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those used in the Lexicon of Suidas. The sources Eccles. vi. 18; Cassiodor. Hist. Tripart.; x. 20;
are examined and described by Meineke in his Theophanes, Chronographia ad A. M. 5892, 97,
Observationes in Eudociae Violetum, in the fifth 98, Alex. era; Cedrenus, Compend. vol. i. p. 585,
and sixth volumes of the Bibliothek der alten Lit- ed. Bonn.)
teratur und Kunst, G6ttingen, 1789. 2. Daughter of Theodosius II. and of Eudocia,
9, Daughter of Andronicus Comnenus, second born A. D. 422, and betrothed soon after to Valenson of the Byzantine emperor Calo-Joannes. She tinian, son of the emperor Honorius, who afterwas married, but to whom is unknown; and after wards was emperor of the West as Valentinian III.
her husband's death lived in concubinage with and to whom she was married at Constantinople in
Andronicus, her cousin, afterwards emperor as A. D. 436 or 437. On the assassination of her
Andronicus I. Her second husband was Michael husband by Maximus (A. D. 455), who usurped
Gabras, to whom she was married. We can give the throne, she was compelled to marry the usurper;
no exact dates of the few incidents known of her but, resenting both the death of her husband and
life. She lived in the middle of the twelfth cen- the violence offered to herself, she instigated Gentury. (Michael Glycas, Manuel Comnenus, Lib. seric, king of the Vandals, who had conquered
iii. pp. 135, 136, Lib. iv. p. 173, ed. Bonn.) Africa, to attack Rome. Genseric took the city.
[J. C. M.] Maximus was slain in the flight, and Eudoxia and
EUDO'RA (EMJdcp1), a daughter of Nereus and her daughters, Eudocia and Placidia, were carried
Doris. (Hes. Theog. 244; Apollod. i. 2. ~ 7.) There by the Vandal king to Carthage. After being
are two more mythical personages of this name. detained in captivity some years, she was sent
(Hes. Theog. 360; Hygin. Fab. 192.) [L. S.] with her daughter Placidia and an honourable
EUDO'RUS (EViwpos), a son of Hermes and attendance to Constantinople. [See EUDOCIA, No.
Polymele, was brought up by his grandfather Phy- 1, and the authorities subjoined there.]
las.. He was one of the five leaders of the Myrmi- The coins of the empresses Eudocia and Eudoxia
dones under Achilles, who sent him out to accom- are, from the two names being put one for the
pany Patroclus, and to prevent the latter from other, difficult to be assigned to their respective
venturing too far; but Eudorus was slain by persons. (See Eckhel, Doctrina Num. Veterum,
Pyraechmus. (Hom. nl. xvi. 179, &c.; Eustath. vol. viii. p. 170.) [J. C. M.]
ad Hom. p. 1697.) [L. S.] EUDO'XIUS, commonly cited with the addiEUDO'RUS (Ei6wpos) is mentioned by Alex- tion HERos, was a Graeco-Roman jurist, who
ander Aphrodisiensis (ad Arist. Metaph. p. 26, flourished shortly before Justinian. Panciroli (de
ed. Paris. 1536, fol.) as a commentator on Aris- Claris Interpp. Juris, p. 63) places him too early
totle's Metaphysics, in which~ he is said to have in supposing that he was the Pr. Pr. to whom were
altered several passages. Simplicius likewise speaks addressed the constitution of Theodosius and Vaof a Peripatetic philosopher of this name, and lentinian of A. D. 427 (Cod. 1. tit. 8. s. 1), and the
relates that he had written on the Aristotelian constitution of Arcadius and Honorius. (Cod. 2.
Categories. We do not know, however, if this be tit. 77. s. 2.) He is mentioned in Const. Tanta,
the same person. Eudorus, whom Alexander ~ 9, as the grandfather of Anatolius, professor of
Aphrodisiensis mentions, was a native of Alexan- law at Berytus, who was one of the compilers of
dria, and had, like Ariston of Alexandria, written the Digest. The appellation Heros is not a proper
a work on the Nile. (Strab. xvii. p. 790; comp. name, but a title of excellency, and is placed someFabric. Bibl. Graec. vol. i. p. 845, vol. iii. pp. 172, times before, and sometimes after, the name. Thus.
492). [A. S.] in Basil. vi. p. 227, we have 6'Hpos Evisotfos,
EUDO'RUS, a scene-painter and statuary in and, in Basil. iii. p. 60, E686tLtos J "Hpcs. We
bronze, of second-rate merit. (Plin. xxxv. 11. find the same title applied to Patricius, Amblichus
s. 40. ~ 34.) [P. S.] (qu. Iamblichus, Basil. iii. p. 256), and Cyrillus
EUDO'XIA (Eotfola), the name of several (Basil. iv. p. 702). Heimbach (Anecdota, i. p.
princesses chiefly of the Eastern or Byzantine em- 202) is inclined to think that, like the expression
pire. 6 acacnlpiTls, it was used by the Graeco-Roman
1. The daughter of the Frank Bauto, married jurists of and after the age of Justinian as a desigto the emperor Arcadius, A. D. 395, by whom she nation of honour in speaking of their predecessors
had four daughters, Flacilla or Flaccilla or Fal- who had died within their memory.
cilla, Pulcheria, Arcadia, and Marina, and one Eudoxius was probably acquainted with the
son, Theodosius II. or the younger. She was a original writings of the classical jurists, for from
woman of high spirit, and exercised great influence Basil. ii. p. 454 (ed. Heimbach) it appears that
over her husband: to her persuasion his giving up he quoted Ulpian's treatise De Officio Proconsulis.
of the eunuch Eutropius into the power of his From the citations of Eudoxius in the Basilica, he
enemies may be ascribed. She was involved in a appears to have written upon the constitutions of
fierce contest with Chrysostom, who fearlessly in- emperors earlier than Justinian, and thence Reiz
veighed against the avarice and luxury of the (ad Theophilum,- pp. 1234-1246) infers that he
court, and scrupled not to attack the empress commented upon the Gregorian, Hermogenian, and
herself. The particulars of the struggle are given Theodosian codes, from which those constitutions
elsewhere. [CHRYSOSTOMUS, JOANNES.] She were transferred into the Code of Justinian. It is
died of a miscarriage in the sixth consulship of probably to the commentaries of Eudoxius, LeonHonorius, A. D. 4(04, or, according to Theophanes, tius, and Patricius on the three earlier codes that
A. D. 406. The date of her death is carefully dis- Justinian (Const. Tanta, ~ 9) alludes, when he
cussed by Tillemont. (Histoire des Empereurs, says of them c" optimam sui memoriam in Legibus
vol. v. p. 785.) Cedrenus narrates some curious reliquerunt," for the imperatorial constitutions were
particulars of her death, but their credibility is very often called Leges, as distinguished from the Jus
doubtful. (Philostorgius, Hist. Eccles. apud Pho- of the jurists.
tium; Marcellinus,. Chronicon; Socrates, Mlist. In Basil, ii. p; 644, Thalelaeus, who survived
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