The work was
probably
executed
after his death.
after his death.
William Smith - 1844 - Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities - b
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. 260; Casaub. ad loc. ; Clem. Alex. Protrept. i. ; this time swarming with numbers of slaves, a
comp. Ael. Hist. An. v. 9. )
(E. E. ] great proportion of them Syrians, who flocked to
EU’NOMUS (Eůvouos). 1. A Greek physician, the standard of their countryman and fellow-bonds-
who must have lived in or before the first century man. A separate insurrection broke out in the
after Christ, as one of his medical formulae is south of the island, headed by Cleon, a Cilician,
quoted by Asclepiades Pharmacion. (Ap. Galen. who assembled a band of 5000 armed slaves, with
de Compos, Medicam. sec. Gen. v. 14. vol. xiii. p. which he ravaged the whole territory of Agrigen-
850, 851. ) In the passage in question, for Eůvouos tum ; but he soon joined Eunus, and, to the sur-
ó'Aokiniáðns we should probably read Eůvouos ó prise of all men, submitted to act under him as his
'Aokinaid elos, that is, a follower of Asclepiades lieutenant. (Diodor. l. c. ; Liv. Epit. lib. Ivi. )
of Bithynia, who lived in the first century B. C. The revolt now became general, and the Romans
2. À physician in the fourth century after were forced to adopt vigorous measures against the
Christ, mentioned in ridicule by Ausonius, Epigr. insnrgents ; but the practors who first led armies
(W. A. G. ] Against them were totally defeated. Several others
EUNOʻNES, king of the Adorsi or Aorsi, with successively met with the same fate ; and in the year
whom the Romans made an alliance in their war 134 B. C. it was thought necessary to send the
against Mithridates, king of the Bosporus, in B. C. consul C. Fulvius Flaccus to subdue the insurrec-
50, and at whose court Mithridates took refuge, tion. What he effected we know not, but it is
when he was unable any longer to hold out against evident that he did not succeed in his object, as
the Romans. Eunones, taking compassion on him, the next year Calpurnius Piso was employed on
wrote to the emperor Claudius on his behal. (Tac. the same service, who defeated the servile army
Am. xii. 15, 18, 19. )
in a great battle near Messana. This success was
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followed up the next year by the consul P. Rupi- | treatise, now lost, on the miracles performed by
lius, who successively' reduced Tauromenium and the relics of St Stephen ; but the Libri duo de mi-
Enna, the two great strongholds of the insurgents. raculis S. Stephani, placed at the end of the De
On the surrender of Enna, Eunus fied with a few Ciritate Dei, in the 7th volume of the Benedictine
followers, and took refuge in rocky and inacces- edition of St. Augustin, was not composed by
sible places, but was soon discovered in a cave and Evodius, but secms rather to have been addressed
carried before Rupilius. His life was spared by to him, and drawn up at his request.
the consul, probably with the intention of carrying A tract, found in some MSS. among the writ-
bim to Rome ; but he died in prison at Morgantia, ings of Augustin, entitled De fide seu De unitate
of the disease called morbus pedicularis. (Florus, Trinitatis contra Manichaeos, has been ascribed to
iii. 20; Orosius, v. 6; Diod. Exc. Photii, lib. Erodius, is considered a genuine production of St.
xxxiv. , Exc. Vales. ib. ; Plut. Sull. 36 ; Strab. Augustin by Erasmus, but rejected by the Bene-
vi. p. 272. ) If we may believe Diodorus, Eunus dictine editors.
was a man of no talents or energy, not possessing (Augustin, Sermon. cccxxxiii. in Opera, vol. v.
even personal courage, and owed his elevation cd. Bened. de Civit. Dei, xxii. 8; Sigibertus Gembl.
solely to the arts by which he worked on the De Sript. eccles. ep. 15. )
[W. R. )
superstition of the multitude ; but when we con- E'VODUS (Evodos), the author of two short
sider how long he maintained his influence orer epigrams in the Greek Anthology. (Brunck, Anal.
them, and the great successes they obtained under vol. ii. p. 288 ; Jacobs, Anth. Graec. vol. ii. p.
his rule, this appears most improbable. Some | 263. ) Nothing more is known of him, unless he be
anecdotes are also related of him, which display a the same as the epic poet of Rhodes, in the time of
generosity and elevation of character wholly at Nero, who is mentioned by Suidas (s. v. ). There
variance with such a supposition. (Diod. Erc. was an Evodus, the tutor of Caligula (Joseph.
