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1. A native
6. A daughter of Lysimachus, king of Thrace, of Lusiae in Arcadia, whose name is frequently
who gave her in marriage to Antipater, son of mentioned by Xenophon in the Anabasis. On one
Cassander, king of Macedonia, when the latter occasion, when the army was marching through
invoked his assistance against his brother Alexan- the territory of the Carduchii, he protected Xeno-
. der. (Justin, xvi. 1; Euseb. Arm. p. 155. ) After phon, whose shield-bearer had deserted him. He
the murder of Antipater (see vol. i. p. 202, a. ), she was one of the deputies sent by the army to
was condemned by her father to perpetual im- Anaxibius. Afterwards we find him counselling
prisonment. (Justin, xvi. 2. )
his comrades to extort from Seuthes the pay which
7. The sister and wife of Ptolemy Philopator is he owed them. (Xen. Anab. iv. 2. $ 21, 7. $ 11,
called by Justin (xxx. 1) Eurydice, but her real vii. 1. $ 32. 6. & 40. )
name was Arsinoë. [ARSINOE, No. 5. ) [E. H. B. ) 2. A sceptical philosopher, a disciple of Pyrrho,
EURY'LEON (Eủpunéwv), is said to have been mentioned by Diogenes Laërtius (ix. 68). The
the original name of Ascanius. (Dionys. i. 70; Ap- same writer mentions another Eurylochus of La-
pian, de Reg. Rom. i. )
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going to his house (ii. 25). (C. P. M. ] one of the commanders of the large reinforcements
EURY'MACHÙS (Eúpúuaxos), the name of destined for Sicily, and early in B. c. 425 set sail
four mythical personages, viz. one of the suitors of with forty ships, accompanied by his colleague
Hippodameia (Paus. vi. 21. § 6), a prince of the Sophocles, and by Demosthenes also, in a private
Phlegyes who attacked and destroyed Thebes after capacity, though allowed to use the ships for any
the death of Amphion and Zethus (Eustath. ad purpose he pleased on the coast of Peloponnesus.
Ilom. p. 933), a son of Theano (Paus. x. 27), and They were ordered to touch at Corcyra on their
one of the suitors of Penelope. (Hom. Od. i. 399, way, and information of the arrival there of a Pe-
&c. , xxii. 88. )
(L. S. ] loponnesian squadron made the commanders so
EURY'MACHUS (Eupúpaxos), grandson of anxious to hasten thither, that it was against their
another Eurymachus and son of Leontiades, the will, and only by the accident of stormy weather,
Theban commander at Thermopylae, who led his that Demosthenes contrived to execute his project
men over to Xerxes. Herodotus in his account of of fortifying Pylos. (DEMOSTHENES. ] This how-
the father's conduct relates, that the son in after ever, once completed, had the effect of recalling
time was killed by the Plataeans, when at the the enemy from Corcyra : their sixty ships passed
head of four hundred men and occupying their unnoticed by Eurymedon and Sophocles, then in
city. (Herod. vii. 233. ) This is, no doubt, the Zacynthus, and made their way to Pylos, whither
same event which Thucydides (i. 1–7) records on intelligence from Demosthenes, the Athenian
as the first overt act of the Peloponnesian war, squadron presently pursued them. Here they ap-
B. C. 431. The number of men was by his account pear to have remained till the capture of the Spar-
only a little more than three hundred, nor was Eury- tans in the island ; and after this, proceeded to
machus the actual commander, but the enterprise Corcyra to execute their original commission of
had been negotiated by parties in Plataea through reducing the oligarchical exiles, by whose warfare
him, and the conduct of would therefore no from the hill Istone the city was suffering severely.
