Euxenĭdas, a painter, &c. Pliny, bk. 35.
Euxĕnus, a man who wrote a poetical history of the fabulous ages of Italy. Dionysius of Halicarnassus, bk. 1.
Euxīnus Pontus, a sea between Asia and Europe, partly at the north of Asia Minor, and at the west of Colchis. It was anciently called ἀξεινος, inhospitable, on account of the savage manners of the inhabitants on its coast. Commerce with foreign nations, and the plantation of colonies in their neighbourhood, gradually softened their roughness, and the sea was no longer called Axenus, but Euxenus, hospitable. The Euxine is supposed by Herodotus to be 1387 miles long and 420 broad. Strabo calls it 1100 miles long and in circumference 3125. It abounds in all varieties of fish, and receives the tribute of above 40 rivers. It is not of great depth, except in the eastern parts, where some have imagined that it has a subterraneous communication with the Caspian. It is now called the Black sea, from the thick dark fogs which cover it. Ovid, Tristia, bk. 3, poem 13; bk. 4, poem 4, li. 54.—Strabo, bk. 1, &c.—Mela, bk. 1, ch. 1.—Pliny, bk. 3.—Herodotus, bk. 4, ch. 85.
Euxippe, a woman who killed herself because the ambassadors of Sparta had offered violence to her virtue, &c.
Exadius, one of the Lapithæ at the nuptials of Pirithous. Homer, Iliad, bk. 1, li. 264.—Ovid, Metamorphoses, bk. 12, li. 266.
Exæthes, a Parthian who cut off the head of Crassus, &c. Polyænus, bk. 7.
Exagŏnus, the ambassador of a nation in Cyprus, who came to Rome and talked so much of the power of herbs, serpents, &c., that the consuls ordered him to be thrown into a vessel full of serpents. These venomous creatures, far from hurting him, caressed him and harmlessly licked him with their tongues. Pliny, bk. 28, ch. 3.
Exomătræ, a people of Asiatic Sarmatia. Flaccus, bk. 6, li. 144.