a name given by some authors to such colours as are of no long duration, as those in the rainbow, in clouds before and after sun-set, &c.

Evans colours are also called fantastic and emphatic colours.

EVANDER, a famous Arcadian chief, called the son of Mercury, on account of his eloquence, bought a colony of his people into Italy, about sixty years before the taking of Troy; when Fauns, who then reigned over the Aborigines, gave him a large extent of country, in which he settled with his friends. He is said to have taught the Latins the use of letters, and the art of husbandry.