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EUPHORBUS, son of Panthus, a Trojan hero, slain by Menelaus (Iliad, xvii. I-6o). Pythagoras, in support of his doc trine of the transmigration of souls, declared that he had once been this Euphorbus. (Horace, Odes, i. 28. ii.; Diog. Laert. viii. i.)