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 ; ETOPE. led to (if it did not rather arise from) the peculiar worship of the two goddesses Ceres and Prosperine inth at city: and we learn from Ciceero that there was a temple of Ceres of such great antiquity and sanctity that the Sicilians repaired thither with a feeling of religious awe, as if it was the goddess herself rather than her sanctuary that they were about to visit. Yet this did not preserve it from the aactilcgioiu hudi af Vama, iiha euiied oET tma Ibanea a brmua imaga of tlia deitj' faanelf, tha moat ancjent aa wall a> tba moit rancnlad in Sidj. (Cic Farr. it. 48.) No nnuini of tliia tampla an now liabla: acooidiiig to Fuallo it atood on tba briiik of tha [ndpica, ud hu b«a wbollj caiiiad awaj by tba&JlingdownofgnAt maaHaofrockfrEfln thaedga •ftbo oUf. (Paiall. 1.3. p. 444; U.iif Onoouda, f. 93.) Nor are there any other vestiges of antiqiiilj alill nanaioing at Cai*m Gimnmmi: tbej wen pro- hablj- dcatrojad bj the Sanam, who eractad the CHtla and ananl otfaar of the moat prominxit bniUinga of tha mudern dtj. (II«n, L c. p. 349.) Then eiiat cana of Eon* onder tba Booiazi duoinion, with the l^cnd Miw. (Uiuidpiun) HkhKa, thaa anfinniiig tha aatbciitj of Cioeni, all tha baat MSS. •f which hava tha upiralad fwm of tha uaina. (Znmpt, ad Verr. p. 393.) Tha moat andant Gnak cda of the dty al» givtt tha nama HENNAION <EcU»I, Ti^ i. p. 1)06): than ii tharefjn Uttle doght that thj) lonn ii the mm comet, though ETJOPE. [Gebimia.]'' -' ENTELLA ('ErrtUa: Elh. 'ErnXXvot, En- ttlUDDi: Rocca iTEatdla), ■ dtf in the ioleriiir of Sicily, aitoatad on the Itft bank c^ Ihs liiar Ujpaai iBtiiei),Kd huI; midway betwean the two aaaa, being about 35 milaa from tha niouth of the Hjpaaa, and mash about tlia ■anw diilaiica from tha N, csast fil the iilud, It the golf of duteUonara. It wu ■ nrj andent cilf, and appareollj of Kauiaa aiigia, though tha traditiona OMKaning ita fbun- da^ ooanectcd it with (he Eljnu and ^ aappoaed .Trojan coionj- Accoding lo boomi writara it wu iwnded by A«it«, and named aflar Ida wife En- .talla (Tiati. ad LfcofAr. 964). a Indition to which Silioa Italicna allnda (" Eoteila Hectoreo dilectum UnMi Accataa,' Sil. lul. lir. 305), while othari aicribad ita fboiidalion lo Elymoa (Serr. ad Aai. t. 73), and Virgil repniKDU Entellua (aridentlj the aponynooa befo of tlia citr) ■• a Ttiand and comrade of Aceatea {Am. t. 387). ThniiTdidaa, howaTor, nckona Erjx and Egaata tiia odj two dtiea of the Xljmi (ti 3), and dw not notice Entalla at all, any Bion than tba other placan of native Sicanian or Sicnlian origin. The Grat hialorical niEDliai of JEnlella ia foDDd in Diodonu, who telle na that in B. o. 404 the Cani[Mnian meroenariea, who had been in tha aerric* of the GaitliBginiana during tha war, .baring been admitted into the dty on friendly lerma, UfDad their armt againat tha intiabitanla, pat all EOBDAEA. 8tf the male dUzena lo the award, and made themadna of tha placa, <£ which they ntained poa- aeaaim for many yean. (Diod. liv. 9 ; Ephcna, ap. Sl^ B. t. e. 'Ei^tAXa.) Daring tha anbah qucot wan al Dionyaiai with tba Caitluginiana, the Camfnian occupants of Entalla aided with Ihor fanner maaters, and aren cmtinued futhfnl to theic '" mce in D. c. S96, when all the dtiea of Sidly ipt An went orer to that of Dionyaina. (Diod. 48, 61.) It waa not lilt b. t^ 368 that the ' M waa able to reduce Entelia ; tba hsTa Btill remainad in the handa of Caiopaniana, bat wu Dow licatila to lbs Cartha- ^iana, who (in B.C. 34S) in conaaqnenca niagad lerritory, and blockaded tha city itaalf Sam T we find the latter apparently in their hania, it wu tMOTertd by Tiinoleon, who ratored it to hberty and indepaDdenoa. (Id. it. 73, xri. G7, 73.) -*me we bear Uttle tnon of it. The ^dentally menlioned daring Iha Fint Panic War (Diod. xiiii. 8), but it eecmi to baia taken no put in tha etniggit* between Boon and Carthage. It continued, lioweTar, to be a toloablj' flouriahing munidpa] town: ita territory wu fertile in wine (SO. Hal. xii. 304) u well aa com, and Cicero praiaes the intiabitanta for thmr indnstiy in ' cDltitatioo (Cic Farr. iii. 43), bnt, like moat ot I cituB of Sicily, it anfiared aerenly fran the ei- actkna of Verrca. Wa alilt Bad its naoM both In Pliny (among tha " populi itipendiarii,' iii 8. a. 14) and Ptolemy (iii. 4. § 15), but no further udce of ' ia found io andent anthors. It bowerer coutiuuad eubaiat throughout the middle agea, till the ISth oentury, wh™, haTing been amTertod into a atrong- hold t? the Saracene, it wu taken by the emperor Frederic II. and utterly deatroyed, the inhabitauta being ramoTed to Ifoetra near Napiea. Tbe aita, whidi atill retained ita andeut name in tlia daya <f FaMllo, ia described by him u a poaitioD of great natural atrength, auironnded by abrupt pi«d[acaa on ill aides but one, but having a table lauil of con. ideiaUe extent on ita aommiL According lo the na[a, it etandt at an angle of the Bdiei, ao that that irer codrclea it en the M. and W. The rnina re- naining there in the time of Faielb aeem lo bale bean only Hioaa (/ the madiacTal town and ita Sara- cenic cuUe. (FB»U.(faAeA.5K.i.p.47i; Amk. Lex. Tapogr. Sic ToL U. p. 341 ; Clnver. StdL p. 376.) There are eilant edua of Entelia, with the l^end ENTEAAINQN at foil; while others struck under the Campanian occupation of the dty ha™ EN- TEAAA2, and on the rcrerse KAMnANRN. Tbe amiaaed ia copied tnm the Unseum Hnnterio- i,p1.36.fig.3. [E.ILB.] EORDAEA ('EopMa, •LafSia i EA 'iofSti, Ti^aioi, lunduna, Eoidenaia), a snbdiTiaioo of Upper Jdacadonia, the inbabitanta of which wen di>paaie>sed, by the Temenid prmcei, of llwi ori- giiul leala, which, howcTtr, still continued to bear the name cf Eordia. (Thuc. iL 99.) From tbe
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