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

EUMARIDA3S. EUMELUS. 87
(ad Scap. c. 4) says that young Antoninus was to read Thymaridas, who is known as a celebrated
reared upon Christian milk, he refers to Proculus, Pythagorean. (Iambl. I. c. 23, with Kiessling's
the steward of Euhodus, for there is no reason to note.) [L. S.]
believe that either Euhodus or his wife professed EU'MARUS, a very ancient Greek painter of
the true faith, as some have imagined. (Dion Cass. monochromes, was the first, according to Pliny,
lxxvi. 3, 6, lxxvii. 1.) [W. R.] who distinguished, in painting, the male from the
EVIPPE (EJ7rirn7), the name of five mytholo- female, and who "dared to imitate all figures."
gical personages, concerning whom nothing of in- His invention was improved upon by Simon of
terest is related. (Apollod. ii. 1. ~ 5; Paus. ix. Cleonae. (xxxv. 8. s. 34.) MUller (Arch. d. Kunst,
34. ~ 5; Parthen. Erot. 3; Eratosth. Catast. 18; ~ 74) supposes that the distinction was made by a
Ov. Met. v. 303.) [L. S.] difference of colouring; but Pliny's words seem
EVIPPUS (Edlr7ros). 1. A son of Thestius and rather to refer to the drawing of the figure. [P. S.]
Eurythemis, who, together with his brothers, was EUMA'THIUS. [EusTATHIUS, NO. 5.]
killed by Meleager. (Apollod.. i- 7. ~ 10, 8. ~ 3.) EUME'LUS (Etiu77Aos), a son of Admetus and
2. A son of Megareus, who was killed by the Alcestis, who went with eleven ships and warriors
Cithaeronean lion. (Paus. i. 41. ~ 4.) There are from Pherae, Boebe, Glaphyrae, and Iaolcus to
two other mythical personages of this name, (Hom. Troy. He was distinguished for his excellent
II. xvi. 417; Steph. Byz. s. v.'AAdgavsa.) [L.S.] horses, which had once been under the care of
EULAEUS (EtvAa7os), an eunuch, became one Apollo, and with which Eumelus would have
of the regents of Egypt and guardians of Ptolemy gained the prize at the funeral games of Patroclus,
Philometor on the death of Cleopatra, the mother if his chariot had not been broken. He was marof the latter, in B. C. 173. The young king was ried to Iphthima, the daughter of Icarius. (Hom.
then 13 years old, and he is said to have been II. ii. 711, &c. 764, xxiii. 375, 536, Od. iv. 798;
brought up in the greatest luxury and effeminacy Strab. ix. p. 436.) There are three other mythoby Eulaeus, who hoped to render his own influence logical personages of this name. (Anton. Lib. 15,
permanent by the corruption and consequent weak- 18; Paus. vii. 18. ~ 2.) [L. S.]
ness of Ptolemy. It was Eulaeus who, by refusing EUME'LUS (E't Nyos), one of the three sons
the claims of Antiochus IV. (Epiphanes) to the of Parysades, King of Bosporus. After his father's
provinces of Coele-Syria and Palestine, involved death he engaged in a war for the crown with his
Egypt in the disastrous war with Syria in B.C. 171. brothers Satyrus and Prytanis, who were succes(Polyb. xxviii 16; Diod. Fragin. lib. xxx. Exc. de sively killed in battle. Eumelus reigned most
Leg. xviii. p. 624, de Virt. et Vit. p. 579; Liv. prosperously for five years and five months, B. C.
xlii. 29, xlv. 11, 12; App. Syr. 66; Just. xxxiv. 309-304. (Diod. xx. 22-26; Clinton, F. H. vol.
2.) [E. E.] ii. pp. 282, 285.) [P. S.]
