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

90 EUPHORION. EUPHPHORION.
Euphorion wrote numerous works, both in poetry to Dionysus.'(Schol. 4. ad Odyss. iv. p. 136, ed.
and prose, relating chiefly to mythological history. Buttmann; Steph. Byz. s. v.'LpPXLOV,'AtcT, A, AThe following were poems in heroic verse: Kca:los; Schol. ad Arat. Phaenom. 172; Tzetzes,
1.'Halo~os, the subject of which can only be con- Schol. ad Lycophr. 320; Etym. May. p. 687. 26.)
jectured from the title. Some suppose it to have 13.'ErLKC4Selo S srs nlpwr'ardpav, an elegy on an
been an agricultural poem. Euphorion is men- astrologer named Protagoras. (Diog. Lairt. ix.
tioned-among the agricultural writers by Varro (i. 56.) This poem was doubtless in the elegiac, and
1. ~ 9) and Columella (i. 1. ~ 10). (See Heyne, not in the heroic verse. 14. ~Opq. (Steph. Byz.
Excurs. iii. ad Virgil. Bucol.; Harless, ad Fabric. s. v. VA."w~ros,'Oyicata; Parthen. Erot. xiii. p.
Bibl. Graec. i. 594.) 2. Moio7ria, so called from 35, xxvi. p. 61.) 15.'I7r7roue'cov. (Tzetzes, Schol.
an old name of Attica, the legends of which coun- ad Lycophr. 451.) 16. SZvgov. (Schol. ad Apollon.
try seem to have been the chief subject of the Rhod. ii. 354.) 17. Ilohvxdpos. (Etym. Mag. p.
poem. From the variety of its contents, which 223. 16; Choeroboscus, ap. Bekker. Anecd. Graec.
Suidas calls vupLury/eZs lr'opias, it was also called iii. p. 1381.) 18.'TdKLveoos. (Schol. Theocr. x.
VATafcTa, a title which was fiequently given to the 28; Eustath. ad Jlorn. p. 285.) 19. 4tLoKA7/C'r s.
writings of that period. 3. Xlhtca8es, a poem (Stobaeus, Sernz. liii., Tit. lix.; Tzetzes, Schol.
written against certain persons, who had defrauded ad Lycophr. 911.)
Euphorion of money which he had entrusted to Euphorion was an epigrammatist as well as. -an
their care. It probably derived its title from each epic poet. He had a place in the Garland of
of its books consisting of a thousand verses. The Meleager (Prooem, 23), and the Greek Anthology
fifth book, or Xtxias,'as entitled irepl Xpor&ocvv, contains two epigrams by him. (Brunck, Anal.
and contained an enumeration of oracles which vol. i. p. 256; Jacobs, Anth. Grae. vol. i. p. 189.)
had been fulfilled; and it is probably of this book They are both erotic; and that such was the chain particular that the statement of Suidas concern- racter of most of his epigrams, is clear from the
ing the object of the poem should be understood, manner in which he is mentioned by Meleager, as
namely, that the poet taught his defrauders that well as from the fact that he was among the poets
they would in the end suffer the penalty of their who were imitated -by Propertius, Tibullus, and
faithlessness. The above seems the best explana- Gallus. (Diomed. iii. p. 482. 3; Probus, ad Virgil.
tion of the passage in Suidas, which is, however, EO. x. 50.) It was probably this seductive elevery corrupt, and has been very variously explain- giac poetry of Euphorion, the popularity of which
ed. (See especially Heyne and Harless, 1. c., and at Rome, to the neglect of Ennius, moved the inMeineke, Euphzor. pp. 20-24.) To these epic dignation of Cicero. (Tuse. Disp. iii. 19.) It was
poems must be added the following,.which are not therefore quite natural that Euphorion should be
mentioned by Suidas:- 4.'Ake'avtpos, which a great favourite with the emperor' Tiberius, who
Meineke conjectures to have been addressed to wrote Greek poems in imitation of him (Sueton.
some friend of that name. (Steph. Byz. s. v. VuAoi.) Tiber. 70; see Casaubon's note.)
