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

62 EUCHEIR. EUCHERIUS.
and Callistratus. He sometimes ridicules'classes 43, comp. xxxv. 5; Thiersch, Epocl7n, pp. 165,
of persons, as the Thebans in his'AvTrIo'r. 166; MUller, Arch. d. Kunst, ~ 75.) At- all
His language is simple, elegant, and generally events, there appear to have been families of artists,
pure, containing few words which are not found in both at Corinth and at Athens, in which the name
writers of the best period. Like Antiphanes, he was hereditary. The following are known.
was extensively pillaged by later poets, as, for 3. Eucheirus (EdXetpos, for so Pausanias gives
example, by Alexis, Ophelion, and Ephippus. the name) of Corinth, a statuary, was the pupil of
Suidas gives the number of the plays of Eubulus Syadras and Chartas, of Sparta, and the teacher of
at 104, of which there are extant more than 50 titles, Clearchus of Rhegium. (Paus.vi.4. ~ 2.) He
namely,'AyKvAiwv,'A-yXLos,'AcsAudOeca,'AvaeowJ- must therefore have flourished about the 65th or
E.LrEoL,'AvTLo'7r?,'Ao''vToL, Aby?, BeAAepoqxvTrs, 66th Olympiad, B. c. 520 or 516. [CHARTAS,
ravvArqs, rAauKos, &an8aAos, aeAaaUas is a PYTHAGORAS OF RHEGIUM.] This is probably
corrupt title (Suid. s. v.'AcKwALd'FeLv), for which the Euchir whom Pliny mentions among those
Meineke would read Aaeyafas, AevKaAcow, ALov- who made statues ofathletes,&c. (H. N. xxxiv. 8.
uros, in which he appears to have ridiculed the s. 19, ~ 34.)
confusion which prevailed in all the arrangements 4. Eucheir, the son of Eubulides, of Athens, a
of the palace of Dionysius (Schol. ad Aristoph. sculptor, made the marble statue of Hermes, in his
Thlesm. 136), AL1v'os, or, according to the fuller temple at Pheneus in Arcadia. (Paus. viii. 14;
title (Athen. xi. p. 460, e.), 2epFX,7 4 AzLvvaos, ~ 7.) Something more is known of him through
6Awv, Eip~4sn, EJpar%,'HXc&,'Iicwev, "Iov,, KaAa- inscriptions discovered at Athens, in reference to
O.cpo'pos, Kac7rvAiwv (doubtful), Ka'racoAAcolevos which see EUBULIDES. [P. S.]
(doubtful), KepccZres, KAe4v'pa, KopusaAds, Kv- EUCHEIRUS, statuary. [EucHEIR, No. 3.]
evr'ai, AaKVEnS 4 Ai'ja, MAr'eta, MvAwOpis, Mvaof, EUCHE'NOR (EzXyvwp), a son of Coeranus
Ndvwovp, NavaUKda, NEOTT'S, EOiOOS,'OUaaev's, and grandson of Polyldus of Megara. He took
I4 avdrTalc, Oil[?rovs, Ol'vpaos I IIXAo*,'OAia, part in the Trojan war, and was killed. (Paus. i.'OpOEdvs, fn4I2u5Aos, na avvvXis, rIapuevio'cor, ITa-y- 43. ~ 5.) In Homer (II. xii. 663) he is called a
ryv, nopvogooKo's, HIpOKpLys, Ipooovata J KvIvor, son of the seer Polyidus of Corinth. There are two'Teoqavowo7rL tSes, cpLyyoKaptwv, TLTOa, TLT&ves, other mythical personages of this name., (Apollod.
IPoL'Vl, XdipLes, XpvoAXa, YAdTrpca. (Meineke, ii. 1. ~ 5; Eustath. ad Hom. p. 1839.) [L. S.]
