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

80. EUDOCIA. EUDOCIA.
('enseric; king of the Vandals, when he sacked'the beginning of the tenth century; at any rate
Rome (A. D. 455), together with her mother and before A. D. 904. (Zonaras, Annales, vol. iii. p. 143,
her younger sister Placidia. Genseric married ed. Basil, 1567; Cedrenus, Compendium, p. 492,
Eudocia (A. D. 456), not to one of his younger ed. Basil, 1566.)
sons, Gento, as Idatius says,-but to his eldest son 7. Eldest daughter of the Byzantine emperor'
Hunneric (who succeeded his father, A. D. 477, as Constantine IX., became a nun in consequence of
king of the Vandals)'; and sent Eudoxia and Pla- some disease by which she was disfigured. She
cidia to Constantinople. After living sixteen years appears to have survived her father, who died A. D.
with Hunneric, and bearing him a son, Hulderic, 1028. (Zonaras, Annales, vol. iii. p. 182, ed.
who also afterwards became king of the Vandals, Basil, A. D. 1557.)
Eudocia, on the ground of dislike to the Arianism 8. EUDOCIA AUGUSTA of MACREMBOLIS, wife
of her husband, secretly left him, and went to Je- of the emperors Constantine XI. (Ducas) and
rusalem, where she soon after died (A. D. 472), Romanus IV. (Diogenes). She was married to.
having bequeathed all she had to the Church of Constantine while he was yet in a private station,
the Resurrection, -and was buried in the sepulchre and bore him two sons, Michael and Andronicus,
of her grandmother, the empress Eudocia. (Eva- before his accession in' A. D. 1059, and one son,
grius, Hist. Eccles. ii. 7; Marcellinus, Chronicon; Constantine, born afterwards; they had also two
Idatius, Clironicon; Nicephorus Callisti, Hist. Ec- daughters, Theodora and Zoe. On the accession
cles, xv. 11; Procopius, de Bello Vandalico, i. 5; of Constantine she received the title of Augusta;
Theophanes, Chironographia, A. M. 5947 and 5964, and on his death, A. D. 1067, he bequeathed
Alex. era; Zonaras, Andes, vol. iii. p. 40, ed. the empire to her and to their three sons, Michael
Basil, 1557; Tillemont, Hist. des Enzp. vol. vi.) VII. (Parapinaces), Andronicus I., and Constantine
3. EvDocIA FABIA, wife of the emperor Heraclius. XII. (Porphyrogenitus). He bound Eudocia by an
She was the daughter of a certain African noble, and oath not to marry again. Eudocia had in fact the
was at Constantinople (A. D. 610) when Heraclius, management of the government, the children being
to whom she was betrothed, having assumed the all young. Perceiving that the protection of the
purple in Africa, sailed to Constantinople to de- eastern frontier, which was threatened with invathrone the tyrant Phocas. Phocas shut her up in sion, required a stronger hand, she married Romaa monastery with the mother of Heraclius; but his nus IV. (Diogenes). Romanus, who was eminent
fall led to their release. She was married on the for his fine figure, strength, and warlike qualities,
day- of Heraclius's coronation, and crowned with had, on the death of Constantine XI., prepared to
him, and, according to Zonaras, received from him seize the throne, but was prevented by Eudocia,
the name of Fabia; but Cedrenus makes Fabia her who threw him into prison, and exiled him; but,
original name, which is more likely. She had by either for reasons of state, or from affection, soon
Heraclius, according to Zonaras, three children, a recalled him, and raised him to the command of
daughter Epiphania, and two sons, the elder named the army. Her oath not to marry had been given
Heraclius and the younger Constantine. She died in writing, and committed to the custody of the
soon after the birth of the youngest child. Cedre- patriarch of Constantinople; but by a trick she
nus assigns to them only a daughter and one son, recovered it, and, within eight months after her
who was, according to him, called both Heraclius husband's death (A. D. 1068), married Romanus,
and Constantine. He places the death of Eudocia and raised him to be colleague in the empire
in the second year of Heraclius, A. D. 612. (Zona- with herself and her sons. She had hoped to
ras, Annales, vol. iii. pp. 66, 67, ed. Basil, 1557; govern him, but was disappointed, and his asserCedrenus, Compendium, pp. 713-14, ed. Bonn, tion of his own will led to quarrels between them.
1838-9.) During the captivity of Romanus, Joannes or John
4. EUDocuI, daughter of Incer -or Inger, and Ducas, brother of the late Constantine, who had
concubine of the emperor Michael III., by whom been invested with the dignity of Caesar, declared
she was given in marriage (about A. D. 866) Michael Parapinaces sole emperor, and banished
to Basil the Macedonian, afterwards emperor. Eudocia to a convent which she had herself built
She bore Basil a son, afterwards the emperor on the shore of the Propontis. On the death of
Leo the Philosopher, so soon after their marriage, Diogenes, who on his release had fallen into the
that it'was said that Michael was the child's hands of Andronicus, the eldest son of Joannes
father, and that she was pregnant at the time of Ducas, and died from the cruel usage he received,
her marriage. Cedrenus speaks of the marriage A. D. 1071 [RoMANUS IV. (DIoGENES)], Eudocia
of Basil with Eudocia, whose noble birth and buried her unhappy husband with great splendour.
beauty he celebrates; but, far from making her the She appears to have.long survived this event.
concubine of Michael, speaks of her as excelling (Zonaras, Annales, vol. iii. pp. 218-226, ed.
in modesty. (Zonaras, Annales, vol. iii. p. 132, Basil, 1557; Michael Glycas, Annales, pars iv..ed. Basil, 1577; Cedrenus, Compendiunm, vol. ii. p. 606, &c., ed. Bonn.)
p. 198, ed. Bonn, 1838-9.) - Eudocia compiled a dictionary of history and
5. EvDOCIA, third wife of the emperor Constan- mythology, which she called'Iwvtl, i. e. Collection
tine V. (Copronymus). She was crowned and re- or bed of Violets. It was printed for the first time
ceived the title of Augusta from her husband in by Villoison, in his Anecdota Graeca, 2 vols. 4to..the twenty-eighth year of his reign, A. D. 768. Venice, 1781. It is prefaced by an address to her
(Cedreni Compendium, vol. ii. p. 16, ed. Bonn.) husband Romanus Diogenes, in which she describes.6.. EvDOClI, third wife of Leo the Philosopher, the work as" a collection of genealogies of gods,
son of Basil the Macedonian and of Eudocia. (No. heroes, and heroines, of their metamorphoses, and
3.) She' died in childbirth soon after, and the of the fables and stories respecting them found in
child died also. She was the daughter, or of the the ancients; containing also notices of various
race of Opsicius. Of the date of her marriage and philosophers." The sources from which the work
death we have no account. It was probably near was compiled are in. a great degree the same as