) tells us the Minyans, they are themselves called Minyae ;
that Minucianus was the author of Téxum ontoport, and the descendants of the Argonauts founded a
Προγυμνάσματα, and Λογοί διάφοροι.
that Minucianus was the author of Téxum ontoport, and the descendants of the Argonauts founded a
Προγυμνάσματα, and Λογοί διάφοροι.
William Smith - 1844 - Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities - b
18.
§ 7 ; Apollod.
iii.
I.
94,
Glaucus, Androgeus, Acalle, Xenodice, Ariadne, 15. $ 8. )
(L. S. ]
and Phaedra (Apollod. ii. 1. $ 3. ) He is said MINTANOR, the author of a lost treatise on
to have been killed in Sicily by king Cocalus, music. (Fulgent. Mythol. i. 1; Schol. ad Stat.
when he had gone thither in pursuit of Daedalus. Theb. iii. 661. )
[C. P. M. ]
(Herod. vii. 170; Strab. vi. pp. 273,279; Paus. vii. MINTHA or MENTHA (Mívon), a Cocythian
4. $ 5. ) But the scholiast on Callimachus (Hymn. nymph, and beloved by Hades, was metamorphosed
in Jov. 8) speaks of his tomb in Crete. The detail by Demeter or Persephone into a plant called after
of his history is related as follows. After the her ulvon, or mint, or, according to others, she was
death of Asterius, Minos aimed at the supremacy changed into dust, from which Hades caused the
of Crete, and declared that it was destined to him mint plant to grow farth. In the neighbourhood
by the gods ; in proof of it, he said that any thing of Pylos there was a hill called after her, and at its
he prayed for was done. Accordingly, as he was foot there was a temple of Pluto, and a grove of
offering up a sacrifice to Poseidon, he prayed that Demeter. (Strab. viii. p. 344; Ov. Met. 2. 729;
a bull might come forth from the sea, and promised Oppian, Hal. iii. 486; Schol. ad Nicand. Alex.
to sacrifice the animal. The bull appeared, and 374. )
(L. S. ]
Minos became king of Crete. Others say that MINU'CIA, one of the Vestal priestesses in
Minos disputed the government with his brother, B. C. 337. Her passion for gay attire made her
on pical fue les
Bring was a Roma
became coe B
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troops
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conduct suspected. On inquiry, suspicion was the consular tribunes of the preceding year for mis
justified, and Minucia was buried alive. (Liv. viii. conduct in the war with Veii. (Liv. v. 11, 12. ).
[W. B. D. ] 2. M. MINUCIUS FESsus, one of the first augun
MINU'CIA GENS was originally, in some of elected from the plebs after the extension of the law
its branches at least, patrician (AUGURIN US) ; but de Sacerdotiis in B. C. 300, by the tribunes Q. and
more frequently occurs in history as a plebeian Cn. Ogulnius. (Liv. x. 9. )
house. Its principal cognomens were AUGURINUS, 3. Q. MINUCIUS, was legatus to the consul, M.
Basil US, Rufus, and THERMUS. Minicius and Claudius Marcellus, during the siege of Capua,
Municius are frequently confounded with Mi- B. C. 210. (Liv. xxvi. 33. )
nucius. The following coin of the Minucia gens 4. P. and Q. MINUCII, legionary tribunes in the
bears on the obverse the head of Pallas, and on the war of Rome with the Boian Gauls in B. c. 193.
reverse Jupiter in a chariot hurling a thunder-bolt, (Liv. xxxv. 5. )
with the legend L. Minucius. Who this L. Mi- 5. L. Minucius, legatus of the praetor Q. Ful-
nucius was is unknown.
(W. B. D. ) vius Flaccus in the nearer Spain, B. C. 180. His
evidence as to the state of the province when ex-
amined by the senate differed from the account
given by the praetor. (Liv. xl. 35, 36. )
6. TiB. MINUCIUS, praetor peregrinus in B. C.
180, died early in his official year. (Liv. xl.
CROMA
35, 37. )
7.
