Echius
Ἔχιος
(Ἔχιος.) Two mythical personages of this name occur in the Iliad; the one a Greek and a son of Mecisteus, was slain by Polites (8.333, 15.339), and the other, a Trojan, was slain by Patroclus. (16.416.)
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.