EVAGRIUS.
 

FABIA  GENS.
 

They '   . however, been expelled by a Phoeni¬

cian exile, who obtained  the  sovereignty for

himself, and  transmitted it to  Ms  descendants.

Evagoras succeeded in recovering  his hereditary

kingdom,  and putting  the  reigning tyrant  to

death,  about  B.C. 410.   His rule  was  distin¬

guished for  its mildness and  equity,  and  he

greatly increased the power of  Salamis, special¬

ly bj  the  formation  of a powerful fleet.   He

gave a friendly reception  to Conon, when the

latter took  refuge at Salamis after the defeat of

the Athenians at  Egospotami, 405; and it was

at Ms intercession that the King of Persia allow¬

ed  Oonon  the  support  of the  Phoenician  fleet.

But his growing power  excited the jealousy of

the Persian court, and  at length war wa3 de¬

clared  against  Mm by  Artaxerxes.  Evagoras

received the assistance of an Athenian  fleet un¬

der Chabrias, and at first  met  with great suc¬

cess ; but  the fortune of war afterward turned

against  Mm, and he was glad to conclude a

peace with Persia, by whieh he resigned his con¬

quests  in  Cyprus, but  was allowed to  retain

possession  of Salamis, with the  title  of  king.

This war was brought to a close in 385.  Evag¬

oras was assassinated in 374, together  with Ms

eldest son  Pnytagoras.  He was  succeeded by

Ms son  Nieocles.  There is still extant an ora¬

tion of Isocrates in praise of Evagoras, addressed

to Ms son Nieocles.

  Evagrius (Evdypiog), of Epiphania in Syria,

born about A.D. 536, was by profession  a " scho-

lastious"  (advocate  or  pleader), and probably

practiced at Antioch.  He wrote An Ecclesiasti¬

cal History, still extant, wMch extends from A.

D. 431  to 594.  It is published with the other

ecclesiastical  historians  by Reading,  Camb,

1720.

  Evander (Evavbpog).    1. Son  of Mercury

(Hermes) by an Arcadian nymph, ealled Themis

or Nieostrata, aud  in  Roman  traditions   Car-

menta  or  Tiburtis.  About sixty years before

the Trojan war, Evander is said,  to have led a

Pelasgian   colony from  Pallautium  in  Arcadia

into Italy, and there to  have built a town, Pal-

lantium, on the  Tiber, at the foot of the  Pala¬

tine Hill, whieh town was subsequently incorpo¬

rated with Rome.  Evander taught his  neigh¬

bors milder laws  and the  arts of  peace and of

social life,  and especially the art of writing, with

whieh he himself had been made acquainted by

Hercules, and music ; he also introduced among

them the worship of the Lycaaan  Pan, of Ceres

(Demeter), Neptune (Poseidon), and Hercules.

Virgil (AEn, viii, 51) represents Evander as still

alive at the time when  Eneas arrived in Italy,

and as  forming an alliance with  him against the

Latins.  Evander was worshipped at Pallantium

in Arcadia as a hero.  At Rome he had an altar

at the foot  of the Aventine.—2. A Phooian, was

the pupil and successor of Lacydes as the head of

the Academic School at Athens, about B.C 215.

  [Evangelus (EvdyyeXog). 1. A Greek comic

poet of the new  comedy, a fragment of one of

whose plays is  preserved  by Athenaeus ; edited

by Meineke,  Fragm.  Comic. Grcc, vol. ii, p.

1173, edit,  minor.—2.  A slave  of Pericles, who

distinguished  himself by his abilities ; he is said

to have written a work on the science of war

(TaariKd), which  was highly prized by  Philo-

poemcaj
 

  Evenus (JE mivog).   1. Son of Mars (Arcs) and

Demonice,  and  father of Marpessa.   For  de

tails,  vid. Marpessa.—2. Two  elegiac poets of

Paros.  One of these poets, though it is uncer¬

tain whether the  elder or the younger, was  a

contemporary  of Socrates, whom he  is said to

have instructed in poetry; and Plato  in several

passages refers to Evenus, somewhat  ironically

as at once a sopMst or philosopher and a poes.

There are  sixteen epigrams  in the Greek An¬

thology bearing the  name of Evenus, but  it i*

difficult to  determine  wMch of them  should be

assigned to the elder and which to tha younger

Evenus.

  Evenus (Ebnvbg: now Fidhari).   1. Formerly

ealled Lyeormas, rises in Mount OUta,  and flows

with  a  rapid  stream through Etolia into the

sea, one hundred and  twenty  stadia west of An-

tirrhium.—2. (Now Sandarli), a river  of Mysia,

rising in Mount Temnus, flowing south through

Eolis, and  failing into the Sinus Elaitieus  near

Pitane.   The eity of Adramyttium, which stood

nearly due west of its sources, was supplied with

water from it by an aqueduct.

  Evergetes  (Evepyfrrng),  the " Benefactor,"  a

title of honor, frequently conferred by  the Greek

states upon those from whom they had received

benefits.  It was assumed by many of  the Greek

kings in Egypt and elsewhere.  Vid. Ptolem^us.

  Evius (Eijwg), an  epithet of Bacchus, given

him  from the  cheering and  animating cry etia,

evol (Lat. evoe), in the festivals of the god.

  Exadius (?E£ddiog), one of the Lapithae. fought

at the nuptials of Pirithous.

  Exsuperantius,  Julius, a  Roman  historian,

who lived perhaps about the fifth or  sixth  cen

tury of our  era.  He is  tho  author of a short

tract entitled Be Marii, Lepidi, ac Sertorii bellit

civilibus, which many suppose to  have  teen

abridged from the Histories  of Sallust   It  is

appended to several editions of Sallust.

  Eziongeber.  Vid. Berenice, No. 1



                     F,
 

  Fabaris or FARKArojs (now Farfa), a smail

river in Italy, in the Sabine territory, between

Reate and Cures.

  Fabatus, L. Roscius,  one of Caesar's lieuten¬

ants in  the  Gallic war,  and praetor in B.C. 49.

He espoused Pompey's party, and was  twice

sent with proposals of accommodation  to Caesar

Ho was killed in the battle at Mutina, B.C. 43.

  Fabatus Calpurnius, a  Roman knight,  ac¬

cused in A.D. 64, but escaped punishment.   He

was grandfather to Calpurnia, wife of tho young¬

er Pliny, many of whose letters  are addressed to

him.

  Faberius.   1.  A debtor of M. Cieero.—2.  One

of the private secretaries of C. Julius Caasar.

  Fabia, two daughters of M. Fabius Ambus-

tus.  The  elder  was married to Ser.  Sulpicius,

a patrician,  and one of the military tribunes

B.C. 376, and the younger to the plebeian 0. Li¬

cinius Stolo.

  FabJa Gens, one of the most ancient patri

cian gentes at Rome, which traced its origin to

Hercules and the Arcadian  Evander.   The Fabii

occupy  a  prominent part  in  Mstory soon after

the commencement of the  republic; and  three

brothers belonging  to th»  gens are said to  u-iv«

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