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

EUBULIDES; EJBULVUS;
the recovery of some property.' He being still a In'the year 1837 the great group of Eubulides
boy, his father, Sositheus, appeared for him. De- in the Cerameicus was discovered. Near it was a
mosthenes wrote in his defence the speech rpo's fragment of an inscription... XEIPOY KPrIIIAH4
Mawcadprarov. E11OIH0 EN. Another inscription was found near
The name Eubulides -was borne by several the Erechtheum,...]XEIP KAI ETBOTAIAH:
others of this family, the genealogy of which it is KPFIIIAAI EITOIHYAN. (Bdckh, Corp.. Inscr.
rather difficult to make out; but it appears that i. p. 504, No. 666, comp. Add. p. 916.) From
Eubulides, the grandfather and adoptive father of a comparison of these inscriptions with each
the boy of the same name, was himself the grand- other and with Pausanias (viii. 14. ~ 4),
son of another Eubulides, son of Buselus. (Dem. c. it may be inferred that the first inscription
Macart. cc. 1-8.) should be thus completed: - ETBOTAIAHZ
3. 4. Two individuals of the name of Eubulidas ET.XEIPO2 KPMIIIAHW EHOIH:EN, and that
are mentioned as among the victims of the rapacity there-was a family of artists of the Cropeian demos,
of Verres. One surnamed Grosphus, a native of of which three generations are known, namely,
Centuripae, the other a native of Herbita. (Cic. c. Eubulides, Eucheir, Eubulides. The architectural
Verr. iii. 23, v. 42, 49.) [C. P. M.] character of the monument and the forms of the
EUB-U'LIDES (EJtovXi'87s), of Miletus, a phi- letters, alike shew that these inscriptions must be
losopher who belonged to the Megaric school. It referred to the time of the Roman dominion in
is not stated whether he was the immediate or a Greece. (Ross, in the Kunstblalt, 1837, No. 93,&c.)
later successor of Eucleides (Diog. La6rt. ii. 108); Thiersch comes to a like conclusion on other grounds.
nor is it said whether he was an elder or younger (Epochen, p. 127.) [P. S.]
contemporary of Aristotle, against whom he wrote EUBU'LUS (EveovAos), a son of Carmanor
with great bitterness. (Diog. Laert. ii. 109; Athen. and father of Carme. (Paus. ii. 30. ~ 3.) This
vii. p. 354; Aristot. ap. Euseb. Praep. Ev. xv. 2. name likewise occurs as a surname of several divi.
p. 792.) The statement that Demosthenes availed nities who were regarded as the authors of good
himself of his dialectic instruction (Plut. Vit. X counsel, or as well-disposed; though when applied
Orat. p. 845; Apul. Orat. de Mag. p. 18, ed. Bip.; to Hades, it is, like Eubuleus, a mere euphemism.
Phot. Bibl. Cod. 265, p. 493, ed. Bekk.) is alluded (Orph. Hymn. 17. 12, 29. 6, 55. 3.) [L. S.]
to also in a fragment.of an anonymous comic poet. EUBU'LUS, AURE'LIUS of Emesa, chief
(ap. Diog. La6rt. ii. 108.) There is no mention auditor of the exchequer (rods icao'Aov xd6yovs
of his having written any works, but he is said to 7rLrteTpaau/ePos) under Elagabalus, rendered himhave invented the forms of several of the most cele- self so odious by his rapacity and extortion, that
brated false and captious syllogisms (Diog. Laert. upon the death of his patron the tyrant, he was
1. c.), some of which, however, such as the taAav- torn to pieces by the soldiers and people, who had
Odvzov and the tceparlvs, were ascribed by others long clamorously demanded his destruction. (Dion
to the later Diodorus Cronus (Diog. Laert. i. 111), Cass. lxxix. 21.) [W R.]
and several of them are alluded to by Aristotle EUBU'LUS, one of the commission of Nine
and even by Plato. Thus the yitceaAcvAue'vos, appointed by Theodosius in A. D. 429 to compile a
BlaAav,4vcY,' or'HA&tKtpa, which are different code upon a plan which was afterwards abandoned.
names for one and the same form of syllogism, as He had before that date filled the office of magister
well as the.fEv6',uevos and KeparqVs, occur in scriniorum. In A. D. 435, he was named on the
Aristotle (El. Soph. 24, 25, 22), and partially also commission of Sixteen, which compiled the existin Plato (Euthyd. p. 276, comp. Tkeaetet. pp. 165, ing Theodosian code, upon an altered plan. He
175.) We cannot indeed ascertain what motives then"'figures as comes and quaestor, with the titles
Eubulides and other Megarics had in forming such illustris and magnificus. The emperor, however,
syllogisms, nor in what form they were dressed up, in mentioning those who distinguished themselves
on account of the scantiness of our information in the composition of his code, does not signalize
upon this portion of the history of Greek philoso- Eubulus. [DIODORUS, vol. i. P. 1018.] [J. T. G.]
phy; but we may suppose, with the highest degree EUBU'LUS (Ei~ovuos), an Athenian, the son
of probability, that they were directed especially of Euphranor, of the Cettian demus, was a very,
against the sensualistic and hypothetical proceed- distinguished comic poet of the middle comedy,
ings of the Stoics, and partly also against the defi- flourished, according to Suidas (s. v.), in the 101st
nitions of Aristotle and the Platonists, and that Olympiad, B. c. 37f. If this date be correct (and
they were intended to establish the Megaric doc- it is confirmed by the statement that Philip, the
trine of the simplicity of existence, which could be son of Aristophanes, was one of his rivals), Eubulus
arrived at only by direct thought. (H. Ritter, must have exhibited - comedies for a long series of
Ueber die Megar. Schule, in Niebuhr and Brandis' years; for he ridiculed Callimedon,' the contempoRhein. Mus. ii. p. 295, &c.; Brandis, Gesch. der rary of Demosth'enes. (Athen. viii. p.'340, d.) It
Griec. R. Philos. i. p. 122, &c.) Apollonius is clear, therefore, that Suidas is wrong in placing
Cronus, the teacher of Diodorus Cronus, and the Eubulus on the:confines of the Old and the Middle
historian Euphantus, are mentioned as pupils of Comedy. He is expressly assigned by the author
Eubulides. [CiH. A. B.] of the Elymologicon Magnum (p. 451. 30) and by
EUBU'LIDES (EdJouvAt8/s), a statuary, who Ammonius (s.c. v. ov) to the Middle Comedy, the
made a great votive offering, consisting of a group' duration of which begins very little before him, and
of thirteen statues, namely, Athena, Paeonia, Zeus, extends to a period very little, if at all, after him.
Mnemosyne, the Muses, and Apollo, which he de- - His plays were chiefly on mythological subjects.
dicated at Athens, in the temple of Dionysus, in Several of them contained parodies of- passages
the Cerameicus. (Paus.qi. 2. ~ 4.) Pliny mentions from the tragic poets, and especially from Eurihis statue of one counting on his fingers (xxxiv. 8, pides. There are a few instances of his attacking
s. 19.: 29, according'to Harduin's emendation). eminent individuals by name, as Philocrates, CyEubulides had a son, EUCHEIR. dias, Callimedon, Dionysius the tyrant of Syracuse,