Eugenius
an African confessor, not less celebrated for his learning and sanctity than for the courage with which he advocated the doctrines of the orthodox faith during the persecution of the Arian Vandals towards the close of the fifth century. At first tolerated by Hunneric, who acquiesced in his elevation to the see of Carthage in A. D. 480, he was subsequently transported by that prince, after the stormy council held in February A. D. 484, to the deserts of Tripoli, from whence he was recalled by the tardy clemeney of Gundanund, but eight years afterwards was arrested, tried and condemned to death by Thrasimund, who, however, commuted the sentence to banishment. The place fixed upon was Vienne in Languedoc, where Alaric at that period held sway. Here Eugenius founded a monastery near the tomb of St. Amaranthus, where he passed his time in devout tranquillity until his death on the 13th of July A. D. 505.
Under the name of Eugenius we possess a confession of faith drawn up in accordance with the doctrines recognised by the council of Nicaea, and presented on the part of the orthodox African prelates to Hunneric, under the title, Professio fidei Catholicorum episcoporum Hunerico regi oblata. It will be found in the Bibl. Max. Patr. Lugdun. 1677, vol. viii. p. 683, and an account of its contents in Schröck, Kirchengeschichte, vol. xviii. p. 97. Gennadins mentions several other works by this author, but they no longer exist. For the original documents connected with the Vandal persecution See " Victor Vitensis de persecutione Vandalica" with the notes of Ruinart. Paris, 1694; the "Vita S. Fulgentii" ia the Bibl. Max. Patr. Lugdun. 1677, vol. ix., p. 4; and Procopius, De Bello Vandalico, 1.7, &c. [W.R]
was bishop of Toledo from A. D. 646 to 657. Works Editor and Enlarger of a work by Dracontius upon the Creation
He is mentioned under Dracontius as the editor and enlarger of the work by Dracontius upon the Creation. Thirty-two poems
He is known also as the author of thirty-two short original poems composed on a great variety of subjects, chiefly however moral and religious, in heroic, elegiac, trochaic, and sapphic measures. Editions
These were publisted by Sirmond at Paris, 8vo. 1619, will be found also in the collected works of Sirmond (Paris 1696 and Venice 1728), in the Bibl. Patr. Max. Lugdun. 1677, vol. xii. p. 345, and in the edition of Dracontius by Rivinus, Lips. 1651. Epigrams
Two Epigrams by Eugenius--one on the invention of letters, the other on the names of hybrid animals, survive. Editions
They are contained in the Anthologia Latina of Burmann, 2.264, 5.164, or n. 386, 387, ed. Meyer. [W.R]
praefectus praetorio Orientis in A. D. 547 or 540. He was the author of an Edict concerning the accounts of publicans, which is inserted in the collection of the Edicta praefectorum praetorio. (Biener, Geschichte der Novellen Justinians. p. 532; Zachariae, Anecdota, p.261.) [J.T.G]
a Greek physician, of whom it is only known that he must have lived some time in or before the first century after Christ, as one of his medical formulae is quoted by Andromnachus. (ap. Galen. de Compos. Medicam. sec. Locos, 7.6. vol. xiii. p. 114.) He is also quoted by Gariopontus (de Febr. 100.7). from which it would appear either that some of his works were extant in the eleventh century, or that some sources of information concerning him were then to be had which do not now exist. [W.A.G]
(Εὐγέναος). (1) A general who opposed Diocletian in A.D. 290, but was slain the very same day at the gates of Antioch, while attempting to make himself master of that city.
(2) A usurper in the reign of Theodosius the Great, of Gallic extraction, A.D. 392. He was defeated, taken prisoner, and put to death, after having held power for two years (Zosim. iv. 54 foll.).