EU'I'HALIUS, Deacon of Alexandria, and af terwards, if the title of the Vatican MS. is to be credited, Bishop of Sulce (ZooXslis 'th-fcrsoros), a city whose site has not been satisfactorily deter mined. According to the common opinion he was the first to apply the stichometrical arrangement to the books of the N. T. Previously the continuous form of writing was all but universal in the MSS. of the Scriptures, and this, combined with the ab sence of any system of punctuation, rendered the task of the public reader a very difficult one. In five of the books of the O. T. the parallelism of Hebrew poetry had led to a different method of writing, and the separate clauses or stanzas were arranged in separate lines (crrixoL, Greg. Naz. Corm., 33). Euthalius saw that a similar arrange ment might with advantage be applied to the books of the N. T. ; and in the year 458 he published an edition of the Pauline epistles with the text divided in this way. He also introduced the division into chapters (KquiXata) already employed by a writer of the year 396, whom he terms Cr OOLOTC1TWP Two sat quXoxplo-rcop rarepwv. From the same
author he borrowed the summaries of the several chapters. A prologue on the life and writings of the Apostle Paul was prefixed to the work. A similar edition of the Acts of the Apostles, and of the Catholic epistles, was subsequently published by Euthalius, and dedicated to Athanasius the younger, who succeeded to the see of Alexandria in 490. In the preparation of this work he de rived, as he himself acknowledges, some assistance from a MS. of Pamphilus the martyr, preserved in the Library of Csarea, and Tregelles suggests that it is not improbable that the stichometrical ar rangement itself was a part of the Biblical labours of Pamphilus (Horne, Larval., loth ed. vol. iv. 27). The works of Euthalius were published by L. A. Zacagni in his Collectanea Monumentorum vetenem Ecclesiee, Roam, 1698, 4to ; Cave, Hist. Lit. i. 446; Fabric, Bibl. Gr. viii. 367 ; Rosenmiiller, Hist. Interp. Lib. Sac. iv. 1.—S. N.