Eudoxians Heretics, whose founder was Eudoxius, patriarch of Antioch in the fourth century. They maintained that the Son had a will independent of the Father, and that sometimes their wills were at variance.

Eugenius This was John Hall Stephenson, author of Crazy Tales, a relative of Sterne. In Sterne's Tristram Shandy, Eugenius is made the friend and wise counsellor of Yorick.

Eugubine Tables Seven bronze tables found near Eugubium (Gubbio) in Italy, in 1444. Of the inscriptions, five are Umbrian and Etruscan, and two are Latin.

"The Umbrian, the tongue of north-eastern Italy, is yet more fully represented to us by the Eugubine tablets ... supposed to be as old as the third and fourth centuries before our era." - W. D. Whitney: Study of Languages, lecture vi. p. 220.
Eulalie (St.). Eulalon is one of the names of Apollo; but in the calendar there is a virgin martyr called Eulalie, born at Merida, in Estramadura. When she was only twelve years old, the great persecution of Diocletian was set on foot, whereupon the young girl left her maternal home, and, in the presence of the Roman judge, cast down the idols he had set up. She was martyred by torture, February 12th, 308.
   Longfellow calls Evangeline the "Sun-shine of St. Eulalie."

Eulen-spiegel (Thyl) or Tyll Owl-glass. The hero of a German tale, which relates the pranks and drolleries, the ups and downs, the freaks and fun of a wandering cottager of Brunswick. The author is said to have been Dr. Thomas Murner (1475-1530).


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