)
Megabazus
in his oration for Scaurus (c.
William Smith - 1844 - Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities - b
B.
D.
)
2. Sp. Furius MEDULLINUS Fusus, was consul MEDULLINUS, MAENIUS. (MAERIUS,
in B. c. 481. Livy says that his consulate was No. 8. )
occupied by tribunitian dissensions, and an inroad MEDUS (Mņdos), a son of Medeia and Jason.
into the territory of Veii (ii. 43). Dionysius re- (See Medeia and MEDEIUS) A second person-
presents him as a popular consul (STMÓTIKOS), and age of the same name is mentioned by Plutarch.
assigns him a successful campaign against the (De Fluv. 24. )
(L. S. )
Aequians (ix. 1, 2).
MEDU'SA (Médovoa). 1. A daughter of Phor
3
!
2, he was
in very unfavourable sens det
Tepresents as one of the
counsels the most reprezece di
Lexander were to be ascribed as
24). But no trace of this bx
etter anthonties.
rath of Alexander, Medus pirma
Antigonus, whose feet me bad is
in B. C. 314, when he defesa al
r ships of the Prdnaears who be
party of Cassander (Diod mi ni
& Fear (313) be took Vietas ar
lieved the city of Crees in Indian
sieged by Cassander bizse'l Dia
despatched by dearen
of 150 ships, to make a desert i
landed a large and in Brests més
ifter which he returned to Asas
ith Antigonus himself
, at de
1). In 306 we find bin presenta
-fight off Salamis in Crores se atat
commanded the left wing to chosen
18 (Id. xr. 50). It appears as
vjed Antigopus on his unsucessus
ainst Egypt in the same rez/P
), but after this we bear no para
ity is cited by Strabo (si aid? !
it would lead us to concide
historical work, but we
him as a writer, Tbe Vas 11
Lucian (MacrobII) concerning de
us Gonatas, must enidend'o are her
erson, and one otherwise ankorzy
brandri 11. Histor. Sroputeres, f *
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US(M8108), a Greek physicis vid sa
Chrysippus of Cnidos (Goleadores
Sect. c. 2, vol. IL PA 191, 29, ax'n
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1006
MEGABAZUS.
MEGACLEIDES.
izpertant
Herzcies.
Demosthea
Calippus.
Deep tra
br. 2. 12
MEGA
brother of
is-ar of
bet be ice
the 1920
to abene
pealed to
became
to
cys and Ceto, and one of the Gorgong [GOR- / xii. 3. ) [Cimon. ) When the Athenians made
GONES, PERSEUS. ]
their expedition against Egypt, Megabyzus was
2. A danghter of Sthenelus and Nicippe, and a sent against them with a large army; and having
sister of Eurystheus. (Apollod. i. 4. § 5. ) driven them out of Memphis, he shut them up in
3. A daughter of Priam. (Apollod. iii. 12. $5; the island of Prosopitis, which he at last took,
Paus. x. 26. S 1. )
[L. S. ] after a siege of eighteen months, B. C. 457. (Herod.
MEGABA/TES (Mezafarms. ) 1. A Persian of iii. 160; Thuc. i 109 ; Diod. xi. 74. S 6. )
the royal family of the Achaemenidae, cousin of Ctesias informs us that he was the son-in-law of
Dareius and of Artaphernes, was appointed by the Xerxes, having married his daughter Amytis ;
latter to the command of the expedition sent to and he ascribes to Megabyzus the service which
assist Aristagoras in the reduction of Naxos ; but, Herodotus attributes to Zopyrus, namely, the
in consequence of a quarrel with Aristagoras, Me taking of Babylon, after its revolt from Xerxes.
gabates betrayed the object of the expedition to the (Pers. 22 ; Diod. x. 17. § 2; comp. Herod. iii.