TWINSET
MINUCIUS, died intestate before the city-
praetorship of C. Verres, in B. C. 75–74. His
property therefore belonged to his gens ; but Verres
issued a
cial edict regarding it, which Cicero
MINUCIA’NUS (Mivoukiavos). 1. A Greek held up to ridicule (in Verr. i. 45. § 115).
rhetorician, was a contemporary of the celebrated 8. CN. MIN ucius, a person about whose political
rhetorician Hermogenes of Tarsus (Al. A. D. 170), opinions Cicero wrote to Cornificius in R. c. 43 (ad
with whom he was at variance. This we learn Fam. xii. 25).
[W. B. D. )
from the Scholiast on Hermogenes, and thus the MINU'CIUS FELIX. [FELIX. )
difficulty which Fabricius experienced (Bibl. Graec. MINU’CIUS NATA'LIS. [NATALIS. )
vol. vi. p. 107), is removed, as it is evident that MINU'CIUS PACA'TUS. (IRENAEUS, No. 3. ]
this Minucianus was a different person from the MI'NYAE (Muvúa. ), an ancient race of heroes at
one following. (Schol. ad Hermog. pp. 26, 48, 49, Orchomenos, Iolcos, and other places. Their an-
71, 77, 99, 177, 179, 180, 181, 200, 287 ; comp. cestral hero, Minyas, is said to have migrated from
Schol. ad Aphthon. p. 226, Spengel ; Westermann, Thessaly into the northern parts of Boeotia, and
Geschichte der Griech. Beredtsamkeit, $ 95, n. 10. ) there to have established the powerful race of the
2. An Athenian, the son of Nicagoras, was also Minyans, with the capital of Orchomenos. As the
a Greek rhetorician, and lived in the reign of Gal- greater part of the Argonauts were descended from
lienus (A. D. 260—268). Suidas (s. v.
) tells us the Minyans, they are themselves called Minyae ;
that Minucianus was the author of Téxum ontoport, and the descendants of the Argonauts founded a
Προγυμνάσματα, and Λογοί διάφοροι. The Tεχνή | colony in Lemnos, which was called Minyae.
was commented on by the sophist Pancratius Thence they proceeded to Elis Triphylia, and to the
(Suidas, s. v. Haykp. ; Eudoc. p. 301), and is also island of Thera. (Herod. i. 146, iv. 145; Pind.
referred to by Tzetzes (Chil. iv. 693, vi. 739, xii. Ol. xiv. 4, Pyth. iv. 69 ; Apollon. Rhod. i. 229;
570), but, as Westermann suggests, may have Strab. ix. pp. 404, 414, viii. pp. 337, 347 ; Paus
been written by the elder Minucianus (No. 1). A vii. 2. § 2, ix. 36 ; comp. Müller, Orchom. t. die
portion of this work, entitled lepi émiyeipnuátwv, Minyer. )
[L. S. )
is extant, and bears the title Mivoukiavoll Nika- MI'NYAS (Muvúas), a son of Chryses, and the
gópou. It was published along with Alexander ancestral hero of the race of the Minyans ; but the
Numenius and Phoebammon, accompanied with a accounts of his genealogy vary very much in the
Latin version, by L. Normann, Upsal. 1690, 8vo. , different traditions, for some call him a son of
and is also printed in the Aldine collection of Orchomenus or Eteocles, others of Poseidon, Aleus,
Greek rhetoricians, pp. 731-734, and in the ninth Ares, Sisyphus, or Halmus. He is further called
volume of Walz's Rhetores Graeci. The work of the husband of Tritogeneia, Clytodora, or Phano
Minucianus, entitled Mpoyvuváduata, was com- syra. Orchomenus, Presbon, Athamas, Diochthon-
mented on by Menander of Laodiceia (Suidas, 8. o. das, Eteoclymene, Periclymene, Leucippe, Arsinoë,
Mevavd. ). The eloquence of Minucianus is praised and Alcithoë, are mentioned as his children. (Paus.
by Himerius. (Ed. vii. p. 166, Or. xxiii
. p. 802, ix. 36. § 3, &c. , 38. & 2; Schol. ad Apollon Rhod.
ed. Wernsdorf. ; Fabric. Bibl. Graec. vol. vi. pp. i. 230, ad Pind. Ol. xiv. 5, Pyth. iv. 120 ; Tzetz.
