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diftinguiflted by the name of Evjlathians. Of his numerous 
writings there are few remains extant of undifputed 
genu nenef , excepting fragments which have been col¬ 
lected by Fabricius. Perhaps his only exiiting treatife is, 
A Differtation concerning the Ventriloquift, or Pythonefs, 
r Sant, xxviii. written againft Origen and his opinions 
on that fubjeft,which was publifhed by Alladius in Greek, 
together with a Latin verfion, in 1629, and is alfo to be 
found in the twenty-feventh volume of the Bibliotheca Pa- 
trum, and in the eighth volume of the Critici Sacri. 
EUST A'TI A, or Eu statius. See Saint Eustatia. 
EUSTA'TIUS, archbifhop of Theffalonica, a gram¬ 
marian and critic of note, live i in the twelfth century, 
under the emperors Manuel, Alexius, and Andronicus 
Comnenus. He is known by his Commentaries upon 
Homer, and upon Dionyfius the geographer. Thefe 
commentaries were printed at Rome in four volumes 
folio, 1542,1550, and have been reprinted, particularly 
at Florence, 1730, See. with the notes and tranflations of 
Politi and Salvini. Many of the annotations are given in 
the notes on Pope’s Homer. The commentaries on Dio- 
nyfius were firfl printed in the Greek by Robert Stephens 
in 1547, and have been feveral times reprinted. A Latin 
verfion of them was given by Politi in 1742, at Geneva, 
two volumes, 8vo. 
EU'STOW, formerly called Helenjlow , a place in Bed- 
fordfhire, fo called from a convent dedicated to Helen, 
the mother of Conftantine the Great. 
EUSTJLA'TIUS, a prefoyter of the church of Con¬ 
ftantinople under the patriarchate of Eutychius, flouriflted 
about the year 578. He was the author of A Treatife 
concerning the Souls of the Dead, intended to prove that 
the fouls of all men are aCtive after their reparation from 
the body. It was firft publifhed by Leo Allatius, ac¬ 
companied with a Latin verfion, at the end of his Trea¬ 
tife on Purgatory, Rome, 1665, 8vo. and is inferted in 
the twenty-feventh volume of the Bibliotheca Patrum. He 
was alfo theauthorofThe Lifeof the Patriarch Eutychius. 
EUSTRA'TIUS, archbifttop of Nice in the twelfth 
century, fpoken of as a perfon of profound learning and 
/kill, as well in civil as ecclefiaftieal affairs. He was the 
author of A Treatife againft Chryfolanus, concerning the 
Proceflion of the Holy Spirit, which is to be met with in 
different libraries ; and of fome other pieces mentioned 
by Allatius, which are ftill probably in cxiftence. The 
only works of his which have been committed to the prefs 
are, Commentaries on the latter Analyfis of Ariffotle, 
publilhed in Greek at Venice, 1534, folio ; and Commen¬ 
taries on the Ethics of Ariffotle, publifhed in Greek at 
the fame place, 1536, folio, and in Latin at Paris, 1543, 
folio. 
EUS'TYLE,yi in architedlure, the beff manner of plac¬ 
ing columns, with regard to their diftance ; which, ac¬ 
cording to Vitruvius, fhould be four modules, or two dia¬ 
meters and a quarter. 
EU'TAM, a fmall ifland of the Well Indies, near the 
eaft coaft of Porto Rico. Lat. 18. 18. N. Ion. 64.41. 
\V. Greenwich. 
EUTA'XIA, or Eutaxy,/ [from ev;, good, and 
9Gr. order.] A graceful difpofition of things ; pro¬ 
per order, 
EUTER'PE, one of the Mufes, daughter of Jupiterand 
Mnemofyne. She prefided over mufic, and was looked 
upon as the inventrefs of the flute. She is reprefented 
as crowned with flowers, and holding a flute in her 
hands. Some mythologifts attributed to her the inven¬ 
tion of tragedy, more commonly fuppofed to be the pro- 
dudtion of Melpomene. 
EUTHANA'SIA, or Euthanasv, f . [svSa ]) OLa\CLy 
Gr.] An eafy death.—A recovery, in my cafe, and at 
my age, is impoflible ; the kindeft with of my friends is 
■euthanajia. Arbuthnot. 
EUTHE'NIA, [from evStivsta, Gr. to profper.] The 
medical term for a found ftate of health, or good confti- 
tution of body. 
