is censured by
Socrates
(iv.
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Col.
1051; Phot.
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0.
Eịuolaida.
.
) that many parts of the work were very obscure.
But
The tomb of Eumolpus was shewn both at Eleusis we cannot, with Photius, regard this “editio pur-
and Athens. (Paus. i. 38. § 2. ) (L. S. ] gata" as the work of Eunapius himself, and it was
EUMNESTUS(Etuvnotos), son of Sosicratides, in all probability made by some bookseller or a
an Athenian sculptor, about B. c. 24. (Böckh, Christian, who thus attempted to remedy the de
Corp. Inscr. i. p. 430, No. 359, comp. Add. p. fects of the original. The style of the work, so far
911. )
[P. S. ) as we can judge of it, was as bad as that of the
EUNA'PIUS (EÚvários), a Greek sophist and Lives of the Sophists, and is severely criticised by
historian, was born at Sardis in A. D. 347, and Photius. All we now possess of this work consists
seems to have lived till the reign of the emperor of the Excerpta de Legationibus, which were made
Theodosjus the Younger. He received his first from it by the command of Constantine Porphyroge-
education from his kinsman Chrysanthius, a sophist nitus, and a number of fragments preserved in Suidas.
at Sardis, who implanted in him that love of the These remains, as far as they were known at the
pagan and that hatred of the Christian religion time, were published by D. Höschel (Augsburg, 1603,
which so strongly marked his productions. In his 4to. ), H. Fabrotti (Paris, 1648, fol. ), and in Bois
sixteenth year he went to Athens to cultivate his sonade's edition of the Lives of the Sophists. (vol.
mind under the auspices of Proaeresius, who con- i. p. 455, &c. ) A. Mai discovered considerable
ceived the greatest esteem for the youth, and loved additions, which are published in his Scriptorum
him like his own son. After a stay of five years, Vet. Nova Collectio, vol. ii. p. 247—316, from which
he prepared to travel to Egypt, but it would seem they are reprinted in vol. i. of the Corpus Script.
that this plan was not carried into effect, and that Hist. Byzant. edited by I. Bekker and Niebuhr.
he was called back to Phrygia. He was also Whether the rhetorician Eunapius, whom Suidas
skilled in the medical art. During the latter period (s. v. Movoúvios) calls ó ék spuilas, is the same as
of his life, he seems to have been settled at Athens, our Eunapius, is uncertain. (Fabric. Bibl. Graec.
and engaged in teaching rhetoric. He is the author vol. vii. p. 538. )
(L. S. ]
of two. works. 1. Lives of Sophists (Bloc OLACÓ- EUNEICE (Evvelkn), a daughter of Nereus
pw ral oudiot@v), which work is still extant. He and Doris, caused the death of Hylas. (Hes.
composed it at the request of Chrysanthius. Jt con- | Theog. 247; Theocrit. xiii. 4. 5. ) (L. S. ]
Ting given birth to Engolpo
hild into the sea. Porcida,
up, and had him educated in
ghter Benthesicyma. Wa
ne married a daughter of Beso
he made an attempt on the
's sister, Eumolpus and his te
pelled, and they went to the
cyrius, who gave his daughter in
us; but as Eumolpus drew Exe
icion of Tegyrius, he was aan
to fight, and came to Eleusis 2
ne formed a friendship with the
after the death of his son Ispars
turned to Thrace at the request of
The Eleusinians, who were iptare
Athens, called Eumolpus to their
umolpus came with a numeroas band
but he was slain by Erechthers
. The
bout this Eleusinian war, horrela
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EUNOMIUS.
EUNOMIC'S.
