Euangeus (?) (250 BCE – 80 CE)
A, in G CMGen 5.5 (13.806 K.), gives his “green” plaster, containing
aloes, birthwort, frankincense, galbanum, ikhthuokolla, myrrh, opopanax, verdigris,
etc. in an olive oil, vinegar, and terebinth base. The name is otherwise unattested
(Pape-Benseler; LGPN), and if we do not emend to “Euangelos,” ΕΥΑΓΓΕΩΣ may be a
garbled brand name rather than a possessive.
Fabricius (1726) 154.
PTK
Euax (400 – 500 CE)
A name of probably pseudepigraphic origin. Together with D, he is credited
with a Latin lapidary tract, of uncertain date and composition, consisting, in its current
state, in two introductory letters, two very short astrological lapidaries (a planet corresponds
to each stone), and the description and find-places of 80 stones with magical properties,
most likely translated from Greek originals and then synthesized into one text. Such fusion
can be dated to ca the 5th/6th c. CE, that is to the same period when, in Italy (particularly in
Ravenna and in Cava de’ Tirreni) but also in Vandal Africa, medical-scientific works, such
as those by D, O, and G, were translated into Latin.
It is impossible to determine how much of the text is due to Damigero ̄n, and how much to
Euax. Likely the dual Euax-Damigero ̄n authorship reflects two stages of tradition. Euax
probably refers to more recent revisions, while Damigero ̄n may refer to an older edition,
probably the original Alexandrine Greek text used as a model. The name Euax, completely
unknown in the ancient world (in Latin euax is an interjection of joy, while the Greek suffix -ax
forms several proper names, e.g. Hierax, Phaiax, Skulax), appears only at the beginning of
the second introductory letter, addressed to the emperor Tiberius (in some codices, however,
both letters, as well as the lapidary itself, are attributed only to Euax). In it, Euax is character-
ized as “king of the Arabs,” possible evidence of the lapidary’s presumed original date
(commercial relationships between Romans and Arabs are attested from the imperial age on).
RE 6.1 (1907) 849–850, M. Wellmann; Halleux and Schamp (1985) 193–290.
Eugenio Amato
Euboulide ̄s (ca 200 BCE – ca 250 CE)
A, On the Decade, as preserved in the T A (p. 52
de Falco), cites Euboulide ̄s, A, A, H, and N,
as writers on P and his rebirths. B, Inst. Mus. 2.19, cites (the
same?) Euboulide ̄s with H on the order and generation of the harmonies from
the Pythagorean tetraktus, i.e., the number ten and its representation as 1 + 2 +
3 + 4. (The name is more frequent in Athens and areas under Athenian influence:
LGPN.)
FGrHist 1106.
PTK
Euboulos (Agric. and Veterin.) (325 – 90 BCE)
Author of a remedy for opisthotonos in horses quoted by P (Pelagonius 271).
H attributes the same remedy to unknown authorities (henioi): Hippiatrica Parisina
EUBOULOS (AGRIC. AND VETERIN.)