Young cup-bearer and relative of King Oeneus. Hercules punches E. for his clumsiness, killing him, and then goes into voluntary exile in Trachis at the court of King Ceyx (Hellanicus FGrH 4 F 2; Apollod. 2,150).
Spartan king of the clan of the Eurypontids. Perhaps the name was however only inserted on the royal list as a personification of Eunomia [1]. Hdt. 8,131 places E. …
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