Furius in a battle against Randeia, to
negotiate
a truce between Parthia and
the Aurunci, and was erected on the spot where Rome.
the Aurunci, and was erected on the spot where Rome.
William Smith - 1844 - Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities - b
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. )
[E. H. B. ]
MOMUS (Mwuos), a son of Nyx, is a personi- MONIMUS (Mórios), son of Pythion, a Ma-
fication of mockery and censure. (Hes. Theog. 214. ) cedonian officer, who espoused the cause of Olym-
Thus he is said to have censured in the man formed pias in her final struggle with Cassander, and was
by Hephaestus, that a little door had not been left one of the last who remained faithful to her ;
in his breast, so as to enable one to look into his finding himself unable to relieve her at Pydna, he
secret thoughts. (Lucian, Hermotim. 20. ) Aphro- withdrew to Pella, which city he held for a time,
dite alone was, according to him, blameless. (Phi- but surrendered it to Cassander after the fall of
lostr. Ep. 21. )
(L. S. ] Pydna, B. c. 316. (Diod. xix. 50. ) From an anec-
MONAESES (Movulons). 1. One of the most dote related by Phylarchus (ap. Athen. xiii. p. 609,
distinguished men in Parthia in the tinie of b), it appears that he had been attached to the
Antony, the triumvir, is spoken of in Vol. I. p. court of Olympias for some time. [E. H. B. )
357, a.
MO'NIUS. (MONUNIUS. }
2. A general of the Parthian king, Vologeses I. MONOBA'ZUS (Movóbaços), was king or
[See Vol. I. p. 358, b. ]
tetrarch of Adiabene in A. D. 63, when Tigranes
MONEʼTA, a surname of Juno among the Ro- king of Armenia, invaded his kingdom. Mono
mans, by which she was characterised as the probazus applied for aid to Vologeses, the Parthian
tectress of money. Under this name she had a monarch ; and the troops of Adiabene and Parthia
temple on the Capitoline, in which there was at entered Armenia, and invested its capital, Tigrano-
the same time the mint, just as the public treasury certa. Monobazus afterwards accompanied Volo-
was in the temple of Saturn. The temple had been geses to the camp of Corbulo (CORBULO) at
vowed by the dictator L.
Furius in a battle against Randeia, to negotiate a truce between Parthia and
the Aurunci, and was erected on the spot where Rome. The sons of Monobazus were in the suite
the house of M. Manlius Capitolinus had stood. of Tiridates on his visit to Nero in A. D. 66. (Tac.
(Liv. iv. 7, 20, vi. 20, vii. 28, xlii. 1 ; Ov. Fast. ann. xv. 1, 14; Dion Cass. lxii. 20, 23, Ixiii.
i. 638, vi. 183. ) Moneta signifies the mint, and 1. )
[W'. B. D. ]
such a surname cannot be surprising, as we learn MONOECUS (Móvoikos), a surname of Hera-
from St. Augustin (De Civ. Dei
, vii. 11), that cles, signifying the god who lives solitary, perhaps
Jupiter bore the surname of Pecunia; but some because he alone was worshipped in the temples
writers found such a meaning too plain, and Livius dedicated to him. (Strab. iv. p. 202 ; Virg. Aen.
Andronicus, in the beginning of his translation of vi. 831 ; Plut. Quaest. Rom. 87. ) In Liguria
the Odyssey, used Moneta as a translation of Mvn there was a temple called Monoecus (now Monaco;
mooúrm, and thus made her the mother of the Strab. Virg. I. cc. ; Tacit. Hist. üi. 42 ; Steph.
Muses or Camenae. (Comp. Hygin. Fab. Praef. ) | Byz. s. v. ).
[I. . S. )
Cicero (de Dir. i. 45, ii. 32) relates an etymologi- MONTANUS, ALPI’NUS. (ALPINUS. ]
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MONUNIUS.
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MORSIMUS.
MONTANUS, ATTICI'NUS, legatus in Tra- | Prolog. xxiv), is only another corruption of the
jan's reign to Lustricus Bruttianus (Mart. iv. 22), same name, perhaps that of an ancestor of the
was accused by him of various misdemeanours, and preceding. (See Droysen, Hellenism. vol. ii. p.
of destroying the evidence which had been collected 171. )
(E. H. B. ]
to prove them. Montanus brought against his MO'NYCHUS, a centaur who is mentioned by
accuser a counter-charge of malversation in his pro-Ovid (Met. xii. 499) and Valerius Flaccus (i.
vince. But it completely failed, and Trajan, who 145).
(L. S. ]
presided in person at the trial, condemned Mon- MOPSUS (Móvos). ). A son of Ampyx or
tanus to banishment. (Plin. Ep. vi. 22. ) (W. B. D. ) Ampycus by the nymph Chloris ; and, because he
MONTA’NUS, CU’RTIUS, was accused by was a secr, he is also called a son of Apollo by
Eprius Marcellus in A. D. 67 of libelling Nero. Himantis. (Iles. Scut. Herc. 181 ; Val. Flac. i.
