)
Althaea heard this, she extinguished the firebrand,
There are three other mythical personages of and concealed it in a chest.
Althaea heard this, she extinguished the firebrand,
There are three other mythical personages of and concealed it in a chest.
William Smith - 1844 - Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities - b
Suid.
5. 0. ); while among modern scholars, the former Odysseus. (Hom. Od. xviii. 321 ; Paus. * 25.
§ 1. )
view is held by Ulrici, Meineke, Welcker, and
Kayser
, and the latter by Elmsley, Böckh, Müller of Delphus, by Poseidon, who deceived her in the
2. A daughter of Deucalion, became the mother
and Clinton (comp. Elms, ad Eurip. Med. 96, with form of a dolphin. (Tzetz. ad Lyc. 208 ; 0v. Met.
Welcker, die Griech. Tragöd. p. 1029). The
vi. 120. )
(L. S. )
character given of Melanthius in the above extract,
his worthlessness as a poet, his voracious gluttony, Tyrrhenian pirates, who wanted to carry off young
MELANTHUS (Ménavõus). 1. One of the
his profligacy, and his personal offensiveness, is con-
firmed by several other passages of the comic poets Bacchus, but were metamorphosed into dolphins.
and other writers (Aristoph. Par, 999, Av. 152, and (Ov. Met. iii. 671, &c. )
2. One of the sons Laocoon. (Serv. ad Aen.
Schol. ; Archippus, ap. Athen. viii. p. 343 ; Athen.
i. p. 6, c. ). He was celebrated for his wit, of i. 211. ) In Lycophron (767) the name occurs as
a surname of Poseidon.
(L. S. )
which several specimens are preserved (Plut. de
MELANTHUS or MELANTHIUS (Ménav-
Aud. Poët. p. 20, c. , de Aud. p. 41, C, de Adul. et oos, Metávows), one of the Neleidae, and king of
Amic. p. 50, d. , Conjug. Praec. p. 144, b. , Sympos. Messenia, whence he was driven out by the Hera-
p. 631, d. , p. 633, d. ). Aristophanes has preserved cleidae on their conquest of the Peloponnesus,
the title and two lines, somewhat parodied, of one and, following the instructions of the Delphic
of his dramas, the Medea, for it is absurd to sup- oracle, took refuge in Attica. In a war between
pose the Medea of Euripides is meant (Pux, 999); the Athenians and Boeotians, Xanthus, the Boeo-
and Plutarch has more than once (De cohib. Ira; tian king, challenged Thymoetes, king of Athens
p. 453, f. , de sera Num. Vindict. p. 551, a. ) quoted and the last of the Theseidae, to single combat.
a line, in which Melanthius says that ó Juuds
Thymoetes declined the challenge on the ground of
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nasty; and Melanthus undertook it on condition killed by Meleager. Artemis, however, created a
of being rewarded with the throne in the event of dispute about the animal's head and skin among
He slew Xanthus, and became king, to the Calydonians and Curetes. Late writers re-
the exclusion of the line of 'Theseus. According present Atalante as taking part in this famous
to Pausanias, the conqueror of Xanthus was An- hunt ; but the huntsmen refused to go out with
dropompus, the father of Melanthus ; according to her, until Meleager, who loved her, prevailed upon
Aristotle, it was Codrus, his son. To the period them. According to Ovid (Met. viii. 380), Ata-
of the reign of Melanthus Pausanias refers the ex- lante inflicted the first wound upon the animal ;
pulsion of the Ionians from Aegialus by the while, according to others, Meleager first struck
Achaeans, and their settlement at Athens as a and killed it. He gave his prize, the boar's skin,
place of refuge. (Her. i. 147, v. 65; Paus. ii. 18, to Atalante, who was deprived of it by the sons of
iv. 5, vii. 1, 2 ; Strab. viii. p. 359, ix. p. 393, xiv. Thestius ; but Meleager slew them. (Apollod. (v.
