(See Hoffmann,
Menippos
der Hippocr.
William Smith - 1844 - Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities - b
13.
& 4, 26.
& 5; Curt.
iv.
found themselves obliged to turn aside to Delium.
12, 15, 16, vii. 6, 10. )
[C. P. M. ] Here, in spite of the sanctity of the place, they
MENIPPE (Mevlan). 1. A daughter of were suddenly attacked by Menippus, and were
Orion and sister of Metioche. After Orion was all slain except about fifty, whom he captured.
killed by Artemis, Menippe and Metioche were (Liv. xxxv. 32, 33, 50, 51; comp. Diod. Exc. de
brought up by their mother, and Athena taught | Virt. et l'it. p. 574 ; App. Syr. 15. ) [E. E. )
them the art of weaving, and Aphrodite gave MENIPPUS (MéVITTOS), literary. 1. A
them beauty. Once the whole of Aonia was comic poet, according to Suidas; but Meineke sus-
visited by a plague, and the oracle of Apollo Gor- pects, on very good grounds, that the name is only
tynius, when consulted, ordered the inhabitants to a corruption of Hermippus. (Hist. Crit. Com.
propitiate the two Erinnyes by the sacrifice of two Graec. p. 494. )
maidens, who were to offer themselves to death of 2. A cynic philosopher, and originally a slave,
their own accord. Menippe and Metioche offered was a native of Gadara in Coele-Syria (Steph.
themselves ; they thrice invoked the infernal gods, Byz s. v. Tádapa ; Strab. xvi. p. 759). Diogenes
and killed theinselves with their shutties. Per-calls him a Phoenicia : Coele-Syria was goine-
.
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times reckoned as a part of Phoenicia, sometimes scnlptor, who made for the Thespians a copy of the
mot. He seems to have been a hearer of Diogenes. celebrated statue of Eros by Praxiteles, which
lle ainassed great wealth as a usurer (rue poðaver- originally stond at Thespiae, but was removed to
otńs), but was cheated out of it all, and committed Rome by the emperor Caligula. (Paus. ix. 27.
sl. icide. Diogenes, who has given us a short life s$ 3, 4, Bekker. ) The date of this artist aan
of him, with an epigram of his own upon him (ii. only be conjectured by supposing that his copy
99-100), informs us that he wrote nothing was made about the same time that the original
serious, but that his books were full of jests, like was removed, in order to supply its loss. There
those of his contemporary Meleager; and Strabo is nothing to determine whether or no he was the
and Stephanus call himn otovdove holos; that is, he same person as the statuary mentioned by Pliny,
was one of those cynic philosophers who threw all who made athletas et armatos el venutores, sucri-
their teaching into a satirical form. In this cha- ficantesque (11. N. xxxiv. 8. s. 19. § 34). [P. S. )
racter he is several times introduced by Lucian, MENO'DOTUS (Mevódotos). 1. Of Samos,
who in one place speaks of him as twv malusov was the author of at least two works connected
Kuvwv uóna v MaKTIKOV Kal kápxapov ( Bis dccus. 33). with the history of his native island. One bore
Even in the time of Diogenes, his works were the title Tων κατά Σάμον ενδόξων αναγραφή, and
somewhat uncertain; and they are now entirely the other depl TW kata td íepov Tſis Saulas "Hpas.
Jost: but we have considerable fragments of (Athen. xiv. p. 655, xv. pp. 672, 673. )
Varro's Saturae Menippeae, which were written 2. Of Perinthus, is referred to by Diodorus
in imitation of Menippus. (Cic. Acad. i. 2, 8; Siculus (Frugm. lib. xxvi. 3, p. 513) as the author
Gell. ii. 18; Macrob. Sat. i. 11. ) The recent of a work entitled 'Exinuikal apayuatelan, in
edition of the fragments of Varro by Oehler con- fifteen books, but is otherwise unknown.
tains a short but excellent dissertation on the date 3. The author of a work on the Athenian
of Menippus, whom he places at B. c. 60.
painter Theodorus. (Diog. Laërt. ii. 104. ) (LS. )
The works of Menippus were, according to MENOʻDOTUS (Myvóotos), a physician of
Diogenes (vi. 101), thirteen in number, namely, Nicomedeia in Bithynia, who was a pupil of An-
Νεκυία, Διαθήκαι, Επιστολαί κεκομψευμέναι από tiochus of Laodiceia, and tutor to Herodotus of
του των θεών προσώπου, προς τους φυσικούς και | Tarsus ; he belonged to the medical sect of the
μαθηματικούς και γραμματικούς, και γονάς Επι- | Empirici, and lived probably about the beginning
κούρου και τας θρησκευομένας υπ' αυτών είκάδας, | of the second century after Christ. (Diog. Laert.
and others. (Comp. Menag. Observ. in loc. ) ix. $ 116 ; Galen, De Meth. Med. ii. 7, vol. x. p.
3. Of Stratonice, a Carian by birth, was the 142, Introd. c. 4. vol. xiv. p. 683 ; Sext. Empir.
most accomplished orator of his time in all Asia. Pyrrhon. Hypotup. i. & 222, p. 57, ed. Fabric. ) He
( About B. c. 79. ) Cicero, who heard him, puts refuted some of the opinions of Asclepiades of
him almost on a level with the Attic orators Bithynia (Gal. De Nat. Facult. i. 14, vol. ii. p.
