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or Germany to join his brother, when Tome cxprelTions 
which he had dropped relative to the corruptions and 
diforders of the church, occafioned his being accufed of 
herefy, and thrown into prifon. Being brought before 
the pope and cardinals to be examined, he had the bold- 
nefs openly to avow his opinions; and, refilling to re- 
trafl, was condemned to the hake, and burnt at Rome, 
in 1545. Francis became a difciple of Melandthon, who 
entertained a high opinion of his character and abilities. 
He was the author of a Spanifh tranflation of the New 
Teftament, printed at Antwerp in 1543, and dedicated to 
the emperor Charles V. He was alfo the author of a 
Hiftory of the State of the Low-countries, and of the 
Religion of Spain, 8vo. now very fcarce, and forms a 
part of the Proteftant Martyrclogy, printed in Germany. 
ENZO'WAN, a town of Bohemia, in the circle of 
Leitmeritz: four miles eaft of Leitmeritz. 
E'O, or Miranda, a river of Spain, which rifes in the 
mountains of Afturias, feparates the province of Afturias 
from Galicia, and runs into the Atlantic, a little to the 
north of Rivadeo. 
E'O-TABLE, f. a very ingenious machine, conftrudted 
for the purpofe of gaming. It is of a circular form, 
fcooped or hollowed down info a regular concavity, on 
the exterior borderof which is an arrangement of notches 
cut efcollop-fafliion to receive a marble, and marked al¬ 
ternately with the letters E and O. In one part of the 
circle is a recefs or notch without any mark or letter. 
Oppofite to this (its the table-keeper, who conducts the 
game. As many perfons can play as there are letters E 
and O marked upon the circle, the number of which de¬ 
pends on the greater or fmaller fize of its circumference. 
Thofe who play put down their money, half-crowns, 
half-guineas, guineas, or what pieces, and as many of 
each, as they choofe to (lake, upon either or both the 
letters, which the table-keeper covers with pieces of the 
fame number and value, and then throws the marble, 
which runs round a circular plane, till it finally fubfides 
into one of the notches. If the notch be marked with E, 
all thofe who laid on that letter win, and all who laid on 
O, lofe ; and fo vice verfa. By the rules of the game, 
the table-keeper is allowed to have one chance more than 
his adverfaries; and as he is at the expence of the table, 
and plays fingly againft as many perfons as the letters on 
the table will admit of, lie feems fairly entitled to fuch 
fupernumerary chance ; and therefore, as often as the 
marble falls into the blank recefs, he fweepsall the money 
from both letters. Hence the game, upon a fuperficial 
view, appears fair, and nearly equal. But as chicanery 
finds its way into every fpecies of gaming, fo it happens 
in this. We are informed, that by the help of an invi- 
fible fpring placed under the plane on which the marble 
runs, and moveable by a minute brafs pin known only to 
the table-keeper, a certain bias is communicated to the 
marble, fo as to make it fall into the blank recefs at plea- 
fure, whereby every player is in one moment defrauded 
of his money. Thefe tables are much ufed at races, to 
decoy the unwary ; but they are liable to be feized and 
burnt by the magiftrates, and the owners of them commit¬ 
ted to the houfe of corre&ion.— See the article Gaming. 
EOBA'NUS (Helitis), furnamed Hejfus, an eminent La¬ 
tin poet, born in 1488, on the confines of Hefle, as is faid, 
under a tree ; whence his parentage is concluded to have 
been very obfeure. His proper name was Elias Bokkendorff • 
the Chriftian name he graecifed, with an allufion to his 
being born on a Sunday. He was firft taught to read 
by a monk ; and, after learning Latin at a neighbouring 
fchool, purfued his maturer (Indies at the univerfity of 
Erfurt. The biftiop of Rifenburg in Prufiia, who wifhed 
to make him his fecretary, fent him for the (Indy of the 
civil law to Leipfic; but his paflion for polite literature 
daufed him to quit this place in difguft, and felling his 
books, he returned to Erfurt. There he employed him- 
felf in teaching the belles-lettres, till, in 1526, Philip 
Melan&hon procured him an invitation from the city of 
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Nuremberg. He taught there for feven years; and his 
reputation was fo high, that, it is faid, he had fifteen hun¬ 
dred auditors at a time. Philip landgrave of Hetfe placed 
him in the univerfity of Marpurg, where lie died in 1540. 
