cioned above.

Of the Dubitationes no further account is given; but the subject, as far as it is indicated by the title, renders it very doubtful if the work belongs to the Egyptian Monk.

ETEARCHUS ('Eréaρxos). 1. An ancient king of the city of Axus in Crete, who, according to the Cyrenaean accounts, was the grandfather of Battus I., king of Cyrene. The story of the way in which he was induced to plan the death of his daughter Phronime, at the instigation of her step mother, and of the manner in which she was preserved and taken to Cyrene, is told by Herodotus (iv. 154, 155).

an expedition into the interior of Africa undertaken by five youths of the Nasamones. [C. P. M.]

The Ascetica and Opuscula of Esaias, described in Catalogues, are perhaps portions or extracts of the works noticed above. This is probably the case with the passages given by Cotelerius among the " Sayings of the Fathers." (Palladius, Hist. Lausiaca, c. 18. ed. Meursius, Leyden, 1616; 2. A king of the Ammonians, mentioned by Tillemont, Mémoires, vol. vii. p. 426; Cave, Hist. Herodotus (ii. 32) as the authority for some acLit. vol. i. p. 254, ed. Oxford, 1740-3; Bibliothe-counts which he heard from certain Cyrenaeans of ca Patrum, vol. xii. p. 384, &c. ed. Lyon, 1677; Assemanni, Bibliotheca Orientalis, vol. iii. par. i. p. 46, note; Cotelerius, Ecclesiae Graecae Monumenta, vol. i. p. 445, &c.; Fabric. Bibl. Graec., vol. ix. p. 282, vol. xi. p. 395, Bibliotheca Mediae el Infimae Latinitatis, vol. ii. p. 109; Catalogus MStorum Bibliothecae Regiae, vol. ii., Paris, 1704.) ETEOCLES ('EteokλĤs.) 1. A son of Andreus 3. The PERSIAN. The Acta of the Martyrs, and Evippe, or of Cephisus, who was said to have Saints Jonas and Barachisius in the Acta Sanc- been the first that offered sacrifices to the Charites torum of the Bollandists, are a version of a Greek at Orchomenos, in Boeotia. (Paus. ix. 34. § 5, 35. narrative, then, and probably still, extant in the Li-1; Theocrit. xvi. 104; Schol. ad Pind. Ol. xiv. 1; brary of the Republic of Venice, purporting to be drawn up by Esaias. the son of Adam, one of the horsemen ("eques,") of Sapor, King of Persia, under whom the martyrs suffered. (Acta Sanctorum, Martii, vol. iii. p. 770, &c.) [J. C. M.]

ESQUILI'NUS, a name of several families at Rome, which they obtained from living on the Esquiline hill. The name also occurs as an agnomen to distinguish a member or a branch of a particular family from others of the same name.

1. An agnomen of P. LICINIUS CALVUS, both father and son. [CALVUS, Nos. 1, 2.]

2. An agnomen of L. MINUCIUS AUGURINUS and Q. MINUCIUS AUGURINUS, though, according to the Fasti, Augurinus would be the agnomen and Esquilinus the cognomen. [AUGURINUS II., Nos. 3, 4.]

3. L. or M. SERGIUS ESQUILINUS, one of the second decemvirate, B. c. 450. (Liv. iii. 35; | Dionys. x. 58, xi. 23.)

ETEMUNDIS, the name prefixed to an epigram of two lines to be found in Burmann, Antho!. Lat. iii. 283, or n. 547, ed. Meyer, but of whom nothing is known. [W. R.]

Müller, Orchom. p. 128.)

2. A son of Oedipus and Jocaste. After his father's flight from Thebes, he and his brother Polyneices undertook the government of Thebes by turns. But, in consequence of disputes having arisen between the brothers, Polyneices fled to Adrastus, who then brought about the expedition of the Seven against Thebes. [ADRASTUS.] When many of the heroes had fallen, Eteocles and Polyneices resolved upon deciding the contest by a single combat, but both the brothers fell. (Apollod. iii. 5. § 8, 6. §§ 1, 5, &c.; Paus. ix. 5. § 6; comp. Eurip. Phoen. 67; JOCASTE.) [L. S.]

