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was brought up by a woman, one of Whofe daughters he 
married. An aft of violence to his fider-in-law obliged 
him to leave Ethiopia, and he fled to Thrace with his fon 
IfmariiSj where he married the daughter of Tegyrius the 
king of the country. This conneftion to the royal family 
rendered him ambitious ; he confpired againfl his father- 
in-law, and fled, when the confpiracy was difcovered, to 
Attica, when? he was initiated in the myfleries of Ceres 
of Eleufis, and made Hierophantes or high pried. He was 
afterwards reconciled to Tegyrius, and inherited his king¬ 
dom. He made war againfl Erechtheus king of Athens, 
who had appointed him to the office of high pried, and 
perifiied in battle. His defcendants were alfo invefled 
with the priedhood, which remained for about 1200 years 
in that family. Apollodorus. 
EUNA'PIUS, a Greek fophid, hidorian, and phydcian, 
native of Sardis in Lydia, flourifned in the fourth 
Century, under the emperors Valentinian, Valens, and 
Gratian. He was a kinfman of the celebrated fophid 
Chryfanthius, at whole requed he wrote his Lives of 
the Sophids, or Philofophers, of his Time. This work is 
extant. It is written in a concife, and not inelegarit, dyle; 
but for its matter, it is faid by Brucker, to be “ a mafs of 
extravagant tales, difcovering a feeble underdanding, and 
an imagination prone to fuperflition.” He alfo compofed 
a hidory of the Caefars from Claudius II. to Arcadius 
and Honorius. It is loft ; but it is fuppofed that Zoflmus 
copied clofely from it. A fragment of it, De Legadonibus, 
is remaining. His Vitce Philofophoruvi was publiffied, to¬ 
gether with a Latin tranflatiun by Junius, in 1596, by 
Commelin. 
EUNI'CE, [pronounced in three fyllables.] The name 
of a woman. * 
EU'NIT AK, a place of Ead Greenland. Lat. 61.4. N. 
ion. 46. W. Greenwich. 
EUNO'MIANS,y. In church hidory, a very confidera- 
blebody of Chridians in the fourth century, who oppofed 
the fuperditions that were introduced about that period. 
EUNO'MIUS, bilhop of Cyzicum, founder of the feft 
of Eunomians, in the fourth century. He was a native 
of Dacora, in Cappadocia, whence he went to Condantino- 
ple, where he gained a livelihood for fome time as a fchool- 
mader. From Condantinople he removed to Alexandria, 
and became the fecretary and difciple, of Aetius, whofe 
•opinions he embraced. Eunomius, having been ordained 
a deacon by Euxodius bifhop of Antioch, was entrufled 
with a commiffion to the court of the emperor Condantius, 
to defend Euxodius againfl the accufations of Bafil bilhop 
of Ancyra; but on his journey thither he was feized by 
the partizans of Bafil, and baniflied to Myda, a "city in 
Phrygia. During the reign of the emperors Julian and 
Jovian, he appears to have refided partly at a houfe which 
he had at Chalcedon, and partly at Condantinople, where 
he had the opportunity of alfociating again with his maf- 
ter Aetius, to whofe remains he paid the lad tribute of 
refpeft. He was not differed, however, to remain long in 
peace in that city after the death of Aetius, but was 
obliged to retire to Chalcedon. To that place alfo the 
enmity of his adverfaries purfued him, and, being accufed 
by them before the emperor of Valens of having afforded 
lanftuary to his rival Procopius, he was baniflied by his 
order into Mauritania. Wearied, at length, by a cruel 
repetition of haraffing perfecutions, he obtained leave 
from the court to retire to the place of his nativity, where 
he died at an advanced age, about the year 394. He was 
the author of various works, now chiefly lod, which 
provoked anfwers from numerous writers, among whom 
were Athanafius, Bafil, the two Gregorys of Nazianzen 
and Nylfen, Chryfoffom, Sophronius, &c. His treatifes 
ftill extant are, Eunomius’s Creed, prefented to the em¬ 
peror Theodofius in 383, fird publilhed from a MS. in 
the Florentine library by Valefius ; and his Apologeticus, 
or Defence of his Doftrinc, in which, according to Cave, 
the fly arch-heretic reafons flirewdly. The beginning 
and the conclufion of the latter piece are inferted in 
Vol. VII, No. 408. 