p. 633; Con. Narr. 39; Aristot. Pol. v. 10, ed. ll. cc. ; Diod. iv. 34. ) During the war between
Bekk. ; Schol. ad Aristoph. Ach. 146, Pac. 855; the Calydonians and Curetes, the former were
Suid. s. v. 'Anatoúpia ; Dict. of Ant. s. v. 'Ana- always victorivus, so long as Meleager went out
τούρια. )
[E. E. ) with them. But on one occasion he killed his
MELAS (Méras. ) 1. A son of Poseidon by a mother's brothers ; and his mother pronounced a
nymph of Chios, and brother of Angelus. (Paus. curse upon him, in consequence of which he be-
vii. 4. & 6. )
came indignant, and stayed at home, so that the
2. One of the Tyrrhenian pirates mentioned victorious Curetes begun to press Calydon very
under Melanthus No. 1.
hard. It was in vain that the old men of the town
3. A son of Phrixus and Chalciope, was married made him the most brilliant promises if he would
to Eurycleia, by whom he became the father of again join in the fight, and also the entreaties of
Hyperes. (Apollod. i. 9. § 1; Apollon. Rhod. ii. his own friends remained without effect. At
1158 ; Schol. ad Pind. Pyth. iv. 221. )
length, however, he yielded to the prayers of his
4. A son of Porthaon and Euryte, and brother wife, Cleopatra: he put the Curetes to flight, but
of Oeneus. (Hom. Il. xiv. 117; Apollod. i. 7. $ never returned home, for the Erinnys, who had
10 ; comp. OeNeus and TYDEUS. )
heard the curse of his mother, overtook him. (Hom.
5. A son of Antassus, at Gonusa, near Sicyon. N. ix. 527—600; comp. ii. 641. ) The post-
He joined the Dorians on their march against Homeric accourt gives a different cause of his
Corinth. His services were at first declined, but death. When Meleager was seven days old, it is
he was afterwards allowed to fight in the ranks of said, the Moerae appeared, declaring that the boy
the Dorians. He was the ancestor of the family would die as soon as the piece of wood that was
of Cypselus. (Paus. ii. 4. & 4, v. 18. & 7, 20, in burning on the hearth should be consumed. When
fin.
)
Althaea heard this, she extinguished the firebrand,
There are three other mythical personages of and concealed it in a chest. Meleager himself be-
this name. (Paus, vii. 4. § 6, viii. 28. & 3; came invulnerable ; but after he had killed the
Apollod. ii. 7. & 7. )
(L. S. ] brothers of his mother, she lighted the piece of
MELEA'GER (Menéaypos), a son of Oeneus wood, and Meleager died, whereupon Althaea and
(whence he is called Oivetdns), and Althaea, the Cleopatra hung themselves. (Apollod. i. 8. § 2,
daughter of Thestius, and was married to Cleopatra, &c. ; Hygin. Fub. 171 ; Diod. iv. 34 ; Ov. Met.
by whom he became the father of Polydora. viii. 450, &c. , 531. ) The sisters of Meleager
(Apollod. i. 8. $ 2; Paus. iv. 2 in fin. ; Orph. wept unceasingly after his death, until Artemis
Argon. 157. ) Other accounts call Meleager a son changed them into guinea-hens (Med eaypides),
of Ares, by Althaea (Plut. Parall. Min. 26 ; Ov. who were transferred to the island of Leros. Even
Met. viii. 437 ; Hygin. Fab. 17? ); and Hyginus in this condition they moumed during a certain
calls Parthenopaeus a son of Meleager. (Fab. 99, part of the year for their brother. Two of them,
270. ) His brothers and sisters were Phereus or Gorge and Deianeira, through the mediation of
Thyreus, Agelaus, Toxeus, Periphas, Gorge, Eury- Dionysus, were not metamorphosed. (Anton. Lib.
mede, Deianeira, Melanippe. Meleager is one of 2; Ov. Met. viii. 532, &c. ; Apollod. i. 8. $ 3. )
the most famous Aetolian heroes of Calydon, and The story of Meleager, his hunt of the Calydonian
distinguished himself by his skill in throwing the boar, his contest with the sons of Thestius, and
javelin, as one of the Argonauts, and in the Caly- other scenes of his life, were frequently represented
donian hunt. Thus he gained the victory at the by ancient artists. (Paus. iii. 18. $ 9, viü. 45, $
ſuneral games of Acastus (Hygin. Fab. 273 ; 4. ) He usually appears as a robust hunter, with
Athen. iv. p. 172); and the spear with which he curly hair, the Aetolian chlamys, and a boar's head.