ETEOCLUS ('ETÉOкλOs) a son of Iphis, was, according to some traditions, one of the seven heroes who went with Adrastus against Thebes. He had to make the attack upon the Neïtian gate, where he was opposed by Megareus. (Aeschyl. Sept. c. Theb. 444, &c. ; Apollod. iii. 6. § 3.) He is said to have won a prize in the foot-race at the Nemean 4. An agnomen of the VIRGINII TRICOSTI. games, and to have been killed by Leades. (ApolAlmost all the members of the Virginia gens had lod. iii. 6. §§ 4, 8.) His statue stood at Delphi, the surname Tricostus, and those who dwelt on the among those of the other Argive heroes. (Paus. x. Esquiline had the surname Esquilinus, just as 10. 2; Eustath. ad Hom. p. 1042.) [L. S.] those living on the Caelian hill had the surname ETEONICUS ('ETEÓVIKOs), a Lacedaemonian, CAELIOMONTANUS. Two members of the gens have who in B. c. 412 was lieutenant under the admiral the surname Esquilinus, namely, OPITER VIRGI- Astyochus, and assisted him in his unsuccessful NIUS TRICOSTUS ESQUILINUS, who was consul in operations against Lesbos. (Thuc. viii. 23.) He B. C. 478, filling the place of C. Servilius Structus was afterwards harmost in Thasos, but in 410), Ahala, who died in his year of office (Fasti), and together with the Lacedaemonian party, was exhis grandson, L. VIRGINIUS TRICOSTUS ESQUILI-pelled by the Thasians. (Xen. Hell. i. 1. § 32.) NUS, consular tribune in B. c. 402. The conduct of the siege of Veii was entrusted to the latter and his colleague M'. Sergius Fidenas, but in consequence of their private enmity the campaign was a disastrous one. The Capenates and Falisci advanced to the relief of Veii. The two Roman generals had each the command of a separate camp: Sergius was attacked by the allies and a sally from the town at the same time, and let himself be overpowered by numbers, because he would not ask his colleague for assistance, and Virginius would not send it because it was not asked. In consequence of their misconduct, they were forced to resign their office before their year had expired. In the following year they were brought to trial and condemned by the people to pay a heavy fine. (Liv. v. 8, 9, 11, 12.)

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In 406 we find him serving under Callicratidas, who left him to blockade Conon in Mytilene, while he himself went to meet the Athenian reinforcements. After the battle of Arginusae, by means of a stratagem, Eteonicus succeeded in drawing off the land forces to Methymna, while he directed the naval forces to make with all speed for Chios, where he found means of rejoining them not long afterwards. In the course of his stay here, he, with considerable energy and promptitude, defeated a plot formed by some of the troops under his command to seize Chios. (Xen. Hell. i. 6. § 26, 36, &c., ii. 1. § 1, &c.) It is probably this Eteonicus whom we find mentioned in the Anabasis (vii. 1. § 12) apparently serving as an officer under Anaxibius at Byzantium. (B. c. 400.) Eleven years afterwards (389), he is mentioned as being

stationed as harmost in Aegina. 1. § 1.)

(Xen. Hell. v. [C. P. M.] ETEO'NUS ('ETEwvós), a descendant of Boeotus, and father of Eleon, from whom the Boeotian town of Eteonos derived its name. (Eustath. ad Hom. p. 265.) [L. S.]

EVAE'NETUS (Evaíveros), the name of two commentators on the Phaenomena of Aratus, who are mentioned in the introductory commentary still extant (p. 117, ed. Victor.), but concerning whom nothing is known. [L. S.] EVAE'NETUS, of Syracuse and Catana, was one of the chief makers of the Sicilian coins. (Müller, Archäol. d. Kunst, p. 428.) [P. S.]

