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ECHO (Gr. I'Xw)

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Originally appearing in Volume V08, Page 884 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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ECHO (Gr. I'Xw)

ECHO (Gr. I'Xw) , in See also:

Greek See also:

MYTHOLOGY

mythology, one of the Oreades or See also:

mountain See also:

NYMPHS

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

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

god drove the shepherds of the See also:

DISTRICT

district mad; they tore 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 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 from a reflecting See also:

SURFACE

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

Die Nymphe Echo (1854), and Narkissos (1856) ; P.

Decharme in Daremberg and Saglio's Dictionnaire See also:

des antiquates.

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