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

1:08 EURYANAX. fEURYCLES
at first very popular, but the measure was thrown royal house of the Agids. He was the son of Doout, and he became forthwith the object of a gene- rieus, and was one of the commanders of the Laceral outcry, about B.C. 394. It is doubtful whether daemonians at the battle of Plataeae, B. c. 479.
he is to be. identified with the son or the nephew (Herod. ix. 10, 53, 55.) [See DORiEUS, vol. i. p.
of the poet. (See Bickh, Publ. Ec on. of Athens, 1067, a.] -C. P. M.]
pp. 493, 506, 520.) [E. E.] EURY'BATES(EpvfCdr7ls). 1. By Latin writers
EURO'PA (EipdrTr77), according to the Iliad called Eribotes, was a son of Teleon, and one of
(xiv. 321), a daughter of Phoenix, but according the Argonauts. He was skilled in the medical
to the common tradition a daughter of Agenor, was art, and dressed the wound which Oileus received
carried off by Zeus, who had metamorphosed him- from one of the Stymphalian birds. (Apollon. Rhod.
self into a bull, from Phoenicia to Crete. (Apollod. i. 73, ii. 1040; Hygin. Fab. 14; Val. Flacc. i,
iii. 1. ~ 1; Mosch. ii. 7; Herod. i. 173; Paus. 402.)
vii. 4. ~ 1, ix. 19. ~ 1,; OQv. Met. ii. 839, &c.; 2. The herald of Odysseus, who followed his
Comp. AGENOR.) Europe, as a part of the world, master to Troy. He is humorously described as
was believed to have received its name from this hump-backed, of a brown complexion, and with
fabulous Phoenician. princess. (Hom. Hymn. in curly hair; but he was honoured byhis master, since
Apoll. 251; Herod. iv. 45.) There are two other he was kind and obedient. (Hom. II. i. 319, ii.
mythical personages of this name (Hes. Theog. 184, ix. 170, Od. xix. 246.) [L. S.]
357; Pind. Pyth. iv. 46), which occurs also as a EURY'BATES (Evpvgd&rs), an Argive, the
surname of Demeter. (Paus. ix. 39. ~ 4.) [L. S.] commander of 1000 volunteers who went to the
EURO'PUS (Ev"pawros), a son of Macedon and assistance of the Aeginetans in their war with the
Oreithyia, the daughter of Cecrops, from whom the Athenians just before the Persian invasion. He
town of Europus in Macedonia was believed to had practised the pentathlum, and challenged four
have received its name. (Steph. Byz. s. v.) [L. S.] of the Athenians to single combat. Three he slew,
EUROPS (Evpwe), the name of two mythical but fell himself by the hand of the fourth. (Herod.
personages, the one a son of Aegialeus and king of vi. 92, ix. 75.) [C. P. M.]
Sicyon, and the other a son of Phoroneus. (Paus. EURY'BATUS (Evpv'aTos). 1. A Laconian,
ii. 5. ~ 5, 34. ~ 5.) [L. S.] who was victor in the wrestling-match, in 01. 18,
EURO'TAS (EUpcdIras), a son of Myles and when this species of contest was first introduced.
grandson of Lelex. He was the father of Sparte, (Paus. v. 8. ~ 7.)
the wife of Lacedaemon, and is said to have carried 2. An Ephesian, whom Croesus sent with a
the waters, stagnating in the plain of Lacedaemon, large sum of money to the Peloponnesus to hire
into the sea by means of a canal, and to have mercenaries for him in his war with Cyrus. He,
called the river which arose therefrom after his however, went over to Cyrus, and betrayed the
own name, Eurotas. (Paus. iii. 1. ~ 2.) Apollo- whole matter to him. In consequence of this
dorus (iii. 10. ~ 3) calls him a son of Lelex by the treachery, his name passed into a proverb amongst
nymph Cleochareia, and in Stephanus of Byzantium the Greeks. (Diod. Excerpt. de Virt. et Vit. p. 553;
(s. v. Tacdyevor) his mother is called Taygete. Ulpian, in Dem. de Coron. p. 137; Aeschin. in
(Comp. Schol. ad Pind. Pyth. iv. 15, 01. vi. 46, Ctes. c. 43; Plat. Protag. p. 327.) [C. P. M.]
ad Lycoph. 886.) [L. S.] EURY'BIA (Edpv~ia), a daughter of Pontus
EURY'ALE (EdpudA'q), the name of three my- and Ge, who became by Crius the mother of
thical beings. (Hes. Theog. 276; Pind. Pyth. Astraeus, Pallas, and Perses. (Hes. Theog. 375;.
xxii. 20; Apollod. i. 4. ~ 3; Val. Flacc. v. 312; Apollod. i. 2. ~ 2.) There are two other mythicomp. ORIoN.) [L. S.] cal personages of this-name. (Apollod. ii. 7. ~ 8;
~ EURY'ALUS (Evpu'aXos). 1. A son of Me- Diod. iv. 16.) [L. S.]
cisteus, is mentioned by Apollodorus (i. 9. ~ 16) EURYBI'ADES. -[THEMISTOCLES.]
among the Argonauts, and was one of the Epigoni EURYCLEIA (Epu'KicEra). 1. According to
who took and destroyed Thebes. (Paus. ii. 20. a Thessalian tradition, a daughter of Athamas and
~ 4; Apollod. iii. 7. ~ 2.) He was a brave war- Themisto, and the wife of Melas, by whom she
rior, and at the funeral games of Oedipus he con-:became the mother of Hyperes. (Schol. ad Pind.
quered all his competitors (Hom. II. xxiii. 608) Pyth. iv. 221.)
with the exception of Epeius, who excelled him 2. A daughter of Ops, was purchased by Lairtes
in wrestling. He accompanied Diomedes to Troy, and brought up Telemachus. When Odysseus rewhere he was one of the bravest heroes, and slew turned home, she recognized him, though he was
several Trojans. (11. ii, 565, vi. 20; Paus. ii. 30. in the disguise of a beggar, by a scar, and after~ 9.) In the painting of Polygnotus at Delphi, he wards she faithfully assisted him against the
was represented as being wounded; and there was suitors. (Hom. Od. i. 429, &c., iv. 742, &c., xix.
also a statue of him at Delphi, which stood between 385, &c., xxii. xxiii.) [L. S.]
those of Diomedes and Aegialeus. (Paus. x. 10. EURYCLEIDAS (E'pvictSad&s), an Athenian
~ 2, 25. ~ 2.) orator, who, together with Micon or Micion, pos2. One of the suitors of Hippodameia. (Paus. sessed much influence with the people, which they
vi. 21. ~ 7; Schol. ad Pind. 01. i. 127.) used unworthily, as the Athenians under their'
3. A son of Odysseus and Evippe, also called guidance launched forth, according to Polybius,
Doryclus or Leontophron, was killed by Tele- into the most unrestrained flattery towards the
machus. (Parthen. Erot. -3; Eustath. ad Hom. kings, whose favour they desired to gain, espep. 1796.) There are four other mythical per- cially Ptolemy IV. (Philopator) of Egypt. Pausonages of this name. (Apollod. i. 8. ~ 5; Hom. sanias tells us that Philip V. of Macedon caused
Od. viii. 115, &c.; Virg. Aen. ix. 176, &c.; Pans. them both to be removed by poison. (Polyb. v. 106;
iv. 20. ~ 3.) [L. S.] Paus. ii. 9.) [E. E.]
EURYANASSA. [PELOPS.] EURYCLES (EJpvicAirs), a Spartan architect,
EURY!ANAX- (Etpuvg'ya), a Spartan of the who built the finest of the baths at Corinth, and