Dictionary - Definition of EUMOLPUS

Definition: EUMOLPUS


Part of Speech	Definition
Noun	1. A genus of small beetles, one species of which (E. viti) is very injurious to the vines in the wine countries of Europe.[Websters].
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"Eumolpus" is a common misspelling or typo for: Embolus, Emulous.

Date "Eumolpus" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1838. (references)

Etymology:Eumolpus \Eu*mol"pus\, noun. [New Latin expression, from the Greek expression sweetly singing.]. (references)

Specialty Definition: EUMOLPUS

Domain	Definition
Antiquities	Eumolpus (Eumolpos). In Greek mythology, the son of Poseidon and Chioné, the daughter of Boreas and Orithyia. After his birth he was thrown by his mother into the sea, but his father rescued him and brought him to Aethiopia, to his daughter Benthesicymé. When he was grown up, Endius, the husband of Benthesicymé, gave him one of his daughters in marriage, but he desired the other as well, and was accordingly banished, and came with his son Ismarus or Immaradus to the Thracian king Tegyrius in Boeotia. As successor to this king he marched to the assistance of his friends the Eleusinians against the Athenian Erechtheus, but was slain with his son. (See Erechtheus.) According to another story, Immaradus and Erechtheus both fell, and the contending parties agreed that the Eleusinians should submit to the Athenians, but should retain the exclusive superintendence of the mysteries of Eleusis, of which Eumolpus was accounted the founder (Thucyd. ii. 15; Isocrat. Panath. 78). He was also spoken of as a writer of consecrational hymns, and as having discovered the art of cultivating the vines and trees in general. The Eumolpidae, his descendants, were the hereditary priests of the Eleusinian ritual. See Eleusinia. (references)
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Specialty Expressions: EUMOLPUS

Expressions	Domain	Definition
Eumolpus vitis	Food & Agriculture	Beetle which attacks vines. While the adults make slit-like holes in the leaves and cut shallow grooves in the berries, the larvae eat small rootlets. Source: European Union. (references)
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Extended Definition: EUMOLPUS

Eumolpus

In Greek mythology, Eumolpus (also Eumolpos) was the son of Poseidon and Chione. According to Apollodorus,¹ Chione, daughter of Boreas and Oreithyia, pregnant with Eumolpus by Poseidon, was frightened of her father's reaction so she threw the baby into the ocean. Poseidon looked after him and brought him to shore in Ethiopia, where Benthesikyme, a daughter of Poseidon and Amphitrite, raised the child, who then married one of Benthesikyme's two daughters by her Ethiopian husband. Eumolpus however loved a different daughter and was banished because of this. He went with his son Ismarus (or Immaradus) to Thrace. There, he was discovered in a plot to overthrow King Tegyrios and fled to Eleusis.

In Eleusis, Eumolpus became one of the first priests of Demeter and one of the founders of the Eleusinian Mysteries.² He initiated Heracles into the mysteries.³ When Ismarus died, Tegyrios sent for Eumolpus, they made peace and Eumolpus inherited the Thracian kingdom.⁴ Eumolpus was an excellent musician and singer; he played the aulos and the lyre. He won a musical contest in the funereal games of Pelias. He taught music to Heracles. During a war between Athens and Eleusis, Eumolpus sided with Eleusis. His son, Himmarados, was killed by King Erechtheus. In some sources, Erechtheus also killed Eumolpus and that Poseidon asked Zeus to avenge his son's death. Zeus killed Erechtheus with a lightning bolt or Poseidon made the earth open up and swallow Erechtheus. Eleusis lost the battle with Athens but the Eumolpides and Kerykes, two families of priests to Demeter, continued the Eleusinian mysteries. Eumolpus' youngest son, Herald-Keryx founded the lines.

References

¹ Apollodorus, 3.15.4 , Pausanias, 1.38.2

² Homeric Hymn to Demeter, 147 , 474

³ Apollodorus, 2.5.12

⁴ Apollodorus, 3.15.4

Sources

Anonymous, The Homeric Hymns and Homerica, with an English translation by Hugh G. Evelyn-White. Homeric Hymns. Cambridge, MA.,Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1914. ISBN 0-674-99063-3
Apollodorus, Apollodorus, The Library, Sir James George Frazer (translator), two volumes: Loeb Classical Library, #121, Books I-III and #122, Book III; Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; (1921) ISBN 0-674-99135-4, ISBN 0-674-99136-2
Graves, Robert. The Greek Myths. Volume 1, Penguin Books, Revised Edition (1960), Reprinted 1986.
Pausanias, Description of Greece, Books I-II, (Loeb Classical Library) translated by W. H. S. Jones; Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. (1918) ISBN 0-674-99104-4

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Translations: EUMOLPUS

Language	Translations (or nearest inflections or synonyms, in parentheses)
Italian	Eumolpo (Eumolpus). Additional references: Italian, Italy, Croatia, Eumolpus. (volunteer & more translations)
Russian	Евмолп (Eumolpus). Additional references: Russian, Russia, China, Eumolpus. (volunteer & more translations)
Russian (transliteration)	evmolp (Eumolpus). Additional references: Russian, Russia, China, Eumolpus. (volunteer & more translations)
Russki	Евмолп (Eumolpus). Additional references: Russki, Russia, China, Eumolpus. (volunteer & more translations)
Russki (transliteration)	evmolp (Eumolpus). Additional references: Russki, Russia, China, Eumolpus. (volunteer & more translations)
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Language	Translations for “Eumolpus” or closest synonym(s); back translations in parentheses.
Athag	Athageumathagolpathagus (Eumolpus). Additional references: Athag, Eumolpus. (volunteer)
Double Dutch	Ageumagolpagus (Eumolpus). Additional references: Double Dutch, Eumolpus. (volunteer)
Leet	*3\///.0#\|\/§** (Eumolpus). Additional references: Leet, Eumolpus. (volunteer)
Oppish	Opeumopolpopus (Eumolpus). Additional references: Oppish, Eumolpus. (volunteer)
Pig Latin	Eumolpusway (Eumolpus). Additional references: Pig Latin, Eumolpus. (volunteer)
Terran B	Eumolpo (Eumolpus). Additional references: Terran B, Eumolpus. (volunteer)
Ubbi Dubbi	Ubeumubolpubus (Eumolpus). Additional references: Ubbi Dubbi, Eumolpus. (volunteer)
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Ancestral and Extinct Language Translations: EUMOLPUS

Language	Period	Translations (or nearest inflections or synonyms, in parentheses)
Latin	500 BCE - 1700	Schreiber (eumolpus, Vitis vinifera), Rebenfallkäfer (eumolpus, Vitis vinifera). Additional references: Latin, Eumolpus. (volunteer)
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