Naxians, who, thus forewarned, defended them-153. ) Several other incidents of his life are re-
belves successfully. (Herod. v. 32–34. ) Accord-lated by Ctesias. (Pers. 27, 30, 33—40. ) Two
ing to Herodotus, Pausanias designed to marry the sons of his are mentioned, Zopyrus and Artyphius.
daughter of Megabates ; but the letter of Pausanias (Ctes. 37 ; Herod. iii. 160. ) He is always called
to Xerxes, as given by Thucydides (i. 128), con- Meyásucos, except in a quotation from Ciesias by
tains an offer to marry the daughter of the king Stephanus (s. v. Kupraia), who gives the name in
himself.
the form Meyábaços: but even in this passage
2. In the narrative just quoted Thucydides Westermann has printed it Meydbucos.
mentions Megabates, governor of Dascylitis, who 3. Megabazus, the son of Megabates, one of the
is perhaps the same person (c. 129).
commanders of the fleet of Xerxes. (Herod. vii.
3. See MEGABAZUS, No. 5.
[P. S. ) 97. ) Diodorus calls him Megabates (xi. 12, 13).
MEGABA'ZUS (Meyábacos), and MEGA- Perhaps he was the same person as
BY'ZUS (Megabucos), are Persian names, which 4. Megabazus, a Persian, who, at the time
are so intermixed by Herodotus, Ctesias, and other of the revolt of Inarus and the Athenian expedi-
writers, as to make it nearly certain that they are tion to Egypt, was sent by Artaxerxes to Lace-
only different forms of the same name. Thucy- daemon, to bribe the Peloponnesians to invade At-
dides, however, applies the names respectively to tica ; but his mission altogether failed. (Thuc. i.
two different persons (i. 109); but this is not a 109. )
certain proof that the names were really different. 5. The son of Spithridates, was beloved by
For a further discussion of the two forms, see Agesilaus. (Xen. Hell. i. 4. & 28, Ages. 5; Plut.
Duker and Poppo, ad Thucyd. I. c. ; Hemsterh. ad Ages. 11, Apopth. Lacon. p. 787 ; in which pas-
Lucian. Tim. 22; Perizon. ad Aelian, V. H. ii. 2; sages the name varies between Merábacos, Megá-
Dorvill. ad Charit. p. 472 (pp. 446, 447, orig. ed. ) | Bucos, Meyasárns, and Megabhios. )
Aeschylus (Pers. 22) gives the form Meyabácns, 6. The priest or keeper (veckopos) of the temple
and Xenophon confounds Meyábacos and Mega- of Artemis at Ephesus. (Xen. Anab. v. 3. &S 6,
bátns. (See below, No. 5. ]
7. ) It appears from Strabo (xiv. p. 641) that the
1. One of the seven Persian nobles who formed Megabyzi, or, as he calls them, the Megalobyzi,
the conspiracy against the Magian Smerdis, B. C. were eunuch priests in the temple of Artemis.
521. In the discussion put into the mouths of the Another of these priests is mentioned by Appian
conspirators by Herodotus, after the death of the (B. C. v. 9) as having incurred the anger of Cleo-
Magian, Megabazus recommends an oligarchical patra.
[P. S. ]
form of government. (Herod. iii. 70, 81. ) Da- MEGABERNES (Meya6épvns), a grandson of
reius, who held him in the highest esteem, left him Astyages, according to the account of Ctesias.
behind with an army in Europe, when he himself (Pers. 2, 8. )
[P. S. )
recrossed the Hellespont, on his return from Scy- MEGABOCCHUS, C. is mentioned by Cicero
thia, B. c. 506. (Id. iv. 143, 144.
) Megabazus in his oration for Scaurus (c. 2. $ 40) as condemned
subdued Perinthus and the other cities on the along with T. Albucius on account of his crimes in
Hellespont and along the coast of Thrace, which the government of Sardinia. He is, perhaps, the
had not yet submitted to the Persian rule, and same as the Megabacchus who perished along with
removed the Paeonians, who dwelt about the Crassus in the expedition against the Parthians
Strymon, into Phrygia. (Id. v. 1-16, comp. 98. ) (Plut. Crass. 25). The Magabocchus spoken of
He also sent to Amyntas, the king of Macedonia, by Cicero, in one of his letters (ad Att. ii. 7. & 3),
and demanded earth and water, in token of his is supposed by Manutius and others to be a nick-
submission to Dareius. (For what followed see name given to Pompey on account of his victories
Alexander I. Vol. I. p. 118. ] On his return to in the war between Sulla and the Marian party,
Sardis he advised Dareius to recall Histiaeus from and this supposition is also maintained by Dru-
Myrcinus. (HISTIAEUS. ) Herodotus mentions a mann (Gesch. Roms, vol. vi. p. 44). But as there
celebrated saying of his in praise of the situation of was evidently a Roman at that time of the name
Byzantium (iv. 144). He was the father of Zo- of Megabocchus, and Cicero in the letter referred
Pyrus. Id. iii. 153. ) Xenophon (Cyrop. viii. 6. to speaks of “ Megabocchus et haec sanguinaria
$7) mentions a Megabyzus who was appointed by juventus," the opinion of Gronovius appears the
Cyrus as satrap of Arabia.
