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Script. not, with Merobaudes, an active officer of the em-
Saec. II. together with three of the fragments perors Valentinian I. and Gratian. It was by his
from the Catena in Genesin. These fragments advice that on the death of Valentinian I. his son
from the Catena were enlarged by the diligence of of the same name, a child of four years old, was
Woog (Dissert. II. de Melitone) and Nicephorus made colleague in the empire with his brother
(Catena in Octateuch. 2 vols. fol. Lips. 1772—3). Gratian (GRATIANUS, No. 2], much to the dissa-
The passages from Anastasius Sinaita are added in tisfaction of the latter. (Amm. Marc. xxx. 10. )
the Biblioth. Patrum of Galland, but he omits those Merobaudes was twice consul, A. D. 377 and 383.
from the Catena. The whole of the fragments of In the latter year he commanded the army of
Melito are given in the Reliquiae Sacrae of Routh Gratian against the usurper Maximus, and is com-
(vol. i. p. 109, &c. 8vo. Oxon. 1814, &c. ), in which monly charged with betraying his master (GRA-
the extracts from the Catena are fuller than in any TIANUS, No. 2), from which charge Tillemont (Hist.
previous edition. The notes to this edition are des Emp. vol. v. p. 723) defends him. At any
very valuable.
rate he gained little by his treason, being soon
Labbe, in his book De Scriptorib. Ecclesiast. put to death by Maximus. (Pacatus, Panegyric.
(vol. ii. p. 87), mentions a Latin version of the ad Theodos. )
[J. C. M. ]
Clavis of Melito, as being in his time extant in MS. MELLO'NA or MELLO'NIA, a Román divi-
in the College of Clermont, at Paris. From a nity, who was believed to protect the honey, but
transcript of this MS. (collated with another), is otherwise unknown. (Aug. De Civ. Dei, iv. 34 ;
which is among the papers of Grabe, in the Bod- Arnob. adv. Gent. iv. 7, 8, 11. ) (L. S. )
leian Library at Oxford, it appears to be much MELO'BIUS (Mnóblos), was one of the thirty
interpolated, if indeed any part of it is genuine. tyrants established at Athens in B. C. 404, and was
It is a sort of vocabulary of the figurative terms of among those who were sent to the house of Lysias
Scripture, somewhat similar to the De Formulis and Polemarchus to apprehend them and seize their
Spiritualis Intelligentiae of Eucherius of Lyon. Cru- property. (Xen. Hell. ii. 3. § 2 ; Lys. c. Erat.
sius, and after his death Woog, had intended to p. 121. )
[E. E. )
publish it ; but it remains still in MS. Woog, in MELO‘BOSIS or MELO'BOTE (MMóbouis
his Dissert. Secunda de Melitone, has given a sylla- or MT106órn), a nymph, said to have been a
bus of the Capita, and printed the first Caput as a daughter of Oceanus. (Hom. Hymn. in Cer. 420 ;
specimen. In the MS. in the Clermont College the Hes. Theog. 354 ; Paus. iv. 30. § 3; comp. De-
author is tenned Melitus or Miletus. It is pos- METER. )
(L. S. )
Bible that the fourth extract, given by Routh from MELPOʻMENE (MEATomévn), i. e. the singing
the Catena, is from the original Clavis of Melito. (goddess), one of the nine Muses, became after-
(Euseb. Hieronym. Chron. Paschale, Il. cc. ; Hal- wards the Muse of Tragedy. (Hes. Theog. 77 ;
loix, l. c. ; Cave, Hist. Litt. ad ann. 170, vol. i. p. comp. MUSAE. )
[L. S. )
71, ed. Oxford, 1740—43; Tillemont, Mémoires, MELPOMENUS (Meatóuevos), or the singer,
vol. ii. p. 407, &c. , p. 663, &c. ; Ceillier, Auteurs was a surname of Dionysus at Athens, and in the
Sacrés, vol. ii. p. 75, &c. ; Lardner, Credibility, pt. Attic demos of Acharne. (Paus. i. 2. § 4, 31.
ii. ch. 15; Clericus (Le Clerc), Hist. Eccles. duor. $ 3. )
(L. S. ]
primor. Saeculor. ad ann. 169, c. 8—10; Ittigius, MELUS (Mâdos). 1. A son of Manto, from
de Haeresiarch. sect. ii. c. xi. ; Woog, Dissert. 1. de whom the sanctuary of Apollo Malloeis in Lesbos
Melitone ; Fabric. Bibl. Graec. vol. vii. p. 149, was believed to have derived its name. (Steph.
&c. ; Semler, Hist. Eccles. Sclecta Capita Saec. II. Byz. s. v. Marlbers. )
c. 5; Dupin, Nouvelle Biblioth. des Aut. Eccles. 2. A Delian who fled to Cinyras in Cyprus.
vol. i. pt. i. ard ii. 8vo. Paris, 1698 ; Galland, Cinyras gave him his son Adonis as a companion,
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the elder Melus hung himself from grief, and his
wife followed his example. Aphrodite then meta-
morphosed Melus into an apple (uſaor), and his
wife into a dove (Trénela). The younger Melus
was ordered by the goddess to return with a colony
to Delos, where he founded the town of Delos.
COIN OF L. MEMMIUS GALLUS.
