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.

Phineas Fletcher, The Purple Island, xi. (1633).

ENDELL (Martha), a poor fallen girl, to whom Emily goes when Steerforth deserts her.  She emigrates with Dan’el Pegot’ty, and marries a young farmer in Australia.—­C.  Dickens, David Copperfield (1849).

ENDIGA, in Charles XII., by J.R.  Planche (1826).

ENDLESS, the rascally lawyer in No Song No Supper, by P. Hoare (1754-1834).

ENDYM’ION, a noted astronomer who, from Mount Latmus, in Caria, discovered the course of the moon.  Hence it is fabled that the moon sleeps with Endymion.  Strictly speaking, Endymion is the setting sun.

  So, Latmus by the wise Endymion is renowned;
  That hill on whose high top he was the first that found
  Pale Phoebe’s wandering course; so skillful in her sphere,
  As some stick not to say that he enjoyed her there.

Drayton, Polyolbion, vi. (1612).

To sleep like Endymion, to sleep long and soundly.  Endymion requested of Jove permission to sleep as long as felt inclined.  Hence the proverb, Endymionis somnum dormire.  Jean Ogier de Gombaud wrote in French a romance or prose poem called Endymion (1624), and one of the best paintings of A.L.  Girodet is “Endymion.”  Cowley, referring to Gombaud’s romance, says: 

  While there is a people or a sun,
  Endymion’s story with the moon shall run.

John Keats, in 1818, published his Endymion (a poetic romance), and the criticism of the Quarterly Review was falsely said to have caused his death.

Endymion. So Wm. Browne calls Sir Walter Raleigh, who was for a time in disgrace with Queen Elizabeth, whom he calls “Cynthia.”

  The first note that I heard I soon was wonne
  To think the sighes of fair Endymion,
  The subject of whose mournful heavy lay,
  Was his declining with faire Cynthia.

  Brittannia’s Pastorals, iv. (1613).

ENFANTS DE DIEU, the Camisards.