Ephesus, éphesi, A noble auncient citie in Asia the lesse. It is interpreted by Saint Hierome, my wil. There runneth by it a great riuer called Caystros, out of whiche bee deriued many other riuers. In this citie wos the famous temple of Diana, numbred among the seuen wonders of the worlde, edifyed by all Asla, in an hundred and twentie yeares, and was set in a Fenne or Marse grounde, the foundation being first laide wyth coales, troden or rammed harde, then fleeces of woollaide thereon: and all this was to saue it frõ earthquakes. The tÊple was in length 425. fosre, in breadth. 220. In it were 127 pillours, euerie of them lx. foote highe, made by kings: the roofe were of Ceder trees, & the doores of Cypres. A lewde person, of purpose to get a renoume in histories, (being couetons of glorie, and hauing none excellent qualitie to attaine therevnto) putting wilde sire into the roofe, did burne this remple, His name was Herostratus (as Strabo wryteth) whereof proceede this prouerbe.* Herostrati gloria, Applyed vnto thÊ that se eke for a renounre or prasse of a mischieuons act.
Ĕphĕsus, i, f., = *)/efesos, an old and celebrated commercial city of Ionia, with a temple to Diana, now ruins near the village of Ayasaluk, Mel. 1, 17, 2; Plin. 5, 29, 31, 131 sqq.; Plaut. Bacch. 2, 1, 2; 2, 3, 75; 102; 4, 9, 124 et saep.—Derivv., II. Ĕphĕsĭus, a, um, adj., Ephesian: Diana, Plaut. Bacch. 2, 3, 73; id. Mil. 2, 5, 1; Cic. Div. 1, 23 fin.: mater,
born at Ephesus
, id. Phil. 3, 6, 15: pecunia,
deposited in the temple there
, Caes. B. C. 3, 33 fin.; 3, 105, 1. —Subst.: Ephesii, ōrum, m., the Ephesians, Plaut. Bacch. 2, 3, 75; Cic. Tusc. 5, 36, 105; Plin. 34, 8, 19, 58 al.