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 r, y^ (Camp. Bd iMT 12. § 7 CmitHiipoi iiy with Sirabo thrae, a |ihf ii MM i of tiie Tlioimli EfjtlnsM ocfw it CKHted ftr a long ErTthne to « kte Tbe coiat antoior to the W verytcafoe. The csjM^ poritioD of Eiytlnae b vdl tamed. It if nov called iUlH^ and H the woth side of a nuJl pnriminh, wtiefa projaeli ^ the bi^ of EfTtlme. Pliiif (t. 29) a stiem called Aleof, winch he eecme to phoe Eiythrae (zzzL 2). But the name of the ritcr on the one of Efythrae ia Axoa. Eiythne cnntaiiied a Tcrj andoit temple of Hencalei, whom the Erythnei wonfaipped mider the nmw of the Her- eolea of the Idaci Dm^U; and abo the TyTniie, tA dieooferad (tu. 5. § 5 : U. 27. § 8). place caUed Fmhatwm [Embatdm] mtheEi ythr ni f a n Stiabo (p. 613) aaya, that Hercolei Ipoetonoa wofshipped by the Erjthiaeaoa who dweD about Ifelios, for the ' ipt' ia an inaect that damagea the Tinea ; and this waa the only coaakrj that was fiee from this plagne." The name Ifelins in this pas- sage has besn, periiaps, comctly altered to Mimaa. Then waa also a temple of Athena Poliss at Eiythiae : the goddess was a large wooden figan seated. The remains of Eiythiae are descHbed by Chandler {Asia Minor, oc. 25, 26.); and ktely by Hamilton (iZesearcAef, Ac, toI. iL pi 6)l " It ia situ- ated in a small aUarial plain at the month of the riTor Aleos, some of the sooroes of which are in the town itselt The dty faces the west, and the whole extent of the HeUnne walls may be distinctly traced, from the commencement near the harbour, at the sontbera extremity of the town, to the nortfaera point, where they terminate on a lofty rock of tnchyte." (Hamilton.) *' The walk are well boilt in the isodomons style, except a small part of that which traverses the plains, and they consist either of bine marble or red trachyte." There are remains of ssvend gateways, and outside of them also remains of andent tcmbs in«Tarions styles. Near the chief source of the Aleos there an ^ many remains of aqueducts, walls, terraces, and foundations of buildings with temples." (Hamilton.) Cne of these remains is a wall supporting a terrace 88 feet in length. ** the lower part of which con- sisted of a beautiftil spedmen of cydopian ardii- teeture, the angles of the di&rent blocks being cut ▼ery sharp, while upon it was reared a super- structure in the isodomons style, built with great regularity.** (Hamilton.) He conjectures that the dte may haTo been that of the temple of Hercules, and that three large lonio capitals of red trachyte, which were lying in the water-couise, may have belonged to it The acropolis of Eiythrse is withm 200 yards of the shore; it is a mass of red trachyte, and stands quite detached in the centre of the pUun. The remains of a large theatre are still visible, on the north side of it, excavated in the solid rock. Near the mouth of the Aleus there are some remains of the port, and traces of an aqueduct The inscriptions eopied by Hamilton at RUri ara printed in his Ap- pendix, vd. iL One of the inscriptions that he dug out was the architrave of a door, ^ on which was a dedication to Minerva or the sibyl Athenais, by a perKiB whose name appears to lie Artazenes." (L 17) nones a pbee Coryna in the Kij- tfarsmn pemnsnla: hot it is donbtfal what lie DenoL The pnanoitoy Mesate of Fknsnias (viL 5. § 6) appean to be the double point whidi czteods finmi the soatbem part of the Eiythiaeen peunsnla nostli' ward, sepantfing what we may <adl the hay «£ Eiythrae from the strait of C!hias. [G. L.] COUr OP EBYTHRAB. ERTTHBAEA. [Ertthxakitii.] EBYTHRAEUM CIVw^wmt $Kftm, PtoL SL 17. § 4), a prnmantoiy on the SE. coast of Crete. The town of Ertthraka, which, from its meotkn by Floras (iiL 7) ahmg with Cydonia and Cnossoa as submitting to Metdlns, must have been a place of importance, probably was ntuated near the pranosi- toiy of the same name. (Hoeck, Krtta^ vol. i ppu 426, 429.) [£. B. J.] ERYTHBAEUM MABE. [Bubrux Mark.] EBTH'HBUM (*E^p^r: EUNairomi, Rn.), a village (ki^, StadUum,), or phce (r^ns, PtoL), on this coast of Cyreoaica, between Dairnis and Man- stathwus. (Synes. Ep. 51, 67; PtoL rr. 4w § 5; Stadiagm. Steph. B.) Its ruins are considerable; and it occupied a Avourable ate at the month of one of the most considerable streams of the district. (Beechey, p. 478; Berth, pp. 461, 496.) [P. S.] EBYX C^uC: Etk. *EpMc<rot, Erycmos: S. Gh^- liano), the name of a dty and mountain in the W. of SicUy, about 6 miles from Drepana, and two fnm the sea-coast The mountain (Mom Ertz, Plin. ilL 8. 8. 14; but MoNS Ertcus, Cic. Vtrr. ii. 47; Tac Afm. iv. 43), now called MomU & Gudkma^ b a wholly isolated peak, rising in the midst of a low undulating tract, which causes its devation to appear much more considerable than it really ia, ao that it was regarded in ancient as well as modem times as the most lofty summit in the whole island next to Aetna (PoLL 55; MeLiL7.§I7; Solin.5. § 9), though its real ele'ation does not exceed 2184 English feet. (Smyth's ^eSljg, p. 242.) Hence we find Eiyx alluded to by Viigil and other Latin poeta as a mountain of the first order of magnitode, and associated with Athos, Aetna, &c. (Viig. ilea. ziL 701; Val. FUujc ii. 523.)^ On its summit stood*^ a celebrated temple of Venus or Aphrodite, fimnded, according to the current legend, by Aeneas (Strah. xiii. p. 608 ; Virg. Aen. v. 759), from whence the goddess derived the surname of Venus Eiydna, by which she is often mentioned by Latin writers. (Hoc Corrn. L 2. 33 ; Cvid, Beroid, 15. 57, &c) Another legend, followed by Diodorus, ascribed the foun- datioQ both of the temple and dty to an (yponymont