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

96 EVODIUS. EUPEITHES.
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 miEnna, the two great strongholds of the insurgents. raculis S. Stephani, placed at the end. of the De
On the surrender of Enna, Eunus fled with a few Civitate 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 seems 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 ill some MSS. among the writhim 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 Manichzaeos, has been ascribed to
iii. 20; Orosius, v. 6; Diod. Exe. Photii, lib. Evodius, is considered a genuine production of St.
xxxiv., Exe. Vales. ib.; Plut. Sual. 36; Strab. Augustin by Erasmus, but rejected by the Benevi. 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 ed. Bened. de Civit. Dei, xxii. 8; Sigibertus Gembl.
solely to the arts by which he worked on the De Script. eccles. ep. 15.) [W. R.]
superstition of the multitude; but when we con- E'VODUS (Evloos), the author of two short
sider: how long he maintained his influence over epigrams in the Greek Anthology. (Brunck, Anal.
them, i:d the great successes they obtained under vol. ii. p. 288; Jacobs, Antih. 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. Exc. 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.] E'VODUS (Eiobos), a distinguished engraver of
EVODIA'NUS (EvorLavds), a Greek' sophist of gems under the emperor Titus, A. D. 80. A berylSmyrna, who lived during the latterhalf 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; Miiller,
tocles, and according to others of Polemon also. Denknz. d. alt. Kunst, T. lxix. No. 381.) [P. S.]
He was invited to Rome, and raised there to the EUPA'LAMUS (Ejv7rdAabuos), one of the signichair 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
('ro)s dpuf! rdv Atdvvroov TeXvyl'as), 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 workl was probably executed
after his death. No specimens. of his oratory have under the tyranny of Polycrates.. (Miiller, Arch.
come down to us. (Philostr. Vit. Sopl. ii. 16; Eudoc. d. Kunst, ~ 81, note.) [P. S.]
p. 164; Osann, Inscript. Syllog. p. 299.) [L. S.] EU'PATOR (EV7rd'oTp), a surname assumed by'EVO'DIUS, was born towards the middle of many of the kings in Asia after the time of Alexthe 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, (Alezand. 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 EZupatorem.)
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 A
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: — g
1. Four epistles to St. Augustin, which will be
found among the correspondence of the bishop of
Hippo, numbered 160, 161, 163, 177, in the Be- COIN OF EUPATOR.
nedictine edition.
2. An epistle, written in common with four EUPATRA (E47rd'rpa), a daughter of Mithriother 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 (EeVsre6ls), of Ithaca, father of
dictine edition of St. Augustin. Antinoiis. Once when he had attacked the ThesEvodius is said by Sigibert to have written a, protians, the allies of the Ithacans, Odysseus pro