107, 108; Westermann, Ibid, $ 98, n. 15. ) ad Lyc. 875. ) He is said to have built the first
MINUCIA’NUS, CORNE’LIUS, a friend treasury, of which ruins are said to be still extant,
and neighbour of the younger Pliny, who calls him (Paus. ix. 38. § 2. ) His tomb was shown at Or-
ornamentum regionis meae, seu dignitate, seu chomenos in Boeotia (ix. 38. & 3). (L. S. ]
moribus,” and speaks of him in other very laud- MISA (Mioa), a mystic being in the Orphic
atory terms in a letter addressed to Falco, in which mysteries, perhaps the same as Cybele, or an attri-
he requests the latter to confer the rank of mi- bute of her. (Orph. Hymn. 41 ; Hesych. s. 0.
litary tribune upon Minucianus (Ep. vii. 22). Moatis. )
İL. S. )
Three of Pliny's letters (iii. 9, iv. il, viii. 12) MISA'GENES, a Numidian, son of Masinissa,
are addressed to this Minucianus.
was appointed by his father to command the forces
MINU'CIUS. 1. M. MINUCIUS, tribune of which he sent to the assistance of the Romans in
the plebs in B. C. 401, when he impeached two of the war against Perseus, B. c. 171. He appean
to his
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to have continued in this position throughout the and 'Oboroila E. Keduch. The latter is also referred
four years of the war, and to have rendered im- to by Plato (Gorg. p. 618, b. ). (C. P. M. ]
portant services to bis allien. After the close of the MITHRAS (Mlöpas), the god of the sun among
war (B. C. 168) he was sent back by Aemilius the Persians. (Xenoph. Cyrop. vii. 5. & 53 ; Strab.
Paullus to Africa ; but the ships in which his xv. p. 732. ) About the time of the Roman em-
troops were embarked were dispersed by a storm, perors his worship was introduced at Rome, and
many of them wrecked, and he himself compelled thence spread over all parts of the empire. The
to take refuge at Brundusium. Here he was re- god is commonly represented as a handsome youth,
ceived with the utmost distinction, the quaestor, wearing the Phrygian cap and attire, and kneeling
L. Stertinius, being immediately despatched by the on a bull which is thrown on the ground, and
Benate to bear him magnificent presents, and to whose throat he is cutting. The bull is at the
provide both him and his troops with all that they same time attacked by a dog, a serpent, and
required. (Liv. xlii. 29, 35, xlv. 14; Vul. Max. scorpion. This group appears frequently among
v. l. § 1, who writes the name Musicanes) He ancient works of art, and a fine specimen is pre-
probably died before his father, as we henr nothing served in the British Museum. (L. S. ]
of him after the death of Masinissa. [E. H. B. ) MITHRE'NES (M. Ophuns) or MITHRINES
MISE'NUS (Mionvós). 1. A companion of (Miopívns), commander of the Persian force which
Odysseus. (Strab. i. p. 26, v. p. 245. )
garrisoned the citadel of Sardes. After the battle
2. A steersman of Aeneas (Vict. De Orig. Gent. of the Granicus (B. C. 334) Mithrines surrendered
Rom. 9), and, according to Virgil, at first a companion voluntarily to Alexander, and was treated by him
of Hector, and afterwards trumpeter of Aeneas ; with great distinction. After the battle of Gau-
he died at Cumae, where Cape Misenum derived gamela (B. C. 331) Alexander appointed him satrap
its name from him. (Virg. Aen. vi. 162, &c. 235. ) of Armenia. (Arrian, i. 17, iii. 16. ) [C. P.
