Chapter Eloa to Emerald Isle of E by Brewer's Readers Handbook

Emathian Conqueror (The Great), Alexander the Great. Emathia is Macedonia and Thessaly. Emathion, a son of Titan and Aurora, reigned in Macedonia. Pliny tells us that Alexander, when he besieged Thebes, spared the house in which Pindar the poet was born, out of reverence to his great abilities.

Lift not thy spear against the Muses’ bower.
The great Emathian conqueror bid spare
The house of Pindarus, when temple and tower
Went to the ground.
   —Milton: Sonnet, viii.

Embla, the woman Eve of Scandinavian mythology. Eve or Embla was made of elm; but Ask or Adam was made of ash.

Emelie or Emelye, sister -in-law of duke Theseus , beloved by both Palamon and Arcyte ; but the former had her to wife.

Emelie that fairer was to scene
Than is the lilie on hire stalkês grene,
And fresscher than the May with flourês newe.
   —Chaucer: Canterbury Tales (“The Knight’s Tale,” 1388).

Emerald Isle (The), Ireland; so called first by Dr. W. Drennan, in his poem entitled Erin (1754–1820).