but visits the "girl" for forty years, and gasps out
in dying, "I allers--meant to--have--asked--you to marry me."--Mary E.
Wilkins, _Two Old Lovers_ (1887).

EMPEDOCLES, one of Pythagoras's scholars, who threw himself secretly
into the crater at Etna, that people might suppose the gods had
carried him to heaven; but alas! one of his iron pattens was cast out
with the lava, and recognized.

He to be deemed
A god, leaped fondly into Etna flames,
Empedocles.

Milton, _Paradise Lost_, iii. 469, etc. (1665).

EMPEROR OF BELIEVERS (_The_), Omar I., father-in-law of Mahomet
(581-644).

EMPEROR OF THE MOUNTAINS, (_The_) Peter the Calabrian, a famous
robber-chief (1812).

EMPEROR FOR MY PEOPLE. Hadrian used to say, "I am emperor not for
myself but for my people" (76, 117-138).

EMPSON (_Master_), flageolot player to Charles II.--Sir W. Scott,
_Peveril of the Peak_ (1823).

Enanthe (_3 syl._), daughter of Seleucus, and mistress of Prince
Demetrius (son of King Antigonus) She appears under the name of
Celia.--Beaumont and Eletcher, _The Humorous Lieutenant_ (1647).

ENCELADOS (Latin, _Enceladus_), the most powerful of all the giants
who conspired against Jupiter. He was struck with a thunder-bolt, and
covered with the heap of earth now called Mount Etna. The smoke of the
volcano is the breath of the buried giant; and when he shifts his side
it is an earthquake.

Fama est, Enceladi semiustum fulmine corpus
Urgeri mole hac, ingentemque insuper Aetnam
Impositam, ruptis flammam expirare caminis;
Et, fessum quoties mutet latus, intremere omnem
Murmure Trinacriam, et coelum subtexere fumo.

Virgil, _Aeneid_, iii. 578-582.

Where the burning cinders, blown
From the lips of the overthrown
Enceladus, fill the air.

Longfellow, _Enceladus_.

EN'CRATES (_3 syl_.), Temperance personified, the husband of Agnei'a
(_wifely chastity_). When his wife's sister Parthen'ia _(maidenly
chastity_) was wounded in the battle of Mansoul, by False Delight, he
and his wife ran to her assistance, and soon routed the foes who were
hounding her. Continence (her lover) went also, and poured a balm
into her wounds, which healed them. Greek, _egkrates_, "continent,
temperate."

So have I often seen a purple flower,
Fainting thro' heat, hang down her drooping head;
But, soon refreshed with a welcome shower,
Begins again her lively beauties spread,
And with new pride her silken leaves display.

Phine