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sonymus (de Script. illustr. 85; comp. Socrat. vi. I written in a very artificial style. The tale is mo
13), and is undoubtedly genuine. It is printed at notonous and wearisome ; the story is frigid and
the end of Allatius's edition of the commentary on improbable, and shews no power of invention on the
the Hexaëmeron. Eustathius wrote further Homi- part of its author. The lovers are of a very sen-
lies, Epistles, and an Interpretation of the Psalms, sual disposition. It was first edited with a Latin
of which some fragments are still extant. They are translation by Guilbert Gaulmin, Paris, 1617, 870. ,
collected in Fabric. Bibl. Graec. vol. ix. pp. 135—— who published, the year after, his preface and notes
149; comp. Care, Hist. Lit. i. p. 138, &c. to it. The Latin translation is reprinted in the
2. Bishop of BerYTUS, was present at the coun. Leiden edition of Parthenius. (1612,12mo. ) Some
cil of Chalcedon in A. D. 451, and had been one of what improved reprints of Gaulmin's edition ap-
the presidents at the council of Berytus, held in peared at Vienna 1791, 8vo. and Leipzig, 1792,
A. D. 448. (Acta Concil. i. p. 281. ed. Binian. ; 8vo. There is a very good French translation by
Zacharias Mitylen. de Mund. Opif. p. 166, ed. Barth. ) Lebas, Paris, 1828, 12mo. , with a critical introduc-
3. Of CAPPADOCIA, a New Platonist, was a pu- tion concerning the author and his novel. (Comp.
pil of lamblichus and Aedesius. When the latter Fabric. Bibl. Graec. vol, viii. p. 136, &c. ; Th.
was obliged to quit Cappadocia, Eustathius was Grässe. in Jahn's Jahrbücher for 1836, fourth sup-
left behind in his place. Eunapius, to whom alone plement vol p. 267, &c. )
we are indebted for our knowledge of Eustathius, 6. Bishop of SEBASTIA in Armenia, who, toge-
declares that he was the best man and a great ora- ther with Basilius of Ancyra, was the author of the
tor, whosc speech in sweetness equalled the songs sect of the Macedonians. (Suid. s. v. Evoteflos. )
of the Seirens. His reputation was so great, that He was originally a monk, and is said to have been
when the Persians besieged Antioch, and the em- the first who made the Armenians acquainted with
pire was threatened with a war, the emperor Con- an ascetic life. For this reason some persons ascribe
stantius was prevailed upon to send Eustathius, ed to him the work on Ascetics, which is usually
although he was a pagan, as ambassador to king regarded as the production of St. Basilius. He
Sapor, in A. D. 358, who is said to have been quite must have been a contemporary of Constantine the
enchanted by the oratory of the Greek. His coun- Great, for Nicephorous states, that although he had
trymen and friends who longed for his return, signed the decrees of the council of Nicaea, he yet
sent deputies to him, but he refused to come back ? penly sided with the Arians. (Epiphan. lxxv. 1,
to his country on account of certain signs and pro- &c. ; Sozomen. iii. 13; Nicephor. ix. 16. )
digies. His wife Sosipatra is said to have even 7. Archbishop of THESSALONICA, was a native
excelled her husband in talent and learning. (Eu- of Constantinople, and lived during the latter half
nap. Vit. Soph. pp. 21, 47, &c. ed. Hadr. Junius ; of the twelfth century. At first he was a monk in
comp. Brucker, Hist. Crit. Philos. vol. ii. p. 273, &c. ) the monastery of St. Florus, but afterwards he was
4. Of EPIPHAveia in Syria, a rhetorician of the appointed to the offices of superintendent of peti-
time of the emperor Anastasius. He wrote an his- tions (ér tv deňoewv), professor of rhetoric (ucom
torical work in nine books, intitled Xpovinn) éretouă. to Twp ontópww), and diaconus of the great church
It consisted of two parts, the first of which embrac- of Constantinople. After being bishop elect of
ed the history from the creation to the time of Myra, he was at once raised to the archbishopric
Aeneias; and the second from the time of Aeneias of Thessalonica, in which office he remained until
down to the twelfth year of the reign of the empe- his death in A. D. 1198. The funeral orations which
ror Anastasius. With the exception of a few frag- were delivered upon him by Euthymius and Mi-
ments, the whole work is lost. (Evagrius, iii. 37, chael Choniates are still extant in MS. in the Bod-
vi. in fin. ; Nicephor. Prooem. and xiv. 57; Sui- leian Library at Oxford. The praise which is be
das, s. v. Evrtáblos. ) There is another Eustathius stowed upon him by Nicetas Choniates (viii. p. 238,
of Epiphaneia, who belongs to an earlier date, and x. p. 334) and Michael Psellus (Du Cange, Glossar.
