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Echetus, Echetos
A rough and hard tyrant. Homer [writes]: "I shall send you [...] to king Echetus, baneful to all men, who will cut off your nose and ears with pitiless bronze". And another [passage?]: "Festus sends out, to demonstrate…
Ἔχετος· τύραννος ἀπηνὴς καὶ σκληρός. Ὅμηρος· πέμψω σ' εἰς Ἔχετον βασιλῆα, βροτῶν δηλήμονα πάντων, ὅς κ' ἀπὸ ῥῖνα τάμῃσι καὶ οὔατα νηλέϊ χαλκῷ. καὶ ἕτερος· ἐκπέμπει δὲ ὁ Φῆστος τὸν…