Euergetes

See Bene- FACnn:. EUMENE8 (EiiJiey^,, • well-disposed ') IL, king of PergamuH, succeeded his father Attains in n.C. 197. Through the friendship of Rome he secured a large extension of his territories, so that his kingdom became for a time one of the greatest in the East. In B.C. 169 he was suspected of secret correspondence with the enemies of Rome, but died (probably in B.C. 159 ; see Clinton, F. U. iii. 403, 406) before an open rupture took place.

The principal authorities for his life are I/ivy (Ann., esp. bk. zzxvii. and Epit. xlvi.), Polybms, and Appian, with Strabo xiii. p. 264, and Justin xxxL, 8, xxxii. 4. In 1 Mac 8' the Romans »re said to have taken ' the country of India and Media and Lydia ' from Antiochus the Great, and to have given these dominions to E. The MSS agree in this reading, which is, however, impossible, since India was never under the rule of Antiochus.

Media, too, on account of its eastward position, is not likely to have ever been ceded to E. The best correction is to substitute, with Michaelis, Mjsia for Media, and, with Grotius, Ionia for India. In agreement witli this are Livy's statements (xxxvii. 44) that the Roman Senate required from Antiochus the cession of all Asia north of the Taurus, and of these districts granted (xxxvii. 55) the part north of the M;eander to Eumenes. R. W. Moss. EUNICE (EiiWiti), so Tisch.

, WH, with all the uncial MS.S ; not EiVels^, as TR with many cur- sives).— The mother of Timothy, and probably the daughter of Lois (2 Ti 1'). The name is Greek, so that conceivably she may have been a proselyte ; but this is not a necessary inference, and more probably she was by birth a Jewess ("louSafas, Ac 16').

She was married to a Gentile husband, and, probably out of deference to his prejudices, her son was not circumcised ; but she gave him a God-fearing name(T</«)-9eos), and trained him care- fully in the OT Scriptures (2 Ti 3"). She was probably converted to Christianity on St. Paul's first visit to Lystra, as she is described as already a believer on the second visit (Ac 16'). She is not mentioned afterwards, but the curious addition of X^/>a!

(Ac 16') in cursive 25, and the substitution of it for 'lovbalas in Gig. fu., may embody a tra- dition of her widowhood ; this would give a fresh point to the injunction in 1 Ti 5*. W. LOCK.