was present among the Arians at the synod of Se- s. v. pýtwp) is perfectly justified by the works of
leuceia, in A. D. 359. (Epiphan. lxxiii. 26; Chron. Eustathius that have come down to us : they con-
Alexandr. p. 296. ed. Cange. )
tain the amplest proofs that he was beyond all dis-
5. An Érotic writer, or novelist whose name is pute the most learned man of his age. His works
written in some MSS. “ Eumathius. " With regard consist of commentaries on ancient Greek poets,
to his native place, he is called in the MSS. of his theological treatises, homilies, epistles, &c. , the first
work MakpeuBonitns, which is usually referred to of which are to us the most important. These com-
Constantinople, or llapeuBonbons, according to which mentaries shew that Eustathius possessed the most
he would be a native of the Egyptian town of Pa- extensive knowledge of Greek literature, from the
rembole. He appears to have been a man of rank, earliest to the latest times; while his other works
and high in office, for the MSS. describe him as exhibit to us the man's high personal character, and
πρωτονοβελέσιμος and μέγας χαρτοφύλαξ, or chief his great power as an orator, which procured him
keeper of the archives. The time at which he lived the esteem of the imperial family of the Comneni.
is uncertain, but it is generally believed that he The most important of all his works is, 1. His
cannot be placed earlier than the twelfth century of commentary on the Iliad and Odyssey (Naperbo-
our era, so that his work would be the latest Greek | λαι εις την Ομήρου Ιλιάδα κσι Οδυσσείαν), or
novel that we know of. Some writers, such as rather his collection of extracts from earlier com-
Care, confound him with Eustathius, the archbishop mentators of those two poems. This vast compila-
of Thessalonica, from whom he must surely be dis- tion was made with the most astonishing diligence
tinguished. The novel which he wrote, and through and perseverance from the numerous and extensive
which alone his name has come down to us, bears works of the Alexandrian grammarians and crie
the title, Tò kal' Touívny kal Touivíay dpāua, and tics, as well as from later commentators ; and as
consists of eleven books, at the end of the last of nearly all the works from which Eustathius made
which the author himself mentions the title. It is his extracts are lost, his commentary is of incalcu-
a story of the love of Hysminias and Hysmine, | lable value to us, for he has preserved at least the
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mbstance of their remarks and criticisms. The lation of the nine discourses of St. Basil on the
number of authors whose works he quotes, is prodi- Creation. He was an African by birth, flourished
gious (see the list of them in Fabric. Bill. Graec. vol. about the middle of the fifth century, and was the
i. p. 457,&c. ) ; but although we may admit that he brother of the Syncletica Diaconissa, so lauded by
had not read all of them, and that he quoted some Sedulius.
at second-hand, yet there seems to be no sufficient This version, which bears the title Novem S.
reason for believing that he was not personally ac Basilii Sermones in principium Geneseos, is given in
quainted with the greatest of the ancient critics, the edition of St. Basil, published at Paris by Gar-
such as Aristophanes of Byzantium, Aristarchus, nier, fol. 1721, vol. i. pp. 631–676. (W. R. )
Zenodotus and others, whose works were accessible EUSTA'THIUS ROMANUS, a celebrated
to him in the great libraries of Constantinople. If, Graeco-Roman jurist, of the noble family of the
on the other hand, we look upon the work as a Maleini, was honoured with the rank of Patricius,
commentary, and estimate it by the standard of and filled various high offices at Constantinople.
