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

EUHRYLEON.- EURYLOCHUS.
to fight r.gainst the mother of Alexander, and went EURY'LEON (EvpvAe'Xv.) 1. One of'the corn.
over to her side. Eurydice fled from the field of panions of Dorieus, with whom he went out to estabattle to Amphipolis, but was seized and made blish a colony, Heracleia in Sicily. Nearly all the
prisoner. She was at first confined, together with Spartan colonists, however, were slain by the Carher husband, in a narrow dungeon, and scantily thaginians and Egestaeans. Euryleon was the only
supplied with food; but soon Olympias, becoming one of the leaders who escaped: he gathered the
alarmed at the compassion excited among the remnants of the Lacedaemonians and took possession
Macedonians, determined to get rid of her rival, of Minoa, a colony of Selinus, and assisted the Seand sent the young queen in her. prison a sword, a linuntians in getting rid of their tyrant Peithagoras,
rope, and a cup of hemlock, with orders to choose (Herod. v. 46; comp. DORIEUS.)
her mode of death. The spirit of Eurydice re- 2. A commander of the Lacedaemonians in their
mained unbroken to the last; she still breathed first war against the Messenians. He was of Thedefiance to Olympias, and prayed that she might ban extraction, and a descendant of Cadmus. (Paus.
soon be requited with the like gifts; then, having iv. 7. ~ 3.) [L. S.]
paid as well as she could the: last duties to her EURY'LOCHUS (EpAoXos), one of the comrn
husband, she put an end to her own life by hang- panions of Odysseus in his wanderings. He was
ing, without giving way to a tear or word of the only one that escaped from the house of Circe,
lamentation. (Diod. xix. 11; Justin, xiv. 5; while his friends were metamorphosed into swine;
Athen. xiii. p. 560, f.; Aelian, V. H. xiii. 36.) and when Odysseus went to the lower world, EuHer body was afterwards removed by Cassander, rylochus and Perimedes performed the prescribed
and interred, together with that of her husband, sacrifices. It was on his advice that the comwith royal pomp at Aegae. (Diod. xix. 52; panions of Odysseus carried off some of the oxen
Athen. iv. p. 155, a.) of Helios. (Hom. Od. x. 203, &c., xi. 23, &c.,
4. Daughter of Antipater, and wife of Ptolemy, xii. 339, &c.) Another personage of the same name
the son of Lagus. The period of her marriage is is mentioned among the sons of Aegyptus. (Apolnot mentioned by any ancient writer, but it is pro. lod. ii 1. ~ 5.) [L. S.]
bable that it took place shortly after the partition EURY'LOCHUS (Epv'AoXos), a Spartan comof Triparadeisus, and the appointment of Antipater mander, in the sixth year of the Peloponnesian
to the regency, B. C. 321. (See Droysen, Gesch. d. war, B. C. 426, was sent with 3000 heavy-armed
Nackfolger, p. 154.) She was the mother of three of the allies, at the request of the Aetolians to act
sons, viz. Ptolemy Ceraunus, Meleager, who suc- with them against the Messenians of Naupactus,
ceeded his brother on the throne of Macedonia, and where Demosthenes, whom they had recently dea third (whose name is not mentioned), put to feated, was still remaining, but without any force.
death by Ptolemy Philadelphus (Paus. i. 7. ~ 1); Eurylochus assembled his troops at Delphi, reand of two daughters, Ptolemais, afterwards mar- ceived the submission of the Ozolian Locrians, and
ried to Demetrius Poliorcetes (Plut. Demetr. 32, advanced through their country into the district of
46), and Lysandra, the wife of Agathocles, son of Naupactus. The town itself was saved by AcarLysimachus. (Paus. i. 9. ~ 6.) It appears, how- nanian succours obtained by Demosthenes, on the
ever, that Ptolemy, who, like all the other Greek introduction of which, Eurylochus retired, but
princes of his day, allowed himself to have several took up his quarters among his neighbouring allies
wives at once, latterly neglected her for Berenice with-a covert design in concert with the Ambra(Plut. Pyrrrh. 4); and it was probably from resent- ciots against the Amphilochian Argives, and Acarment on this account, and for the preference shewn nanians. After waiting the requisite time he set his
to the children of Berenice, that she withdrew from army in motion from Proschium, and, by a wellthe, court of Egypt. In 287 we find her re- chosen line of march contriving to elude the Amsiding at Miletus, where she welcomed Demetrius philochians and their allies, who were stationed to
Poliorcetes, and gave him her daughter Ptolemais oppose him, effected a junction with his friends at
in marriage, at a time when such a step could not but Olpae. Here, on the sixth day following, the
be highly offensive to Ptolemy. (Plut. Demetr. 46.) enemy, under Demosthenes, attacked him. Eury5. An Athenian, of a family descended from the lochus took the right wing opposed to Demosthenes
great Miltiades. (Plut. Demetr. 14; Diod. xx. 40.) with the Messenians and a few Athenians; and
She was first married to Ophellas, the conqueror of here, when already taking them on the flank, he
Cyrene, and after his death returned to. Athens, was surprised by the assault of an ambuscade in
where she married Demetrius Poliorcetes, on oc- his rear; his troops were routed, himself slain, and
easion of his first visit to that city. (Plut. Demetr. the whole army in consequence defeated. (Thuc.
14.) She is said to have had by him a son called iii. 100-102, 105-109.) [A. H. C.]
Corrhabus. (Id. 53.) EURY'LOCHUS (Ep'AoXos). 1. A native
6. A daughter of Lysimachus, king of Thrace, of Lusiae in Arcadia, whose name is frequently
who gave her in marriage to Antipater, son of mentioned by Xenophon in the Ancabasis. On one
Cassander, king of Macedonia, when the latter occasion, when the army was marching through
invoked his assistance against his brother Alexan- the territory of the Carduchii, he protected Xenoder. (Justin, xvi. 1 Euseb. Arm. p, 155.) After phon, whose shield-bearer had deserted him. He
the murder of Antipater [see vol. i. p. 202, a.], she was one of the deputies sent by the army to
was condemned by her father to perpetual im- Anaxibius. Afterwards we find him counselling
prisonment. (Justin, xvi. 2.) his comrades to extort from Seuthes the pay which
7. The sister and wife of Ptolemy Philopator is he owed them. (Xen. Anab. iv. 2. ~ 21, 7. ~11,
called by Justin (xxx. 1) Eurydice, but her real vii. 1. ~ 32. 6. ~ 40.)
name was Arsino.i. [ARSINOE, No. 5.] [E. H. B.] 2. A sceptical philosopher, a disciple of Pyrrho,
EURY'LEON (EvipuA6wv), is said to have been mentioned by Diogenes Lairtius (ix. 68). The
the original' name of Ascanius. (Dionysi. 70; Ap- same writer mentions another Eurylochus of Lapian,. de Beg. Rom. i.) L. S.. rissa, to whom Socrates refused to. place himself