Biography and Mythology

• M. Aburius Aburius. 2. M. Aburius, tribune of the plebs, B. C. 187, opposed M. Fulvius the proconsul
• M'. Acilius Glabrio Acilius Glabrio. C. F. L.N., was tribune of the plebs in B. C. 201, when he opposed the cl
• M'. Acilius Glabrio Acilius Glabrio. M'. F. C. N. GLABRIO, son of the preceding, dedicated, as duumvir under a
• M'. Acilius Glabrio Acilius Glabrio. tribune of the plebs. The date of his tribuneship is not ascertained. He
• M'. Acilius Glabrio Acilius Glabrio. M. F. M. N. GLABRIO, son of the preceding and of Mucia, a daaghter of P.
• M'. Acilius Glabrio Acilius Glabrio. son of the preceding and of Aemilia, daughter of M. Aemilius Scaurus, con
• M'. Acilius Glabrio Acilius Glabrio. was consul with Trajan in A. D. 91. The auguries which promised Trajan th
• M. Actorius Naso Actorius Naso. seems to have written a life of Julius Caesar, or a history of his times, w
• M. Acutius Acutius. M. ACU'TIUS, tribune of the plebs B. C. 401, was elected by the other tribunes (b
• M. Aemilius Lepidus or M'. Aemilius Lepidus Aemilius Lepidus or M'. Aemilius Lepidus. 6. M. or M'. AEMILIUS LEPIDUS, praetor B. C. 213
• M. Annaeus Seneca or the elder Seneca or Seneca the elder Annaeus Seneca or the elder Seneca or Seneca the elder. was a native of Corduba (Cordova)
• M. Anneius Anneius. legate of M. Cicero during his government in Cilicia, B. C. 51. Anneius appears t
• M. Aper Aper. a Roman orator and a native of Gaul, rose by his eloquence to the rank of Quaestor,
• M. Aquinius Aquinius. a Pompeian, who took part in the African war against Caesar. After the defeat of
• M. Arethusius Arethusius (Ἀρεθούσιος), the author of a confession of faith, promulgated in the third cou
• M. Argentarius Argentarius. Works Epigrams the author of about thirty epigrams in the Greek Anthology, mo
• M. Artorius Artorius (Ἀρτώριος), a physician at Rome, who was one of the followers of Asclepiades (Cae
• M. Atilius Atilius. one of the early Roman poets, is classed among the comic poets of Rome by Vulcati
• M'. Aulius Aulius. praefect of the allies, was killed in the battle in which Marcellus was defeated b
• M. Aurelius Antoninus Aurelius Antoninus. commonly distinguished by the epithet of " the philosopher," was born
• M. Bambalio Bambalio. a man of no account, the father-in-law of M. Antonius, the triumvir, who receive
• M. Barbatius Barbatius. a friend of J. Caesar, and afterwards quaestor of Antony in B. C. 40. (Cic. Phi
• M. Bucculeius Bucculeius. a Roman, not unversed in legal studies, although, in the treatise De Oratore (
• M. Caeparius Caeparius. 1. Of Tarracina, a town in Latium, was one of Catiline's conspirators, who was
• M. Caesonius Caesonius. one of the judices at Rome, an upright man, who displayed his integrity in the
• M. Cantius Cantius. tribune of the plebs, B. C. 293, accused L. Postumius Megellus, who avoided a tri
• M. Centenius Penula Centenius Penula. first centurion of the triarii (primi pili), who had obtained his discha
• M. Cossutius Cossutius. a Roman knight, a man of the greatest respectability and integrity, who lived i
• M. Didius Salvius Julianus Didius Salvius Julianus. afterwards named M. Didius Commodus Severus Julianus, the success
• M. Durmius Durmius. a triumvir of the mint under Augustus, of whom there are several coins extant. Th
• M. Eppius Eppius. M. F., a Roman senator, and a member of the tribe Terentina, took an active part i
• M. Eugenicus Eugenicus. a brother of Joannes Eugenicus, who was a celebrated ecclesiastical writer, non
• M. Faucius Faucius. a native of Arpinum, of equestrian rank, at Rome. His life would be undeserving r
• M. Favonius Favonius. is mentioned for the first time in B. C. 61, during the transactions against P.
• M. Firmus Firmus. one of the " minusculi tyranni" who sprung up during the reign of Aurelian. Accord
• M. Gallio Gallio. Works Rhetorica ad Herennium is said to be mentioned in an ancient MS. as the auth
• M. Iccius Iccius. 2. was appointed praetor of Sicily by M. Antony just before the departure of the l
• M. Laenius Laenius. or LE'NIUS FLACCUS, a friend of Atticus, who, notwithstanding the stringent edict
• M. Lamponius Lamponius. a Lucanian, was one of the principal captains of the Italians in the war of the
• M. Livius Livius. tribune of the plebs, B. C. 320, opposed the proposition for annulling the treaty
• M. Lurius Lurius. praefect of Sardinia, under Augustus, in B. C. 40, was expelled from that island b
• M. Manilius Manilius. the jurist. The praenomen of Manilius is generally given as Manius in the printe
• M. Orfius Orfius. a Roman eques, of the municipium of Atella, was a tribune of the soldiers in Caesa
• M. Pacilius Pacilius. described by Cicero as "homo egens et levis," was the accuser of Sthenius before
• M. Pacuvius Pacuvius. one of the most celebrated of the early Roman tragedians, was born about B. C. 2
• M. Pacuvius and Q. Pacuvius Pacuvius and Q. Pacuvius. 1. and 2. M. and Q. PACUVII, with the cognomen CLAUDII, who subs
• M. Pompilius Andronicus Pompilius Andronicus. was a Syrian by birth, and taught rhetoric at Rome in the former hal
• M. Pomponius Dionysius Pomponius Dionysius. a freedman of T. Pomponius Atticus, received his nomen from Atticus,
• M. Porcius Cato or Cato the Censor Porcius Cato or Cato the Censor. 1. M. Porcius Cato Censorius, was born at Tusculum, a mun
• M. Porcius Cato or Cato Uticensis or the Younger Cato or Cato the Younger Porcius Cato or Cato Uticensis or the Younger Cato or Cato the Younger. 9. M. Porcius Cato
• M. Raecius Raecius. 1. Was sent as ambassador into Gaul, with Sex. Antistius, in B. C. 208, to make i
• M. Sanquinius Sanquinius. a triumvir of the mint under Augustus, whose name occurs only on coins, a spec
• M. Terpolius Terpolius. tribune of the plebs, B. C. 77, in the consulship of D. Brutus and M. Lepidus.
• M. Valerius Homullus Valerius Homullus. consul under Antoninus Pius A. D. 152 with M. Acilius Glabrio. His joke
• M. Volscius Fictor Volscius Fictor. who had been previously tribune of the plebs, came forward in B. C. 461 t
• Ma signifies probably mother, as in Aeschylus (μᾶ γᾶ, Suppl. 890), who applies it to the eart
• Macar or MACAREUS (Μάκαρ or Μακαρεύς). 1. A son of Helios and Rhodos, or, according to others, a
• Macar 2. A son of Aeolus, who committed incest with his sister Canace, and, according to some ac
• Macar 3. A son of Lycaon, from whom the town of Macaria in Arcadia derived its name. (Paus. 8.3.
• Macar 4. A son of Jason and Medeia, who is also called Mermerus or Mormorus. (Hyg. Fab. 239; Tze
• Macareus . Athenaeus cites in two places (vi. p. 262c. xiv. p. 639d' the Κωακά of Macareus. As his
• Macaria a daughter of Heracles by Deianeira, from whom Zenobius derives the proverb βάλλ̓ ἐς μακαρ
• Macarius a Spartan, was one of the three commanders of the Peloponnesian force which was sent to ai
• Macarius 13. MACRES, or MACRA (ὁ Μακρῆς) or MACRUS (ὁ Μακρός), a monk of Mount Athos, and an intima
• Macarius 16. MARTYRII SCRIPTOR. Works Acta Proconsularia Beatorum Martyrum Tharaci Probi et Androni
• Macarius . 1. AEGYPTIUS, the EGYPTIAN. There were in the fourth century in Egypt two eminent asceti
• Macarius 2. Of ALEXANDRIA, contemporary with the foregoing, from whom he is distinguished by the ep
• Macarius 3. Of ANCYRA, of which city he was metropolitan. Macarius lived in the earlier part of the
• Macarius 4. Of ANTIOCH. Macarius was patriarch of Antioch in the seventh century. He held the doctr
• Macarius 5. ANTONII DISCIPULUS, the DISCIPLE of ST. ANTONY, or, of PISPIR (comp. Nos. 1 and 2). Pal
• Macarius 7. Of the CELLS, or JUNIOR. Macarius, whom Sozomen calls πρεσβύτερον τω-ν κελλίων, " presb
• Macarius 9. Of CONSTANTINOPLE, patriarch of that see, from 1376 to 1379. There was another Macarius
• Macarius HIEROSOLYMITANUS HIEROSOLYMITANUS. 11. HIEROSOLYMITANUS, or of Jerusalem. Two Macarii were bishops of Jerus
• Macarius MAGNES MAGNES. 14. MAGNES. Some extracts from a work entitled Apologia adversus Theosthenem Evang
• Macarius MONACHUS MONACHUS. 17. MONACHUS. According to Gennadius of Marseilles, Macarius, a Roman monk, wrot
• Macatus, M. Livius M. Livius. was appointed by the propraetor M. Valerius, in B. C. 214, commander of the tow
• Maccabaei the name generally given to the descendants of the family of the heroic Judas Maccabi or M
• Macedon a son of Zeus and Thyia, and a brother of Magnes, from whom Macedonia was believed to have
• Macedonius 12. VICARIUS AFRICAE. Macedonius, who held the office of Vicarius Africae, in the early pa
• Macedonius of Thessalonica, a poet of the Greek Anthology, whom Suidas (s. v. Ἀγαθίας) mentions as co
• Macedonius 2. Of ANTIOCH. Macedonius, a Monothelite, was patriarch of Antioch from A. D. 639 or 640,
• Macedonius 3. Of CONSTANTINOPLE (1). On the death of Eusebius, patriarch of Constantinople, better kn
• Macedonius 4. Of CONSTANTINOPLE (2). Macedonius, the second patriarch of Constantinople of the name,
• Macedonius CRITOPHAGUS CRITOPHAGUS. 6. CRITOPHAGUS, or CRITHOPHAGUS. (ὁ Κριθοφάγος.) Macedonius was a celebrated
• Macer, Aemilius Aemilius of Verona, was senior to Ovid, and died in Asia, B. C. 16, three years after Virg
• Macer, Aemilius Aemilius. a Roman jurist, who wrote after Ulpian and Paulus, and lived in the reign of Ale
• Macer, Baebius Baebius. 1. One of the consuls suffecti A. D. 101, was consul designatus when the younger
• Macer, C. Licinius C. Licinius. 1. A Roman annalist and orator, was the father of C. Licinius Calvus [CA LVUS
• Macer, C. Licinius C. Licinius. 2. An account of his son, who bore the agnomen Calvus, and who is frequently
• Macer, Calpurnius Calpurnius. governor of a Roman province at no great distance from that of Bithynia, at th
• Macer, Clodius Clodius. was appointed by Nero governor of Africa; and, on the death of this emperor, A. D
• Macer, Herennius Herennius. incurred the anger of the emperor Caligula, because he saluted him only by his
• Macer, Marcius Marcius. was a captain of gladiators in Otho's army, A. D. 69. Ascending the stream of the
• Macer, Pompeius Pompeius. was one of the praetors in A. D. 15, and put the question to the senate, whether
• Macer, Sepullius Sepullius. only known from coins, a specimen of which is annexed. The obverse represents t
• Macerinus 1. T. Geganius Macerinus, consul B. C. 492, with P. Minucius Augurinus, during which year
• Macerinus 2. L. GENUCIUS (MACERINUS), brother of No. 1, was sent into Sicily during his brother's co
• Macerinus 3. M. Geganius Macerinus, M. F., was three times consul; first in B. C. 447, with C. Juliu
• Macerinus 4. PROCULUS GEGANIUS MACERINUS, probably brother of No. 3, was consul B. C. 440, with L. M
• Machaereus i. e. the swordsman, a son of Daetas of Delphi, who is said to have slain Neoptolemus, the
• Machanidas tyrant of Lacedaemon about the beginning of the second century B. C., was originally, perh
• Machaon a son of Asclepius by Epeione (Hom. Il. 11.614; Schol. ad Pind. Pyth. 3.14), or, according
• Machares son of Mithridates the Great, was appointed by his father king of the Bosporus, when he, f
• Machatas . 1. A Macedonian, father of Harpalus, and of Philip, the satrap of India. (Arr. Anab. 3.6
• Machatas 2. An Aetolian, who was sent ambassador to Sparta at the commencement of the Social war, B
• Machatas a sculptor, whose name is known by an inscription, from which it appears that he made a st
• Machon of Corinth or Sicyon, a comic poet, flourished at Alexandria, where he gave instructions r
• Macistus . 1. A surname of Heracles, who had a temple in the neighbourhood of the town of Macistus
• Macistus 2. A son of Athamas and brother of Phrixus, from whom the town of Macistus in Triphylia wa
• Macrianus and MACRIA'NUS,JUNIOR, rank among the thirty tyrants enumerated by Trebellius Pollio. When
• Macrinus a friend of the younger Pliny, to whom the latter addresses many of his letters, but of wh
• Macrinus Roman emperor, April, A. D. 217--June, A. D. 218. M. OPELIUS (OR OPILIUS) MACRINUS, afterw
• Macrinus, Baebius Baebius. a Roman rhetorician, is mentioned along with Julius Frontinus and Julius Granianu
• Macris a daughter of Aristaeus, who fed the infant Dionysus with honey, after he was brought to h
• Macris an Odrysian woman, wife of Lysimachus, king of Thrace, by whom she was the mother of two s
• Macro, Naevius Sertorius Naevius Sertorius. was praetorian prefect under Tiberius and Caligula. His origin was obsc
• Macrobius the grammarian. Ambrosius Aurelius Theodosius Macrobius are the names usually prefixed to
• Macrobius mentioned in the writings of Optatus and Gennadius, was a presbyter of the Catholic church
• Macula, Q. Pompeius Q. Pompeius. a friend of Cicero (Cic. Fam. 6.19), and probably the same person with Pompei
• Madarus spoken of by Cicero (Cic. Att. 14.2), is C. Matius, to whom he gives the surname Madarus (
• Madates called by Diodorus MA'DETAS, (Μαδέτας), a general of Dareius, who defended a strong mounta
• Maeandrius secretary to Polycrates, tyrant of Samos, was sent by his master to Sardis to see whether
• Maeandrius an historian (συγγραφεύς), who wrote a work in which mention was made of the Heneti (Strab
• Maeandrus a son of Oceanus and Tethys, and the god of the winding river Maeander in Phrygia. He was
• Maecenas, C. Cilnius C. Cilnius. Of the life of Maecenas we must be content to glean what scattered notices we
• Maecia Gens Gens. plebeian. Only one person of this gens is mentioned under the republic, Sp. Maecius
• Maecianus the son of Avidius Cassius, was, at the breaking out of the rebellion against M. Aurelius,
• Maecilia Gens Gens. 1. L. Maecilius, one of those tribunes of the plebs who were chosen for the first ti
• Maecilia Gens Gens. 2. SP. MAECILIUS, chosen for the fourth time tribune of the plebs, B. C. 416. (Liv.
• Maecius, Quintus Quintus (Κόϊντος Μαίκιος), the author of twelve epigrams in the Greek Anthology, which are
• Maelia (Gens (Gens. the richest plebeian gens of the equestrian order, shortly after the time of the de
• Maelius 1. SP. MAELIUS, the richest of the plebeian knights, employed his fortune in buying up cor
• Maelius 2. SP. MAELIUS, tribune of the plebs B. C. 436, brought in a bill for confiscating the pro
• Maelius 3. Q. Maelius, tribune of the plebs B. C. 320, maintained, with his colleague, Ti. Numiciu
• Maemactes i. e. the stormy, a surname of Zeus, from which the name of the Attic month Maemacterion w
• Maenalius or MAENA'LIDES, a surname of Pan, derived from mount Maenalus in Arcadia, which was sacred
• Maenalus the name of two mythical personages, the one a son of Lycaon, and founder of the Arcadian
• Maenia Gens Gens (on coins and inscriptions frequently written MAINIA,) plebeian, produced several dis
• Maenius 1. MAENIUS, or according to some manuscripts MAENIUS, was the proposer of the law by which
• Maenius 10. T. Maenius, praetor urbanus B. C. 186. he served as tribune of the soldiers in B. C. 1
• Maenius 11. MAENIUS, a contemporary of Lucilius, was a great spendthrift, who squandered all his p
• Maenius 12. C. Maenius, praetor B. C. 180, received Sardinia as his province, and also the commiss
• Maenius 13. Q. Maenius, praetor B. C. 170, was employed in the Macedonian war. (Liv. 43.8.) MAENON
• Maenius 2. C. Maenius, tribune of the plebs B. C. 483, attempted to prevent the consuls from levyi
• Maenius 3. M. Maenius, tribune of the plebs B. C. 410, was the proposer of an agrarian law, and at
• Maenius 4. P. Maenius, is mentioned by Livy as consular tribune in B. C. 400, and again in B. C. 3
• Maenius 5. M. Maenius, occurs in the old editions of Livy (6.19) as tribune of the plebs in B. C.
