somewhat indefinitely, to have
flourished
about the
§ 14.
§ 14.
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iii.
43), and a brother of Bias.
He children, was to become father.
Melampus, on the
was looked upon by the ancients as the first mortal suggestion of a vulture, advised Iphiclus to take
that had been endowed with prophetic powers, as the rust from the knife with which Phylacus had
the person that first practised the medical art, and once cut his son, and drink it in water during ten
established the worship of Dionysus in Greece days. This was done, and Iphiclus became the
(Apollod. ii. 2. $ 2). He is said to have been father of Podarces. Melampus now received the
married to Ipbianassa (others call her Iphianeira or oxen as a reward for his good services, and drove
Cyrianassa, — Diod, iv. 68; Serv. ad Virg. Eclog. I them to Pylos ; he thus gained Pero for his brother,
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and henceforth remained in Messenia (Apollod. i. I and NICO'MACHUS (Nikóuaxos), a Rhodian,
9. § 12 ; Paus. iv. 36. § 2 ; Schol. ad Theocrit
. were the two men whom ACHABUS, the rebellious
iii. 43). His dominion over Argos is said to have general of Antiochus the Great, employed to carry
heen acquired in the following manner. In the on his negotiations with Ptolemy IV. (Philopator),
reign of Anaxagoras, king of Argos, the women of as well as all his other transactions with foreign
the kingdom were seized with madness, and powers. It was chiefly through recommendatory
roamed about the country in a frantic state. Me letters from Melancomas and Nicomachus that
lampus cured them of it, on condition that he Bolis, of whose treachery they had no suspicion, was
and his brother Bias should receive an equal share enabled to gain, to a great extent, the confidence
with Anaxagoras in the kingdom of Argos (Paus. of Achaeus, and so to betray him to Antiochus, in
ii. 18. § 4 ; Diod. iv. 68). Others, however, give B. c. 214. (Polyb. viii. 17, 18, 20, 21. ) (E. E. )
the following account. The daughters of Proetus, MEʻLANEUS (Melaveus), a son of Apollo, and
Iphinoe, Lysippe and Iphianassil, were seized with | king of the Dryopes. He was the father of Eurytus
madness, either because they opposed the worship and a famous archer. According to a Messenian
of Dionysus (Diod. l. c. ; Apollod. i. 9. $ 12), or legend Melaneus came to Perieres who assigned
because they boasted of equalling Hera in beauty, to him a town as his habitation which he called
or because they had stolen the gold from the statue Oechalia, after his wife's name. (Paus. iv. 2. & 2;
of the goddess (Serv. ad Virg. Ecl. vi. 48). Me- Anton. Lib. 4. )
lampus promised to cure the women, if the king Two other mythical personages of this name
would give him one-third of his territory and one occur in Ovid (Met
. xii. 306) and in the Odyssey
of his daughters in marriage. Proetus refused the (xxiv. 103).
(L. S. )
proposal : but when the madness continued, and MELANIPPE (Medavlnan). 1. A daughter
also seized the other Argive women, messengers of Cheiron, is also called Euippe. Being with
came to Melampus to request bis aid ; but he now child by Aeolus, she fled to mount Pelion ; but
demanded two-thirds of the kingdom, one for him- Cheiron made search after her; and in order that
self, and the other for his brother. The demand her condition might not become known, she prayed
was complied with, and with a band of youths, he to be metamorphosed into a mare. Artemis granted
pursued the women as far as Sicyon, with Bacchic the prayer, and in the form of a horse she was
shouts. Iphinoe died during the pursuit, but the placed among the stars. (Eratosth. Catast. 18 ;
surviving women were cured by purifications in a Aristoph. Thesm. 512; Hygin. Fab. 86. ) Another
well, Anigrus, or in a temple of Artemis near Lusi, account describes her metamorphosis as a punish-
or in the town of Sicyon itself; and Melampus ment for having despised Artemis or divulged the
and Bias married the two daughters of Proetus. counsels of the gods. (Ilygin. Poet. Astr. ii. 18. )
(Apollod. ii. 2. & 2; Strab. viii. p. 346 ; Ov. Met. 2. The wife of Hippotes and the mother of
xv. 322 ; Paus. ii. 7. 8 8, viii. 18, in fin. ; Herod. Aeolus. (Diod. iv. 67. )
ix. 34 ; Schol. ad Pind. Nem. ix. 30. )
3. A daughter of Aeolus, or, according to others,
Another mythical personage of the same name of Hippotes or Desmontes. (Schol. ad Hom. Od.