ETLEVA. [GENTIUS.] ETRUSCILLA, HERE'NNIA, wife of the emperor Decius. The name not being mentioned in history, it was a matter of dispute to what princess the coins bearing the legend Herennia Etruscilla Augusta were to be assigned, until a stone was found at Carseoli with the inscription HERENNIAE. CUPRESSENIAE. ETRUSCILLAE.AUG. CONIUGI. D. N. DECI. AUG. MATRI. AUGG. NN. ET. CASTROR. S. P. Q., from which, taken in combination with medals, it appears that her designa-§ tion in full was Annia Cupressenia Herennia Etruscilla. (Muratori, p. 1036, 4; Maffei, Mus. Veron. p. 102; Eckhel, vol. vii. p. 347.) [W. R.]

ETRUSCUS, HERE'NNIUS, son of the emperor Decius, upon whose accession in a. D. 249 he received the appellations of Caesar and Princeps Juventutis. In 251 he was consul, was admitted to a participation in the title of Augustus, and towards the close of the year was slain along with his father in a bloody battle fought against the Goths in Thrace. [DECIUS.] We gather from coins that his designation at full length was Q. Herennius Etruscus Messius Trajanus Decius, the names Herennius Etruscus being derived from his mother Herennia Etruscilla, while the rest were inherited from his sire. (Aurel. Vict. de Caes. xxix. Epit. xxix.; Zonar. xii. 20.)

[W. R.]

ETRUSCUS ('ETроvσкós), of MESSENE, the author of a single epigram in the Greek Anthology. (Brunck, Anal. vol. ii. p. 307; Jacobs, vol. iii. p. 20.) Nothing more is known of him. Martial (vi. 83, vii. 39) mentions an Etruscus who was banished by Domitian. (Jacobs, Anth. Graec. vol. xiii. p. 892.)

EVAGES (Eváyns), of Hydrea, was, according to Dionysius (ap. Steph. Byz. s. v. 'Topeia), an illiterate and quite uneducated shepherd, but yet a good comic poet. Meineke thinks this statement insufficient to give him a place among the Greek comedians. (Hist. Crit. Com. Graec. p.528.) [P.S.] EVA'GORAS (Evayopas), the name of two mythical personages. (Apollod. i. 9. § 9, iii. 12. 5; Schol. ad Apollon. Rhod. i. 156.) [L. S.] EVA'GORAS (Evayópas). 1. King of Salamis in Cyprus. He was sprung from a family which claimed descent from Teucer, the reputed founder of Salamis; and his ancestors appear to have been during a long period the hereditary rulers of that city under the supremacy of Persia. They had, however, been expelled (at what period we are not told) by a Phoenician exile, who obtained the sovereignty for himself, and transmitted it to his descendants: one of these held it at the time of the birth of Evagoras, the date of which there is no means of fixing with any degree of accuracy; but he appears to have been grown up, though still a young man, when one Abdymon, a native of Cittium, conspired against the tyrant, put him to death, and established himself in his place. After this the usurper sought to apprehend Evagoras, probably from jealousy of his hereditary claim to the government, but the latter made his escape to Cilicia, and, having there assembled a small band of followers, returned secretly to Salamis, attacked the tyrant in his palace, overpowered his guards, and put him to death. (Isocr. Evag. pp. 191-195; Diod. xiv. 98; Theopomp. ap. Phot. p. 120, a; Paus. ii. 29. § 4.) After this Evagoras established his authority at Salamis without farther opposition. If we may trust his panegyrist, Isocrates, his rule was distinguished for its mildness and equity, and he promoted the prosperity of his subjects in every way, while he particularly sought to extend his relations with Greece, and to restore the influence of Hellenic customs and civilization, which had been in some degree obliterated during the period of barbarian rule. (Isocr. Evag. pp. 197-198.) He at the same time greatly increased the power of his subject city, and strengthened his own resources, specially by the formation of a powerful fleet. Such was his position in B. c. 405, when, after the defeat at Aegospotami, the Athenian general Conon took refuge at Salamis with his few remaining gallies. Evagoras had already received, in return for some services to Athens, the rights of an Athenian citizen, and was on terms of personal friendship with Conon (Isocr. Evag. p. 199, e.; Diod. xiii. 106): hence he zealously espoused the Athenian cause. It is said to have been at his intercession that the king of Persia determined to allow Conon [L. S.] the support of the Phoenician fleet, and he comEVAECHME (Evaíxun), the name of two my-manded in person the squadron with which he thical personages. (Paus. iv. 2. § 1; comp. ALCA-joined the fleet of Conon and Pharnabazus at the THOUS.) battle of Cnidus, B. c. 394. (Xen. Hell. ii. 1. EVAEMON (Evaíuwv), the name of two my-29; Isocr. Evag. pp. 199, 200; Paus. i. 3. § 2; thical personages. (Hom. ll. ii. 736; Apollod. iii. Ctesias, ap. Phot. p. 44, b.) For this distinguished 8. § 1.) [L. S.] service a statue of Evagoras was set up by the