He pofiefled a wonderful facility in Latin poetry, whence 
he has been called the German Ovid, and fometimes the 
Chriftian Ovid, which laft title he particularly acquired 
from his Hcroidum Ckrifiianorian Epiflola, in imitation of the 
Roman poet’s heroic epiftles. He compofed a great va¬ 
riety of other Latin poems, of which his Elegies have 
been judged to be the beft. He likewife gained credit by 
his metrical verfions of tome of the Greek poets. Among 
thefe are tranllations of Homer’s Iliad, the Idylls of Theo¬ 
critus, and the Rape of Helen by Coluthus. His poems 
have been frequently publiftied, both feparately and col- 
letflively. A collection of his epiftles has alfo been pub- 
lilhed, with his life prefixed, by Joachim Camerarius. 
EODOR'BRICE, f. [from eobejt, Sax. a hedge, and 
bpice, ruptura .] Hedge-breaking; in which fenfe it is 
mentioned in the laws of king Alfred, c. 45. 
EO'LIPILE. See Hsolipile, vol. i. p.139. 
E'ON, f. [from vim, Gr. a bank.] The whole com- 
pafs of the eye, which is furrounded by the eye-lids as 
by a bank. 
E'ON (de 1 ’Etoile), a French fanatic in the twelfth 
century, who fora time excited much attention, and drew 
after him numerous followers. He was a native of Lower 
Bretagne, and a gentleman by birth. His brain, however, 
was undoubtedly difordered ; for, having heard thefe 
words in the form of exorcifm, per Evm qui venturus ejl 
judicare vivos ct viortuos, from the refemblance in found 
between the Latin word Eum and his own name, he per- 
luaded himfelf that he was the perfon who was to come 
to judge the quick and the dead, and of courfe the Mef- 
fiah. This extravagant opinion lie preached in various 
towns and provinces of France, and notwithfianding its 
abfurdity and wildnefs, fucceeded in gaining a vaft crowd 
of adherents, who believed him to be the arbiter of their 
everlafting deftiny. He ought to have been confidered as 
an unfortunate and crazy enthuliaft, and recommended 
to the care of his friends, and the advice of phyficians^ 
but the church raifed againft him the cry of impiety and 
herefy. He was committed to prifon by order of the 
archbiftiop of Rheims, who, in 1148, brought him to be 
examined before the council aftembled in that city, at 
which pope Eugenius prefided in perfon. The anfwers 
which Eon made to the queftions put to him by the pope, 
afforded evident proof of the derangement of his mind, 
and (hould have recommended him to merciful treat¬ 
ment ; but being committed to a clofe prifon, he in a few 
days died miferably. The deluded followers of Eon were 
arrefted and brought before the fame council, where the 
option was propofed to them either of abjuring their 
mailer’s opinions, or of being committed to the flames. 
But no menaces could induce them to abandon his caufe; 
and the council, ftrangers to the genuine fpirit of reli¬ 
gion, and accuftomed to perfecute for fuppofed errors in 
judgment, delivered them over to the fecnlar arm, by 
which they were inhumanly burnt in the neighbourhood 
of Rheims. 
E'ON, in mythology. See JE on. 
EO'OA. See Eaoowe. 
EO'RIA, f. in mythology, a feaft: celebrated by the 
Athenians in honour of Erigonus, who by way of punifh- 
ment for their not avenging the death of his father Icarus, 
engaged the gods to inflift the curfe on their daughters, 
that they (hould love men who never returned their paf- 
fion. The feaft was inftituted by the order of Apollo. 
E'OS, the name of Aurora among the Greeks; whence 
the epithet Eous is applied to all the eaftern parts of the 
world. Ovid. 
EOS'TRE, in mythology, a Saxon goddefs, to whom 
facrifices were offered in the month of April, called the 
month of Eojlra ; and thence the name Eafter , which the 
Saxons retained after their converfion to Chriftianity, ap- 
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