more probable, that this Megabocchus was one of
2. Megabyzus, the son of Zopyrus, and grand- the reputed conspirators of Catiline ; and he may,
son of the above, was one of the commanders of therefore, bave been the same as the one mentioned
the land forces in the expedition of Xerxes against in the oration for Scaurus, and by Plutarch.
Greece, B. C. 480. (Herod. vii. 82. ) Megabyzus MEGABY'ZUS. (MEGABAZUS. ]
was the commander of the army which Cimon de- MEGACLEIDES (Meyakacións). 1. A Greek
feated on the Eurymedon, in B. C. 466. (Diod. writer, from whom Athenaeus bas quoted some
fight front
afterward
Sus
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trumpal
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MEGAREUS.
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When the Atherizas aude
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09; Diod. zi. i* &!
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after its report from leak
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incidents of his life 27
Pers 37, 30, 33-11) In
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: bot even in this post
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Persian, who atte
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important remarks respecting the mythology of | into prison till they should find security for a fine
Heracles. (Athen. xii. p. 512, 513. )
of twenty talents, but Megaleas was released on the
2. A native of Eleusis, brought forward by bail of Leontius, who had contrived to escape in
Demosthenes as a witness in his speech against the tumult for which his accomplices were punished.
Callippus. He had had a dispute about some in the same year (218) Megaleas and Leontius
money transactions with Lycon. (Dem. in Cal- excited a mutiny at Corinth among the troops of
lipp. p. 1241, ed. Reiske. ) (C. P. M. ] Philip. It was soon quelled ; and, though the
ME'GACLES (Meyaklñs). 1. A Syracusan, king knew who had been the authors of it, he dis
brother of Dion the son of Hipparinus, and brother- sembled his knowledge, and Megalcas and his chief
in-law of the elder Dionysius, to whose govern- accomplices were still holding high military rank
ment he lent his support, and on one occasion when when Apelles returned to court from Chalcis. The
the tyrant was inclined to despair, urged him not reception, however, of the latter proved that he had
to abandon the sovereignty until absolutely com- quite lost his master's confidence, and Megaleas fled
pelled to do so (Diod. xx. 78 ; but see Wesselings in alarm to Athens ; and being refused refuge
note). He, however, in common with his brother, there, betook himself to Thebes. Here he con-
became discontented at the government of the tinued his impotent and rancorous course of treason
younger Dionysius, and accompanied Dion in his by writing letters to the Aetolians, filled with
flight from Syracuse, B. C. 358 (Diod. xvi. 6). He abuse of Philip, and with strong exhortations to
afterwards also took part with him in his expedition them to persevere in the war against him, as his
to Sicily, and when Dion made himself master finances were exhausted. The letters were inter-
of Syracuse, Megacles accompanied him on his cepted and brought to the king, who thereupon
triumphal entry into the city, and was associated despatched ALEXANDER (Vol. I. p. 112] to Thebes,
with him in the chief command (Plut. Dion, 28, to sue Megaleas for the amount of his fine ; and the
29). But from this period his name is not again traitor, not venturing to abide the issue of the
mentioned.
trial, put an end to his own life. (Pol. iv, 87, v.
