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

114 EUSEBIUS. EUSEBIUS.
Molion or DeYon, Clytius, and Toxeus. (Diod. iv. distinct opinion on the relation of the first two
37.) He was proud of his skill in using the bow, Persons in the Trinity. There is no doubt that
and is even said to have instructed Heracles in his in many of his works, especially in those which
art. (Theocrit. xxiv. 105; Apollod. ii. 4. ~ 9 he wrote before this time, but also in others, seveSoph. 1. c.) He offered his daughter Iole as prize ral expressions may be found inconsistent with
to him who should Conquer him and his sons in each other, some of which can only be understood,
shooting with the bow. Heracles won the prize, in a semiarian sense. Thus in the Demonstratio
but Eurytus and his sons, with the exception of Evangelica he speaks of the Son as ado1AoutWueivos
Iphitus, refused to give up Iole, because they T.e nlarpl1KTad 7ravrd, o'oLos Ka'a odrlae. In the
feared lest. he should kill the children he might Praeparatio,Evang. iv. 3, he denies that the Son
have by her. (Apollod. ii. 6. ~ 1.) Heracles ac- is like the Father drAcXs ileos,; for (he adds) d
cordingly marched against Oechalia with an army: Ina7-r)p WrpoUirapxEL Toi Tioi Kalt r7rS yefeEvecos athe took the place and'killed Eurytus and his sons. Toi 7rpo qiPo'-nKe; only the Son is not created,'(Apollod. ii. 7. ~ 7.) According to a tradition in and everything perishable must he -separated from
Athenaeus (xi. p. 461) he put them to death be- our conception of His nature. But with regard to
cause they had demanded a tribute from the Euboe- all his earlier statements of doctrine, we must re-'ans. According to the Homeric poems, on the member that till Arius's opinions, with their full
other hand, Eurytus was killed by Apollo whom bearings and consequences, were generally known,'he presumed to rival in using the bow. (Od. viii. it was very possible for a person to use language'226.) The remains of the body of Eurytus were apparently somewhat favourable to them, quite
believed to be preserved in the Carnasian grove; unintentionally, since the true faith on the subject
and in the Messenian Oechalia sacrifices were of- of our Lord's divinity had not yet been couched
fered to him every year. (Panus. iv. 3. ~ 6, 27. ~ in certain formulae, of which the use after the
4, 33. ~ 5.) controversy was -mooted, became as it were the
2. A son of Actor and Molione of Elis. (Hom. test of a man's opinions; nor had general attention
I1. ii. 621.; Apollod. ii. 7. ~ 2; Pans. ii. 15. ~ 1; been called to the results of differences apparently
Eurip. Iph. Aul. 270.) [MOLIONES.] trifling. Eusebius's views on the subject seem to
3. A son of Hermes and Antianeira, and bro- have been based on those of Origen, though inther of Echion, was one of the Argonauts. (Apol- deed he deprecated the discussion of the question
lod. i. 9. ~ 16; Hygin. Fab. 14, 160; Val. Flacc. as above human comprehension, recommending!i. 439.) He is sometimes also called Erytus. men to be satisfied with the scriptural declaration,
(Pind. Pytl. iv. 179; Apollon. Rhod. i. 51; "So God loved the world, that lie gave His only
Orph. A9rg. 133.) There are two more mythical begotten Son, that whosoever belietetr on Hi,
personages of this name. (Apollod. iii. 10, ~ 5, i. should not perish, but' have everlasting life;"
6. ~ 2.)'' [L. S.] "not," as he argues, " whosoever knows how He
EU'RYTUS(Eipvors),an eminent Pythagorean is genrerated from the Father." But in the Ecclephilosopher, whom Iamblichus in one passage (de siastica Theoloyia' (after the rise of Arianism) he
Vit. Pyth. 28) describes as a native of Croton, declares (i. 8, ix. 5) against those who reckon
while in another (ibid. 36)' he enumerates him Christ among the'oi.tauara, asserting God to be
among the Tarentine Pythagoreans. He was a the Father of Christ, but the Creator of all other.
disciple of Philolaus, and Diogenes Lairtius (iii. 6, beings. Again: in the Ecclesiastical History (x.
viii. 46) mentions him among the teachers of Plato,'4) he calls Him acoroOeos, and in other places uses
though this statement is very doubtful. It is un- language which proves him to have fully believed
certain whether Eurytus was the author of any -in His divinity.'He was, however, of course diswork, unless we suppose that the'fragment in posed to regard Arius with mildness, and. wrote to
Stobaeus (Phys. Eel. i. p. 210), which is there Alexander, bishop of Alexandria, in his defence;
ascribed to one Eurytus, belongs to our Eurytus. arguing that though Arius had called Christ ICricT'a
(Ritter, Gesch. derPythag. Philos. p. 64, &c.) [L. S.] OsoV'rAhEoev, he had added dAAx odX O's e'n arci
EUSE'BIUS (EVicr3los) of CAESAREIA, the I-Kto-'LiwV. Thus he took his seat at the council
father of ecclesiastical history, took the surname of of Nicaea not indeed as a partizan of Arius, but
Pamphili, to commemorate his devoted friendship as anxious to shield him from censure for opinions'for Pamphilus, bishop of Caesareia. He was born whose importance, either for good or evil, he con-'In Palestine about A.D. 264, towards the end of sidered exaggerated. He accordingly appeared'the reign of the Emperor Gallienus. He spent his there as head of the moderate section of the
youth in incessant study, and probably held some council, and drew up a creed which he hoped
offices in the church otf Caesareia. In A. D. 303, would satisfy both the extreme parties, of which
Diocletian's edict was issued, and the persecution the Arian was favoured by Eusebius, bishop of
of the Christians began. Pamiphilus was impri- Nicomedia, and Theognis of Nicaea; while their
soned it 307, and was most affectionately at- opponents were led by Alexander, whose deacon'tended on by Eusebius for two years, at the end Athanasius, afterwards so famous, accompanied
of which time he suffered martyrdom, and Euse- him to the council, and rendered him great ser-'
~bius fled' to Tyre, where he was kindly received vice. This formula, which is to be found in So-'by the bishop Paulinus; but afterwards he re- crates (Hibt. Ecl. i. b), chiefly differs from the
moved to Egypt, and was imprisoned there in the Nicene Creed in containing the expression mrpwrdcourse of the persecution. After his release he TOKOS 7wrdc7' ICtoecsr (from Col. i. 15) instead of the
returned to Caesareia, and succeeded Agapius as declaration that Christ is of tle same substance with'bishop of that see about 315. He was summoned the Father, expressed in the adjective duood'&ovt;'to the council of Nicaea in 327, and was there ap- and the phrase " Very God of Very God," is not
pointed'to receive Constantine with a panegyrical found in it after " God of God, Light of Light."
oration, and to sit on his right hand. The course This creed was accepted by Arius; but Alexander
of events now -made it necessary for him to form a insisted on the addition of d/Uoov'osr to which Con