Eubulus
(Εὔβουλος), a son of Carmanor and father of Carme. (Paus. 2.30.3.) This name likewise occurs as a surname of several divi nities who were regarded as the authors of good counsel, or as well-disposed; though when applied to Hades, it is, like Eubuleus, a mere euphemism. (Orph. Hymn. 17. 12, 29. 6, 55. 3.) [L.S]
of Emesa, chief auditor of the exchequer (τοὺς καθόλου λόγους ἐπιτετραμμένος) under Elagabalus, rendered himself so odious by his rapacity and extortion, that upon the death of his patron the tyrant, he was torn to pieces by the soldiers and people, who had long clamorously demanded his destruction. (D. C. 79.21.) [W.R]
one of the commission of Nine appointed by Theodosius in A. D. 429 to compile a code upon a plan which was afterwards abandoned. He had before that date filled the office of magister scriniorum. In A. D. 435, he was named on the commission of Sixteen, which compiled the existing Theodosian code upon an altered plan. He then figures as comes and quaestor, with the titles illustris and magnificus. The emperor, however, in mentioning those who distinguished themselves in the composition of his code, does not signalize Eubulus. [Diodorus, vol. i. p. 1018.] [J.T.G]
(Εὔβουλος), an Athenian, the son of Euphranor, of the Cettian demus, was a very distinguished comic poet of the middle comedy, flourished, according to Suidas (s. v.), in the 101st Olympiad, B. C. 376/5. If this date be correct (and it is confirmed by the statement that Philip, the son of Aristophanes, was one of his rivals), Eubulus must have exhibited comedies for a long series of years; for he ridiculed Callimedon, the contemporary of Demosthenes. (Athen. 8.340d.) It is clear, therefore, that Suidas is wrong in placing Eubulus on the confines of the Old and the Middle Comedy. He is expressly assigned by the author of the Etymologicon Magnum (p. 451. 30) and by Ammonius (s. v. *e)/ndon) to the Middle Comedy, the duration of which begins very little before him, and extends to a period very little, if at all, after him. Works
His plays were chiefly on mythological subjects. Several of them contained parodies of passages from the tragic poets, and especially from Euripides. There are a few instances of his attacking eminent individuals by name, as Philocrates, Cydias, Callimedon, Dionysius the tyrant of Syracuse, and Callistratus. He sometimes ridicules classes of persons, as the Thebans in his Ἀντιόπη.
His language is simple, elegant, and generally pure, containing, few words which are not found in writers of the best period. Like Antiphanes, he was extensively pillaged by later poets, as, for example, by Alexis, Ophelion, and Ephippus. Titles
Suidas gives the number of the plays of Eubulus at 104, of which there are extant more than 50 titles, namely: Ἀγκυλίων Ἀγχίσης Ἀμάλθεια Ἀνασωζωζόμενοι Ἀντιόπη Ἄστυτοι Αὔγη Βελλεροφόντης Γανυμήδης Γλαῦκος Δαίδαλος Δαμαλίας is a corrupt title (Suid. s. v. Ἀσκωλιάζειν), for which Meineke would read Δαμασίας Δευκαλιων Διονύσιος, in which he appears to have ridiculed the confusion which prevailed in all the arrangements of the palace of Dionysius Schol. ad Aristoph. Thesm. 136 Διόνυσος, or, according to the fuller titleAthen. 11.460e. Σεμέλη ἢ Διόνυσος Δόλων Εἰρήνη Εὐρψ́πη Ἠχὼ Ἰξίων Ἴων, Καλαθηφόροι Καμπυλίων (doubtful) Κατακολλώμενυς (doubtful) Κερκῶπες Κλεψύδρα Κορυδαλός Κυβευταί Λάκωνες ἢ Ἴδα Μήδεια Μυλωθρίς Μυσοί Νάννιον Ναυσικάα Νεοττίς Ξοῦθος Ὀδυσσεύς ἢ Παρνόπται Οἰδίπους Οἰνόμαος ἢ Πέλοψ Ὀλβία Ὀρθάνης Πάμφιλος Παννυχίας Παρμενίσκος Πλαγγών Πορνοβοσκός Προκρίς Προσουσία ἢ Κύκνος Στεφανοπώλιδες Σφιγγοκαρίων Τιτθαί Τιτᾶνες, Φοίνιξ Χάριτες Χρυσιλλα Ψάλτρια. Edition
Meineke, Frag. Com. Graec. vol. i. pp. 355-367, vol. iii. pp. 203-272. Further Information
Clinton, Fast. Hell. sub ann. B. C. 375; Fabric. Bibl. Graec. vol. iv. pp. 442-444. [P.S]
(Εὔβουλος). (1) A formidable opponent of Demosthenes at Athens.
(2) A comic poet of Athens, born in the deme of Atarnea. He exhibited about B.C. 375. Eubulus stood on the debatable ground between the Old and Middle Comedy; and to judge from the fragments in Athenaeus, who quotes more than fifty of his comedies by name, he must have written plays of both sorts. He composed, in all, 104 comedies. The remains will be found in Meineke's Fragmenta Com. Graec. i. pp. 355- 367 and iii. pp. 203-272.
- Paus. 2.30.3
- Paus. 1.29.10