2. An officer in the service of Pyrrhus, who | 2, 14-16, 25—28. )
[E. E. )
accompanied that monarch on his expedition to MEGALO'STRATA (Meyadootpáta), a Lace-
Italy, B. C. 280. He is mentioned as accompanying daemonian poetess, beloved by Alcman, the follow-
Pyrrhus when he reconnoitered the Roman camping fragment from whom contains all that is known
previous to the battle of Heracleia ; and in that of her :
action was the means of saving the king's life, by
Τούθ' αδεάν Μωσαν έδειξε
exchanging armour with him, and thus directing
δωρον μάκαιρα παρθένων
the efforts of the assailants upon himself, instead
α ξανθα Μεγαλοστράτα.
of Pyrrhus. He fell a victim to his devotion, (Alcman, Fr. ap. Ath. xiii. p. 600. f. , No. 27 in
being slain by a Roman named Decius. (Plut. Welcker, 18 in Schneidewin's Delect. Poes. Graec. ,
Pyrrh. 16, 17; Zonar. vii. 3. ) TE. H. B. ] 21 in Bergk's Poet. Lyr. Graec. ) [P. S. ]
MEÄGACLES (Meyakañs). 1. A name borne MEGAME'DE (Megauńon), a daughter of Ar-
by several of the Athenian family of the Alcmaeo naeus, and the wife of Thestius, by whom she be-
nidae. They are enumerated in the genealogical came the mother of fifty daughters. (Apollod. ii.
table of that family in Vol. I. p. 105; and what is 4. § 10. )
(L. S. ]
known respecting those of any historical import- MEGANEIRA (Meyáverpa). 1. A daughter
ance will be found in the articles Cylon, Peisis- of Crocon, and the wife of Arcas. (Apollod. iii.
TRATUS, ALCIBIADES, &c. , which are referred to in | 9. $ 1; comp. Arcas. )
the article ALCNAEONIDAE.
2. The wife of Celeus. (Paus. i. 39. § 1 ; comp.
2. A native of Mytilene, who, with the assist- METANEIRA. )
(L. S. )
ance of his friends, overthrew the Penthalidae, a MEGAPENTHES (Meyanévons). i. A son
muling family in Mytilene. (Arist. Pol. v. 10. p. of Proetus, was king of Argos, and father of Anaxa-
1311, ed. Bekker. )
goras and Iphianeira. (Paus. ii.
2. Sp. Furius MEDULLINUS Fusus, was consul MEDULLINUS, MAENIUS. (MAERIUS,
in B. c. 481. Livy says that his consulate was No. 8. )
occupied by tribunitian dissensions, and an inroad MEDUS (Mņdos), a son of Medeia and Jason.
into the territory of Veii (ii. 43). Dionysius re- (See Medeia and MEDEIUS) A second person-
presents him as a popular consul (STMÓTIKOS), and age of the same name is mentioned by Plutarch.
assigns him a successful campaign against the (De Fluv. 24. )
(L. S. )
Aequians (ix. 1, 2).
MEDU'SA (Médovoa). 1. A daughter of Phor
3
!
2, he was
in very unfavourable sens det
Tepresents as one of the
counsels the most reprezece di
Lexander were to be ascribed as
24). But no trace of this bx
etter anthonties.
rath of Alexander, Medus pirma
Antigonus, whose feet me bad is
in B. C. 314, when he defesa al
r ships of the Prdnaears who be
party of Cassander (Diod mi ni
& Fear (313) be took Vietas ar
lieved the city of Crees in Indian
sieged by Cassander bizse'l Dia
despatched by dearen
of 150 ships, to make a desert i
landed a large and in Brests més
ifter which he returned to Asas
ith Antigonus himself
, at de
1). In 306 we find bin presenta
-fight off Salamis in Crores se atat
commanded the left wing to chosen
18 (Id. xr. 50). It appears as
vjed Antigopus on his unsucessus
ainst Egypt in the same rez/P
), but after this we bear no para
ity is cited by Strabo (si aid? !
it would lead us to concide
historical work, but we
him as a writer, Tbe Vas 11
Lucian (MacrobII) concerning de
us Gonatas, must enidend'o are her
erson, and one otherwise ankorzy
brandri 11. Histor. Sroputeres, f *
EHB
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US(M8108), a Greek physicis vid sa
Chrysippus of Cnidos (Goleadores
Sect. c. 2, vol. IL PA 191, 29, ax'n
refore probably in the fourth 22:20
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1006
MEGABAZUS.
