Chapter Etzel to Euphues of E by Brewer's Readers Handbook

Eugenius, the friend and wise counsellor of Yorick. John Hall Stevenson was the original of this character.—Sterne: Tristram Shandy (1759).

Euhemeros, a Sicilian Greek, who wrote a Sacred History to explain the historical or allegorical character of the Greek and Latin mythologies.

One could wish Euhemerus had never been born. It was he who spoilt [the old myths] first.—Ouida: Ariadne, i. 1.

Eulenspiegel (Thyl), i.e. “Thy Owlglass,” of Brunswick. A man who runs through the world as charlatan, fool, lansquenet, domestic servant, artist, and Jack-of-all-trades. He undertakes anything, but rejoices in cheating those who employ him; he parodies proverbs, rejoices in mischief, and is brimful of pranks and drolleries.—Dr. Murner: Thyl Eulenspiegel (1543).

An English version, entitled The Merrye Jeste of a Man called Howleglass, and of the many Marvellous Things and Jestes that he did in his Lyfe in Eastland, was printed by William Copland. Another by K. R. H. Mackenzie, in 1860.

To few mortals has it been granted to earn such a place in universal history as Tyll Eulenspiegel. Now, after five centuries, his native village is pointed out with pride to the traveller.—Carlyle.

Eumæos (in Latin, Eumœus), the slave and swine-herd of Ulysses, hence any swine-herd.

Eumenes, governor of Damascus, and father of Eudocia.—Hughes: Siege of Damascus (1720).

Eumnestes, Memory personified. Spenser says he is an old man, decrepit and half blind. He was waited on by a boy named Anamnestês. (Greek, eumnêstis, “good memory;” anamnêstis, “research.”)—Faërie Queene, ii. 9 (1590).

He [Fancy] straight commits them to his treasury
Which old Eumnestes keeps, father of memory—
Eumnestes old, who in his living screen
(His living breast) the rolls and records bears
Of all the deeds and men which he hath seen,
And keeps locked up in faithful registers.
   —P. Fletcher: The Purple Island, vi. (1633).

Eunoe, a river of purgatory, a draught of which makes the mind recall all the good deeds and good offices of life. It is a little beyond Lethê or the river of forgetfulness.

Lo! where Eunoe flows,
Lead thither; and, as thou art wont, revive
His fainting virtue.
   —Dante: Purgatory, xxxiii. (1308).

Euphrasia, daughter of lord Dian, a character resembling “Viola” in Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night. Being in love with prince Philaster, she assumes boy’s attire, calls herself “Bellario,” and enters the prince’s service. Philaster transfers Bellario to the princess Arethusa, and then grows jealous of the lady’s love for her tender page. The sex of Bellario being discovered, shows the groundlessness of this jealousy.—Beaumont and Fletcher: Philaster or Love Lies a-bleeding (1608).

Euphrasia, “the Grecian daughter,” was daughter of Evander, the old king of Syracuse (dethroned by Dionysius, and kept prisoner in a dungeon on the summit of a rock). She was the wife of Phocion, who had fled from Syracuse to save their infant son. Euphrasia, having gained admission to the dungeon where her aged father was dying from starvation, “fostered him at her breast by the milk designed for her own babe, and thus the father found a parent in the child.” When Timoleon took Syracuse, Dionysius was about to stab Evander, but Euphrasia, rushing forward, struck the tyrant dead upon the spot.—Murphy: The Grecian Daughter (1772).