Frag. Corn. Graec. vol. i. pp. 355-367, vol. iii. EUCHE'RIA, the authoress of sixteen elegiac
pp. 203-272; Clinton, Fast. Hell. sub ann. couplets, in which. she gives vent to the indignation.
a. c. 375; Fabric. Bibl. Graec. vol. iv. pp. 442- excited by the proposals of an unworthy suitor444.) [P. S.] stringing together a long series of the most absurd
EUCADMUS (EOKaaupos), an Athenian sculp- and unnatural combinations, all of which are to be
tor, the teacher of ANDROSTHENES. (Paus. x. 19. considered as fitting and appropriate in comparison
~~ 3.), [P. S.] with such an union. The idea of the piece was
EUCA'MPIDAS (E6KaeJrtzas), less properly evidently suggested by- the Virgilian lines
EUCA'LPIDAS (E3KaArl~tas), an Arcadian of Mopso Nisa datur;'quid non speremus amantes?
Maenalus, is mentioned by Demosthenes as one of Jungentur jam grypes equis; aevoque sequenti
those who, for the sake of private gain, became Cum canibus timidi venient ad pocula damae,
the instruments of Philip of Macedon in sapping while in tone and spirit it bears some resemblance
the independence of their country. Polybius cen- to the Ibis ascribed to Ovid, and to the Dirae of
sures Demosthenes for his injustice in bringing so Valerius Cato. The presumptuous wooer is called
sweeping a charge against a number of distin- a rusticus servus, by which we must clearly underguished men, and defends the Arcadians and Mes- stand, not a slave in the Roman acceptation of the
senians in particular for their connexion with Phi- term, but one of those villani or serfs who, accordlip. At the worst, he says, they are chargeable ing to the ancient practice in Germany and Gaul,
only with an error of judgment, in not seeing what were considered as part of the live stock indissoluwas best for their country; and he thinks that, bly bound to the soil which they cultivated. From
even in this point, they were justified by the re- this circumstance, from the introduction here and
sult,-as if the result might not have been differ- there of a barbarous word, from the fact that most
ent, had: they taken a different course. (Dem. de of the original MSS. of these verses were found-in
Cor,. pp. 245, 324; Polyb. xvii. 14.) [CINEAS.] France, and that the name of Eucherius was comEucampidas is mentioned by Pausanias (viii. 27) mon in that country in the fifth and sixth centuas one of those who led the Maenalian settlers to ries, we may form a guess as to the period when
Megalopolis, to form.part of the population of the this poetess flourished, and as to the land of her
new city, B. C. 371. [E. E.] nativity; but we possess no evidence which can
EUCHEIR (EIXecp), is one of those names of entitle us to speak with any degree of confidence.
Grecian artists, which are first used in the my- (Wernsdorf, Poet. Lat. Min. vol. iii. p. lxv. and
thological period, on account of their significancy, p. 97, vol. iv. pt. ii. p. 827, vol. v. pt. iii. p. 1458;
but which were afterwards given to real persons, Burmann, Anthol. Lat. v. 133, or n. 385, ed.
[CHEIRISOPHUS.] 1. Eicheir, a relation of Due- Meyer.) [W. R.]
dalus, and the inventor of painting in Greece, ac- EUCHE'RIUS, bishop of Lyons, was born,
cording to Aristotle, is no doubt only a mythical. during the latter half of the fourth century, of an
personage. (Plin. vii. 56.) illustrious family. His father Valerianus is by
2. Eucheir, of Corinth, who, with. Eugrammus, many believed to be the Valerianus who about this
followed Demaratus into Italy (B. C. 664), and period held the office of Praefectus Galliae, and
introduced the plastic-,art into Italy, should proba- was -a near relation of the emperor Avitus. Eubly be considered also a mythical personage, desig- cherius married Gallia, a lady not inferior to himnating the period of Etruscan art to which the self in station, by whom he had two sons, Salonius.
earliest painted vases belong. (Plin. xxxv. 12. s. and Veranius, and two daughters, Corsortia and