]
Severus she was always treated with the greatest MAGAS (Máyas).
Severus she was always treated with the greatest MAGAS (Máyas).
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c.
180, native of Lydia, he is sometimes called Maeonides,
in the army of the praetor Q. Fulvius, against the or the Maeonian bard. The feminine form of this
Celtiberi. (Liv. xxxix. 6, 8, 18. xl. 35. )
patronymic, Maeonis, also occurs as a sumame of
11. Maenius, a contemporary of Lucilius, was Omphale (Оv. Fast. ii. 310), and of Arachne (Ov.
a great spendthrift, who squandered all his property Met. vi. 103), because both were Lydians. (L. 9. ]
and afterwards supported himself by playing the MAEO'NIUS, the cousin, or, according to
buffoon. He possessed a house in the forum, which Zonaras, the nephew of Odenathus, whom he
Cato in his censorship (B. c. 184) purchased of him, murdered in consequence of a hunting quarrel, not,
for the purpose of building the basilica Porcia. it is said, without the consent of Zenobia, who was
Some of the ancient scholiasts ridiculously relate, filled with jealous rage on perceiving that her
that when Maenius sold his house, he reserved for husband preferred Herodes, his son by a former
himself one column, the Columna Maenia, from marriage, to her own children, Herennianus ana
which he buït a balcony, that he might thence Timolaus. Maeonius finds a place among the
witness the games. The true origin of the Columna thirty tyrants enumerated by Trebellius Pollio (Au-
Maenia, and of the balconies called Maeniana, has REOLUS), and a coin of very doubtful character is
been explained above. [Sce No. 6. ) (Hor. Sat. described in the Pembroke collection with the
i. 1. 101, i. 3. 21, Epist. i. 15. 26, &c. ; Lir. xxxix. ( legend Imp. C. MAEONIUS; but those published by
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898
MAESON.
MAGAS.
Goltzius nre unquestionably spurious. (Trebell. , | (Zenob. Cent. ii. 11; Liban. de Nec. Julian.
Poll. Trig. Tyrunn. 16. )
[W. R. ] p. 285, b; llarpocr. 8. c. 'Epuai; Diogenian.
MAEONIUS, A'STYANAX, is quoted by up. Gaisford, l'arocmiogr. p. v. ) Polemon (ap.
Trebellius Pollio as his authority for the speeches Athen. xiv. p. 659, c) maintained, in opposition to
of Macrianus and Balista (Balista; Macrianus), Timaeus, that Maeson was a native of Megara
when the former was induced to assume the purple in Sicily, and not of the Nisaean Megara If
after the capture of Valerianus by the Persians. so, he must have lived before B. C. 483, in which
Maeonius was, we are told, actually present at the year the Megarians were expelled by Gelo. (Thuc.
meeting where the discussion took place. (Trebell. vi. 4, comp. Herod. vii. 156. )
Poll. Trig. Tyrann. 11. )
(W. R. ] It may be conjectured, with some probability,
MAERA (Maipa). 1. [ICARIUS, No. 1. ) that Maeson was a native of the Nisaean Megara,
2. A daughter of Nereus. (Hom. I. xviii. 48. ) but migrated to Megara in Sicily, and was thus
3. A daughter of Proetus and Anteia, was one one of those who introduced into Sicily that style
of the companions of Artemis, but was killed by of comedy which Epicharmus afterwards brought
her after she had become by Zeus the mother of to perfection. (Meineke, Hist. Crit. Com. Gruec,
Locrus; others, however, state that she died as a pp. 22, 24 ; Grysar, de Com. Dor. p. 16. ) [P. S. )
virgin. (Hom. Od. xi. 325 ; Eustath. ad Hom. MAE'VIUS. 1. The envious poetaster of the
p. 1688. ) She was represented by Polygnotus in Augustan age, is spoken of under Bavius.
the Lesche at Delphi. (Paus. x. 30. & 2. )
2. A person, who killed his brother in the civil
4. One of the four daughters of Frasinus of war, and thus has become the subject of two beau-
Argos. (Anton. Lib. 40. )
tiful elegiac poems, which are printed in the Latin
5. A daughter of Atlas, was married to Tegeates, Anthology (ii. 131, 132, ed. Burmann, or Ep. 820,
the son of Lycaon. Her tomb was shown both at 821, ed. Meyer), and by Wernsdorf (Poët. Lut.