MEGACLEIDES.
izpertant
Herzcies.
Demosthea
Calippus.
Deep tra
br. 2. 12
MEGA
brother of
is-ar of
bet be ice
the 1920
to abene
pealed to
became
to
cys and Ceto, and one of the Gorgong [GOR- / xii. 3. ) [Cimon. ) When the Athenians made
GONES, PERSEUS. ]
their expedition against Egypt, Megabyzus was
2. A danghter of Sthenelus and Nicippe, and a sent against them with a large army; and having
sister of Eurystheus. (Apollod. i. 4. § 5. ) driven them out of Memphis, he shut them up in
3. A daughter of Priam. (Apollod. iii. 12. $5; the island of Prosopitis, which he at last took,
Paus. x. 26. S 1. )
[L. S. ] after a siege of eighteen months, B. C. 457. (Herod.
MEGABA/TES (Mezafarms. ) 1. A Persian of iii. 160; Thuc. i 109 ; Diod. xi. 74. S 6. )
the royal family of the Achaemenidae, cousin of Ctesias informs us that he was the son-in-law of
Dareius and of Artaphernes, was appointed by the Xerxes, having married his daughter Amytis ;
latter to the command of the expedition sent to and he ascribes to Megabyzus the service which
assist Aristagoras in the reduction of Naxos ; but, Herodotus attributes to Zopyrus, namely, the
in consequence of a quarrel with Aristagoras, Me taking of Babylon, after its revolt from Xerxes.
gabates betrayed the object of the expedition to the (Pers. 22 ; Diod. x. 17. § 2; comp. Herod. iii.
Naxians, who, thus forewarned, defended them-153. ) Several other incidents of his life are re-
belves successfully. (Herod. v. 32–34. ) Accord-lated by Ctesias. (Pers. 27, 30, 33—40. ) Two
ing to Herodotus, Pausanias designed to marry the sons of his are mentioned, Zopyrus and Artyphius.
daughter of Megabates ; but the letter of Pausanias (Ctes. 37 ; Herod. iii. 160. ) He is always called
to Xerxes, as given by Thucydides (i. 128), con- Meyásucos, except in a quotation from Ciesias by
tains an offer to marry the daughter of the king Stephanus (s. v. Kupraia), who gives the name in
himself.
the form Meyábaços: but even in this passage
2. In the narrative just quoted Thucydides Westermann has printed it Meydbucos.
mentions Megabates, governor of Dascylitis, who 3. Megabazus, the son of Megabates, one of the
is perhaps the same person (c. 129).
commanders of the fleet of Xerxes. (Herod. vii.
3. See MEGABAZUS, No. 5.
[P. S. ) 97. ) Diodorus calls him Megabates (xi. 12, 13).
MEGABA'ZUS (Meyábacos), and MEGA- Perhaps he was the same person as
BY'ZUS (Megabucos), are Persian names, which 4. Megabazus, a Persian, who, at the time
are so intermixed by Herodotus, Ctesias, and other of the revolt of Inarus and the Athenian expedi-
writers, as to make it nearly certain that they are tion to Egypt, was sent by Artaxerxes to Lace-
only different forms of the same name. Thucy- daemon, to bribe the Peloponnesians to invade At-
dides, however, applies the names respectively to tica ; but his mission altogether failed. (Thuc. i.
two different persons (i. 109); but this is not a 109. )
certain proof that the names were really different. 5. The son of Spithridates, was beloved by
For a further discussion of the two forms, see Agesilaus. (Xen. Hell. i. 4. & 28, Ages. 5; Plut.
Duker and Poppo, ad Thucyd. I. c. ; Hemsterh. ad Ages. 11, Apopth. Lacon. p. 787 ; in which pas-
Lucian. Tim. 22; Perizon. ad Aelian, V. H. ii. 2; sages the name varies between Merábacos, Megá-
Dorvill. ad Charit. p. 472 (pp. 446, 447, orig. ed. ) | Bucos, Meyasárns, and Megabhios. )
Aeschylus (Pers. 22) gives the form Meyabácns, 6. The priest or keeper (veckopos) of the temple
and Xenophon confounds Meyábacos and Mega- of Artemis at Ephesus. (Xen. Anab. v. 3. &S 6,
bátns. (See below, No. 5. ]
7. ) It appears from Strabo (xiv. p. 641) that the
1. One of the seven Persian nobles who formed Megabyzi, or, as he calls them, the Megalobyzi,
the conspiracy against the Magian Smerdis, B. C. were eunuch priests in the temple of Artemis.