EUNEUS (EŬvnos or Eðvevs), a son of Jason Constantinople, and bury it in the same tomb with
by Hypsipyle, in the island of Lemnos, from whence that of his teacher Aëtius. His works were or-
he supplied the Greeks during their war against dered by imperial edicts to be destroyed. His
Troy with wine. He purchased Lycaon, a Trojan contemporary, Philostorgius, who himself was a
prisoner, of Patroclus for a silver urn. (Hom. 11. Eunomian, praises Eunomius so much, that his
vii. 468, xxiii. 741, &c. ; Strab. i. p. 41. ) The Eu-whole ecclesiastical history has not unjustly been
neidae, a famous family of cithara-players in Lemnos, called an encomium upon him. Philostorgius wrote,
traced their origin to Euneus. (Eustath. ad Hom. besides, a separate encomium upon Eunomius,
p. 1327 ; Hesych. s. v. Evveidar. ) (L. S. ) which, however, is lost. Photius (Bill. Cord. 138),
EUNICUS (EÚvikos), an Athenian comic poet who gives an abridgment of Philostorgius, and
of the old comedy, contemporary with Aristophanes Socrates (iv. 7) judge less favourably of him ; for
and Philyllius. Only one line of his is preserved, they state that Eunomius spoke and wrote in a
from his play "Arte1a, which was also attributed to verbose and infinted style, and that he constantly
Philyllius. The title is taken from the courtezan, repeated the same things over again. They further
Anteia, who is mentioned by Demosthenes (c. Neaer. charge him with sophistry in his mode of arguing,
p. 135]) and Ananandrides (up. Athen. xv. p. 570, and with ignorance of the Scriptures. It should,
e. ) and who was also made the subject of comedies however, be remembered that these charges are
by Alexis and Antiphanes. There was also a co made by his avowed enemies, such as Athanasius,
medy, entitled Nóaeis, which was variously ascribed Basilius the Great, Gregorius Nazianzenus, Gregon
to Aristophanes, Philyllius, and Eunicus. The rius of Nyss. , Chrysostom, and others, who attacked
name of this poet is sometimes given incorrectly him not only in their general works on the history
Aivikos. (Suid. s. v. Aivimos ; Eudoc. p. 69; Theo of the church, but in separate polemical treatises.
gnostus, ap. Bekker. Anecdot. p. 1369 ; Athen, iii. Eunomius wrote several works against the or-
p. 86, e. , iv. p. 110, a, xiii. pp. 567, C. , 586, e. ; thodox faith ; and Rufinus (11. E. i. 25) remarks
Pollux, x. 100 ; Meineke, Frug. Com. Graec. vol. that his arguments were held in such high esteem
i. pp. 249, 250, vol. ii. p. 856; Fabric. Bill. Graec. by his followers, that they were set above the
vol ii. p. 444. )
(P. S. ) authority of the Scriptures. After his death, edicts
EUNICUS, a distinguished statuary and silver- were repeatedly issued that his works should be
chaser of Mytilene, seems, from the order in which destroyed (Philostorg. xi. 5; Cod. Theod. xvi. 34),
he is mentioned by Pliny, to have lived not long and hence most of his works themselves have not
before 'the time of Pompey the Great. (Plin. xxxiii. come down to us, and all that is extant consists of
12. s. 55; xxxiv. 8. s. 19. § 25. ) [P. S. ) what is quoted by his opponents for the purpose of
EUNOMIA. (HORAE. )
refuting him. The following works are known to
EUNOʻMIUS (Evvóulos), was a native of Da- have been written by him : 1. A commentary on
cora, a village in Cappadocia, and a disciple of the the Epistle to the Romans, in seven books, which
Arian Aëtius, whose heretical opinions he adopted.
is censured by Socrates (iv. 7; comp. Suidas, s. e.