Tegea and Mantineia in Arcadia, and Pausanias Min. vol. iii
. pp. 199, &c. ).
thinks that she was the same as the Maera whom MAGADA’TES (Mayadátas), general of Ti-
Odyssens saw in Hades. (Paus. viii. 12. $ 4, 48. granes, king of Armenia, was entrusted by him
$ 4, 53. & 1 ; Völcker, Mythol. des Iapet. Geschl. with the government of Syria, when it had been
p. 114. )
(L. S. ] conquered from Antiochus X. (Eusebes) in B. C.
MAESA, JU'LIA, the sister-in-law of Septimius 83. Magadates, having ruled over the country
Severus, the aunt of Caracalla, the grandmother of for fourteen years, left it in B. C. 69 to aid his
Elagabalus and Alexander Severus. [See genea- master against Lucullus ; and Antiochus XIII. ,
logical table prefixed to CARACALLA. ] She was a son of Antiochus X. , seized the opportunity to
native of Emesa in Syria, and seems, after the recover the kingdom. (App. Syr. 48, 49, Milhr.
elevation of the husband of her sister Julia Domna, 84, &c. ; Plut. Luc. 25, &c. ; Just. xl. I, 2. )
to have lived at the imperial court until the death Justin differs, apparently, from Appian in men-
of Caracalla, aud to have accumulated great wealth. tioning eighteen years as the period during which
The boldness and skill with which she contrived Syria was held by the officer of Tigranes ; but the
and executed the plot which transferred the supreme numbers are satisfactorily reconciled by Clinton.
power from Macrinus to her grandson, the sagacity (F. H. vol. iii. p. 340. )
(E. E. )
with which she foresaw the downfall of the latter, MAGA'RSIA (Mayapola or Mayapols), a sur-
and the arts by which, in order to save herself name of Athena, derived from Magarsos, a Cilician
from being involved in his ruin, she prevailed on town near the mouth of the river Pyramus, where
him to adopt his cousin Alexander, are detailed in the goddess had a sanctuary. (Arrian, Anab. ii.
the articles ELAGABALUS and MACRINUS. By 5. )
(L. S.
]
Severus she was always treated with the greatest MAGAS (Máyas). 1. King of Cyrene, was a
respect, and she exerted all her influence in the step-son of Ptolemy Soter, being the offspring of
best direction, ever urging him to obliterate by his the accomplished Berenice by a former marriage.
own virtues all recollection of the foul enormities His father's name was Philip: he is termed by
of his predecessor. She enjoyed the title of Au-Pausanias (i. 7. § 1) a Macedonian of obscure and
gusta during her life, died in peace, and received ignoble birth, but Droysen regards him as the same
divine honours. Every particular of her history with the Philip, son of Amyntas, who is frequently
points her out as one of the most able and strong- mentioned as commanding one division of the pha-
minded women of antiquity, one who was passion- lanx in the wars of Alexander. Magas seems to
ately desirous of power, who was unscrupulous in have accompanied his mother to Egypt, where he
the means she employed to gratify her ambition, soon rose to a high place in the favour of Ptolemy,
but who bad the wisdom to perceive that the domi- so that in B. C. 308 he was appointed by that mon-
nion thus obtained would be best, preserved by arch to the command of the expedition destined
justice and moderation. (Dion Cass. lxxviii. for the recovery of Cyrene after the death of
30; Herodian. in Elagab. For other authorities, Ophellas. [Ophellas. ) The enterprise was
see CARACALLA, ELAGABALUS, Macrinus, SE- completely successful, and Magas obtained from
VERus. )
(W. R. ] his step-father the government of the province thus
MAESON (Malowv), a comic actor of Megara, re-united to Egypt, which he continued to hold
who seems to have been celebrated for his skill in without interruption from thenceforth till the day
the buffoonery which characterised the old Megaric of his death, an interval of not less than fifty
comedy. He invented the masks of the slave and years. (Paus. i. 6. & 8; Agatharchides, ap. Athen.
