by his brother-in-law, Demetrius, with whom 
in exile, Many. opr Beye G king of 
Egypt Having conciliated affection of” that mo- 
, by his assistance he agai 
for Italy ; 
pa ge Tarentum. Taking the field at the head of 
his own forces and those of his allies, he defeated the 
Asculum, where he was dangerously wounded. Col- 
part of his army had fallen around him, he was obliged, 
not only to leave the field of battle, and retire to Ta- 
rentum, but to abandon Italy, and returnhome. To 
retrieve wie septation, and supply his exhausted trea- 
sury, his spirit then invaded the ki of 
Macedon, overthrew Antigonus in a pitched battle, 
drove him from his throne and his dominions, and took 
ion of the kingdom 
him, entered the city during the night, 
Sad threat be GE ote Sa cee 
e whi eir 
fury revenge had made. Pyrrhus, who now per- 
ceived that all was lost, endeavoured in yain to retire 
from the city with the wreck of his forces; and, whilst 
he igies of valour, a woman who sur~ 
veyed the from the top of a house, beheld the 
é monarch below her ready to plunge his sword 
inte the breast of her son who had wounded him, and, in 
avenged her country. The head of the monarch was 
severed from the body, and the remains of his army 
were made 
_. The kin after his death, was successively go- 
succeeded her 
ther, a female hand was too weak to keep her fierce and 
“ 
‘foundations of a powerful 
ever, was equalled by its punishment. After i 
in al the adverse fo Emili ith an exasperated 
war behe ‘aulus us, with an 
army, enter their territories ; divide among his daring 
veterans the wealth which had been amassed for. ; 
level in the dust the cities which their fathers had de- 
corated ; condemn to slavery a hundred and fifty thou- 
sand of ane parte inhabitants ; anes : the 
chief men country to Rome, and to perpetual 
imprisonment. The glory of Epirus was now for ever 
extinguished. When the Consul Mummius had redu- 
ced Corinth to ashes, and dissolved the Achaian 2, 
Epirus became a Roman province. In this state of de- 
gradation it remained till the division of the Roman 
world, when it shared the fortunes of the eastern em- 
pee. But when the French and Venetians, under the 
uis of Monserrat, had stormed Constanti and 
divided the Greek provinces, Michael, a of the 
house of Angeli, from the camp of the Latins, and, 
seizing upon Epirus, Aetolia, Thessaly, laid the 
~ bse and claimed the 
honours of an independent ne. Theodore 
lus succeeded to the power and ambition of his brother ; 
took prisoner Courtenay, who had been elected emperor 
of Constantinople, had invaded Epirus, expelled 
Demetrius from his ki of Thessalonica, and as- 
sumed the lofty appellation of Emperor. This dawn 
of glory was soon overcast, Amurath IT. having driven 
by the name of 
who held the sceptre. 
shai gud, awh at. alien ingloclns salijection 
their , W itin i i jecti 
It is now known by the name Albania. (n) 
EPISTYLIUM. See Borany, p. 329. 
EPITAPH, signifies an inscription upon a tomb, and 
generally designed to commemorate the name and 
virtues of the deceased. The practice of i 
epitaphs on the dead, which appears to have 
. 
death, 
tives. . . ss 
So tm eee 
the nvidal be a es note, ome mare ample desig 