He was, however, a man of far greater talent and Evróulos) for its verbose style and shallowness.
acquirements than Aëtius, and extended his views 2. Epistles, of which Photius (Bibl. Cod. 138)
so far, that he himself became the founder of a read about forty, and in which he found the same
sect called the Eunomians or Anomoei, because faults as in the other works of Eunomius; but
they not only denied the equality between the Philostorgius (x. 6; comp. Niceph. xii. 29) pre-
Father and the Son, but even the similarity ferred them to his other writings. 3. An Exposi-
(ópolótns). Eunomius was at first a deacon at tion of Faith, which was laid before the emperor
Antioch, and in a. D. 360 he succeeded Eleusius Theodosius at Constantinople in a. D. 383, when
as bishop of Cyzicus. But he did not remain long several bishops were summoned to that city to
in the enjoyment of that post, for he was deposed make declarations of their faith. (Socrat. v. 10;
in the same year by the command of the emperor Sozom. vii. 12. ) This little work is still extant,
Constantius, and expelled by the inhabitants of and has been edited by Valesius in his notes on
Cyzicus. (Philostorg. ix. 5; Theodoret, ii. 27, 29 ; Socrates (1. c. ), and after him by Baluz in the
Socrat. iv. 7 ; Sozom. vi. 8. ) In the reign of Jus | Nora Collect. Concil, vol. i. p. 89. The best edition
lian and Jovian, Eunomius lived at Constantinople, I is that of Ch. H. G. Rettberg, in his Marcelliana,
and in the reign of Valens, he resided in the neigh-| Götting. 1794, 8vo. 4. 'Arodoyntirós, or a de-
bourhood of Chalcedon, until he was denounced to fence of his doctrines. This is the famous treatise
the emperor for harbouring in his house the tyrant of which Basilius wrote a refutation in five books,
Procopius, in consequence of which he was sent to which accordingly contain a great many extracts
Mauritania into exile. When, on his way thither, from the Apologeticus. The beginning and the epi
he had reached Mursa in Illyricum, the emperor logue are printed in Cave's Hist. Lit. vol. i. p. 111,
called him back. Theodosius the Great afterwards &c. with à Latin translation ; but the whole is
exiled him to a place called Halmyris, in Moesia, still extant, and was published in an English trans-
on the Danube. (Sozom. vii. 17; Niceph. xii. 29. ) | lation by W. Whiston, in his Eunomianismus
But being driven away from that place by the Redivivus, London, 1711,8vo. The Greek original
barbarians, he was sent to Caesareia. Here, too, has never been published entire. After the refu-
he met with no better reception; for, having writ- tation of Basilius had appeared, Eunomius wrote,
ten against their bishop, Basilius, he was bated by 5. 'Atomoylas 'Atologia which, however, was
the citizens of Caesareia. At length, he was per- not published till after his death. Like the Apolo
mitted to return to his native village of Dacora, geticus, it was attacked by several orthodox writers,
where he spent the remainder of his life, and died whose works, except that of Gregorius of Nyssa,
at an advanced age, about A. D. 394. Eutropius have perished together with that of Eunomius.
Patricius ordered his body to be carried to Tyana, (Gregor. Nysg. vol. ii. pp. 289, 298, &c. ed. 1638. )
and there to be entrusted to the care of the monks, See Fabric. Bibl. Graec. vol. ix. p. 207, &c. ; Care,
in order that his disciples might not carry it to Ilist. Lit. vol. i. p. 169, &c.
(L. S. )
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EUNUS.
95
EU'NOMUS (EUVOMOS), a son of Architeles, EUNOSTUS (EỞVOOTOs). 1. A hero of Tanagra
was killed by Heracles. (Apollod. ii. 7. $ 6. ) Eus in Boeotia. He was a son of Elinus, and brought
tathius (ad Hom. p. 1900) calls him Archins or up by the nymph Eunoste. Ochne, the daughter
Chaerias.
