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

60' EUBIUtS. EUBULIDES.
and with great affectation, by Achilles Tatius (iii. EUBOEA (EuioLa), a daughter of Asopus, from
6-8). The subjects of them were, the release of whom the island of Euboea was believed to have
Andromeda by Perseus, and the release of Prome- derived its name. (Eustath. ad Hom. p. 278.)
theus by Heracles. (Comp. Lucian, de Domo, 22; There are three other mythical personages of the
Philostr. Imag. i. 29.) Both subjects are repre- same name. (Paus. ii. 17. ~ 2; Apollod. ii. 7. ~ 8;
sented on existing works of art in a manner similar Athen. vii. p. 296.) [L. S.]
to that of the pictures of Evanthes. (Miiller, Arch. EUBOEUS (EugoLos) of Paros, a very celed. Kunst, ~ 396, n. 2, ~ 414, n. 3; Pitt. Ere. iv. brated writer of parodies, who lived about the
7, 61; Mus. Borb. v. 32, vi. 50, ix. 39; Gell, time of Philip of Macedonia. In his poems, which
Pomp. pl. 42.) [P. S.] seem to have been written in the style of Homer,
EVA'NTHIUS, a rhetorician and grammarian, he ridiculed chiefly the Athenians. Euboeus and
highly eulogized in the chronicle of St. Jerome, Boeotus are said to have excelled all other:parodied about A. D. 359, is numbered among the an- dists. In the time of Athenaeus a collection of his
cient commentators on Terence, and is -believed by Parodies in four books was still extant, but all of
Lindenbrogius to be the author of the Brevis. dis- them are lost with the exception of a few short
sertatio de Tragoedia et Comoedia, commonly pre- fragments. (Athen. xv. pp. 698, 699; comp. Wefixed to the larger editions of the dramatist. He land, Dissert. de Parodiar. Homeric. Scriptoribus,
has sometimes been confounded with Eugraphius, p. 41. &c.) [L. S.]
who belongs to a much later period. (Schofen, De EUBO'TAS (Eigeras), a Cyrenaean, who
Terentio et Donato ejus interprete, 8vo., Bonn. 1821, gained a victory in the foot-race in 01. xcII. (B.' C.
p. 37; Rufinus, De Metris Terent. p. 2705, ed. 408), and in the chariot-race in 01. CIV. (B. c.
Putsch.) [W. R.] 364). There is considerable doubt as to the name,
EVARCHUS (E6apXos), tyrant of the Acarna- Diodorus calls him Evegaros,'Xenophon Eg4dras;
nian town of Astacus in the first year of the nor is it quite clear whether Pausanias, where he
-Peloponnesian war, B. C. 431, was ejected by the mentions him, speaks of two victories gained at.Athenians in the summer and reinstated in the different Olympiads, or of a double victory gained
winter by the Corinthians. (Thuc. i. 30, 33.) on the second occasion. (Paus. vi. 8. ~ 3, 4. ~ 2;
Nothing is mentioned further either of him or of Diod. xiii. 68; Xen. Hellen. i. 2. ~ 1.) [C. P. M.]
*Astacus, but it is probable that the Athenian in- EUBU'LE (EvloodA7), a well-informed Pythaterest was soon restored. (Comp. i. 102.) [A.H.C.] gorean lady, to whom one of the letters of Theano
EVATHLUS (EviaOAos). 1. An Athenian is addressed. (See J. H. Wolf's Mlfulierum Graesycophant and sorry orator, mentioned by Aristo- carum, quae orat. prosa usae sunt, Fragmenta, p.
phanes. (Aceharn. 710, Vesp. 590,and Schol.) He 224.)' [L. S.]
was likewise attacked by Plato and Cratinus. EUBU'LEUS (EJdovXeJs). 1. According to
2. A wealthy young Athenian, who placed him- an Argive tradition, a son of Trochilus by an Eleu-'self under the tuition of Protagoras, for the purpose sinian woman, and brother of Triptolemus; whereas,
of learning the art of oratory, promising' him a according to the Orphici, Eubuleus and Triptolemus
large sum for his instructions. (According to were sons of Dysaules. (Paus. i. 14. ~ 2.).Quintilian, iii. 1. ~ 10, he paid him 10,000 drach- 2. One of the Tritopatores at Athens. (Cic. de
mae.) An amusing story is told by A. Gellius Nat. Deor. iii. 21.)
(v. 10; comp. Diog. La&t. ix. 56) of the way in Eubuleus occurs also as a surname of several
which he evaded paying half the money he had divinities, and describes them as gods of good counpromised. [C. P. M.] sel, such as Hades and Dionysus. (Schol. ad NiEVAX,' said to have been a king of Arabia, cand. Alex. 14; Orph. Hymn. 71. 3; Macrob. Sat.
who is mentioned in some editions of Pliny (H.N. i. 18; Plut. Sympos. vii. 9.) [L. S.]
xxv. 4) as having written a work " De Simplicium EUBU'LEUS, a sculptor, whose name is inEffectibus," addressed to Nero, that is, the emperor scribed' on a headless Hermes. The inscription
Tiberius, A. D. 14-37. This paragraph, however, ETBOTAETE IIPAI1TEAOTE (sic in Winckelis wanting in the best MSS., and has accordingly mann) makes him a son of Praxiteles; and, accordbeen omitted in most modern editions of Pliny. ing to Meyer, there is no doubt that the great
(See Salmas. Prolegom. ad Homon. Hyles Iatr. p. sculptor of that name is meant. The statue still
15; Harduin's Notes to Pliny, 1. c.) He is said by exists, but in private hands. (Winckelmann, GesWMarbodus (or Marbodaeus), in the prologue to his clichte d. Kunst, ix. 3, ~ 20; Visconti, Mus.
poem on Precious Stones, to have written a work Pio-Clem. vi. tab. 22, p. 142.) [P. S.]
on this subject addressed to Tiberius, from which EUBU'LIDES, (EdJovuAi71s). 1. An' Athe-'his own is partly taken.'A Latin prose work, nian, who, having lost.a cause, in which he was
professing to belong to Evax, entitled " De Nomi- prosecutor, through the evidence given by a man
nibus et Virtutibus Lapidum qui in Artem Medi- named Euxitheus,'revenged himself on the latter
cinae recipiuntur," is to be found in a MS. in the by getting a verdict passed in a very irregular.Bodleian library at Oxford (Hatton, 100), and manner by the members of his deme, that he was'probably in other European libraries. The work not an Athenian citizen. Euxitheus appealed to'of Marbodus has been published and quoted under the dicasts of the Heliaea (see Diet. of Ant. s. v.
the name of Evax.. (See Choulant, Handbuch der Appellatio, Greek), and succeeded in establishing
Biicherkunde fiir die Aeltere Medicin. 2nd ed. his citizenship. A speech composed in his defence
art. Ml[arbodus.) [W. A. G.] has come down to us among those of Demosthenes,
EU'BIUS (Eitos). 1. A Stoic philosopher of but is, by some critics, perhaps without sufficient
Ascalon, who is mentioned only by Stephanus of reason, attributed to Lysias. (Dem. c. Eubulid. c. 5.)
Byzantium. (s.v.'AcidAwv.) 2. An Athenian, son of Sositheus and Phylo2. An author of obscene erotic stories (impurae mache, but adopted by his maternal grandfather,
conditor hiesorise, Ov. Trist. ii. 416.) [L. S.] Eubulides. On his behalf a suit was commenced
EU'BIUS, sculptor. [XENOCRITUS.] against a relative of the name of Macartatus, for