Epimenides
A celebrated poet and prophet of Crete, whose history is largely mythical.
He is said to have fallen asleep one day, when wearied from a long search for some missing sheep, and not to have awakened for fiftyseven years. It is, however, an historical fact that he came to Athens on the invitation of the citizens, and undertook the purification of the city in B. c. 596. St. Paul has preserved a famous verse of his against the Cretans (Titus 1 : 12).
Epirus (The Mainland). A country in the northwest of Greece, so called to distinguish it from Corcyra and the other islands off the coast.