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laureat. He was the author of many poetical pieces, and 
died in 17.10. 
EU'SEBES,/! In heathen mythology, a (lone formed 
in a chair, in the temple of Bacchus at Tyre, where de¬ 
mons or evil fpirits were fup.pofed to appear. 
EUSE'BI A, [ev, well, and crsSa, Gr, to venerate.] ,The 
name of a woman. 
EUSE'BIANS, a denomination given to the fedft of 
Arians, on account of the favour and countenance which 
Eufebius, biftiop of Caefarea, (liowed and procured for 
them at their firft rife. 
EUSE'BIQS, furnamed Paviphilus, bidiop of Caefarea 
in the fourth century, the father of eccledaftical hidory, 
born about the year 270. We have no certain accounts 
of his family, or of his inftrudtors in early life. But that 
he was a diligent (Indent in all branches of facred and pro- 
phane literature, particularly in fcriptural knowledge 
and eccledaftical antiquities, is (Efficiently apparent from 
his numerous valuable productions. During the perfe- 
cution under Diocledan, he was unwearied in exhorting 
the Chriftians at Caefarea to fortitude and conftancy in 
their fufterings for the faith of Chrift, and was.called to 
the painful talk of fupporting and animating the mind of 
his friend Pamphilus, who differed martyrdom in 309. 
Upon the martyrdom of Pamphilus, out of refpedt to his 
memory, Eufebius added his name to his own, and then 
removed to Tyre, where his friend Paulinus was biftiop, 
and where he law numbers feal their teftimony to the 
truth of Cliriftianity, with glory and triumph over the 
cruelties of perfecution. At the meeting of the famous 
council i f Nice in 325, he was appointed to the office of 
opening it, and had the firft feat alligned him by the em¬ 
peror Conftantine, on the right of the throne. Pie was 
alfo prefent at the council of Antioch, in 330, when the 
arian party depofed Euftathius, the biftiop of that city ; 
and he concurred in their judgment. On this occafion, 
however, lie exhibited a (trong proof of his fuperiority 
to all felfi(h views. For though be was elected both by 
the biftiops and people to that fee, which was a much 
more profitable fituation than that of Caefarea, he abfo- 
lutely refilled it. In 335 he j< 'ned tho(e biftiops who at 
the council of Tyre condemned the proceedings of Atha- 
iiafius biftiop of Alexandria ; and he was afterwards de¬ 
puted by the fame biftiops in a council which they held 
at Jerufalem, to attend the emperor Conftantine, in order 
to juftify the meafur.es which they had taken againft that 
prelate. Eufebius was certainly one of the molt learned 
and ftudious men of all antiquity. With the mod eminent 
perfons of his time for knowledge and literature he was 
intimately acquainted, and had accefs to lome of the beft 
libraries then exifting. He died eirlief in 339 or 340. Of 
Eufebius’s numerous works, the mod important and va¬ 
luable is his Eccledaftical Hiftory, in ten books, containing 
the hiftory of the church from the birth of Chrift to his 
own times. The beft edition of this hiftory is that of the 
learned Valefius ; and of the various imprefiions of that 
edition the mod valuable is that printed at Cambridge, in 
1720, in three volumes folio, by William Reading. It 
contains the author’s Life of Conftantine, in four books, 
and other ecclefiaftical hiftorians, as Socrates, Theodurer, 
&c. Eufebius’s Chronicle, in two books, containing an 
univerfal hiftory from the earlirit times to the year 325, 
is another work of prodigious labour and learning, which 
deferves to be chrfled among the moft ufefu! remains of 
antiquity. His Evangelical Preparation, in fifteen books, 
and his ten books Of Evangelical Demonftration, which 
are the only ones remaining out of twenty books, of which 
the work originally connfted, form the mod comprehen- 
five and the moft learned defence which antiquity af¬ 
fords us of the truth of the Chriftian religion againft the 
objections of Pagans and Jews. A beautiful edition of 
them was publiftied in Greek, by Robert Stephens, in 
2544 and 1345, in two volumes folio; which was reprint¬ 
ed at Paris, in 1628, in two volumes folio, w,th a Latin 
verfion of the former, together with various readings from 
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different MSS. and notes, by Francis Vigerius, and Dc- 
natus’s Latin verfion of the latter. Betides the works 
above-mentioned, Eufebius was the author of A Com¬ 
mentary upon the 150 Pfalrns, publiftied as far as the 
119th, by Montfaucon, in the firft volume of his ColleB. 