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EUTHY'CR ATES, a fculptor of Sicyon, foil of I.y- 
fippus. He was peculiarly happy in the proportions of 
his ftatues. Thofe of Hercules and Alexander were in 
general effeetn, and particularly that of Medea, which 
was carried on a chariot by four horfes. 
EUTHY'MIUS, patriarch of Conftantinople in the 
tenth century, was a native of Ifauria, who was firff of all 
a fimple monk, but by his talents and virtues fo far re¬ 
commended himfelf to notice, that he obtained the ap¬ 
pointment of Synce/le, a confidential office of high rank un¬ 
der the patriarch, and was chofen confetlor by the em ¬ 
peror Leo VI. furnamed the Wife, or the Philofophcr. 
In the year 906, Nicholas the patriarch, furnamed the 
Myftic, having awakened the indignation of the emperor 
by excommunicating him for marrying a fourth wife,-con¬ 
trary to the laws of the Greek church, was depofed from 
that dignity, and Euthymius was elevated to it in his 
room. Upon the death of Leo, his fuccelfor Alexander 
11 . re-eftablifhed Nicholas in the patriarchal chair, in the 
year 911, and iffued a fentence ofbanifhment againft Eu¬ 
thymius. On thisoccafion he is reported to have received 
injurious and brutal treatment from fome eccleflallies, 
whofe fimoniacal practices he had detected and punilhed ; 
but he bore their outrages without a murmur, and fuf- 
tained the difgrace and inconveniencies of his exile with 
meeknefs and patience until his death, which took place 
about the year 920. There was another patriarch of Con¬ 
ftantinople of the name of Euthymius, who obtained that 
dignity in the year 1410, and enjoyed it until his death, 
in 1416. 
EUTHY'MIUS ZIGABENUS, a Greek monk of the 
order of St. Bafil, flouriflted at Conftantinople at thebe- 
ginning of the twelfth century. Reacquired the patron¬ 
age and efteem of the emperor Alexius Comnenus, at 
whofe command he drew up his Panoplia, or Defence of 
the Orthodox Faith againft all Herelies. A Latin verfion 
of it by Zinus, was printed at Lyons in 1536, and after¬ 
wards at Paris and Venice, and is to be found in the nine¬ 
teenth volume of the Bibliotheca Patrum. Euthymius was 
alfo the author of A Commentary upon the Pfalms and 
Canticles, ofwhich a Latin verfion was publifhed by Sau. 
lilts, in 1530, folio. 3. A Commentary on the four 
Evangelifts, tranflated into Latin by Hentenius, Zinus, 
and Saulius, the latter of whom publifhed his verfion at 
Louvain, in 1544, folio. 4. A Treatife againft the He- 
refies of the Mallalians, Bogomilians, &c. publifhed in 
Greek, with a Latin verfion, and learned notes, by James 
Tollius, at Utrecht, in 1696. 5. Commentaries on the 
Epiftles of St. Paul. 6. A Commentary on the Catholic 
Epiftles ; and fome other treatifes, ftill in MS. the fub- 
jedts of which are noticed in Fabricius, as well as the li¬ 
braries in which they are depofited. 
EU'THYMY,yi [from ev;, good, and 617*0;, Gr. the 
mind.] Quietnefs of mind ; eafe of mind. Scott. 
EUTHY'POROS, f. The aft of walking upright. 
Phillips. Not much ufal. 
EU'TIN, a town of Germany, in the circle of Lower 
Saxony, and bifhopric of Lubeck, fituated by the fide of 
a lake ; the uftial refidence of thebifhop : twenty miles 
north of Lubeck. 
EUTO'CIUS, amoft intelligent mathematician, native 
of Afcalon in Paleftine, and a difciple of Ifidorus, flou- 
riftied towards the beginning of the fixth century. To 
him the mathematical world is indebted for very elaborate 
and perfpicuous Commentaries on the books of Archi¬ 
medes concerning the fphere and cylinder, the dimenfions 
of the circle, and equiponderants-; and alfo on the firft 
four books of the Conics of Apollonius Pergaeus. Thefe 
commentaries have appeared in their moft perfedt and 
magnificent form in the edition of the works of Archi¬ 
medes, printed at Oxford in 1 792, folio, which was pre¬ 
pared for the prefs by the learned Jofeph Torelli, of Ve¬ 
rona ; and in Dr. Halley’s edition of the eight books of 
Apollonius, publiflted at Oxford in 1710, folio. 
EUTOL'MIA, [from ev, well, and t oA.wasv, Gr. to 
A a ‘ dare.] 