occurs in Virgil (Aen. x. 320). (L. S. ] x. 2 ; Hygin. Fab. 186. )
MELAMPUS. (Mendutovs), the author of two 4. A queen of the Amazons, whom Heracles, in
little Greek works still extant, one entitled nepi his fight with the Amazons, restored to freedom in
Naluav Martins, Divinatio ex Palpitatione, the consequence of a present she gave him. (Diod. iv.
other lepl EACW TOÙ Lá uatos, De Naevis Oleaceis 16 ; Schol. ad Pind. Nem. iii. 64 ; Apollon. Rhod. ii.
in Corpore. He lived probably in the third cen- 966. ) For two other mythical personages of this
tury B. C. , as the former of these works is addressed name, see BoEntus and MELEAGER. [L. S. ]
to “ king Ptolemy," who is supposed by Fabricius MELANI'PPIDES (Medavitalons), of Melos,
(Biblioth. Gr. vol. i. p. 99, ed. vet. ) to have been one of the most celebrated lyric poets in the de-
Ptolemy Philadelphus. Both the works (as might partment of the dithyramb. Suidas (s. 1. ) distin-
be anticipated from the titles) are full of super- guishes two poets of this name, of whom the elder
stitions and absurdities. They were first published was the son of Criton, and flourished about Ol. 65
in Greek by Camillus Peruscus, in his edition of (B. C. 520), and wrote numerous books of dithy-
Aelian's Varia Historia, &c. , Rom. 1545, 4to. rambs, and epic poems, and epigrams, and elegies,
They were translated into Latin by Nicolaus Pe- and very many other things; he was the grand-
treius, and published together with Meletius, De father, on the mother's side, of the younger Mela-
Natura Hominis, Venet. 1552, 4to. They have nippides, whose father's name was also Criton. No
also been translated into French and German. The other ancient writer recognises this distinction,
last and best edition is that by J. G. F. Franz, in which, therefore, probably arises out of some con-
his “ Scriptores Physiognomiae Veteres," Alten- fusion in the memory of Suidas. At all events, it
burg, 1780, 8vo. (Fabric. Bibl. Gr. vol. i. p. 99, is better to place under one head all that we know
ed. vet. ; Choulant, Handb. d. Bücherkunde yür die of Melanippides.
Aeltere Medicin, p. 415. )
[W. A. G. ] The date of Melanippides can only be fixed
MELAMPUS, an architect, of litile note, who within rather uncertain limits. He may be said,
wrote Praecepta Symmetriarum. (Vitruv. vii. Praef.
somewhat indefinitely, to have flourished about the
§ 14. )
[P. S. ) middle of the 5th century B. C.
He was younger
MÉLANAEGIS (Medavalyis), i. e. armed or than Lasus of Hermione (Plut. Mus. p. 1141, c. ),
clad with a black aegis, occurred as a surname of and than Diagoras of Melos (Suid. s. v. Alayópas).
Dionysus a: Eleutherae (Suid. s. v. 'Eneúdepos; He was contemporary with the comic poet Phere-
Paus. i. 38. & 8), and at Athens (Suid. s. v. 'Ana- crates (Plut. l. c. ). He lived for some time at
Toúpia ; Conon, Narrat. 39 ; Paus. ii. 35. § 1; the court of Perdiccas, of Macedonia, and there
comp. MELANTHUS), and of the Erinnys. (Aeschyl
. died (Suid. s. v. ). He must therefore bave died
Sept. 700. )
[L. S. ] before B. c. 412.