521. In the discussion put into the mouths of the Another of these priests is mentioned by Appian
conspirators by Herodotus, after the death of the (B. C. v. 9) as having incurred the anger of Cleo-
Magian, Megabazus recommends an oligarchical patra.
[P. S. ]
form of government. (Herod. iii. 70, 81. ) Da- MEGABERNES (Meya6épvns), a grandson of
reius, who held him in the highest esteem, left him Astyages, according to the account of Ctesias.
behind with an army in Europe, when he himself (Pers. 2, 8. )
[P. S. )
recrossed the Hellespont, on his return from Scy- MEGABOCCHUS, C. is mentioned by Cicero
thia, B. c. 506. (Id. iv. 143, 144.
) Megabazus in his oration for Scaurus (c. 2. $ 40) as condemned
subdued Perinthus and the other cities on the along with T. Albucius on account of his crimes in
Hellespont and along the coast of Thrace, which the government of Sardinia. He is, perhaps, the
had not yet submitted to the Persian rule, and same as the Megabacchus who perished along with
removed the Paeonians, who dwelt about the Crassus in the expedition against the Parthians
Strymon, into Phrygia. (Id. v. 1-16, comp. 98. ) (Plut. Crass. 25). The Magabocchus spoken of
He also sent to Amyntas, the king of Macedonia, by Cicero, in one of his letters (ad Att. ii. 7. & 3),
and demanded earth and water, in token of his is supposed by Manutius and others to be a nick-
submission to Dareius. (For what followed see name given to Pompey on account of his victories
Alexander I. Vol. I. p. 118. ] On his return to in the war between Sulla and the Marian party,
Sardis he advised Dareius to recall Histiaeus from and this supposition is also maintained by Dru-
Myrcinus. (HISTIAEUS. ) Herodotus mentions a mann (Gesch. Roms, vol. vi. p. 44). But as there
celebrated saying of his in praise of the situation of was evidently a Roman at that time of the name
Byzantium (iv. 144). He was the father of Zo- of Megabocchus, and Cicero in the letter referred
Pyrus. Id. iii. 153. ) Xenophon (Cyrop. viii. 6. to speaks of “ Megabocchus et haec sanguinaria
$7) mentions a Megabyzus who was appointed by juventus," the opinion of Gronovius appears the
Cyrus as satrap of Arabia.
more probable, that this Megabocchus was one of
2. Megabyzus, the son of Zopyrus, and grand- the reputed conspirators of Catiline ; and he may,
son of the above, was one of the commanders of therefore, bave been the same as the one mentioned
the land forces in the expedition of Xerxes against in the oration for Scaurus, and by Plutarch.
Greece, B. C. 480. (Herod. vii. 82. ) Megabyzus MEGABY'ZUS. (MEGABAZUS. ]
was the commander of the army which Cimon de- MEGACLEIDES (Meyakacións). 1. A Greek
feated on the Eurymedon, in B. C. 466. (Diod. writer, from whom Athenaeus bas quoted some
fight front
afterward
Sus
de Sprac
trumpal
wita bine
29). BC
Dentiche
2. An
menjar
Itals, 3.
Perbas
previous
action wa
esctang
the ecor
of Pynt
being sa
Pork 1
MEG
by serer
mica.
table of
konen
apo ni
TRATUS
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important remarks respecting the mythology of | into prison till they should find security for a fine
Heracles. (Athen. xii. p. 512, 513. )
of twenty talents, but Megaleas was released on the
2. A native of Eleusis, brought forward by bail of Leontius, who had contrived to escape in
Demosthenes as a witness in his speech against the tumult for which his accomplices were punished.
