Eunomus
(Εὔνομος), a son of Architeles, was killed by Heracles. (Apollod. 2.7.6.) Eustathius (Eustath. ad Hom. p. 1900) calls him Archias or Chaerias. [L.S]
(Εὔνομος), fifth or sixth king of Sparta in the Proclid line, is described by Pausanias, Plutarch, and others, as the father of Lycurgus and Polydectes. Herodotus, on the contrary, places him in his list after Polydectes, and Dionysius of Halicarnassus gives the name to the nephew in whose stead Lycurgus governed. Simonides, finally, makes Lycurgus and Eunomus the children of Prytanis. In all probability, the name was invented with reference to the Lycurgean Εὐνομία, and Eunomus, if not wholly rejected, must be identified with Polydectes. In the reign of Eunomus and Polydectes, says Pausanias, Sparta was at peace. (Plut. Lyc. 2 ; Paus. 3.7.2; Hdt. 8.131; See Clinton, F. H. p. 143, note z, and p. 325, where the question is fully discussed; compare Müller, Dorians, book 1.7.3, and § 6, note b.) [A.H.C]
(Εὔνομος), an Athenian, was sent out in command of thirteen ships, in B. C. 388, to act against the Lacedaemonian Gorgopas, vice-admiral of Hierax. and the Aeginetan privateers. Gorgopas, on his return from Ephesus, whither he had escorted Antalcidas on his mission to the Persian court, fell in with the squadron of Eunomus, which chased him to Aegina. Eunomus then sailed away after dark, and was pursued by Gorgopas, who captured four of his triremes, in an engagement off Zoster, Attica, while the rest escaped to the Peiraccus (Xen. Hell. v. 1. §§ 5-9). This was. perhaps, the same Eunomus whom Lysias mentions (pro bon. Arist. pp. 153, 154) as one of those sent by Conon to Sicily, to persuade Dionysius 1. to form an alliance with Athens against Sparta. The mission was so far successful, that Dionysius withheld the ships which he was preparing to despatch to the aid of the Lacedaeonians. [E.E]
(Εὔνομος), a cithara-player of Locri, in Italy. One of the strings of his cithara being broken (so runs the tale) in a musical contest at the Pythian games, a cicada perched on the instrument, and by its notes supplied the deficiency. Strabo tells us there was a statue of Eunomus at Locri, holding his cithara with the cicada, his friend in need, upon it. (Strab. vi. p.260; Casaub. ad loc. ; Clem. Alex. Protrept. i.; comp. Ael. NA 5.9.) [E.E]
(Εὔνομος).
1. A Greek physician, who must have lived in or before the first century after Christ, as one of his medical formulae is quoted by Asclepiades Pharmacion. (Ap. Galen. de Compos. Medicam. sec. Gen.. 5.14. vol. xiii. p. 850, 851.) In the passage in question, for Εὔνομος ὁ Ἀσκληπιάδης we should probably read Εὔνομος ὁ Ἀσκληπιάδειοσορ, that is, a follower of Asclepiades of Bithynia, who lived in the first century B. C.
2. A physician in the fourth century after Christ, mentioned in ridicule by Ausonius, Epigr. 75. [W.A.G]
- killed by Herakles: Apollod. 2.7.5
- king of Sparta: Paus. 2.36.4, Paus. 3.7.2, Paus. 4.4.4
- Hdt. 8.131