doubt be entrusted very much to him. The In this they succeeded : the exiles were driven
fanıily was clearly one of the great aristocratical from their fortifications, and surrendered on condi-
houses. Thucydides (ii. 2) calls Eurymachus " a tion of being judged at Athens, and remaining, till
man of the greatest power in Thebes. " (A. H. C. ] removal thither, in Athenian custody; while, on
EURYME'DE (Eúpuuton), the name of two the other hand, by any attempt to escape they
mythical personages. [GLAUCUS ; MELEAGER. ] should be considered to forfeit all terms. Into
EURY'MEDON (Eupvuébwr). 1. A Cabeirus, such an attempt they were treacherously inveigled
a son of Hephaestus and Cabeiro, and a brother of by their countrymen, and banded over in conse-
Alcon. (Nonn. Dionys. xiv. 22; Cic. de Nat. quence by the Athenian generals to a certain and
Deor. üi. 21. )
cruel death at the hands of their betrayers. This
2. One of the attendants of Nestor. (Hom. Il. shameful proceeding was encouraged, so Thucy-
viï. 114, xi. 620. )
dides expressly states, by the evident reluctance of
3. A son of Ptolemaeus, and charioteer of Aga- Eurymedon and Sophocles to allow other hands
memnon ; his
tomb was shewn at Mycenae. (Hom. than their own to present their prizes at Athens,
II. iv. 228; Paus. ii. 16. & 5. ) There are two while they should be away in Sicily. To Sicily
more mythical personages of this name. (Hom. Od. they now proceeded; but their movements were
vii. 58 ; Apollod. iii. 1. & 2. ) Eurymedon signifies a presently put an end to by the general pacification
being ruling far and wide, and occurs as a surname effected under the influence of Hermocrates, to
of several divinities, such as Poseidon (Pind. 01. which the Athenian commanders themselves, with
viii. 31), Perseus (Apollon. Rhod. iv. 1514), and their allies, were induced to accede. For this, on
Hermes. (Hesych. s. v. )
(L. S. ) their return to Athens, the people, ascribing the
EURY'MEDON (Eúpuuébwr), a son of Thucles, defeat of their ambitious schemes to corruption in
an Athenian general in the Peloponnesian war, their officers, condemned two of them to banish-
held in its fifth year, B. C. 428, the command of ment, visiting Eurymedon, who perhaps had shown
sixty ships, which the Athenians, on hearing of more reluctance than his colleagues, with the milder
the intestine troubles of Corcyra, and the move punishment of a fine. (Thuc. iii. 115, iv. 2—8,
ment of the Peloponnesian fleet under Alcidas and 13, 46–48, 65. )
Brasidas to take advantage of them, hastily de- Eurymedon is not known to have held any other
spatched to maintain their interest there. This, it command till his appointment at the end of B. C.
was found, had already been secured by Nicostra- 414, in conjunction with Demosthenes, to the com-
tus with a small squadron from Naupactus. Eury- mand of the second Syracusan armament. He
medon, however, took the chief command ; and the himself was sent at once, after the receipt of Ni-
seven days of his stay at Corcyra were marked by cias's letter, about mid-winter, with a supply of
the wildest cruelties inflicted by the commons on money and the news of the intended reinforcements :
their political opponents. These were no doubt in the spring he returned to meet Demosthenes at
encouraged by the presence of so large an Athenian Zacynthus. Their subsequent joint proceedings
force : how far they were personally sanctioned, or belong rather to the story of his more able col-
how far they could have been checked by Eury- league. In the night attack on Epipolae he took
medon, can hardly be determined. (Thuc. ij. 80, a share, and united with Demosthenes in the sub-
81, 85. )
sequent representations to Nicias of the necessity
In the following summer he was united with for instant departure. His career was ended in
Hipponicus in command of the whole Athenian the first of the two sea-fights. His command was
force by land, and, co-operating with a fleet under on the right wing, and while endeavouring by
Nicias, ravaged the district of Tanagra, and ob- the extension of his line to outflank the enemy, he
tained sufficient success over some Thebans and was, by the defeat of the Athenian centre, cut off
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EURYPHON.
EURYPYLUS.
name,
1
ships captured, and himself slain. Diodorus, writ- | VI. " i. 29. vol. xvii. pt. i. p.
886, where for idlaus
ing perhaps from Ephorus, rclates, that Agatharchus we should read Kvidiais), and also that some persons
was the Syracusan general opposed to him, and attributed to him several works included in the
represents the defeat as having begun with Eury- Hippocratic Collection (Comment. in Hippocr. “ De
medon's division, and thence extended to the cen- Humor. " i. prooem. vol. xvi. p. 3), viz. those enti-
tre. (Thuc. vii. 16, 31, 33, 42, 43, 49, 52 ; Diod. tled Nepl aiairns 'Tylerñs, de Salubri Victus Ra-
xiji. 8, 11, 13; Plut. Nicias, 20, 24. ) [A. H. C. ) tione (Comment. in Hippocr. “ De Rat. Vict. in
EURY'MEDON (Eúpuuédwv. ) 1. Of Myr- Morb. Acut. " i. 17. vol. xv. p. 455), and nepł
rhinus, a friend of Plato, who, in his will, appointed Alaltos, de Victus Ratione. (De Aliment. Facult.
him one of his executors. (Diog. Laërt. iii. 42, 43. ) i. 1. vol. vi. p. 473. ) He may perhaps be the au-
2. Of Tarentum, a Pythagorean philosopher men- thor of the second book Nepi Noúowv, De Morlis,
tioned by lamblichus. (Vit
. Pyth. 36. )
which forms part of the Hippocratic Collection,
3. A person who was suborned by Demophilus to but which is generally allowed to be spurious, as a
bring an accusation of impiety against Aristotle for passage in this work (vol. ii. p. 284) is quoted by
speaking irreverently of Hermes in a pocm, which Galen (Comment. in Hippocr. “ De Vorh. Vulgar.
