ECHO (Gr. I'Xw)

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ECHO (Gr. I'Xw) , in Greek mythology, one of the Oreades or

mountain

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

nymphs, the personification of the acoustical phenomenon known by this name. She was beloved by Pan, but rejected his advances. Thereupon the angry god drove the shepherds of the

district

DISTRICT

mad; they tore Echo in pieces, and scattered her limbs broadcast, which still retained the

gift

GIFT (a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. die Gift, gift, das Gift, poison, formed from the Teut.
stem
- STEM (O. Eng. staefn, stemn, cf. Du. stain, Ger. Stamm, &c., probably related to " staff ")
gab-, to give, cf. Dutch geven, Ger. geben; in O. Eng. the word appears with initial y, the guttural of later
English
- ENGLISH
is due to Scandinavian influence)

of scng (Longus iii. 23). According to Ovid (Metam. iii. 356-401), Echo by her incessant talking having prevented Juno from surprising 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

speaker

SPEAKER

. While in this

condition

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

she fell in love with Narcissus, and in grief at her unrequited affection wasted away until nothing remained but her voice and bones, which were changed into rocks. The legends of Echo are of

late

LATE

, probably Alexandrian, origin, and she is first personified in Euripides.
In acoustics an " echo " is a return of

sound

SOUND
SOUND, THE (Danish Oresund)

from a reflecting surface (see

SOUND

SOUND
SOUND, THE (Danish Oresund)

: Reflection).
See F. Wieseler, Die Nymphe Echo (1854), and Narkissos (1856) ; P. Decharme in Daremberg and Saglio's Dictionnaire des antiquates.

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