EURYTH′ION. A seven-headed dragon. See Geryon.
EU′TERPE, one of the Muses, the patroness of instrumental music. The
word means agreeable.
EU′VYHE, an expression meaning “Well done, son.” Jupiter so frequently
addressed his son Bacchus by those words that the phrase at last became
one of his names.
EVENING STAR, see Hesperus.
EVIL, see Cacodæmon.
EVILS, see Pandora.
EYE, see Cyclops and Glaukopis.
FAME was a poetical deity, represented as having wings and blowing a
trumpet. A temple was dedicated to her by the Romans.
FATE, see Nereus.
FATES, or PARCÆ, were the three daughters of Necessity. Their names
were Clotho, who held the distaff; Lachesis, who turned the spindle;
and Atropos, who cut the thread with the fatal shears.
FAUN. A rural divinity, half man and half goat. They were very similar
to the Satyrs. The Fauns attended the god Pan, and the Satyrs attended
Bacchus.
FAVO′NIUS. The wind favourable to vegetation, that is, Zephyr--the west
wind.
“... Time will run
On smoother, till Favonius re-inspire
The frozen earth, and clothe in fresh attire
The lily and the rose, that neither sowed nor spun.”