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 ELTUI. fiotiaiift, fh^ are lo oonaidered in fha pnMOt work. [SUSIANA,] 2. A district of Medut Magna, sitvatod, according to Ptolemj (yl 8. § 6), to the N. of the region which he odb Choromithxiuie. Polyhiua plaoM a tribe, whom he caUa El jmaei, in the muontain r^on to the N. of Media (▼. 44> It is not dear where it waa aitiutted, and, as most of the authorities nsnallj Rfemd to (as Stmb. xL p. 524, zr. p. 732) %pplj as well to the more important Elymais of Snaiana, we think it may be doubted whether there was another ElTmats in tiie position reholve to Media which Ptolemy and Polybios seem to have imagined. It is, however, possible, that aome of the people of the Snsianian provuioe may, at some period, have migrated to the north, or that that province may itself have been sometimes carelessly included within the varying boundaries of the greater coontxy, Jledia. [v.] E'LTMI C^v/uoc : the fbnn "Ekufioi and Helymi appears to be incorrect), a people in the extreme W. of fidly, who are leckooed among the native tribes id the ishmd, but distinct from the Sioelians and ^icanians. (ScyL p. 4; Thnc vi. 2.) The general opinion of the Graeks derived them from a Trojan origin : this is dbtinctly sUted by Thucydides (L c); and the history of their anival and the foundation of their two cities, Eryx and Egesta, is dreumstantially related by Dionysins (L 52). In all the legends oon- ■ccming them their eponymous hero Elymus is a Tngan, and appears in ckse connection with Aeneas and Aegestos or Aoestes. (Stnb. xiiL p. 608.) This notkn of their Trojan descent may probably be un- derstood, as in many other cases, as pointing to a Pelasgic extraction. A wholly different tradition was, however, preserved by Hellanicus, who repre- sented the Elymi as having been driven from the S. of Italy by the Oenotrians, previous to the similar migmtionoftheSiculi. (HeUan. op. Dtonys. i. 22.) Sej]ax also^ though he enumerates the Elymi among the bariMurian inhabitants of Sicily, seems to reckon ihem distinct from the Trojau. (ScyL p. 4. § 13.) They appear to have maintained oonstant friendly reUtians with the neighbouring Phoenician settJe- mento of Motya, Solus, and Panormos, and are men- tioned at an esriy period as co-operating with that people in expelling the Cnidians, who had attempted to form a settlement in Sicily itself, previous to their estabUshment at Lipara. (Thuc. l. c ; Paoa. x. 1 1 . § 3.) No mention of them occurs in Uter times as a separate people: their two cities Eryx and Egesta had become toagreat extent Hellenised, and assumed the positioo of independent political bodies. The f»M*««<^ of a cjijr of the name of Elyma rests wholly on the authority of a passage of Dionysins <i. 52), in which there is little doubt that the true leading shookl be ''EfiMca, as suggested by Sylbnxg and Cluvar. (Sylbnig. ad 2oc.; Cluver, SieiL p. 244.) [E. H. B.] ELTKIA (TAv/iia), a town in Arcadia, near the boundaries of Mantineia and Orchomenus, pro- bably situated at Levidkif where there are ancient lemains. (Xen. BeU. vL 5. § 13; Leake, Ptiopen- nendea, p. 229.) EXYRUS (iexvpor: ITtA. *EX^of, Steph. B.), a town of Crote, which Scylax {Geog, Graec Mm. vol i. p^ 265, ed. Gail) places between Cydonia and Lissus. It had a harbour, SuxA (Suite, Steph. B.), situated on the S. coast of the isknd, 60 stadia W. of Poedlassus. (SUuUatm.) Pausania8(x. 16. § 3) that the city existed in his time ui the moun- EMATHIA. $29 tainsofCrete. He adds that he had seen at Delphi the bronze goat which the Elyrians had dedicated, and which was repreeented in the act of giving suck to Phylacis and PhyUmder, children of Apollo and the nymph Acacallia, whose love had been won by the youthful god at the house of Casmanor at Tarrha. It waa the birthpbce of Thaletas (Suid. t. v.), who was considered as the inventor of the Gretic rhythm, the national paeans and songs, with many of the institutions of hb country. ($trab. x. p. 480.) Elyrus appears in Hierooles' list of Cretan cities, then ndnced in number to twenty-one. Mr. Paahley {TranfeUf vol ii. p. 105) discovered the site at a PoiaedkoMiron near Bhodovdm, The first object that presente itself is a building consisting of a series of arches; next, vestiges of walls, espe^ly on the N. and NE. sides of the ancient city. The circuit of these must originally have been two miles; at a slight elevation above an other walla, as of an acro- p(dis. Further on are some massive stones, some pieces of an entablature, and several fragmento of the shafts of oolumns, all that now remains of an ancient temple. Traces of the wall of Soia, which still retains ite ancient name, and of some public buildings, may be observed. Several tombs, re- scmblii^ those of ffagkio-KprkOt and an aqueduct, are still remaining. (CapL Graves, AdmiraUy Chart, in Afuf. Clou. AiUiq. vol u. p. 298.) The coins of this dty hav^ the type of a bee upon theoL (Pellerin, Use, det M4d. vol. iii. p. 68; Mionnet, Sn^ppUmaiit Td. iv. p. 319.) [E. B. J.] M OOUr OF KLTKVa EMATHIA QHitaBlii), a district which the Ho- meric poems (/(. xiv. 226) couple with Pieria as lying between the Hellenic cities of Thessaly and Paeonia and Thrace. The name waa in primitive times assigned to the original seato of the Temenid dynasty of Edes sa. It comprehended that beautiful region beyond the Haliaemon and on the E. side of the Olympene ridge, which is protected on all sides by mountains and marshes, at a secure but not incon- venient distance from the sea. Emathia, which had received the gift of three magnificent positions for cities or fortresses in Virria^ I^'iofistOy and Vodhtmdf and possessing every variety of elevation aad aspect, — of monntam, wood, fertile plain, running water, and lake,— waa admirahly adapted to be Uie nuvi> sery of the monarchy of Macedonia. It appears from Justin (vii. 1) that part of Ema- thia was occupied by the Briges, who were expelled from thence by the Temenidae; and Herodotus (viii. 138), in sUting that the gardens of Midas, their king, were situi^ at the foot of Mount Bermius, seems to show that their position was round Bercea. Emathia, in later times, had more extensive boun- daries than those which Homer understood; and Ptolemy (iu. 13. § 39) advanced ite limito to the right bank of the Axins. Pdybitis (xxiv. 8. § 4) and Livy (xl. 3), who is his transcriber in this place, assert, in contradiction to the notice in the Iliadj that Emathia was formerly called Painmia, but this 3o4