(), a surname assumed by many of the kings in Asia
after the time of Alexander the Great, occurs likewise as the name of a king of Bosporus in
the reign of the emperor M. Aurelius. This king is mentioned by Lucian (Alexand. 57), who speaks of his ambassadors bringing the tribute which had to be paid
to the Romans; and his name should perhaps be restored in a corrupt passage of Capitolinus.
(Capitol. Anton. Pius, 9, where for curatorem read
Eupatorem.) The following coin of Eupator represents on the reverse the
heads of M. Aurelius and L. Verus. (Eckhel, vol. ii. pp. 378, 379.)