[P.S.]

ETUTA. [GENTIUS.] ETYMOCLES ('ETUμokλns) was one of the three Spartan envoys who, happening to be at Athens at the time of the incursion of Sphodrias into Attica (B. C. 378), were arrested by the Athenians on suspicion of having been privy to the attempt Their assurances, however, to the contrary were believed, and they were allowed to depart. Etymocles is mentioned by Xenophon and Plutarch as a friend of Agesilaus, and we hear of him again as one of the ambassadors sent to negotiate an alliance with Athens in B. c. 369. (Xen. Hell. v. 4. §§ 22, 23, 32, vi. 5. § 33; Plut. Ages. 25.) [E. E.]

her up.

ÉVADNE (Evádvn.) 1. A daughter of Poseidon and Pitane. Immediately after her birth, she was carried to the Arcadian king Aepytus, who brought She afterwards became by Apollo the mother of Jamus. (Pind. Ol. vi. 30; Hygin. Fab. 175.) 2. A daughter of Iphis, or Philax. (Eurip. Suppl. 985; Apollod. ii. 7. § 1; Hygin. Fab. 256. See CAPANEUS.) There are three other mythical personages of the same name. (Apollod. ii. 1. § 2; Ov. Amor. iii. 6. 41; Diod. iv.53.)

[L. S.]

3. Of Lacedaemon, remarkable for having gained three victories in the chariot-race at the Olympic games with the same horses, in consequence of which he erected the statue of a quadriga at Olympia, and honoured his horses with a magnificent funeral. (Herod. vi. 103; Aelian, Hist. Anim. xii. 40; Paus. vi. 10. § 8.)

4. An Achaean of Aegium, accused by Critolaus of betraying the counsels of his countrymen to the Romans, B. c. 146. (Polyb. xxxviii. 5.) [E. H. B.]

