EUDON (Count) of Catabria.  A baron favorable to the Moors, “too weak-minded to be independent.”  When the Spaniards rose up against the Moors, the first order of the Moorish chief was this:  “Strike off Count Eudon’s head:  the fear which brought him to our camp will bring him else in arms against us now” (ch. xxv.).  Southey, Roderick, etc., xiii. (1814).

EUDOX’IA, wife of the Emperor Valentin’ian.  Petro’nius Max’imus “poisoned” the emperor, and the empress killed Maximus.—­Beaumont and Fletcher, Valentinian (1617).

EUGENE (Aram). Scholarly man of high ideals, who has committed a murder, and hides the knowledge of it from all.  He is finally hunted down.—­Lord Lytton, Eugene Aram.

EUGE’NIA, called “Silence” and the “Unknown.”  She was the wife of Count de Valmont, and mother of Florian, “the foundling of the forest.”  In order to come into the property, Baron Longueville used every endeavor to kill Eugenia and Florian, but all his attemps were abortive, and his villainy at length was brought to light.—­W.  Dimond, The Foundling of the Forest.

EUGENIE (Lalande). The marvellously well-preserved great-grandmother of a near-sighted youth who addresses and marries her.  She reveals the trick that has been played on him by presenting him with a pair of eye-glasses.—­Edgar Allan Poe, The Spectacles.

EUGENIO, a young gentleman who turned goat-herd, because Leandra jilted him and eloped with a heartless adventurer named Vincent de la Rosa.—­Cervantes, Don Quixote, I. iv. 20 ("The Goatherd’s Story,” 1605).

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

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

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

EULENSPIEGEL (Tyll), i.e. “Tyll Owl-glass,” 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.  Whether Uulenspiegel was a real character or not is a matter of dispute, but by many the authorship of the book recording his jokes is attributed to the famous German satirist, Thomas Murner.

In the English versions of the story he is called Howle-glass.

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.

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