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406), 258) and the infernal Erinnyes, with whom they
of Ge and Oceanus (Athenag. 15; Lycoph. 144), are even confounded, and in the neighbourhood of
or lastly of Ananke or Necessity. (Plat. De Re Sicyon the annual sacrifices offered to them were
Publ. p. 617, d. )
the same as those offered to the Erinnyes. (Paus.
It cannot be surprising to find that the character ii. 11. § 4; comp. Schol. ad Aesch Agam. 70;
and nature of the Moirae were conceived differently Aelian, H. A. x. 33 ; Serv. ad Aen. i. 86. ) It
at different times and by different authors. Some belongs to the same character that, along with the
times they appear as divinities of fate in the strict Charites, they lead Persephone out of the lower
sense of the term, and sometimes only as allego- world into the regions of light, and are mentioned
rical divinities of the duration of human life. In along with Pluto and Charon. (Orph. Hymn
the former character they are independent, at the 428 ; Ov. Fast. vi. 157; comp. Aristoph. Rar.
helm of necessity, direct fate, and watch that the 453. ) The various epithets which poets apply to
fate assigned to every being by eternal laws the Moirae generally refer to the severity, inflexi-
may take its course without obstruction (Aeschyl. bility, and sternness of fate.
Prom. 511, 515); and Zeus, as well as the other They had sanctuaries in many parts of Greece,
gods and men, must submit to them. (Herod. i. such as Corinth (Paus. ii. 4. $ 7), Sparta (iii. 11.
9) ; Lactant. Institut. i. 11, 13; Stob. Ecog. i. S 8), Olympia (v. 15. § +), Thebes (ix. 25. § 4),
pp. 152, 170. ) They assign to the Erinnyes, who I and elsewhere. The poets sometimes describe
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them as aged and hideous women, and even as games. (Paus. v. 2. § 1. ) Heracles, on the other
lame, to indicate the slow march of fate (Catull. hand, dedicated, on account of his victory, six
64, 306 ; Ov. Met. xv. 781 ; Tzetz. ad Lyc. 584); altars at Olympin, and instituted special honours
but in works of art they are represented as grave at Nemea for the 360 Cleonacans who had assisted
maidens, with different attributes, viz. , Clotho with him, but had fallen in the contest. (Schol. ad
a spindle or a roll (the book of fate); Lachesis Pind. Ul. xi. 29; Aelian, V. II. ir. 5. ) The
pointing with a staff to the horoscope on the globe ; Moliones are also mentioned as conquerors of
and Atropos with a pair of scales, or a sun-dial, or a Nestor in the chariot race, and as having taken
cutting instrument. It is worthy of remark that part in the Calydonian hunt. (Athen. l. c. ; Hom.
the Muse Urania was sometimes represented with ll. xxiii. 638, &c. ; Ov. Met. viii. 308. ) Cteatus
the same attributes as Lachesis, and that Aphrodite was the father of Amplıimachus by Theronice ; and
Urania at Athens, according to an inscription on a Eurytus, of Thalpius by Theraphone. (Hom. Il.
Hermes-pillar, was called the oldest of the Moire. i. 020 ; Paus. v. 3. & 4. ) Their tomb was shown
(Paus. j. 19. & 2; comp. Welcker, Zeitschrifl für in later times at Cleonae. (Paus. ii. 15. $ 1; comp.