Callippus. He had had a dispute about some in the same year (218) Megaleas and Leontius
money transactions with Lycon. (Dem. in Cal- excited a mutiny at Corinth among the troops of
lipp. p. 1241, ed. Reiske. ) (C. P. M. ] Philip. It was soon quelled ; and, though the
ME'GACLES (Meyaklñs). 1. A Syracusan, king knew who had been the authors of it, he dis
brother of Dion the son of Hipparinus, and brother- sembled his knowledge, and Megalcas and his chief
in-law of the elder Dionysius, to whose govern- accomplices were still holding high military rank
ment he lent his support, and on one occasion when when Apelles returned to court from Chalcis. The
the tyrant was inclined to despair, urged him not reception, however, of the latter proved that he had
to abandon the sovereignty until absolutely com- quite lost his master's confidence, and Megaleas fled
pelled to do so (Diod. xx. 78 ; but see Wesselings in alarm to Athens ; and being refused refuge
note). He, however, in common with his brother, there, betook himself to Thebes. Here he con-
became discontented at the government of the tinued his impotent and rancorous course of treason
younger Dionysius, and accompanied Dion in his by writing letters to the Aetolians, filled with
flight from Syracuse, B. C. 358 (Diod. xvi. 6). He abuse of Philip, and with strong exhortations to
afterwards also took part with him in his expedition them to persevere in the war against him, as his
to Sicily, and when Dion made himself master finances were exhausted. The letters were inter-
of Syracuse, Megacles accompanied him on his cepted and brought to the king, who thereupon
triumphal entry into the city, and was associated despatched ALEXANDER (Vol. I. p. 112] to Thebes,
with him in the chief command (Plut. Dion, 28, to sue Megaleas for the amount of his fine ; and the
29). But from this period his name is not again traitor, not venturing to abide the issue of the
mentioned.
trial, put an end to his own life. (Pol. iv, 87, v.
2. An officer in the service of Pyrrhus, who | 2, 14-16, 25—28. )
[E. E. )
accompanied that monarch on his expedition to MEGALO'STRATA (Meyadootpáta), a Lace-
Italy, B. C. 280. He is mentioned as accompanying daemonian poetess, beloved by Alcman, the follow-
Pyrrhus when he reconnoitered the Roman camping fragment from whom contains all that is known
previous to the battle of Heracleia ; and in that of her :
action was the means of saving the king's life, by
Τούθ' αδεάν Μωσαν έδειξε
exchanging armour with him, and thus directing
δωρον μάκαιρα παρθένων
the efforts of the assailants upon himself, instead
α ξανθα Μεγαλοστράτα.
of Pyrrhus. He fell a victim to his devotion, (Alcman, Fr. ap. Ath. xiii. p. 600. f. , No. 27 in
being slain by a Roman named Decius. (Plut. Welcker, 18 in Schneidewin's Delect. Poes. Graec. ,
Pyrrh. 16, 17; Zonar. vii. 3. ) TE. H. B. ] 21 in Bergk's Poet. Lyr. Graec. ) [P. S. ]
MEÄGACLES (Meyakañs). 1. A name borne MEGAME'DE (Megauńon), a daughter of Ar-
by several of the Athenian family of the Alcmaeo naeus, and the wife of Thestius, by whom she be-
nidae. They are enumerated in the genealogical came the mother of fifty daughters. (Apollod. ii.
table of that family in Vol. I. p. 105; and what is 4. § 10. )
(L. S. ]
known respecting those of any historical import- MEGANEIRA (Meyáverpa). 1. A daughter
ance will be found in the articles Cylon, Peisis- of Crocon, and the wife of Arcas. (Apollod. iii.
TRATUS, ALCIBIADES, &c. , which are referred to in | 9. $ 1; comp. Arcas. )
the article ALCNAEONIDAE.
2. The wife of Celeus. (Paus. i. 39. § 1 ; comp.
2. A native of Mytilene, who, with the assist- METANEIRA. )
(L. S. )
ance of his friends, overthrew the Penthalidae, a MEGAPENTHES (Meyanévons). i. A son
muling family in Mytilene. (Arist. Pol. v. 10. p. of Proetus, was king of Argos, and father of Anaxa-
1311, ed. Bekker. )
goras and Iphianeira. (Paus. ii.
