Eleusinus. Eleg. 4. 12. Pertaining to Eleusis, a city of Attica famous for the celebration of the Eleusinian mysteries, of which Triptolemus was the hero. Eliberis. Tetrach. (Fath.) 4. 265. Elliberis, a ruined city in Spain, not far from Granada. Elie. See Ely. Elis. See Eleus. Ellandune. See Wilton. Elliberis. See Eliberis. Elsenora. Lit. Oliv. (21) 7. 263 (twice), 264. Elsinore, a seaport of Denmark, on the island of Zealand. Elve. Hist. Brit. (3) 5. 111. The Elbe, a German river flowing into the North Sea, called Albis and Elve by Ortelius. (P. 51, map.) Elversham. Hist. Brit. (1) 5. 15. (See also Henault.) Ely (Anguilla, Eely, Elie). Præsul. El. 14; Apology (1) 3. 277; A city (Latin, Anguilla) in the northern part of Cambridgeshire. Emathia. See Macedon. England (Anglia, Angleterre, Inghilterra). Sonnet 10. 2; 13. 2; Eleg. 3. 4; 4. 52; Quint. Nov. 4, 122, 128, 197, 211; Reformation (1) 3. 1, 5, 6, 7, 25; (2) 3. 35, 37, 39, 40 (twice), 41 (3 times), 45, 48, 49, 54 (twice), 57, 60, 66; Church-gov. (1. Pref.) 3. 96 (twice); (1.6) 3. 125, 127; (2. Pref.) 3. 145; (2. Conc.) 3. 181; Animadv. (1. 2) 3. 190; (1. 4) 3. 192 (twice); (1.7) 3. 194; (2. 25) 3. 207 (twice); (3. 35) 3. 212; (5. 50) 3. 223; (13. 76) 3. 226; (13. 127) 3. 232, 233, 239; (16. 38) 3. 241; (17. 149) 3. 242, 243; Apology 3. 275; (1) 3. 277; (11) 3. 315 (twice), 316; Eikonocl. (1) 3. 339, 340; (2) 3. 348 (twice); (3) 3. 356, 357; (4) 3. 367 (twice), 368; (5) 3. 372; (6) 3. 379, 383; (10) 3. 412; (11) 3. 417. 418, 419 (twice), 422; (12) 3. 429, 430 (twice), 431, 432, 433, 436, 438, 439; Englefield. Hist. Brit. (5) 5. 200. A village in Berkshire, near Reading. Enna. P. L. 4. 269. A city of central Sicily. Milton's description of the Garden of Eden is similar to classical descriptions of the region of Enna, and he doubtless borrowed directly from them. Ovid writes: Neare Enna walles there standes a Lake; Pergusa is the name. A wood environs everie side the water round about, And with his leaves as with a veyle doth keepe the Sunne heate out. (Metamorphoses 5. 385-95.) The following passage in Diodorus may also be compared with Milton's whole description: "The rape [of Proserpina], they say, was in the meadows of Enna, not far from the city, a place decked with violets, and all sorts of other flowers, affording a most beautiful and pleasant prospect. It is said that the fragrancy of the flowers is such that the dogs sent out to hunt the game thereby lose the benefit of their sense, and are made incapable by their scent to find out the prey. This meadowground, in the middle and highest part of it, is champaign and well watered, but all the borders round are craggy, guarded with high and steep precipices, and is supposed to lie in the very heart of Sicily, whence it is called by some the navel of Sicily: near at hand are groves, meadows, and gardens, surrounded with morasses, and a deep cave, with a passage under ground opening towards the north, through which, they say, Pluto passed in his chariot when he forced away Proserpine. In this place the violets and other sweet flowers flourish continually all the year long, and present a pleasant and delightsome prospect to the beholders all over the flourishing plain." (5. 3.) Descriptions of Enna are also given by Claudian (Rape of Proserpina 2) and Cicero (In Verrem 4. 48.) Epeirot. See Epirot. Ephesus. Episcopacy 3. 76 (thrice), 86; Church-gov. (Pref.) 3. 96; Animadv. (13. 76) 3. 225; Ormond 4. 567; Moscovia (4) 8. 