(L. S. ] of Colonus, fell in love with him ; but he avoided
EU'NOMUS (Eůvouos), fifth or sixth king of her, and when she thereupon accused him before
Sparta in the Proclid line, is described by Pausa- her brothers of improper conduct towards her, they
nias, Plutarch, and others, as the father of Lycurgus slew him. Afterwards Ochne confessed that she
and Polydectes. Herodotus, on the contrary, places had falsely accused him, and threw herself down a
him in his list after Polydectes, and Dionysius of rock. Eunostus had a sanctuary at Tanagra in a
Halicarnassus gives the name to the nephew in whose sacred grove, which no woman was allowed to ap-
stead Lycurgus governed. Simonides, finally, makes proach. (Plut. Quaest. Gr. 40. )
Lycurgus and Eunomus the children of Prytanis. 2. A goddess of mills, whose image was set up
In all probability, the name was invented with re- in mills, and who was believed to keep watch over
ference to the Lycurgean Eůvoula, and Eunomus, the just weight of flour. (Hesych. s. v. ; Eustath.
iſ not wholly rejected, must be identified with Po ad Hom. pp. 214, 1383. )
[L. S. )
lydectes. In the reign of Eunomus and Polydectes, EUNUS (EŬvous), the leader of the Sicilian
says Pausanias, Sparta was at peace. (Plut. Lyc. 2; slaves in the servile war which broke out in 130
Paus. iii. 7. & 2; Herod. viii. 131; See Clinton, B. C. He was a native of Apamea in Syrin, and
F. H. i. p. 143, note z, and p. 335, where the had become the slave of Antigenes, a wealthy
question is fully discussed ; compare Müller, Do citizen of Enna in Sicily. He first attracted atten-
rians, book i. 7. & 3, and $ 6, note b. ) [A. H. C. ] tion by pretending to the gift of prophecy, and by
EU'NOMUS (EÚvouos ), an Athenian, was interpreting dreams ; to the effect of which he
sent out in command of thirteen ships, in added by appearing to breathe flames from his
B. C. 388, to act against the Lacedaemonian mouth, and other similar juggleries. (Diod. Exc.
Gorgopas, vice-admiral of Hierax, and the Ae Photii. xxxiv. p. 526. ) He had by these means
ginetan privateers. Gorgopas, on his return from obtained a great reputation among the ignorant
Ephesus, whither he had escorted ANTALCIDAS population, when he was consulted by the slaves
on his mission to the Persian court, fell in of one Damophilus (a citizen of Enna, of immense
with the squadron of Eunomus, which chased him wealth, but who had treated his unfortunate slaves
to Aegina. " Eunomus then sailed away after dark, with excessive cruelty) concerning a plot they had
and was pursued by Gorgopas, who captured four formed against their master. Eunus not only
of his triremes, in an engagement off Zoster, in promised them success, but himself joined in their
Attica, while the rest escaped to the Peiraeeus enterprise. Having assembled in all to the number
(Xen. Hello v. i. $$ 5—9). This was, perhaps, of about 400 men, they suddenly attacked Enna,
the same Eunomus whom Lysias mentions (pro and being joined by their fellow-slaves within the
bon. Arist. pp. 153, 154) as one of those sent by town, quickly made themselves masters of it.
Conon to Sicily, to persuade Dionysius I. to form Great excesses were committed, and almost all the
an alliance with Athens against Sparta. The mis- freemen put to death; but Eunus interfered to save
sion was so far successful, that Dionysius withheld some who had previously shewn him kindness ;
the ships which he was preparing to despatch to and the daughter of Damophilus, who had always
the aid of the Lacedaemonians. [E. E. ] shewn much gentleness of disposition and opposed
EU'NOMUS (EŬvouos), a cithara-player of the cruelties of her father and mother, was kindly
Locri, in Italy. One of the strings of his cithara treated by the slaves, and escorted in safety to
being broken (so runs the tale) in a musical con- Catana. (Diodor. l. c. Exc. Vales. xxxiv. p. 600. )
test at the Pythian games, a cicada perched on the Eunus had, while yet a slave, prophesied that he
instrument, and by its notes supplied the defi- should become a king; and after the capture of
ciency. Strabo tells us there was a statue of Enna, being chosen by his fellow-slaves as their
Eunomus at Locri, holding his cithara with the leader, he hastened to assume the royal diadem
cicada, his friend in need, upon it. (Strab. vi. and the title of king Antiochus. Sicily was at
p.