had slain the Calydonian boar he dedicated in the (Philostr. Icon. 15; comp. Welcker, Zeitschrift
temple of Apollo at Sicyon. (Paus. ii. 7. § 8. ) für die alte Kunst, p. 123, &c. ) (L. S. )
In the expedition of the Argonauts he was said in MELEAGER (Menéaypos). 1. Son of Neoptole-
some legends to have slain Aeetes in the contest for mus, a Macedonian officer of distinction in the service
the golden fleece. (Diod. iv. 48. ) While Mele- of Alexander the Great. He is first mentioned in
ager was at Calydon, Oeneus, the king of the the war against the Getae (B. C. 335); and at the
place, once neglected to offer up a sacrifice to Ar- passage of the Granicus in the following year, we
temis, whereupon the angry goddess sent a mon- find him commanding one of the divisions (táfeus)
strous boar into the fields of Calydon, which were of the phalanx, a post which he afterwards held ap-
ravaged by the beast, while no one had the courage parently throughout the campaigns in Asia He
to hunt it. At length Meleager, with a band of was appointed, together with Coenus and Ptoleny
other heroes, whose number and names are different the son of Seleucus, to command the newly-married
in the different accounts (Apollod. i. 8. $ 2; Ov. troops which were sent home from Caria to spend
let. viii. 300, &c. ; Hygin. Fab. 174 ; Paus. viii. | the winter in Macedonia, and rejoined Alexander at
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MELESIPPUS.
Gordium in the following summer (B. C. 333). We 2–4; Arrian, ap. Phot. p. 69, a. ; Diod. xvii.
afterwards find him present at the battles of Issus 2. )
and Arbela ; associated with Craterus in the im- 2. An ilarch or commander of a squadron of
portant task of dislodging the enemy who guarded cavalry in the army of Alexander at the battle of
the passes into Persia ; and again bearing a part in Arbela (Arrian, Anab. iii. 11; Curt. iv. 50. )
the passage of the Hydaspes, and in various other He is certainly distinct from the preceding, and
operations in India (Arrian, Anab. i. 4, 14, 20, 24, is probably the same person whom we afterwards
ii
. 8, iii. 11, 18, v. 12 ; Curt. iii
. 24, v. 14, vii. 27 ; find mentioned among the friends and adherents of
Diod. xvii. 57). But notwithstanding this long Pithon, who participated in his projects of revolt
series of services we do not learn that Alexander against Antigonus, B. C. 316. [Pituon. ) After
promoted him to any higher or more confidential the death of their leader, Melenger and Menoetas
situation, nor do we find him employed in any broke out into open insurrection, but were speedily
separate command of importance. Already, before defeated by Orontobates and Hippostratus, who
the king's death, Meleager had given evidence had been left by Antigonus in the government of
of an insolent and factious disposition, and these Media, and Meleager was slain in the battle.
qualities broke out in their full force during the dis- (Diod. xix. 47. )
cussions which ensued after the death of Alexander. 3. A son of Ptolemy Soter and Eurydice,
His conduct on that occasion is differently related. daughter of Antipater, succeeded his brother Pro-
According to Justin, he was the first to propose in lemy Ceraunus on the throne of Macedonia, after
the council of officers, that either Arrhidaeus or the latter had fallen in battle against the Gauls
Heracles the son of Barsine should at once be (B. C. 280); but was compelled by the Macedonian
chosen king, instead of waiting for the chance of troops to resign the crown, after a reign of only
Roxana bearing a son. Curtius, on the contrary, two months. (Euseb. Arm. pp. 156, 157, Dexippus,
represents him as breaking out into violent in- ap. Syncell. pp. 267, 270. ) His reign is omitted by
vectives against the ambition of Perdiccas, and Justin.