and the coarse jokes of those characters xii. p. 550 b. ) of the transactions of this long
were called oruupata uairwind. (Athen. xiv. p. period we know almost nothing: it is certain that
659, a ; Eustath. ad Hom. p. 1751, 56. ) The fol-Magas at first ruled over the province of Cyrenaica
lowing proverb is attributed to him by several an- only as a dependency of Egypt, and there is no
cient writers--
reason to suppose that he threw off his allegiance
'Αντ' ευεργεσίης 'Αγαμέμνονα δησαν 'Αχαιοί. to Ptolemy Soter so long as the latter lived, though
the cook ;
:
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a
it appears probable that he early obtained the ho party in that town in opposition to Hannibal. He
norary title of king. But after the accessiou of is characterised by Velleius Paterculus (ü. 16),
Ptolemy Philadelphus this friendly union no longer who was descended from him, as Campanorum
subsisted, and Magas not only assumed the cha- princeps celeberrimus et nobilissimus vir. " He
racter of an independent monarch, but even made used every effort to dissuade his fellow-citizens
war on the king of Egypt. He had advanced as from receiving Hannibal into their town after the
far as the frontier of the two kingdoms, when battle of Cannae, B. c. 216, but in vain ; and, ac-
he was recalled by the news of a revolt of the cordingly, when Hannibal entered the city, one of
Marmaridne, which threatened his communications his first acts was to reqnire the senate to deliver
with Cyrene, and thus compelled him to retreat. up Mngius to him. This request was complied
(Paus. i. 7. $$ 1, 2. ) Soon after this he married with : Magius was put on board ship, and sent to
Apama, daughter of Antiochus Soter, and concluded Carthage ; but a storm having driven the vessel to
a league with that monarch against Ptolemy ; in Cyrene, Magius fled for refuge to the statue of
pursuance of which he undertook a second ex. Ptolemy. He was in consequence carried to Alex-
pedition against Egypt, took the frontier fortress of i andria to Ptolemy Philopator, who set him at
Paraetonium, and advanced so far as to threaten liberty, and gave him permission to go where he
Alexandria itself. The war appears to have been pleased. Magius chose Egypt as his residence, as
terminated by a treaty, by which Berenice, the he could not return to Capua, and did not choose
infant daughter of Magas, was betrothed to Ptolemy to go to Rome, where he would have been looked
Euergetes, the son of Philadelphus. (Paus. i. 7. upon as a deserter, as long as there was war be-
§ 3; Polyaen. ii. 28 ; Justin. xxvi. 3. ) The tween his own town and the Romans. (Liv. xxiii.
chronology of these events is very uncertain ; but 7, 10. )
it seems clear that a considerable interval of peace 2. Cn. Magius, of Atella (Atellanus), probably
followed, during which Magas abandoned himself
, a relation of the preceding, but belonging to the
as he had previously done, to indolence and luxury, opposite political party, was medix tuticus at
and grew in consequence so enormously fat as to Capua in B. c. 214. (Liv. xxiv. 19. )
cause his death by suffocation, B. C. 258. (Aga- 3. MINatius Magius ASCULANENSIS, grand-
tharch. ap. Athen. l. c. ) From a passage in the son of No. 1, and atavus of the historian Velleius
comic writer Philemon cited by Plutarch (De Ira Paterculus, distinguished himself in the Social or
cohib. 9), it appears that Magas had the character Marsic war (B. C. 90) by his fidelity to the
of being very illiterate ; but the anecdote there re- Romans. He levied a legion among the Hirpini,
lated confirms the impression of his being a man of and was of no small assistance to T. Didius and
a mild and gentle character, which the tranquillity L. Sulla. So great were his services, that the
of his long reign is calculated to cor. vey. The few Roman people bestowed upon him the Roman
particulars known concerning him will be found franchise, and elected two of his sons to the prae-
collected and discussed by the Abbé Belley in the torship. (Vell. Pat. ii. 16. )
Hist. de l'Acad. des Inscr. vol. xxxvi. p. 19, also by 4. P. Magius, tribune of the plebs B. C. 87, is
Thrige, Res Cyrenensium, and more fully and cri- mentioned by Cicero (Brut. 48) in the list of
tically by Droysen, Hellenismus, vol. i. p. 417, orators of that time. Cicero speaks of him as the
vol
. ii. pp. 242-248. It is worthy of notice that colleague of M. Virgilius, but Plutarch (Sull. 10)
the name of Magas is found in an Indian inscrip calls his colleague Virginius.
tion on a rock near Peshawer. (Droysen, vol. ii. 5. Magius, a praefect of Piso in Gaul (Cic.
p. 321. )
de Orat. ii. 60. )
The chronology of the reign of Magas is very 6. L. Magius, the companion of L. Fannius,
uncertain: in the dates above given, the authority deserted from the army of Flavius Fimbria in Asia,
of Droysen has been followed. Niebuhr, on the and went over to Mithridates. An account of this
contrary (Kl. Schrift. p. 236), places the commence- Magius is given under Fannius, No. 4.
ment of his reign after the battle of Ipsus.
