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86 EUGENIUS. EUHODUS.
ing the remainder of his life he continued to oppose 1677, vol. ix., p. 4; and Procop'ius, De Bello Vanthe Latin church wherever he could; and it was dalico, i. 7, &c. [W. R.]
mainly owing to his influence that, after his death, EUGE'NIUS, who was bishop of Toledo from
the union was broken off. For, on his death-bed A. D. 646 to 657, is mentioned under DRACONin 1447, he solemnly requested Georgius Scholarius, TIus as the editor and enlarger of the work by
to continue the struggle against the Latins, which Dracontius upon the Creation. He is known also
he himself had carried on, and Georgius promised, as the author of thirty-two short original poems
and faithfully kept his word. The funeral oration composed on a great variety of subjects, chiefly
on Eugenicus was delivered by the same friend, however moral and religious, in heroic, elegiac,
Georgius. trochaic, and sapphic measures. These were pubM. Eugenicus was the author of many works, lished by Sirmond at Paris, 8vo. 1619, will be
most of which were directed against the Latin found- also in the collected works of Sirmond
church, whence they were attacked by those Greeks (Paris 1696 and Venice 1728), in the Bibl. Patr.
who were in favour of that church, such as Joseph Ma. Lugdun. 1677, vol. xii. p. 345, and in the
of Methone, Bessarion, and others. The following edition of Dracontius by Rivinus, Lips. 1651.
are printed either entire or in part. 1. A Letter Two Epigrams by Eugenius-one on the invention
to the emperor Palaeologus, in which he cautions of letters, the other on the names of hybrid
the Greeks against the council of Florence, and animals, are contained in the Anthologia Latina of
exposes the intrigues of the Latins. It is printed, Burmann, ii. 264, v. 164, or n. 386, 387, ed.
with a Latin version and an answer by Joseph Meyer. [W. R.]
of Methone, in Labbeus, Concil. vol. xiii. p. 677. EUGE'NIUS, praefectus praetorio Orientis. in
2. A Circular, addressed to all Christendom, on A. D. 547 or 540. He was the author of an Edict
the same subject, is printed in Labbeus, 1. c. p. 740, concerning the accounts of publicans, which is inwith an answer by Gregorius Protosyncellus. serted in the collection of the Edicta praefectorum
3. A Treatise on Liturgical Subjects, in which he praetorio. (Biener, Geschichte der Novellen. Justinimaintains the spiritual power of the priesthood. ans. p. 532; Zachariae, Anecdota, p.261.) [J. T. G.]
It is printed in the Liturgiae, p. 138, ed. Paris, EUGENIUS, a Greek physician, of whom it
1560. 4. A Profession of Faitk, of which a frag- is only known that he must have lived some
ment, with a Latin translation, is printed in Alla- time in or before the first century after Christ,
tius, de Consensu, iii. 3. ~ 4. 5. A Letter to the as one of his medical formulae is quoted by Anemperor Palaeologus, of which a fragment is given dromachus. (ap. Galen. de Compos. Medicaem. sec.
in Allatius, de Synodo Octava, 14, p. 544. His Locos, vii. 6. vol. xiii. p. 114.) He is also quoted
other works are still extant in MS., but have never by Gariopontus (de Febr. c. 7), from which it
been published. A list of them is given by Fabri- would appear either that some of his works were
cius. (Bibl. Graec. vol. xi. p. 670, &c.; comp. Cave, extant in the eleventh century, or that some sources
Hist. Lit. vol. i. Appendix, p. 111, &c.) [L. S.] of information concerning him were then to be had
EUGE'NIUS, an African confessor, not less which do not now exist. [W. A. G.]
celebrated for his learning and sanctity than for EU'GEON (Edy4ewv or Edvyalwv), of Samos, one
the courage with which he advocated the doctrines of the earliest Greek historians mentioned by Dioof the orthodox faith during the persecution of nysius of Halicarnassus. (Jud. de T]iucyd. 5; comp.
the Arian Vandals towards the close of the fifth Suid. s. v.) [L. S.]
century. At first tolerated by Hunneric, who ac- EUGESIPPUS (E1y}o) r7rros), the author of a
quiesced in his elevation to the see of Carthage in work on the distances of places in the Holy Land,
A. D. 480, he was subsequently transported by of which a Latin translation is printed in Leo A1that prince, after the stormy council held in latius':2v/yzLKIc. He lived about A. D. 1040, but
February A. D. 484, to the deserts of Tripoli, no particulars are known about him. [L. S.]
from whence he was recalled by the tardy cle- EUGRAMMUS. [EUCHEIR, No. 2.]
mency of Gundamund, but eight years afterwards EUGRA'PHIUS, a Latin grammarian, who is
was arrested, tried and condemned to death by believed to have flourished as late as the end of the
Thrasimund, who, however, commuted the sen- tenth century, is the author of a few unimportant
tence to banishment. The place fixed upon was notes upon Terence, referring chiefly to the proVienne in Languedoc, where Alaric. at that period logues. They were first published by Faernus
held sway. Here Eugenius founded a monastery (Florent. 8vo. 1565), were subsequently improved
near the tomb of St. Amaranthus, where he and enlarged byLindenbrogius (4to. Paris, 1502,
passed his time in devout tranquillity until his Francf. 1623) and Westerhovius (Hag. Corn. 4to.
death on the 13th of July A. D. 505. 1726), and are given in all the more complete ediUnder the name of Eugenius we possess a con- tions of the dramatist. We hear also of a MS. in
fession of faith drawn up in accordance with the the Bibliotheque du Roi at Paris, intitled Commendoctrines recognised by the council of Nicaea, and turn in Terentium, bearing the name of Eugraphius,
presented on the part of the orthodox African pre- which Lindenbrogius did not think worth publishlates to Hunneric, under the title, Professio fidei ing. [W. R.]
Catholicorum episcoporum Hunerico regi oblata. It EU'HODUS, a freedman of the emperor Septiwill be found in the Bibl. Max. Patr. Lugdun. mius Severus: and tutor to Caracalla, who was
1677, vol. viii. p. 683, and an account of its con- nursed by his wife Euhodia. At the instigation of
tents in Schrbck, Kirchengeschichte, vol. xviii. p. 97. the young prince he contrived the ruin of the too
Gennadius mentions several other works by this powerful Plautianus [PLAUTIANUS]; but although
author, but they no longer exist. For the original loaded with honours on account of this good serdocuments connected with the Vandal persecution vice, he was put to death in A. D. 211, almost imsee " Victor Vitensis de persecutione Vandalica " mediately after the accession of his foster-son, from
with the notes of Ruinart, Paris, 1694; the "Vita a suspicion, probably, that he entertained friendly
S. Fulgentii " in the Bibl. Jnfax. Pats. Lugdun. feelings towards the hated Geta. When Tertullian