Opera,
του μεγάλου κυρού Ευσταθίου του Ρωμαίου.
του μεγάλου κυρού Ευσταθίου του Ρωμαίου.
William Smith - 1844 - Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities - b
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
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122
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. (Suid. 6. o. EvoTÓxios'; Steph. Byz. s. r.
Graeco-Roman Jurisprudence which have been lately Martináraiov. )
(L. S. )
given to the world by Heimbach and Zachariae) EUSTO'CHIUS (Evrtóxios), a physician of
exists in manuscript in the Medicean Library at Alexandria, who became acquainted with the phi-
Florence (Cod. Laurent. lxxx. fol. 478, &c. ), with losopher Plotinus late in life, and attended him in
the title Bubalov, otep tapd uév TIVWV ovoudžeta his last illness, A. D. 270. He arranged the works
Ticipa, wapd sé Tivwv Aidao kania ék Tw, a pasew of Plotinus. . (Porphyr. Vita Plot. in Plot.
Opera,
του μεγάλου κυρού Ευσταθίου του Ρωμαίου. (Za-vol. . p. 1. 15. vii. ed. Oxon. ) (W. A. G. )
chariae, Hist. Jur. Gr. Rom. Delin. S 41. )
EUSTRA'TIUS (Evorpátios), a presbyter of
Another unpublished work of Eustathius is his the Greek church at Constantinople, is the author
treatise Tepl 'Tobónov, which is in manuscript at of a work on the Condition of the Human Soul
Paris. The meaning of the word utoBboy has after Death, which is still extant. Respecting his
been a subject of much dispute. (Du Cange, Gloss. life and the time at which he lived, nothing is
Med. et Inf. Graec. s. v. ) It seems ordinarily to known, except what can be gathered from the
mean that to which the wife is entitled by agree work itself. It is directed against those who main-
ment or particular custom upon the death of her tained that the souls ceased to act and operate as
husband, over and above the dowry she brought him. soon as they quitted the human body. Photius
2. To Eustathius Romanus has been falsely ascrib- (Bibl. Cod. 171) knew the work, and made some
ed a work concerning prescription and the legal extracts from it, which is a proof that Eustratius
effect of periods of time from a moment to a hun- must have lived before Photius. Further, as Eus-
dred years. This work was published with a Latin tratius repeatedly mentions the works of Dionysius
version by Schardius (Basil. 1561), and immediately Areiopagita, he must have lived after the publication
afterwards in Greek only by Cujas, along with his of those works, which appear to have been circu-
own treatise on the same subject. It has since lated about A. D. 500. It is therefore very proba-
been often reprinted under various names. It may ble that Eustratius lived at the time of Eutychins,
be found in the collection of Leunclavius ( ii
. . 297) patriarch of Constantinople, that is, about A. D.
with the title De Temporum Intervallis, with Scho 560, as in fact Eustratius himself says in almost as
lia of Athanasius and others. The last edition is many words. His work was first edited by L.
that by Zachariae. (Ai 'Putal, oder die Schrift über Allatius in his de Occidentalium atque Orientalium
die Zeitabschnitte, 8vo. Heid. 1836. ) The work is perpetua in Dogmate Purgatorü consensione, Rom.
commonly attributed to Eustathius, Antecessor 1655, 8vo. , pp. 319-581. The style of Eustratius,
Constantinopolitanus. If this inscription be cor- as Photius remarks, is clear, though very different
rect, the Professor must have been of earlier date from classic Greek, and his arguments are generally
than Eustathins Romanus, for the treatise De Tem-sound. (Fabric. Bibl. Graec. vol. x. p. 725; Cave,
porum Intervallis appears to have been originally Hist. Lit. vol. i. p. 416. ) Some other persons of the
compiled in the seventh century. The edition of name of Eustratius are enumerated by Fabricius.
