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

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scholars, in the Zeitsch7rifl fur die Alterthums- Whether the Telegonia ascribed to the Lacedaewissenschaft, 1840, p. 118. monian Cinaethon was an earlier work than that of
Of the other poets of this name next to nothing Eugamon, or whether it was identical with it, is
is known beyond the titles, quoted above, in the uncertain. The name Telegonia was formed from
Palatine Anthology. Jacobs conjectures that the Telegonus, a son of Odysseus and Circe, who killed
Sicilian and the Ascalonite are the same, the name his father. (Comp. Bode, Gesch. der Episc&. DictAtk,:L1CKeCLoCOv being a corruption of'AoicaXwvfi'ov, p. 339, &c.) [L. S.]
but he gives no reason for this conjecture. The EU'GENES (E-yevr7s), the author of an epiepigrams of one of these poets, we know not which, gram, in the Greek Anthology, upon the statue of
were in the collection of Philip, which contained Anacreon intoxicated. (Brunck, Anal. vol. ii. p.
chiefly the verses of poets nearly contemporary 453; Jacobs, Anth. Graec. vol. iii. p. 158; Paus.
with Philip himself. i. 93. ~ 1.) The epigram seems to be an imitation
(Wagner, de Evenis Poetis elegiacis, Vratisl. of one by Leonidas Tarentinus on the same sub1828; Schreiber, Disput. de Evenis Pariis, Gutting. ject. (Brunck, Anal. vol. i. p. 230; Jacobs, Antb.
1839; Souchay, Sur les Poetes elegiaques, in the Graec. vol. i. p. 163, No. xxxviii.) [P. S.]
Mien. de l'Acad. des Inscript. vol. x. p. 598; EUGENIA'NUS (EyevLavds), a physician in
Schneidewin, Delect. Poes. Graec. eleg. vol. i. p. the latter half of the second century after Christ, a
133; Gaisford, Poet. Min. Graec. vol. iii. p. 277; friend and contemporary, and probably also a puBoissonade, Graec. Poet. p. 163; Jacobs, Anth. pil of Galen, with whom he was acquainted while
Graec. vol, xiii. pp. 893, 894; Fabric. Bibl. Graec. they were both at Rome. (Galen. de Meth. Mled.
vol. i. p. 727.) [P. S.] viii. 2. vol. x. p. 535, 536.) It was at his request
EVE'RES (Ej4p-os), a son of Pterelaiis, was that Galen was induced to resume his work ")De
the only one among his brothers that escaped in Methodo Medendi," which he had begun to write
their fight with the sons of Electryon. (Apollod. for the use of Hieron, and which he had laid aside
ii. 4. ~ 5, &c.; comp. ALCMENE and AMPHITRYON.) after his death. (Ibid. vii. 1. p. 456.) It was also
There are two other mythical personages of this at his request that Galen wrote his work "De Ordine
name. (Apollod. ii. 7. ~ 8, iii. 6. ~ 7.) [L. S.] Librorum Suorum." (vol. xiv. p. 49.) [W. A. G.]
EVE'RGETES (Ev3epyETrs), the " Benefactor," M. EUGE'NICUS, a brother of Joannes Eugewas a title of honour, frequently conferred by the nicus, who was a celebrated ecclesiastical writer,
Greek states upon those from whom they had re- none of whose works, however, has yet apceived benefits, and was afterwards assumed by peared in print. (Fabric. Bibl. Graec. vol. xi. p.
many of the Greek kings in Egypt and other 653.) M. Eugenicus was by birth a Greek, and
countries. [PTOLEMAEUS.] in early life he was engaged as a schoolmaster and
EVERSA, a Theban, who joined Callicritus in teacher of rhetoric. But his great learning and his
opposing in the Boeotian assembly the views of eloquence raised him to the highest -dignities in the
Perseus, and was in consequence murdered with church, and about A. D. 1436 he succeeded Josephus
Callicritus by order of the king. (Liv. xlii. 13, 40.) as archbishop of Ephesus. Two years later, he
[CALLICRITUS.] accompanied the emperor Joannes Palaeologus to
E'VETES (Eve'T7) and EUXE'NIDES (E4e- the council of Florence, in which he took a very
v-i87s), were Athenian comic poets, contemporary prominent part; for he represented not only his
with Epicharmus, about B. c. 485. Nothing is own diocese, but acted as proxy for the patriarchs
heard of comic poetry during an interval of eighty of Antioch and Jerusalem. He opposed the Latin
years from the time of Susarion, till it was re- church with as much bitterness as he defended the
vived by Epicharmus in Sicily, and by Evetes, rights of the Greek church with zeal. In the beEuxenides, and Myllus at Athens. The only ginning of the discussions at the council, this diswriter who mentions these two poets is Suidas position drew upon him the displeasure of the em(s. v.'EMriXapgos). Myllus is not unfrequently peror, who was anxious to reunite'the two churches,
mentioned. [MYLLUS.] (Meineke, Hist. Crit. and also of the pope Eugenius. This gave rise to
Corn. Graec. p. 26.) most vehement disputes, in which the Greeks chose
There is also a Pythagorean philosopher, Evetes, Eugenicus as their spokesman and champion. As
of whom nothing is known but his name. (Iam- he was little acquainted with the dialectic subtleblich. Vit. Pyth. 36.). [P. S.] ties and the scholastic philosophy, in which the
EUGAMON (EvypC4uwv), one of the Cyclic prelates of the West far surpassed him, he was at
poets. He was a native of Cyrene, and lived first defeated by the cardinal Julian; but afterabout B. C. 568, so that he was a contemporary of wards, when Bessarion became his ally, the eloPeisistratus, Stesichorus, and Aristeas. His poem, quence of Eugenicus threw all the council into
which was intended to be a continuation of the amazement. The vehemence and bitterness of his
Odyssey, and bore the title of TiqAetyovfa, consisted invectives against the Latins, however, was so
of two books or rhapsodies, and formed the conclu- great, that a report was soon spread and believed,
sion of the epic cycle. It contained an account of that he was out of his mind; and even Bessarion:
all that happened after the fight of Odysseus with called him an evil spirit (cacodaemon). At the
the suitors of Penelope till the death of Odysseus. close of the council, when the other bishops were
The substance of the poem, which itself is entirely ready to acknowledge the claims of the pope, and
lost, is preserved in Proclus's Chrestomathia. were ordered by the emperor to sign the decrees
(Comp. Eustath. ad Hornm. p. 1796.) As Eugamon: of the council, Eugenicus alone steadfastly refused
lived at so late a period, it is highly probable that to yield, and neither threats nor promises could
he made use of the productions of earlier poets; induce him to alter his determination. The union
and Clemens of Alexandria (Strom. vi. p. 751; of the two churches, however, was decreed. On
comp. Euseb. Praep. Evang. x. 12) expressly states his return to Constantinople, he was received by
that Eugamon incorporated in his Telegonia a whole the people with the greatest enthusiasm, and the
epic poem of Musaeus, entitled "Thesprotis." most extravagant veneration was paid him. Dur