alt. K’unst, p. 197, &c. ; Blümner, Ueber die Idee Tarasirpus. )
[L. S. )
des Schicksals, p. 115, &c. ; Ilirt. Mytholoy. Bil- MOLLI'CÚLUS, MINU'CIUS. (AUGURI-
derb. p. 200. )
NUS, No. 9. ]
Moira also occurs as the proper name of a MOLON (Mółww), a general of Antiochus the
daughter of Cinyras, who is more commonly called Great, who held the satrapy of Media at the acces-
Smyrna. (Schol. ad Theocrit. i. 109. ) [L. S. ) sion of that monarch (1. c. 22? ); in addition to
MOIRA'GETES (Moipayétrs), the guide or which, Antiochus conferred upon him and his
leader of fate, occurs as a surnaine of Zeus and brother Alexander the government of all the upper
Apollo at Delphi. (Paus. x. 24. § 4. ) (L. S. ] inces of his empire. But their hatred to
MOLAE, Roman divinities, are called daughters Hermeias, the chief minister of Antiochus, soon
of Mars. (Gell. xiii. 22. ) Hartung (Die Relig. led them both to revolt: the two generals at first
d. Röm. vol. i. p. 130) is inclined to consider their sent against them by the king were unable to
name to be identical with Mwal and Moùoai, and oppose their progress, and Molon found himself at
accordingly thinks that they were the same as the the head of a large army, and master of the whole
Camenae ; but in another passage (vol. ii. p. 172) country to the east of the Tigris. He was, how-
he admits the probability that, as their name plainly ever, foiled in his attempts to pass that river; but
indicates, they were in some way connected with Xenoetas, the general of Antiochus, who was now
the pounding or grinding of grain. [L. S. ) sent against him with a large force, having ven-
MOʻLION (Moliwr). I. One of the sons of tured to cross it in his turn, was surprised by
Eurytus who were slain by Heracles along with Molon, and his whole army cut to pieces. The
their father. (Diod. iv. 37 ; comp.
Eurytus. ) rebel satrap now crossed the Tigris, and made
2. A Trojan, the charioteer of Thymbraeus. himself master of the city of Seleuceia together
(Hom. Il. xi. 322. )
(L. S. ] with the whole of Babylonia and Mesopotamia
MO'LIONE. [MOLIONES. ]
But the formidable character which the insurrec-
MO’LIONES or MOLIOʻNIDAE (Morloves, tion had thus assumed, at length determined
Montovídai), a patronymic name by which Eurytus Antiochus to march in person against the rebels.
and Cteatus, the sons of Actor, or Poseidon, by After wintering at Nisibis, he crossed the Tigris,
Molione, are often designated. They were nephews B. c. 220, and advanced southwards against Molon,
of Augeas, king of the Epeians. As sons of Actor, who marched from Babylon to meet him. A
they are also called Actoridae, or 'Aktoplwve. pitched battle ensued, in which the desertion of
(Hom. Il. xxii. 638 ; Ov. Met. viii. 308. ) Ac- the left wing of the rebel army at once decided the
cording to a late tradition, they were born out of an victory in favour of the king. Molon himself put
egg (Athen. ii. p.
58); and it is further stated, that an end to his own life, to avoid falling into the
the two brothers were grown together, so that they hands of the enemy: but his body was crucified by
had only one body, but two heads, four arms, and order of Antiochus, or rather of his minister Her-
four legs. (Athen. 1. c. ; Eustath. ad Hom. p. 882 ; meias. (Polyb. v. 40—54; Trog. Pomp. Prol.
Pherecyd. Fragm. 47, ed. Sturz ; Plut. De frut. am. xxx. )
(E. H. B. )
1. ) Homer inentions none of these extraordinary MOLON (Móxwv). 1. A tragic actor of the
circumstances; and, according to him, the Mo- time of Aristophanes. (Aristoph. Ran. 55. )
liones, when yet boys, took part in an expedition According to the scholiast, Aristophanes in the
of the Epeians against Neleus and the Pylians. passage referred to is speaking ironically, for Molon
(. xi. 709, 750. ) When Heracles marched was a very large man. The scholiast also informs
against Augeas to chastise him for refusing to give us that Molon had a contemporary of the same
the reward he had promised, he entrusted the con- name, who was a notorious thief.
duct of the war to the Moliones ; but Heracles, 2. A surname of Apollonius, the rhetorician of
who, in the mean time was taken ill and concluded Rhodes. [APOLLONIUS, No. 3. ) [C. P. M. ]
peace with Augeas, was then himself attacked and MOLORCHUS (Móxopxos), the mythical
beaten by them. In order to take vengeance, he founder of Molorchia, near Nemea, was a poor
afterwards slew them near Cleonae, on the frontiers man of Cleonae, who hospitably received Heracles
of Argolis, as they had been sent from Elis to when he went out to slay the Nemean lion.
sacrifice at the Isthmian games, on behalf of the (Stephan. Byzant. s. v. Monopxia; Apollod. ii. 5.
town. (Apollod. ii. 7. § 2 ; Pind. Ol. xi. 33, &c. , $ 1. )
[L. S. ]
with the Schol. ; Paus. viii. 14. § 6. ) The Eleians MOLOSSUS (Moloooós), a son of Pyrrhus, or
demanded of the Argives to atone for this murder ; Neoptolemus, and Andromache, from whom the
but as the latter refused, and were not excluded country of Molossia was believed to have derived
from the Isthmian games, Molione cursed the its name. (Paus. i. 11. § 1; Schol. ad Pind. Nem.