Athenians in the Cerameicus, by the side of that of this Evagoras. The latter had obtained from the Conon. (Paus. i. 3. § 2; Isocr. Evag. p. 200, c.) | Persian king a promise of his father's government We have very imperfect information concerning in case he could effect its conquest; but the siege the relation in which Evagoras stood to the king being protracted, Evagoras by some means incurred of Persia in the early part of his reign; but it the displeasure of Artaxerxes, who became reconseems probable that he was regarded from the first ciled to Pnytagoras, and left him in the possession with suspicion the tyrants whom he had suc- of Salamis, while he appointed Evagoras to a ceeded are particularly spoken of as friendly to government in the interior of Asia. Here, how. Persia (Diod. xiv. 98), and we learn from Ctesias ever, he again gave dissatisfaction, and was accused (ap. Phot. p. 44, b.) that his quarrels with one of of maladministration, in consequence of which he the other petty states of Cyprus had already called fled to Cyprus, where he was seized and put to for the interference of the great king before the death. (Diod. xvi. 42, 46.) The annexed coin battle of Cnidus. The chronology of the succeed- belongs to this Evagoras. ing events is also very obscure; but the most consistent view of the matter appears to be that derived from Theopompus (ap. Phot. p. 120, a.), that Artaxerxes had previously determined to make war upon Evagoras, and had even commenced his preparations, but was unable to engage with vigour in the enterprise until after the peace of Antalcidas (B. C. 387). (See Clinton, F. H. vol. ii. p. 280; and comp. Isocr. Panegyr. p. 70, a.; Xen. Hell. iv. 8. § 24, v. 1. § 10.) Meantime Evagoras had not only extended his dominion over the greater part of Cyprus, but had ravaged the coast of Phoenicia with his fleet, prevailed on the Cilicians to revolt from Persia, and even (if we may believe Isocrates and Diodorus) made himself master of Tyre itself. (Diod. xiv. 98, 110, xv. 2; Isocrat. Evag. p. 201.) At length, however, a great fleet and army were assembled under the command of Tiribazus and Orontes, and Evagoras having ventured to oppose them with very inferior forces was totally defeated; all the rest of Cyprus fell into the hands of the satraps, and Evagoras himself was shut up within the walls of Salamis. But the Persian generals seem to have been unable to follow up their advantage, and notwithstanding this blow the war was allowed to linger for some years. The dissensions between his two adversaries at length proved the safety of Evagoras: Tiribazus was recalled in consequence of the intrigues of Orontes, and the latter hastened to conclude a peace with the Cyprian monarch, by which he was allowed to retain uncontrolled possession of Salamis, with the title of king. (Diod. xv. 2-4, 8, 9; Theopomp. ap. Phot. p. 120, a.; Isocr. Evag. p. 201, Panegyr. p. 70.) This war, which is said to have lasted ten yeas in all, was brought to a close in B. c. 385. (Diod. xv. 9; Clinton, F. H. vol. ii. pp. 278-281.) Evagoras survived it above ten years. He was assassinated in 374, together with his eldest son Pnytagoras, by an eunuch named Thrasydaeus; but the murder was caused by revenge for a private injury, and he seems to have been succeeded without opposition by his son Nicocles. (Theopomp. ap. Phot. p. 120, a, b.; Arist. Pol. v. 10; Diod. xv. 47, and Wesseling, ad loc.) Our knowledge of the character and administration of Evagoras is derived mainly from the oration of Isocrates in his praise, addressed to his son Nicocles; but this is written in a style of undistinguishing panegyric, which must lead us to receive its statements with great caution.

2. Apparently a son of the preceding, is menLoned by Diodorus as joined with Phocion in the command of an expedition destined to recover Cyprus for the king of Persia, from whom it had revolted. (B. c. 351.) They succeeded in reducing all the island with the exception of Salamis, which was held by Pnytagoras, probably a brother of

EVA'GRIUS (Evάypios). 1. Of ANTIOCH, was a native of Antioch, the son of a citizen of that place, named Pompeianus, and a presbyter apparently of the church of Antioch. He travelled into the west of Europe, and was acquainted with Jerome, who describes him as a man "acris ac ferventis ingenii." During the schism in the patriarchate of Antioch, he was chosen by one of the parties (A. D. 388 or 389) successor to their deceased patriarch Paulinus, in opposition to Flavianus, the patriarch of the other party. According to Theodoret, the manner of his election and ordination was altogether contrary to ecclesiastical rule. The historians Socrates and Sozomen state that Evagrius survived his elevation only a short time; but this expression must not be too strictly interpreted, as it appears from Jerome that he was living in a. D. 392. He was perhaps the Evagrius who instructed Chrysostom in monastic discipline, though it is to be observed that Chrysostom was ordained a presbyter by Flavianus, the rival of Evagrius in the see of Antioch. Evagrius had no successor in his see, and ultimately Flavianus succeeded in healing the division.

