in church-history, the followers of Eon, a wild fanatic of the province of Bretagne, in the 12th century, whose brain was disordered. He concluded from the resemblance between eum, in the form for exercising malignant spirits, viz. Per eum, qui venturus est judicare vivos et mortuos, and his own name Eon, that he was the son of God, and ordained to judge the quick and dead. Eon, however, was solemnly condemned by the council at Rheims, in 1148, at which Pope Eugenius III. presided, and ended his days in a miserable Eonians, miserable prifon. He left behind him a number of followers and adherents, whom perfecution and death so weakly and cruelly employed could not persuade to abandon his caufe, or to renounce an absurdity which, says Moheim, one would think could never have gained credit but in such a place as Bedlam.

EORIA; in Mythology, a feast celebrated by the Athenians in honour of Erigonus, who, by way of punishment for their not avenging the death of his father Icarus, engaged the gods to inflict the curse on their daughters that they should love men who never returned their passion. The feast was instituted by the order of Apollo.