what a good commentary should be, we find it ex. Ile was first a puisne judge (Actós kpitńs) under
tremely deficient in plan and method ; the author, Romanus junior (Basil. vii. p. 677, schol. ), and
however, cannot be blamed for these deficiencics, ns continued to fill the same office under Nicephorus
his title does not lead us to expect a regular com- Phocas (reigned A. D. 963—969), then was made
mentary. His remarks are, further, exceedingly Quaestor, and was afterwards made Magister Offici-
diffuse, and frequently interrupted by all kinds of orum under Basileius Bulgaroctonus (reigned 975–
digressions ; the many etymological and grammati- 1025). Basileius Porphyrogenitus, in a novell in-
cal fancies which we meet with in his work are serted in the collection of Leunclavius (J. G. R. ij.
such as we might expect. There is very little in p. 173), speaks of the uninterrupted prosperity of
the commentary that is original, or that can be re- his family for 100 or 120 years. (Zachariae, Hist.
garded as the opinion of Eustathius himself. He Jur. Gr. Rom. Delin. p. 58 ; Heimbach, de Basil.
incorporated in it everything which served to illus- Orig. p. 79. )
trate his author, whether it referred to the language He is quoted by the four appellations, “ Eusta-
or grammar, or to mythology, history, and geo-thius," " Patricius," " Romanus," and “Magister. "
graphy. The first edition of it was published at Harinenopulus, in the Prolegomena to his Hexabib-
Rome, 1542—1550, in 4 vols. fol. , of which an in- lon ($ 20), mentions his obligations to the Romaïca
accurate reprint appeared at Basle in 1559-60. The of Magister, who was evidently a judge as well as
Florence edition by A. Potitus (1730, 3 vols. fol. ), an interpreter of law, for Harmenopulus frequently
contains only the commentary to the first five books cites his decisions and decrees: Harmenopulus also
of the Iliad with a Latin translation. A tolerably several times cites Patricius, and, wherever such a
correct reprint of the Roman edition was published citation occurs, there is always a marginal reference
at Leipzig in two sections; the first, containing the in manuscripts to the Biblion Romaicum, which ap-
commentary on the Odyssey in 2 yols. 4to. , appeared pears to be the same as the Romaïca of Magister.
in 1825-26, and the second, or the commentary on In Harmenopulus (4. tit. 12. § 10), is a passage
the Iliad, in 3 vols. 4to. was edited by G. Stalbaum, cited from Patricius, with a marginal reference to
1827-29. Useful extracts from the commentary of the Billion Romaicum, and the same passage is at-
Eustathius are contained in several editions of the tributed in a scholium on the Basilica (60. tit. 37,
Homeric poems.
2. A commentary on Dionysius vol. vii. p. 678) to Romanus. This work of Ma-
Periegetes, dedicated to Joannes Ducas, the son of gister was divided into titles, and the titles Tepl
Andronicus Camaterus, 1s on the whole of the same | Γυναικών, Περί Κληρονομίας and Περί Διαθηκών,
kind and of the same diffuseness as the commentary are cited in the Hexabiblon (5. tit. 9. $$ 11, 12, 13).
on Homer. Its great value consists in the nume Mortreuil (Histoire du Droit Byzantin, ii. p. 503,
rous extracts from earlier writers to illustrate the Paris, 1844,) identifies the Biblion Romaïcuin with
geography of Dionysius. It was first printed in R. the Practica of Eustathius. The Enuecmuata, or
Stephens's edition of Dionysius (Paris, 1547, 4to. ), observations of Magister, are also mentioned in the
and afterwards also in that of H. Stephens (Paris, Hexabiblon (3, tit. 3. $ 111).