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Cave, as takdn front a MS. in archbifhop Tenifon’s li¬ 
brary ; and it is to be found entire in Fabriciiis, and alfo 
in an Englifli verlion at the end of the fil’d volume of 
Whiflon’s Primitive Chridiafiity revived. 
EU'NOMY, /. [from eve, good, and ko/zo?, Gr. alaw.J 
A conditution of good laws. 
EU'NUCILyi [eunuckus, Lat. from tun?, abed, tx u > Gr.. 
to keep ; fo called, from their being employed about the 
beds or chambers of great men in the eafl.j An emafeu- 
lated orcadrated perfon.—When or where this infamous 
praftice had its origin, weare no where informed ; though 
it has been attributed to the people of Upper Egypt, 
from whence eunuchs are purehafed at this day for the 
ufe of the grand feignor. Browne, in his African Travels, 
afferts that many families in Upper Egypt claim the here¬ 
ditary privilege of eunuch-making. Thefe wretched 
beings are chiefly employed to watch over and attend 
upon the harems kept by the princes and opulent men in 
the eadermcountries, where a plurality of women is al¬ 
lowed. Several methodsof performing the operation are 
deferibed by different authors; which fee under the ar¬ 
ticle Castration. The mod common mode is that of 
merely eradicating the tedicles; but where eunuchs are 
to be truded with the perfons of favourite women, they 
are obliged to undergo total emafculatio-n, by having all 
the parts entirely cut away. In cafes where the tedes 
only are removed, it is not uncommon for fuch eunuchs to 
efteft a contaft with women ; though perhaps with little 
gratification to either fex, and with an utter impoffibility 
of inducing conception. Niebuhr, in his Arabian Travels, 
fays, “ Eunuchs born in a climafe which has a tendency 
to inflame the blood, are not void of paffion for the fair 
fex. On the fea, between Suez and Jedda, I met with a 
rich eunuch who travelled with his harem ; and at Bafira 
there lived another, who kept a number of females for his 
private amufement.” 
In China, according to fir George Staunton, eunuchs 
are much more numerous than in the dominions of the 
grand feignor. He dates that “ near fix thoufanff eunuchs 
were difmiffed in the minority of Caung-fliee, grandfather 
of Chen-lurig, the late emperor ; but they have been in- 
creafing ever fince that period, and hold at prefent mod 
of the inferior offices in the palaces of Pekin and Yuen- 
min-yuen.” The operation for thefe inferior offices, con- 
fids only in having the tedicles eradicated, as is done in 
Italy for ameliorating the voice, where boys from two to 
three or four years of age are often devoted to this fa- 
crifice of manhood, for the purpofe of fupplying the 
opera-houfes and theatres with fingers. But “ to be en- 
trufled with the care of the ladies of the court, it is deem¬ 
ed neceifary that all traces of fex fliould completely be 
erafed. It may appear furprifing to an Englifli reader^ 
that the operations for this purpofe, however, delicate in 
themfelves, are performed upon the Chinefe of an adult 
age, with little accident or peril in refpeft to life. This 
operation is indeed performed in China upon l’ubjefts of 
every age, from childhood to that of forty years; and the 
fame praftice dill obtains in Perda. It is fuppofed that 
ligatures anointed with a caudic liquid are tiled for this 
purpofe in preference to the knife. The patient has 
been known to walk abroad in the courfe of not many 
days, apparently as if nothing had happened to him. 
Yet when emafculation takes place upon an adult fubjeft, 
he foon becomes withered, his beard falls off, and his 
face becomes furrowed like the wrinkled hag." See the ar¬ 
ticle China, vol.iv. p. 483. To corroborate this faft, 
dr George Staunton deferibes the eunuch who fuperin- 
tended the ladies in the palace of Yuen-min-yuen : “ lie 
was at lead fix feet high, and though under thirty years 
of age, he was fo wrinkled that he never appeared in pub¬ 
lic without his face being entirely painted : a girl’s voice 
could fcarcely be more flirill or feeble 1” See Staunton’s 
Embaffy, 4to. vol.ii. p. 316. 
According to Brqwqe, female eunuchs are not uncom¬ 
mon in fome parts of Africa, though its origin is not traced 
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