489. A seaport of Lydia, Asia Minor, on the River Cayster. The passages of Scripture on which some of Milton's references depend are 1 Timothy 1.3; Acts 18.24-5; 20.28. Ephraim. Samson 282, 988. Mount Ephraim is that portion of the central highlands of Palestine inhabited by the tribe of Ephraim. Epidaurus. P. L. 9. 507. An ancient town on the eastern coast of the Peloponnesus, famous for its temple of Asclepius, who was believed frequently to appear in the form of a serpent. Epirot (Epeirot). Vane 4; Areopag. 4. 439. An inhabitant of Epirus, a country of Greece west of Macedon, on the Adriatic. The "Epirot" is Pyrrhus, king of Epirus. Epirus. See Epirot. Episford. See Eglesthrip. Equinoctial Line (Ethiop Line). P. L. 4. 282; 9. 64; 10. 672. The Equator. In P. L. 3. 617, and perhaps in P. L. 10. 672, Milton refers to the celestial equator. Ercoco. P. L. 11. 398. (See also Negus, Empire of.) Arkiko, a port on the western shore of the Red Sea, which formerly belonged to Abyssinia. Milton's reference to the city as the "utmost Port" of the empire of the Negus suggests the following passage in Purchas: "It hath no other Port on the red Sea, but Ercocco. Neither hath the Prete any other Port but this in all his dominion, being Land-locked on all sides." grimage, p. 838.) Eristow. A misprint for Bristow. Erminia. Commonplace 12. (Pil Armenia, the country between the upper Euphrates and Media. Erymanth. Arcades 100. A lofty range of mountains on the frontiers of Arcadia, Achaia, and Elis. Erythræan. See Red Sea. Escesdunc. See 1. Ashdown. Eshtaol. Samson 181. (See also Zorah.) A town of Palestine in the territory of Dan. (Joshua 19. 41.) Eskesdun. See 1. Ashdown. Essex (East-Saxons). Eikonocl. (4) 3. 361; Hist. Brit. (3) 5. 118; (4) 5. 160, 187; (5) 5. 191, 197, 207, 208 (twice), 209 (twice), 210, 216, 218; (6) 5. 243, 249, 250, 260 (twice), 277, 282. A county of eastern England, bordering on the Thames and the North Sea. Milton usually employs the word to indicate the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Essex, the boundaries of which extended somewhat beyond those of the county (Camden 1. CXXX), though all the places which he mentions as in Essex are included within the present limits of the county. Esthambruges. Hist. Brit. (1) 5. 15. (See also Henault.) Estaimbourg is a town in Hainaut, near the River Scheldt. Ortelius on his map of Hainaut shows a forest near Estambruge, northeast of the junction of the Haine and the Scheldt. (P. 38.) See also Mercator, p. 393, map. Estotiland. P. L. 10. 686. ... A fabulous island near the northeastern part of North America. Hakluyt gives the following narrative of certain sailors who were shipwrecked in that region: "They discovered an Island called Estotiland, lying to the Westwards above 1000 Miles from Frisland, upon the which one of the boats was cast away, and sixe men that were in it were taken of the inhabitants and brought into a faire and populous citie. . . . They dwelt five years in the Island, and learned the language, and one of them was in divers partes of the Island, and reporteth that it is a very rich countrey, abounding with all the commodities of the world, and that it is little lesse than Island, but farre more fruitfull, having in the middle thereof a very high mountaine, from the which there spring foure rivers that passe through the whole countrey. The inhabitants are very wittie people, and have all artes and faculties, as we have; and it is credible that in time past they have had trafficke with our men, for he said, that he saw Latin bookes in the kings Librarie, which they at this present do not understand. They have a peculiar language, and letters or |