• Maenius 6. C. MAENIUS P. F. P. N., consul, in B. C. 338, with L. Furius Camillus. [CAMILLUS, No. 4
• Maenius 7. MAENIUS, the proposer of the law, about B. C. 286, which required the patres to give th
• Maenius 8. P. MAIENIUS ANT (IATICUS) ME (GELLUS) or ME (DULLIUS), occurs on a coin, the obverse of
• Maenius 9. M. Maenius, tribune of the soldiers, fell in battle against Mago, in the country of the
• Maeon a son of Haemon of Thebes. He and Lycophontes were the leaders of the band that lay in amb
• Maeonides properly a son of Maeon, the husband of Dindyme, who was the mother of Cybele, or a native
• Maeonius the cousin, or, according to Zonaras, the nephew of Odenathus, whom he murdered in consequ
• Maeonius, Astyanax Astyanax. is quoted by Trebellius Pollio as his authority for the speeches of Macrianus an
• Maera 3. A daughter of Proetus and Anteia, was one of the companions of Artemis, but was killed
• Maera 5. A daughter of Atlas, was married to Tegeates, the son of Lycaon. Her tomb was shown bot
• Maesa, Julia Julia. the sister-in-law of Septimius Severus, the aunt of Caracalla, the grandmother of E
• Maeson a comic actor of Megara, who seems to have been celebrated for his skill in the buffoonery
• Maevius Works about Poems 2. A person, who killed his brother in the civil war, and thus has becom
• Magadates general of Tigranes, king of Armenia, was entrusted by him with the government of Syria, w
• Magarsia . a surname of Athena, derived from Magarsos, a Cilician town near the mouth of the river
• Magas . 1. King of Cyrene, was a step-son of Ptolemy Soter, being the offspring of the accomplis
• Magas 2. A grandson of the preceding, being a son of Ptolemy Euergetes and Berenice. He was put
• Magia Gens Gens. plebeian, was of Campanian origin, and one of the most distinguished houses at Capua
• Magius 1. Decius Magics, one of the most distinguished men at Capua in the time of the second Pun
• Magius 10. MAGIUS CELER VELLBIANUS, a brother of the historian Velleius Paterculus, must have bee
• Magius 2. Cn. Magius, of Atella (Atellanus), probably a relation of the preceding, but belonging
• Magius 3. MINATIUS MAGIUS ASCULANENSIS, grandson of No. 1, and atavus of the historian Velleius P
• Magius 4. P. Magius, tribune of the plebs B. C. 87, is mentioned by Cicero (Cic. Brut. 48) in the
• Magius 6. L. Magius, the companion of L. Fannius, deserted from the army of Flavius Fimbria in As
• Magius 7. Cn. Magius and MAGIA, the son and daughter of Dinaea, a woman of Larinum. Magia was mar
• Magius 8. NUMERIUS MAGIUS (erroneously called in Caesar Cn. Magius), of Cremona, was praefectus f
• Magnentius Roman emperor in the West, A. D. 350-353. FLAVIUS POPILIUS MAGNENTIUS, according to the ac
• Magnentius Decentius Decentius. the brother or cousin of Magnentius, by whom, after the death of Constans, he w
• Magnes . 1. A son of Aeolus and Enarete, became the father of Polydectes and Dictys by a Naiad. (
• Magnes 2. A son of Argos and Perimele, and father of Hymenaeus; from him also a portion of Thessa
• Magnes one of the most important of the earlier Athenian comic poets of the old comedy. He was a
• Magnus a Roman consular, accused of having organized an extensive plot against Maximinus I., in w
• Magnus 7. Abú-l-Faraj mentions a physician of this name, who lived in the seventh century after C
• Magnus the name of several physicians, whom it is difficult to distinguish with certainty. (See F
• Magnus 1. A native of Antiochia Mygdonica (called more frequently Nisibis), in Mesopotamia, who s
• Magnus 2. A native of Ephesus, in Lydia, from the second book of whose letters (" Epistolae ") Ca
• Magnus 3. A native of Philadelphia in Lydia, whose medical formulae are quoted by the younger And
• Magnus 4. A native of Tarsus in Cilicia, who must have lived in or before the beginning of the se
• Magnus Κλινικός, and MAGNUS ὁ Περιοδευτής, whose prescriptions are mentioned by Galen (De Compos.
• Magnus 5. The Magnus who wrote on Antidotes, and attained the dignity of Archiater, must be a dif
• Magnus 6. The Magnus who lived after Themison, about the same time as Archigenes, or a littie ear
• Mago a name of common occurrence at Carthage. Hence the same difficulty is found as with most o
• Mago 9. An officer who commanded a body of Carthaginian cavalry at Capua in B. C. 212, and by a
• Mago 10. Commander of the garrison of New Carthage when that city was attacked by P. Scipio in
• Mago 11. An officer of cavalry under Hasdrtbal, son of Gisco, in the war against Scipio and Mas
• Mago 12. One of the Carthaginian ambassadors sent to Rome just before the breaking out of the t
• Mago 13. A Carthaginian, apparently not the same as the preceding, who, on the return of the em
• Mago 14. A Carthaginian of uncertain date, who wrote a work upon agriculture in the Punic langu
• Mago 1. A Carthaginian who, according to Justin, was the founder of the military power of that
• Mago 2. Commander of the Carthaginian fleet under Himilco in the war against Dionysius, B. C. 3
• Mago 3. Commander of the Carthaginian fleet and army in Sicily in B. C. 344. When Timoleon had
• Mago 4. Commander of a Carthaginian fleet, which, according to Justin, was despatched to the as
• Mago 5. Son of Hamilcar Barca, and brother of the famous Harnibal. He was the youngest of the t
• Mago 6. One of the chief officers of Hannibal in Italy, whose name is appended to the treaty co
• Mago 7. Surnamed the Sannite (o Σαυνίτης), was one of the chief officers of Hannibal in Italy,
• Magus one of the followers of Simus in the merry and licentious songs, the poets of which were c
• Maharbal son of Himilco, and one of the most distinguished Carthaginian officers in the Second Puni
• Maia a daughter of Atlas and Pleiono (whence she is called Atlantis and Pleias), was the eldest
• Maior a Greek sophist and rhetorician, who lived about the middle of the third century after Chr
• Maiximus, L. Appius L. Appius. a distinguished Roman general in the reigns of Domitian and Trajan. In A. D. 91
• Majorianus, Julius Valerius Julius Valerius. emperor of Rome (A. D. 457-461), ascended the throne under the following
• Malacon a native of Heracleia, on the Euxine, in the service of Seleucus, who slew Lysimachuts wit
• Malacus a Greek historical writer, the author of a work entitled Σιφνίων Ὧροι, which is quoted by
• Malas of Chios, a sculptor, mentioned by Pliny (Plin. Nat. 36.5. s. 4) as having lived before Di
• Malchus or MALICHUS, historical. This name is in fact a mere title and signifies " a king." (Gesen
• Malchus 1. A Carthaginian leader who, according to Justin, was one of the first that extended the
• Malchus 2. One of the chief leaders among the Jews at the time that Cassius Longinus was in Syria,
• Malchus 3. King of Arabia Petraea (probably the same who is mentioned by Hirtius, B. Alex. 1, as s
• Malchus 4. Of PHILADELPHIA. Among the writers from whom the Ἐκλογαὶ περὶ πρέσβεων, Excerpta de Leg
• Malchus 6. Of TYRE. Malchus was the Hellenized form of the original Syriac name of the philosopher
• Malchus MONACHUS MONACHUS. 3. MONACHUS, the MONK, author of a curious autobiography, dictated by him in his
• Maleates a surname of Apollo, derived from cape Malea, in the south of Laconia. He had sanctuaries
• Malelas or MALALAS, IOANNES (Ἰωάννης ὁ Μαλέλα or Μαλάλα), a native of Antioch, and a Byzantine his
• Maleus a son of Heracles by Omphale, is said to have been the inventor of the trumpet. (Schol. ad
• Maliades nymphs who were worshipped as the protectors of flocks and of fruit-trees. They are also c
• Malleolus, Publicius Publicius. 1. M. Publicius Malleolus, L. F. L. N., consul B. C. 232 with M. Aemilius Lepid
• Malleolus, Publicius Publicius. 2. L. Publicius Malleolus, L. F. L. N., aedile with his brother in B. C. 240, a
• Malleolus, Publicius Publicius. 3. Publicius Malleolus killed his mother, and was in consequence sewn up in a s
• Malleolus, Publicius Publicius. 4. C. PUBLICIUS MALLEOLUS, quaestor to Cn. Dolabella in Cilicia, B. C. 80, died
• Mallia Gens Gens. plebeian. This name is frequently confounded with that of Manlius; and in almost eve
• Maluginensis a celebrated patrician family of the Cornelia gens in the early ages of the republic. It d
• Maluginensis 9. Ser. Cornelius Maluginensis, P. F. M. N., seven times consular tribune: the first time
• Maluginensis 11. SER. CORNELIUS SER. F. M. N. MALUGINENSIS, magister equitum to the dictator F. Quincti
• Maluginensis 1. SER. CORNELIUS COSSUS MALUGINENSIS, P. F., consul B. C. 485 with Q. Fabius Vibulanus, i
• Maluginensis 2. L. Cornelius Ser. F. P. N. MALUGINENSIS, consul B. C. 459 with Q. Fabius Vibulanus. The
• Maluginensis 3. M. Cornelius Ser., L. F. N. MALUGINENSIS, a member of the second decemvirate. [See No.
• Maluginensis 6. P. Cornelius Maluginensis, P. F. M. N., consular tribune in B. C. 397 (Liv. 5.16; Diod.
• Maluginensis 7. P. Cornelius Maluginensis Cossus, consular tribune B. C. 395, and consul B. C. 393 with
• Maluginensis 8. M. Cornelius Maluginensis, P. F. P. N., was elected censor in B. C. 393, to supply the
• Malus a son of Amphictyon or of Amyrus, said to have given the name to the town of Malieus. (Ste
• Mamaea, Julia Julia. the daughter of Julia Maesa, the niece of Septimius Severus, the first cousin of Ca
• Mamercinus or MAMERCUS, the most ancient family of the patrician Aemilia Gens, and one of the most di
• Mamercinus 9. L. Aemilius Mamxercinus Privernas, L. F. L. N., the son of No. 8, a distinguished gener
• Mamercinus 10. TIB. AEMILIUS TIB. F. TIB. N. MAMERCINUS, consul B. C. 339 with Q. Publilius Philo. Ae
• Mamercinus 1. L. Aemilius Mam. F. MAMERCUS, consul for the first time in B. C. 484 with K. FABIUS VIB
• Mamercinus 2. TIB. AEMILIUS MAM. N. MAMERCUS, L. F., son of No. 1, was consul in B. C. 470 with L. Va
• Mamercinus 3. MAM. AEMILIUS MAMERCINUS, M. F., consular tribune in B. C. 438. (Liv. 4.16; Diod. 12.38
• Mamercinus 4. M'. Aemilius Mam. F. M. N. MAMERCINUS, son of No. 3, was consul in B. C. 410 with C. Va
• Mamercinus 5. C. Aemilius Tib. F. Tib. N. MAMERCINUS, consular tribune in B. C. 394, carried on the w
• Mamercinus 6. L. Aemilius Mam. F. M. N. MAMERCINUS, son of No. 3, was consular tribune seven times, f
• Mamercinus 7. L. Aemilius Mam. N. Mamercinus, L. F., son of No. 6, was magister equitum to the dictat
• Mamercinus 8. L. Aemilius Mamercinius, L. F. L. N., Son of No. 7, was interrex in B. C. 353, and magi
• Mamercinus, Pinarius Pinarius. 2. L. Pinarius Mamercinus Rufus, consul B. C. 472 with P. Furius Medullinus Fusu
• Mamercus according to one tradition a son of king Numa, who chose this name because one of the sons
• Mamercus tyrant of Catana, at the time when Timoleon landed in Sicily, B. C. 344. He is termed by P
• Mamers was the Oscan name of the god Mars. (Paul. Diac. p. 131, ed. Müller.) Varro (De Ling. Lat.
• Mamertinus Works Claudii Mamertini Panegyricus Maximiano Herclio dictus The first piece in the collec
• Mamertus an ancient surname of Ares, which must have arisen after the identification of the Italian
• Mamertus, Claudianus Ecdidius Claudianus Ecdidius. was a presbyter in the diocese of Vienne, in France, of which his bro
• Mamilia Gens Gens. plebeian, was originally one of the most distinguished families in Tusculum, and ind
• Mamilianus a friend of the younger Pliny, to whom the latter addressed two letters (9.16, 25), but of
• Mamilius 1. Octavius Mamilius, of Tusculum, called by Livy " longe princeps Latini nominis," was th
• Mamilius 2. L. Mamilius, dictator or chief magistrate at Tusculum in B. C. 460, marched in that yea
• Mammas (Gregorius) . or MELISSE'NUS (GREGO'RIUS), a monk of the latest Byzantine period. We first read of him
• Mammula 1. A. Cornelius Mammula, was praetor, B. C. 217, at the commencement of the second Punic w
• Mammula 2. A. Cornelius Mammula, praetor B. C. 191, in which year the war with Antiochus broke out
• Mammula 4. M. Cornelius Mammula, was sent with four others as ambassador to Perseus, king of Maced
• Mamurra a Roman knight, born at Formiae, was the commander of the engineers (praefectus fabrrum) i
• Mana or MANA GE'NITA, an ancient Italian divinity. When a sacrifice was offered to her, the peo
• Manaechmus or MENAECHMUS (Μάναιχμος or Μέναιχμος). 1. A native of Sicyon, who lived in the time of th
• Manaechmus 2. A native of Alopeconnesus, who wrote a commentary on Plato's Republic, which is no long
• Manasses, Constantinus Constantinus. Κωνσταντῖνος ὁ Μανάσση, (lived in the middle of the twelfth century, during
• Mancia, Curtilius Curtilius. was legatus of the army on the upper Rhine, in the reign of Nero, and assisted
• Mancia, Helvius Helvius. a Roman orator (about B. C. 90), who was remarkably ugly, and whose name is recor
• Mancinus Hostilius Hostilius. 2. A. Hostilius Mancinus, L. F. A. N., was praetor urbanus B. C. 180, and consu
• Mancinus Hostilius Hostilius. 2. L. Hostilius Mancinus, probably son of No. 1, was engaged as legate of the c
• Mancinus Hostilius Hostilius. 3. C. Hostilius Mancinus, probably a brother of No. 2, was consul in B. C. 137
• Mancinus Hostilius Hostilius. 4. A. Hostilius Mancinus, curule aedile (but in what year is uncertain), of who
• Mancinus, Manilius Manilius. or MA'NLIUS, tribune of the plebs B. C. 108, proposed to the people the bill by
• Mandubratius the son of Imanuentius, king of the Trinobantes in Britain, had fled to Caesar in Gaul, af
• Maneros a son of the first Egyptian king, who died in his early youth, and after whom a species of
• Manes i.e. " the good ones" [MANA], is the general name by which the Romans designated the souls
• Manetho an Egyptian priest of the town of Sebennytus, who lived in the reign of Ptolemy, the son o
• Mania an ancient and formidable Italian, probably Etruscan, divinity of the lower world, is call
• Mania . 1. A Phrygian, as the name implies (Mach. apud Athen. xiii. p. 578b), was the wife of Ze
• Mania 2. An Athenian hetaera, a great favourite of Demetrius Poliorcetes. Mania was only her nic
• Maniae certain mysterious divinities, who had a sanctuary in the neighbourhood of Megalopolis, in
• Manilia Gens Gens. plebeian. It is difficult often to distinguish persons of this name from the Manlii
• Manilius 1. SEX. MANILIUS, was elected with M. Oppius, as the commander of the soldiers, in their s
• Manilius the author of an epigram in two lines, quoted by Varro (L. L. p. 130, ed. Müller). If Mani
• Manilius 2. P. Manilius, one of the legates sent into Illyricum in B. C. 167, to settle the affairs
• Manilius 4. MANILIUS, praetor B. C. 137, was defeated in Sicily by Eunus, the leader of the slaves
• Manilius 5. P. Manilius, consul B. C. 120, with C. Papirius Carbo, but nothing is recorded of him.
• Manilius 6. L. Manilius, praetor probably in B. C. 79, had the government of Narbonese Gaul, with t
• Manilius 7 C. MANILIUS, tribune of the plebs, B. C. 66, was a partisan of Pompey, and is described
• Manilius or MA'NLIUS, or MA'LLIUS, for all of these and many other variations are found in MSS., th
• Manisarus a prince who had seized upon Armenia in the time of Trajan, and against whom Osroes, the P
• Manius the person who managed the affairs of M. Antonius, in Italy, was one of the chief instigat
• Manlia Gens Gens. one of the most ancient and celebrated of the patrician gentes at Rome. Subsequently
• Manlius 1. Cn. Manlius Cincinnatus, was consul in B. C. 480, with M. Fabius Vibulanus, and fell in
• Manlius 2. A. Manlius, a legate of C. Marius, in the war against Jugurtha in Africa, B. C. 107. He
• Manlius 3. C. Manlius, the commander of Catiline's troops in Etruria, in B. C. 63, is more correct
• Manlius 4. Manlius Lentinus, the legate of C. Pomptinius in Narbonese Gaul, in B. C. 6 1, took the
• Manlius 5. Cn. Manlius, tribune of the plebs B. C. 58, brought forward a law granting to the freed
• Mannus a son of Tuisco, was regarded by the ancient Germans, along with his father, to have been
• Mannus . 1. A king of some part of Arabia bordering upon Mesopotamia, who submitted to Trajan on
• Mannus 2. A son or grandson of the preceding, who lived in the reign of M. Aurelius, and several
• Mantias Μαντείας, (or rather Μαντίας), a physician, who was the tutor of Heracleides of Tarentum (
• Mantineus a son of Lycaon, and the reputed founder of Mantineia. (Apollod. 3.8.§ l; Paus. 8.8.4.) An
• Mantitheus an Athenian, is mentioned by Xenophon (Xenoph. Hell. 1.1.10), as having been taken prisone
• Manto . 1. A daughter of the Theban soothsayer Teiresias. She herself was a prophetess, first of
• Manto 2. A daughter of the soothsayer Polyeidus, and sister of Astycrateia. The tombs of these t
• Manto 3. A daughter of Heracles, is likewise described as a prophetess, and as the personage fro
• Manuel 12. STRABOROMANUS, a Byzantine writer of the time of Alexius Comnenus. He wrote on astrolo
• Manuel 1. Of BYZANTIUM. Among the writers enumerated by Joannes Scylitzes Curopalates, who lived
• Manuel 4. CHARITOPULUS (ὁ Χαριτόπουλος), or SARANTENUS (ὁ Σαραντηνός), or the PHILOSOPHER, a Gree
• Manuel 7. Of CONSTANTINOPLE, 2. There were two Manuels patriarchs of Constantinople, Manuel I. Ch
• Manuel 8. HOLOBOLUS (Ὁλόβωλος), a Byzantine writer of the latter part of the thirteenth century.
