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• ECHO (Gr. I'Xw)

ECHO (Gr. I'Xw)  , in See also:

• GREEK
• GREEK, ETRUSCAN AND

Greek See also:

• MYTHOLOGY

mythology, one of the Oreades or See also:

• MOUNTAIN (0. Fr. montaigne; popular Lat. montanea, an adjectival form from the classical mons, montis, whence Eng. " mount," a form usually used along with the name of an individual mountain, e.g. Mt Everest)
• MOUNTAIN, THE (La Montagne)

mountain See also:

• NYMPHS

nymphs, the personification of the acoustical phenomenon known by this name . She was beloved by See also:

• PAN (" pasturer ")
• PAN (common in various forms to many Teutonic languages, cf. Ger. Pfanne; it is generally taken to be an early adaptation in a shortened form of Lat. patina, shallow bowl or dish, from patere, to lie open)

Pan, but rejected his advances . Thereupon the angry See also:

• GOD

god drove the shepherds of the See also:

• DISTRICT

district mad; they tore See also:

• ECHO (Gr. I'Xw)

Echo in pieces, and scattered her limbs broadcast, which still retained the See also:

• GIFT (a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. die Gift, gift, das Gift, poison, formed from the Teut. stem gab-, to give, cf. Dutch geven, Ger. geben; in O. Eng. the word appears with initial y, the guttural of later English is due to Scandinavian influence)

gift of scng (See also:

• LONGUS

Longus iii . 23) . According to See also:

• OVID [PUBLIUS OvID1us NASO] (43 B.C.–A.D. 17)

Ovid (Metam. iii . 356-401), Echo by her incessant talking having prevented See also:

• JUNO

Juno from surprising See also:

• JUPITER

Jupiter with the Nymphs, Juno changed her into an " echo "—a being who could not speak till she was spoken to, and then could only repeat the last words of the See also:

• SPEAKER

speaker . While in this See also:

• CONDITION (Lat. condicio, from condicere, to agree upon, arrange; not connected with conditio, from condere, conditum, to put together)

condition she See also:

• FELL
• FELL, JOHN (1625-1686)

fell in love with See also:

• NARCISSUS

Narcissus, and in grief at her unrequited See also:

• AFFECTION (Lat. ad, and facere, to do something to, sc. a person)

affection wasted away until nothing remained but her See also:

• VOICE (Fr. voix, from Lat. vox)

voice and bones, which were changed into rocks . The legends of Echo are of See also:

• LATE

late, probably Alexandrian, origin, and she is first personified in See also:

• EURIPIDES (48o–4o6 B.C.)

Euripides . In See also:

• ACOUSTICS (from the Gr. &eobav to hear)

acoustics an " echo " is a return of See also:

• SOUND
• SOUND, THE (Danish Oresund)

sound from a reflecting See also:

• SURFACE

surface (see SOUND: Reflection) . See F . Wieseler, See also:

• DIE
• DIE (Fr. de, from Lat. datum, given)

Die Nymphe Echo (1854), and Narkissos (1856) ; P . Decharme in Daremberg and Saglio's Dictionnaire See also:

• DES

des antiquates .