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See Æth-. Ethandun (eth-an-dön'). The scene of a victory of Alfred the Great over the Danes in 878. It has been identified with Eddington, Wilts hire. Ethbaal (eth-bā'al). [A yr., 'with Baal': called by the Greeks Εἰθώβαλος , Ἰθώβαλος, Ithobalus.] A king of Tyre. He was the father of Jezebel, the wife of Ahab, king of Israel. In the A yrian inscriptions he is called Tuba'lu . Ethbaal II. is men tioned i nth a ren teuch a rin a Babli in 1109: died June 12, 1166. An English ecclesiastical writer. He was educated at the Scottish court, entered the Cistercian order, and became abbot of Revesby in Lincoln shire, and afterward of Rievaulx in Yorkshire. His works include "Hist or i a de Vita et Miraculis S. Edward i," "Gene alogia Regum Anglorum," "De Bello Standard i," and "Hist or i a de Sanctimoniali de Watton" (which have been published in Sir Roger Twysden's "Historiæ Anglicanæ Script ores decem" (1652). His theological works were collected by Richard Gibbons. The "Margaritæ Vita" attributed to him is not his work. Etherege (eth'èr-ej), George. Flourished about 1588. An English cla ical scholar. He was born in Oxfords hire, studied at Corpus Christ i College, Oxford, and was licensed to practise medicine in 1545. He was regius profe or of Greek at Christ Church, Oxford, 15471550 and 1554-59. His health was seriously impaired by frequent imprisonments during a period of thirty years on account of his adherence to the Roman Catholic faith. He was living in 1588, but his death is not recorded. His works include a Latin translation of Justin Martyr, various poems in Greek and Latin, the Psalms of David in Hebrew verse set to music, and a manuscript copy of musical com positions. Etherege, Sir George. Born 1635 (f): died 1691. An English dramatist. The facts of his early life are obscure. In 1676 he was obliged to leave the country with Rochester on account of a disgraceful brawl, but before 1685 had obtained diplomatic employment. He was sent to The Hague by Charles II., and in 1685 to Ratisbon by James II. He disgusted the Germans by his habits of debauchery and breaches of etiquette. In 1688 he retired hastily to Paris, where Luttrell reports that he died. He wrote "The Comical Revenge" (1664), "She Would if She Could" (1668), and "The Man of Mode, or Sir Fopling Flutter" (1676). He was the inventor of the comedy of intrigue. Two more atrocious libertines than these two men [Etherege and Sir Charles Sedley] were not to be found in the apartments at White hall, or in the streets, taverns, and dens of London. Yet both were famed for like external qualities. Etherege was easy and graceful, Sedley so refinedly seductive of manner that Bucking ham called it "witchcraft," and Wilmot "his prevailing, gentle art." I, humbler witne , can only say, after studying their works and their lives, that Etherege was a more accomplished comedy-writer than Sedley, but that Sedley was a greater beast than Etherege.