Photii, p. 528, Exc. Vaticana, lxxxiv. p. 113, ed. Ant. Jud. xviii. 8. )
[P. S. )
Dindorf. )
(E. H. B. ) EVODUS (Evoðos), a distinguished engraver of
EVODIANUS (Evodiavós), a Greek sophist of gems under the emperor Titus, A. D. 80. A beryl
Smyrna, who lived during the latter half of the se- by him, bearing the head of Titus's daughter Julia,
cond century after Christ. He was a pupil of Aris is preserved at Florence. (Bracci, Tab. 73; Müller,
tocles, and according to others of Polemon also. Denkm. d. alt. Kunst, T. lxix. No. 381. ) [P. S. )
He was invited to Rome, and raised there to the EUPA'LAMUS (Evrátapos), one of the signi-
chair of professor of eloquence. For a time he was ficant names met with in the history of ancient art
appointed to superintend or instruct the actors, (CHEIRISOPHUS), occurs more than once among
(Tous dupl Tòv Avvoov texvítas), which office the Daedalids. (DAEDALUS, Simon. ] [P. S. )
he is said to have managed with great wisdom. He EUPA'LINUS, of Megara was the architect
distinguished himself as an orator and especially in of the great aqueduct, or rather tunnel, in Samos,
panegyric oratory. He had a son who died before, which was carried a length of seven stadia through
him at Rome, and with whom he desired to be buried a mountain.
The work was probably executed
after his death. No specimens of his oratory have under the tyranny of Polycrates. (Müller, Arch.
come down to us. (Philostr. Vit. Soph. ii
. 16; Eudoc. d. Kunst, $ 81, note. )
[P. S. ]
p. 164; Osann, Inscript. Syllog. p. 299. ) [L. S. ] EU'PATOR (EUTSTWP), a surname assumed by
EVO'DIUS, was born towards the middle of many of the kings in Asia after the time of Alex-
the fourth century at Tagaste, the native place of ander the Great, occurs likewise as the name of
St. Augustin, with whom he maintained through a king of Bosporus in the reign of the emperor
out life the closest friendship. After following in M. Aurelius. This king is mentioned by Lucian
youth the secular profession of an agens in rebus, (Alexand. 57), who speaks of his ambassadors
about the year A. D. 396 or 397, he became bishop bringing the tribute which had to be paid to the
of Uzalis, a town not far from Utica, where he Romans; and his name should perhaps be restored
performed, we are told by St. Augustin, many mi- in a corrupt passage of Capitolinus. (Capitol. Anton.
racles by aid of some relics of St. Stephen the Pius, 9, where for curatorem read Eupatorem. )
Protomartyr, left with him by Orosius, who The following coin of Eupator represents on the
brought them from Palestine in 416. Evodius reverse the heads of M. Aurelius and L. Verus.
took an active part in the controversies against (Eckhel, vol. ii. pp. 378, 379. )
the Donatists and the Pelagians, and in 427,
wrote a letter to the monks of Adrumetum, with
regard to some differences which had arisen in
their body on these questions. After this period
we find no trace of him in history, but the precise
date of his death is not known.
The works of this prelate now extant are :-
1. Four epistles to St. Augustin, which will be
ONS
found among the correspondence of the bishop of
Hippo, numbered 160, 161, 163, 177, in the Be-
nedictine edition.
2. An epistle, written in common with four EUPATRA (EÚratpa), a daughter of Mithri-
other bishops, to Pope Innocentius I. This is dates, who fell into the hands of Pompey at the
contained in the appendix to the 6th volume of close of the Mithridatic war, and walked with the
the Benedictine edition of St. Augustin.
other captives before his triumphal car at Rome.