Glaucus, Androgeus, Acalle, Xenodice, Ariadne, 15. $ 8. )
(L. S. ]
and Phaedra (Apollod. ii. 1. $ 3. ) He is said MINTANOR, the author of a lost treatise on
to have been killed in Sicily by king Cocalus, music. (Fulgent. Mythol. i. 1; Schol. ad Stat.
when he had gone thither in pursuit of Daedalus. Theb. iii. 661. )
[C. P. M. ]
(Herod. vii. 170; Strab. vi. pp. 273,279; Paus. vii. MINTHA or MENTHA (Mívon), a Cocythian
4. $ 5. ) But the scholiast on Callimachus (Hymn. nymph, and beloved by Hades, was metamorphosed
in Jov. 8) speaks of his tomb in Crete. The detail by Demeter or Persephone into a plant called after
of his history is related as follows. After the her ulvon, or mint, or, according to others, she was
death of Asterius, Minos aimed at the supremacy changed into dust, from which Hades caused the
of Crete, and declared that it was destined to him mint plant to grow farth. In the neighbourhood
by the gods ; in proof of it, he said that any thing of Pylos there was a hill called after her, and at its
he prayed for was done. Accordingly, as he was foot there was a temple of Pluto, and a grove of
offering up a sacrifice to Poseidon, he prayed that Demeter. (Strab. viii. p. 344; Ov. Met. 2. 729;
a bull might come forth from the sea, and promised Oppian, Hal. iii. 486; Schol. ad Nicand. Alex.
to sacrifice the animal. The bull appeared, and 374. )
(L. S. ]
Minos became king of Crete. Others say that MINU'CIA, one of the Vestal priestesses in
Minos disputed the government with his brother, B. C. 337. Her passion for gay attire made her
on pical fue les
Bring was a Roma
became coe B
) The Name
er rui. Viva
is sufecti in 1 A.
one of the cases
this gros sa labas
(1782
Roman Derkeste
DAG 4 DIY
es Rutes catedra
led an Open to
(W;8D!
DICS, L, broche
also a Roma Baci
27-suit with the
(II. "
confidential friends
je Great and is m
s7th the Ronda dreta
Minia cama
Le at the hatte di loro
cur, 15, 16, 174
4 A 2
vial)
, mas
izzinst Hilarious
## p. 1092 (#1108) ##########################################
1092
MINUCIUS.
MISAGENES.
1
to have
15. )
portant 1
Paulias
troops
many of
to take
ceived
L. Ster
Senate
provide
requires
1. 1. $
probab!
of him
MIS
Odysse
. A
Rom. 9
of He
be die
ita nar
His by
COIN OV MINUCIA GENS.
Cuma
MI
by Zo
tracta
eloque
Tranc
Thai
praefi
conduct suspected. On inquiry, suspicion was the consular tribunes of the preceding year for mis
justified, and Minucia was buried alive. (Liv. viii. conduct in the war with Veii. (Liv. v. 11, 12. ).
[W. B. D. ] 2. M. MINUCIUS FESsus, one of the first augun
MINU'CIA GENS was originally, in some of elected from the plebs after the extension of the law
its branches at least, patrician (AUGURIN US) ; but de Sacerdotiis in B. C. 300, by the tribunes Q. and
more frequently occurs in history as a plebeian Cn. Ogulnius. (Liv. x. 9. )
house. Its principal cognomens were AUGURINUS, 3. Q. MINUCIUS, was legatus to the consul, M.
Basil US, Rufus, and THERMUS. Minicius and Claudius Marcellus, during the siege of Capua,
Municius are frequently confounded with Mi- B. C. 210. (Liv. xxvi. 33. )
nucius. The following coin of the Minucia gens 4. P. and Q. MINUCII, legionary tribunes in the
bears on the obverse the head of Pallas, and on the war of Rome with the Boian Gauls in B. c. 193.
reverse Jupiter in a chariot hurling a thunder-bolt, (Liv. xxxv. 5. )
with the legend L. Minucius. Who this L. Mi- 5. L. Minucius, legatus of the praetor Q. Ful-
nucius was is unknown.
(W. B. D. ) vius Flaccus in the nearer Spain, B. C. 180. His
evidence as to the state of the province when ex-
amined by the senate differed from the account
given by the praetor. (Liv. xl. 35, 36. )
6. TiB. MINUCIUS, praetor peregrinus in B. C.
180, died early in his official year. (Liv. xl.
CROMA
35, 37. )
7.