EULO'GIUS. [ECLOGIUS.] EUME'LUS (Evtu77os). 1. Of Corinth, the
EULO'GIUS, FAVO'NIUS;, a rhetorician of son of Amphilytus, a very ancient Epic poet, beCarthage, and a contemporary and disciple of St. longed, according to some, to the Epic cycle. His
Augustin. (August. de Cur. pro Mort. 11.) Under name, like Eucheir, Eugrammus, &c., is significant,
his name we possess a disputation on Cicero's referring to his skill in poetry. He was of the
Somnium Scipionis, which contains various discus- noble house of the Bacchiadae, and flourished about
sions on points of the Pythagorean doctrine the 5th Olympiad, according to Eusebius (Chron.*),
of numbers. The treatise was first printed by who makes him contemporary with Arctinus.
A. Schott at the end of his Quaestiones Tullianae (Comp. Cyril, c. Julian. i. p. 13; Clem. Alex.
(Antwerp, 1613, 8vo.), and afterwards in the Strom. i. p. 144.)
edition of Cicero's de Officiis, by Graevius (1688), Those of the poems ascribed to him, which apfrom which it is reprinted with some improvements pear pretty certainly genuine, were genealogical and
in Orelli's edition of Cicero, vol. v. part. 1, pp. 397 historical legends. To this class belonged his Co-413. [L. S.] rinthian History (Paus. ii. 1. ~ 1, 2. ~ 2, 3. ~ 8;
EU'MACHUS (EijuaXos). 1. A Corinthian, Schol. ad Apoll. Rhod. i. 148; Tzetz. Schol. ad
son of Chrysis, was one of the generals sent by Lycophr. 1024, comp. 174, 480), his rpogo-lov es
the Corinthians in the winter of B. c. 431 in A'^ov, from which some lines are quoted by Paucommand of an armament to restore Evarchus, sanias, who considered it the only genuine work ot
tyrant of Astacus, who had been recently expelled Eumelus (iv. 4. ~ 1, 33. ~~ 2, 3, v. 19. ~ 2), and
by the Athenians. (Thuc. ii. 33.) the Europia (Euseb. I. e.; Clem. Alex. Strom.i. p.
2. A native of Neapolis, who, according to 151; Schol. ad Iom. II. ii. p. 121.) He also wrote
Athenaeus (xiii. p. 577), wrote a work entitled Bougonia, a poem on bees, which the Greeks called'ITropiaL rsv 7repl'Avvigav. It is perhaps the fBovyJvai and ov-yeves. (Euseb. 1. c.; Varro. R. R.
same Eumachus of whose work entitled IIepniy77ots ii. 5. ~ 5, ed. Schneid.) Some writers ascribed to
a fragment is still extant in Phlegon. (Mirab. him a TeLavotzaxta, which also was attributed to
c. 18.) [C. P. M.] Arctinus. (Athen. vii. p. 277, d., comp. i. p. 22,
EUMAEUS (Evpaios), the famous and faithful c.; Schol. ad Apoll. Rhod. i. 1165.)
swineherd of Odysseus, was a son of Ctesius, king The cyclic poem on the return of the Greeks from
of the island of Syrie; he had been carried away Troy (v'oros) is ascribed to Eumelus by a Schofrom his father's house by a Phoenician slave, and liast on Pindar (01. xiii. 31), who writes the name
Phoenician sailors sold him to Laertes, the father wrongly, Eumolpus. The lines quoted bythis Schoof Odysseus. (Hom. Od. xv. 403, &c.; comp. liast are also given by Pausanias, under the name
ODYSSEUS.) [L. S.] of Eumelus. (Vossius, de Hist. Graec. pp. 5, 6, ed.
EUMA'RIDAS (Et/zaptfas), of Paros, a Py- Westermann; Welcker, dieEpische Cyclus, p. 274.)
thagorean philosopher, who is mentioned by Iamblichus (Vit. Pyth. 36); but it is uncertain whether " A little lower, Eusebius places him again at
the reading is correct, and whether we ought not 01. 9, but the former date seems the more correct.