The charge was disproved, but Montanus was ex- 384 ; Stat. Theb. iii. 521 ; comp. Orph. Arq. 127. )
iled. At his father's petition, however, he was He was one of the Lapithae of Oechalia or 'l'itaeron
shortly afterwards recalled, on condition of abstain- (Thessaly), and one of the Calydonian hunters.
ing from all public employments. In a. D. 71 ile is also mentioned among the combatants at the
Montanus was present in the senate, and, on Do-wedding of Peirithous, and was a famous prophet
mitian's moving the restoration of Galba's titles among the Argonauts. He was represented on
and statues, he proposed that the decree against the chest of Cypselus. (Pind. Pyle iv. 336 ;
Piso also should be rescinded. At the same time Apollon. Rhod. i. 65 ; Hygin. Fab. 14; Ov. Met.
Montanus vehemently attacked the notorious de-viii. 316, xii. 456 ; Paus. 1. 17. & 4 ; Strab. ix.
dator, Aquilius Regulus. (Tac. Ann. xvi. 28, 29, p. 443. ) lle is said to have died in Libya by the
33, Hist. iv. 40, 42, 43. ) If the same person bite of a snake, and to have been buried there by
with the Curtius Montanus satirised by Juvenal the Argonauts. He was afterwards worshipped as
(iv. 107, 131, xi. 34), Montanus in later life sul- an oracular hero. (Apollon. Rhod. i. 80, iv.
lied the fair reputation he enjoyed in youth. (Tac. 1518, &c. ; Tzetz, ad Lyc. 881. )
Ann. xvi. 28. ) For Juvenal (ll. cc. ) describes him 2. A son of Apollo (or according to Paus. vii. 3.
as a corpulent epicure, a parasite of Domitian, and $ 2, of Rhacius) and Manto, the daughter of Teire-
a hacknied declaimer. Pliny the Younger addressed sias. He was believed to be the founder of Mallos
two letters to Curtius Montanus (vii. 29, viii. in Asia Minor, where his oracle existed as late as
6. )
(W. B. D. ] the time of Strabo (xiv. p. 675; comp. Plut. de
MONTA'NUS, JUʻLIUS, a versifier of some Def. Orac. 45 ; Conon, Narrat. 6). (L. S. ]
repute in the reign of Tiberius, and one of the MORCUS (Mópkos), an Illyrian, who, in B c.
emperor's private friends. He is cited by Seneca 168, was sent by Gentius, king of the Illyrians, to
the rhetorician (Contr. 16), and by Seneca the receive the hostages and the money which Perseus,
philosopher (Ep. 122). (Ovid. Ep. ex Pont. iv. king of Macedonia, had engaged to give him as the
16. 11.
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. )
[E. H. B. ]
MOMUS (Mwuos), a son of Nyx, is a personi- MONIMUS (Mórios), son of Pythion, a Ma-
fication of mockery and censure. (Hes. Theog. 214. ) cedonian officer, who espoused the cause of Olym-
Thus he is said to have censured in the man formed pias in her final struggle with Cassander, and was
by Hephaestus, that a little door had not been left one of the last who remained faithful to her ;
in his breast, so as to enable one to look into his finding himself unable to relieve her at Pydna, he
secret thoughts. (Lucian, Hermotim. 20. ) Aphro- withdrew to Pella, which city he held for a time,
dite alone was, according to him, blameless. (Phi- but surrendered it to Cassander after the fall of
lostr. Ep. 21. )
(L. S. ] Pydna, B. c. 316. (Diod. xix. 50. ) From an anec-
MONAESES (Movulons). 1. One of the most dote related by Phylarchus (ap. Athen. xiii. p. 609,
distinguished men in Parthia in the tinie of b), it appears that he had been attached to the
Antony, the triumvir, is spoken of in Vol. I. p. court of Olympias for some time. [E. H. B. )
357, a.
MO'NIUS. (MONUNIUS. }
2. A general of the Parthian king, Vologeses I. MONOBA'ZUS (Movóbaços), was king or
[See Vol. I. p. 358, b. ]
tetrarch of Adiabene in A. D. 63, when Tigranes
MONEʼTA, a surname of Juno among the Ro- king of Armenia, invaded his kingdom. Mono
mans, by which she was characterised as the probazus applied for aid to Vologeses, the Parthian
tectress of money. Under this name she had a monarch ; and the troops of Adiabene and Parthia
temple on the Capitoline, in which there was at entered Armenia, and invested its capital, Tigrano-
the same time the mint, just as the public treasury certa. Monobazus afterwards accompanied Volo-
was in the temple of Saturn. The temple had been geses to the camp of Corbulo (CORBULO) at
vowed by the dictator L.
Furius in a battle against Randeia, to negotiate a truce between Parthia and
the Aurunci, and was erected on the spot where Rome. The sons of Monobazus were in the suite
the house of M. Manlius Capitolinus had stood. of Tiridates on his visit to Nero in A. D. 66. (Tac.
