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112,EURYPHO4N.: EURYPYLU.:
ships captured, and himself slain. Diodorus, writ- VI." i. 29. vol. xvii. pt. i. p. 886, where for tlatrs
ing perhaps from Ephorus, relates, that Agatharchus we should read KVLoals), and also that some persons
was the Syracusan general opposed to him, and attributed to him several works included in the
represents the defeat as having begun with Eury- Hippocratic Collection (Comment. in Hippoer. "De
medon's division, and thence extended to the cen- Humor." i. prooem. vol. xvi. p. 3), viz. those entitre. (Thuc. vii. 16, 31, 33, 42, 43, 49, 52; Diod. tled iplpI AtarT7/r'Tylelvs, de Salubri Victus Raxiii. 8, 11, 13; Plut. Nicias, 20, 24.) [A.H.C.] tione (Comment. in Hippocr. "De Rat. Vict. in
EURY'MEDON (Edpvt'ect8v.) 1. Of Myr- Morb. Acut." i. 17. vol. xv. p. 455), and IIepl
rhinus, a friendof Plato, who, in his will, appointed Ata(lrIT, de Victus Ratione. (De Aliment. Facult,.
him one of his executors. (Diog. Laiirt. iii. 42, 43.) i. 1. vol. vi. p. 473.) He may perhaps be the au2. Of Tarentum, a Pythagorean philosopher men- thor of the second book rlep' Nodauo', De Morbis,
tioned by Iamblichus. (Vit. Pyth. 36.) which forms part of the Hippocratic Collection,
3. A person who was suborned by Demophilus to but which is generally allowed to be spurious, as a
bring an accusation of impiety against Aristotle for passage in this work (vol. ii. p. 284) is quoted by
speaking irreverently of Hermes in a poem, which Galen (Comment. in Hippocr. "De Morb. Vulgar.
is preserved in Athenaeus. (xv. p. 696.) [L. S.] VI." i. 29. vol. xvii. pt. i. p. 888), and attributed
EURY'NOME (EJpvvJ-ur). 1. A daughter of to Euryphon (see Littre's Hippocr. vol. i. pp. 47,
Oceanus. When Hephaestus was expelled by Hera 363); and in the same manner M. Ermerins (Hipfrom Olympus, Eurynome and Thetis received him pocr. de Rat. Viet. in Morb. Acut. pp. 368, 369)
in the bosom of the sea. (Hom. I. xviii, 395, &c.; conjectures that he is the author of the work fIIpl
~Apollod. i. 2. ~ 2.) Previous to the time of Cronos ruvaLKG'si-S 46os, de Natura Muliebri, as Soranus
and Rhea, Eurynome and Ophion had ruled in appears to allude to a passage in that treatise (vol.
Olympus over the Titans, but after being conquered i. p. 533) while quoting the opinions of Euryphon.
by Cronos, she had sunk down into Tartarus or (De Arte Obstetr. p. 124.) From a passage in
Oceanus. (Apollon. Rhod. i. 503, &c.; Tzetz. ad Caelius Aurelianus (de Morb. Chron. ii. 10. p. 390)
Lycoph. 1191.) By Zeus she became the mother it appears, that Euryphon was aware of the differof the Charites, or of Asopus.'(Hes. Theog. ence between the arteries and the veins, and-also
908; Apollod. iii. 12. ~ 6.). considered that the former vessels contained blood.
