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

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EUTY'CHIUS (EvTJXsos), was originally a 416 (01. 91) and B. c. 412 (01. 92.) On his remonk of the town of Amaseia, whence he was sent turn from Olympia, Exaenetus was escorted into
by his fellow-citizens to Constantinople, as proxy the city by a magnificent procession of 300 chafor their bishop. The great' talent he' displayed in riots, each drawn by two white horses. (Diod.
some theological controversy gained him general xiii. 34, 82; Aelian, V. H. ii, 8.) [L. S.]
admiration, and the emperor in A. D. 553 raised.'EXEDARES. [ARSACIDAB, p. 363, a.]
him to the highest dignity in the church at Con- EXI'TIUS, quaestor in B. C. 43, and'one of
stantinople. In the same year he accordingly pre- Antony's supporters, is called by Cicero (Philipp.
sided at an ecumenical synod, which was held in xiii. 13) the fl'ater (probably the' cousin-german)
that city. In A. D. 564, he incurred the anger of of Philadelphus,' by which name he means to,the emperor Justinian, by refusing to give his as- indicate C. Annius Cimber. [Comp. CIMBER,
sent' to a'decree' respecting the- incorruptibility of ANNIUS.]
the body of Christ previous to his resurrection, EXSUPERA'NTIUS,* JU'LIUS, a Roman
and was expelled from his see in consequence. - He historian, with regard to whom we possess no inwas at first confined'in a monastery, then trans- formation, but who, from the character of his
ported to an island, Princepo, and at last to his style, is believed to have flourished in'the fifth or
original convent at, Amaseia. In 578, the em- sixth century. Unaer his name we have a short
peror Tiberius restored him to his see, which he tract, entitled De Marii, Lepidi, ac Sertorii bellis
henceforth retained until his death in 585, at civilibus, which many suppose to have been
the age'of 73. There is extant by him a letter abridged from the Histories of Sallust.
addressed to pope Vigilius, on the occasion of his It will be found appended to the editions of
elevation in A. D. 553. It is printed in Greek and Sallust by Wasse, Cantab. 4to. 1710; by Corte,
Latin among the Acta Syjnodi quintae, Concil. vol. Lips. 4to. 1724;' by Havercamp, Amstel. 4to.
v. p. 425, &c. He also wrote some other treat- 1742; and by Gerlach, Basil. 4to. 1823. (Molises, which, however, are lost. (Evagr. iv. 38; lerus, Disp. de Julio E superantio. Allorf. 4to.'
Gregor. Moral. xiv. 29; Cave, Hist. Lit. vol. i. 1690.) [W. R.]
p. 413, &c.)' [L. S.] EXSUPERATO'RIUS, one of the twelve
EUXE'NIDAE (Eteviaat), a noble family titles assumed by the Emperor Commodus, whc
among the Aeginetans, celebrated by Pindar in his ordained that the month of December should be
ode (Nem. vii.) in honour of one of its members, distinguished by this name.- [CO'MMODUs.] (Dion'
Sogenes, who was victorious in the boys' pentathlon Cass. lxxii. 15; Zonar. xii.' 5; Lamprid. Commrocd.
in the 54th Nemead (according to Hermann's emen- 11;.Aurel.: Vict.'de Caes. xvii.; Eutrop. viii. 7;
dation of the Scholia), that is; in -B. C. 46T. The Suidas, s. v. Ko'oaos.) [W. R.]
poet also mentions the victor's father, Thearion, EXSUPE'RIUS, descended from a family of
with whom he seems to have been intimate. The Bordeaux, was professor of rhetoric first at Tolnode contains some considerable' difficulties, and has louse, and subsequently at Narbonne, where he
been very differently explained by' Bickh, Dissen, became the preceptor of Flaviis Julius Delmatius.'
and Hermann. (Pindar, 1. c.; Schol., and Bickh and of his brother Hannib'alianils, who, after'their
and Dissen's notes; Hermann, de Sogenis Aegine- elevation, procured for their instructor the dignity
tae Victoria quinquertii Dissertatio, Lips. 1822, of Praeses: Hispaniae. Having acquired'great
Opuscubl, vol. iii. p. 22.) LP. S.] wealth; he retired to pass the remainder of his life
EUXE'NIDAS, a painter, who instructed the in tranquillity at Cahors (Cadurca). He is known'
celebrated Aristeides, of Thebes.'He flourished to us'only from a complimentary address by Ausoabout the 95th or 100th Olympiad, B. c. 400 or 380. nius, who calls upon him to return and shed a
(Plin. tI. N. xxxv. 10. S.'36. ~ 7.)' [P. S.]' lustre upon the city of'his ancestors. (Auson.
EUXE.NIDES. [EVETES.]' Prof. xvii.) - [WV. R.]
EU'XENUS (EVevos.) 1. Is mentioned by EZEKIE'LUS ('EeKCtXAos), the author of a
Dionysius of Halicarnassus (i. 34) as a wronor7i) work in Greek entitled'?eayw-y7, which is usually
dpXaZos, who wrote upoh early Italian traditions. As called a: tragedy, but which seems rather to have
he is not mentioned anywhere else, and as it is been'a metrical history, in the dramatic form; and
strange to find an ancient Greek writing upon Italian in iambic verse, written in imitation of the Greekmythi, some critics have proposed to read "Evvros, tragedies. The subject was the Exodus of the
instead of EepSvos; but Ennius can scarcely be' Israelites from Egypt. The author appears to have
classed among the mythographers..' been a Jew, and to have lived at the court of the
2. Of Heracleia, was the instructor of Apollonius Ptolemies, at Alexandria, about the second century
of Tyana in Pythagorean philosophy, of which he nB. C.'Considerable fragments of the work are
is said to have possessed a'very competent khow-: preserved by Eusebius (Praep. Evang. ix. 28, 29),
ledge. (Philostr. Vit. Apoll. i. 7.) [L. S.] Clemens Alexandrinus (Stiouz. i. -p.- 344, fol.),
EUXI'THEUS (E3d(Oos), a Pythagotean phi- and Eustathius (ad Hexaium. p. 25). These frag-'losopher, from whom Athenaeus (iv. p.' 157) quotes ments were first collected,'and printed with a
the opinion that the souls of all men were confined Latin version, by Morell, Par. 1580 and 1590,
by the gods'to their bodies and to this world as a 8vo., and were reprinted in the Poetae Christ.
punishment, and that unless they remained there'Graec., Par. 1609, 8vo., in Lectius's Corpus Poet.
for the period appointed by the' deity, they would'Graec. Trag. et Com., Col. Allobr. 1614, fol., in
be doomed to still greater sufferings. [L. S.]'Bignius's Collect. Poet. Christ., appended to the.
EXA'DIUS ('Edc5ios), one of the Lapithae, Bibliot]i. Patr. Graec. Par. 1624, fol., in. the 14th
who distinguished himself in the contest at the volume of the'Bibl.. Patr. Graec., Par. 1644nuptials'of Peirithoiis. (Hes. Scut.-Herc. 180; 1654, fol., and in a separate form, with a German
Ov. Mlet.' xii. 266, &c.) [L. S.]' translation and notes, by L. M. Plhilippson, Berlin,
EXAE'NETUS ('EIatrveos), of Agrigentum, 1830, 8vo. "(Fabric. Bill. Graec. vol. ii. pp.505-6;
gained victories in the foot race at Olympia, in B.C. Welcker, die Grieclh. Tra.qid. p. 1270.) P. S.]
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