Euryd′ice, wife of Orpheus, who was killed by a serpent on her wedding night.
“Nor yet the golden verge of day begun,
When Orpheus (her unhappy lord),
Eurydice to life restored,
At once beheld, and lost, and was undone.”
F. Lewis.
Euryth′ion. A seven-headed dragon. See Geryon.
Eu′terpe, one of the Muses, the patroness of instrumental music. The word means agreeable.
Eu′vyhe, an expression meaning “Well done, son.” Jupiter so frequently addressed his son Bacchus by those words that the phrase at last became one of his names.
Evening star, see Hesperus.