The tomb of Eumolpus was shewn both at Eleusis we cannot, with Photius, regard this “editio pur-
and Athens. (Paus. i. 38. § 2. ) (L. S. ] gata" as the work of Eunapius himself, and it was
EUMNESTUS(Etuvnotos), son of Sosicratides, in all probability made by some bookseller or a
an Athenian sculptor, about B. c. 24. (Böckh, Christian, who thus attempted to remedy the de
Corp. Inscr. i. p. 430, No. 359, comp. Add. p. fects of the original. The style of the work, so far
911. )
[P. S. ) as we can judge of it, was as bad as that of the
EUNA'PIUS (EÚvários), a Greek sophist and Lives of the Sophists, and is severely criticised by
historian, was born at Sardis in A. D. 347, and Photius. All we now possess of this work consists
seems to have lived till the reign of the emperor of the Excerpta de Legationibus, which were made
Theodosjus the Younger. He received his first from it by the command of Constantine Porphyroge-
education from his kinsman Chrysanthius, a sophist nitus, and a number of fragments preserved in Suidas.
at Sardis, who implanted in him that love of the These remains, as far as they were known at the
pagan and that hatred of the Christian religion time, were published by D. Höschel (Augsburg, 1603,
which so strongly marked his productions. In his 4to. ), H. Fabrotti (Paris, 1648, fol. ), and in Bois
sixteenth year he went to Athens to cultivate his sonade's edition of the Lives of the Sophists. (vol.
mind under the auspices of Proaeresius, who con- i. p. 455, &c. ) A. Mai discovered considerable
ceived the greatest esteem for the youth, and loved additions, which are published in his Scriptorum
him like his own son. After a stay of five years, Vet. Nova Collectio, vol. ii. p. 247—316, from which
he prepared to travel to Egypt, but it would seem they are reprinted in vol. i. of the Corpus Script.
that this plan was not carried into effect, and that Hist. Byzant. edited by I. Bekker and Niebuhr.
he was called back to Phrygia. He was also Whether the rhetorician Eunapius, whom Suidas
skilled in the medical art. During the latter period (s. v. Movoúvios) calls ó ék spuilas, is the same as
of his life, he seems to have been settled at Athens, our Eunapius, is uncertain. (Fabric. Bibl. Graec.
and engaged in teaching rhetoric. He is the author vol. vii. p. 538. )
(L. S. ]
of two. works. 1. Lives of Sophists (Bloc OLACÓ- EUNEICE (Evvelkn), a daughter of Nereus
pw ral oudiot@v), which work is still extant. He and Doris, caused the death of Hylas. (Hes.
composed it at the request of Chrysanthius. Jt con- | Theog. 247; Theocrit. xiii. 4. 5. ) (L. S. ]
Ting given birth to Engolpo
hild into the sea. Porcida,
up, and had him educated in
ghter Benthesicyma. Wa
ne married a daughter of Beso
he made an attempt on the
's sister, Eumolpus and his te
pelled, and they went to the
cyrius, who gave his daughter in
us; but as Eumolpus drew Exe
icion of Tegyrius, he was aan
to fight, and came to Eleusis 2
ne formed a friendship with the
after the death of his son Ispars
turned to Thrace at the request of
The Eleusinians, who were iptare
Athens, called Eumolpus to their
umolpus came with a numeroas band
but he was slain by Erechthers
. The
bout this Eleusinian war, horrela
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94
EUNOMIUS.
EUNOMIC'S.
