Eury̆thion and Eurytion, a centaur whose insolence to Hippodamia was the cause of the quarrel between the Lapithæ and Centaurs, at the nuptials of Pirithous. Ovid, Metamorphoses, bk. 12.—Pausanias, bk. 5, ch. 10.—Hesiod, Theogony.——A herdsman of Geryon, killed by Hercules. Apollodorus, bk. 2.——A king of Sparta, who seized upon Mantinea by stratagem. Polyænus, bk. 2.——One of the Argonauts. Ovid, Metamorphoses, bk. 8, li. 311.——A son of Lycaon, who signalized himself during the funeral games exhibited in Sicily by Æneas. Virgil, Æneid, bk. 5, li. 495.——A silversmith. Æneid, bk. 10, li. 499.——A man of Heraclea convicted of adultery. His punishment was the cause of the abolition of the oligarchical power there. Aristotle, bk. 5, Politics.
Eury̆tis (idos), a patronymic of Iole daughter of Eurytus. Ovid, Metamorphoses, bk. 9, fable 11.
Eury̆tus, a son of Mercury, among the Argonauts. Flaccus, bk. 1, li. 439.——A king of Œchalia, father to Iole. He offered his daughter to him who shot a bow better than himself. Hercules conquered him, and put him to death because he refused him his daughter as the prize of his victory. Apollodorus, bk. 2, chs. 4 & 7.——A son of Actor, concerned in the wars between Augias and Hercules, and killed by the hero.——A son of Augias, killed by Hercules as he was going to Corinth to celebrate the Isthmian games. Apollodorus.——A person killed in hunting the Calydonian boar.——A son of Hippocoon. Apollodorus, bk. 3, ch. 10.——A giant killed by Hercules or Bacchus for making war against the gods.
Eusebia, an empress, wife to Constantius, &c. She died A.D. 360, highly and deservedly lamented.
Eusebius, a bishop of Cæsarea, in great favour with the emperor Constantine. He was concerned in the theological disputes of Arius and Athanasius, and distinguished himself by his writings, which consisted of an ecclesiastical history, the life of Constantine, Chronicon, Evangelical Preparations, and other numerous treatises, most of which are now lost. The best edition of his Præparatio and Demonstratio Evangelica, is by Vigerus, 2 vols., folio, Rothomagi, 1628; and of his ecclesiastical history by Reading, folio, Cambridge. 1720.
Eusebius, a surname of Bacchus.
Eusepus and Pedasus, the twin sons of Bucolion, killed in the Trojan war. Homer, Iliad, bk. 6.
Eustathius, a Greek commentator on the works of Homer. The best edition of this very valuable author is that published at Basil, 3 vols., folio, 1560. It is to be lamented that the design of Alexander Politus, begun at Florence in 1735, and published in the first five books of the Iliad, is not executed, as a Latin translation of these excellent commentaries is among the desiderata of the present day.——A man who wrote a very foolish romance in Greek, entitled De Ismeniæ et Ismenes amoribus, edited by Gaulminus, 8vo, Paris, 1617.
Eutæa, a town of Arcadia. Pausanias, bk. 8, ch. 27.
Eutelidas, a famous statuary of Argos. Pausanias, bk. 6, ch. 10.