EURIPUS has since become a general name for all straits, where the water is in great motion and agitation.
The ancient circuses had their euripi, which were no other than pits or ditches on each side of the course, into which it was very dangerous falling with their horses and chariots as they ran races. The term euripus was more particularly applied by the Romans to three canals or ditches which encompassed the circus on three sides, and which were filled occasionally to represent naumachiae or sea battles. The same people called their smaller fountains or canals in their gardens euripuses; and their largest, as cascades, &c. niter.