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In Greek mythology, Eunostus or Eunostos was a goddess whose image was set up in mills, and who was believed to keep watch over the just weight of flour.
Promylaia ("the one that stands before/protects the mill") was another name for a goddess of the mills, who was worshipped in the same fashion as Eunostus. Both Eunostus and Promylaia could actually have been mere epithets of Demeter.
In Greek mythology, Eunostus was a hero of Tanagra, Boeotia. His parents were Elieus, son of Cephissus, and Scias. He was said to have received his name from the nymph Eunosta who reared him.
The story of Eunostus' death, related by Plutarch with a reference to the poet Myrtis of Anthedon, is as follows. Ochne, a daughter of Colonus and cousin of Eunostus, fell in love with him, but he rejected her advances and was going to report the matter to her brothers, Echemus, Leon and Bucolus. She forestalled him by telling her brothers that Eunostus had taken her by force; they laid an ambush against Eunostus and killed him. Elieus seized the murderers of his son and put them in bonds. Then Ochne, overcome with remorse, confessed to Elieus that her accusations were false. Colonus, who judged the matter, sent his sons into exile, and Ochne committed suicide by throwing herself off a height.
Plutarch further relates that there was a sanctuary of Eunostus in Tanagra, and that women were not allowed to enter the precinct, not even in emergency cases like earthquakes.
Eunostus is a genus of beetles in the family Carabidae, containing the following species:
- Eunostus allardi Basilewsky, 1957
- Eunostus burgeoni Alluaud, 1919
- Eunostus chappuisi Alluaud, 1936
- Eunostus crampeli Alluaud, 1919
- Eunostus guieinzii Chaudoir, 1862
- Eunostus guineensis Straneo, 1943
- Eunostus harrarensis Alluaud, 1919
- Eunostus insignis Alluaud, 1919
- Eunostus latreillei Laporte De Castelnau, 1835
- Eunostus milloti Jeannel, 1949
- Eunostus perrieri Jeannel, 1949
- Eunostus puncticeps Basilewsky, 1957
- Eunostus sicardi Jeannel, 1949
- Eunostus vuilleti Alluaud, 1919