3. Fragments of an epistle to the monks of (Appian, Mithr. 108, 117. )
Adrumetum subjoined to Ep. 216 of the Bene- EUPEITHES (Eupelons), of Ithaca, father of
dictine edition of St. Augustin.
Antinoüs. Once when he had attacked the Thes-
Erodius is said by Sigibert to have written a protians, the allies of the Ithacans, Odysseus pro-
COIN OP EUPATOR,
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the adhi
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VEIKT
alez, Ari
tected him from the indignation of the people of a chariot and two horses. (Paus. v. 17. 4. )
Ithaca. When Odysseus after his long wander- There are two other mythical personages of this
ings returned home, Eupeithes wanted to avenge name. (Anton. Lib. 8 ; Hom. Il. ii. 846. ) (L. S. )
the death of his son Antinous, who had been one EUPHE'MUS (Euomuos), was sent by the
of Penelope's suitors and was slain by Odysseus. Athenian commanders at Syracuse in the winter
He accordingly led a band of Ithacans against of B. C. 415—414 to negotiate alliance with Cama-
Odysseus, but fell in the struggle. (Hom. Od. svi. rina, and was there opposed on the Syracusan side
436, xxiv. 469, 523. )
(L. S. ] by Hermocrates. Thucydides gives us an oration
EUPHANTUS (EŬpavtos), of Olynthus, a in the mouth of each. The negotiation was un-
Pythagorean philosopher and tragic poet, who lived successful. (Thuc. vi. 75–88. ) (A. H. C. )
a little later than the period of the tragic Pleiad. EUPHORBUS (Eŭ poptos), a son of Panthous
He was the disciple of Eubulides of Milctus, and and brother of Hyperenor, was one of the bravest
the instructor of Antigonus I. king of Macedonia. among the Trojans. He was the first who wounded
He wrote many tragedies, which were well received Patroclus, but was afterwards slain by Menclaus
at the games. He also wrote a very highly esteem- (Hom. IL xvi. 806, xvii. 1-60), who subsequently
ed work, Tepl Baouelas, addressed to Antigonus, dedicated the shield of Euphorbus in the temple of
and a history of his own times : he lived to a great Hern, near Mycenae. (Paus. ii. 17. $ 3. ) "It is
age. (Diog. Laërt. i. 110, 141. ) The Euphantus a well known story, that Pythagoras asserted that
whose history is quoted by Athenaeus (vi. p. 251, he had once been the Trojan Euphorbus, that from
d. ) must have been a different person, since he a Trojan he had become an Ionian, and from a
mentioned Ptolemy III. of Egypt. (Vossius, de warrior a philosopher. (Philostr. Vit
. Apoll. i. 1,
Hist. Gracc. p. 63, ed. Westermann; Welcker, Heroic. 17; Diog. Laërt. viü. 4; Ov. Mel. xv.
die Griech Tragoed. p. 1268. )
[P. S. ] 161. )
(L. S. ]
EUPHE'MĚ (Euphun), the nurse of the Muses, EUPHORBUS (Eūpopbos), physician to Juba
of whom there was a statue in the grove of the 11. , king of Mauretania, about the end of the first
Muses near Helicon. (Paus. ix. 29. $ 3. ) [L. S. ) century B. C. , and brother to Antonius Musa, the
EUPHEʻMUS (Edonuos), a son of Poseidon by physician to Augustus. [Musa. ] Pliny says (H.
Europe, the daughter of Tityus, or by Mecionice or N. xxv. 38), that Juba gave the name of Euphorbia
Oris, a daughter of Orion or Eurotas. (Schol. ad to a plant which he found growing on Mount Atlas
Pind. Pyth. iv. 15; Tzetz. Chil. ii. 43. ) Accord in honour of his physician, and Galen men-
ing to the one account he was an inhabitant of tions (de Compos. Medicam. sec. Locos. ix. 4. vol.
Panopeus on the Cephissus in Phocis, and accord. xiii. p. 271) a short treatise written by the king
ing to the other of Hyria in Boeotia, and after- on the virtues of the plant. Salmasius tries to
wards lived at Taenarus. By a Lemnian woman, prove (Prolegom. ad Homon. Hyles latr. p. 4),
Malicha, Malache, or Lamache, he became the that this story of Pliny is without foundation, and
father of Leucophanes (Schol. ad Pind.