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Xenophon, who makes Aristodemus gire him the 5. One of the sons of Priam. (Apollod. iii. 12.
first place among dithyrambic poets, by the side of $ 5. )
Hiomer, Sophocles, Polycleitus, and Zeuxis, as the 6. A youth of Patrae, in Achaia, who was in
chief masters in their respective arts (Xenoph. love with Comaetho, a priestess of Artemis Tri-
Mem. i. 4. §. 3), and by Plutarch, who mentions claria. As the parents on both sides would not
him, with Simonides and Euripides, as among the consent to their marriage, Melanippus profaned the
most distinguished masters of music (Non poss. temple of the goddess by his intercourse with
suav. viv. sec. Epic. p. 1095, d. ). He did not, Comaetho. The goddess punished the iwo offenders
however, escape the censures which the old comic with instantaneous death, and visited the whole
poets so often heap upon their lyric contemporaries, country with plague and famine. The oracle of
for their corruption of the severe beauties of the Delphi revealed the cause of these calamities, and
ancient music. Pherecrates places him at the head ordered the inhabitants to sacrifice to Artemis every
of such offenders, and charges him with relaxing year the handsomest youth and the handsomest
and softening the ancient music by increasing the maiden. (Paas. vii. 19. $ 2. ) A seventh mythical
chords of the lyre to twelve (or, as we ought per- personage of this name is mentioned by Homer.
haps to read, ten : see Ulrici, Gesch. d. Hellen. (Il. xv. 547, 576. )
(L. S. ]
Dichtkunst, vol. ii. p. 605,n. 104), and thus paving the MELANIPPUS (MALVITTos), a youth of
way for the further licences introduced by Cinesias, Agrigentum, who, having been treated with in-
Phrynis, and Timotheus (Plut. de Mus. p. 1141 ; justice by Phalaris, proposed to his friend Chariton
comp. Meineke, Frag. Com. Graec. pp. 326--335). to form a conspiracy against the tyrant. Chariton,
According to Aristotle, he altogether abandoned alarmed for the safety of Melanippus, urged him
the antistrophic arrangement, and introduced long to say nothing to any one of his intention, and
preludes (avabolal), in which the union, which promised to devise a fitting opportunity for the
was anciently considered essential, between music enterprise. Having then resolved to take the
and the words of poetry, seems to have been whole risk upon himself, he attempted the life of
severed (Aristot. Rhet. iii. 9). Plutarch (or the Phalaris, and, being apprehended, was put to the
author of the essay on music which bears his torture, which he bore resolutely, refusing to con-
name) tells us that in his flute-music he subverted fess that he had any accomplices. Melanippus
the old arrangement, by which the flute-player was hereupon came to Phalaris and avowed himself the
hired and trained by the poet, and. was entirely instigator of the design, and the tyrant, struck
subordinate to him (De Mus. l. c. ); but there is with their mutual friendship, spared the lives of
probably some mistake in this, as the fragment of both on condition of their leaving Sicily. (Ael.
Pherecrates, which the author quotes in confirm- | V. H. ii. 4. )
(E. E. )
ation of his statement, contains not a word about MELANOʻPUS (Medávamos), a son of Laches,
flute-music, but attacks only the alterations in the the Athenian general, was one of three ambassadors
lyre; while, on the other hand, Athenaeus cites a (the other two being Glaucias and ANDROTION)
passage from the Marsyas of Melanippides, which who were sent to remonstrate with Mausolus, king
seems to show that he rejected and despised flute of Caria, on his attempt to subject to himself the
music altogether (Athen. xiv. p. 616, e. ).