7. Cn. Marius and Magia, the son and
He left only one daughter, Berenice, afterwards daughter of Dinaea, a woman of Larinum. Magia
the wife of Ptolemy Euergetes. Besides the Syrian was married to Oppianicus. (Cic pro Cluent. 7, 12. )
A pama already mentioned, he had a second wife, 8. NUMERIUS Magius (erroneously called in
Arsinoë, who survived him. (Just. xxvi. 3 ; and Caesar Cn. Magius), of Cremona, was praefectus
see Niebuhr, Kl. Schrift
. p. 230, note. )
fabrum in the army of Pompey at the breaking out
2. A grandson of the preceding, being a son of of the civil war in B. c. 49. He was apprehended
Ptolemy Euergetes and Berenice. He was put to by Caesar's troops while he was on his journey to
death by his brother Ptolemy Philopator, soon join Pompey at Brundisium, and Caesar availed
after the accession of the latter, at the instigation himself of the opportunity to send by means of
of Sosibius. (Polyb. v. 34, xv. 25. ) [E. H. B. ] Magius offers of peace to Pompey, who was theu
MAGENTE'NUS, or MAGENTI'NUS LEO. at Brundisium. (Caes. B. C. i. 24; Caes. ad Att.
(LEO, p. 744, No. 17. )
ix. 13. & 8, ix. 13, A, ix. 7, c. )
MA'GIA GENS, plebeian, was of Campanian 9. L. Magius, a rhetorician, who married a
origin, and one of the most distinguished houses at daughter of the historian Livy. (Senec. Controv.
Capua in the time of the second Punic war. (Comp. lib. v.
in the army of the praetor Q. Fulvius, against the or the Maeonian bard. The feminine form of this
Celtiberi. (Liv. xxxix. 6, 8, 18. xl. 35. )
patronymic, Maeonis, also occurs as a sumame of
11. Maenius, a contemporary of Lucilius, was Omphale (Оv. Fast. ii. 310), and of Arachne (Ov.
a great spendthrift, who squandered all his property Met. vi. 103), because both were Lydians. (L. 9. ]
and afterwards supported himself by playing the MAEO'NIUS, the cousin, or, according to
buffoon. He possessed a house in the forum, which Zonaras, the nephew of Odenathus, whom he
Cato in his censorship (B. c. 184) purchased of him, murdered in consequence of a hunting quarrel, not,
for the purpose of building the basilica Porcia. it is said, without the consent of Zenobia, who was
Some of the ancient scholiasts ridiculously relate, filled with jealous rage on perceiving that her
that when Maenius sold his house, he reserved for husband preferred Herodes, his son by a former
himself one column, the Columna Maenia, from marriage, to her own children, Herennianus ana
which he buït a balcony, that he might thence Timolaus. Maeonius finds a place among the
witness the games. The true origin of the Columna thirty tyrants enumerated by Trebellius Pollio (Au-
Maenia, and of the balconies called Maeniana, has REOLUS), and a coin of very doubtful character is
been explained above. [Sce No. 6. ) (Hor. Sat. described in the Pembroke collection with the
i. 1. 101, i. 3. 21, Epist. i. 15. 26, &c. ; Lir. xxxix. ( legend Imp. C. MAEONIUS; but those published by
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898
MAESON.
MAGAS.
Goltzius nre unquestionably spurious. (Trebell. , | (Zenob. Cent. ii. 11; Liban. de Nec. Julian.
Poll. Trig. Tyrunn. 16. )
[W. R. ] p. 285, b; llarpocr. 8. c. 'Epuai; Diogenian.
MAEONIUS, A'STYANAX, is quoted by up. Gaisford, l'arocmiogr. p. v. ) Polemon (ap.
