EUMENIDES, ea-nail-id-Os (benevolent), the name given as a euphemism to the Furies, Megara, Alecto (and, some add, Nemesis)- They sprang from the blood from the wound inflicted by Saturn on Ccelus, or, according to others, were daughters of Ache ron and Nox, or Pluto and Proserpine, or Chaos and Terra, or Saturn and Euenpne ; they were also called ElinVeS, and Dem., and Eumenides after they had ceased to persecute Orestes (who, in gratitude, offered them sacrifices and erected a temple), and by the Athenians menpai Oeai, venerable god desses. They were the ministers of the ven geance of the gods, and were stern and in exorable. punishing the guilty both upon earth and in the infernal regions. 1 were gene rally represented as winged maidens, of a grim and frightful aspect, with a black and bloody garment, serpents entwined in their hair, and blood-dripping eyes ; in one hand they held a burning torch, and in the other a whip of scor pions, and were always attended by Terror, Rage, Paleness, and Death ; and in Tartarus they were seated around Pluto's throne as the ministers of his vengeance. Their worship was almost universal, but people avoided men tioning their names or fixing their eyes 9n their temples. They were honoured with sacrifices, when the votaries used branches of cedar, alder, hawthorn, saffron, and ,juniper, and offered turtle-doves and sheep, with liba tions (.14Hi0to He 11 wy jaw of water, milk, and honey. At their festivals, Enmenldia, at Athens only freeborn citizens who had led a virtuous life were admitted.
Eumom•us, eu-molCfius, king of Thrace, was son of Neptune and Boreas's daughter Chiene, and thrown into the sea at his birth by his mother, but saved by Neptune and car ried to "Ethiopia, where he was brought up by Amphitrite, and afterwards by a woman of the country, one of whose daughters he mar ried. Having offered violence to his sister-in law, he had to flee from 'Ethiopia with his son Ismer-us to Thrace, where he married the daughter of King Tegyrius, and afterwards conspired against his father-in-law, and had to flee to Attica, where he was initiated in the mysteries of Ceres at Eleusis, and made hiero phantes, or high-priest, by King Erechtheus of Athens. He was afterwards reconciled with Tegyrius, and inherited his throne ; he then warred with Erechtheus, and both fell in battle. After his death it was agreed with the Athenians that his descendants, the EumoLginx, eu.mor ftl-da, should for ever hold the priesthood of Ceres at Eleusis, while the regal power was to be vested in the descendants of Erechtheus at Athens. The Eumolpidx presided at the celebration of the Eleusinia (q. v.), and tried all causes relating to impiety or profanation ; the Ceryces were a branch of them.
Eosins, en'-nus, a Syrian slave, led the re volt of the slaves in Sicily, 034-132 B.C. EUPATOR1A, x. A town of Paphlagonia, built by Mithridates, and named PonrieerVais by Pompey. z. Also Otis, a town in Pontus.