1577, 4to. , and 1697, 8vo. ), Hudson's Geograph. Sometimes, when Magister is cited in Harmeno
Minor. vol. iv. , and lastly, in Bernhardy's edition of pulus, there is a marginal reference to the Mokpov
Dionysius (Leipzig, 1828, 8vo. ). 3. A comment- katà Etoixelov, and in Basil. vii. p. 22, mention is
ary on Pindar, which however seems to be lost, at made of the Stoixelov Toù Matotopos; but the work
least no MS. of it has yet come to light. The in- which now exists in manuscript, and passes under
troduction to it, however, is still extant, and was the name of the Morpór kata Itoixeiov, or Synopsis
first edited by Tafel in his Eustathii Thessalonicensis Minor, has been usually attributed to Docimus, or
Opuscula, Frankfurt, 1832, 410. , from which it was Docimius, and is of a later date than Eustathius.
reprinted separately by Schneidewin, Eustathii pra (Reiz. Index Nom. Prop. in Harmenop. s. vv. Ma-
oemium commentariorum Pindaricorum, Göttingen, gister; Patricius, Mirpov, in Meerman. Thes, Suppl.
1837, 8vo. The other works of Eustathius which pp. 389—400 ; Zachariae, Hist. Jur. Gr. kom.
were published for the first time by Tafel in the Delin. 47. )
Opuscula just mentioned, are chiefly of a theo- The names of Eustathius and Romanus occur
logical nature ; there is, however, among them one several times the Scholia on the Basilica, e. g.
(p. 267, &c. ) which is of great historical interest, Basil. iv. p. 489, iii. p. 340. 56. 480, vii. 678. 694.
viz. the account of the taking of Thessalonica by the The 'Taburnua of Eustathius is cited Basil. iii. p.
Normans in A. D. 1185.
116. It is a tract of the date a. D. 10:25, de Duobus
· The name Eustathius is one of very common oc- Consobrinis qui Duas Consolerinas duxerant, and is
cnrrence during the Byzantine period, and a list of printed in the collection of Leunclavius (J. G. R. i.
all the known Eustathii is given by Fabricius. (Bibl. p. 414). Heimbach (Anecdota, i. p. Ixvi. ) mentions
Graec, vol. ix. p. 149, &c. )
(L. S. ] a manuscript in the Vatican at Rome (cod. 226, fol.
EUSTA'THIUS, the author of a Latin trans- | 294--300) under the title 'Trouvnua Evotadiou
praise which is be
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EUSTATIIUS.
EUSTRATIUS.
&
περί βίου (sic) του Ρωμαίου. He supposes that EUSTA'THIUS (Evordoos), a Greek physician
the title ought to be read "Ttburnua tepl Blou in the latter half of the fourth century after Christ,
Ευσταθίου του Ρωμαίου.
to whom two of the letters of St. Basil are addressed.
In the last-cited passage, the Scholium gives an A. D. 373, 374. (vol. iii. Epist. 151, 189, ed. Bened. )
extract from the Practica, and mentions Patricius In some MSS. he is called by the title “ Archiater.
as the author. Eustathius is here to be understood, The second of these letters is by some persons at-
and not, as Heimbach and Fabricius supposed, the tributed to St. Gregory of Nyssa, and is accord-
arlier Patricius Heros. The Deipa, or Practica, ingly printed in the third volume of his works,
of Eustathing is cited in the Scholia, Basil. vii. p. p. 6, &c. , ed. Bened.
(W. A. G. )
516. 676-7. The Practica is a work written not EUSTHEʻNIUS, CLAU'DIUS, secretary (ol
by Eustathius himself, but by some judge or asses- cpistolis) to Diocletian, wrote the lives of Diocle-
Bor of the judgment-seat. It consists of 75 titles, tian, Maximianus Herculius, Galerius and Con-
under which are contained extracts from proceed- stantius, assigning to each a separate book. (Vopisc.
ings in causes tried at Constantinople, and deter- Carin. 18. )
(W. R]
mined by various judges, especially by Eustathius EUSTÓCHTUS (Evoróxios), a Cappadocian
Romanus. Most of these causes were heard in the sophist of the time of the emperor Constans. He
Hippodromus, a name of a court paralleled by our wrote a history of the life of that emperor and a
English Cockpit
. The Deipa (which appears better work on the antiquitics of Cappadocia and other
to deserve publication than some of those remains of countries.