Nov. Grac. Pat. 1706; A Commentary upon the Prophe¬ 
cies of Ilaiah, publiftied in tire fecorid volume of Mont- 
faucon’s Collection ; An Expofitionof the Song of Songs, 
publiftied by Meurfuts, in 1617; A Treatife againft 
Hierocles, who to expofe the Chriftian religion to ridicule 
had compared Apollonius Tyanacus with Jefus Chrift; 
Five Books againft Marcellus biftiop of Ancyra, or, as 
they are generally divided and entitled,Two Books againft 
Marcellus, and Three Books of Ecclefiaftical Theology ; 
fix books of An Apology forOrigen, compofed jointly by 
Eufebius and his friend Pamphilus, of which a Latin ver¬ 
fion of the firft only is now remaining ; Ten Evangelical 
Canons, or Rules for harmonifing the Evangelifts ; A 
Book of Topography, containing geographical explana¬ 
tions of the countries, cities, and places, mentioned in 
the Old Teftament, publiftied with, notes, by Bonfrerius 
and Le Clerc, in 1707, in folio ; A Defcription of the 
Church of the Sepulchre at Jerufalem, ami its Ornaments, 
and the Prefents Cent thither by the Emperor ; a (liort 
Treatife of the Lives of the Prophets ; fourteen f’mall 
trails, publiftied in Latin, by father Sirmond, in 1643, 
8vo. ; two Sermons in Greek and Latin, publiftied by fa¬ 
ther Combefis, in the firft volume of his AuEiuar. Nov. Pat. 
Grac. ; and feveral other treatifes no longer extant, for 
the titles.and farther particulars of which we refer to Fa- 
bricius, Cave, and Du Pin. 
EUSE'BIUS, biftiop of Berytus in Phoenicia, and af¬ 
terwards of Nicomedia and Conftantinopie, in the fourth 
century. After his tranftation from Berytus to Nicome¬ 
dia, the difputes between Arius and his diocefan at Alex¬ 
andria had arifen to fuch a height, that the former was 
profecuted for herefy before a council of African biftiops, 
pronounced excommunicated from the catholic church, 
and banilhed from the city of which he was a prelbyter. 
In thefe circumftances he retired for refuge to Eufebius 
at Nicomedia, who, conftdering him to be an injured and 
perfecuted man, warmly efporifed his interefts, and cir¬ 
culated letters in his defence among the A/iatic and Eu¬ 
ropean biftiops. He likewife adopted the diftinguifhing 
tenets of Arius, of which he proved one of the moft able 
and learned champions ; whence the party who embraced 
them were called by the name of Eufebians. He was pre¬ 
fent at the council of Nice in 325, and in a fpirited manner 
defended tire caufe of Arius; but when the fathers had 
decreed his condemnation, after fome delay Eufebius 
figned the creed which they eftabliftied as a teft of ortho¬ 
doxy. As he was a perfon not only of confiderable learn¬ 
ing and abilities, but alfo of great addrefs, he afterwards 
rendered the party of Arius triumphant at the Conftanti- 
nopolitan court, and employed his influence in perfecuting 
thofe who had been the perfecutors of Arius. Thus the 
fpirit of Chriftianity was difgraced, and its benevolent 
precepts (hamefully violated, in the hardlhips which were 
now inflicted on catholic believers. Eufebius maintained 
his influence with Conftantine until the death of that em¬ 
peror, and afterwards poflefted in an equal degree the con¬ 
fidence of iris Con Conftantius. In 341 he attended the 
council at Antioch, in which Athanafius was depofed 
from his epifcopal functions, to which lie had been re- 
ftored by an edict of the emperor Conftantius. Soon 
after the meeting of this council, about the year 342, he 
terminated his career. There are no genuine remains of 
the numerous writings of which he is faid to have been 
the author, excepting A Letter concerning Arius and his 
Opinions, which is preferved in Theodoret. 
EUSE'BIUS, bifhop of Emefa in Phoenicia, in the 
fourth century, a defeendant from, an honourable family, 
and born at Edefta in Mefopotamia. He was early in- 
ftrudted in the (acred feriptures, and then placed under 
the beft. mailers in his native city, where lie became ac- 
corcrpliihed- 