TWINSET
MINUCIUS, died intestate before the city-
praetorship of C. Verres, in B. C. 75–74. His
property therefore belonged to his gens ; but Verres
issued a
cial edict regarding it, which Cicero
MINUCIA’NUS (Mivoukiavos). 1. A Greek held up to ridicule (in Verr. i. 45. § 115).
rhetorician, was a contemporary of the celebrated 8. CN. MIN ucius, a person about whose political
rhetorician Hermogenes of Tarsus (Al. A. D. 170), opinions Cicero wrote to Cornificius in R. c. 43 (ad
with whom he was at variance. This we learn Fam. xii. 25).
[W. B. D. )
from the Scholiast on Hermogenes, and thus the MINU'CIUS FELIX. [FELIX. )
difficulty which Fabricius experienced (Bibl. Graec. MINU’CIUS NATA'LIS. [NATALIS. )
vol. vi. p. 107), is removed, as it is evident that MINU'CIUS PACA'TUS. (IRENAEUS, No. 3. ]
this Minucianus was a different person from the MI'NYAE (Muvúa. ), an ancient race of heroes at
one following. (Schol. ad Hermog. pp. 26, 48, 49, Orchomenos, Iolcos, and other places. Their an-
71, 77, 99, 177, 179, 180, 181, 200, 287 ; comp. cestral hero, Minyas, is said to have migrated from
Schol. ad Aphthon. p. 226, Spengel ; Westermann, Thessaly into the northern parts of Boeotia, and
Geschichte der Griech. Beredtsamkeit, $ 95, n. 10. ) there to have established the powerful race of the
2. An Athenian, the son of Nicagoras, was also Minyans, with the capital of Orchomenos. As the
a Greek rhetorician, and lived in the reign of Gal- greater part of the Argonauts were descended from
lienus (A. D. 260—268). Suidas (s. v.
) tells us the Minyans, they are themselves called Minyae ;
that Minucianus was the author of Téxum ontoport, and the descendants of the Argonauts founded a
Προγυμνάσματα, and Λογοί διάφοροι. The Tεχνή | colony in Lemnos, which was called Minyae.
was commented on by the sophist Pancratius Thence they proceeded to Elis Triphylia, and to the
(Suidas, s. v. Haykp. ; Eudoc. p. 301), and is also island of Thera. (Herod. i. 146, iv. 145; Pind.
referred to by Tzetzes (Chil. iv. 693, vi. 739, xii. Ol. xiv. 4, Pyth. iv. 69 ; Apollon. Rhod. i. 229;
570), but, as Westermann suggests, may have Strab. ix. pp. 404, 414, viii. pp. 337, 347 ; Paus
been written by the elder Minucianus (No. 1). A vii. 2. § 2, ix. 36 ; comp. Müller, Orchom. t. die
portion of this work, entitled lepi émiyeipnuátwv, Minyer. )
[L. S. )
is extant, and bears the title Mivoukiavoll Nika- MI'NYAS (Muvúas), a son of Chryses, and the
gópou. It was published along with Alexander ancestral hero of the race of the Minyans ; but the
Numenius and Phoebammon, accompanied with a accounts of his genealogy vary very much in the
Latin version, by L. Normann, Upsal. 1690, 8vo. , different traditions, for some call him a son of
and is also printed in the Aldine collection of Orchomenus or Eteocles, others of Poseidon, Aleus,
Greek rhetoricians, pp. 731-734, and in the ninth Ares, Sisyphus, or Halmus. He is further called
volume of Walz's Rhetores Graeci. The work of the husband of Tritogeneia, Clytodora, or Phano
Minucianus, entitled Mpoyvuváduata, was com- syra. Orchomenus, Presbon, Athamas, Diochthon-
mented on by Menander of Laodiceia (Suidas, 8. o. das, Eteoclymene, Periclymene, Leucippe, Arsinoë,
Mevavd. ). The eloquence of Minucianus is praised and Alcithoë, are mentioned as his children. (Paus.
by Himerius. (Ed. vii. p. 166, Or. xxiii
. p. 802, ix. 36. § 3, &c. , 38. & 2; Schol. ad Apollon Rhod.
ed. Wernsdorf. ; Fabric. Bibl. Graec. vol. vi. pp. i. 230, ad Pind. Ol. xiv. 5, Pyth. iv. 120 ; Tzetz.