Schardius gives the work nearly in its original (Bibl. Graec. vol. iii. p. 264, note. ) (L. S. ]
form; Cujas, Leunclavius, and Zachariae present us EUSTRATIUS (Evorpátios), one of the latest
with a second edition of the same work as revised commentators on Aristotle, lived about the be-
about the eleventh century by some editor, who has ginning of the twelfth century after Christ, under
added scholia of his own, and introduced references the emperor Alexius Comnenus, as metropolitan of
to the Basilica (Biener, Gesch. der Novellen, p. 124. ) Nicaea. According to a hint in the Commentary
Nessel (cited by Sammet. Diss. de Hypobolo in to the tenth book of the Ethica Nicomachea (if this
Meerm. Thes. Suppl. p. 382) attributes, not to Eus- part of the Commentary is composed by him), he
tathius Romanus, but to the earlier professor Eus appears to have also lived at Constantinople, and
tathius, a synopsis of juridical actions, entitled Ai to bave written his commentary in this place.
dywral év ouvójeh, which is found appended in ma- (Comp. ad Arist. Eth. Nic. x. 9. & 13, p. 472, ed.
nuscript to the Procheiron auctum. (Zachariae, Hist. Zell. ) Of his life we know nothing else. Of his
Jur. Gr. Rom. Delin. § 48 ; Heimbach, de Basil. writings only two are extant, and these in a very
Orig. p. 144. )
fragmentary state : viz ). A Commentary to the
3. An Edict of the Eustathius who was Pr. Pr. second book of the Analytica, published by Aldus
Orientis under Anastasius in A. D. 506, is publish- Manutius, Venice, 1534, and translated into Latin
ed by Zachariae (Anecdota, p. 270). (J. T. G. ] by A. Gratarolus. (Venice, 1542, 1568, fol. )
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123
EUTHALIUS.
EUTHYDEMUS.
Evordhos), a Greek porica
le fourth century after class
ters of SL Basil are addressed
Epist. 151, 189, ed. Bered)
led by the title " Arcban.
tters is by some personas es
of Nyssa, and is accurate
hird volume of bis was
(W. AG]
LAUDIUS, secretary lo
wrote the lives of Dixda
ulius, Galerius and le
1 a separate book. (Tom
(W. R. )
STÓxios), Cappare:
emperor Constas. El
e of that emperor sadi
of Cappadocia and other
TÓxios; Steph. Brzus
[LS]
byros), a preciza
cquainted with the pain
, and attended in
le arranged the Fado
1 Plot. in Plot Open
1 (W. AG]
205), a presbyter
tinople, is the start
of the Hamas Son
int Resperting bis
be lired, potting i
gathered from the
ist those who mi
act and operate
2. A Commentary to Aristotle's Ellica Nicomachea, | Erasmus, in his several editions of the New Testa-
published in the Greek language with some other ment, incorporated the Argumenta to the Epistles
commentators on the same work, Venice, 1536, fol. , of St. Paul and the Acts. The Prologue on the
and in the Latin language by J. Bernardus Felici- Life of St. Paul, with a prefatory Epistle, was first
anus, Ven. 1641, 1589, fol. , Paris. 1543, Helmst. edited by J. H. Boeclerus at the end of his edition of
1662, 4to. But, according to the latest researches, the New Testament, Argentorat 1645 and 1660,
this commentary consists of very different mate | 12mo. , from which it was afterwards often re-
rials, and great parts of it are the work of other printed. All the works of Euthalius were edited
interpreters, as Aspasius and Michael Ephesius. by L. Zaccagni, in his Collectanea monum. vet.
This has been proved chiefly by the researches of Eccles. Graecac, Rome, 1698, 4to. Whether Eu-
Schleiermacher, in his writings on the Greek thalius also wrote a commentary on the Gospel of
Scholia to the Ethics of Aristotle (printed in the St. Luke and on the Acts, is uncertain, at least
Abhandlungen der Berliner Akademie der Wissensch. there is no distinct mention of them, and no MSS.
of the year 1816—1817, p. 263, &c. ). Schleier- are known to exist. (Fabric. Bibl. Graec. vol. ix. p.
macher has shewn that the author of the commen. 287, &c. ; Cave, Hist. Lit. vol. i. p. 252. ) (L. S. ]
tary to the first book of the Ethics cannot possibly EU'THIAS (Evdías), an Athenian orutor of the
be the same person as the author of the com- time of Demosthenes. He brought an accusation
mentary to the sixth book, because very different against Phryne, and as he failed in his attempt to
interpretations of the 'Etwtepikol Abyou of Aristotle bring about her condemnation, he abstained ever
are given in the two passages cited. (See Stahr, after from speaking in the courts of justice. (Athen.
Aristotelia, ï. pp. 261, 262; Schleiermacher, p. xiii. p. 590 ; Alciphr. Epist. i. 10, &c. ; Suidas. 8. v.
267.