Trebellius Pollio as his authority for the speeches Athen. xiv. p. 659, c) maintained, in opposition to
of Macrianus and Balista (Balista; Macrianus), Timaeus, that Maeson was a native of Megara
when the former was induced to assume the purple in Sicily, and not of the Nisaean Megara If
after the capture of Valerianus by the Persians. so, he must have lived before B. C. 483, in which
Maeonius was, we are told, actually present at the year the Megarians were expelled by Gelo. (Thuc.
meeting where the discussion took place. (Trebell. vi. 4, comp. Herod. vii. 156. )
Poll. Trig. Tyrann. 11. )
(W. R. ] It may be conjectured, with some probability,
MAERA (Maipa). 1. [ICARIUS, No. 1. ) that Maeson was a native of the Nisaean Megara,
2. A daughter of Nereus. (Hom. I. xviii. 48. ) but migrated to Megara in Sicily, and was thus
3. A daughter of Proetus and Anteia, was one one of those who introduced into Sicily that style
of the companions of Artemis, but was killed by of comedy which Epicharmus afterwards brought
her after she had become by Zeus the mother of to perfection. (Meineke, Hist. Crit. Com. Gruec,
Locrus; others, however, state that she died as a pp. 22, 24 ; Grysar, de Com. Dor. p. 16. ) [P. S. )
virgin. (Hom. Od. xi. 325 ; Eustath. ad Hom. MAE'VIUS. 1. The envious poetaster of the
p. 1688. ) She was represented by Polygnotus in Augustan age, is spoken of under Bavius.
the Lesche at Delphi. (Paus. x. 30. & 2. )
2. A person, who killed his brother in the civil
4. One of the four daughters of Frasinus of war, and thus has become the subject of two beau-
Argos. (Anton. Lib. 40. )
tiful elegiac poems, which are printed in the Latin
5. A daughter of Atlas, was married to Tegeates, Anthology (ii. 131, 132, ed. Burmann, or Ep. 820,
the son of Lycaon. Her tomb was shown both at 821, ed. Meyer), and by Wernsdorf (Poët. Lut.
Tegea and Mantineia in Arcadia, and Pausanias Min. vol. iii
. pp. 199, &c. ).
thinks that she was the same as the Maera whom MAGADA’TES (Mayadátas), general of Ti-
Odyssens saw in Hades. (Paus. viii. 12. $ 4, 48. granes, king of Armenia, was entrusted by him
$ 4, 53. & 1 ; Völcker, Mythol. des Iapet. Geschl. with the government of Syria, when it had been
p. 114. )
(L. S. ] conquered from Antiochus X. (Eusebes) in B. C.
MAESA, JU'LIA, the sister-in-law of Septimius 83. Magadates, having ruled over the country
Severus, the aunt of Caracalla, the grandmother of for fourteen years, left it in B. C. 69 to aid his
Elagabalus and Alexander Severus. [See genea- master against Lucullus ; and Antiochus XIII. ,
logical table prefixed to CARACALLA. ] She was a son of Antiochus X. , seized the opportunity to
native of Emesa in Syria, and seems, after the recover the kingdom. (App. Syr. 48, 49, Milhr.
elevation of the husband of her sister Julia Domna, 84, &c. ; Plut. Luc. 25, &c. ; Just. xl. I, 2. )
to have lived at the imperial court until the death Justin differs, apparently, from Appian in men-
of Caracalla, aud to have accumulated great wealth. tioning eighteen years as the period during which
The boldness and skill with which she contrived Syria was held by the officer of Tigranes ; but the
and executed the plot which transferred the supreme numbers are satisfactorily reconciled by Clinton.
power from Macrinus to her grandson, the sagacity (F. H. vol. iii. p. 340. )
(E. E. )
with which she foresaw the downfall of the latter, MAGA'RSIA (Mayapola or Mayapols), a sur-
and the arts by which, in order to save herself name of Athena, derived from Magarsos, a Cilician
from being involved in his ruin, she prevailed on town near the mouth of the river Pyramus, where
him to adopt his cousin Alexander, are detailed in the goddess had a sanctuary. (Arrian, Anab. ii.
the articles ELAGABALUS and MACRINUS. By 5. )
(L. S.