107, 108; Westermann, Ibid, $ 98, n. 15. ) ad Lyc. 875. ) He is said to have built the first
MINUCIA’NUS, CORNE’LIUS, a friend treasury, of which ruins are said to be still extant,
and neighbour of the younger Pliny, who calls him (Paus. ix. 38. § 2. ) His tomb was shown at Or-
ornamentum regionis meae, seu dignitate, seu chomenos in Boeotia (ix. 38. & 3). (L. S. ]
moribus,” and speaks of him in other very laud- MISA (Mioa), a mystic being in the Orphic
atory terms in a letter addressed to Falco, in which mysteries, perhaps the same as Cybele, or an attri-
he requests the latter to confer the rank of mi- bute of her. (Orph. Hymn. 41 ; Hesych. s. 0.
litary tribune upon Minucianus (Ep. vii. 22). Moatis. )
İL. S. )
Three of Pliny's letters (iii. 9, iv. il, viii. 12) MISA'GENES, a Numidian, son of Masinissa,
are addressed to this Minucianus.
was appointed by his father to command the forces
MINU'CIUS. 1. M. MINUCIUS, tribune of which he sent to the assistance of the Romans in
the plebs in B. C. 401, when he impeached two of the war against Perseus, B. c. 171. He appean
to his
format
disca
Elaz
influ
habit
both
adm
Tegu
in 1
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thet
his
mo
to i
tive
Bla
dog
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## p. 1093 (#1109) ##########################################
MITHAECUS.
1093
MITHRIDATES.
ܙܕܕܕ! -
1. 121
L
Acid
where
-)
u in 16
(LiT,
bich Con
1. 5)
3. C 43
(W. BD)
9
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to have continued in this position throughout the and 'Oboroila E. Keduch. The latter is also referred
four years of the war, and to have rendered im- to by Plato (Gorg. p. 618, b. ). (C. P. M. ]
portant services to bis allien. After the close of the MITHRAS (Mlöpas), the god of the sun among
war (B. C. 168) he was sent back by Aemilius the Persians. (Xenoph. Cyrop. vii. 5. & 53 ; Strab.
Paullus to Africa ; but the ships in which his xv. p. 732. ) About the time of the Roman em-
troops were embarked were dispersed by a storm, perors his worship was introduced at Rome, and
many of them wrecked, and he himself compelled thence spread over all parts of the empire. The
to take refuge at Brundusium. Here he was re- god is commonly represented as a handsome youth,
ceived with the utmost distinction, the quaestor, wearing the Phrygian cap and attire, and kneeling
L. Stertinius, being immediately despatched by the on a bull which is thrown on the ground, and
Benate to bear him magnificent presents, and to whose throat he is cutting. The bull is at the
provide both him and his troops with all that they same time attacked by a dog, a serpent, and
required. (Liv. xlii. 29, 35, xlv. 14; Vul. Max. scorpion. This group appears frequently among
v. l. § 1, who writes the name Musicanes) He ancient works of art, and a fine specimen is pre-
probably died before his father, as we henr nothing served in the British Museum. (L. S. ]
of him after the death of Masinissa. [E. H. B. ) MITHRE'NES (M. Ophuns) or MITHRINES
MISE'NUS (Mionvós). 1. A companion of (Miopívns), commander of the Persian force which
Odysseus. (Strab. i. p. 26, v. p. 245. )
garrisoned the citadel of Sardes. After the battle
2. A steersman of Aeneas (Vict. De Orig. Gent. of the Granicus (B. C. 334) Mithrines surrendered
Rom. 9), and, according to Virgil, at first a companion voluntarily to Alexander, and was treated by him
of Hector, and afterwards trumpeter of Aeneas ; with great distinction. After the battle of Gau-
he died at Cumae, where Cape Misenum derived gamela (B. C. 331) Alexander appointed him satrap
its name from him. (Virg. Aen. vi. 162, &c. 235. ) of Armenia. (Arrian, i. 17, iii. 16. ) [C. P.