[E. H. B. )
abruptly quitting the assembly, in order to excite MELEA'GER (Menéaypos), son of Eucrates,
the soldiery to a tumult. Diodorus, again, states the celebrated writer and collector of epigrams,
that he was sent by the assembled generals to was a native of Gadara in Palestine, and lived
appease the clamours and discontent of the troops, about B. C. 60. There are 131 of his epigrams in
but instead of doing so he himself joined the the Greek Anthology, written in a good Greek
mutineers. In any case it is certain that Meleager style, though somewhat affected, and distinguished
early assumed the lead of the opposition to Perdic- by sophistic acumen and amatory fancy. (Brunck,
cas and his party ; and placed himself at the head of Anal. vol. i. pp. 1–38 ; Jacobs, Anth. (craec. vol.
the infantry, who had declared themselves (probably i: pp. 1–40, vol. xiii. pp. 639, 698, 915, 916;
at his instigation) in favour of the claims of Arrhi- Fabric
. Bibl. Graec. vol. iv. pp. 416—420. ) Be-
daeus to the vacant throne. Meleager even went 50 sides the various editions of the Greek Anthology,
far as to order the execution of Perdiccas, without there are separate editions of the epigrams of Me
any express authority from his puppet of a king ; leager, for which see Fabricius. An account of his
but this project was disconcerted by the boldness Etépavos, or collection of epigrams, is given under
of the regent: and the greater part of the cavalry, PLANUDES.
[P. S. )
together with almost all the generals, sided with MELES (Méans), an Athenian, who was be-
Perdiccas, and, quitting Babylon, established them- loved by Timagoras, but refused to listen to him,
selves in a separate camp without the walls of the and ordered him to leap from the rock of the acro-
city. Matters thus seemed tending to an open polis. Timagoras, who was only a metoikos at
rupture, but a reconciliation was effected, principally | Athens, did as he was bid; but Meles, repenting
by the intervention of Eumenes, and it was agreed of his cruel command, likewise threw himself from
that the royal authority should be divided between the rock ; and the Athenians from that time are
Arrhidaeus and the expected son of Roxana, and said to have worshipped Anteros, as the avenger
that in the mean time Meleager should be asso- of Timagoras. (Paus. i.
5. 0. ); while among modern scholars, the former Odysseus. (Hom. Od. xviii. 321 ; Paus. * 25.
§ 1. )
view is held by Ulrici, Meineke, Welcker, and
Kayser
, and the latter by Elmsley, Böckh, Müller of Delphus, by Poseidon, who deceived her in the
2. A daughter of Deucalion, became the mother
and Clinton (comp. Elms, ad Eurip. Med. 96, with form of a dolphin. (Tzetz. ad Lyc. 208 ; 0v. Met.
Welcker, die Griech. Tragöd. p. 1029). The
vi. 120. )
(L. S. )
character given of Melanthius in the above extract,
his worthlessness as a poet, his voracious gluttony, Tyrrhenian pirates, who wanted to carry off young
MELANTHUS (Ménavõus). 1. One of the
his profligacy, and his personal offensiveness, is con-
firmed by several other passages of the comic poets Bacchus, but were metamorphosed into dolphins.
and other writers (Aristoph. Par, 999, Av. 152, and (Ov. Met. iii. 671, &c. )
2. One of the sons Laocoon. (Serv. ad Aen.
Schol. ; Archippus, ap. Athen. viii. p. 343 ; Athen.
i. p. 6, c. ). He was celebrated for his wit, of i. 211. ) In Lycophron (767) the name occurs as
a surname of Poseidon.
(L. S. )
which several specimens are preserved (Plut. de
MELANTHUS or MELANTHIUS (Ménav-
Aud. Poët. p. 20, c. , de Aud. p. 41, C, de Adul. et oos, Metávows), one of the Neleidae, and king of
Amic. p. 50, d. , Conjug. Praec. p. 144, b. , Sympos. Messenia, whence he was driven out by the Hera-
p. 631, d. , p. 633, d. ). Aristophanes has preserved cleidae on their conquest of the Peloponnesus,
the title and two lines, somewhat parodied, of one and, following the instructions of the Delphic
of his dramas, the Medea, for it is absurd to sup- oracle, took refuge in Attica. In a war between
pose the Medea of Euripides is meant (Pux, 999); the Athenians and Boeotians, Xanthus, the Boeo-
and Plutarch has more than once (De cohib. Ira; tian king, challenged Thymoetes, king of Athens
p. 453, f. , de sera Num. Vindict. p. 551, a. ) quoted and the last of the Theseidae, to single combat.
