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EUMOLPIDAE. EUPATRIDAE. 477
verse claim (lite, dennciarxe), and to pray his aid Alcib. 22; Corn. Nep. Alcib. 4, 5.) But the
in defence of the action. The stipulatio duplae Eumolpidae could pronounce such a curse only at
was usual among the Romans; and, in such case, the command of the people, and might afterwards
if the purchaser was evicted from the vwhole thing, be compelled by the people to revoke it and purify
he might by virtue of his agreement demand from the person whom they had cursed before. (Plut.
tle seller double its value. (Dig. 21. tit. 2, 1)e Alcib. 33; Corn. Nep. Alcib. 6. 5.) [L. S.]
evictionibus et duplae stipulatione; M ackeldey, EVOCA'TI, were soldiers in the Roman army,
Lelhabuch, &c., ~ 370, 12th ed.) [G. L.] who had served out their time and obtained thei:
EUMOILPIDAE (e6i Arriaosl), the most dis- discharge (amissio), but had voluntarily enlisted
tinguished and venerable among the priestly fiini- again at the' invitation of the consul or other coinlies in Attica. They were devoted to the service mander. (Dion Cass. xlv. 12.) There appears
of Demeter at Athens and Eleusis, and were said always to have been a considerable number of
to be the descendants of the Thracian bard Enmol- evocati in every army of importance; and when
pus, who, according to some legends, had intro- the general was a lhvourite among the soldiers, the
duced the Eleusinian mysteries into Attica. (Diid. iiumber of veterans who joined his standard would
Sic. i. 29; Apollod. iii. 15. ~ 4; Demosth. c. Neaer. of course be increased. The evocati were, doubtp. 1384.) The high priest of the Eleusinian less, released, like the vexillarii, from the common
goddess (iepOqr/,T7rs or uuvr"-TaywoTS ), who con- military duties of fortifying the camp, making
ducted the celebration of her mysteries and the iii- roads, &c. (Tacit. Ann. i. 36), and held a higher
itiation of the mystae, was always a member of the rank in the army than the common legionary
family of the Eumolpidae, as Eumolpus himself was soldiers. They are sometimes spoken of in conbelieved to have been the first hieroplhant. (H-esych. junction with the equites Romani (Caes. Bell. Gall,
s. v. EvoXy7rgiab: Tacit. Hist. iv. 83; Arnob., v. 25; vii. 65), and sometimes classed with the centurions,
Clemens Alex. Protrept. p. 16, &c.) In his external (Caes. Bell. Civ. i. 17.) They appear to have been
appearance the hierophant was distinguished by a frequently promoted to the rank of centurions.
peculiar cut of his hair, a kind of diadem (or7pO- Thus Pompey induced a great many of the veterans,,p1ov), and a long purple robe. (Arrian. in Epictet. who had served under him in former years, to join
iii. 21; Plut. Alcib. 22.) Ill his voice he seems his standard at the breaking out of the civil war,
always to have affected a solemn tone suited to by the promise of rewards and the command of
the sacred character of his office, which he held for centuries (ordinunm, Caes. Bell. Civ. i. 3). All the
life, and which obliged him to remain unmarried. evocati could not, however, have held the rank of
(Paus. ii. 14. ~ 1.) The hierophant was attended centurions, as we read of two thousand oni one
by four i7rILE.Xmrai, one of whom likewise belonged occasion (1b. iii. 88), and of their belonging to
to the family of the Eulmolpidae. (I-larpocrat. and certain cohorts in the army. Cicero (ad FarI.
Suidas, s. v.'E7rsireiMrall 7r.usv -vrspieV.) Other iii. 6. ~ 5) speaks of a P'ac fictus evoccioriuen.
members of their family do not seem to have had (See Cic. ad Famn. xv. 4. ~ 3; Caes. Bell. Civ. iii.
any particular functions at the Eleusinia, though 91; Suet. Ag. 56; Lipsi-s, De Milit. Reoi. i. 8.)
they undoubtedly took part in the great procession The name of evocati was also given to a select
to Elensis. The Eumolpidae had on certain occa- body of young men of the equestrian order, who.
sions to offer up prayers for the welfare of the were appointed by Domitian to guard his bedstate, and in case of neglect they might be taken chamber. (Suet. Domn. 10.) This body is supto account and punished; for they were, like all posed by some writers to have existed under the
other priests and magistrates, responsible for their succeeding emperors, and to have been the saine
conduct, and for the sacred treasures entrusted to as those who are called Evocati Aulgusti. (H-ygilus,
their care. (Aeschin. c. CtesiJl,. p. 56, Steph.; de Lima. p. 209; Orelli, Inscrip. No. 3495, 153.)
compare EUTHYNIE.) EUPA'TRIDAE (Eiurapfpi8a), i.e. descended
The Eumolpidae had also judicial power ill cases from noble ancestors, is the name by which in early
where religion was violated (Irepl &reCEoac, De- times the nobility of Attica was designated. Who
mosth. c. Androlt. p. 601). This power probably the Eupatridae originally were has been the subbelonged to this family from the earliest times, and ject of much dispute; but the opiInion now almost
Solon as well as Pericles do not seem to have lmade universally adopted is, that they were the noble
any alteration in this respect. Whether this re- Ionic or Hellenic families who at the timle of the
ligious court acted independent of the archon king, Ionian migration settled in Attica, and there exeror under his guidance, is uncertainl. The law cised the power and influence of an aristocracy of
alccording to which they pronounceed their sentence, warriors and conquerors, possessing the best parts
and of which they had the exclusive possession, of the land, and commanding the services of a
was not written, but handed down. by tradition; numerous class of dependents. (Thirlwall, IHist. of
and the Eumlolpidae alone had the right to inter- Greece, vol. i. p. 115, &c.; W achsmuth, vol. i. p. 361,
ptetit, whence they are sonestiznes called 4e1-y-orai. &c., 2d ed.) The chiefs who are mentioned as
[ExEGETAE.] In cases for which the law had kings of the several Attic towns, before the organimade no provisions, they acted according to their sation of the country ascribed to Theseus, belonged
own discretion. (Lysias, c. Andocid. p. 204; to the highest or ruling class of the Eupatridae;
Andocid. De iVigyst p. 57.) Respecting the mode and when Theseus made Athens the seat of goof proceeding in these religious courts nothing is vernment for the whole country, it must have been
known. (leffter Atleen. Geric/htsvees: p. 405. &c.; chiefly these nobles of the highest rank, that left
Platner, Process, ii. p. 147, &c.) In some cases, their former residences and smigrated to Athens,
when a person was convicted of gross violation of where, after Theseus had given ilp his royal prethe public institutions of his counltry, the people, rogatives and divided them among the nobles, they
besides sending the offender into exile, added a occupied a station similar to that which they had
clause in their verdict that a curse should be pro- previously held in their several districts of Attica.
inounced upon him by the Eumolpidce. (Plut. Other Enpatridae, however, who either were not