There the sheep were called from him ujaa, be- 3. T. MEMMIUS, was sent by the senate in B. C.
cause he first taught the inhabitants to shear them, 170 as its commissioner to hear the complaints of
and make cloth out of their wool. (Serv. ad Virg. the provincials in Achaia and Macedonia against
Eclog. viii. 37. )
the Roman magistrates in those districts. (Liv.
3. A son of the river-god Scamander. (Ptolem. xliii. 5. )
Heph. ap. Phot. Bibl. 152. )
(L. S. ] 4. Q. MEMMIUS, was legatus from the senate to
MEMBLIARUS (Meubaíapos), a son of Poe- the Jewish nation about B. c. 163—2. (Maccab.
cilus, a Phoenician, and a relation of Cadmus. ii. 11. )
Cadmus left him at the head of a colony in the 5. C. MEMMIUS, tribune of the plebs in B. C.
island of Thera or Calliste. (Herod. iv. 147; 111, was an ardent opponent of the oligarchical
Paus. iii. 1. $ 7. )
[L. S. ] party at Rome during the Jugurthine war. His
ME'MMIA, SULPICIA, one of the three exposure of its venality, incompetence, and traffic
wives of Alexander Severus. Her father was a with Jugurtha first opened the command of the
man of consular rank ; her grandfather's name was legions to the incorruptible Metellus Numidicus,
Catulus. (Lamprid. Alex. Sev. c. 20. ) [W. R. ] and finally to the low-born but able C. Marius, and
ME'MMIA GENS, a plebeian house at Rome, thus laid the foundation of ultimate victory and
whose members do not occur in history before B. c. triumph. (Sall
. Jug. 27, 30—34. ) Among the
173. But from the epoch of the Jugurthine war, nobles impeached by Memmius were L. Cal-
B. c. 111, they held frequent tribunates of the purnius Bestia [Bestia, No. 1], and M.
plebs ; and in the age of Augustus they must Aemilius Scaurus. (Cic. de Orat. ii. 70, pro Font.
ħave been a conspicuous branch of the later Roman 7. ) Memmius was slain with bludgeons by the
nobility, since Virgil derives the Memmii from the mob of Saturninus and Glaucia, while a candidate
Trojan Mnestheus (Aen, v. 117; comp. Tac. Ann. for the consulship in B. c. 100. (Cic. in Cat. iv. 2;
xiv. 47). The Memmia Gens bore the cognomens Appian, B. C. i. 32 ; Liv. Epit. 69 ; Flor. iii. 16. )
Gallus, Gemellus, Pollio, Quirinus, Regulus: all Sallust (Jug. 31) gives a speech of Memmius which,
the members of the gens are given under Mem- however, is rather a dramatic than an authentic
[W. B. D. ] version of the original, and he had a higher opinion
ME'MMIUS. 1. C. MEMMIUS C. F. QUIRI- of the tribune's eloquence than Cicero (Brul. 36)
NUS, was the aedile who first exhibited the Cerealia altogether sanctions. In the “Life of Terence"
at Rome, as we learn from the annexed coin ; but (3), ascribed to Suetonius, is preserved a fragment
the name does not occur in any ancient writer. of Memmius's speech “ de Se,"—the defence, pro-
The obverse has C. MEMMI. C. F. QVIRINVS, with bably, at which the judices rejected the evidence
a head which may be that of Quirinus: the of Memmius's enemy M. Aemilius Scaurus (Cic.
reverse has MEMMIVS. AED. CEREALIA. PREIMVS. pro Font. 7), and there is another doubtful frag-
FECIT, and represents Ceres sitting ; a serpent ment in Priscian (viii
. 4). (Compare Ellendt,
at her feet; in her right hand, three ears of corn ; Proleg. in Cic. Brut. Ixi. ; Meyer, Fragm. Rom.
in her left, a distaff. The date of the introduc-Orat. p. 138. ) From some forensic witticisms
tion of the Cerealia at Rome (Dionys, vii. 72 ; of L. Licinius Crassus (Crassus, No. 23], it
Liv. xxii. 56 ; Ovid. Fast. iv. 397), and conse would appear that Memmius had the by-name
quently of the aedileship of Memmius Quirinus, of “Mordax. ” (Cic. de Orat. ii. 59. 8 240, 66.
is unknown, though it must have been previous S 267; Quint. Inst. vi. 3. $ 67. )
to B. c. 216. (Liv. l. c. )
6. L. MEMMIUS, was an orator of some emi-
nence during the war of Sulla with the Marian
party, B. C. 87—81. (Cic. Brut. 36, 70, 89. ) From
Cicero ( pro Sext. Rosc. 32) it would appear that
Memmius was a supporter of C. Marius.
7. C. MEMMIUS, brother, probably, of the pre-
ceding (Cic. Brut. 36), married a sister of Cn.
Pompey. He was Pompey's propraetor in Sicily,
and his quaestor in Spain, during the Sertorian
war, B. c. 76, and was slain in battle with Serto-
rius near Saguntum. (Cic. pro Baib. 2 ; Plut.
COIN OF C. MEMMIUS QUIRINUS.
Pomp. 11, Sert. 21 ; Oros, v. 23. )
8. C. MEMMIUS L. F. GEMELLUS, son of No.
2. C. MEMMIUS Gallus, was praetor for the 6, was tribune of the plebs in B. c. 66, when he
second time in B.