Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Euripus

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Rich, Anthony (1849). The illustrated companion to the Latin dictionary, and Greek lexicon. p. vi. OCLC 894670115. https://archive.org/details/illustratedcompa00rich. 

EURI'PUS (εὔριπος). Any artificial canal, or water course, of greater or lesser extent, such as were made to ornament a villa (Cic. Leg. ii. 1. Seneca, Ep. 83.); to afford a body of water for a spectacle to display amphibious or aquatic animals from foreign parts (Plin. viii. 40.); and especially, a moat filled with water constructed by Julius Caesar round the interior of the Circus Maximus (Suet. Caes. 39. Plin. H. N. viii. 7.), in order to protect the spectator from the sudden irruption of any animal, when hunts and shows of wild beasts were exhibited in it. This was afterwards filled up by Nero (Plin. l. c.); and the name of euripus transferred, at a subsequent age, to the barrier (spina) which ran down the centre of the course. Tertull. adv. Hermog. 31. Sidon. Carm. xxiii. 356.