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

EUPOLEMUS;.' ETPOLIS. 101'
he could not hold it in the face of opposition fromi 2. An Aetolian, one of the commanders of the
the Theban garrison (to say nothing of his having Aetolian auxiliaries, who served in the army of
now decisively incurred the enmity of Sparta), and Flamininus against Philip, king of Macedonia, B. c.
he therefore betook himself to Thebes, hoping to 197. (Polyb. xviii. 2, 4.)
obtain, by corruption and intrigue, the banishment 3. A general of the Aetolians, who defended
of his opponents and the- restoration of his own Ambracia against the Roman army under M.
power.' Some of his enemies, however, followed Fulvius, B. c. 189. (Liv. xxxviii. 4-10.) When
him thither, and when they found that he was peace was granted to the Aetolians, he was carried
indeed advancing' towards the attainment of his off'a prisoner to'Rome, together with the Aetolian
object, they murdered him inr the Cadmeia, while general-in-chief, Nicander. (Polyb. xxviii. 4.) It
the council was actually assembled there. Being is not improbable that this was the same person
arrested and brought before the council, they with the preceding.
pleaded their cause boldly, justified their deed, and 4. A citizen of Hypata in Thessaly, at the time
were acquitted. But Euphron's partisans were it was subject to the Aetolian league. He was the
numerous at Sicyon, and having brought home his leader of one of the parties in that city, and having
body, they buried it in the Agora-an unusual induced his chief adversaries to return from exile
honour (see Plut. Arat. 53)-and paid worship to under a promise of security, had them all put to
him as a hero and a founder ('Apx7tryrs). (Xen. death. (Liv. xli. 25.) [E. H. B.]
Hell. vii. 1-3; Diod. xv. 69, 70.) [E. E.] EUPO'LEMUS (EvrdAejuos.) 1. Ismentioned
EUPHRON (Elppcmv), an Athenian comic poet by Arrian and Aelian. in the introductions to their
of the new comedy, whose plays, however, seem to works on tactics, as an author who had written on
have partaken largely of the character of the middle the military art; but he is otherwise unknown.
comedy. We have the titles and some consider- 2. A Greek historian who lived previous to the
able fragments of the following plays: —'kAeAXPo, Christian aera and wrote several works on the hisA'oxpd,'A~ros6ovoaa (according to the excellent tory of the Jews, of which the following are known
emendation of Meineke, E6ppwav for Evqdopiov, by their titles: 1. IEpl'rco ev r.'Iovsaia f3aeLAthen. xi. p. 503, a.), A[Btuvoi, OEcp'Ayopd, APo (Clem. Alex. Strom. i. pp. 146,148.) 2. nIepl
Oeopol, MobaaL, nlapa&bo,ew'v (or, as 3Meineke Tris'HAtov 7rpoq'eitas (Joseph. c. Apion. i. 23), and
thinks it should perhaps be, napeKc8oter'vl, which Iepl rSwv'ris'Aarvpias'Iovsafwov. It has been
is the title of a play of Antiphanies), tvUeYftRot. supposed that Eupolemus was a Jew, but-from the
(Suid. s. v.; Athen. passim:; Stobaeus, Flor. xv. manner in which Josephus (l. c.) speaks of him, we'
2, xxviii. 11, xcviii. 12; Meineke, Frag. Corm. must infer that he was not a Jew. (Comp. Euseb.
Graec. vol. i.'pp. 477, 478, vol. iv. pp. 486- Praep. Evang. x. 17, 30; Hieronym. de illustr.
495; Fabric. Bibl. Graec. vol. ii. p. 444.) [P.S.] Script. 38; Chron. Alexandr. pp. 148, 214; C. G.
EUPHRO'NIDES (EPfpovlr&ls), of Corinth, a A. Kuhlmey, Eupolemifragmenta prolegom. et con.Greek grammarian, who is mentioned among the mentar. instructa, Berlin, 1840, 8vo.) [L.' S.]
teachers of Aristophanes of Byzantium. (Suid. s. v. EUPO'LEMUS (Evr6diAetos), an Argive archi-'ApioQav7r1s.) [L. S.] tect, who built the great Heraeum at Mycenae,
EUPHRO'NIDES, a statuary, contemporary after its destruction by fire in B. c. 423. The
with Lysippus and Alexander the Great, 01. 114, entablature was ornamented with sculptures repreB. c. 324. (Plin. xxxiv. 8. s. 19.) [P. S.] senting the'wars of the gods and giants, and the
EUPHRO'NIUS. [EUPHORION, No. 4.] Trojan war. A full description of the'other works
EUPHRO'SYNE. [CHARITES.] of art connected with this temple is given by PauEUPI'THIUS (Evtrtf0os), an Athenian gram- sanias. (Paus. ii. 17. ~ 3; Thuc. iv. 133.) [P.S.]
marian, the author of one epigram in the Greek'EU'POLIS (EiUroAts), son of Sosipolis, an
Anthology (Brunck, Anal. vol. ii. p. 402; Jacobs, Athenian comic poet- of the old comedy, and one of
Anth. Grace. vol. iii. p. 110), which contains all the three who are distinguished by Horace, in his
we know of him, and from the contents of which, well-known line,
as well as from its title in the Vatican MS., To6 "Eupolis, atque Cratinus, Aristophanesque poetae,"
orTi,'avTos''v' ica06Aov, we learn that Eupithius above all the
had spent much grammatical labour on the punctu-... "alii quorum prisca comoedia virorum est,"
ation and accentuation of the KaOoAucsh 7rpor-tLa, a judgment which is confirmed by all we know of
or X KcaOkou (sc. rcXv,1) of Herodian. Herodian the works of the Attic comoedians.
flourished under' the emperor Marcus Antoninus. Eupolis is said to have exhibited his first drama
(Jacobs, Anth. Graec. vol. x. pp. 186, 187, vol. xiii. in the fourth year of the 87th Olympiad, B. c. 429,
p. 895; Fabric. Bibl. Graec. vol. iv. p. 475.) [P. S.] two years before Aristophanes, who was nearly of'
EUPLUS (E6irAovs), an engraver of gems, the same age as Eupolis. (Anon. de Com. p. xxix.;
whose time and country are unknown. The name Cyrill. c.' Julian. i. p. 13, b.; Syncell. C/iron. p.
is seen on a gem of Love sitting on a Dolphin. 257, c.) According to Suidas (s. v.), Eupolis was
Some take. the inscription ETIIAO, not for the then only in the seventeenth year of his age; he
name of the artist, but for an allusion to the sub-'was therefore born in B. c. 44S. (Respecting the
ject of the gem.' (Bracci, Tab. 72.) [P. S.] supposed legal minimnum of the age at which a perEUPO'LEMUS (Eir`o'XAeos). 1. One of the son could produce a drama on the stage, see
generals of Cassander, was sent by him in 314 Clinton, Fast. Hlell. vol. ii. Introd. pp. lvi.-lviii.)
B. c. to invade Caria, but was surprised and taken The date of his death cannot be so easily fixed.
prisoner by Ptolemy, who commanded that pro- The common story was, that Alcibiades, when
vince for Antigonus. (Diod. xix. 68.) He must sailing to Sicily, threw Eupolis into the sea, in
have been liberated again' directly, as the next revenge for an attack which he had made upon
year we find him commanding the forces left by him in his Bdwrat. But, to say nothing of the
Cassander in Greece, when he moved northward improbability of even Alcibiades venturing on such
against Antigonus. (Diod. xix. 77.) an outrage, or the still stranger fact of its not