islands on the eastern coast of the Aegean. On
According to Suidas, Melanippides wrote lyric their way they fell in with and captured a mer-
songs and dithyrambs. Several verses of his chant ship of Naucratis, which was brought into
poems are still preserved, and the following titles, the Peiraeeus, and condemned by the Athenians
Marsyas, Persephone, The Danaids, which have as an enemy's ressel. The prize-money, however,
misled Fabricius and others into the supposition was retained by Melanopus and his colleagues ;
that Melanippides was a tragic poet, a mistake and, when the time drew near at which they
which has been made with respect to the titles of would have to surrender it on pain of imprison-
the dithyrambs of other poets. The fragments are ment, Timocrates proposed a law exempting public
collected by Bergk (Poët. Lyr. Graec. pp. 847– debtors from that penalty on their giving security
850). We learn from Meleager (v. 7) that some for payment. A prosecution was hereupon insti-
of the hymns of Melanippides had a place in his tuted against Timocrates by Diodorus and Eucte
Garland :-
mon (private enemies of Androtion); and for them
νάρκισσόν τε τoρών Μοναλιππίδου έγκυον ύμνων. Demosthenes wrote the speech, still extant, which
(Fabric. Bibl. Graec. vol. ii. pp. 129, 130; Ulrici, was delivered by Diodorus in B. C. 353. Before
Hellen. Dichtk. vol. ii. pp. 26, 141, 590—593; the trial came on, Melanopus and his colleagues
Schmidt, Diatribe in Dithyramb. pp. 77–85, who paid the money. In the speech against Timocrates
maintains the distinction of Suidas, and attempts Melanopus is mentioned as having been guilty of
to distinguish between the extant fragments of the treason, of embezzlement, of misconduct in an em-
two poets. )
[P. S. ) bassy to Egypt, and of injustice towards his own
MELANIPPUS (MEMávittos). 1. A son of brothers. (Dem. c. Tim. p. 740. ) [E. E. ]
Agrius, was slain by Diomedes. (Apollod. i. 8. MELANOʻPUS (MeNávwtos), of Cyme, a poet
§ 6 ; comp. OENEUS. )
of the mythical period, whom Pausanias places
2. A son of Astacus of Thebes, who, in the between Olen and Aristaeus, is said by that author
attack of the Seven on his native city, slew Tydeus to have composed a hymn to Opis and Hecaerge,
and Mecisteus. His tomb was shown in the in which he stated that those goddesses came from
neig Ibourhood of Thebes on the road to Chalcis. the Hyperboreans to Delos before Achaeia. (Paus.
(Aeschyl. Sept. 409 ; Apollod. iii. 6. & 8; Herod. v. 7. §. 4. s. 8. ) In some of the old genealogies
v. 67; Paus. ix. 18. § 1. )
Melanopus was made the grandfather of Homer.
3. A son of Theseus and Perigune, and father of (Procl. and Pseudo-Herod. l'it
. Hom.
was looked upon by the ancients as the first mortal suggestion of a vulture, advised Iphiclus to take
that had been endowed with prophetic powers, as the rust from the knife with which Phylacus had
the person that first practised the medical art, and once cut his son, and drink it in water during ten
established the worship of Dionysus in Greece days. This was done, and Iphiclus became the
(Apollod. ii. 2. $ 2). He is said to have been father of Podarces. Melampus now received the
married to Ipbianassa (others call her Iphianeira or oxen as a reward for his good services, and drove
Cyrianassa, — Diod, iv. 68; Serv. ad Virg. Eclog. I them to Pylos ; he thus gained Pero for his brother,
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and henceforth remained in Messenia (Apollod. i. I and NICO'MACHUS (Nikóuaxos), a Rhodian,
9. § 12 ; Paus. iv. 36. § 2 ; Schol. ad Theocrit
. were the two men whom ACHABUS, the rebellious
iii. 43). His dominion over Argos is said to have general of Antiochus the Great, employed to carry
heen acquired in the following manner. In the on his negotiations with Ptolemy IV. (Philopator),
reign of Anaxagoras, king of Argos, the women of as well as all his other transactions with foreign
the kingdom were seized with madness, and powers. It was chiefly through recommendatory
roamed about the country in a frantic state. Me letters from Melancomas and Nicomachus that
lampus cured them of it, on condition that he Bolis, of whose treachery they had no suspicion, was
and his brother Bias should receive an equal share enabled to gain, to a great extent, the confidence
with Anaxagoras in the kingdom of Argos (Paus. of Achaeus, and so to betray him to Antiochus, in
ii. 18. § 4 ; Diod. iv. 68). Others, however, give B. c. 214. (Polyb. viii. 17, 18, 20, 21. ) (E. E. )
the following account. The daughters of Proetus, MEʻLANEUS (Melaveus), a son of Apollo, and
Iphinoe, Lysippe and Iphianassil, were seized with | king of the Dryopes. He was the father of Eurytus
madness, either because they opposed the worship and a famous archer. According to a Messenian
of Dionysus (Diod. l. c. ; Apollod. i. 9. $ 12), or legend Melaneus came to Perieres who assigned
because they boasted of equalling Hera in beauty, to him a town as his habitation which he called
or because they had stolen the gold from the statue Oechalia, after his wife's name. (Paus. iv. 2. & 2;
of the goddess (Serv. ad Virg. Ecl. vi. 48). Me- Anton. Lib. 4. )
lampus promised to cure the women, if the king Two other mythical personages of this name
would give him one-third of his territory and one occur in Ovid (Met
. xii. 306) and in the Odyssey
of his daughters in marriage. Proetus refused the (xxiv. 103).