Evagrius wrote treatises on various subjects (diversarum hypotheseon tractatus). Jerome says the author had read them to him, but had not yet published them. They are not extant. Evagrius also translated the life of St. Anthony by Athanasius from Greek into Latin. The very free version printed in the Benedictine edition of Athanasius (vol. i. pars ii. p. 785, &c.) and in the Acta Sanctorum (Januar. vol. ii. p. 107), professes to be that of Evagrius, and is addressed to his son Innocentius, who is perhaps the Innocentius whose death, A. D. 369 or 370, is mentioned by Jerome. (Epist. 41 ad Rufinum.) Tillemont receives it, and Bollandus (Acta Sanct. 1. c.) and the Benedictine editors of Athanasius (1. c.) vindicate its genuineness; but Cave affirms that

"there is more than one reason for doubting its | genuineness;" and Oudin decidedly denies the genuineness both of the Greek text and the version. In the library of Worcester Cathedral is a MS. described as containing the life of St. Antony, written by Evagrius and translated by Jerome: there is probably an error, either in the MS. itseif, or in the description of it. (Catal. MSS. Angliae et Hib. vol. ii. p. 17.)

Tillemont has collected various particulars of the life of Evagrius of Antioch. Trithemius confounds him with Evagrius of Pontus. (Socrates, Hist. Eccles. v. 15; Sozomen, Hist. Eccles. vii. 15; Theodoretus, Hist. Eccles. v. 23; Hieronymus (Jerome) de Viris Illust. 25; Tillemont, Mémoires, vol. xii. p. 13, &c.; Cave, Hist. Lit. vol. i. p. 283, ed. Ox. 1740-43; Oudin, de Scriptor. et Scriptis Eccles. vol. i. col. 882; Trithemius, de Scriptor. Eccles. c. 85; Fabric. Bibl. Graec. vol. vii. p. 434, vol. x. p. 137.)

2. The ASCETIC, instructed Chrysostom in monastic discipline. (Fabric. Bibl. Graec. vol. viii. p. 455.) He is perhaps the same as Evagrius of Antioch. [No. 1.]

rank of a quaestorian or ex-quaestor. (Evagr. Hist Eccles. vi. 24, where see the note of Valesius.) On the birth of Theodosius, son of the emperor Maurice (A.D. 584 or 585), Evagrius composed a piece, apparently a congratulatory address, which obtained a farther manifestation of imperial favour in the rank of ex-prefect (and eπáрxwv), which designation he bears in the title of his own work, and in Nicephorus. (Hist. Eccles. i. 1.) He accompanied the Patriarch Gregory to a synod at Constantinople (A. D. 589), to the judgment of which the patriarch had appealed when accused of incest and adultery. On his return to Antioch, after the acquittal of Gregory, Evagrius (in October or November of the same year) married a second wife, a young maiden. His reputation and influence are evidenced by the fact that his marriage was celebrated by a general festival at the public expense; but the rejoicing was interrupted by a dreadful earthquake, in which, as some computed, 60,000 of the inhabitants perished. This is the last incident in the life of Evagrius of which anything is known, except the death of his daughter, already noticed, and the completion of his history, in A. D. 593 or 594.

