling cliff (i, 4, 1. 70) is imaginary. The coast is low.

Eltham. Town in Kent, between Greenwich and Dartford; near it are the remains of El. Palace, a royal residence from Henry III to Henry VIII. Acc. Hol. iii, 591, Beaufort planned to remove the young King from E. to Windsor some four years after his accession as Henry VI.

The infant Prince Henry at E. ('Eltam,' Ff) when Henry V died, 1 Hen. VI, i, 1; the palace mtd. as 'E.- place,' ib. iii, 1. [Elue.] See ELBE.

Ely, Bishop of (1). D.P. Hen. V. See FORDHAM, JOHN.

Ely, Bishop of (3). Hen. VIII. See WEST, NICOLAS.

Ely House. The palace of the bishops of Ely in Holborn, where Ely Place still marks the site. The Chapel, dedicated to St Ethelreda, escaped the fire of 1666.

John of Gaunt lies sick there, Rich. II, i, 4; his death takes place there, ib. ii, 1; (Glou. to Ely) 'when I was last in Holborn, I saw good strawberries in your garden there' (Rich. III, iii, 4).

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The date of the council referred to in the last quotation was, acc. Hol. iii, 722, Friday, June 13. After a little talking with them he [the Protector] said unto the bishop of Elie : My lord, you have verie good strawberies at your garden in Holborn, I require you to let us have a messe of them." And therewithall in all the hast he sent his seruant for a messe of strawberies.' Cf. More, Hist. Rich. III, p. 45.

[Elysium.] See ELIZIUM.

Ember Eve. The vigil of an Ember Day, occurring at four seasons of the year.

'Gower. It hath been sung at festivals, On ember-eves, and holy-days' (Per. i, 1; 'holy-ales,' acc. Steevens' generally accepted conjecture).

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Emilia (1). D.P. Oth. 'Aemilia, Wife to Iago' (Ff). ii, 1] arrives at Cyprus with Iago; Cassio kisses her by way of greeting; she bickers lightly with her husband; (Iago, sol., professes to doubt her faithfulness). iii, 1] assures Cas. that Othello and Desdemona will do their best to save him from the probable consequences of his tipsy brawl, and gains access for him to Des. iii, 3] is present when Des. promises Cas. to be 'solicitor' on his behalf, and when she eagerly pleads his cause to Oth. iii, 4] declares that she knows not where Desdemona's lost handkerchief is ; views with grave concern Othello's rising jealousy. iv, 2] is closely examined by Oth. concerning Des., and will lay down her soul in stake' that the latter is faithful; later, re-enters with Des., and is ordered to guard the door without; after the interview between Oth. and Des. is given money by the former as he departs, and is charged to keep secrecy; tenderly seeks Desdemona's confidence; later, returns with Iago, and passionately inveighs against the unknown 'villainous knave' who has poisoned Othello's heart -she adds to Iago that 'some such squire he was That. made you to suspect me with the Moor.' iv, 3] converses with Des. as she prepares her for rest, and speaks lightly of wifely frailty. v, 1] is sent to tell Oth. and Des. that Cassio is wounded. v, 2] is admitted, and finds Desdemona dying; learns that Iago is the villain who has brought about the murder; despises and defies Oth. as a dolt 'as ignorant as dirt'; admits that she found the fatal handkerchief and gave it to her husband; is stabbed by Iago, and dies by her 'mistress' side.'

'Emilia in this play is a perfect portrait from common life, a masterpiece in the Flemish style' (Mrs Jameson, Char. of Women (1833), ii, 43).

'Her death and dying song upon Desdemona's chastity is an expiatory repentance at her grave, which is scarcely surpassed by the Moor's grand and calm retaliation upon himself' (Gervinus, Sh. Comm. (1875), p. 544).

Emilia (2). D.P. Wint. T. 'A Lady' in 'Names of the Actors' (Ff). ii, 2] tells

Paulina that a daughter has been born to Hermione in prison, and enters into the design of showing the babe to Leontes.

Emmanuel. The Clerk of Chatham (q.v.).

