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:22 EUSTATHIU$. EUSTRATIUS.
rsp1 6 Bovu (sic) To'Pwpafov. He supposes that EUSTA'THTUS (EordOLos), a Greek physician
the title ought to be read'T~r6pavrla crep? Bovu in the latter half of the fourth century after Christ,
Eaor'aOWou'ro'Pwpsaiov. to whom two of the letters of St. Basil are addressed.
In the last-cited passage, the Scholium gives an A.D. 373, 374. (vol. iii. Epist. 151, 189, ed. Bened.)
extract from the Practica, and mentions Patricius In some MSS. he is called by the title "Archiater."
as the author. Eustathius is here to be understood, The second of these letters is by some persons atand not, as Heimbach and Fabricius supposed, the tributed to St. Gregory of Nyssa, and is accordearlier Patricius Heros. The fleipa, or Practica, ingly printed in the third volume of his works,
of Eustathins is cited in the Scholia, Basil. vii. p. p. 6, &c., ed. Bened. [W. A. G.]
516. 676-7. The Practica is a work written not EUSTHE'NIUS, CLAU'DIUS, secretary (ob
-by Eustathius himself, but by some judge or asses- epistolis) to Diocletian, wrote the lives of Dioclesor of the judgment-seat. It consists of 75 titles, tian, Maximianus Herculius, Galerius and Conunder which are contained extracts from proceed- stantius, assigning to each a separate book. (Vopisc.
ings in causes tried at Constantinople, and deter- Carin. 18.) [W. R.]
mined by various judges, especially by Eustathius EUSTO'CHIUS (Ei06XLos), a Cappadocian
Romanus. Most of these causes were heard in the sophist of the time of the emperor Constans. He
Hippodromus, a namne of a court paralleled by our wrote a history of the life of that emperor and a
English Cockpit. The nIe'pa (which appears better work on the antiquities of Cappadocia and other
to deserve publication than some of those remains of countries. (Suid. s. v. Evao'rdXos'; Steph. Byz. s. v.
Graeco-RomanJurisprudence which have been lately fHavTLrKcraov.) [L. S.]
given to the world by Heimbach and Zachariae) EUSTO'CHIUS (Erl-o'XLO), a physician of
exists in manuscript in the Medicean Library at Alexandria, who became acquainted with the phiFlorence (Cod. Laurent. lxxx. fol. 478, &c.), with losopher Plotinus late in life, and attended him in
the title BL/Aoev, 5'7rsp irapa UC-'V TLVCWV OVOA'?afTU his last illness, A. D. 270. He arranged the works
IHehpa, 7rap 8o'covwOv AbacaachAXta eK Tw'v 7rpdaeowv of Plotinus. (Porphyr., Vita Plot. in Plot. Opera,.roa /uesyctAov Kvpov Eisr'raioev'rov'PtcazaLov. (Za- vol. i. p. 1. li. lvii. ed. Oxon.) [W. A. G.]
chariae, Hist. Jur. Gr'. Rom. Delin. ~ 41.) EUSTRA'TIUS (EvahprwLOs), a presbyter of
Another unpublished work of Eustathius is his the Greek church at Constantinople, is the author
treatise Ilepl'Troho0Aou, which is in manuscript at of a work on the Condition of the Human Soul
Paris. The meaning of the word vJroJhAov has after Death, which is still extant. Respecting his
been a subject of much dispute. (Du Cange, Gloss. life and the time at which he lived, nothing is
Med. et Inf: Graec. s. v.) It seems ordinarily to known, except what can be gathered from the
mean that to which the wife is entitled by agree- work itself. It is directed against those who mainment or particular custom upon the death of her tained that the souls ceased to act and operate as
husband, over and above the dowry she brought him. soon as they quitted the human body. Photius
2. To Eustathiiis Romanus has been falsely ascrib- (Bibl. Cod. 171) knew the work, and made some
ed a work concerning prescription and the legal extracts from it, which is a proof that Eustratius
effect of periods of time from a moment to a hun- must have lived before Photius. Further, as Eusdred years. This work was published with a Latin tratius repeatedly mentions the works of Dionysius
version by Schardius (Basil. 156 1), and immediately Areiopagita, he must have lived after the publication
afterwards in Greek only by Cujas, along with his of those works, which appear to have been circuown treatise on the same subject. It has since lated about A. D. 500. It is therefore very probabeen often reprinted under various names. It may ble that Eustratius lived at the time of Eutychius,
be found in the collection of Leunclavius.(ii. p. 297) patriarch of Constantinople, that is, about A. D.
with the title De Temporum Intervallis, with Scho- 560, as in fact Eustratius himself says in almost as
lia of Athanasius and others. The last edition is many words. His work was first edited by L.
that by Zachariae. (Ai'Poraf, oder die Schrift iiber Allatius in his de Occidentalium atque Orientaliumn
die Zeitabschnitte, 8vo. Heid. 1836.) The work is pespetua in Dogmate Purgatorii consensione, Rom.
commonly attributed to Eustathius, Antecessor 1655, 8vo., pp. 319-581. The style of Eustratius,
Constantinopolitanus. If this inscription be cor- as Photius remarks, is clear, though very different
rect, the Professor must have been of earlier date from classic Greek, and his arguments are generally
than Eustathins Romanus, for the treatise De Tem- sound. (Fabric. Bibl. Graec. vol. x. p. 725; Cave,
poerum Intervallis appears to have been originally Hist, Lit. vol. i. p. 416.) Some other peisons of the
compiled in the seventh century. The edition of nasme of Eustratius are enumerated by Fabricius.
Schardius gives the work nearly in its original (Bibl. Graec. vol. iii. p. 264, note.) [L. S.]
form; Cujas, Leunclavius, and Zachariae present us EUSTRA'TIUS (Evrp'pdEtos), one.of the latest
with a second edition of the same work as revised commentators on Aristotle, lived about the beabout the eleventh century by some editor, who haA ginning of the twelfth century after Christ, under
added scholia of his own, and introduced references the emperor Alexius Comnenus, as metropolitan of
to the Basilica. (Biener, Gesch. der Novellen,p. 124.) Nicaea. According to a hint in the Commentary
Nessel (cited by Sammet. Diss. de Hypobolo in to the tenth book of the Ethica Niconzachea (if this
Ml[feerm. Thes. Suppl. p. 382) attributes, not to Eus- part of the Commentary is composed by him), he
tathius Romanus, but to the earlier professor Eus- appears to have also lived at Constantinople, and
tathius, a synopsis of juridical actions, entitled A' to have written his commentary in this place.
dyco'yal e' 0-VVJ6es, which is found appended in ma- (Comp. ad Asist. Eth. Nic. x. 9. ~ 13, p. 472, ed.
nuscript to the Procheiron auctum. (Zachariae, Hist. Zell.) Of his life we know nothing else. Of his
Juti. Gr. Roem. Delin. ~ 48; Heimbach, de Basil. writings only two are extant, and these in a very
Orig. p. 144.) fragmentary state: viz. i. A Commentary to the
3. An Edict of the Eustathius who was Pr. Pr. second book of the Analytica, published by Aldus
Orientis under Anastasius in A. D. 506, is publish- Manutius, Venice, 1534, and translated into Latin
ed by Zachariae (Anecdota, p. 270). J. T. G.] I by A. Gratarolus. (Vdnice, 1542, 1568, fol.)