• Manuel I. or Manuel Comnenus> I. or Manuel Comnenus> (Μανουὴλ ὁ Κομνηνός), emperor of Constantinople A. D. 1143-1181, th
• Manuel Ii., Palaeologus> Ii., Palaeologus> (Μανουήλ ὁ Παλαιολόγος), emperor of Constantinople A. D. 1391-1425, was
• Marathon the hero eponymus of the Attic town of Marathon. According to some traditions, he was a so
• Marcella 1. Daughter of C. Marcellus, C. F., and Octavia, the sister of Augustus. She was married,
• Marcella was a wife or mistress of the poet Martial, to whom he has addressed two epigrams (12.21,
• Marcellinus a friend of Martial, who addressed to him three short poems while Marcellinus was travelli
• Marcellinus the chief minister of the usurper Magnentius, first appears in history as Praefectus Orien
• Marcellinus or MARCELLIA'NUS (Μαρκελλιανός, Procop.), a Roman officer, who acquired for himself in the
• Marcellinus, Claudius Claudius. an orator who pleaded on the defendant's side at the impeachment of Marius Prisc
• Marcellinus Comes Comes. so called on account of the office of comes, which he held probably at Constantinop
• Marcellinus, Egnatius Egnatius. a quaestor in a provincial government whose integrity towards the treasury is hi
• Marcellinus, Fabius Fabius. quoted by Lampridius (Alex. Sev. 48) as the author of a biography of Trajan, and r
• Marcellus a PHYSICIAN who appears to have lived in the first century after Christ in the reign of Ne
• Marcellus Claudius Claudius. Marcellus was the name of the most illustrious plebeian family of the Claudia ge
• Marcellus Claudius Claudius. 9. M. Claudius Marcellus, son of the preceding, and father of the following, as
• Marcellus Claudius Claudius. 10. M. Claudius Marcellus, curule aedile in B. C. 91. (Cic. de Or. 1.13.) He is
• Marcellus Claudius Claudius. 11. M. Claudius Marcellus, M. F. M. N. (probably a son of the preceding), the fr
• Marcellus Claudius Claudius. 12. C. Claudius Marcellus, M. F. M. N., a brother of the preceding, of whom very
• Marcellus Claudius Claudius. 13. C. Claudius Marcellus, M. F. M. N., uncle of the two preceding, and father o
• Marcellus Claudius Claudius. 14. C. Claudius Marcellus, C. F. M. N., son of the preceding, and first cousin o
• Marcellus Claudius Claudius. 15. M. Claudius Marcellus, C. F. C. N., son of the preceding and of Octavia, the
• Marcellus Claudius Claudius. 16. M. Claudius Marcellus, called by Cicero, for distinction's sake, the father
• Marcellus Claudius Claudius. 17. M. Claudius Marcellus Aeserninus, M. F., is mentioned by Cicero as a young m
• Marcellus Claudius Claudius. 18. M. Claudius Marcellus Aeserninus, quaestor in Spain in 48, under Q. Cassius
• Marcellus Claudius Claudius. 1. M. Claudius Marcellus was consul in B. C. 331, the year that was distinguishe
• Marcellus Claudius Claudius. 19. M. Claudius Marcellus Aesernjnus, M. F., consul in B. C. 22. (D. C. 54.1, an
• Marcellus Claudius Claudius. 20. M. Claudius Marcellus Aeserninus, M. F., son of the preceding. When a boy he
• Marcellus Claudius Claudius. 21. P. Cornelius Lentulus Marcellinus, was a son of No. 16, and brother of No. 1
• Marcellus Claudius Claudius. 22. Cn. Cornelius Lentulus Marcellinus, P. F., was a son of the preceding. (Dio
• Marcellus Claudius Claudius. 23. (P.) CORNELIUS LENTUTLUS MARCELLINUS (probably a son of the preceding), was
• Marcellus Claudius Claudius. 24. P. Cornelius Lentulus Marcellinus, P. F., consul in B. C. 18. (D. C. 54.12,
• Marcellus Claudius Claudius. 27. M. Claudius Marcellus, praetor in B. C. 137, was killed by lightning during
• Marcellus Claudius Claudius. 28. M. Claudius Marcellus, an associate and friend of Catiline, and one of those
• Marcellus Claudius Claudius. 29. C. Claudius Marcellus, M. F., son of the preceding. He took part in all his
• Marcellus Claudius Claudius. 3. M. Claudius Marcellus, father of No. 4, is wholly unknown to us, except that
• Marcellus Claudius Claudius. 4. M. Claudius Marcellus, M. F. M. N., the most illustrious of all those who bor
• Marcellus Claudius Claudius. 5. M. Claudius Marcellus, M. F. M. N., son of the preceding, was remarkable as a
• Marcellus Claudius Claudius. 6. M. Claudius Marcellus, M. F. M. N., probably a brother of the preceding, thou
• Marcellus Claudius Claudius. 7. M. Claudius Marcellus, praetor in B. C. 188, in which office he ordered two R
• Marcellus Claudius Claudius. 8. M. Claudius Marcellus, M. F. M. N., son of No. 5, conspicuous for his three c
• Marcellus, Cornelius Cornelius. a Roman senator in Nero's reign, was involved with others [FABATUS CALPURNIUS]
• Marcellus Empiricus Empiricus. was born at Burdigala (Bordeaux) in the fourth century after Christ. He is said
• Marcellus, Eprius Eprius. born of an obscure family at Capua, rose by his oratorical talents to distinction
• Marcellus, Granius Granius. praetor of Bithynia, in the reilg of Tiberius, was accused, in A. D. 15, by his o
• Marcellus, M. Pomponius M. Pomponius. a grammarian, who sometimes also pleaded causes, lived in the reign of Tiber
• Marcellus, Mindius Mindius. was an adherent of Augustus in the last war with Sext. Pompey, B. C. 36. Through
• Marcellus, Nonius Nonius. a Latin grammarian, the author of an important treatise, which in MSS. is designat
• Marcellus, Orontius Orontius. was the person to whom Longinus addressed his treatise Περὶ Τέλους, or De Finibu
• Marcellus, P. Neratius P. Neratius. is mentioned by the younger Pliny (Plin. Ep. 3.8) as a person of rank and int
• Marcellus, Sex. Varius Sex. Varius. a native of Apameia, the husband of Julia Soemias, by whom he was the father
• Marcellus Sidetes Sidetes. a native of Side in Pamphylia, was born towards the end of the first century afte
• Marcellus, Ulpius Ulpius. The period of this jurist is determined by Capitolinus (Antonin. Piaus, 12), who s
• Marcellus, Victorius Victorius. was the pereon to whom Quintilian dedicated his work, De Institutione Oratorie.
• Marcia 1. The mistress of Quadratus, who was slain by Commodus, became the favourite concubine of
• Marcia 2. The first wife of Septimius Severus. She died before her husband became emperor; and af
• Marcia Gens Gens. originally patrician, afterwards plebeian likewise. We also, but not so frequently,
• Marciana the sister of Trajan, who, if we may believe the panegyric of Pliny (Paneg. 84), was a wom
• Marcianus emperor of the East (A. D. 450-457), was the son of an obscure but respectable man, who ha
• Marcianus of Heracleia in Pontus, a Greek geographer, lived after Ptolemy, whom he frequently quotes
• Marcianus a physician at Rome, who enjoyed a great reputation as an anatomist in the second century
• Marcianus, Aelius Aelius. a Roman jurist, who wrote after the death of Septimius Severus, whom he calls Divu
• Marcianus, Gessius Gessius. a native of Syria, the husband of Julia Mamaea, by whom he was the reputed father
• Marcilius attended Cicero as interpreter during his journey in Asia Minor and his administration of
• Marcion one of the most celebrated of the so-called heretics of the second century. He was a nativ
• Marcius an Italian seer, whose prophetic verses (Carmina Marciana) were first discovered by M. Ati
• Marcius 2. C. Marcius, tribune of the plebs B. C. 311, brought forward with his colleague, L. Atil
• Marcius 3. M'. Marcius, aedile of the plebs, was the first person who gave corn to the people at o
• Marcomannus A Roman rhetorician of uncertain date. Works On Rhetoric He wrote a work on rhetoric, of w
• Marcus a citizen of Ceryneia, in Achaia, had the chief hand in putting to death the tyrant of Bur
• Marcus 12. Of GAZA. Marcus, the biographer of St. Porphyry of Gaza, lived in the fourth and fifth
• Marcus 16. HIEROMONACHUS. Works Σύνταγμα εἰς τὰ ἀπορούμενα τοῦ τυπικοῦ, De Dubiis quae ex Typico
• Marcus the son of the emperor Basiliscus, was created Caesar, and soon afterwards Augustus and co
• Marcus literary and ecclesiastical. 1. Of ALEXANDRIA, patriarch of Alexandria. Works Questions on
• Marcus 2. Of ARETHUSA, bishop of Arethusa, a city of Syria, on or near the Orontes, was one of th
• Marcus 8. DIADOCHUS. Works Sermo contra Arianos A short treatise, entitled τοῦ μακαρίου Μάρκου το
• Marcus ASCETA ASCETA. 4. ASCETA. Mark the ascetic, or Mark of Athens, was a recluse, who had fixed his h
• Marcus EREMITA EREMITA. 10. EREMITA or ANACHORETA (Ἀναχωρητής, or ASCETA (ὁ Ἀσκητής), or MONACHUS (Μοναχο
• Marcus HAERESIARCHA HAERESIARCHA. 13. HAERESIARCHA, the HERESIARCH, a gnostic teacher who appeared in the seco
• Marcus HAERETICUS HAERETICUS. 14. HAERETICUS. Isidore of Seville, in speaking of Idacius Clarus, and Sulpici
• Marcus HYDRUNTIS HYDRUNTIS. 17. HYDRUNTIS or IDRUNTI S EPISCOPUS, (ἐπίσκοπος Ἱδροῦντος), BISHOP of OTRANTO.
• Mardonius a Persian, son of Gobryas, who was one of the seven conspirators against Smerdis the Magia
• Mardontes a Persian nobleman, son of Bagaeus (see Hdt. 3.128), commanded, in the expedition of Xerxe
• Margites the hero of a comic epic poem, which most of the ancients regarded as a work of Homer. The
• Maria the wife of the emperor Michael VII. Parapinales, some of whose coins have the head of bot
• Maria Gens Gens. plebeian. The name of Marius was not of unfrequent occurrence in the towns of Italy:
• Mariamne 1. Daughter of Alexander, the son of Aristobulus II., and Alexandra, the daughter of Hyrca
• Mariamne 2. Daughter of Simon, a priest at Jerusalem. Herod the Great was struck with her beauty an
• Mariamne 3. Wife of Archelaus, who was ethnarch of Judaea and son of Herod the Great. Archelaus div
• Mariamne 4. Daughter of Josephus, the nephew of Herod the Great, and Olympias, Herod's daughter. Sh
• Mariamne 5. Daughter of Aristobulus [No. 4] by Berenice, and sister to the infamous Herodias. [See
• Mariamne 6. Second daughter of Herod Agrippa I., by his wife Cypros, was ten years old when her fat
• Mariandynus a son of Phineus, Titius, or Phrixus, was the ancestral hero of the Mariandynians in Bithy
• Marianus a poet, was the son of Marsus, a Roman advocate and procurator, who settled at Eleutheropo
• Marica a Latin nymph who was worshipped at Minturnae, and to whom a grove was sacred on the river
• Maridianus, C. Cossutius C. Cossutius. a contemporary of Julius Caesar, whose name occurs only upon coins, a specim
• Mariniana A considerable. number of medals are extant in each of the three metals, all of which exhi
• Marinus a centurion, who, in the reign of Philippus (A. D. 249), was saluted emperor in Moesia, by
• Marinus of Flavia Neapolis, in Palestine, a philosopher and rhetorician, was the pupil and success
• Marinus of Tyre, a Greek geographer, who lived in the middle of the second century of the Christia
• Marinus a celebrated physician and anatomist, who must have lived in the first and second centurie
• Marion tyrant of Tyre, which position he obtained through the favour of Cassius, when the latter
• Marius 1. C. Marius, Μάριος, was born in B. C. 157, at the village of Cereatae, near Arpinum. His
• Marius 12. SEX. MAIRIUS, a man of immense wealth, who possessed gold mines in Spain, and lived in
• Marius 5. M. Marius, of Sidicinum, of whom A. Gellius (10.3) relates a striking tale, which shows
• Marius 6. M. Marius, a friend of Cicero, whose estate was in the neighbourhood of one of Cicero's
• Marius 7. L. Marius, L. F., was one of those who subscribed the accusation of Triarius against Sc
• Marius 8. L. Marius, was tribune of the plebs with Cato Uticensis, B. C. 62, and in conjunction w
• Marius 9. M. Marius, whom Cicero calls homo discrtus et nobilis, pleaded the cause of the Valenti
• Marius 11. T. Marius, of Urbinum, had risen from the rank of a common soldier to honours and rich
• Marius Alfius Alfius. the medix tuticus, or supreme magistrate of the Campanians, was defeated and slain
• Marius, M. Aurelius M. Aurelius. one of the thirty tyrants enumerated by Trebellius Pollio [see AUREOLUS], was
• Marius or Marius the Younger or the Younger Marius or Marius the Younger or the Younger Marius. 2. C. Marius, the son of the great Marius, wa
• Marmarinus i.e. the god of marble, a surname of Apollo, who had a sanctuary in the marble quarries at
• Marmax one of the suitors of Hippodameia, who was slain by Oenomaus, and was buried with his two
• Maroboduus Marbod, afterwards king of the Marcomanni, or men of the Mark (maerc) or border, or, accor
• Maron . 1. A son of Evanthes (some also call him a son of Oenopion, Seilenus. or of Bacchus, and
• Maron 2. A son of Orsiphantus, and brother of Alpheius, a Spartan hero, who had fallen at Thermo
• Marpessa a daughter of Evenus and Alcippe. (Hom. Il. 9.557; Plut. Parall. min. 40; Apollod. 1.7.8;
• Mars an ancient Roman god, who was at an early period identified by the Romans with the Greek A
• Marsus, Domptius Domptius. a Roman poet of the Augustan age, of whose life no particulars have come down to
• Marsus, Octavius Octavius. whom Cicero calls "sceleratus homo atque egens," was legate of Dolabella in B. C
• Marsus, Vibius Vibius. whom Tacitus calls (Ann. 6.47) "vetustis honoribus studiisque illustris," is first
• Marsyas a mythological personage, connected with the earliest period of Greek music. He is various
• Marsyas general of the Alexandrians in their revolt against Ptolemy Physcon. He was taken prisoner
• Marsyas literary. Three historical writers of this name are mentioned by Saidas (s. v. Μαρσύας), b
• Marsyas 1. Son of Periander, a native of Pella, in Macedonia, was a contemporary of Alexander, wit
• Marsyas 2. Of Philippi, commonly called the Younger (ὁ νεώτερος), to distinguish him from the prec
• Martialis a physician and anatomist at Rome, who was born about the year 95 after Christ. Galen beca
• Martialis, Cornelius Cornelius. was deprived of his rank as tribune, apparently in the praetorian guards, on th
• Martialis, Gargilius Gargilius. is quoted as an authority for the private life and habits of Alexander Severus
• Martialis, Julius Julius. an evocatus, who, from private pique, joined the conspiracy against Caracalla. Hav
• Martialis, M. Valerius M. Valerius. the epigrammatist. Whatever information we possess regarding the personal his
• Martina a woman in Syria, celebrated for her skill in poisoning, and a favourite of Plancina, the
• Martinianus magister officiorum to the emperor Licinius, by whom he was elevated to the dignity of Cae
• Martinus bishop of Tours, hence designated Turonensis, was born in Pannonia, about the year 316, wa
• Marullus, C. Epidius C. Epidius. tribune of the plebs, B. C. 44, removed, in conjunction with his colleague L.
• Marullus, Junius Junius. mentioned by Tacitus (Tac. Ann. 14.48), as consul designatus in A. D. 62, must hav
• Mascames . a Persian, son of Megadostes or Megalostes. was made by Xerxes governor of Doriscus in T
• Masgaba a Numidian, son of Masinissa, was sent to Rome by his father as ambassador in B. C. 168. H
• Masinissa king of the Numidians, celebrated for the conspicuous part he bore in the wars between the
• Masistius or MACI'STIUS, a Persian, of fine and commanding presence, was leader of the cavalry in th
• Maso 1. L. Papirius Maso, apparently the first person of this name who obtained any of the offi
• Maso 2. C. Papirius Maso, C. F. L. N., consul with M. Pomponius Matho in B. C. 231, carried on
• Maso 3. C. Papirius Maso, was, according to some annals, one of the triumviri for founding the
• Maso 5. L. Papirius Maso, praetor urbanus B. C. 176. (Liv. 41.14, 15.) He may have been the L.
• Maso 6. I. Papirius Maso, disinherited his brother (frater), Aelius Ligur, tribune of the plebs
• Maso 7. C. PAPIRIUS MASO, was accused of repe tundae by T. Coponius, of Tibur, and condemned. [
• Massa, Baebius Baebius. or BE'BIUS, one of the most infamous informers of the latter end of the reign of
• Massiva 1. A Numidian, grandson of Gala, king of the Massylians, and nephew of Masinissa, whom he
• Massiva 2. Son of Gulussa, and grandson of Masinissa. Having taken part with Adherbal in his dispu
• Mastanabal or MANA'STABAL (the former appears to be the more correct form of the name, see Gesenius,
• Mastor two mythical personages, one the father of Lycophron in Cythera (Hom. Il. 15.430), and the
• Maternianus, Flavius Flavius. commander of the city guards in the reign of Caracalla, was either put to death o
• Maternus, Curiatius Curiatius. one of the speakers in the " Dialogus de Causis Corruptae Eloquentiae." From th
• Matho an African who served as a mercenary soldier in the army of the Carthaginians in Sicily du
• Matho a family name of the Naevian and Pomponian gentes, was always pronounced without the aspir
• Matho a pompous, blustering advocate, ridiculed by Juvenal and Martial. To see such a niun stret
• Matho, Pomponius Pomponius. 1. M'. Pomponius Matho, M'. F. M'. N., consul B. C. 233, with Q. Fabius Maximus
• Matho, Pomponius Pomponius. 2. M. Pomponius Matho, M'. F. M'. N., brother of the preceding, consul B. C. 23
• Matho, Pomponius Pomponius. 3. MATHO. M. POMPONIUS, probably son of No. 2. plebeian aedile B. C. 206. gave,
• Matho, Q. Naevius Q. Naevius. praetor B. C. 184, received the province of Sardinia, and also the commission
• Matidia the daughter of Marciana, who was the sister of Trajan, was the mother of Sabina, who was
• Matienus 1. P. Matienus, a tribune of the soldiers in the army of P. Scipio in Sicily, was sent by
• Matienus 2. C. Matienus, was appointed duumvir navalis with C. Lucretius in B. C. 181, in which yea
• Matienus 3. M. Matienus, praetor B. C. 173, obtained the province of Further Spain, which he plunde
• Matreas called ὁ πλάνος or λαθπλάνος, the Deceiver or Imposter, appears to have been the author of
• Matrinius 1. T. Matrinius, one of those whom C. Marius presented with the Roman citizenship, was aft
• Matrinius 2. C. Matrinius, a Roman eques, who had estates in Sicily, was robbed by Verres during his
• Matris of Thebes, is called ὑμνογράφος by Ptolemy Hephaestion (apud Phot. Bibl. p. 148b. 1, ed. B
• Matron of Pitana, a celebrated writer of parodies upon Homer, often quoted by Eustathius and Athe
• Matthaeus CAMARIOTA CAMARIOTA. 3. CAMARIOTA (ὁ Καμαριῶτα), a native of either Constantinople or Thessalonica,
• Matthaeus CAMARIOTA CAMARIOTA. 4. CAMARIOTA, a contemporary of the former, wrote: 1. "Synopsis Rhetorica," ed.
