Eumenius in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities

A Roman rhetorician of Augustodunum (Autun) in Gaul who flourished about A.D. 290. Four orations of his are preserved-one on the restoration of the school at Autun by Constantius Chlorus, delivered in A.D. 296 or 297, and three panegyrics. Text by Bährens (Leipzig, 1874). See Seeck in Jahn's Jahrbücher, cxxxvii. 713; Kilian, Der Panegyrist Eumenius (Münnerstadt, 1869); Sachs, De Quattuor Panegyricis, etc. (Halle, 1885); and the article Panegyricus.