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

EUPHORION. EUPHRANOR. 99
and expand them by trivial and fanciful additions, in Strabo (viii. p. 382) refers to this Euphorion,
while the noble forms of verse in which they and that EUbPpoviro in that passage is an error for
had embodied their thoughts were made the vehi- EJipopicov. There is an example of the same concles of a mass of cumbrous learning. Hence the fusion in Athenaeus (xi. p. 495, c.). That those
complaints which the best of succeeding writers made who make this Euphorion the same as the Chalciof the obscurity, verboseness, and tediousness of dian are quite wrong, is proved by the fact that
Euphorion, Callimachus, Parthenius, Lycophron, the lines are neither hexameters nor elegiacs, but
and the other chief writers of the long period dur- in the priapeian metre, which is a kind of antiing which the Alexandrian grammarians ruled the spastic.. (Meineke, Analecta Alexandrina, Epim.
literary world. (Clem. Alex. Strom. v. p. 571; i.) [P. S.]
Cic. de Div. ii. 64; Lucian. de Conscrib. Hist. 57, EUPHO'RION (EV(popiwv), a Greek physivol. ii. p. 65.) These faults seem to have been cian or grammarian, who wrote a commentary on
carried to excess in Euphorion, who was particu- Hippocrates in six books, and must have lived
larly distinguished by an obscurity, which arose, in or before the first century after Christ, as he
according to Meineke, from his choice of the most is mentioned by Erotianus. (Gloss. Hippocr. p.
out of the way subjects, from the cumbrous learning 12.) [W. A. G.]
with which he overloaded his poems, from the ar- EUPHO'RION, a distinguished. statuary and
bitrary changes which he made in the common le- silver-chaser, none of whose works were extant in
gends, from his choice of obsolete words, and from Pliny's time. (Plin. xxxiv. 8. s. 19, ~ 25.) [P. S.]
his use of ordinary words with a new meaning of EUPHRADES, THEMI'STIUS. [THEMIShis own. The most ancient and one of the most TIuS.]
interesting judgments concerning him is in an epi- EUPHRA'NOR (Evppdvwp). 1. Of Seleuceia,
gram by Crates of Mallus (Brunck, Anal., vol. ii. a disciple of Timon and a follower of his sceptical
p. 3), from which we learn that he was a great school. Eubulus of Alexandria was his pupil.
admirer of Choerilus [CHOERILUS, vol. i. p. 697, (Diog. Laert. ix. 115, 116.)
bl], notwithstanding which, however, the frag- 2. A slave of the. philosopher Lycon, who was
ments of his poetry shew that he also imitated manumitted by hismaster'swill.(Diog. Lairt. v. 73.)
Antimachus. Meineke conjectures that the epi- 3. A Pythagorean philosopher, who is mentioned
gram of Crates was written while the contest about by Athenaeus (iv. pp. 182, 184, xiv. p. 634) as the
receiving Antimachus or Choerilus into the epic. author of a work on flutes and flute players. (rnIpl
canon was at its height, and that some of the Alex- aeAcAP and crepl aA7A-crv') It is -not impossible
andrian grammarians proposed to confer that ho- that the Evanor mentioned by Iamblichus (Vit.
nour on Euphorion. In the same epigram Eupho- Pyt/l. 36) among the Pythagoreans, is the same as
rion is called'O0aypKcds, which can only mean that our Euphranor.
he endeavoured, however unsuccessfully, to imitate 4. A Greek grammarian, who was upwards of
Homer, - a fact which his fragments confirm. one, hundred years old at thetime when Apionwas
(Comp. Cic. de Div. i. c.) That he also imitated his pupil. (Suid. s.v.'Ariwv.) [L. S.]
Hesiod, may be inferred from the fact of his writ- EUPHRA'NOR (EPqpdcovwp). 1. One of the
ing a poem entitled'Heio8os; and there is a cer- greatest masters of the most flourishing period of
tain similarity in the circumstance of each poet Grecian art, and equally distinguished as a statuary
making a personal wrong the foundation of an epic and a painter. (Quintil. xii. 10. ~ 6.) He was a
poem, —Hesiod in the "Epya Kal'Hzedpat, and Eu- native of the Corinthian isthmus, but he practised
phorion in the XLAldses. his art at Athens, and is reckoned by Plutarch as
As above stated, Euphorion was greatly admired an Athenian. (De Glor. Ath. 2.) He is placed by
by many of -the Romans, and some of his poems Pliny (xxxiv. 8. s. 19) at 01. 104, no doubt bewere imitated or translated by Cornelius Gallus; cause he painted the- battle of Mantineia, which
but the arguments by which Heyne and others was fought in 01. 104, 3 (B. c. 362), but the list of
have attempted to decide what poems of Euphorion his works shews, almost certainly, that he flourished
were so translated, are quite inconclusive. (Vos- till after the accession of Alexander. (B. C. 336.)
sius, de Hist. Graec. pp. 142, 143, ed. Wester- As a statuary, he. wrought both in bronze and
mann; Fabric. Bibl. Graec. vol. i. p. 594, &c.; marble, and made figures of all sizes, from colossal
Meineke, de Euphorionis Chalcidensis Vita et Scrip- statues: to little drinking-clps. (Plin. xxxv. 8,
tis, Gedan. 1823, in which the fragments are col- s. 40, ~ 25.) His most celebrated works were,.a
lected; a new edition of this work forms part of Paris, which expressed alike the judge of the godMeineke's Analecta Alexandrina, Berol. 1843; desses, the lover of Helen, and the slayer of AchilClinton, Fast. Hell. vol. iii. pp. 311, 312.) les; the very beautiful sitting figure of Paris, in
4. Of Chersonesus, an author of that kind of licen- marble, in the Museo Pio-Clementino is, no doubt,
tious poetry which was called Ipad'7rela, is mentioned a copy of this work: a Minerva, at Rome, called
by Hephaestion (de Metr. xv. 59), who gives three the Catulian, from its having been set up by Q.
verses, which do not, however, appear to be conse- Lutatius Catulus, beneath the Capitol: an Agathocutive, but are probably' single verses chosen as daemon (simulacrum Boni Eventus), holding a
specimens of the metre. But yet some information patera in the right hand, and an ear of corn and a
may be gleaned from them, for the poet' refers to poppy in the left: a Latona puerpera, carrying the
rites in honour of the "young Dionysus," cele- infants, Apollo and Diana, in the temple of Conbred at Pelusium. Hence Meineke infers -that cord; there is at Florence a very beautiful relief
this Etphorion was an Egyptian Greek, and that representing the same subject:' a Key-bearer (Clithe Chersonesus of which he was a native was. the duchus), remarkable forits beauty of form: colossal
city of that name. near Alexandria. He also con- statues of Valour and of Greece, forming no doubt
jectures, and upon good grounds, that the " young' a group, perhaps' Greece crowned by Valour. (MUlDionysus" was Ptolemy'Philopator, who began to ler, Arcuiiol. d. Kunst, ~ 405, n. 3): a woman
reign in B.C. 220. It ia..probable that the passage-wrapt in wonder and. adoration (admiraitemn et
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