]
Severus she was always treated with the greatest MAGAS (Máyas). 1. King of Cyrene, was a
respect, and she exerted all her influence in the step-son of Ptolemy Soter, being the offspring of
best direction, ever urging him to obliterate by his the accomplished Berenice by a former marriage.
own virtues all recollection of the foul enormities His father's name was Philip: he is termed by
of his predecessor. She enjoyed the title of Au-Pausanias (i. 7. § 1) a Macedonian of obscure and
gusta during her life, died in peace, and received ignoble birth, but Droysen regards him as the same
divine honours. Every particular of her history with the Philip, son of Amyntas, who is frequently
points her out as one of the most able and strong- mentioned as commanding one division of the pha-
minded women of antiquity, one who was passion- lanx in the wars of Alexander. Magas seems to
ately desirous of power, who was unscrupulous in have accompanied his mother to Egypt, where he
the means she employed to gratify her ambition, soon rose to a high place in the favour of Ptolemy,
but who bad the wisdom to perceive that the domi- so that in B. C. 308 he was appointed by that mon-
nion thus obtained would be best, preserved by arch to the command of the expedition destined
justice and moderation. (Dion Cass. lxxviii. for the recovery of Cyrene after the death of
30; Herodian. in Elagab. For other authorities, Ophellas. [Ophellas. ) The enterprise was
see CARACALLA, ELAGABALUS, Macrinus, SE- completely successful, and Magas obtained from
VERus. )
(W. R. ] his step-father the government of the province thus
MAESON (Malowv), a comic actor of Megara, re-united to Egypt, which he continued to hold
who seems to have been celebrated for his skill in without interruption from thenceforth till the day
the buffoonery which characterised the old Megaric of his death, an interval of not less than fifty
comedy. He invented the masks of the slave and years. (Paus. i. 6. & 8; Agatharchides, ap. Athen.
and the coarse jokes of those characters xii. p. 550 b. ) of the transactions of this long
were called oruupata uairwind. (Athen. xiv. p. period we know almost nothing: it is certain that
659, a ; Eustath. ad Hom. p. 1751, 56. ) The fol-Magas at first ruled over the province of Cyrenaica
lowing proverb is attributed to him by several an- only as a dependency of Egypt, and there is no
cient writers--
reason to suppose that he threw off his allegiance
'Αντ' ευεργεσίης 'Αγαμέμνονα δησαν 'Αχαιοί. to Ptolemy Soter so long as the latter lived, though
the cook ;
:
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MAGIUS.
899
MAGIUS.
a
it appears probable that he early obtained the ho party in that town in opposition to Hannibal. He
norary title of king. But after the accessiou of is characterised by Velleius Paterculus (ü. 16),
Ptolemy Philadelphus this friendly union no longer who was descended from him, as Campanorum
subsisted, and Magas not only assumed the cha- princeps celeberrimus et nobilissimus vir. " He
racter of an independent monarch, but even made used every effort to dissuade his fellow-citizens
war on the king of Egypt. He had advanced as from receiving Hannibal into their town after the
far as the frontier of the two kingdoms, when battle of Cannae, B. c. 216, but in vain ; and, ac-
he was recalled by the news of a revolt of the cordingly, when Hannibal entered the city, one of
Marmaridne, which threatened his communications his first acts was to reqnire the senate to deliver
with Cyrene, and thus compelled him to retreat. up Mngius to him. This request was complied
(Paus. i. 7. $$ 1, 2. ) Soon after this he married with : Magius was put on board ship, and sent to
Apama, daughter of Antiochus Soter, and concluded Carthage ; but a storm having driven the vessel to
a league with that monarch against Ptolemy ; in Cyrene, Magius fled for refuge to the statue of
pursuance of which he undertook a second ex. Ptolemy. He was in consequence carried to Alex-
pedition against Egypt, took the frontier fortress of i andria to Ptolemy Philopator, who set him at
Paraetonium, and advanced so far as to threaten liberty, and gave him permission to go where he
Alexandria itself. The war appears to have been pleased. Magius chose Egypt as his residence, as
terminated by a treaty, by which Berenice, the he could not return to Capua, and did not choose
infant daughter of Magas, was betrothed to Ptolemy to go to Rome, where he would have been looked
Euergetes, the son of Philadelphus. (Paus. i. 7. upon as a deserter, as long as there was war be-
§ 3; Polyaen. ii. 28 ; Justin. xxvi. 3. ) The tween his own town and the Romans. (Liv. xxiii.
