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* EUROPE, PEOPLES OF. ■J'.Kt EURYPYLUS. authors and by topics. The official publications of anthropological societies pay great attention to literature on all branches of tins subject. The principal serials are Hie American .1 nlhropobi gist (Washington) j Annates de DSmographie (1'aris); Anthropologic (Paris); Archiv fiir Anthropologic (Brunswick); Archwio per I'An- tropologia (Florence); BeitrUge zur Anthro- pologie und Vrgeschichte Bayerns (Munich); Bulletins de la Socie'td d' Anthropologic de Paris (Paris); Cenitralblatt fiir Anthropologic, Elh- nologie und Urgeschichte (Munich) ; Oorrespon- denz-Blatt der deutschrn (lest llschaft fiir An- thropologic, Ethnologie und Vrgeschichte (Brunswick) ; Journal of the A nth topological In- stitute of Great Britain and Ireland (London) ; Mi inoires de la SocU-tc d' Anthropologic de Paris (Paris) ; Memoirs Read Before the Anthropolog- ical Society of London (London) ; M il llicilttngen tier anthropologist-hen Oesellschaft in Won iVi enna ) ; Petermanns Mittheilungen ans Justus Perthes geographischer Anstalt (Got ha) ; Revue d' Anthropologic (Paris); Revue Mensuelle de L'Ecole d'Anthropologie tie Paris (Paris); Be- l in d'Ethnographie (Paris); Verhandlungen der Berliner Oesellschaft fiir Anthropologic, its organ being the Zeitsohrift fur Ethnologie (Berlin). At the close of the nineteenth century appeared the following comprehensive works, more or less devoted to European ethnology: Keane, Ethnol- ogy (Cambridge. 1896 ) ; id., Man, Past and Present (Cambridge, 1809) ; Ripley, The Races of Europe (New York. 1899) : Deniker, The Races of Man (London, 1900) ; Macnamara, Origin and Character of the British People (London, 1900) ; Mortillet, G. and A., La pr4historique origine et tintitjuite de Vhomme (Paris, 1900) ; Giuseppe Sergi, The Mediterranean Race (London, 1901). ETJ'ROPHEN. An amorphous yellow powder containing about 22 per cent, of iodine, which it sets free under the influence of heat and moisture. Tts action is similar to that of iodo- form, to which it is preferred on account of its rather aromatic odor. It is insoluble in water, but dissolves freely in alcohol, ether, chloroform, and oils. ETJRO'TAS (Lat., from Gk. Eiptiras), now Iei. A river of southern Greece, rising in the southern Arcadian Mountains and flowing in a southerly direction through Laconia, traversing the fertile valley between Mount Malevo and Taygetus, and falling into the Gulf of Laconia (Map: Greece, D 5). The cities of Sparta and Amyclre were situated on the Eurotas, which were celebrated in Greek mythology. ETJ'RTJS (Lat., from Gk. EBpos)- The east, or rather southeast, wind; in later Greek legend, the son of Astrams and Eos. ETJRYALE, ft-rrVle (Neo-Lat.. from Gk. tipvs eurys, broad + iSXws, holds, threshing-floor). A genus of plants of the natural order Nymphse- aceoe, or water-lilies, closely allied to Victoria (q.v.), although of a very different appearance. Tiuryale fen /. the only species, is a water-lily native to India and China, with small red or violet-colored flowers, leaves from one to four feet in diameter, the leafstalks and calyces cov- ered with stiff prickles. The fruit is round, soft, pulpy, and of the size of a small orange, com- posed of a number of carpels, and containing round black seeds as large as peas, which are full Vol. Vli. — 20. of starch, and are used to thicken soups or are eaten roasted. The rootstock also eonta starch, which may be separated and used lor food; the root itself is also eaten, The plant, which is said to have been in cultivation in China for upward of 3000 years, i^ more hardy than the Victoria regia, and will endure the tempera tures of the latitude of Philadelphia, reproducing itself from self sown seeds in ponds. The whole plant is formidably spiny, whence its specific nana-, ferox. EURYBIADES, a'rl-bl'a-dez (Lat., from I Ik. Eipvfitddns). A Spartan naval hero. Ee "as in command of the Spartan Beet, and afterwards nominal commander of all the Greek vessels senl out against the Persians in B.C. Iso. To him is credited the Greek victory of Salamis, for which he was awarded the fixsl prize, Themistocles re- ceiving the second. ETJ'RYCLE'A (Lat., from Gk. *Eipi K ua., Eu- nil.leia). A slave in the household of Laertes and the nurse of Odysseus. On his return in the garb of a beggar she recognized him by a scar while washing his feet, and secretly reported his return to Penelope. ETJRYDICE, u-iid'i-se (Lat. from Gk. EtpvSlKV, Eurydike). The wile of Orpheus. She died from the bite of a serpent, and her husband followed iter into the lower world, where he so charmed Hades with the music of his lyre that be was permitted to take Eurydice back to earth on con- dition that while on his way be would not look behind him. Just as he reached the exit he dis- obeyed, and Eurydice vanished into the dark- ness. Hermes, Orpheus, and Eurydice are repre- sented on a very beautiful Greek relief of the end of the fifth century n.c, of which copies are in Naples, Paris, and Rome. ETJRYL'OCHTJS (Lat., from Gk. Evp6o X os). One of the companions of Odysseus. He alone escaped when the others were turned into swine by Circe. On the island of Thrinaeia he in- duced his companions to slaughter the cattle of Helios, which resulted in the destruction of all the ships. EURYM'ACHUS (Lat., from Gk. Ei P 6pa X os). The son of Polybus, and one of the boldest of the suitors of Penelope, slain with the other suitors by Odysseus. ETJRYNOME, u-rm'6-me (Lat., from Gk. Eipvvifxr)). The daughter of Oceanus and mother by Zeus of the Charities, or of Aropus. She was the wife of the Titan Ophion, who ruled Olympus, but with his wife was cast down to Tartarus by Cronus. She had a temple at Phigalia. where her statue — half woman, half fish — was pre- served, and where she was popularly identified with Artemis. ETJRYP'TERTJS (Neo-Lat., from Gk. eipte, eurys, broad -t- irrephv, pteron, wing). An ex- tinct arthropod, allied to the king-crab ( Limu- lus), and found fossil in rocks of Ordovician to Permian age, in both North America and Europe. See Kixg-Crab. EXJRYP'YLTJS (Lat.. from Gk. EvpfarvXoi). (1) King of the Meropes in Cos. and son of Poseidon and Astypalsea. Be was killed by Hera- cles, with the assistance of Zeus. His daughter Chalciope became by Heracles the mother of Thessalus. (2) The' son of Telephus and Asty- oehe, sister of Priam. He went to the aid of the
 * ipvaos, euryalos, with wide threshing-floor, from