• Matthaeus, Cantacuzenus Cantacuzenus (Ματθαῖος ὁ Καντακουζήνος), co-emperor of Constantinople, was the eldest son
• Matthaeus EPISCOPUS EPISCOPUS. 5. EPISCOPUS (Ioniae et Asiatidis Terrae Episcopus), a Byzantine bishop of unce
• Matthaeus or Matthaeus Panaretus or Matthaeus Panaretus (Ματταῖος), literary and ecclesiastical. 1. ANGELUS, surnamed PANAR
• Matthaeus PATRIARCHA PATRIARCHA. 8. PATRIARCHA, was removed from the episcopal see of Cyzicus to the patriarcha
• Maturus, Marius Marius. was procurator of the maritime Alps in the war between Otho and Vitellius, A. D. 6
• Matuta commonly called Mater Matuta, is usually considered as the goddess of the dawn of morning,
• Mauricianus, Junius Junius. a Roman jurist, who wrote, according to the Florentine Index, six books, Ad Leges,
• Mauricius according to Capitolinus (Gordian. tres, 100.7), was the name of the youth who headed the
• Mauricius FLA'VIUS TIBE'RIUS, one of the greatest emperors of Constantinople (A. D. 582--(620), was
• Mauricus, Junius Junius. called in some manuscripts both of Tacitus and Pliny Mariacs, was an intimate frie
• Mausolus king or dynast of Caria, was the eldest son of Hecatomnus, whom he succeeded in the sovere
• Mavortius the name prefixed to a poem in the Latin Anthology on the judgment of Paris. It is a cento
• Maxentius Roman emperor A. D. 306-312. M. Aurelius Valerius Maxentiis, the son of Maximianus Herculi
• Maxentius, Joannes Joannes. whom Cave, apparently without just ground, identifies with JOANNES SCYTHOPOLITANU
• Maximianus the poet, whose full name was CORNELIUS MAXIMIANUS GALLUS ETRUSCUS In the year 1501, Pompo
• Maximianus I I. Roman emperor, A. D. 286-305-310. M. Aurelius Valerius Maximianus born of humble parent
• Maximianus Ii. Ii.. Roman emperor, A. D. 305-311. GALERIUS VALERIUS MAXIMIANUS, born near Sardica in Daci
• Maximinus I., Roman emperor, A. D. 235-238. C. Julius Verus Maximinus was born in a village on the c
• Maximinus the excellent ambassador of Theodosius the Younger to Attila in A. D. 448. He was already
• Maximinus Ii. or the younger Maximinus Ii. or the younger Maximinus. Roman emperor A.D. 305-- 314. GALERIUS VALERIUS MAXIMINUS, w
• Maximis, Marius Marius. is repeatedly cited as a weighty authority by the Augustan historians. He appears
• Maximuis Caesar Caesar. whose full name was C. JULUS VEUS MAXIMUS, was the son of Maximinus I., upon whose
• Maximus Aegiensis Aegiensis (ὁ Αἰγιεύς), of Aegae in Cilicia, a writer contemporary with Apollonius of Tyana
• Maximus Alexandrinus Alexandrinus. known also as the cynic philosopher (Κυνικὸς φιλόσοφος), was of rank, who ha
• Maximus, Caesonius Caesonius. was banished from Italy by Nero on the detection of Piso's conspiracy in A. D.
• Maximus, Carvilius Carvilius. 1. Sp. Carvilius Maximus, C. F. C. N., was curule aedile B. C. 299, and consul
• Maximus, Carvilius Carvilius. 2. SP. CARVILIUS, SP. F. C. N. MAXIMUS RUGA, son of No. 1, was consul, B. C. 23
• Maximus Chrysoberges Chrysoberges. An account of this writer is given elsewhere. [CHRYSOBERGES LUCAS.] He flour
• Maximus, Claudius Claudius. a stoic philosopher of the age of the Antonines. He is mentioned by Julius Capit
• Maximus, Cn. Mallius Cn. Mallius. was consul in B. C. 105, when he carried his election against Q. Catulus [CAT
• Maximus Confessor Confessor (ὁ ὁμολουητής), known also as the MONK (ὁ μοναχός), an eminent Greek ecclesiasti
• Maximus, Egnatius Egnatius. is mentioned by Cicero in B. C. 45 (ad Att. 13.34), and the same person is proba
• Maximus Ephesius Ephesius. one of the teachers of the emperor Julian, who is not to be confounded with Maxi
• Maximus Epirota Epirota (Μάξιμος Ἠπειρώτης), a native of Epeirus, or perhaps Byzantium, whence he is also
• Maximus, Fabius Fabius. In the Fabia gens the surname of Maximus was first borne by Q. Fabius Rullianus, c
• Maximus, Fabius Fabius. 10. Q. FABIUS Q. F. Q. AEMILIANI N. MAXIMUS ALLOBROGICUS, son of the preceding, wa
• Maximus, Fabius Fabius. 11. Q. Fabius Maximus, Q. F. Q. N., with the agnomen SERVILIANUS, was adopted from
• Maximus, Fabius Fabius. 12. Q. Fabius Maximus Eburnus, was city praetor in B. C. 118, when he presided at
• Maximus, Fabius Fabius. 13. Q. Fabius Maximus, Q. F. Q. N., was joined with Q. Caelius Rufus in B. C. 59,
• Maximus, Fabius Fabius. 1. Q. Fabius Maximus, M. F. N. N., with the agnomen RULLIANUS or RULLUS, was the s
• Maximus, Fabius Fabius. 2. Q. Fabius Maximus, Q. F. M. N., son of the preceding, acquired the agnomen of G
• Maximus, Fabius Fabius. 3. Q. FABIUS (Q. F. Q. N. MAXIMUS ?). From the date alone of the only recorded fac
• Maximus, Fabius Fabius. 4. Q. Fabius Maximus, Q. F. Q. N., with the agnomens VERRUCOSUs, from a wart on hi
• Maximus, Fabius Fabius. 5. Q. Fabius Maximus, Q. F. Q. N., elder son of the preceding, was curule aedile i
• Maximus, Fabius Fabius. 6. Q. Fabius Maximus, Q. F. Q. N., second son of No. 5, was elected augur in the r
• Maximus, Fabius Fabius. 7. Q. Fabius Maximus, praetor peregrinnis in B. C. 181 (Liv. 40.18), was probably
• Maximus, Fabius Fabius. 8. Q. Fabius Maximus Aemilianus, Q. F. Q. N., was by adoption only a Fabius Maximu
• Maximus, Fabius or Fabius Allobrogicus Fabius or Fabius Allobrogicus. 9. Q. FABIUS Q. AEMILIANI F. Q. N. MAXTMUS, surnamed ALLOBR
• Maximus Hierosolymitanus Hierosolymitanus. or of JERUSALEM, of which city he was bishop, a Greek ecclesiastical wri
• Maximus, Junius Junius. a contemporary of Status, from whom we learn that he made an epitome of the histor
• Maximus, M. Clodius Pupienus M. Clodius Pupienus. was elected emperor with Balbinus, in A. D. 238, when the senate rece
• Maximus, Magnus Clemens Magnus Clemens. Roman emperor, A. D. 383-388. in Gaul, Britain, and Spain, was a native of
• Maximus, Messius Messius. one of the most intimate friends of the younger Pliny, seems to have been a nativ
• Maximus, Petronius Petronius (ANI'CIUS ?), Roman emperor, A. D. 455. His long and meritorious life as an offi
• Maximus, Q. Cornelius Q. Cornelius. a Roman jurist, a contemporary of Servius Sulpicius, and the teacher of C. T
• Maximus, Rutiilius Rutiilius. a Roman jurist of uncertain age. He is only known from the Florentine Index and
• Maximus, Sanquinius Sanquinius. is first mentioned towards the latter end of the reign of Tiberius, A. D. 32,
• Maximus Taurinensis Taurinensis. so called because he was bishop of Turin, flourished about the middle of the
• Maximus Tyrannus Tyrannus. Roman emperor, was raised to the supreme power, in A. D. 408, by Gerontius when
• Maximus Tyrius Tyrius. a native of Tyre, a Greek writer of the age of the Antonines, was rather later, th
• Maximus, Valerius Valerius. 1. M'. VALERIUS (VOLUSI F.) VOLUSUS MAXIMUS, was thefirst of the Valerian house
• Maximus, Valerius Valerius. 2. M. VALERIUS VOLUSI N. LACTUCA MAXIMUS, M'. F., son of the preceding, was cons
• Maximus, Valerius Valerius. 3. M. Valerius Lactucinus Maximus, M. F. M. N., was one of the military tribunes
• Maximus, Valerius Valerius. 4. M. Valerius Maximus, M. F. M. N., was four times praetor and consul in B. C.
• Maximus, Valerius Valerius. 5. M. Valerius Maximus, M. F. M. N., with the agnomen CORVINUS, derived from his
• Maximus, Valerius Valerius. 6. M. Valerius Maximus, with the agnomen POTITUS, was consul in B. C. 286. The a
• Maximus, Valerius Valerius. Valerius Maximus, to whom the praenomen Marcus is assigned in one of the best MS
• Mazaces a Persian, satrap of Egypt. He appears to have succeeded Sabaces, after the latter fell at
• Mazaeus . 1. Satrap of Cilicia, who, with Belesys, satrap of Syria, made head against the revolted
• Mazaeus 2. A Persian officer who was sent by Dareius, at the head of a small force, to guard the p
• Mazares a Mede, was sent by Cyrus into Lydia, about B. C. 545, to carry into effect there the sugg
• Mebarsapes king of Adiabene, a province of Assyria, was attacked by Trajan in his expedition against
• Mechaneus skilled in inventing, was a surname of Zeus at Argos (Paus. 2.22.3). The feminine form, Me
• Mechophanes a disciple of Pausias, and apparently a distinguished painter of the Sicyonian school, is
• Mecisteus . 1. A son of Talaus and Lysimache, brother of Adrastus, and father of Euryalus of Thebes.
• Mecisteus 2. A son of Echius, and one of the companions of Teucer at Troy. (Hornm. Il. 8.333; comp.
• Mecon i. e. a poppy, is said to have been the name of an Athenian whom Demeter loved, and who wa
• Medeia or Medea or Medea (Μήδεια), a daughter of Aeetes by the Oceanid Idyia, or, according to others, by
• Medeius another form for Medus, the son of Medeia, from whom the Medes in Asia were believed to ha
• Medeon a son of Pylades and Electra, from whom the town of Medeon in Phocis was believed to have
• Meditrina a Roman divinity of the art of healing, ini whose honour the festival of the Meditrinalia
• Medius . 1. Dynast of Larissa in Thessaly, who was engaged in a war with Lycophron, tyrant of Phe
• Medius 2. Son of Oxythemis, a native of Larissa in Thessaly, and a friend of Alexander the Great.
• Medius a Greek physician who was a pupil of Chrysippus of Cnidos (Galen, De Ven. Sect. adv. Erasi
• Medon 2. A son of Oileus and Rhene, and a brother of lesser Ajax. Having slain Eriopis, one moth
• Medon . 1. King of Argos, was son of Ceisus, and grandson of Temenus the Heracleid. (Paus. 2.19;
• Medon 2. A citizen of Beroea, was one of the ambassadors whom Perseus, king of Macedonia, sent w
• Medon a Lacedaemonian statuary, the brother of Dorycleidas, and the disciple of)ipoenus and Scyl
• Medosades a man employed by Seuthes, king of Thrace, to conduct his negotiations with Xenophon and t
• Medullinus a family-name of the gens Furia, a very ancient patrician house at Rome. [FURIA GENS.] Med
• Medullinus 9. L. Furius Medullinus, was twice consul sul, B. C. 413, 409. In his first consulate he c
• Medullinus 10. L. Furius Sp. N. Medullinus, L. F., was seven times military tribune with consular aut
• Medullinus 12. L. Furius Sp. F. L. N. MEDULLINUS (son of the preceding), was twice military tribune w
• Medullinus 13. SP. FURIUS SP. F. L. N. MEDULLINUS, brother of the preceding, was military tribune B.
• Medullinus 1. SEXT. FURIUS MEDULLINUS FUSUS, was consul in B. C. 488, the year in which, according to
• Medullinus 2. Sp. Furius Fusus, was consul in B. C. 481. Livy says that his consulate was occupied by
• Medullinus 3. L. Furius Medullinus Fusus, was consul in B. C. 474. He opposed a revival of the agrari
• Medullinus 4. P. Furius Medullinus Fusus, was consul in B. C. 472, and opposed the rogation of Publiü
• Medullinus 5. SP. FURIUS MEDULLINUS FUSUS, was consul in B. C. 464. He was defeated, wounded, and bes
• Medullinus 6. P. Furius Medullinus, brother and legatus of the preceding, was slain in the Aequian wa
• Medullinus 7. AGRIPPA FURIUS MEDULLINUS, was consul in B. C. 446. He was engaged in the Volscian and
• Medullinus 8. L. FURIUS SP. F. MEDULLINUS FUSUS, was thrice military tribune, with consular authority
• Medus a son of Medeia and Jason. [See MEDEIA and MEDEIUS.] A second personage of the same name i
• Megabates 1. A Persian of the royal family of the Achaemenidae, cousin of Dareius and of Artaphernes
• Megabates 2. In the narrative just quoted Thucydides mentions Megabates, governor of Dascylitis, who
• Megabazus 3. Megabazus, the son of Megabates, one of the commanders of the fleet of Xerxes. (Hdt. 7.
• Megabazus 4. Megabazus, a Persian, who, at the time of the revolt of Inarus and the Athenian expedit
• Megabazus 5. The son of Spithridates, was beloved by Agesilaus. (Xen. Hell. 1.4.28, Ages. 5; Plut. A
• Megabazus 6. The priest or keeper (νεώκορος) of the temple of Artemis at Ephesus. (Xen. Anab. 5.3. §
• Megabocchus, C C. is mentioned by Cicero in his oration for Scaurus (2.40) as condemned along with T. Alb
• Megabyzus and MEGABY'ZUS (Μεγάβυζος), are Persian names, which are so intermixed by Herodotus, Ctesi
• Megabyzus 1. One of the seven Persian nobles who formed the conspiracy against the Magian Smerdis, B
• Megabyzus 2. Megabyzus, the son of Zopyrus, and grandson of the above, was one of the commanders of
• Megacleides . 1. A Greek writer, from whom Athenaeus has quoted some important remarks respecting the
• Megacleides 2. A native of Eleusis, brought forward by Demosthenes as a witness in his speech against
• Megacles . 1. A Syracusan, brother of Dion the son of Hipparinus, and brotherin-law of the elder Di
• Megacles 2. An officer in the service of Pyrrhus, who accompanied that monarch on his expedition to
• Megacles . 1. A name borne bv several of the Athenian family of the Alcmaeonidae. They are enumerat
• Megacles 2. A native of Mytilene, who, with the assistance of his friends, overthrew the Penthalida
• Megacles an architect of unknown country and date, who, together with Antiphilus and Pothaeus; buil
• Megaleas was chief secretary to Antigonus Doson, king of Macedonia, who appointed him, by his will,
• Megalostrata a Lacedaemonian poetess, beloved by Aleman, the following fragment from whom contains all
• Megamede a daughter of Arnaeus, and the wife of Thestius, by whom she became the mother of fifty da
• Megapenthes . 1. A son of Proetus, was king of Argos, and father of Anaxagoras and Iphianeira. (Paus.