(Liv. iv. 7, 20, vi. 20, vii. 28, xlii. 1 ; Ov. Fast. ann. xv. 1, 14; Dion Cass. lxii. 20, 23, Ixiii.
i. 638, vi. 183. ) Moneta signifies the mint, and 1. )
[W'. B. D. ]
such a surname cannot be surprising, as we learn MONOECUS (Móvoikos), a surname of Hera-
from St. Augustin (De Civ. Dei
, vii. 11), that cles, signifying the god who lives solitary, perhaps
Jupiter bore the surname of Pecunia; but some because he alone was worshipped in the temples
writers found such a meaning too plain, and Livius dedicated to him. (Strab. iv. p. 202 ; Virg. Aen.
Andronicus, in the beginning of his translation of vi. 831 ; Plut. Quaest. Rom. 87. ) In Liguria
the Odyssey, used Moneta as a translation of Mvn there was a temple called Monoecus (now Monaco;
mooúrm, and thus made her the mother of the Strab. Virg. I. cc. ; Tacit. Hist. üi. 42 ; Steph.
Muses or Camenae. (Comp. Hygin. Fab. Praef. ) | Byz. s. v. ).
[I. . S. )
Cicero (de Dir. i. 45, ii. 32) relates an etymologi- MONTANUS, ALPI’NUS. (ALPINUS. ]
16.
but
ing
der
Tec
Ne
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(1
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MONUNIUS.
1113
MORSIMUS.
MONTANUS, ATTICI'NUS, legatus in Tra- | Prolog. xxiv), is only another corruption of the
jan's reign to Lustricus Bruttianus (Mart. iv. 22), same name, perhaps that of an ancestor of the
was accused by him of various misdemeanours, and preceding. (See Droysen, Hellenism. vol. ii. p.
of destroying the evidence which had been collected 171. )
(E. H. B. ]
to prove them. Montanus brought against his MO'NYCHUS, a centaur who is mentioned by
accuser a counter-charge of malversation in his pro-Ovid (Met. xii. 499) and Valerius Flaccus (i.
vince. But it completely failed, and Trajan, who 145).
(L. S. ]
presided in person at the trial, condemned Mon- MOPSUS (Móvos). ). A son of Ampyx or
tanus to banishment. (Plin. Ep. vi. 22. ) (W. B. D. ) Ampycus by the nymph Chloris ; and, because he
MONTA’NUS, CU’RTIUS, was accused by was a secr, he is also called a son of Apollo by
Eprius Marcellus in A. D. 67 of libelling Nero. Himantis. (Iles. Scut. Herc. 181 ; Val. Flac. i.
The charge was disproved, but Montanus was ex- 384 ; Stat. Theb. iii. 521 ; comp. Orph. Arq. 127. )
iled. At his father's petition, however, he was He was one of the Lapithae of Oechalia or 'l'itaeron
shortly afterwards recalled, on condition of abstain- (Thessaly), and one of the Calydonian hunters.
ing from all public employments. In a. D. 71 ile is also mentioned among the combatants at the
Montanus was present in the senate, and, on Do-wedding of Peirithous, and was a famous prophet
mitian's moving the restoration of Galba's titles among the Argonauts. He was represented on
and statues, he proposed that the decree against the chest of Cypselus. (Pind. Pyle iv. 336 ;
Piso also should be rescinded. At the same time Apollon. Rhod. i. 65 ; Hygin. Fab. 14; Ov. Met.
Montanus vehemently attacked the notorious de-viii. 316, xii. 456 ; Paus. 1. 17. & 4 ; Strab. ix.
dator, Aquilius Regulus. (Tac. Ann. xvi. 28, 29, p. 443. ) lle is said to have died in Libya by the
33, Hist. iv. 40, 42, 43. ) If the same person bite of a snake, and to have been buried there by
with the Curtius Montanus satirised by Juvenal the Argonauts. He was afterwards worshipped as
(iv. 107, 131, xi. 34), Montanus in later life sul- an oracular hero. (Apollon. Rhod. i. 80, iv.
lied the fair reputation he enjoyed in youth. (Tac. 1518, &c. ; Tzetz, ad Lyc. 881. )
Ann. xvi. 28. ) For Juvenal (ll. cc. ) describes him 2. A son of Apollo (or according to Paus. vii. 3.
as a corpulent epicure, a parasite of Domitian, and $ 2, of Rhacius) and Manto, the daughter of Teire-
a hacknied declaimer. Pliny the Younger addressed sias. He was believed to be the founder of Mallos
two letters to Curtius Montanus (vii. 29, viii. in Asia Minor, where his oracle existed as late as
6. )
(W. B. D. ] the time of Strabo (xiv. p. 675; comp. Plut. de
MONTA'NUS, JUʻLIUS, a versifier of some Def. Orac. 45 ; Conon, Narrat. 6). (L. S. ]
repute in the reign of Tiberius, and one of the MORCUS (Mópkos), an Illyrian, who, in B c.
emperor's private friends. He is cited by Seneca 168, was sent by Gentius, king of the Illyrians, to
the rhetorician (Contr. 16), and by Seneca the receive the hostages and the money which Perseus,
philosopher (Ep. 122). (Ovid. Ep. ex Pont. iv. king of Macedonia, had engaged to give him as the
16. 11.