chronology of these events is very uncertain ; but 7, 10. )
it seems clear that a considerable interval of peace 2. Cn. Magius, of Atella (Atellanus), probably
followed, during which Magas abandoned himself
, a relation of the preceding, but belonging to the
as he had previously done, to indolence and luxury, opposite political party, was medix tuticus at
and grew in consequence so enormously fat as to Capua in B. c. 214. (Liv. xxiv. 19. )
cause his death by suffocation, B. C. 258. (Aga- 3. MINatius Magius ASCULANENSIS, grand-
tharch. ap. Athen. l. c. ) From a passage in the son of No. 1, and atavus of the historian Velleius
comic writer Philemon cited by Plutarch (De Ira Paterculus, distinguished himself in the Social or
cohib. 9), it appears that Magas had the character Marsic war (B. C. 90) by his fidelity to the
of being very illiterate ; but the anecdote there re- Romans. He levied a legion among the Hirpini,
lated confirms the impression of his being a man of and was of no small assistance to T. Didius and
a mild and gentle character, which the tranquillity L. Sulla. So great were his services, that the
of his long reign is calculated to cor. vey. The few Roman people bestowed upon him the Roman
particulars known concerning him will be found franchise, and elected two of his sons to the prae-
collected and discussed by the Abbé Belley in the torship. (Vell. Pat. ii. 16. )
Hist. de l'Acad. des Inscr. vol. xxxvi. p. 19, also by 4. P. Magius, tribune of the plebs B. C. 87, is
Thrige, Res Cyrenensium, and more fully and cri- mentioned by Cicero (Brut. 48) in the list of
tically by Droysen, Hellenismus, vol. i. p. 417, orators of that time. Cicero speaks of him as the
vol
. ii. pp. 242-248. It is worthy of notice that colleague of M. Virgilius, but Plutarch (Sull. 10)
the name of Magas is found in an Indian inscrip calls his colleague Virginius.
tion on a rock near Peshawer. (Droysen, vol. ii. 5. Magius, a praefect of Piso in Gaul (Cic.
p. 321. )
de Orat. ii. 60. )
The chronology of the reign of Magas is very 6. L. Magius, the companion of L. Fannius,
uncertain: in the dates above given, the authority deserted from the army of Flavius Fimbria in Asia,
of Droysen has been followed. Niebuhr, on the and went over to Mithridates. An account of this
contrary (Kl. Schrift. p. 236), places the commence- Magius is given under Fannius, No. 4.
ment of his reign after the battle of Ipsus.
7. Cn. Marius and Magia, the son and
He left only one daughter, Berenice, afterwards daughter of Dinaea, a woman of Larinum. Magia
the wife of Ptolemy Euergetes. Besides the Syrian was married to Oppianicus. (Cic pro Cluent. 7, 12. )
A pama already mentioned, he had a second wife, 8. NUMERIUS Magius (erroneously called in
Arsinoë, who survived him. (Just. xxvi. 3 ; and Caesar Cn. Magius), of Cremona, was praefectus
see Niebuhr, Kl. Schrift
. p. 230, note. )
fabrum in the army of Pompey at the breaking out
2. A grandson of the preceding, being a son of of the civil war in B. c. 49. He was apprehended
Ptolemy Euergetes and Berenice. He was put to by Caesar's troops while he was on his journey to
death by his brother Ptolemy Philopator, soon join Pompey at Brundisium, and Caesar availed
after the accession of the latter, at the instigation himself of the opportunity to send by means of
of Sosibius. (Polyb. v. 34, xv. 25. ) [E. H. B. ] Magius offers of peace to Pompey, who was theu
MAGENTE'NUS, or MAGENTI'NUS LEO. at Brundisium. (Caes. B. C. i. 24; Caes. ad Att.
(LEO, p. 744, No. 17. )
ix. 13. & 8, ix. 13, A, ix. 7, c. )
MA'GIA GENS, plebeian, was of Campanian 9. L. Magius, a rhetorician, who married a
origin, and one of the most distinguished houses at daughter of the historian Livy. (Senec. Controv.
Capua in the time of the second Punic war. (Comp. lib. v.