Emperors. (a) of the Roman Empire. Two only are named in Sh.-Augustus and Nero (qq.v.) (Saturninus, T. And., is fictitious).

(B) Of Emperors of the West (after 1155, of the Holy Roman Empire). The following are mtd. or alluded to in Sh.: Charlemagne, Lewis the Pious, Sigismund, Charles V (qq.v.). The emperor' of T.G.V. (i, 3; ii, 4) is indefinite, but he is represented as holding his Court at Milan.

W. G. Boswell-Stone, Sh. Hol. p. 50, has suggested that the Emperor to whom Sir Robert Faulconbridge was sent on an embassy (John, i, 1, 1. 99) might be intended for Henry VI or Otto IV, though this would make Philip Faul. only some 10 years old at the period of the scene.

Enceladus. Son of Tartarus and Gaea, one of the giants who made war upon the gods (Virg. Aen. iv, 179; Ovid, Amor. iii, 12, 27). According to one account he was brother to Typhon (q.v.).

'Not E., With all his threat'ning band of Typhon's brood, Shall seize this prey out of his father's hands' (T. And. iv, 2).

C. Crawford (Sh. Jahrbuch, xxxvi, 115) compares : 'As if the God of War . . . Had been in arms against Enceladus' (G. Peele, The Honour of the Garter (1593), 1. 46).

Endymion. A beautiful youth, who, acc. one legend, was beloved by Selene (the Moon), and visited by her while he slumbered on Mount Latmus (Ovid, Ars Am. iii, 83; Trist. ii, 299).

'Peace, how the moon sleeps with E., And would not be awaked' (M.V. v, 1, QqFf).

England. See also ALBION. (a) In the non-historical plays, regarded as a foreign country. 'In E. when they will not give a doit to relieve a lame beggar, they will lay out ten to see a dead Indian' (Temp. ii, 2); 'the bed of Ware, in E.' (T.Nt. iii, 2); 'the young baron of E.' (M.V. i, 2); an argosy from Venice for E., ib. i, 3; coin 'called an angel in E.' (ib. ii, 7); mtd., ib. iii, 2; ‘old Robin Hood of E.' (A.Y.L. i, 1); in the fat kitchen-wench, regarded as a globe, Dro. S. guessed E. 'stood in her chin, by the salt rheum that ran between France and it' (Com. Err. iii, 2); ambassadors from E. to Denmark, Haml. v, 2 (4); ‘in E., where indeed they are most potent in potting . . . oh sweet E.' (Oth. ii, 3).

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B) In the Histories the references are very numerous. The following are noteworthy : 'Hedged in with the main' (John, ii, 1); the Bastard's exhortation to E. to be true to itself, ib. v, 7; Gaunt's eulogy of 'this sceptred isle,' Rich. II, ii, 1; in danger from the Scots, Hen. V, i, 2; 'breeds very valiant creatures' (ib. iii, 7); ‘E. all Olivers and Rowlands bred' (1 Hen. VI, 1, 2); 'E. is safe if true within itself' (3 Hen. VI, iv, 1). 'Little E.,' see PEMBROKESHIRE.

In Macb. mtd. only with reference to the flight thither of Malcolm (q.v.).

(y) For 'king of England.' 'E. Hath put himself in arms' (John, ii, 1, 1. 56); ‘E., thou hast not saved one drop of blood' (ib. ib. 1. 341); 'Blanch Is niece to E.' (ib. ib.); 'and bloody E. into E. gone' (ib. iii, 4, 1.8); 'Harry E.' (Hen. V, iii, 5); 'E. shall repent his folly' (ib. iii, 6); 'brother E.' (ib. v, 2); ' gracious E.' (Macb. iv, 3, ll. 43, 189).

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English. (a) Subst. (i) English language. 'He hath translated her will, out of honesty into E.' (M.W.W. i, 3); 'old abusing of the king's E.' (ib. i, 4); 'one that makes fritters of E.' (ib. v, 5); 'I [Portia] have a poor pennyworth in the E.' (M.V. i, 2); etc.

