A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology. By various writers. Ed. by William Smith. Illustrated by numerous engravings on wood.

EUNONES. EUNUS'. 95
EU'NOMUS (EopYos), a son of Architeles, EUNOSTUS (Evoo-Tos).' 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 Hornm. p. 1900) calls him Archias or up by the nymph Eunoste. Ochne, the daughter
Chaerias. [L. S.] of Colonus, fell in love with him; but he avoided
EU'NOMUS (E~Jvo/os), 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
Halicarnassusgives the name to the nephew in whose sacred grove, which no woman was -allowed to apstead 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 Edvvolt4a, and Eunomus, the just weight of flour. (Hesych. s. v.; Eustath.
if not wholly rejected, must be identified with Po- ad Horn. pp. 214, 1383.) [L. S.]
lydectes. In the reign of Eunomus and Polydectes, EUNUS (Esvovs), 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 Syria, 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 MUller, Do- citizen of Enna in Sicily. He first attracted attenrians, book i. 7. ~ 3, and ~ 6, note b.) [A. H. C. tion by pretending to the gift of prophecy, and by
EU'NOMUS (EtMvouos), 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 ANTAICIDAS 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. Hell. 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 (Eivolos), 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. 1. c. Exe. 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 (Ev'Yocos). 1. A Greek physician, the standard of their countryman and fellow-bondswho 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. Midicam. sec. Gen. v. 14. vol. xiii. p. which he ravaged the whole territory of Agrigen850, 851.) In the passage in question, for Eibvoilos tum; but he soon joined Eunus, and, to the suro'AoKq71cArL1s we should probably read Euvowlos o prise of all men, submitted to act under him as his'ArKcAr7rLd8elos, that is, a follower of Asclepiades lieutenant. (Diodor. 1. c.; Liv. Epit. lib. lvi.)
of Bithynia, who lived in the first century B. c. The revolt now became general, and the Romans
2. A physician in the fourth century after wrere forced to adopt vigorous measures against the
Christ, mentioned in ridicule by Ausonius, Epigr. insurgents; but the praetors who first led armies
75. [W. A. G.] against them were totally defeated. Several others
EUNO'NES, 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 insurrec50, 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 behalf. (Tac. the same service,, who defeated the servile army
Ann. xii. 15, 18, 19.) in a great battle near Messana. This success was