Eleians who should ever take part again in those vii. 56 ; Serv, ad lcn. iii. 297. ) (L. S. ]
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MOLPADIA (Montadia), an Amazon, who cal tale. During an earthquake, he says, a voice
was said to have killed Antiope, another Amazon, was heard issuing from the temple of Juno on the
and was afterwards slain herself by Theseus. Her Capitol, and admonishing (monens) that a pregnant
tomb was shown at Athens. (Plut. Thes. 27; sow should be sacrificed. A somewhat more probable
Paus. i. 2. & 1. )
[L. S. ] reason for the name is given by Suidas (8. 0. Movara),
MOLPA'GORAS (Mondayópas), a demagogue though he assigns it to too late a time. In the war
of Cios, in Bithynia, who, by the usual arts of his with Pyrrhus and the Tarentines, he says, the
class, raised himself to absolute power in his state. Romans being in want of money, prayed to Juno,
To the imprudence of the men of Cios, in placing and were told by the goddess, that money would
confidence in him and in persons like him, Polybius not be wanting to them, so long as they would
ascribes mainly the capture of their city by Philip V. fight with the arms of justice. As the Romans
of Macedon, in B. c. 202. (Polyb. xv. 21 ; comp. by experience found the truth of the words of Juno,
Liv, xxxii. 33, 34. )
(E. E. ) they called her Juno Moneta. Her festival was
MOLPIS (Móátis), a Laconian, the author celebrated on the first of June. (Ov. Fast. vi. 183,
of a work on the constitution and customs of | &c. ; Macrob. Sut. i. 12. )
[L. S. ]
the Lacedaemonians, entitled Aakedaipovlwv Todo- MO'NIMA (Muviun), daughter of Philopoemen,
Teia quoted by Athenaeus (iv. p. 140, xiv. p. a citizen of Stratoniceia, in lonia, or according to
664).
[C. P. M. ' Plutarch, of Miletus. At the capture of her native
MOLPIS (MÓTTIS), a Greek surgeon mentioned city by Mithridates, in B. C. 88, her beauty maue
by Heracleides of Tarentum (ap. Gal. Comment. in a great impression on the conqueror, but she had
Hippocr. “ De Artic. " iv. 40, vol. xviii. pt. i. the courage to refuse all his offers, until he con-
p. 736), who must therefore have lived in or before sented to marry her, and bestow on her the rank
the third century B. C. He wrote apparently on and title of queen. She at first exercised great
fractures and luxations.
[W. A. G. ) influence over her husband, bu. this did not last
MOLUS (Mwlos or Móxos). 1. A son of long, and she soon found but too much reason to
Ares and Demonice, and a brother of Thestius. repent her elevation, which had the effect of re-
(Apollod. i. 7. 8 7. DEMONICE. )
moving her from Greek civilisation and consigning
2. A son of Deucalion, and father Meriones. her to a splendid imprisonment. When Mithri.
(Hom. Il. x. 269, xiii. 279; Apollod. iii. 3. § 1; dates was compelled to abandon his own dominions
Diod. v. 79; Hygin. Fab. 97; comp. MERIones. ) and take refuge in Armenia, B. c. 72, Monima was
According to a Cretan legend, he was a son of put to death at Pharnacia, together with the other
Minos, and a brother of Deucalion (Diod. l. c. ); wives and sisters of the fugitive monarch. Her
and it was said, that as he had attempted to violate correspondence with Mithridates, which was of a
a nymph, he was afterwards found without a head ; licentious character, fell into the hands of Pompey
for at a certain festival in Crete they showed the at the capture of the fortress of Caenon Phron-
image of a man without a head, who was called rion. (Appian, Mithr. 21, 27, 48 ; Plut. Lucull.
Molus. (Plut. De Def. Orac. 13. ) [L. S. ] 18, Pomp. 37. )
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