3. Of EPIPHANEIA, known also as EVAGRIUS SCHOLASTICUS and EX-PRAEFECTUS. He was a Evagrius wrote (1) An Ecclesiastical History, native of Epiphaneia on the Orontes, in the province which extends, besides some preliminary matter, of Syria Secunda, as we gather from the title of from the third general council, that of Ephesus, his Ecclesiastical History, where he is called 'Eπ- A. D. 431, to the twelfth year of the reign of the paveús. (Comp. also his Hist. Eccles. iii. 34.) Emperor Maurice, A. D. 593-4. He modestly Photius says (Biblioth. Cod. 29), according to the professes that he was not properly qualified for present text, that he was of a celebrated city such a work (u) deivòs eya ta tolaÛTα), but says (πóλews dè éπipavoûs) of Coele-Syria; but the text he was induced to undertake it, as no one had yet is probably corrupt. Nicephorus Callisti (Hist. attempted to continue the history of the Church Eccles. i. 1, xvi. 31) twice cites him as ó émiparýs, regularly (kar' eipuóv) from the time at which the "the illustrious;" but this is probably an error, histories of Sozomen and Theodoret close. He either in the transcription of Nicephorus or in that has the reputation of being tolerably accurate. His of his authorities. The birth of Evagrius is fixed credulity and love of the marvellous are charac by data furnished in his own writings in or about teristic of the period rather than of the individual. A. D. 536. (Evagr. Hist. Eccles. iv. 29, vi. 24.) | Photius describes his style as not unpleasant, He was sent to school before or when he was four though occasionally redundant; and (as we underyears old, for he was a schoolboy when he was stand the passage) praises him as being more exact taken by his parents to the neighbouring city of than the other ecclesiastical historians in the state Apameia to see the exhibition of “the life-giving ment of opinions: ἐν δὲ τῇ τῶν δογμάτων ὀρθότητε wood of the Cross,” during the alarm caused by ἀκριβὴς τῶν ἀλλῶν μᾶλλον ἱστορικῶν. Some the capture of Antioch by Chosroes or Khosru I., however interpret the passage as a commendation king of Persia, A. D. 540. Two years afterwards of the historian's orthodoxy. Nicephorus Callisti (A. D. 542), he was near dying from a pestilential (Hist. Eccles. i. 1) notices, that Evagrius dwells disorder which then first visited the Byzantine much on secular affairs, and enumerates the empire, and which continued at intervals for above writers from whom he derived his materials, half a century, if not more, to cause a fearful mor- namely Eustathius the Syrian, Zosimus, Priscus tality. Evagrius gives a melancholy catalogue of and Joannes, Procopius of Caesarea, Agathias, his own subsequent losses through it. It took off, and other writers of no mean character." His at different times, his first wife, several of his chil- history has been repeatedly published. The edidren (especially a married daughter, who, with tion of Valesius (Henri de Valois) which compre her child, died when the pestilence visited Antioch hends the other early Greek Ecclesiastical Histofor the fourth time, A. D. 591 or 592, two years rians, has a valuable biographical preface, a Latin before Evagrius wrote his history), and many of translation, and useful notes. It was reprinted his kindred and domestics. Evagrius was a "scho- with some additional " variorum" notes by Readlasticus" (advocate or pleader), and is often desig-ing, 3 vols. fol. Camb. 1720. (2) A volume of nated from his profession. It is probable that he practised at Antioch, which, as the capital of the province of Syria, would offer an important field for his forensic exertions, and with which city his writings shew that he was familiar. (Comp. Hist. Eccles. i. 18, iii. 28.) He appears to have been the legal adviser of Gregory, patriarch of Antioch; and some of his memorials, drawn up in the name of the patriarch, obtained the notice and approval of the emperor Tiberius, who gave Evagrius, not as some have understood, the quaestorship, but the

Memorials, Letters, Decrees, Orations, and Dispu tations, including the Memorials and the address which procured for Evagrius his rank of Quaestorian and Ex-praefect. This volume is mentioned in the Ecclesiastical History, but appears to be now lost. Some pieces of little moment have been ascribed to Evagrius, but most or all of them incorrectly. (Evagrius, Hist. Eccles. iv. 26, 29, vi. 7, 8, 23, 24; Photius, Biblioth. Cod. 29; Nicepho rus Callisti, Hist. Eccles. i. 1, xvi. 31; Fabric Bibl. Graec. vol. vii. p. 432.