is preserved in Athenaeus. (xv. p. 696. ) (L. S. ] VI. " i. 29. vol. xvii. pt. i. p. 888), and attributed
EURY'NOME (Ejpuróun). ' 1. A daughter of to Euryphon (see Littré's lippocr. vol. i. pp. 47,
Oceanus. When Hephaestus was expelled by llera 363); and in the same manner M. Ermerins (Hip-
from Olympus, Eurynome and Thetis received him pocr. de Rat. Vict. in Morb. Acut. pp. 368, 369)
in the bosom of the sea. (Hom. Il. xviii, 395, &c. ; conjectures that he is the author of the work Nepl
Apollod. i. 2. & 2. ) Previous to the time of Cronos ruvaikeins þúolos, de Nutura Mulicbri, as Soranus
and Rhem, Eurynome and Ophion had ruled in appears to allude to a passage in that treatise (vol.
Olympus over the Titans, but after being conquered 11. p. 533) while quoting the opinions of Euryphon.
by Cronos, she had sunk down into Tartarus or (De Arte Obstetr. p. 124. ) From a passage in
Occanus. (Apollon. Rhod. i. 503, &c. ; Tzetz. ad Caelius Aurelianus (de Morb. Chron. ii. 10. p. 390)
Lycoph. 1191. ) By Zeus she became the mother it appears, that Euryphon was aware of the differ-
of the Charites, or of Asopus. (Hes. Theog. ence between the arteries and the veins, and also
908 ; Apollod. iii. 12. $ 6. )
considered that the former vessels contained blood.
2. A surname of Artemis at Phigalea in Arcadia. Of his works nothing is now extant except a few
Her sanctuary which was surrounded by cypresses, fragments, unless he be the author of the treatises
was opened only once in every year, and sacrifices in the Hippocratic Collection that have been attri-
were then offered to her. She was represented buted to him.
(W. A. G. )
half woman and half fish. (Paus. viii. 41. $ 4. ) EURY PON, otherwise called EURY'TION
There are four more mythical personages of this (Eủputūv, Eŭputſwv), grandson of Procles, was the
(Hom. Od. xviii. 168 ; Apollod. iii. 9. 8 third king of that house at Sparta, and thencefor
2. ) [ADRASTUS, AGENOR. ]
[L. S. ] ward gave it the name of Eurypontidae. Plutarch
EŪRY'NOMUS (Eủpuvouos), a daemon of the talks of his having relaxed the kingly power, and
lower world, concerning whom there was a tradi- played the demagogue ; and Polyaenus relates a
tion at Delphi, according to which, he devoured the war with the Arcadians of Mantineia under his
flesh of dead human bodies, and left nothing but command. (Paus. ii. 7. $ 1; Plut. Lyc 2; Poly-
the bones. Polygnotus represented him in the aen. ii. 13. )
(A. H. C. )
Lesche at Delphi, of a dark-blue complexion, shew- EURY'PTOLEMUS (Euputtóemos). 1. One
ing his teeth, and sitting on the skin of a vulture. of the family of the Alcmaeonidae, the son of
(Paus. x. 28. § 4. ) There are two other mythi- Megacles and father of Isodice, the wife of Cimon.
cal personages of this name, one mentioned by (Plut. Cimon, 4. )
Ovid (Met. xii. 311) and the other in the Odyssey 2. Son of Peisianax, and cousin of Alcibiades.
(ii. 22).
[L. S. ] We find him coming forwards on the occasion of
EURYPHA'MUS or EURYPHEʻMUS (Ev- the trial of the victorious generals after the battle
púpauos), a Pythagorean philosopher of Metapon- of Arginusae to oppose the illegal proceedings in-
tum. (lamblich. de Vit. Pyth. 30, 36. ) Lysis was stituted against them. His speech on the occasion
his fellow-pupil and his faithful friend. Eurypha- is quoted by Xenophon. He asked that a day
mus was the author of a work Tepi Blou, which is should be granted for the separate trial of each
lost, but a considerable fragment of it is preserved prisoner (Xen. Hell. i. 7. $ 16, &c. )
in Stobaeus. (Serm. tit. 103. 27. ) (L. S. ] 3. Another Euryptolemus, of whom nothing else
EU'R YPHON (Eupupwv), a celebrated physi- is known, is mentioned by Xenophon as having been
cian of Cnidos in Caria, who was probably born in sent as ambassador to the Persian court. He could
the former half of the fifth century B. C. , as Soranus not have been the same with the cousin of Alcibiades,
(Vita Hippocr.