a line, in which Melanthius says that ó Juuds
Thymoetes declined the challenge on the ground of
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afterwards to disguise the violent change of dy- | 45. $ 4), went out to hunt the boar, which was
nasty; and Melanthus undertook it on condition killed by Meleager. Artemis, however, created a
of being rewarded with the throne in the event of dispute about the animal's head and skin among
He slew Xanthus, and became king, to the Calydonians and Curetes. Late writers re-
the exclusion of the line of 'Theseus. According present Atalante as taking part in this famous
to Pausanias, the conqueror of Xanthus was An- hunt ; but the huntsmen refused to go out with
dropompus, the father of Melanthus ; according to her, until Meleager, who loved her, prevailed upon
Aristotle, it was Codrus, his son. To the period them. According to Ovid (Met. viii. 380), Ata-
of the reign of Melanthus Pausanias refers the ex- lante inflicted the first wound upon the animal ;
pulsion of the Ionians from Aegialus by the while, according to others, Meleager first struck
Achaeans, and their settlement at Athens as a and killed it. He gave his prize, the boar's skin,
place of refuge. (Her. i. 147, v. 65; Paus. ii. 18, to Atalante, who was deprived of it by the sons of
iv. 5, vii. 1, 2 ; Strab. viii. p. 359, ix. p. 393, xiv. Thestius ; but Meleager slew them. (Apollod. (v.
p. 633; Con. Narr. 39; Aristot. Pol. v. 10, ed. ll. cc. ; Diod. iv. 34. ) During the war between
Bekk. ; Schol. ad Aristoph. Ach. 146, Pac. 855; the Calydonians and Curetes, the former were
Suid. s. v. 'Anatoúpia ; Dict. of Ant. s. v. 'Ana- always victorivus, so long as Meleager went out
τούρια. )
[E. E. ) with them. But on one occasion he killed his
MELAS (Méras. ) 1. A son of Poseidon by a mother's brothers ; and his mother pronounced a
nymph of Chios, and brother of Angelus. (Paus. curse upon him, in consequence of which he be-
vii. 4. & 6. )
came indignant, and stayed at home, so that the
2. One of the Tyrrhenian pirates mentioned victorious Curetes begun to press Calydon very
under Melanthus No. 1.
hard. It was in vain that the old men of the town
3. A son of Phrixus and Chalciope, was married made him the most brilliant promises if he would
to Eurycleia, by whom he became the father of again join in the fight, and also the entreaties of
Hyperes. (Apollod. i. 9. § 1; Apollon. Rhod. ii. his own friends remained without effect. At
1158 ; Schol. ad Pind. Pyth. iv. 221. )
length, however, he yielded to the prayers of his
4. A son of Porthaon and Euryte, and brother wife, Cleopatra: he put the Curetes to flight, but
of Oeneus. (Hom. Il. xiv. 117; Apollod. i. 7. $ never returned home, for the Erinnys, who had
10 ; comp. OeNeus and TYDEUS. )
heard the curse of his mother, overtook him. (Hom.
5. A son of Antassus, at Gonusa, near Sicyon. N. ix. 527—600; comp. ii. 641. ) The post-
He joined the Dorians on their march against Homeric accourt gives a different cause of his
Corinth. His services were at first declined, but death. When Meleager was seven days old, it is
he was afterwards allowed to fight in the ranks of said, the Moerae appeared, declaring that the boy
the Dorians. He was the ancestor of the family would die as soon as the piece of wood that was
of Cypselus. (Paus. ii. 4. & 4, v. 18. & 7, 20, in burning on the hearth should be consumed. When
fin.
