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

EUTROPIUS. EUTYCHES. P27
hence usually designated Paulus Diaconus. Paul, 137, 138; Cod. Theod. i.'1. ~ 2, xii. 29. ~ 3. and
however, did publish an edition of Eutropius, Gothofred. Prosopogr. Cod. Theod. p. 52; Gennad.
whom he expanded at both extremities, affixing De Viris Ill. c. 49.) [W. R.]
several chapters to the commencement and bring- EUTRO'PTUS (ETpcJrlov), a physician who
ing down the work to his own times, while by lived probably in the fourth century after Christ,
others it was continued as low as the year 813. as he is mentioned along with Ausonius by MarThus at the revival of literature, the history of cellus Empiricus (in Praefat.) as having been one
Eutropius existed under three forms: 1. The of his immediate predecessors. He wrote a medigenuine ten books as they, proceeded from the cal work which is noticed by Marcellus, but is no
author. 2. The editions as extended by Paullus longer extant. [W. A. G.]
Diaconus and others. 3. The entire but largely EU'TYCHES (EvJWX7s;). 1. An engraver of'interpolated copy contained in the Historia Miscella. gems, was one of the sons of DIOSCURIDxS. His
~ The Editio Princeps, which was printed at Rome, name is seen on an extant gem, with the inscrip4to., 1471, together with all the other editions tion ETTTXH. AIOIKOTPIAOT AIrEAIO.
which appeared during the 15th century, belong to (Bracci, P. ii. tab. 73; R. Rochette, Lettre a M.
one or other of the last two denominations. The Schorn, p. 42.)
first attempt to restore the pure original text was 2. Of Bithynia, a sculptor, who is known by a
by Egnaitius, in his edition printed at Venice in statue in the worst style of ancient art, with the1516, along with Suetonius and Aurelius Victor. inscription ETTYXHC BEITTNETV2 TEXNITHC
But the great restorer of Eutropius was Schonhovius, ETIOIEI. (Wincklemann, Gesch. d. Kunst, b. x.
a canon of Bruges, who published an edition from c. 1. ~, 21.) [P. S.]
the Codex Gandavensis at Basle, 8vo., 1546 and EU'TYCHES or EUTY'CHIUS, a disciple of
1552; further improvements were made by Vinetus Priscian, taught Latin grammar publicly at Con(Pictav. 8vo. 15.54), who made use of a Bourdeaux stantinople, and wrote a treatise in two books, De
MS.; by Sylburgius, in the third volume of his discernendis conjuyationzbus Libri II., inscribed to:
Scriptt. histor. Rom. (fol. Franc. 1588), aided by his pupil Craterus. This work was first published
a Fulda MS.; and by Merula (Lug. Bat. Elz. 8vo. by Camerarius, Tubing. 4to. 1537, along with
1592). Marius Victorinus, is included in the " GrammaOf the very numerous editions which have ap- ticae Latinae Auctores Antiqui" of Putschius,
peared since the close of the 16th century, the Hanov. 4to. 1605, and has been recently edited in
most notable are those of Hearne, Oxon. 8vo. 1703; a more correct and complete form by Lindemann
of Havercamp, with a copious collection of com- (Corpus Grammat. Lat. i. p. 151) from a MS. now
mentaries, Lug. Bat. 8vo. 1729; of Gruner, Coburg. at Vienna, but formerly in the monastery of
8vo. 1752 and 1768; of Verheyk, with voluminous Bobbio. Here the author is termed Eutychius and
notes, Lug. Bat. 8vo. 1 762 and 1793; of Tzschucke, not Eutycihes.
containing a new revision of the text, an excellent Some remarks from a tract of Eutychius, De'
dissertation, together with good critical and expla- Aspiratione, are to be found in the 9th chapter of
natory.. observations, 8vo. Lips. 1796, and again Cassiodorus, De Orthograpkia. [W. R.]
improved in 1804; and ofC Grosse, Hall. 8vo. EU'TYCHES (EVzThXfs), a presbyter and abbot
1813; Hanov. 1816; Lips. 1825. On the whole, at Constantinople, in the 5th cenitury, who headed:
the most useful for the student are those of the party opposed to the Nestorian doctrines [NEsTzschucke and Grosse. TORIUS]. Nestorius having maintained that there:
Eutropius was twice translated into Greek. One are in Christ two persons or substances (J6rovcdof these versions, executed by Capito Lycius before OrLs), one divine (the Aoyos), and one human
the time of Justinian, has perished; that by a (Jesus),: but with only one aspect, and united not
certain Paeanius still exists, has been frequently by nature, but by will and affection;-Eutyches&
published, and is contained in the editions of carried his opposition to this system so far as to
Hearne, Havercamp, and Verheyk. Many trans- assert that in Christ there is but one nature, that
lations are to be found into English, French, of the Incarnate Word. The declaration "the
Italian, and German, none of them deserving any word was made flesh" implies, according to Euty-:
particular notice. ches, that He so took human nature upon Him,i
In illustration, the dictionaries of Grosse, that His own nature was not changed. From:
Stendal, 1811 and 1819; and of Seebode, Hanov. this it follows that His body is not a mere human
1818, 1825, and 1828; Moller, Disputatio de body, but a body of God. There can be no doubt
Eutropio, 4to., Altdorf. 1685; the excellent dis- that this doctrine, if pushed to-its logical conse-:
sertation of Tzschucke prefixed to this edition; quences, would be highly dangerous, since it would~
the preface of Verheyk, andthe prooemiumofGrosse, destroy all the practical benefits of our belief in
may be consulted. in the' Incarnation, as it involves the denial that,
(Suidas, s. vv. E'TpirLos, KarirCwv; Symmach. we have a High Priest who can be touched with ahpist. iii. 47, 53; Auctor Anonym. de Antiq. Con- feeling of our infirmities. If this is borne in,
stantinopol. lib. i. c. 5. p. 4 (vol. xvii. of the Venetian mind, the horror which it excited can be accounted
Corpus); Codinus Curopalates, Select. de Orig. for; and although we do not know that Eutyches,Constantinopol. pp. 4 and 7, ed. Venet.; Jo. Ma- any more than many other teachers of error, did.
lala, ClMronograph. in vit. Julian. apost.; Nicephor. carry out his principles to their practical concluOregor. Oratio encomiastica in Imp. Constant. Mag. sions, still the means which were adopted to supquoted by Fabricius and Tzschucke from Lambe- port his cause. were such as to prevent our feeling.
tius, Comment. de Bibliotkee. Caes.. viii. p. 136, ed. any sympathy with it. His opinions became po —
K(ollar; Eutrop. J)edic. ad Val. Imp. lib. x. 16 pular in the Alexandrian Church, where the docand 18; Armm. Marcell. -xxix. 1. ~ 36, and note of trines of Nestorius had been most loudly -con-.
Vales; Liban. in vit. vol. i. p. 113, ed. Reiske, demned, and where the patriarch Dioscurus was.
and Epist. iv. 191, ad Thermist.; Greg. Naz, Epist. eminently violent.and unscrupulous.. Eutyches