2. A surname of Artemis at Phigalea in Arcadia. Of his works nothing is now extant except a few
-Her sanctuary which was surrounded by cypresses, fragments, unless he be the author of the treatises
was opened only once in every year, and sacrifices in the Hippocratic Collection that have been attriwere then offered to her. She was represented buted to him. [W. A. G.]
half woman and half fish. (Paus. viii. 41. ~ 4.) EURYPON, otherwise called'EURY'TION
There are four more mythical personages of this (EUpvwrciv, EJPVTICw), grandson of Procles, was the
name. (Hom. Od. xviii. 168; Apollod. iii. 9. ~ third king of that house at Sparta, and thencefor2.) [ADRASTUS, AGENOR.] [L. S.] ward gave it the name of Eurypontidae. Plutarch
EURY'NOMUS (Eipuivo~los), a daemon of the talks of his having relaxed the kingly power, and
lower world, concerning whom there was a tradi- played- the demagogue; and Polyaenus relates a
tion at Delphi, according to which, he devoured the war -with the Arcadians of Mantineia under his
flesh of dead human bodies, and left nothing but command. (Paus. iii. 7. ~ 1; Plut. Lye. 2; Polythe bones. Polygnotus represented him in the aen. ii. 13.) [A. H. C.]
Lesche at Delphi, of a dark-blue complexion, shew- EURY'PTOLEMUS (Evpv7nrT6gAeos). 1. One
ing his teeth, and sitting on the skin of a vulture. of the family of the Alcmaeonidae, the son of
(Paus. x. 28. ~ 4.) There are two other mythi- Megacles and father of Isodice, the wife of Cimon.
cal personages of this name, one mentioned by (Plut. Cimon, 4.)
Ovid (Met. xii. 311) and the other in the Odyssey 2. Son of Peisianax, and cousin of Alcibiades.
(ii. 22).....[L. S.] We find him -coming forwards on the occasion of
EURYPHA'MUS or EURYPHE'MUS (E3- the -trial of the victorious generals after the battle
pihaqpos), a Pythagorean philosopher of Metapon- of Arginusae to oppose the illegal proceedings intum. (Iamblich. de Vit. Pyth. 30, 36.) Lysis was stituted against them. His speech on the occasion
his fellow-pupil and his faithful friend. Eurypha- is quoted by Xenophon. He asked that a day
mus was the author of a work liepl Rl'ov, which is should be granted for the separate trial of each
lost, but a considerable fragment of it is preserved prisoner (Xen. Hell. i. 7. ~ 16, &c.)
in Stobaeus. (Serm. tit. 103. 27.) [L. S.] 3. Another Euryptolemus, of whom nothing else
EU'RYPHON (Edpvrc;v), a celebrated physi- is known, is mentioned by Xenophon as having been
cian of Cnidos in Caria, who was probably born in sent as ambassador to the Persian court. He could
the former half of the fifth century A. c., as Soranus not have been the same with the cousin of Alcibiades,
( Vita Ifippocr. in Hippocr. Opera, vol. iii. p. 851) as he had not returned from his mission when the
says that he was a contemporary of Hippocrates, but latter was at Athens ready to welcome his cousin
older. The same writer says that he and Hippocrates on his return from banishment. (Hell. i. 3. ~ 13;
were summoned to the court of Perdiccas, the son 4. ~ 7, 19.) [C. P. M.]
of Alexander, king of Macedonia; but this story EURY'PYLUS (EvpUv'rvAos.) 1. A son of
is considered very doubtful, if not altogether apo- Euaemon and Ops. (Hygin. Fab. 81.) He apcryphal. [-HIPPOCRATES.] He is mentioned in a pears in the different traditions about him, as a
corrupt fragment of the comic poet'Plato, preserved hero of Ormenion, or Hyria, or as a king of Cyby Galen (Comment. in Hippocr. "Aplor." vii. 44. rene. In the Iliad he is represented as having led
vol. xviii. pt. i. p. 149), in which, instead of 7rvos, the men of Ormenion and other places to Troy
Meineke reads i7ruyos. He is several times quoted with forty ships, and he is one of those who offer
by Galen, who says that he was considered to be the to fight with Hector. (ii. 734, vii. 167.) He slew
author of the ancient medical work entitled Kv[l2a] many a Trojan, and when he himself was wounded
r;/cuas (Comment. in HippoCr. "EDe Morb. Vulgar. by Paris, he was nursed and cured by Patroclus.