)
Althaea heard this, she extinguished the firebrand,
There are three other mythical personages of and concealed it in a chest. Meleager himself be-
this name. (Paus, vii. 4. § 6, viii. 28. & 3; came invulnerable ; but after he had killed the
Apollod. ii. 7. & 7. )
(L. S. ] brothers of his mother, she lighted the piece of
MELEA'GER (Menéaypos), a son of Oeneus wood, and Meleager died, whereupon Althaea and
(whence he is called Oivetdns), and Althaea, the Cleopatra hung themselves. (Apollod. i. 8. § 2,
daughter of Thestius, and was married to Cleopatra, &c. ; Hygin. Fub. 171 ; Diod. iv. 34 ; Ov. Met.
by whom he became the father of Polydora. viii. 450, &c. , 531. ) The sisters of Meleager
(Apollod. i. 8. $ 2; Paus. iv. 2 in fin. ; Orph. wept unceasingly after his death, until Artemis
Argon. 157. ) Other accounts call Meleager a son changed them into guinea-hens (Med eaypides),
of Ares, by Althaea (Plut. Parall. Min. 26 ; Ov. who were transferred to the island of Leros. Even
Met. viii. 437 ; Hygin. Fab. 17? ); and Hyginus in this condition they moumed during a certain
calls Parthenopaeus a son of Meleager. (Fab. 99, part of the year for their brother. Two of them,
270. ) His brothers and sisters were Phereus or Gorge and Deianeira, through the mediation of
Thyreus, Agelaus, Toxeus, Periphas, Gorge, Eury- Dionysus, were not metamorphosed. (Anton. Lib.
mede, Deianeira, Melanippe. Meleager is one of 2; Ov. Met. viii. 532, &c. ; Apollod. i. 8. $ 3. )
the most famous Aetolian heroes of Calydon, and The story of Meleager, his hunt of the Calydonian
distinguished himself by his skill in throwing the boar, his contest with the sons of Thestius, and
javelin, as one of the Argonauts, and in the Caly- other scenes of his life, were frequently represented
donian hunt. Thus he gained the victory at the by ancient artists. (Paus. iii. 18. $ 9, viü. 45, $
ſuneral games of Acastus (Hygin. Fab. 273 ; 4. ) He usually appears as a robust hunter, with
Athen. iv. p. 172); and the spear with which he curly hair, the Aetolian chlamys, and a boar's head.
had slain the Calydonian boar he dedicated in the (Philostr. Icon. 15; comp. Welcker, Zeitschrift
temple of Apollo at Sicyon. (Paus. ii. 7. § 8. ) für die alte Kunst, p. 123, &c. ) (L. S. )
In the expedition of the Argonauts he was said in MELEAGER (Menéaypos). 1. Son of Neoptole-
some legends to have slain Aeetes in the contest for mus, a Macedonian officer of distinction in the service
the golden fleece. (Diod. iv. 48. ) While Mele- of Alexander the Great. He is first mentioned in
ager was at Calydon, Oeneus, the king of the the war against the Getae (B. C. 335); and at the
place, once neglected to offer up a sacrifice to Ar- passage of the Granicus in the following year, we
temis, whereupon the angry goddess sent a mon- find him commanding one of the divisions (táfeus)
strous boar into the fields of Calydon, which were of the phalanx, a post which he afterwards held ap-
ravaged by the beast, while no one had the courage parently throughout the campaigns in Asia He
to hunt it. At length Meleager, with a band of was appointed, together with Coenus and Ptoleny
other heroes, whose number and names are different the son of Seleucus, to command the newly-married
in the different accounts (Apollod. i. 8. $ 2; Ov. troops which were sent home from Caria to spend
let. viii. 300, &c. ; Hygin. Fab. 174 ; Paus. viii. | the winter in Macedonia, and rejoined Alexander at
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MELESIPPUS.