(ii) Englishmen. 'These E. and their discipline' (John, ii, 1); ‘our lusty E.' (ib. ii, 2); ' abounding valour in our E.' (Hen. V, iv, 3); etc. At the Field of the Cloth of Gold, Hen. VIII, i, 1; 'Your Dane, your German are nothing to your E. [in drinking]' (Oth. ii, 2).

(B) Adj. Frequent in the Histories. In the other plays: 'E. tongue' (M.W.W. ii, 3); 'list of an E. kersey' (M. for M. ii, 2); "has ed the drum before the E. tragedians' (All'8 Well, iv, 3); 'has an E. name' (ib. iv, 3; i.e. the Black Prince); 'E. tailor' (Macb. ii, 3); E. Court' (ib. iii, 6); 'E. power' (ib. v, 2); 'E. epicures' (ib. v, 3); E. force' (ib. ib.).

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Englishman. Sing. Evans so styled, M.W.W. ii, 3; the 'Scottish lord rowed a box of the ear of the E.' (M.V. i, 2); Melun's 'grandsire was an E.' (ib. v, 4); 'Where ever E. durst set his foot' (Rich. II, i, 1); a trueborn E. [Bolingbroke]' (ib. i, 3); Q. Kath. doubts that any E. 'dare give her counsel,' Hen. VIII, iii, 1; drinking powers of 'your E.,' Oth. ii, 3; etc.

Plu. 'slaughtered E.' (Rich. II, iii, 3); we shall have each a hundred E.' (Hen. V, iii, 7); etc.

Englishwoman. 'The Princess is the better E.' (Hen. V, v, 2).

Enobarbus. See AHENOBARBUS.

Envy. Personified. 'Devil E. say amen (Tr. Cr. ii, 3); 'lean-faced E. in her loathsome cave' (2 Hen. VI, iii, 2, 1. 315); 'that monster E.' (Per. iv, Gow.).

Ephesian. A boon companion; probably a mere imitation of 'Corinthian' (q.v.). 'P. Hen. Where sups he [Falstaff]? What company? Page. Ephesians, my lord; of the old church' (2 Hen. IV, ii, 2); 'It is thine host, thine E. calls' (M.W.W. iv, 5).

Ephess. For 'Ephesus'; Per. iv, Gow. (Steevens, conj.).

Ephesus. Chief of the Ionian cities on the coast of Asia Minor. Near it stood the Temple of Diana, originally built in the 6th cent. B.C. See DIANA.

The scene of Com. Err. is wholly laid at E. Mtd. i, 1 (5); ii, 2; iv, 1, 4.

The scene of Per. iii, 2, 4, and v, 3, is also laid at E., v, 3, being at the Temple of Diana. Epicurean, adj. ‘E. rascal' (M.W.W. ii, 2); 'E. cooks' (Ant. Cl. ii, 1)—the accent being on the third syllable.

Epicurism. E. and lust' (Lear, i, 4).

Epicurus. Greek philosopher, 342-270 B.C., founder of a philosophical school which regarded happiness-in the sense of peace of mind-as the summum bonum, and virtue as the chief means to happiness. The gods, they held, had no interest in, or influence on, mankind. The idea that 'Epicurism' implied sensual indulgence was a widespread and not unnatural error.

Cassius, before Philippi, says: 'You know that I held Epicurus strong And his opinion: now I change my mind, And partly credit things that do presage' (Jul. C. v, 1; cf. Plut. p. 100: 'It is also reported that Cassius (though otherwise he did favour the doctrine of E.) beholding the image of Pompey he did softly call upon it to aid him '). Epidamium. See EPIDAMNUM. Epidamnum. For' Epidamnus,' the modern Durazzo, scene of the Menaechmi of Plautus ; thus in the Eng. transln., 1595.

Aegeon often made 'prosperous voyages' from Syracuse to E., Com. Err. i, 1; Ant. Syr. is advised to declare that he is of E., ib. i, 2; a ship is ready to sail from Ephesus to E., ib. iv, 1; Aemilia rescued by men of E., ib. v, 1. ('Epidamium,' Ff.) Epidarus. Probably a misprint (F1) for 'Epidamnum.' Com. Err. i, 1, 1. 94; cf. ib.

v, 1.