• Megapenthes 2. A son of Menelaus by an Aetolian slave, Pieris or Teridae. Menelaus brought about a mar
• Megara a daughter of king Creon of Thebes, and wife of Heracles. (Hom. Od. 11.269; Eurip. Here. F
• Megareus a son of Onchestus, is also called a son of Poseidon by Oenope, of Hippomenes, Apollo, or
• Megarus a son of Zeus, by a Sithnian or Megarian nymph. In the Deucalionian flood he is said to ha
• Megasthenes . 1. A Greek writer, to whom the subsequent Greek writers were chiefly indebted for their
• Megellus 1. L. Postumius Sp., L. F. N. MEGELLUS, who as curule aedile built, and in his second cons
• Megellus 2. L. Postumius Megellus, L. F. L. N., son of the preceding, was praetor, according to the
• Meges a son of Phyleus by Eustyoche, Ctimene, or Timandra, and a grandson of Augeas. He is menti
• Meges an eminent surgeon, born at Sidon in Phoenicia (Galen, De Meth. Med. 6.6, vol. x. p. 454),
• Megillus or MEGELLUS (Μέγιλλος, Μεγελλος), a man of Eleia, in Lucania, was one of those who, under
• Megillus a Lacedaemonian, was one of the three commissioners for ratifying the short and hollow tru
• Megillus a writer on arithmetic, mentioned in the Θεολογούμενα Ἀριθμητικῆς, p. 28. (Fabric. Bibl. G
• Megistias a celebrated soothsayer, a native of Acarnania, who traced his descent up to Melampus. He
• Megisto is in some writers another form for Callisto, the mother of Arcas, who is also called Them
• Megitstonus or MEGISTO'NOUS, a Spartan of rank and influence, whom Cratesicleia, the mother of Cleomen
• Meherdates the grandson of Phraates IV., king of Parthia, lived at Rome as a hostage, but was sent by
• Meidias a native of Scepsis, and son-in-law of Mania, satrapess of the Midland Aeolis, whom he str
• Meilanion a son of Amphidamas, and husband of Atalante, by whom he became the father of Parthenopaeu
• Meilichius i. e. the god that can be propitiated, or the gracious, is used as a surname of several di
• Mela or MELLA, M. ANNAEUS, was the youngest son of M. Annaeus Seneca, the rhetorician, and Helv
• Mela, Fabius Fabius. a Roman jurist, who is often cited in the Digest; but there is no excerpt from his
• Mela, Pomponius Pomponius. the first Roman author who composed a formal treatise upon Geography. From one
• Melaeneus a son of Lycaon, who is said to have built the Arcadian town of Melaeneae. (Paus. 8.26.5;
• Melaenis i.e. the dark, a surname of Aphrodite, under which she was worshipped at Corinth. (Paus. 2
• Melampodes . 1. A Greek grammarian. Works Grammatical Treatise addressed to Dionysius the Thracian He
• Melampodes 2. A writer on astrology. Works Methodus Praedictionum Lunarium He was the author of an ex
• Melampus a son of Amythaon by Eidomene, or according to others, by Aglaia or Plhodope (Apollod. 1.9
• Melampus the author of two little Greek works still extant. He lived probably in the third century
• Melanaegis i.e. armed or clad with a black aegis, occurred as a surname of Dionysus at Eleutherae (Su
• Melancomas an Ephesian, and NICO'MACHUS (Νικόμαχος), a Rhodian, were the two men whom ACHAEUS, the re
• Melaneus a son of Apollo, and king of the Dryopes. He was the father of Eurytus and a famous archer
• Melanippe . 1. A daughter of Cheiron, is also called Euippe. Being with child by Aeolus, she fled to
• Melanippe 4. A queen of the Amazons, whom Heracles, in his fight with the Amazons, restored to freed
• Melanippides of lelos, one of the most celebrated lyric poets in the deapartment of the dithyramb. Suid
• Melanippus 2. A son of Astacus of Thebes, who, in the attack of the Seven on his native city, slew Ty
• Melanippus 6. A youth of Patrae, in Achaia, who was in love with Comaetho, a priestess of Artemis Tri
• Melanippus a youth of Agrigentum, who, having been treated with injustice by Phalaris, proposed to hi
• Melanopus a son of Laches, the Athenian general, was one of three ambassadors (the other two being G
• Melanopus of Cyme, a poet of the mythical period, whom Pausanias places between Olen and Aristaeus,
• Melanthius also called Melantheus, a son of Dolius, was a goat-herd of Odysscus, sided with the suito
• Melanthius an Athenian tragic poet, who seems to have been of some distinction in his day, but of who
• Melanthius or MELANTHUS, an eminent Greek painter of the Sicyonian school, was contemporary with Apel
• Melantho . 1. A daughter of Dolius, and sister of Melanthius; she was a slave in the house of Odyss
• Melantho 2. A daughter of Deucalion, became the mother of Delphus, by Poseidon, who deceived her in
• Melanthus . 1. One of the Tyrrhenian pirates, who wanted to carry off young Bacchus, but were metamo
• Melanthus or MELA'NTHIUS (Μέλανθος, Μελάνθιος), one of the Neleidae, and king of Messenia, whence he
• Melas 3. A son of Phrixus and Chalciope, was married to Eurycleia, by whom he became the father
• Melas 5. A son of Antassus, at Gonusa, near Sicyon. He joined the Dorians on their march against
• Meleager a son of Oeneus (whence he is called Οἰνεΐδης), and Althaea, the daughter of Thestius, and
• Meleager . 1. Son of Neoptolemus, a Macedonian officer of distinctionin the service of Alexander th
• Meleager 2. An ilarch or commander of a squadron of cavalry in the army of Alexander at the battle
• Meleager 3. A son of Ptolemy Soter and Eurydice, daughter of Antipater, succeeded his brother Ptole
• Meleager son of Eucrates, the celebrated writer and collector of epigrams, was a native of Gadara i
• Meles an Athenian, who was beloved by Timagoras, but refused to listen to him, and ordered him t
• Meles 2. Of Athens, the father of the dithyrambic poet Cinesias, was himself also a dithyranimbi
• Melesippus a Lacedaemonian, son of Diacritus, was one of the three ambassadors sent to Athens in B. C
• Meletius 9. Scriptor de Azymis. Works Περὶ τῶν ἀζύμων, De Azymis There are extant two short treatis
• Meletius the author of a short Greek work, entitled Περί τῆς τοῦ Ἀνθρώπου Κατασκευῆς, De Natura (or
• Meletius 1. Of ANTIOCH, an eminent Greek ecclesiastic of the fourth century. He was born at Meliten
• Meletius 3. Of LYCOPOLIS, a schismatical bishop of the third and fourth centuries. There is a remar
• Meletius 7. Of MOPSUESTIA, an ardent supporter of the unfortunate Nestorius [NESTORIUS], of Constan
• Meletus an obscure tragic poet, but notorious as one of the accusers of Socrates, was an Athenian,
• Melia a nymph, a daughter of Oceanus, became by Inachus the mother of Phoroneus and Aegialeus or
• Meliboea 4. An Ephesian maiden who was in love with a youth of the name of Alexis. As, however, her
• Meliboea 5. The mother of Ajax, and wife of Theseus. (Athen. 13.557.) Meliboea occurs also as a sur
• Melicertes a son of Athamas and Ino, was metamorphosed into a marine divinity, under the name of Pala
• Melinno a lyric poetess. Works Ode to Rome the author of an ode on Rome in five Sapphic stanzas, w
• Melisander of Miletus, is said to have written an account of the battles of the Lapithae and Centaurs
• Melissa that is, the soother or propitiator (from μελισσω or μειλίσσω), occurs: 1. As the name of
• Melissa 2. From the nymphs the name Melissae was transferred to priestesses in general, but more e
• Melissa 3. Melissa is also a surname of Artemis as the goddess of the moon, in which capacity she
• Melissa 4. A daughter of Epidamnus, became by Poseidon the mother of Dyrrhachius, from whom the to
• Melissa the wife of Periander, tyrant of Corinth. She was the daughter of Procles, tyrant of Epida
• Melisseus an ancient king of Crete, who, by Amalthea, became the father of the nymphs Adrastea and I
• Melisseus a Greek writer of uncertain date, wrote a work entitled Δελφικά. (Tzetz. Chil. 6.90; Schol
• Melissus of Samos, a Greek philosopher, the son of Ithagenes, is said to have been likewise disting
• Melissus . 1. A Theban, the son of Telesiades, of the family of the Cleonymidae, who conquered in t
• Melissus 2. A Greek writer, a native of Euboea, who wrote a work explaining various mythological st
• Melissus 3. A Roman writer mentioned by Pliny among those from whom he drew materials for his 7th,
• Melissus, Aelius Aelius. a distinguished Roman grammarian mentioned by Aulus Gellius (18.6). He was the aut
• Melissus, C. Maecenas C. Maecenas. a native of Spoletium. He was of free birth, but was exposed in his infancy,
• Melite . 1. A nymph, one of the Nereides, a daughter of Nereus and Doris. (Hom. Il. 18.42; Hes. T
• Melite 2. A Naias, a daughter of the river-god Aegaeus, who became, by Heracles, the mother of Hy
• Meliteus a son of Zeus by an Othreian nymph. He was exposed by his mother in a wood, lest Hera shou
• Melito a Christian writer of (considerable eminence, who lived in the second century. He was cont
• Melitodes i. e. sweet as honey, occurs as a Euphemistic surname of Persephone. (Theocrit. 15.94; Por
• Melius the name of two mythical personages, the one a son of Priam (Apollod. 3.12.5), and the oth
• Mellobaudes or MALLOBAUDES, one of the Frankish kings of the time of the emperor Gratian. He becomes k
• Mellona or MELLO'NIA, a Roman divinity, who was believed to protect the honey, but is otherwise un
• Melobius was one of the thirty tyrants established at Athens in B. C. 404, and was among those who
• Melobosis or MELO'BOTE (Μηλόβοόδις or Μηλοβότη), a nymph, said to have been a daughter of Oceanus. (
• Melpomene i. e. the singing (goddess), one of the nine Muses, became afterwards the Muse of Tragedy.
• Melpomenus or the singer, was a surname of Dionysus at Athens, and in the Attic demos of Acharne. (Pa
• Melus . 1. A son of Manto, from whom the sanctuary of Apollo Malloeis in Lesbos was believed to
• Melus 2. A Delian who fled to Cinyras in Cyprus. Cinyras gave him his son Adonis as a companion,
• Membliarus a son of Poecilus, a Phoenician, and a relation of Cadmus. Cadmus left him at the head of
• Memmia Gens Gens. a plebeian house at Rome, whose members do not occur in history before B. C. 173. Bu
• Memmia, Sulpicia Sulpicia. one of the three wives of Alexander Severus. Her father was a man of consular ra
• Memmius 1. C. Memmius Quirinus, C. F., was the aedile who first exhibited the Cerealia at Rome, as
• Memmius 10. P. MEMMIUS, was cited a witness for the defendant at the trial of A. Caecina, B. C. 69
• Memmius 11. P. Memmius Regulus, was supplementary consul in A. D. 31 (Fasti; D. C. 58.9), and afte
• Memmius 12. C. Memmius Regulus, son, probably, of the preceding, was consul in A. D. 63. (Fasti; T
• Memmius 13. L. Memmius Pollio, was supplementary consul in B. C. 49. Memmius was a creature of Agr
• Memmius 14. C. Memmius, C. F., is only known from coins of the republican period, a specimen of wh
• Memmius 2. C. Memmius Gallus, was praetor for the second time in B. C. 173. Sicily was his provinc
• Memmius 3. T. Memmius, was sent by the senate in B. C. 170 as its commissioner to hear the complai
• Memmius 5. C. Memmius, tribune of the plebs in B. C. 111, was an ardent opponent of the oligarchic
• Memmius 6. L. Memmiius, was an orator of some eminence during the war of Sulla with the Marian par
• Memmius 7. C. Memmius, brother, probably, of the preceding (Cic. Brut. 36), married a sister of Cn
• Memmius 8. C. Memmius Gemellus, L. F., son of No. 6, was tribune of the plebs in. 100.66, when he
• Memmius 9. C. Memmius, son of the preceding by Fausta, daughter of Sulla the dictator, was tribune
• Memnon a son of Tithonus and Eos, and brother of Emathion. In the Odyssey and Hesiod he is descri
• Memnon historical. 1. A distinguished Greek, a native of Rhodes. The date of his birth is not acc
• Memnon 2. Governor of Thrace, who, while Alexander was absent in the East, seized the opportunity
• Memnon a Greek historical writer, a native probably of Heracleia Pontica. Works History of Heracl
• Memphis . 1. A daughter of Neilus and wife of Epaphus, by whom she became the mother of Libya. The
• Men or translated into Latin, Lunus, the god presiding over the months, was a Phrygian divinit
• Menaechmus and SOIDAS (Μέναιχμος καὶ Σοΐδας), were the makers of the gold and ivory statue of the Lap
• Menalcidas a Lacedaemonian adventurer, who, in some way not further specified by Polybius, took advan
• Menalippus Μενάλιππος, (an equivalent form to Μελάνιππος), an architect, probably of Athens, who, in
• Menander an Athenian officer in the Syracusan expedition, was, together with Euthydemus, associated
• Menander . 1. An officer in the service of Alexander, one of those called ἑταῖροι, but who held the
• Menander 2. An officer appointed by Alexander to command a fortress in Bactria, whom he afterwards
• Menander 3. A native of Laodiceia, who was a general of cavalry in the service of Mithridates, and
• Menander king of BACTRIA, was, according to Strabo (11.11), one of the most powerful of all the Gre
• Menander 1. A rhetorician of Laodiceia, on the river Lycus, wrote a commentary on the τεχνη of Herm
• Menander 2. Of Ephesus, an historian. Works the Acts of Kings among the Greeks and the Barbarians M
• Menander 3. Protector (Προτίκτωρ, i. e. body-guard), the son of Euphratas of Byzantium, was a rheto
• Menander, Arrius Arrius. a Roman jurist, who lived under Septimius Severus and Antoninus Caracalla, the son
• Menander of ATHENS of ATHENS (Μένανδρος), of ATHENS, the most distinguished poet of the New Comedy, was the s
• Menas . 1. A Lacedaemonian, was one of the commissioners for ratifying the fifty years' truce be
• Menas 2. A Bithynian, whom Prusias II. (κυνηγός), sent to Rome in B. C. 149, to join with Nicome
• Menas a freedman of Pompey the Great and of Sextus Pompeius. Appian calls him MENODORUS (Μηνόδωρ
• Mendes an Egyptian divinity, worshipped in the town of Mendes. He is said to have resembled the A
• Menecleidas a Theban orator, was one of those who joined Pelopidas in delivering Thebes from Sparta an
• Menecles . 1. Of Barce in Cyrene, is mentioned by Athenaeus (iv. p. 184) simply as an historian, an
• Menecles 2. Of Alabanda, a celebrated rhetorician, who lived shortly before the time of Cicero. He
• Menecrates a freedman of Sextus Pompeius, was sent out by him as commander of a large squadron of shi
• Menecrates . 1. A comic poet, mentioned only by Suidas, who says δράματα αὐτοῦ Μανέκτωρ ἢ Ἑρμιονεύς,
• Menecrates 2. Of Smyrna, the author of two epigrams in the Greek Anthology (Brunck, Anal. vol. i. p.
• Menecrates a sculptor, of whom we only know, what shows him, however, to have been a very eminent art
• Menecrates . 1. a Syracusan physician at the court of Philip, king of Macedon, B. C. 359-336. He seem
• Menecrates 2. TIBERIUS CLAUDIUS QUIRINA (Κουίρεινα) MENECRATES, a physician mentioned in a Greek insc
• Menedaeus or MENE'DATUS, a Spartan, was one of the three leaders of the Peloponnesian force which wa
• Menedemus historical. 1. One of the generals of Alexander the Great, who was sent against Spitamenes
• Menedemus 4. An Athenian rhetorician, who came to Rome and taught there in the time of L. Crassus th
• Menedemus 3. Chief of that part of Macedonia which bore the name of Libera. He took part with Caesar
• Menedemus historical. 1. A citizen of high rank at Crotona, who was appointed one of the generals to
• Menedemus 2. A general of the Rhodians, who, during the siege of Rhodes by Demetrius Poliorcetes (B.
• Menedemus 3. A friend and attendant of Lucullus, who was thought to have saved the life of that gene
• Menedemus literary. 1. A Greek philosopher, a native of Eretria, the son of a man named Cleisthenes,
• Menedemus 2. A Cynic philosopher, or rather fanatic, a disciple of Colotes of Lampsacus. He used to
• Menedemus 3. If the text of Aulus Gellius be correct (xiii. 5), a distinguished disciple of Aristotl
• Meneisaus historical. 1. Father of Amyntas II., king of Macedonia, and grandfather of Philip of Mace
• Meneisaus 2. A son of Amyntas II., king of Macedonia, by his wife Gygaea. (Just. 7.4.) According to
• Meneisaus 3. Son of Lagus, and brother of Ptolemy Soter. His name does not occur among the officers
• Meneisaus 4. Onias, son of Simon, who was made highpriest of the Jews by Antiochus Epiphanes, assume
• Menelaus Μενέλαος, Μενέλεως, (or Μενέλεις), a son of Atreus, and younger brother of Agamemnon and A
• Menelaus literary. 1. Of Anaea in Caria, is called by Stephanus Byzantinus (s. v. Ἀναία) a peripate
• Menelaus 2. Of Maratho in Phoenicia, a Greek rhetorician, whose assistance C. Sempronius Gracchus w
• Menelaus 3. Of Aegae, an epic poet, who among other works which are not specified, wrote an epic po
• Menelaus a Greek mathematician, a native of Alexandria. Menelaus is mentioned by Pappus, Proclus, a
• Menelaus a pupil of Stephanus, was the sculptor of a marble group in the villa Ludovisi at Rome, wh
• Menemachus a physician born at one of the cities named Aphrodisias, who belonged to the medical sect
• Menenia Gens Gens. was a very ancient and illustrious patrician house at Rome from B. C. 503 to B. C. 3
• Menephron an Arcadian, who is said to have lived in incestuous intercourse with his mother Blias and
• Menes a Thracian, from whom the town of Menebria or Mesembria was said to have received its name
• Menes . This is the most usual form of the name, which, however, we also find written as Menas,
• Menes a citizen of Pella, son of Dionysius, was one of the officers of Alexander the Great; and
• Menesaechmus an Athenian, an inveterate enemy of the orator Lycurgus, by whom he was impeached on a cha
• Menestheus a son of Peteus, an Athenian king, who led the Athenians against Troy, and surpassed all o
• Menestheus son of Iphicrates, the famous Athenian general, by the daughter of Cotys, king of Thrace.