EUNEUS (EŬvnos or Eðvevs), a son of Jason Constantinople, and bury it in the same tomb with
by Hypsipyle, in the island of Lemnos, from whence that of his teacher Aëtius. His works were or-
he supplied the Greeks during their war against dered by imperial edicts to be destroyed. His
Troy with wine. He purchased Lycaon, a Trojan contemporary, Philostorgius, who himself was a
prisoner, of Patroclus for a silver urn. (Hom. 11. Eunomian, praises Eunomius so much, that his
vii. 468, xxiii. 741, &c. ; Strab. i. p. 41. ) The Eu-whole ecclesiastical history has not unjustly been
neidae, a famous family of cithara-players in Lemnos, called an encomium upon him. Philostorgius wrote,
traced their origin to Euneus. (Eustath. ad Hom. besides, a separate encomium upon Eunomius,
p. 1327 ; Hesych. s. v. Evveidar. ) (L. S. ) which, however, is lost. Photius (Bill. Cord. 138),
EUNICUS (EÚvikos), an Athenian comic poet who gives an abridgment of Philostorgius, and
of the old comedy, contemporary with Aristophanes Socrates (iv. 7) judge less favourably of him ; for
and Philyllius. Only one line of his is preserved, they state that Eunomius spoke and wrote in a
from his play "Arte1a, which was also attributed to verbose and infinted style, and that he constantly
Philyllius. The title is taken from the courtezan, repeated the same things over again. They further
Anteia, who is mentioned by Demosthenes (c. Neaer. charge him with sophistry in his mode of arguing,
p. 135]) and Ananandrides (up. Athen. xv. p. 570, and with ignorance of the Scriptures. It should,
e. ) and who was also made the subject of comedies however, be remembered that these charges are
by Alexis and Antiphanes. There was also a co made by his avowed enemies, such as Athanasius,
medy, entitled Nóaeis, which was variously ascribed Basilius the Great, Gregorius Nazianzenus, Gregon
to Aristophanes, Philyllius, and Eunicus. The rius of Nyss. , Chrysostom, and others, who attacked
name of this poet is sometimes given incorrectly him not only in their general works on the history
Aivikos. (Suid. s. v. Aivimos ; Eudoc. p. 69; Theo of the church, but in separate polemical treatises.
gnostus, ap. Bekker. Anecdot. p. 1369 ; Athen, iii. Eunomius wrote several works against the or-
p. 86, e. , iv. p. 110, a, xiii. pp. 567, C. , 586, e. ; thodox faith ; and Rufinus (11. E. i. 25) remarks
Pollux, x. 100 ; Meineke, Frug. Com. Graec. vol. that his arguments were held in such high esteem
i. pp. 249, 250, vol. ii. p. 856; Fabric. Bill. Graec. by his followers, that they were set above the
vol ii. p. 444. )
(P. S. ) authority of the Scriptures. After his death, edicts
EUNICUS, a distinguished statuary and silver- were repeatedly issued that his works should be
chaser of Mytilene, seems, from the order in which destroyed (Philostorg. xi. 5; Cod. Theod. xvi. 34),
he is mentioned by Pliny, to have lived not long and hence most of his works themselves have not
before 'the time of Pompey the Great. (Plin. xxxiii. come down to us, and all that is extant consists of
12. s. 55; xxxiv. 8. s. 19. § 25. ) [P. S. ) what is quoted by his opponents for the purpose of
EUNOMIA. (HORAE. )
refuting him. The following works are known to
EUNOʻMIUS (Evvóulos), was a native of Da- have been written by him : 1. A commentary on
cora, a village in Cappadocia, and a disciple of the the Epistle to the Romans, in seven books, which
Arian Aëtius, whose heretical opinions he adopted.
is censured by Socrates (iv. 7; comp. Suidas, s. e.
