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dare.] That firmneTs of mind which preferves from the 
11 ftia 1 agitations produced by accidents and furprife. 
EUTRO'PIUS, a Latin hiftorian of the fourth cen¬ 
tury, fuppofed to have been a native of Aquitain, though 
Suidas calls him “ an Italian fophift.” He himfelf fays 
that he bore arms under Julian in his expedition againft 
the Perfians; and he is thought to have rifen to the fena- 
torian rank. He wrote feveral works, of which the only 
one remaining is an abridgment of the Roman Hiltory, in 
ten books, from the foundation of the city to the reign of 
the emperor Valens. It appears to have been in much 
efteem in the middle ages, and more than one Greek ver- 
fion was made of it. Numerous editions of it have been 
publifhed, and it has been received as a fchool book. 
There is a Delphin edition of 1683, 4to.; an Oxford, with 
a Greek tranflatjon, 1703, 8vo. ; and a very elegant one 
by Dellin, with the notesof Le Fevre, Paris, Barbou, 1746. 
EU'TYCHES, founder of the feet called Eutychians , 
in the fifth century. He was a Greek prelbyter, and ab¬ 
bot of a monaftery at Confiantinople ; and in the excefsof 
his zeal againft the doftrine of Neftorius, adopted an op- 
polite opinion, but equally at variance with the catholic 
creed ; for he maintained, that in Chrift there was but one 
nature, that of the incarnate Word. Hence he was 
thought to deny the exiftence of the human nature in 
Chrift ; but probably his meaning was, as Theodoret in¬ 
forms us in his fecond Dialogue on Heretics, that the hu¬ 
man nature of Chrift was entirely abforbed in the divine, 
as'a drop of honey would be abforbed, but without perifti- 
ing, by falling into the fea. Eutyches had arrived at an 
advanced period of life when he avowed this opinion, 
which was firft condemned in a fynod at Confiantinople in 
448 ; then approved by the council of Ephefus in 449 ; 
and re-examined and fulminated in the council of Chal- 
cedon in 451. A Confeftion of Faith delivered to the 
Council of Ephefus, and Two Supplications to the Em¬ 
peror Theodolius, by Eutyches, are extant in the fourth 
volume of the Collcblio Conciliorum ; and alfo A Letter to 
Pope Leo, with the Fragment of a Confelfor, in Father 
Lupus’s Collection of Letters, &c, relative to the Coun¬ 
cils of Ephefus and Chalcedon. The dodtrine of Euty¬ 
ches, notwithftanding the decrees of the council of Chal-' 
cedon againft it, met with numerous fupporters in the 
eaftern churches, being almoft univerfally received in the 
biflioprics of Antioch and Alexandria. Thole who main¬ 
tained it, indeed, became afterwards divided into a va¬ 
riety of fefts, different branches of which are (till to be 
met with in Egypt, Syria, and particularly Armenia. 
EUTYCHIA'NUS, a Tufcun by birth, fucceeded to 
the fee of Rome on the death of Felix, in 275. He pre- 
lided over the church of Rome nearly nine years, and died 
at the clofe of 283. The Catholics have inferibed his 
name in the lift of martyrs, and he is honoured as fuch by 
their church. Two decretal Epiftles, relative to fnbjedts 
of eccleftaftical difeipline, ft ill extant in Gratian, and other 
collections, are attributed to this pope. 
EUTYCHTDE, a woman who was thirty times brought 
to bed, and carried to the grave by twenty of her children. 
Pliny. 
EUTYCH'IUS, patriarch of Alexandria in the tenth 
century, born in 876, at Foftat, or Old Cairo, in Egypt. 
He was originally bred a phyfician ; but afterwards em¬ 
braced the eccleftaftic life, and in 932 \yas eleCted pa¬ 
triarch of Alexandria, w hich dignity he held until his 
death. On his a dee (lion to the patriarchate, he changed 
his Arabic name of Said Ebn Patrick, for F.utychius, which 
means happy, in Greek, as Said does in Arabic. He was 
the author of Annals, commencing with the Origin of the 
World, and reaching to the Year 940, to which he gave 
the name of Nadhm algiauhir, or A String ot Pearls. In 
1642 the learned Selden publifhed an extraCt from thefe 
annals in Arabic and Latin, under the title of Origines 
Alexandria, &c. 4to. containing an account of the elec¬ 
tion and ordination of the firft patriarchs of Alexandria, 
which Eutychius affertsTiad been conduced till Alex¬ 
ander’s time by twelve prelbyters of that church, who 
chofe one among themfelves patriarch, and confirmed 
their choice by the impofition of their hands. He likewife 
maintains in it, that there was no bifhop in all Egypt un¬ 
til the time of Demetrius. The whole of the Annals, 
with Selden’s preface, and notes, was publifhed by Dr. 