5. "AvsoS, a mythological poem referring to Anius, the Some writers have supposed that Euphorion was
son and priest of the Delian Apollo. (Steph. Byz. also a dramatic poet. Ernesti (Clav. Ciceron. s. v.)
Fragment. p. 744, c., ed. Pined.) 6.'AvrTyppacpal and C. G. Miller (ad Tzetz. Schol. p. 651) say,
7rpos cewplbav (Clem. Alex. Strom. v. p. 243, ed. that he composed tragedies; but they give no reaSylb.), a work'of which nothing further is known, sons for the assertion, and none are known.
unless we accept the not improbable conjecture of Fabricius (Bibl. G'raec. vol. ii. p. 304) places him
Meursius and Schneider, who read 0eooepi~Sav for in his list of comic poets, mentioning as his plays
efowptsav, and suppose that the poem was written the'AMrokAkicopos, which was an epic poem (vid.
in controversy, with the grammarian Theodoridas, sup.), and the'Aro8sov6oa, respecting which there
who afterwards wrote the epitaph on Euphorion, can be no doubt that for Euvpopiwv we should read
which is extant, with seventeen other epigrams by E60ppcv in the passage of Athenaeus (xi. p. 503).
Theodoridas, in the Greek Anthology. (Brunck, Euphorion's writings in prose were chiefly hisAnal. vol. ii. pp. 41-45.) [THEODORIDAS.] 7. torical and grammatical. They were: 1.'Io'opKc
%A7roAAX6opos, which seems to have been a mytho- in7roupL'aTra. (Athen. iv. p. 154, c., xv. p. 700, d.)
logical poem addressed to a friend of that name. 2. Ilepl Tce'AAvasorv (Clem. Alex. Strom. i. p.
(Tzetzes, Schol. ad Lycophr. 513; Schol. ad Apollon. 389, Sylb.; Schol. Theocr. adIdyll. xvi. 34; Quintil.
RAod. i. 1063; Suid. and Harpocrat. s. v.'O ed- x. 2), which Suidas (s. v.'Eqopos) attributes to
rewOev zvios; Phot. s. v.'O Kdro0eV ho'yos.) 8. the younger Ephorus. (See Meineke, Euphor. pp.'Apal 4i lroT'pKAe'7rr?1rs (Steph. Byz. s. v.'AkARNl; 39, 40.) 3. lIepl TrcOL'I-ei0uwv. (Athen. iv. p.
Schol. ad Theocrit. ii. 2), an attack on'some person 182, e. et alib.) 4. rIepl MeAo7rosircv. (Athen. iv.
who had stolen a cup from Euphorion, which Cal- p. 184, a.) 5. A grammatical work of great celelimachus imitated in his Ibis, and both were pro- brity, which related chiefly to the language of
bably followed by Ovid in his Ibis, and by Cato Hippocrates, and appears to have been entitled
and Virgil in their Dirae. (Meineke, Euphor. pp. Aits'I7r7roKpa{Tovs.
30, 31.) 9.'ApTreplGwpos, probably a poem like The character of Euphorion as a poet may be
the Apollodorus. (Steph. Byz. s. v.'Aorawpod.) pretty clearly understood from the statements of
10. Fepavos, the subject of which, as well as its the ancient writers, and from his extant fragments,
genuineness, is very uncertain. (Athen. iii. p. 82, as well as from the general literary character of his
a.): 11. A4ruooa-0vo s, the title of which Meineke age. He lived at the time when the literature of
explains as he does the Alexander, Apollodorus, the Alexandrian school had become thoroughly
and Artemidorus, and he conjectures thatthe person established, when originality of thought and vigour
to whom the poem was addressed was Demosthenes of expression were all but extinct, and, though the
of Bithynia..(Choeroboscus, ap. Bekker..Anecd. ancient writers were most highly valued, their- spirit
Graec. iii. p. 1383.). 12. AL,,vopas, which doubt- was lost, and the chiefuse made of them was to heap
less contained a full account of the myths relating together their materials in elaborate compilations