• Menestheus a sculptor whose name has been preserved by a fragment of a statue, bearing ΜΕΝΕΞΘΕΥΞ ΜΕΝΕ
• Menesthius . 1. A son of Areithous and Philomedusa, of Arne in Boeotia, was slain at Troy by Paris. (
• Menestihius 2. A son of the river-god Spercheius or of Borus and Polydora, was one of the commanders o
• Menestratus an Athenian, of the demus of Amphitrope, in the tribe Antiochis, who, being in danger from
• Menestratus or MENESTAS, of Epeirus, was one of the chief instigators of the Aetolians to their war, i
• Menestratus artists. 1. A worthless painter, ridiculed in an epigram by Lucillius, who says that his P
• Menestratus 2. A sculptor, of uncertain time and country, whose Hercules and Hecate were greatly admir
• Menexenus an Athenian, son of Demophon, was a disciple of Socrates, and is introduced by Plato as on
• Menidas one of the generals of Alexander the Great, whose name occurs on several occasions. (Arria
• Menippe . 1. A daughter of Orion and sister of Metioche. After Orion was killed by Artemis, Menipp
• Menippus historical. 1. One of those who, with Philistides, succeeded, against the opposition of Eu
• Menippus 2. An officer of Philip V. of Macedon. In B. C. 208, when Philip was recalled from the war
• Menippus 3. One of the envoys of Antiochus the Great to Rome in B. C. 193, on which occasion, howev
• Menippus literary. 1. A comic poet, according to Suidas; but Meineke suspects, on very good grounds
• Menippus 2. A cynic philosopher, and originally a slave, was a native of Gadara in Coele-Syria (Ste
• Menippus 3. Of Stratonice, a Carian by birth, was the most accomplished orator of his time in all A
• Menippus 4. Of Pergamus, a geographer, lived in the time of Augustus, and wrote a Περίπλους τῆς ἐντ
• Menochares an officer of Demetrius Soter, king of Syria. In B. C. 161, when Demetrius had escaped fro
• Menodorus a writer on botany and material medica, quoted by Athenaeus (Deipnos. ii. p. 59), who says
• Menodorus of Athens, a sculptor, who made for the Thespians a copy of the celebrated statue of Eros
• Menodotus . 1. Of Samos. Works Menodotus was the author of at least two works connected with the his
• Menodotus 2. Of Perinthus, is referred to by Diodorus Siculus (Fragm. lib. 26.3, p. 513) as the auth
• Menodotus a physician of Nicomedeia in Bithynia. He was a pupil of Antiochus of Laodiceia, and tutor
• Menoetius . 1. A son of Iapetus and Clymene or Asia, and a brother of Atlas, Prometheus and Epimethe
• Menoetius 3. A son of Actor and Aegina, a step-brother of Aeacus, and husband of Polymele, by whom h
• Menogenes one of the numerous commentators on Homer, who wrote a work in 23 books on the catalogue o
• Menon . 1. A citizen of Pharsalus in Thessaly, who aided the Athenians at Eion with 12 talents a
• Menon 2. An Athenian, a fellow-workman of PHEIDIAS, was suborned to bring against him the accusa
• Menon 3. A Thessalian adventurer, was a favourite of Aristippus of Larissa, who placed him in co
• Menon 4. A citizen of Pharsalus in Thessaly, and a man of great influence and reputation, took a
• Menophantus the sculptor of a beautiful statue of Aphrodite, which was found on the Caelian mount at R
• Mens i.e. mind, a personification of mind, worshipped by the Romans. She had a sanctuary on the
• Mensor, L. Farisuleius L. Farisuleius. a name known only from coins and some inscriptions quoted by Ursinus. The
• Mentes . 1. The leader of the Cicones in the Trojan war, whose appearance Apollo assumed when he
• Mentes 2. A son of Anchialus, king of the Taphians north of Ithaca. He was connected by ties of h
• Mento, C. Julius C. Julius. 1. Was consul in B. C. 431. He was superseded in the command of the Volscian wa
• Mentor . 1. A son of Eurystheus, fell, like his father and brothers, in a battle against the Hera
• Mentor 3. A son of Alcimus and a friend of Odysseus, who, on quitting Ithaca, entrusted to him th
• Mentor a Greek of Rhodes, the brother of Memnon [MEMNON]. With his brother Memnon lie rendered ac
• Mentor the most celebrated silver-chaser among the Greeks, must have flourished before B. C. 356,
• Menyllus . 1. A Macedonian, who was appointed by Antipater to command the garrison which he establi
• Menyllus 2. Of Alabanda, was sent ambassador to Rome, in B. C. 162, by Ptolemy VI. Philometor, to p
• Mephitis a Roman divinity who had a grove and temple in the Esquiliae, on a spot which it was thoug
• Mercator, Isiodorus Isiodorus. also called Isidorus Peccator, a Spanish bishop, about A. D. 830, respecting wh
• Mercator, Marius Marius. distinguished among ecclesiastical writers as a most zealous antagonist of the Pel
• Mercurius a Roman divinity of commerce and gain, probably one of the dii lucrii. The character of th
• Mercurius Monachus Monachus. Works On the Pulse (Μερκούριος Μόναχος), the reputed author of a short treatise
• Merenda was a surname, of rare occunrence in the Antonian and Cornelian gentes at Rome. Merenda si
• Merenda 1. T. Antonius Merenda, was decemvir in B. C. 450-49, and was defeated by the Aequians on
• Merenda 2. Q. Antonius Merenda, T. F., probably a son of the preceding, was tribune of the soldier
• Merenda 3. SERVIUS CORNELIUS MERENDA, was legatus in B. C. 275, to the consul L. Cornelius Lentulu
• Mericus a leader of Spanish mercenaries in the service of Syracuse at the time when that city was
• Meriones a son of Molus (Hom. Il. 13.249), conjointly with Idomeneus, led the Cretans in 80 ships a
• Mermerus . 1. A son of Pheres, and grandson of Jason and Medeia. He was the father of Ilus and Ephy
• Mermerus 2. A son of Jason and Medeia, is also called Macareus or Mormorus (Hyg. Fab. 239; Tzetz. a
• Mermnadae a Lydian family, which, on the murder of Candaules by Gyges, succeeded the Heracleidae on
• Merobaudes, Flavius Flavius. Works De Christo In the collection of the Christian poets by G. Fabricius, fol. B
• Merope 3. A daughter of Atlas, one of the Pleiades, and the wife of Sisyphus of Corinth, by whom
• Merope 4. A daughter of Oenopion and Helice in Chios, is also called Haero, Aerope, and Maerope.
• Merope 6. A daughter of Cypselus, and wife of Cresphontes, and afterwards of Polyphontes, and mot
• Merops . 1. The father of Eumelus, king of the island of Cos, which he thus called after his daug
• Merops 2. Also called Maerops, a king of the Ethiopians, by whose wife, Clymene, Helios became th
• Merops 3. A king of Rhindacus, of Percote, on the Hellespont, is also called Macar, or Macareus.
• Meroveus a Frankish chieftain, of whom little is known that is authentic, beyond the fact that he w
• Merula was a surname of the Gens Cornelia at Rome. It signifies an ouzle or blackbird. (Varr. R.
• Merula 1. L. Cornelius Merula, L. F., was consul in B. C. 193. His province was Gallia Cisalpina.
• Merula 2. CN. (CORNELIUS ?) MERULA, was appointed legatus by the senate in B. C. 162-161, to adju
• Merula 3. L. Cornelius Merula, was flamen dialis, and, on the deposition of L. Cinna in B. C. 87,
• Meryllus a Greek writer, who wrote a work on Boeotia (Plut. Par. Min. 100.14), and another on Italy
• Mesateus a surname of Dionysus, derived from the town of Mesatis, where, according to a tradition a
• Mesomedes a lyric and epigrammatic poet under Hadrian and the Antonines, was a native of Crete, and
• Messalla Μεσσάλας, a cognomen of the Gens Valeria at Rome, was originally assumed by M. Valerius Ma
• Messalla 10. M. Valerius Messalla Barbatus, M. F. M. N., with the agnomen APPIANUS, was consul in B
• Messalla 11. L. Valerius Potiti F. MESSALLA VOLESUS, son probably of No. 9, was consul in A. D. 5,
• Messalla 12. M. Valerius Messalla, M. F., consul in A. D. 20, moved at the first meeting of the sen
• Messalla 13. M. Valerius Messalla, great-grandson of M. Valerius Messalla Corvinus (No. 8), was Ner
• Messalla 14. L. Vipstanus Messalla, was legionary tribune in Vespasian's army, A. D. 70. He rescued
• Messalla 1. M'. VALERIUS MAXIMUS CORVINUS MESSALLA, M. F. M. N., son of M. Valerius Maximus Corvinu
• Messalla 2. M. Valerius Messalla, M'. F. M. N., son probably of the preceding, was consul in B. C.
• Messalla 3. M. VALERIUS M. F.. M'. N. ESSALLA, son of the preceding, was prefect of the fleet in Si
• Messalla 4. M. Valerius Messalla, M. F. M. N., son of the preceding, was consul in B. C. 161. His c
• Messalla 5. -- VALERIUS MESSALLA was a legatus of the consul P. Rutilius lupus at the breaking out
• Messalla 6. M. Valerius Messalla, M. F. M. N., with the agnomen NIGER, was praetor in the year of C
• Messalla 7. M. Valerius Messalla, son of the preceding, was a successful candidate for the consulsh
• Messalla 8. M. Valerius Messalla Corvinus, M. F. M. N., son of the preceding, was born, according t
• Messalla, Silius Silius. was consul suffectus from the 1st of May, A. D. 193, and was the person who formal
• Messallina, Valeria Valeria. 1. daughter of M. Valerius Messalla Barbatus and of Domitia Lepida, was the third
• Messallinus, M. Valerius Catullus M. Valerius Catullus. was governor of the Libyan Pentapolis in the reigns of Vespasian and
• Messallna Statilia Statilia. granddaughter of T. Statilius Taurus, cos. A. D. 11, was the third wife of the e
• Messapeus a surname of Zeus, under which he had a sanctuary between Amyclae and mount Taygetus. It w
• Messapus . 1. A Boeotian, from whom Mount Messapion, on the coast of Boeotia, and Messapia (also ca
• Messapus 2. A son of Neptune and king of Etruria, who was invulnerable, and a famous tamer of horse
• Messene a daughter of Triopas, and wife of Polycaon, whom she induced to take possession of the co
• Mestor the name of four mythical personages, of whom nothing of interest is related. (Apollod. 2.
• Mestra a daughter of Erysichthon, and granddaughter of Triopas (whence she is called Triopcis, Ov
• Meta a daughter of Hoples, and first wife of Aegeus. (Apollod. 3.15.6.) In other traditions she
• Metabus a son of Sisyphus, from whom the town of Metapontum, in Southern Italy, was believed to ha
• Metacleides a peripatetic philosopher, who wrote on Homer, mentioned by Tatianus and Suidas (s. v.). T
• Metagenes an Athenian comic poet of the Old Comedy, contemporary with Aristophanes, Phrynichus, and
• Metagenes 2. An Athenian architect in the time of Pericles, was engaged with Coroebus and Ictinus an
• Metaneira the wife of Celeus, and mother of Triptolemus, received Demeter on her arrival in Attica.
• Metaphrastes, Symeon Symeon (Συμεὼν ὁ Μεταφράστης), a celebrated Byzantine writer, lived in the ninth and tenth
• Metellus the name of a noble family of the plebeian Caecilia gens. This family is first mentioned i
• Metellus 9. M. Caecilius Metellus, Q. F. Q. N., brother of the two preceding and son of No. 5, was
• Metellus 10. C. Caecilius Metellus Caprarius, Q. F. Q. N., younger brother of the three preceding,
• Metellus 13. L. Caecilius Metellus Dalmaticus, L. F. Q. N., son of No. 6, and frequently confounded
• Metellus 15. CAECILIA (METELLA), sister of the two preceding, and daughter of No. 6, married Lucull
• Metellus 16. Q. Caecilius Metellus Nepos, Q. F. Q. N., son of Balearicus [No. 7], and grandson of t
• Metellus 17. CAECILIA (METELLA), sister of the preceding, and daughter of Balearicus, married App.
• Metellus 18. CAECILIA (METELLA), daughter of Dalmaticus [No. 13], married first Scaurus, consul in
• Metellus 20. Q. CAECILIUS Q. F. Q.N. METELLUS CELER, consul B. C. 60, was son of Nepos, consul B. C
• Metellus 21. Q. Metellus Metellus Nepos, Q. F. Q. N., brother of the preceding, and son of the elde
• Metellus 1. L. Caecilius Metellus, L. F. C. N., consul B. C. 251, with C. Furius Pacilus, in the fi
• Metellus 23. Q. Caecilius Metellus Creticus. His descent and that of his two brothers is quite unce
• Metellus 24. L. Caecilius Metellus, brother of the preceding [No. 23], was praetor B. C. 71, and as
• Metellus 25. M. Caecilius Metellus, brother of the two preceding [Nos. 23, 24], was praetor B. C. 6
• Metellus 26. Q. Caeciiius Metellus Creticus, is conjectured by Drumann (vol. ii. p. 57) to have bee
• Metellus 27. L. Caecilius Metellus Creticus, a son probably of No. 24 (comp. Cic. Ver. 3.68), was t
• Metellus 29. Q. Caecilius Metellus Creticus, consul A. D. 7 with A. Licinius Nerva, was probably gr
• Metellus 30. L. CAECILIUS METELLUS, a triumvir of the mint, whose name is only known from coins, a
• Metellus 2. Q. Caecilus Metellus, L. F. L. N., son of the preceding, is enumerated by Cicero in his
• Metellus 3. L. Caecilius Metellus, brother of No. 2, had, after the battle of Cannae in B. C. 216,
• Metellus 4. M. Caecilius Metellus, brother of Nos. 2 and 3, was plebeian aedile in B. C. 208, the s
• Metellus 5. Q. Caecilius Metellus Macedonicus, Q. F. L. N., son of No. 2, is first mentioned in B.
• Metellus 6. L. Caecilius Metellus Calvus, Q. F. L. N., brother of No. 5, was consul B. C. 142 with
• Metellus 7. Q. Caecilius Metellus Balearicus, Q. F. Q. N., eldest son of No. 5, was consul B. C. 12
• Metellus 8. L. Caecilius Metellus Diadematus, Q. F. Q. N., brother of the preceding and son of No.
• Metellus Numidicus Numidicus. 14. Q, CAECILIUS METELLUS NUMIDICUS, L. F. Q. N., younger brother of the preced
• Metellus Pius Pius. 19. Q. Caecilius Metellus Pius, Q. F. L. N., son of Numidicus [No. 14], received the
• Metellus Scipio Scipio. 22. Q. CAECIIIUS METELLUS PIUS SCIPIO, Q. F., the adopted son of Metellus Pius [No
• Methapus an Athenian who is said to have introduced at Thebes the worship of the Cabeiri. He was mu
• Methodius . 1. Surnamed the APOSTLE of Bohemia, enjoys great reputation in the history of the church
• Methodius 3. Patriarch of CONSTANTINOPLE in 1240, is probably the author of De Revelatione, which so
• Methodius 6. Surnamed PATARENSIS, and sometimes, EUBULUS or EUBULIUS, lived in the third, and died i
• Methodius CONFESSOR CONFESSOR. 2. CONFESSOR, patriarch of Constantinople, was called Ὁμολογέτα, or Confessor,
• Methodius MONACHUS MONACHUS. 5. MONACHUS, lived in Constantinople during the middle and latter part of the th
• Methon a kinsman of Orpheus, from whom the Thracian town of Methone was believed to have derived
• Methymna a daughter of Macar and wife of Lesbus, from whom the town of Methymna, in Lesbos, derived
• Methymnaeus a surname of Dionysus, derived, according to some, from Methymna, rich in vines. (Hesych.
• Metiadusa a daughter of Eupalamus, and wife of king Cecrops, by whom she became the mother of Pandio
• Metilia Gens Gens. an Alban house, which, on the destruction of Alba Longa, migrated to Rome. (Dionys.
• Metilius 1. SP. METILIUS, tribune of the plebs in B. C. 416. He brought forward a rogation for fres
• Metilius 2. M. Metilius, tribune of the plebs in B. C. 401, when he impeached two of the consular t
• Metilius 3. M. Metilius, tribune of the plebs in B. C. 217, brought forward a rogation to deprive Q
• Metilius 4. T. Metilius Croto, legatus, in B. C. 215, from the praetor Appius Claudius Pulcher to t
• Metioche [MENIPPE.] A second person of the name was a Trojan woman, who was painted by Polygnotus i
• Metiochus an Athenian orator, a contemporary and friend of Pericles, for whom he often spoke in the
• Metion a son of Erechtheus and Praxithea, and husband of Alcippe. His sons, the Metionidae, expel
• Metis . 1. The personification of prudence, is described as a daughter of Oceanus and Thetys. At
• Metis 2. A male being, a mystic personification of the power of generation among the so-called O
• Metochita, Georgius Georgius (Γεώργιος ὁ Μετοχίτης), magnus diaconus in Constantinople, lived in the thirteent
• Metochita, Theodorus Theodorus (Θεόδωρος ὁ Μετοχίτης), the intimate friend and adherent of the unfortunate empe
• Meton a citizen of Tarentum, who, when the decree was proposed for calling in the assistance of
• Meton . With the name of Meton we join those of PHAEINUS (Φαεινός) and EUCTEMON (Εὐκτήμων), all
• Metope . 1. A daughter of the Arcadian river-god Ladon, was married to Asopus, and the mother of
• Metopus a Pythagorean, a native of Metapontum. A fragment of a work of his on virtue is still exta
• Metrobius . 1. One of the numerous Greek writers on the art of cookery, quoted by Athenaeus, was the
• Metrocles of Maroneia, a brother of Hipparchia, was at first a disciple of Theophrastus, but afterwa
• Metrodorus an officer of Philip V. of Macedon, with whom, in B. C. 202, the Thasians capitulated on c
• Metrodorus 9. A native apparently of Alexandria or Egypt, mentioned by Photius (Phot. Bibl. 115, 116)
• Metrodorus the author of two epigrams in the Greek Anthology. (Brunck, Anal. vol. ii. p. 476; Jacobs,
• Metrodorus of Athens, a painter and philosopher, of such distinction, that when Aemilius Paullus, aft
• Metrodorus 1. A pupil of Chrysippus of Cnidos, and tutor to Erasistratus, who lived in the fourth and
• Metrodorus 2. A pupil of Sabinus, in the first and second centuries after Christ, is mentioned by Gal
• Metrodorus 3. The author of the work quoted by Pliny (Plin. Nat. 20.81), and entitled Ἐπιτομὴ τῶν Ῥιζ
• Metrodorus 4. The physician mentioned by Cicero (Ep. ad Famil. 16.20) as attending on his freedman Ti
• Metrodorus literary. 1. Of Cos, the son of Epicharmus, and grandson of Thyrsus. Like several of that
• Metrodorus 2. Of LAMPSACUS, a contemporary and friend of Anaxagoras. He wrote on Homer, the leading f
• Metrodorus 3. Of CHIOS, a disciple of Democritus, or, according to other accounts, of Nessus of Chios
• Metrodorus 4. A distinguished Greek philosopher, a native, according to some accounts (Strab. xiii. p
• Metrodorus 5. Surnamed ὁ Δεωρηματικύς, a disciple first of Theophrastus, afterwards of Stilpo, is men
• Metrodorus 6. Of SCEPSIS, a contemporary and friend of Demetrius of Scepsis, to whom he was indebted
• Metrodorus 7. Of STRATONICE in Caria. He was at first a disciple of the school of Epicurus, but after
• Metrodorus 8. A distinguished grammarian, the brother of Anthemius of Tralles [ANTHEMIUS], mentioned
• Metrophanes a general of Mithridates the Great, who sent him with an army into Greece, to support Arch
• Metrophanes 1. Of Eucarpia, in Phrygia (comp. Steph. Byz. s. v. Εὐκαρπια), wrote a work on Phrygia, an
• Metrophanes 2. Of Lebadeia, in Boeotia, the son of the rhetorician Cornelianus, was the author of the
• Metrophanes 3. A descendant of the sophist Lachares, against whom the sophist Superianus wrote a book.
