Echetus
E'chetus
(Ἔχετος), a cruel king of Epeirus, who was the terror of all mortals. He was a son of Euchenor and Phlogea. His daughter, Metope or Amphissa, who had yielded to the embraces of her lover Aechmodicus, was blinded by her father, and Aechmodicus was cruelly mutilated. Echetus further gave his daughter iron barleycorns, promising to restore her sight, if she would grind them into flour. (Hom. Od. 18.83, &c., 21.307 ; Apollon. 4.1093; Eustath. ad Hom. p. 1839.) [L.S]
Echĕtus
(Ἔχετος). A king of Epirus whose daughter Metopé or Amphissa yielded to the solicitations of her lover Aechmodicus. As a punishment, Echetus blinded her and caused Aechmodicus to be castrated (Odyss. xviii. 85; xxi. 308).