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. 260; Casaub. ad loc. ; Clem. Alex. Protrept. i. ; this time swarming with numbers of slaves, a
comp. Ael. Hist. An. v. 9. )
(E. E. ] great proportion of them Syrians, who flocked to
EU’NOMUS (Eůvouos). 1. A Greek physician, the standard of their countryman and fellow-bonds-
who must have lived in or before the first century man. A separate insurrection broke out in the
after Christ, as one of his medical formulae is south of the island, headed by Cleon, a Cilician,
quoted by Asclepiades Pharmacion. (Ap. Galen. who assembled a band of 5000 armed slaves, with
de Compos, Medicam. sec. Gen. v. 14. vol. xiii. p. which he ravaged the whole territory of Agrigen-
850, 851. ) In the passage in question, for Eůvouos tum ; but he soon joined Eunus, and, to the sur-
ó'Aokiniáðns we should probably read Eůvouos ó prise of all men, submitted to act under him as his
'Aokinaid elos, that is, a follower of Asclepiades lieutenant. (Diodor. l. c. ; Liv. Epit. lib. Ivi. )
of Bithynia, who lived in the first century B. C. The revolt now became general, and the Romans
2. À physician in the fourth century after were forced to adopt vigorous measures against the
Christ, mentioned in ridicule by Ausonius, Epigr. insnrgents ; but the practors who first led armies
(W. A. G. ] Against them were totally defeated. Several others
EUNOʻNES, king of the Adorsi or Aorsi, with successively met with the same fate ; and in the year
whom the Romans made an alliance in their war 134 B. C. it was thought necessary to send the
against Mithridates, king of the Bosporus, in B. C. consul C. Fulvius Flaccus to subdue the insurrec-
50, and at whose court Mithridates took refuge, tion. What he effected we know not, but it is
when he was unable any longer to hold out against evident that he did not succeed in his object, as
the Romans. Eunones, taking compassion on him, the next year Calpurnius Piso was employed on
wrote to the emperor Claudius on his behal. (Tac. the same service, who defeated the servile army
Am. xii. 15, 18, 19. )
in a great battle near Messana. This success was
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followed up the next year by the consul P. Rupi- | treatise, now lost, on the miracles performed by
lius, who successively' reduced Tauromenium and the relics of St Stephen ; but the Libri duo de mi-
Enna, the two great strongholds of the insurgents. raculis S. Stephani, placed at the end of the De
On the surrender of Enna, Eunus fied with a few Ciritate Dei, in the 7th volume of the Benedictine
followers, and took refuge in rocky and inacces- edition of St. Augustin, was not composed by
sible places, but was soon discovered in a cave and Evodius, but secms rather to have been addressed
carried before Rupilius. His life was spared by to him, and drawn up at his request.
the consul, probably with the intention of carrying A tract, found in some MSS. among the writ-
bim to Rome ; but he died in prison at Morgantia, ings of Augustin, entitled De fide seu De unitate
of the disease called morbus pedicularis. (Florus, Trinitatis contra Manichaeos, has been ascribed to
iii. 20; Orosius, v. 6; Diod. Exc. Photii, lib. Erodius, is considered a genuine production of St.
xxxiv. , Exc. Vales. ib. ; Plut. Sull. 36 ; Strab. Augustin by Erasmus, but rejected by the Bene-
vi. p. 272. ) If we may believe Diodorus, Eunus dictine editors.
was a man of no talents or energy, not possessing (Augustin, Sermon. cccxxxiii. in Opera, vol. v.
even personal courage, and owed his elevation cd. Bened. de Civit. Dei, xxii. 8; Sigibertus Gembl.
solely to the arts by which he worked on the De Sript. eccles. ep. 15. )
[W. R. )
superstition of the multitude ; but when we con- E'VODUS (Evodos), the author of two short
sider how long he maintained his influence orer epigrams in the Greek Anthology. (Brunck, Anal.
them, and the great successes they obtained under vol. ii. p. 288 ; Jacobs, Anth. Graec. vol. ii. p.
his rule, this appears most improbable. Some | 263. ) Nothing more is known of him, unless he be
anecdotes are also related of him, which display a the same as the epic poet of Rhodes, in the time of
generosity and elevation of character wholly at Nero, who is mentioned by Suidas (s. v. ). There
variance with such a supposition. (Diod. Erc. was an Evodus, the tutor of Caligula (Joseph.