Gordium in the following summer (B. C. 333). We 2–4; Arrian, ap. Phot. p. 69, a. ; Diod. xvii.
afterwards find him present at the battles of Issus 2. )
and Arbela ; associated with Craterus in the im- 2. An ilarch or commander of a squadron of
portant task of dislodging the enemy who guarded cavalry in the army of Alexander at the battle of
the passes into Persia ; and again bearing a part in Arbela (Arrian, Anab. iii. 11; Curt. iv. 50. )
the passage of the Hydaspes, and in various other He is certainly distinct from the preceding, and
operations in India (Arrian, Anab. i. 4, 14, 20, 24, is probably the same person whom we afterwards
ii
. 8, iii. 11, 18, v. 12 ; Curt. iii
. 24, v. 14, vii. 27 ; find mentioned among the friends and adherents of
Diod. xvii. 57). But notwithstanding this long Pithon, who participated in his projects of revolt
series of services we do not learn that Alexander against Antigonus, B. C. 316. [Pituon. ) After
promoted him to any higher or more confidential the death of their leader, Melenger and Menoetas
situation, nor do we find him employed in any broke out into open insurrection, but were speedily
separate command of importance. Already, before defeated by Orontobates and Hippostratus, who
the king's death, Meleager had given evidence had been left by Antigonus in the government of
of an insolent and factious disposition, and these Media, and Meleager was slain in the battle.
qualities broke out in their full force during the dis- (Diod. xix. 47. )
cussions which ensued after the death of Alexander. 3. A son of Ptolemy Soter and Eurydice,
His conduct on that occasion is differently related. daughter of Antipater, succeeded his brother Pro-
According to Justin, he was the first to propose in lemy Ceraunus on the throne of Macedonia, after
the council of officers, that either Arrhidaeus or the latter had fallen in battle against the Gauls
Heracles the son of Barsine should at once be (B. C. 280); but was compelled by the Macedonian
chosen king, instead of waiting for the chance of troops to resign the crown, after a reign of only
Roxana bearing a son. Curtius, on the contrary, two months. (Euseb. Arm. pp. 156, 157, Dexippus,
represents him as breaking out into violent in- ap. Syncell. pp. 267, 270. ) His reign is omitted by
vectives against the ambition of Perdiccas, and Justin.
[E. H. B. )
abruptly quitting the assembly, in order to excite MELEA'GER (Menéaypos), son of Eucrates,
the soldiery to a tumult. Diodorus, again, states the celebrated writer and collector of epigrams,
that he was sent by the assembled generals to was a native of Gadara in Palestine, and lived
appease the clamours and discontent of the troops, about B. C. 60. There are 131 of his epigrams in
but instead of doing so he himself joined the the Greek Anthology, written in a good Greek
mutineers. In any case it is certain that Meleager style, though somewhat affected, and distinguished
early assumed the lead of the opposition to Perdic- by sophistic acumen and amatory fancy. (Brunck,
cas and his party ; and placed himself at the head of Anal. vol. i. pp. 1–38 ; Jacobs, Anth. (craec. vol.
the infantry, who had declared themselves (probably i: pp. 1–40, vol. xiii. pp. 639, 698, 915, 916;
at his instigation) in favour of the claims of Arrhi- Fabric
. Bibl. Graec. vol. iv. pp. 416—420. ) Be-
daeus to the vacant throne. Meleager even went 50 sides the various editions of the Greek Anthology,
far as to order the execution of Perdiccas, without there are separate editions of the epigrams of Me
any express authority from his puppet of a king ; leager, for which see Fabricius. An account of his
but this project was disconcerted by the boldness Etépavos, or collection of epigrams, is given under
of the regent: and the greater part of the cavalry, PLANUDES.
[P. S. )
together with almost all the generals, sided with MELES (Méans), an Athenian, who was be-
Perdiccas, and, quitting Babylon, established them- loved by Timagoras, but refused to listen to him,
selves in a separate camp without the walls of the and ordered him to leap from the rock of the acro-
city. Matters thus seemed tending to an open polis. Timagoras, who was only a metoikos at
rupture, but a reconciliation was effected, principally | Athens, did as he was bid; but Meles, repenting
by the intervention of Eumenes, and it was agreed of his cruel command, likewise threw himself from
that the royal authority should be divided between the rock ; and the Athenians from that time are
Arrhidaeus and the expected son of Roxana, and said to have worshipped Anteros, as the avenger
that in the mean time Meleager should be asso- of Timagoras. (Paus. i.