(L. S. )
proposal : but when the madness continued, and MELANIPPE (Medavlnan). 1. A daughter
also seized the other Argive women, messengers of Cheiron, is also called Euippe. Being with
came to Melampus to request bis aid ; but he now child by Aeolus, she fled to mount Pelion ; but
demanded two-thirds of the kingdom, one for him- Cheiron made search after her; and in order that
self, and the other for his brother. The demand her condition might not become known, she prayed
was complied with, and with a band of youths, he to be metamorphosed into a mare. Artemis granted
pursued the women as far as Sicyon, with Bacchic the prayer, and in the form of a horse she was
shouts. Iphinoe died during the pursuit, but the placed among the stars. (Eratosth. Catast. 18 ;
surviving women were cured by purifications in a Aristoph. Thesm. 512; Hygin. Fab. 86. ) Another
well, Anigrus, or in a temple of Artemis near Lusi, account describes her metamorphosis as a punish-
or in the town of Sicyon itself; and Melampus ment for having despised Artemis or divulged the
and Bias married the two daughters of Proetus. counsels of the gods. (Ilygin. Poet. Astr. ii. 18. )
(Apollod. ii. 2. & 2; Strab. viii. p. 346 ; Ov. Met. 2. The wife of Hippotes and the mother of
xv. 322 ; Paus. ii. 7. 8 8, viii. 18, in fin. ; Herod. Aeolus. (Diod. iv. 67. )
ix. 34 ; Schol. ad Pind. Nem. ix. 30. )
3. A daughter of Aeolus, or, according to others,
Another mythical personage of the same name of Hippotes or Desmontes. (Schol. ad Hom. Od.
occurs in Virgil (Aen. x. 320). (L. S. ] x. 2 ; Hygin. Fab. 186. )
MELAMPUS. (Mendutovs), the author of two 4. A queen of the Amazons, whom Heracles, in
little Greek works still extant, one entitled nepi his fight with the Amazons, restored to freedom in
Naluav Martins, Divinatio ex Palpitatione, the consequence of a present she gave him. (Diod. iv.
other lepl EACW TOÙ Lá uatos, De Naevis Oleaceis 16 ; Schol. ad Pind. Nem. iii. 64 ; Apollon. Rhod. ii.
in Corpore. He lived probably in the third cen- 966. ) For two other mythical personages of this
tury B. C. , as the former of these works is addressed name, see BoEntus and MELEAGER. [L. S. ]
to “ king Ptolemy," who is supposed by Fabricius MELANI'PPIDES (Medavitalons), of Melos,
(Biblioth. Gr. vol. i. p. 99, ed. vet. ) to have been one of the most celebrated lyric poets in the de-
Ptolemy Philadelphus. Both the works (as might partment of the dithyramb. Suidas (s. 1. ) distin-
be anticipated from the titles) are full of super- guishes two poets of this name, of whom the elder
stitions and absurdities. They were first published was the son of Criton, and flourished about Ol. 65
in Greek by Camillus Peruscus, in his edition of (B. C. 520), and wrote numerous books of dithy-
Aelian's Varia Historia, &c. , Rom. 1545, 4to. rambs, and epic poems, and epigrams, and elegies,
They were translated into Latin by Nicolaus Pe- and very many other things; he was the grand-
treius, and published together with Meletius, De father, on the mother's side, of the younger Mela-
Natura Hominis, Venet. 1552, 4to. They have nippides, whose father's name was also Criton. No
also been translated into French and German. The other ancient writer recognises this distinction,
last and best edition is that by J. G. F. Franz, in which, therefore, probably arises out of some con-
his “ Scriptores Physiognomiae Veteres," Alten- fusion in the memory of Suidas. At all events, it
burg, 1780, 8vo. (Fabric. Bibl. Gr. vol. i. p. 99, is better to place under one head all that we know
ed. vet. ; Choulant, Handb. d. Bücherkunde yür die of Melanippides.