• Metrophanes bishop of Smyrna, is renowned in ecclesiastical history for his obstinate opposition to th
• Mettius or ME'TIUS, an old Italian name, in use both among the Sabines and Latins. It is doubtful
• Mettius 1. P. Mettius, a partisan of Saturninus and Glaucia in B. C. 100, assassinated C. Memmius,
• Mettius 2. M. Mettus, was sent by Caesar at the opening of the Gallic war, in B. C. 58, as legatus
• Mettius Fuffetius Fuffetius. was praetor or dictator of Alba in the reign of Tullus Hostilius, third king of
• Mettius Geminius Geminius. or GEMINUS, was commander of the cavalry of Tusculum in the last war between Rom
• Mettius Pomposianus Pomposianus. a senator in Vespasian's reign, whom the emperor raised to the consulate, alt
• Mezentius a mythical king of the Tyrrhenians or Etruscans, at Caere or Agylla, and father of Lausus.
• Mezetulus a Numidian, who, after the death of Oesalces, king of the Massylians, revolted against Cap
• Miarcia 2. The wife of C. Julius Caesar, the grandfather of the dictator, and the sister of Q. Mar
• Miarcia 3. A vestal virgin, who was condemned along with Licinia in B. C. 113 by L. Cassius Longin
• Miarcia 4. The second wife of M. Cato Uticensis, to whom she bore many children, was the daughter
• Miarcia 5. The wife of Fabius Maximus, the friend of Augustus, learnt from her husband the secret
• Miarcia 6. The daughter of Cremutius Cordus, who was put to death in the reign of Tiberius, is spo
• Miarcia 7. Marcia Furnilla, the second wife of the emperor Titus, was divorced by her husband afte
• Micciades a sculptor of Chios, was the son of Malas, the father of Anthermus (or Archennus), and the
• Michael 9. MONACHUS, ecclesiae Constantinopolitanae presbyter and Ignatii patriarchae syncellus. W
• Michael 11. PROCHIRUS, of uncertain age, the author of Dramation, Musarum et Fortunae Querimonium
• Michael 12. PRESBYTER, lived in the 9th century. Works De Constructione Partium Orationis He wrote
• Michael 17. SYNODENSIS, or more correctly SYNNADENSIS, bishop of Synnada or Synnas, in Phrygia, of
• Michael 18. THESSALONICENSIS, magister rhetorum and magnae ecclesiae protecdicus, lived about 1160
• Michael 1. ALEXANDRINUS, patriarch of Alexandria in the middle of the ninth century. Works De Unit
• Michael 3. APOSTOLIUS, was one of those Greeks who contributed to the revival of learning in Italy
• Michael 5. BALSAMON, Magnae Ecclesiae Constantino politanae Magnus Chartophylax et Archidiaconus,
• Michael 6. CERULARIUS, was chosen patriarch of Constantinople in 1043, and made himself notorious
• Michael 7. EPHESIUS, archbishop of Ephesus. Works Scholia to Aristotle The author of valuable scho
• Michael 8. GRAMMATICUS, perhaps the same as Michael Psellus. Works Epigramma in Agathiam He wrote
• Michael I. or Michael Rhangabe I. or Michael Rhangabe. or RHAGA'BE (Μιχαὴλ ὁ Ῥανγάβη, or Π̓αγαβή), emperor of Constantino
• Michael Ii. or Michael Balbus Ii. or Michael Balbus (Μιχαὴλ ὁ Τραυλός), or the " STAMMERER," emperor of Constantinople,
• Michael Iii. Iii. (Μιχαήν), emperor of Constantinople from A. D. 842 to 867, was the son and successor
• Michael Iv. or Michael Paphlago Iv. or Michael Paphlago (Μιχαὴλ ο Παφλαγῶν), emperor of Constantinople from A. D. 1034 to
• Michael Ix. or Michael Palaeologus Ix. or Michael Palaeologus. the son of Andronicus II., was associated with his father in t
• Michael Psellus or Michael Psellus the Elder or the Elder Michael Psellus Psellus or Michael Psellus the Elder or the Elder Michael Psellus. 2. Michael Psellus, the
• Michael Psellus or Michael Psellus the Younger or the Younger Michael Psellus Psellus or Michael Psellus the Younger or the Younger Michael Psellus. 3. Michael Constant
• Michael V. or Michael Calapiiates V. or Michael Calapiiates (Μιχαὴλ ὁ Καλαφάτης), or the " CALKER," emperor of Constantinopl
• Michael Vi. or Michael Stratioticus Vi. or Michael Stratioticus (Μιχαὴλ ὁ Στρατιωτικός), emperor of Constantinople from A. D.
• Michael Vii. or Michael Ducas Parapinaces Vii. or Michael Ducas Parapinaces. Μιχαὴν ὁ Δοῦκας, (ὁ Παραπινάκης), emperor of Constantin
• Michael Viii. or Michael Palaeologus Viii. or Michael Palaeologus (Μιχαὴλ ὁ Παλαιολόγος), emperor of Nicaea, and afterwards of
• Micion . 1. A Macedonian officer, who made a descent upon the coast of Attica during the Lamian w
• Micion 2. An Athenian orator and demagogue, who, together with Eurycleides, possessed the chief d
• Micipsa king of Numidia, was the eldest of the sons of Masinissa who survived their father. He is
• Micon artists. 1. Of Athens, the son of Phanochus, was a very distinguished painter and statuary
• Micon 2. Pliny distinguishes, by the epithet of minor, a second painter of this name, the father
• Micon 3. A statuary of Syracuse, the son of Niceratus, made two statues of Hiero II. at Olympia,
• Mictio was a leading man at Chalcis, in Euboea, attached to the Roman, and opposed to the Aetolia
• Micythus . 1. Son of Choerus, was at first a slave in the service of Anaxilas, tyrant of Rhegium, b
• Micythus 2. An officer under Lyciscus, the general of Cassander, who was killed in battle against A
• Midas a son of Gordius, according to some by Cybele (Hyg. Fab. 274), a wealthy but effeminate ki
• Middias or MEI'DIAS (Meidias). 1. An Athenian, of no very reputable character, to whom we find the
• Middias 2. An Athenian, of considerable wealth and influence, was a violent and bitter enemy of De
• Mideatis a surname of Alcmene. derived from the town of Midea in Argolis, where her father Electryo
• Mideia or MI'DEA (Μίδεια, or Μίδεα). 1. A Phrygian woman, the mother of Licymnius and Electryon.
• Midias the engraver of a gem in the Royal Library at Paris. (Clarac, Descr. des Antiques du Musée
• Mienoecelus . 1. A Theban, grandson of Pentlheus, and father of Hipponome, Jocaste or Epicaste, and Cr
• Mienoecelus 2. A grandson of the former, and a son of Creon. (Eur. Phoen. 768.) In the war of the Seve
• Migonitis a surname of Aphrodite, derived from a place, Migonium, in or near the island of Cranne in
• Miletus a son of Apollo and Areia of Crete. Being beloved by Minos and Sarpedon, he attached himse
• Milichus a freedman of Flavius Scaevinus, gave Nero the first information of Piso's conspiracy in A
• Milo, T. Annius Papianus T. Annius Papianus. was the son of C. Papius Celsus and Annia [ANNIA, No. 2]. He was born
• Milon . 1. Of Crotona, son of Diotimus, an athlete, famous for his extraordinary bodily strength
• Milon 2. A general in the service of Pyrrhus king of Epeirus, who sent him forward with a body o
• Milon 3. An Epeirot, who assassinated Deidameia, the daughter of Pyrrhus II., at the altar of Di
• Milon 4. Of Beroea, an officer in the army of Perseus, with which he opposed the Roman consul P.
• Miltas a Thessalian soothsayer, who accompanied Dion on his expedition against Dionysius. He was
• Miltiades a name borne by at least three of the family of the Cimonidae. [See the stemma in the arti
• Miltiades 2. The son of Cimon and brother of Stesagoras, became tyrart of the Chersonesus on the dea
• Miltiades 3. A grandson of the preceding, the son of Cimon, of the name of Miltiades, is mentioned i
• Miltiades joint commander of the Peloponnesian fleet with Lysander and Philochares at the close of t
• Mimallon Μιμαλλών, (or Μιμαλών, the Macedonian name of the Bacchantes, or, according to others, of
• Mimas 2. A giant who is said to have been killed by Ares. or by Zeus with a flash of lightning (
• Mimas 4. A son of Amycus and Theano, was born in the same night as Paris. He was a companion of
• Mimnermus a celebrated elegiac poet. There were various accounts as to his birthplace. Some authorit
• Minatia Gens Gens. plebeian, and of very little note. On coins we find mention of an M. Minatins Sabinu
• Mindarus a Lacedaemonian. was sent out in B. C. 411, to succeed Astyochus in the office of Admiral.
• Minerva one of the great Roman divinities, whose name seems to be of the same root as mens, whence
• Minervina the mother of CRISPUS CAESAR, is usually termed by historians the first wife of Constantin
• Minicia Gens Gens. came originally from Brixia (Brescia), in Cisalpine Gaul. Brixiawas a Roman colony,
• Minidius L., was a Roman merchant or banker. established at Elis in B. C. 46, with whose heirs Cice
• Minidius or MI'NDIUS, M., brother and heir of L. Minidius, and also a Roman merchant. Cicero was en
• Minio 1. Was the confidential friend and counsellor of Antiochus the Great, and his representati
• Minio 2. Q. MYNNIO (Μυννίων), was a native of Smyrna, who, conspiring against Mithridates VI. ki
• Minius Cerrinius Cerrinius. a Campanian, the son of Minia Paculla, was appointed by her one of the two hier
• Minos . 1. The son of Zeus and Europa, brother of Rhadamanthus, and king of Crete, where he is s
• Minos 2. A grandson of No. 1, and a son of Lycastus and Ida, was likewise a king and law-giver o
• Minotaurus a monster with a human body and a bull's head, or, according to others, with the body of a
• Mintha or MENTHA, a Cocythian nymph, and beloved by Hades, was metamorphosed by Demeter or Persep
• Minucia one of the Vestal priestesses in B. C. 337. Her passion for gay attire made her conduct su
• Minucia Gens Gens. was originally, in some of its branches at least, patrician [AUGURINUS]; but more fr
• Minucianus . 1. A Greek rhetorician, was a contemporary of the celebrated rhetorician Hermogenes of T
• Minucianus 2. An Athenian, the son of Nicagoras, was also a Greek rhetorician, and lived in the reign
• Minucianus, Cornelius Cornelius. a friend and neighbour of the younger Pliny, who calls him "ornamentum regionis
• Minucius 1. M. Minucius, tribune of the plebs in B. C. 401, when he impeached two of the consular t
• Minucius 2. M. Minucius Fessus, one of the first augurs elected from the plebs after the extension
• Minucius 5. L. Minucius, legatus of the praetor Q. Fulvius Flaccus in the nearer Spain, B. C. 180.
• Minucius 7. -- MINUCIUS, died intestate before the citypraetorship of C. Verres, in B. C. 75-74. Hi
• Minyae an ancient race of heroes at Orchomenos, Iolcos, and other places. Their ancestral hero, M
• Minyas a son of Chryses, and the ancestral hero of the race of the Minyans; but the accounts of h
• Misa a mystic being in the Orphic mysteries, perhaps the same as Cybele, or an attribute of her
• Misagenes a Numidian, son of Masinissa, was appointed by his father to command the forces which he s
• Misenus 2. A steersman of Aeneas (Vict. De Orig. Gent. Rom. 9), and, according to Virgil, at first
• Misitheus called TIMESICLES (Τιμησικλῆς) by Zosimus (1.16, 17), apparently a Greek, by extraction at
• Mithaecus the author of some treatises on cookery, quoted by Athenaeus (vii. p. 325, xii. p. 516, ii
• Mithras the god of the sun among the Persians. (Xenoph. Cyrop. 7.5.53; Strab. xv. p.732.) About th
• Mithrenes or MITHRI'NES (Μιθρίνης), commander of the Persian force which garrisoned the citadel of S
• Mithridates . 1. An eunuch who was one of the personal attendants of Xerxes, and enjoyed a high place
• Mithridates kings of COMMAGENE. There were two kings of Commagene of this name, of whom very little is
• Mithridates king of MEDIA (by which we are probably to understand Media Atropatene), was the son-in-la
• Mithridates of PERGAMUS, was the son of Menodotus, a citizen of that place, by a daughter of Adobogion
• Mithridates kings of PONTUS. The first of these, however, was not really an independent monarch, but m
• Mithridates 2. A Persian of high rank, who accompanied the younger Cyrus on his expedition against Art
• Mithridates 3. Satrap of Lycaonia and Cappadocia at the time of the expedition of the younger Cyrus (X
• Mithridates 4. A son of Antiochus the Great, who is mentioned by Livy as one of the commanders of his
• Mithridates 5. A Persian of high rank, and son-in law of Dareius Codomannus, who was slain by Alexande
• Mithridates 7. A son of Ariarathes IV., king of Cappadocia, who succeeded his father on the throne, an
• Mithridates king of the BOSPORUS, which sovereignty he obtained by the favour of the emperor Claudius,
• Mithridates I I. son of Ariobarzanes (probably of the first prince of that name), is mentioned by Xenoph
• Mithridates Ii. Ii.. son of Ariobarzanes II., whom he succeeded on the throne in B. C. 337. (Diod. 16.90.)
• Mithridates Iii. Iii.. son of the preceding, whom he succeeded on the throne in B. C. 302. He is said to ha
• Mithridates Iv. Iv.. grandson of the preceding, was the son and successor of Ariobarzanes III. He was a mi
• Mithridates V. or Mithridates Euergetes V. or Mithridates Euergetes. surnamed EUERGETES, was the son of Pharnaces I. and grandson
• Mithridates Vi. or Mithridates Eupator or Mithridates Magnus or Mithridates the Great Vi. or Mithridates Eupator or Mithridates Magnus or Mithridates the Great. surnamed EUPATO
• Mithridatis a daughter of Mithridates the Great, who had been at one time betrothed to Ptolemy, king o
• Mithrobarzanes . 1. Father-in-law of Datames, with whom he joined in his revolt from the Persian king [DA
• Mithrobarzanes 2. General of the Cappadocian forces, which formed part of the Persian army at the passage
• Mithrobarzanes 3. King or ruler of the district of Sophene, in the possession of which he was established
• Mithrobarzanes 4. A general of Tigranes I., king of Armenia, who was the first of the king's friends and
• Mitiridates or MITHRADA'TES (Μιθριδάτης or Μιθραδάτης), a common name among the Medes and Persians, ap
• Mitrobates a Persian, governor of Dascyleium, is said by Herodotus to have taunted Oroetes, satrap of
• Mnasalcas an epigrammatic poet, a native of a village or township in the territory of Sicyon called
• Mnaseas . 1. A Phocian. who, on the death of Phayllus, B. C. 353, was appointed guardian to the yo
• Mnaseas 2. An Argive, mentioned by Demosthenes (de Cor. p. 324) as one of those who betrayed their
• Mnaseas literary. 1. Of PATARA, in Lycia, the most celebrated literary person of this name. He is
• Mnaseas 2. An AGRICULTURAL writer, who translated into Greek the works of the Carthaginians Mago a
• Mnaseas 5. A disciple of the great grammarian Aristarchus (Suid. s. v. Ἐ ατοσθένης). He is mention
• Mnaseas or MNASAEUS (Μνασαῖος), a physician, who belonged to the ancient sect of the Methodici (Ga
• Mnasicles a Cretan officer of mercenaries, who joined Thimbron the Lacedaemonian, in his expedition
• Mnasilochus was a chief of the Acarnanians, who, in B. C. 191, was bribed by Antiochus the Great, and,
• Mnasinus a brother of Anaxis, and a son of one of the Dioscuri; he and his brother were represented
• Mnasippus a Lacedaemonian, was appointed to the command of the armament which was sent to Corcyra, i
• Mnason . 1. A Phocian, a friend and disciple of Aristotle. He seems to have incurred considerable
• Mnason 2. Tyrant of Elatea. He seems to have distinguished himself by his liberal patronage of th
• Mnemarchus is the name sometimes given to the father of Pythagoras; but his proper name is Mnesarchus
• Mneme i. e. memory, was one of the three Muses that were in early times worshipped at Ascra in B
• Mnemon a physician of Side, in Pamphylia, who was a follower of Cleophantus, and lived in the thi
• Mnemosyne i. e. memory, a daughter of Uranus, and one of the Titanides, became by Zeus the mother of
• Mnesarchus . 1. The son of Euphron or Euthyphron, and father of Pythagoras. He was generally believed
• Mnesarchus 2. Grandson of the preceding, and son of Pythagoras and Theano. According to some accounts
• Mnesarchus 3. A Stoic philosopher, a disciple of Panaetius. He flourished about B. C. 110, and appear
• Mnesicles one of the great Athenian artists of the age of Pericles, was the architect of the Propyla
• Mnesilochus 2. The father of Choerine or Choerilla, the first wife of Euripides [EURIPIDES]. He is int
• Mnesimache is the name given by Apollodorus (2.5.5) to the daughter of Dexamenus, more usually called
• Mnesimachus . 1. A comic poet of the Middle Comedy, according to Suidas (s. v.) and Athenaeus (vii. p.
• Mnesimachus 2. An historical writer, a native of Phaselis, the author of a work entitled Διάκοσμοι, qu
• Mnesiphilus an Athenian, who pointed out to Themistocles, B. C. 480, the extreme impolicy of the measu
• Mnesiptolemus an historical writer, who was in great favour with Antiochus the Great. (Athen. 15.697 d.)
• Mnesistratus 1. An astronomer mentioned by Censorinus (de Die Nat. 100.18). He was the author of a modi
• Mnesistratus 2. A native of Thasos, a disciple of Plato. (D. L. 3.47.) There was a sect of philosophers
• Mnesitheus . 1. a physician, who was a native of Athens, and lived probably in the fourth century B.