He was, however, a man of far greater talent and Evróulos) for its verbose style and shallowness.
acquirements than Aëtius, and extended his views 2. Epistles, of which Photius (Bibl. Cod. 138)
so far, that he himself became the founder of a read about forty, and in which he found the same
sect called the Eunomians or Anomoei, because faults as in the other works of Eunomius; but
they not only denied the equality between the Philostorgius (x. 6; comp. Niceph. xii. 29) pre-
Father and the Son, but even the similarity ferred them to his other writings. 3. An Exposi-
(ópolótns). Eunomius was at first a deacon at tion of Faith, which was laid before the emperor
Antioch, and in a. D. 360 he succeeded Eleusius Theodosius at Constantinople in a. D. 383, when
as bishop of Cyzicus. But he did not remain long several bishops were summoned to that city to
in the enjoyment of that post, for he was deposed make declarations of their faith. (Socrat. v. 10;
in the same year by the command of the emperor Sozom. vii. 12. ) This little work is still extant,
Constantius, and expelled by the inhabitants of and has been edited by Valesius in his notes on
Cyzicus. (Philostorg. ix. 5; Theodoret, ii. 27, 29 ; Socrates (1. c. ), and after him by Baluz in the
Socrat. iv. 7 ; Sozom. vi. 8. ) In the reign of Jus | Nora Collect. Concil, vol. i. p. 89. The best edition
lian and Jovian, Eunomius lived at Constantinople, I is that of Ch. H. G. Rettberg, in his Marcelliana,
and in the reign of Valens, he resided in the neigh-| Götting. 1794, 8vo. 4. 'Arodoyntirós, or a de-
bourhood of Chalcedon, until he was denounced to fence of his doctrines. This is the famous treatise
the emperor for harbouring in his house the tyrant of which Basilius wrote a refutation in five books,
Procopius, in consequence of which he was sent to which accordingly contain a great many extracts
Mauritania into exile. When, on his way thither, from the Apologeticus. The beginning and the epi
he had reached Mursa in Illyricum, the emperor logue are printed in Cave's Hist. Lit. vol. i. p. 111,
called him back. Theodosius the Great afterwards &c. with à Latin translation ; but the whole is
exiled him to a place called Halmyris, in Moesia, still extant, and was published in an English trans-
on the Danube. (Sozom. vii. 17; Niceph. xii. 29. ) | lation by W. Whiston, in his Eunomianismus
But being driven away from that place by the Redivivus, London, 1711,8vo. The Greek original
barbarians, he was sent to Caesareia. Here, too, has never been published entire. After the refu-
he met with no better reception; for, having writ- tation of Basilius had appeared, Eunomius wrote,
ten against their bishop, Basilius, he was bated by 5. 'Atomoylas 'Atologia which, however, was
the citizens of Caesareia. At length, he was per- not published till after his death. Like the Apolo
mitted to return to his native village of Dacora, geticus, it was attacked by several orthodox writers,
where he spent the remainder of his life, and died whose works, except that of Gregorius of Nyssa,
at an advanced age, about A. D. 394. Eutropius have perished together with that of Eunomius.
Patricius ordered his body to be carried to Tyana, (Gregor. Nysg. vol. ii. pp. 289, 298, &c. ed. 1638. )
and there to be entrusted to the care of the monks, See Fabric. Bibl. Graec. vol. ix. p. 207, &c. ; Care,
in order that his disciples might not carry it to Ilist. Lit. vol. i. p. 169, &c.
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EU'NOMUS (EUVOMOS), a son of Architeles, EUNOSTUS (EỞVOOTOs). 1. A hero of Tanagra
was killed by Heracles. (Apollod. ii. 7. $ 6. ) Eus in Boeotia. He was a son of Elinus, and brought
tathius (ad Hom. p. 1900) calls him Archins or up by the nymph Eunoste. Ochne, the daughter
Chaerias.