Photii, p. 528, Exc. Vaticana, lxxxiv. p. 113, ed. Ant. Jud. xviii. 8. )
[P. S. )
Dindorf. )
(E. H. B. ) EVODUS (Evoðos), a distinguished engraver of
EVODIANUS (Evodiavós), a Greek sophist of gems under the emperor Titus, A. D. 80. A beryl
Smyrna, who lived during the latter half of the se- by him, bearing the head of Titus's daughter Julia,
cond century after Christ. He was a pupil of Aris is preserved at Florence. (Bracci, Tab. 73; Müller,
tocles, and according to others of Polemon also. Denkm. d. alt. Kunst, T. lxix. No. 381. ) [P. S. )
He was invited to Rome, and raised there to the EUPA'LAMUS (Evrátapos), one of the signi-
chair of professor of eloquence. For a time he was ficant names met with in the history of ancient art
appointed to superintend or instruct the actors, (CHEIRISOPHUS), occurs more than once among
(Tous dupl Tòv Avvoov texvítas), which office the Daedalids. (DAEDALUS, Simon. ] [P. S. )
he is said to have managed with great wisdom. He EUPA'LINUS, of Megara was the architect
distinguished himself as an orator and especially in of the great aqueduct, or rather tunnel, in Samos,
panegyric oratory. He had a son who died before, which was carried a length of seven stadia through
him at Rome, and with whom he desired to be buried a mountain.
The work was probably executed
after his death. No specimens of his oratory have under the tyranny of Polycrates. (Müller, Arch.
come down to us. (Philostr. Vit. Soph. ii
. 16; Eudoc. d. Kunst, $ 81, note. )
[P. S. ]
p. 164; Osann, Inscript. Syllog. p. 299. ) [L. S. ] EU'PATOR (EUTSTWP), a surname assumed by
EVO'DIUS, was born towards the middle of many of the kings in Asia after the time of Alex-
the fourth century at Tagaste, the native place of ander the Great, occurs likewise as the name of
St. Augustin, with whom he maintained through a king of Bosporus in the reign of the emperor
out life the closest friendship. After following in M. Aurelius. This king is mentioned by Lucian
youth the secular profession of an agens in rebus, (Alexand. 57), who speaks of his ambassadors
about the year A. D. 396 or 397, he became bishop bringing the tribute which had to be paid to the
of Uzalis, a town not far from Utica, where he Romans; and his name should perhaps be restored
performed, we are told by St. Augustin, many mi- in a corrupt passage of Capitolinus. (Capitol. Anton.
racles by aid of some relics of St. Stephen the Pius, 9, where for curatorem read Eupatorem. )
Protomartyr, left with him by Orosius, who The following coin of Eupator represents on the
brought them from Palestine in 416. Evodius reverse the heads of M. Aurelius and L. Verus.
took an active part in the controversies against (Eckhel, vol. ii. pp. 378, 379. )
the Donatists and the Pelagians, and in 427,
wrote a letter to the monks of Adrumetum, with
regard to some differences which had arisen in
their body on these questions. After this period
we find no trace of him in history, but the precise
date of his death is not known.
The works of this prelate now extant are :-
1. Four epistles to St. Augustin, which will be
ONS
found among the correspondence of the bishop of
Hippo, numbered 160, 161, 163, 177, in the Be-
nedictine edition.
2. An epistle, written in common with four EUPATRA (EÚratpa), a daughter of Mithri-
other bishops, to Pope Innocentius I. This is dates, who fell into the hands of Pompey at the
contained in the appendix to the 6th volume of close of the Mithridatic war, and walked with the
the Benedictine edition of St. Augustin.
other captives before his triumphal car at Rome.