Aeltere Medicin, p. 415. )
[W. A. G. ] The date of Melanippides can only be fixed
MELAMPUS, an architect, of litile note, who within rather uncertain limits. He may be said,
wrote Praecepta Symmetriarum. (Vitruv. vii. Praef.
somewhat indefinitely, to have flourished about the
§ 14. )
[P. S. ) middle of the 5th century B. C.
He was younger
MÉLANAEGIS (Medavalyis), i. e. armed or than Lasus of Hermione (Plut. Mus. p. 1141, c. ),
clad with a black aegis, occurred as a surname of and than Diagoras of Melos (Suid. s. v. Alayópas).
Dionysus a: Eleutherae (Suid. s. v. 'Eneúdepos; He was contemporary with the comic poet Phere-
Paus. i. 38. & 8), and at Athens (Suid. s. v. 'Ana- crates (Plut. l. c. ). He lived for some time at
Toúpia ; Conon, Narrat. 39 ; Paus. ii. 35. § 1; the court of Perdiccas, of Macedonia, and there
comp. MELANTHUS), and of the Erinnys. (Aeschyl
. died (Suid. s. v. ). He must therefore bave died
Sept. 700. )
[L. S. ] before B. c. 412.
MELA'NCOMAS (Meraykóuas), an Ephesian, His high reputation as a poet is intimated by
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first place among dithyrambic poets, by the side of $ 5. )
Hiomer, Sophocles, Polycleitus, and Zeuxis, as the 6. A youth of Patrae, in Achaia, who was in
chief masters in their respective arts (Xenoph. love with Comaetho, a priestess of Artemis Tri-
Mem. i. 4. §. 3), and by Plutarch, who mentions claria. As the parents on both sides would not
him, with Simonides and Euripides, as among the consent to their marriage, Melanippus profaned the
most distinguished masters of music (Non poss. temple of the goddess by his intercourse with
suav. viv. sec. Epic. p. 1095, d. ). He did not, Comaetho. The goddess punished the iwo offenders
however, escape the censures which the old comic with instantaneous death, and visited the whole
poets so often heap upon their lyric contemporaries, country with plague and famine. The oracle of
for their corruption of the severe beauties of the Delphi revealed the cause of these calamities, and
ancient music. Pherecrates places him at the head ordered the inhabitants to sacrifice to Artemis every
of such offenders, and charges him with relaxing year the handsomest youth and the handsomest
and softening the ancient music by increasing the maiden. (Paas. vii. 19. $ 2. ) A seventh mythical
chords of the lyre to twelve (or, as we ought per- personage of this name is mentioned by Homer.
haps to read, ten : see Ulrici, Gesch. d. Hellen. (Il. xv. 547, 576. )
(L. S. ]
Dichtkunst, vol. ii. p. 605,n. 104), and thus paving the MELANIPPUS (MALVITTos), a youth of
way for the further licences introduced by Cinesias, Agrigentum, who, having been treated with in-
Phrynis, and Timotheus (Plut. de Mus. p. 1141 ; justice by Phalaris, proposed to his friend Chariton
comp. Meineke, Frag. Com. Graec. pp. 326--335). to form a conspiracy against the tyrant. Chariton,
According to Aristotle, he altogether abandoned alarmed for the safety of Melanippus, urged him
the antistrophic arrangement, and introduced long to say nothing to any one of his intention, and
preludes (avabolal), in which the union, which promised to devise a fitting opportunity for the
was anciently considered essential, between music enterprise. Having then resolved to take the
and the words of poetry, seems to have been whole risk upon himself, he attempted the life of
severed (Aristot. Rhet. iii. 9). Plutarch (or the Phalaris, and, being apprehended, was put to the
author of the essay on music which bears his torture, which he bore resolutely, refusing to con-
name) tells us that in his flute-music he subverted fess that he had any accomplices. Melanippus
the old arrangement, by which the flute-player was hereupon came to Phalaris and avowed himself the
hired and trained by the poet, and. was entirely instigator of the design, and the tyrant, struck
subordinate to him (De Mus. l. c. ); but there is with their mutual friendship, spared the lives of
probably some mistake in this, as the fragment of both on condition of their leaving Sicily. (Ael.