(L. S. ] of Colonus, fell in love with him ; but he avoided
EU'NOMUS (Eůvouos), fifth or sixth king of her, and when she thereupon accused him before
Sparta in the Proclid line, is described by Pausa- her brothers of improper conduct towards her, they
nias, Plutarch, and others, as the father of Lycurgus slew him. Afterwards Ochne confessed that she
and Polydectes. Herodotus, on the contrary, places had falsely accused him, and threw herself down a
him in his list after Polydectes, and Dionysius of rock. Eunostus had a sanctuary at Tanagra in a
Halicarnassus gives the name to the nephew in whose sacred grove, which no woman was allowed to ap-
stead Lycurgus governed. Simonides, finally, makes proach. (Plut. Quaest. Gr. 40. )
Lycurgus and Eunomus the children of Prytanis. 2. A goddess of mills, whose image was set up
In all probability, the name was invented with re- in mills, and who was believed to keep watch over
ference to the Lycurgean Eůvoula, and Eunomus, the just weight of flour. (Hesych. s. v. ; Eustath.
iſ not wholly rejected, must be identified with Po ad Hom. pp. 214, 1383. )
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lydectes. In the reign of Eunomus and Polydectes, EUNUS (EŬvous), the leader of the Sicilian
says Pausanias, Sparta was at peace. (Plut. Lyc. 2; slaves in the servile war which broke out in 130
Paus. iii. 7. & 2; Herod. viii. 131; See Clinton, B. C. He was a native of Apamea in Syrin, and
F. H. i. p. 143, note z, and p. 335, where the had become the slave of Antigenes, a wealthy
question is fully discussed ; compare Müller, Do citizen of Enna in Sicily. He first attracted atten-
rians, book i. 7. & 3, and $ 6, note b. ) [A. H. C. ] tion by pretending to the gift of prophecy, and by
EU'NOMUS (EÚvouos ), an Athenian, was interpreting dreams ; to the effect of which he
sent out in command of thirteen ships, in added by appearing to breathe flames from his
B. C. 388, to act against the Lacedaemonian mouth, and other similar juggleries. (Diod. Exc.
Gorgopas, vice-admiral of Hierax, and the Ae Photii. xxxiv. p. 526. ) He had by these means
ginetan privateers. Gorgopas, on his return from obtained a great reputation among the ignorant
Ephesus, whither he had escorted ANTALCIDAS population, when he was consulted by the slaves
on his mission to the Persian court, fell in of one Damophilus (a citizen of Enna, of immense
with the squadron of Eunomus, which chased him wealth, but who had treated his unfortunate slaves
to Aegina. " Eunomus then sailed away after dark, with excessive cruelty) concerning a plot they had
and was pursued by Gorgopas, who captured four formed against their master. Eunus not only
of his triremes, in an engagement off Zoster, in promised them success, but himself joined in their
Attica, while the rest escaped to the Peiraeeus enterprise. Having assembled in all to the number
(Xen. Hello v. i. $$ 5—9). This was, perhaps, of about 400 men, they suddenly attacked Enna,
the same Eunomus whom Lysias mentions (pro and being joined by their fellow-slaves within the
bon. Arist. pp. 153, 154) as one of those sent by town, quickly made themselves masters of it.
Conon to Sicily, to persuade Dionysius I. to form Great excesses were committed, and almost all the
an alliance with Athens against Sparta. The mis- freemen put to death; but Eunus interfered to save
sion was so far successful, that Dionysius withheld some who had previously shewn him kindness ;
the ships which he was preparing to despatch to and the daughter of Damophilus, who had always
the aid of the Lacedaemonians. [E. E. ] shewn much gentleness of disposition and opposed
EU'NOMUS (EŬvouos), a cithara-player of the cruelties of her father and mother, was kindly
Locri, in Italy. One of the strings of his cithara treated by the slaves, and escorted in safety to
being broken (so runs the tale) in a musical con- Catana. (Diodor. l. c. Exc. Vales. xxxiv. p. 600. )
test at the Pythian games, a cicada perched on the Eunus had, while yet a slave, prophesied that he
instrument, and by its notes supplied the defi- should become a king; and after the capture of
ciency. Strabo tells us there was a statue of Enna, being chosen by his fellow-slaves as their
Eunomus at Locri, holding his cithara with the leader, he hastened to assume the royal diadem
cicada, his friend in need, upon it. (Strab. vi. and the title of king Antiochus. Sicily was at
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