• Mnesitheus 2. A physician of Cyzicus in Mysia, quoted by Oribasius (Coll. Medic. 4.4, p. 251). See al
• Mnester . 1. A celebrated pantomime actor in the reigns of Caligula and Claudius. The former emper
• Mnester 2. A freedman of Agrippina, the mother of Nero, who, after her death, either from grief fo
• Mnestheus a Trojan, who accompanied Aeneas to Italy, and is described by Virgil as the ancestral her
• Moagetes tyrant of the Cibyrates, in Upper Phrygia, had made himself conspicuous by his enmity to I
• Mochus a native of Phoenicia, the author of a work on Phoenician history quoted by Athenaeus (iii
• Mocilla, L. Julius L. Julius. a man of praetorian rank, who espoused the republican party after the death of
• Moderatus a native of Gades, a distinguished follower of the Pythagorean system, who flourished in t
• Modestinus, Herennius Herennius. a Roman jurist, and a pupil of Ulpian, whom Modestinus cites in terms of high c
• Modestus 1. Works Libellus de Vocabulis Rei Mililaris The author of a Libellus de Vocabulis Rei Mil
• Modestus 2. The name of Modestns is pretixed to three elogiac distichs in the Latin Anthololgy, the
• Modestus, Julius Julius. a freedman of Julius Ilyginus, who was himself a freedman of the emperor Augustus
• Modius a Roman name, which rarely occurs. Varro (de Re Rust. 2.7) speaks of a Q. Modius Equiculus
• Moeragenes one of the royal body-guards at the Egyptian court, was suspected by the profligate Agatho
• Moeris or MYRIS (Μοῖρις, Μύρις), a king of Egypt, who, Herodotus tells us, reigned some 900 years
• Moeris commonly called MOERIS ATTI'CISTA, a distinguished grammarian. Μοίριδος Ἀττικιστοῦ λέξεις
• Moero or Moero Phlilologus or Moero Phlilologus (Μοιρώ), or MYRO (Μυρώ), a Byzantine poetess, the wife of Andromachus
• Moerocles an Athenian orator, a native of Salamis. He was a contemporary of Demosthenes, and like hi
• Moira properly signifies "a share," and as a personification " the deity who assigns to every ma
• Molae Roman divinities, are called daughters of Mars. (Gel. 13.22.) Hartung (Die Relig. d. Röm.
• Moliones or MOLIO'NIDAE, a patronymic name by which Eurytus and Cteatus, the sons of Actor, or Pose
• Molon a general of Antiochus the Great, who held the satrapy of Media at the accession of that m
• Molon . 1. A tragic actor of the time of Aristophanes. (Aristoph. Frogs 55.) According to the sc
• Molorchus the mythical founder of Molorchia, near Nemea, was a poor man of Cleonae, who hospitably r
• Molossus a son of Pyrrhus, or Neoptolemus, and Andromache, from whom the country of Molossia was be
• Molpadia an Amazon, who was said to have killed Antiope, another Amazon, and was afterwards slain h
• Molpagoras a demagogue of Cios, in Bithynia, who, by the usual arts of his class, raised himself to a
• Molpis a Laconian, the author of a work on the constitution and customs of the Lacedaemonians, en
• Molpis a Greek surgeon mentioned by Heracleides of Tarentum (ap. Gal. Comment. in Hippocr. "De Ar
• Molus 2. A son of Deucalion, and father of Meriones. (Hom. Il. 10.269, 13.279; Apollod. 3.3.1; D
• Momus a son of Nyx, is a personification of mockery and censure. (Hes. Th. 214.) Thus he is said
• Monaeses . 1. One of the most distinguished men in Parthia in the time of Antony, the triumvir, is
• Moneta a surname of Juno among the Romans, by which she was characterised as the protectress of m
• Monima daughter of Philopoemen, a citizen of Stratoniceia, in Ionia, or according to Plutarch, of
• Monimus son of Pythion, a Macedonian officer, who espoused the cause of Olympias in her final stru
• Monobazus was king or tetrarch of Adiabene in A. D. 63, when Tigranes, king of Armenia, invaded his
• Monoecus a surname of Heracles, signifying the god who lives solitary, perhaps because he alone was
• Montanus ATTICI'NUS, legatus in Trajan's reign to Lustricus Bruttianus (Mart. 4.22), was accused by
• Montanus CU'RTIUS, was accused by Eprius Marcellus in A. D. 67 of libelling Nero. The charge was di
• Montanus JU'LIUS, a versifier of some repute in the reign of Tiberius, and one of the emperor's pri
• Montanus JU'LIUS, was of senatorian rank, but had borne no office when unluckily meet ing Nero on o
• Montanus, Votienus Votienus. was an orator and declaimer in the reign of Tiberius. From his propensity to ref
• Monunius a chief of the Illyrian tribe of the Dardanians, whose daughter Etuta was married to the I
• Mopsus . 1. A son of Ampyx or Ampycus by the nymph Chloris; and, because he was a seer, he is als
• Mopsus 2. A son of Apollo (or according to Paus. 7.3.2, of Rhacius) and Manto, the daughter of Te
• Morcus an Illyrian, who, in B. C. 168, was sent by Gentius, king of the Illyrians, to receive the
• Morius that is, the protector of the sacred olive trees, occurs as a surname of Zeus. (Soph. Oed.
• Mormo a female spectre, with which the Greeks used to frighten little children. (Aristoph. Ach.
• Mormolyce or MORMOLYCEION, the same phantom or bugbear as Mormo, and also used for the same purpose.
• Morpheus the son of Sleep, and the god of dreams. The name signifies the fashioner or moulder, beca
• Morpho or the fair shaped, occurs as a surname of Aphrodite at Sparta. She was represented in a s
• Morsimus a tragic poet, the son of Philocles [PHILOCLES], and father of Astydamas He is attacked an
• Morychus a tragic poet, a contemporary of Aristophanes, noted especially for his gluttony and effem
• Morzes or, according to Polybius, MO'RZIAS (Μορζίας), a king of Paphlagonia, who fought against t
• Moschampar, Georgius Georgius (Γεωργίος ὁ Μοσχάμπαρ), chartophylax magnae ecclesiae at Constantinople, was a fr
• Moschion . 1. A tragic and comic poet, mentioned more than once by Stobaeus, who has preserved the
• Moschion 2. A Greek writer, who drew up an account of the construction of the enormous ship which w
• Moschion 3. A celebrated cook, who was purchased by Demetrius Phalereus, and speedily realised a la
• Moschion . 1. Works Περὶ τῶν Γυναικείων Παθῶν, De Mulierum Passionibus The author of a short Greek
• Moschion 2. A physician quoted by Soranus (ap. Gal. De Compos. Medicam. sec. Loc. 1.2, vol. xii. p.
• Moschion the son of Adamas, an Athenian sculptor, made, in conjunction with his brothers Dionysodor
• Moschopulus, Manuel Manuel. or EMA'NUEL (Μανουὴλ s. Ἐμανουὴλ Μοσχόπουλος), a Greek grammarian of the later per
• Moschus . 1. A grammarian and bucolic poet, a native of Syracuse. He lived about the close of the
• Moschus 4. A grammarian, apparently, the author of a work entitled Ἐξήγησις Ῥοδιακῶν λέζεων,, ment
• Moschus, Joannes Joannes. or, as Photius calls him, JOANNES the son of MOSCHUS, surnamed Εὐκρατᾶς, or, what
• Mucia 1. The elder daughter of Q. Mucius Scaevola, the celebrated augur, and Laelia, daughter of
• Mucia 2. With the epithet TERTIA, was the daughter of Q. Mucius Scaevola, the augur, consul in B
• Mucia Gens Gens. was a very ancient patrician house, ascending to the earliest aera of the republic (
• Mucianus, Licinius Licinius. three times consul in A. D. 52, 70, and 75 respectively, must have passed by ado
• Mucianus or Mucianus Scholasticus or Mucianus Scholasticus. or MUTIA'NUS, surnamed SCHOLA'STICUS, lived in the middle of the
• Mucianus, P. Licinius Crassus Dives P. Licinius Crassus Dives. was the son of P. Mucius Scaevola, consul B. C. 175, and brothe
• Mugillanus 1. L. Papirius Mugillanus, L. F., was consul for the first time in B. C. 444, and for the
• Mugillanus 2. L. Papirius Mugillanus, L. F. L. N. son probably of the preceding, was consular tribune
• Mugillanus 3. M. Papirius Mugillanus, L. F. was con sular tribune in B. C. 418, and again in 416, and
• Mugillanus 4. L. Papirius Mugillanus was consul in B. C. 326 (Liv. 8.23; Fasti). It is doubtful, howe
• Mulciber a surname of Vulcan, which seems to have been given to the god as a euphemism, and for the
• Mummia Achaica Achaica. grand-daughter of Q. Lutatius Catulus (CATULUS, No. 4], and great grand-daughter
• Mummius Μόμμιος. 1. L. Mummius was tribune of the plebs in B. C. 187. He opposed the bill of M. Po
• Mummius 3. L. Mummius Achaicus, L. F. L. N., son of No. 1, was praetor in B. C. 154. His province
• Mummius 4. SP. MUMMIUS, brother of the preceding, and his legatus at Corinth in B. C. 146-145, was
• Mummius 5. SP. MUMMIUS, grandson of the preceding, died shortly before B. C. 46. He had preserved
• Mummius 7. MUMMIUS, a legatus of M. Crassus in the servile war, B. C. 73, was defeated by the glad
• Mummius 8. MUMMIUS, was a writer of farces, Atellanae, after the year B. C. 90. He is mentioned by
• Munatia Gens Gens. plebeian, unknown before the second century B. C. Its usual cognomens are FLACCUS, G
• Munatius 2. P. Munatius, was imprisoned, in what year is uncertain, by the triumlviri capitales, fo
• Munatius 3. MUNATIUS, a ruined spendthrift, who engaged in Catiline's plot. He remained at Rome whi
• Munatius 4. C. Munatius, C. F., was in some official situation in a province when Cicero commended
• Munatius 5. T. Munatius, was a kinsman of L. Munatius Plancus [PLANCUS], proconsul in Narbonne, B.
• Munatius of Tralles, surnamed ὁ κριτικός is mentioned as one of the teachers of Herodes Atticus. (P
• Munychia a surname of Aremis, derived from the Attic port-town of Munyhia, where she had a temple.
• Murcia, Murtea Murtea. or MU'RTIA, a surname of Venus at Rome, where she had a chapel in the circus, with
• Murcus, L. Statius L. Statius. was Caesar's legatus in B. C. 48, and one of three commissioners appointed by
• Murena Μουρήνας, the name of a family of the Licinia gens, which was originally from Lanuvium, no
• Murena 2. P. Licinius Murena,the son of P. Licinius, attained the rank of praetor, and was a cont
• Murena 3. P. Licinius Murena, the son of the preceding, was a man of moderate talent, but he paid
• Murena 4. L. Licinius Murena, the brother of the preceding, was praetor probably before he served
• Murena 5. L. Licinius Murena, the son of No. 4, served under his father (B. C. 83) in the war aga
• Murena 6. C. Licinius Murena, the brother of No. 5, and his legatus in Cisalpine Gallin, which he
• Murena 7. A. TERENTIUS VARRO MURENA, was adopted by A. Terentius Varro, whose name he took, accor
• Murena, Ablavius Ablavius. praefectus praetorio in the reign of Valerian (A. D. 253-260), who addressed Abl
• Mus the name of a family of the plebeian Decia gens, which was renowned in early Roman history
• Mus 1. P. Decius Mus, is first mentioned in B. C. 352, when he was appointed one of the quinqu
• Mus 2. P. Decius Mus, the son of the preceding, was consul B. C. 312, with M. Valerius Maximus
• Mus 3. P. Decius Mus, son of the preceding, was consul in B. C. 279, and fought with his colle
• Musa a rhetorician, frequently referred to by the elder Seneca, who calls him a man " multi ing
• Musa, Aemilia Aemilia. a rich woman, who died intestate in the reign of Tiberius, A. D. 17. Her property
• Musa, Antonius Antonius. a celebrated physician at Rome about the beginning of the Christian era. He was
• Musa, Q. Pomponius Q. Pomponius. only known to us from coins, a specimen of which is annexed. The head on the
• Musae . The Muses, according to the earliest writers, were the inspiring goddesses of song, and,
• Musaeus an officer of Antiochus the Great, king of Syria. After the decisive battle of Sipylus, B.
• Musaeus literary. 1. A semimythological personage, to be classed with Olen, Orpheus, and Pamphus.
• Musaeus 2. An ancient Theban lyric poet, the son of Thamyra and Philammon, who, according to Suida
• Musaeus 3. An epic poet, a native of Ephesus, who lived probably about the middle of the second ce
• Musaeus 4. A grammarian Works Hero and Leander The author of the celebrated poem on the loves of H
• Musca a surname of the Sempronia gens. 1. T. Sempronius Musca, one of the five commissioners app
• Musca 2. 3. A. Sempronius and M. SEMPRONIUS, his brother, bore undoubtedly the surname of MUSCA,
• Musca 4. Sempronius Musca, detected C. Gallius in the act of adultery with his wife, and scourge
• Musicanus the ruler of a kingdom on the banks of the Indus, the capital of which was probably near B
• Musonianus a native of Antioch, an officer under the emperor Constantine the Great and his successors
• Mustela was a person with whom Cicero, in B. C. 46, had some negotiations respecting the purchase
• Mustela, Tamisius Tamisius. a native of Anagnia in the Hernican territory, was one of M. Antony's retainers
• Mustius was a Roman eques and revenuefarmer, about the time of the praetorship of Verres, B. C. 75
• Mutilus, C. Papius C. Papius. one of the principal Samnite generals in the Marsic or Social war, B. C. 90-89.
• Mutilus, Papius Papius. a flatterer of Tiberius, proposed in the senate, A. D. 16, that the 13th of Septem
• Mutines Μουτίνας, (Polybius calls him Μυττόνας), an African by birth, belonging to the halfcaste r
• Mutius a Roman architect of very great skill, who flourished in the first century B. C., and buil
• Muto or MUTTO, Q. was a man of the lowest rank, who was prosecuted by L. Laelius. (Cic. pro Sca
• Mutunus or MUTINUS, that is, the phallus, or Priapus, which was believed to be the most powerful a
• Myagrus a Phocaean, is mentioned by Pliny among those statuaries who made athletas et armatos et v
• Mycalessia a surname of Demeter, derived from Mycalessus in Boeotia, where the goddess had a sanctuar
• Mycene a daughter of Inachus and wife of Arestor, from whom the town of Mycenae or Mycene was bel
• Mycerinus or MECHERI'NUS, was son of Cheops, king of Egypt, according to Herodotus and Diodorus, and
• Mydon of Soli, a painter of some note, was the disciple of the statuary Pyromachus. He therefore
• Mygdon . 1. A brother of Amycus, king of the Bebryces, was slain by Heracles, who assisted Lycus
• Mygdon 2. A son of Acmon, a Phrygian king, who fought with Otreus and Priam against the Amazons.
• Myia . 1. Daughter of Pythagoras and Theano (Porphyr. p. 3; Clemens Alex. Strom. iv. p. 522; Su
• Myia 2. A Spartan poetess, who composed hymns to Apollo and Diana (Suidas, s. v.). Lucian (Musc
• Myia 3. A Thespian poetess, who wrote some lyrical poems (Suidas, s. v.). She is probably the s
• Myiagrus or MYIODES, that is, the fly-catcher, is the name of a hero, who was invoked at Aliphera,
• Myles a son of Lelex, brother of Polycaon, father of Eurotas, and king of Lacedaemon, was regard
• Myllus a comic poet, a contemporary of Epicharmus, who with Euetes and Euxenides revived comedy i
• Mynes a son of Evenus of Lyrnesus, and husband of Briseis, was slain by Achilles. (Hom. Il. 2.69
• Myniscus a tragic actor, a native of Chalcis, who was attacked by Plato in his comedy called Σύρφαξ
• Myrina . 1. A daughter of Cretheus and the wife of Thoas, from whom the town of Myrina in Lemnos
• Myrina 2. An Amazon, who is likewise said to have given the name to the town of Myrina in Lemnos.
• Myrinus appears as the name of an epigrammatic writer in Brunck's Anal. (ii. p. 107). Nothing more
• Myrmecides a sculptor and engraver, of Miletus or Athens, is generally mentioned in connection with C
• Myrmex that is, an ant, from which animal, according to some traditions, the Myrmidons in Thessal
• Myrmidon a son of Zeus and Eurymedusa, the daughter of Cleitos, whom Zeus deceived in the disguise
• Myrmidon an Athenian, who commanded a force of 10,000 men, which formed part of the armament sent b
• Myro . 1. The elder of the two daughters of Aristotimus, tyrant of Elis. [ARISTOTIMUS] When Ari
• Myro 2. A Rhodian lady mentioned by Suidas (s. v.) as having addicted herself to philosophy and
• Myron historical. 1. An Athenian of the deme Phlya, in the tribe Cecropis, is mentioned by Pluta
• Myron 2. Tyrant of Sicyon, the father of Aristonymus, and grandfather of Cleisthenes. He gained
• Myron 3. One of the generals of Mithridates, sent by him, together with Menemachus, at the head
• Myron a native of Priene, the author of an historical account of the first Messenian war. His da
• Myron one of the most celebrated of the Greek statuaries, and also a sculptor and engraver, was
• Myronianus of Amastris, a Greek writer of uncertain age, was the author of a work entitled Ἱστορικῶν
• Myronides a skilful and successful Athenian general. In B. C. 457, the Corinthians invaded Megara wi
• Myrrha a daughter of Cinyras and mother of Adonis. (Luc. D. Syr. 6; comp. ADONIS.) Lycophron (829
• Myrsilus a Greek historical writer, a native of Lesbos. When he lived is not known. Works Dionysius
• Myrsus a Lydian, son of Gyges, was the bearer to Polycrates of the letter containing the treacher
• Myrtilus a son of Hermes by Cleobule, or by Clytia (Hygin. Poet. Astr. 2.13), or, according to othe
• Myrtilus a Greek comic poet, the brother of Hermippus. Suidas has preserved the names of two of his
• Myrtilus a slave or a freedman, seems to have been bribed by Antony, or some one of that party, to
• Myrtis an Argive, whom, with several others of that and other states, Demosthenes (de Cor. p. 324
• Myrtis a lyric poetess, a native of Anthedon. She was reported to have been the instructress of P
• Myrto a woman from whom, according to some, the Myrtoan sea derived its name. (Paus. 8.14.8; Apo
• Myrto a daughter of one Aristeides, was, according to some accounts, the first wife of Socrates.
• Myrtoessa the nymph of a well of the same name in Arcadia; she was represented at Megalopolis along
• Myrton and his son NICANOR (Νικάνωρ), were men of weight and influence in Epeirus, and are mentio
• Mys an artist in the toreutic department, engraved the battle of the Lapithae and the Centaurs
• Myscellus Μύσκελλος, (or Μύσκελος), a native of Rhypes, one of the twelve divisions of Achaia, and,
• Mysia . 1. A surname of Demeter, who had a temple, Μυσαῖον, between Argos and Mycenae and at Pel
• Myson a native of Chenae or Chen, a village either in Laconia (according to Stephanus Byz.) or o
• Mytileie a daughter of Macar or Pelops, became by Poseidon the mother of Myton. The town of Mytilen