EUREKA 
 
 
In her horror at the discovery of the foul- 
ness of the sin, she vows herself to the 
life of an uncloistered nun. Her death in 
a thunderstorm is translation rather than 
dissolution.-Elizabeth   Stuart  Phelps 
Hedged In (1870). 
 
  Euphra'sia, daughter of Lord Dion, a 
character resembling "Viola" in Shakes- 
peare'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 Bel- 
lario 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). 
  Euphra'sia, "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.-A. Murphy, The Grecian 
Daughter (1772). 
  ** The same tale is told of Xantippe, 
who preserved the life of her father 
Cimo'nos in prison. The guard, astonished 
that the old man held out so long, set a 
watch and discovered the secret. 
  There is a dungeon, in whose dim drear light 
  What do I gaze on? ... 
  An old man, and a female young and fair, 
  Fresh as a nursing mother, in whose veins 
 
 
  The blood is nectar . . . 
  Here youth offers to old age the food, 
  The milk of his own gift .... It is her sire, 
  To whom she renders back the debt of blood. 
        Byron, Childe Harold, iv. 148 (1817). 
 
  Eu'plirasy, the herb eye-bright; so 
called because it was once supposed to be 
efficacious in clearing the organs of sight. 
Hence the archangel Michael purged the 
eyes of Adam with it, to enable him to see 
into  the  distant future.-See   Milton, 
Paradise Lost, xi. 414-421 (1665). 
 
  Eu'phues (3 syl.), the chief character 
in John Lilly's EuphuAs or The Anatomy of 
Wit, and Euphues and his England. He 
is an Athenian gentleman, distinguished 
for his elegance, wit, love-making, and 
roving habits. Shakespeare borrowed'his 
"government of the bees" (Henry V. act i. 
se. 2) from Lilly. Euphu&s was designed 
to exhibit the style affected by the gallants 
of England in the reign of Queen Eliza- 
beth. Thomas Lodge wrote a novel in a 
similar style, called Euphues' Golden Leg- 
acy (1590). 
  "The commonwealth of your bees," replied 
Euphu~s, "did so delight me that I was not a 
little sorry that either their estates have not been 
longer, or your leisure more; for, in my simple 
judgment, there was such an orderly government 
that men may not be ashamed to imitate it."- 
J. Lilly, Euphues (1581). 
  (The   romances  of   Calpren6de  and 
Scud6ri bear the same relation to the jar- 
gon of Louis XIV., as the Euphues of Lilly 
to that of Queen Elizabeth.) 
 
  Eure'ka! or rather HEURE'KA! (" I have 
discovered  it!")  The  exclamation  of 
Archime'd~s, the Syracusan philosopher, 
when he found out how to test the purity 
of Hi'ero's crown. 
  The tale is, that Hiero suspected that a 
craftsman to whom he had given a certain 
weight of gold to make into a crown had 
 
 
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