Pherecrates, which the author quotes in confirm- | V. H. ii. 4. )
(E. E. )
ation of his statement, contains not a word about MELANOʻPUS (Medávamos), a son of Laches,
flute-music, but attacks only the alterations in the the Athenian general, was one of three ambassadors
lyre; while, on the other hand, Athenaeus cites a (the other two being Glaucias and ANDROTION)
passage from the Marsyas of Melanippides, which who were sent to remonstrate with Mausolus, king
seems to show that he rejected and despised flute of Caria, on his attempt to subject to himself the
music altogether (Athen. xiv. p. 616, e. ).
islands on the eastern coast of the Aegean. On
According to Suidas, Melanippides wrote lyric their way they fell in with and captured a mer-
songs and dithyrambs. Several verses of his chant ship of Naucratis, which was brought into
poems are still preserved, and the following titles, the Peiraeeus, and condemned by the Athenians
Marsyas, Persephone, The Danaids, which have as an enemy's ressel. The prize-money, however,
misled Fabricius and others into the supposition was retained by Melanopus and his colleagues ;
that Melanippides was a tragic poet, a mistake and, when the time drew near at which they
which has been made with respect to the titles of would have to surrender it on pain of imprison-
the dithyrambs of other poets. The fragments are ment, Timocrates proposed a law exempting public
collected by Bergk (Poët. Lyr. Graec. pp. 847– debtors from that penalty on their giving security
850). We learn from Meleager (v. 7) that some for payment. A prosecution was hereupon insti-
of the hymns of Melanippides had a place in his tuted against Timocrates by Diodorus and Eucte
Garland :-
mon (private enemies of Androtion); and for them
νάρκισσόν τε τoρών Μοναλιππίδου έγκυον ύμνων. Demosthenes wrote the speech, still extant, which
(Fabric. Bibl. Graec. vol. ii. pp. 129, 130; Ulrici, was delivered by Diodorus in B. C. 353. Before
Hellen. Dichtk. vol. ii. pp. 26, 141, 590—593; the trial came on, Melanopus and his colleagues
Schmidt, Diatribe in Dithyramb. pp. 77–85, who paid the money. In the speech against Timocrates
maintains the distinction of Suidas, and attempts Melanopus is mentioned as having been guilty of
to distinguish between the extant fragments of the treason, of embezzlement, of misconduct in an em-
two poets. )
[P. S. ) bassy to Egypt, and of injustice towards his own
MELANIPPUS (MEMávittos). 1. A son of brothers. (Dem. c. Tim. p. 740. ) [E. E. ]
Agrius, was slain by Diomedes. (Apollod. i. 8. MELANOʻPUS (MeNávwtos), of Cyme, a poet
§ 6 ; comp. OENEUS. )
of the mythical period, whom Pausanias places
2. A son of Astacus of Thebes, who, in the between Olen and Aristaeus, is said by that author
attack of the Seven on his native city, slew Tydeus to have composed a hymn to Opis and Hecaerge,
and Mecisteus. His tomb was shown in the in which he stated that those goddesses came from
neig Ibourhood of Thebes on the road to Chalcis. the Hyperboreans to Delos before Achaeia. (Paus.
(Aeschyl. Sept. 409 ; Apollod. iii. 6. & 8; Herod. v. 7. §. 4. s. 8. ) In some of the old genealogies
v. 67; Paus. ix. 18. § 1. )
Melanopus was made the grandfather of Homer.
3. A son of Theseus and Perigune, and father of (Procl. and Pseudo-Herod. l'it
. Hom.