3. Fragments of an epistle to the monks of (Appian, Mithr. 108, 117. )
Adrumetum subjoined to Ep. 216 of the Bene- EUPEITHES (Eupelons), of Ithaca, father of
dictine edition of St. Augustin.
Antinoüs. Once when he had attacked the Thes-
Erodius is said by Sigibert to have written a protians, the allies of the Ithacans, Odysseus pro-
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Ithaca. When Odysseus after his long wander- There are two other mythical personages of this
ings returned home, Eupeithes wanted to avenge name. (Anton. Lib. 8 ; Hom. Il. ii. 846. ) (L. S. )
the death of his son Antinous, who had been one EUPHE'MUS (Euomuos), was sent by the
of Penelope's suitors and was slain by Odysseus. Athenian commanders at Syracuse in the winter
He accordingly led a band of Ithacans against of B. C. 415—414 to negotiate alliance with Cama-
Odysseus, but fell in the struggle. (Hom. Od. svi. rina, and was there opposed on the Syracusan side
436, xxiv. 469, 523. )
(L. S. ] by Hermocrates. Thucydides gives us an oration
EUPHANTUS (EŬpavtos), of Olynthus, a in the mouth of each. The negotiation was un-
Pythagorean philosopher and tragic poet, who lived successful. (Thuc. vi. 75–88. ) (A. H. C. )
a little later than the period of the tragic Pleiad. EUPHORBUS (Eŭ poptos), a son of Panthous
He was the disciple of Eubulides of Milctus, and and brother of Hyperenor, was one of the bravest
the instructor of Antigonus I. king of Macedonia. among the Trojans. He was the first who wounded
He wrote many tragedies, which were well received Patroclus, but was afterwards slain by Menclaus
at the games. He also wrote a very highly esteem- (Hom. IL xvi. 806, xvii. 1-60), who subsequently
ed work, Tepl Baouelas, addressed to Antigonus, dedicated the shield of Euphorbus in the temple of
and a history of his own times : he lived to a great Hern, near Mycenae. (Paus. ii. 17. $ 3. ) "It is
age. (Diog. Laërt. i. 110, 141. ) The Euphantus a well known story, that Pythagoras asserted that
whose history is quoted by Athenaeus (vi. p. 251, he had once been the Trojan Euphorbus, that from
d. ) must have been a different person, since he a Trojan he had become an Ionian, and from a
mentioned Ptolemy III. of Egypt. (Vossius, de warrior a philosopher. (Philostr. Vit
. Apoll. i. 1,
Hist. Gracc. p. 63, ed. Westermann; Welcker, Heroic. 17; Diog. Laërt. viü. 4; Ov. Mel. xv.
die Griech Tragoed. p. 1268. )
[P. S. ] 161. )
(L. S. ]
EUPHE'MĚ (Euphun), the nurse of the Muses, EUPHORBUS (Eūpopbos), physician to Juba
of whom there was a statue in the grove of the 11. , king of Mauretania, about the end of the first
Muses near Helicon. (Paus. ix. 29. $ 3. ) [L. S. ) century B. C. , and brother to Antonius Musa, the
EUPHEʻMUS (Edonuos), a son of Poseidon by physician to Augustus. [Musa. ] Pliny says (H.
Europe, the daughter of Tityus, or by Mecionice or N. xxv. 38), that Juba gave the name of Euphorbia
Oris, a daughter of Orion or Eurotas. (Schol. ad to a plant which he found growing on Mount Atlas
Pind. Pyth. iv. 15; Tzetz. Chil. ii. 43. ) Accord in honour of his physician, and Galen men-
ing to the one account he was an inhabitant of tions (de Compos. Medicam. sec. Locos. ix. 4. vol.
Panopeus on the Cephissus in Phocis, and accord. xiii. p. 271) a short treatise written by the king
ing to the other of Hyria in Boeotia, and after- on the virtues of the plant. Salmasius tries to
wards lived at Taenarus. By a Lemnian woman, prove (Prolegom. ad Homon. Hyles latr. p. 4),
Malicha, Malache, or Lamache, he became the that this story of Pliny is without foundation, and
father of Leucophanes (Schol. ad Pind.