Pocock, at Oxford, in Arabic and Latin, 1659, 4to. Eu¬ 
tychius was alfo the author of a work concerning the Af¬ 
fairs of Sicily, after the reduction of that illand by the Sa¬ 
racens, which is extant in MS. in the public library at 
Cambridge, fubjoined to the Annals ; and A Deputation 
between the Chriftians and the Heterodox, in oppofition 
to the Jacobites, a branch of the Eutychian feCt, which 
is alfo ftill preferved in MS. as well as fome fmall medi¬ 
cal treatifes. 
EU'TYCHUS, a man’s name. 
EVULGA'TION,/! [evu/go, Lat.] The aCt of divulg¬ 
ing ; publication. 
EVUL'SION, [ [evuljio, Lat.] The aft of plucking 
out.—From a ItriCt enquiry we cannot maintain the cvul- 
Jion, or biting off any parts. Brown. 
EUXI'NUS PON'TUS, or Euxinf Sea, in ancient geo¬ 
graphy, a fea between Alia and Europe, partly at the 
north of Alia Minor, and at the weft of Colchis. It was 
originally called «|eivoj, inhofpitable, on account of the 
favage manners of th,e inhabitants on its coafts. Com¬ 
merce with foreign nations, and the plantation of colonies 
in their neighbourhood, gradually fattened their rough- 
nefs, and the fea was no longer called Axenus, but Euxcnus, 
hofpitable. The Euxine is fuppofed by Herodotus to 
be 1387 miles long and 420 broad. Strabo calls it 1100 
miles long, and in circumference 3125. It abounds in 
all varieties of filh, and receives the tribute of above 
forty rivers. It is not of great depth, except in the eaft¬ 
ern parts, whence fome have imagined that it had a fub- 
terraneous communication with the Cafpian. It is now 
called the Black Sea, from the thick dark fogs which cover 
it ; for an account of which fee vol. iii. p. 80. 
EU'ZET, a town of France, in the department of the 
Gard, and chief place of a canton, in the diftriCt of Uzes : 
nine miles weft-north-weft: of Uzes. 
EUZO'IUS, b:(hop of Ciefarea in the fourth century, 
educated under Thefpelius the rhetorician. In 366, on 
the death of Acacias, he obtained the bifhopric of Cae- 
farea, after maintaining a fmart conteft with many rival 
candidates. He was a man of confiderable learning, and 
very diligent in the difeharge of his epifcopal functions ; 
but is principally entitled to have his name tranfmitted 
to pofterity on account of his great exertions to promote 
the interefts of faience and literature. To him the eaft¬ 
ern world was indebted for the reftoraticn and improve¬ 
ment of the library at Ciefarea, which had been origi¬ 
nally collected by Origen and Pamphilus, and was at that 
period fallen much into decay. In his religious princi¬ 
ples he was of the Arian party ; on which account he 
was depofed from his fee, under the reign ot the emperor 
Theodolius, about the year 380. He was the author 6f 
numerous treatifes upon various fubjeCts, which were 
extant in the time of Jerome, but are now entirely loft, 
and even their titles unrecorded. 
EW'ALD (John), a Danifti poet, fon of a clergyman 
at Copenhagen, born in that city in 1743, and died there 
on the 17th of March, 1781, in the thirty-eighth year of 
his age. In ftrength of imagination, fpirit, and origi¬ 
nality, Ewald certainly excels the other Danifti poets. 
His various pieces are almoft all diftinguilhed by bold 
ideas, and new and Jbappy allufions; and difplay, in the 
fulleft manner, the fertility of his poetical genius. A 
complete edition of his works appeared at Copenhagen, 
1781 — 1791, four parts, 8vo. the three laft of which are 
ornamented with mafterly engravings by Chodowieky. 
E VV ANTCZOW, a town of Poland, in the palatinate of 
Kaminiec : lixty-four miles north-north-weft ot Kamimec. 
EWA'NO, 
