EUTROPIUS, a famous eunuch, who, in the reign of Arcadius, was raised to the most distinguished posts, and even to the consulship; but rendered himself odious by his crimes and debaucheries, and had even the insolence to threaten the empress Eudoxia with causing her to be divorced: but Gaius having demanded his head, he took sanctuary in a church, which he had deprived of its immunities; when St Chrysostom saved him from the fury of the populace, and pronounced on that occasion a sermon, which is justly esteemed a master-piece of eloquence. Eutropius was afterwards banished to the island of Cyprus, and was beheaded at Chalecedon in 399.