(Brut. 91 ; Plut. Cic. 4; Diog. Laërt. vi. 101 ; 52), and was exceedingly severe against the Dog-
Strab. xiv. p. 660).
matici (id. De Subfig. Empir, c. 9, 13, vol. ii. pp.
4. Of Pergamus, a geographer, lived in the time 343, 346, ed. Chart. ). He enjoyed a considerable
of Augustus, and wrote a llepin lous tñs évtos reputation in his day, and is several times quoted
Salátins, of which an abridgement was made by and mentioned by Galen. (De Cur. Rat. per l'en.
Marcianus, and of which some fragments are pre- Sect. c. 9, vol. xi. p. 277; Comment. in Hippocr. “ De
served. He is also quoted several times by Ste-Artic. ” iii. 62, vol. xviii. pt. i. p. 575; Comment, in
phanus Byzantinus.
(See Hoffmann, Menippos der Hippocr. “ De Rat. Vict. in Morb. Acút. ” iv. 17, vol.
Geogruph. Leipz. 1841. )
[P. S. ] xv. p. 766 ; De Libr. Propr. c. 9, vol. xix. p. 38; De
MENIPPUS, artists. Diogenes Laërtius (vi. Compos. Medicam. sec. Locos, vi. i. vol. xii. p. 904. )
101) mentions a statuary and two painters of this He appears to have written some works which are
[P. S. ) quoted by Diogenes Laërtius, but are not now ex-
MENOʻCHARES (Mnvoxápns), an officer of tant. There is, however, among Galen's writings
Demetrius Soter, king of Syria. In B. C. 161, a short treatise entitled, ralyvov Mapaopáo Tou
when Deinetrius had escaped from Rome and esta- του Μηνοδότου Προτρεπτικός Λόγος επί τας
blished himself on the Syrian throne, he sent Me | Téxvas, Galeni Paraphrastae Menodoti Suasoria
nochares to plead his cause with Tiberius Gracchus ad Artes Oratio. This is supposed to have been
[No. 6. ) and his fellow-commissioners, then in written originally by Menodotus, and afterwards
Cappadocia. In the following year, Menochares revised and polished by Galen ; but its history is
was sent by Demetrius to Rome, to conciliate the not quite satisfactorily made out, and its genuine
senate by the present of a golden crown and the ness (as far as Galen is concerned) has been
surrender of Leptines, the assassin of Cn. Octavius, doubted. Its object is sufficiently expressed by
the Roman envoy. (Polyb. xxxi. 4,6 ; Diod. xxxi. the title, and it is composed in a somewhat decla-
E. cc. Leg. xxv. p. 626. ) [LEPTINES, No. 6. ) [E. E. ] matory style, which has perhaps caused it to be
MENODO'RUS, freedman of Pompey. [Me- both unduly admired, and unjustly depreciated. .
NAS. )
On the one hand, Erasmus translated it himself
MENODO’RUS (Mnvóówpos), a writer on bo- into Latin, and it has been several times published
tany and materia medica, quoted by Athenaeus apart from Galen's other works ; and on the other,
(Deimos. ii. p. 59), who says he was a follower of a writer in the Cambridge Museum Criticum (vol.
Erasistratus, and a friend of the physician Hice- ii. p. 318) calls it “a very inferior composition,
sius. He lived, therefore, probably at the end of incorrect in language, inelegant in arrangement,
the first century B. C. , and is perhaps the person and weak in argument. " Perhaps the latest edi-
who is quoted by Andromachus (ap. Gal. de tion is that by Abr. Willet, Greek and Latin, 8vo.
Compos. Medicam. sec. Locos, vii. 3, vol. xiii. p. Lugd. Bat. 1812.
(W. A. G. ]
64).
(W. A. G. ] MENO'DOTUS, sculptor. [Diodorus, No. 2. )
MENODO’RUS (Mevdowpos), of Athens, a MENOECEUS (Mevoskevs). 1. A Theban,
of PI
3.
of A
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Dan
Sot
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MENON.
1048
MENON.
grandson of Penthcus, and father of Hipponome, may have been the father of the leader of Thessa-
Jocaste or Epicaste, and Creon. (A pollod. ii. 4. lian cavalry mentioned by Thucydides in B. C. 431.
§ 5, iii. 5. § 7 ; Eurip. Phoen. 10, and the schol. (Herod. vii. 107; Plut. Cim. 7; Paus. viii. 8;
on 942. )
Thirlwall's Greece, vol. iii. p. 3. ) [Boges. )
2. A grandson of the former, and a son of 2. An Athenian, a fellow-workman of Phel-
Creon. (Eurip. Phoen. 768. ) In the war of the DIAS, was suborned to bring against him the accu-
Seven Argives against Thebes, Teiresias declared sation by which he was ruined. For this service
that the Thebans should conquer, if Menoeceus the faction which had employed Menon obtained
would sacrifice himself for his country. Menoeceus for him from the people the privilege of åráresa.
accordingly killed himself outside the gates of (Plat. Per. 31. )
Thebes (Eurip. Phoen. 913, 930 ; Apollod. iii. 6. 3. A Thessalian adventurer, was a favourite of
$ 7). Pausanias (ix. 25. § 1) relates that Me | Aristippus of Larissa, who placed him in command
nocceus killed himself in consequence of an oracle of the forces, which he had obtained by the help of
of the Delphian god. His tomb was shown at Cyrus the Younger in order to make head against
Thebes near the Neitian gnte. (Paus. l. c. ; comp. a party opposed to him. When Cyrus began his
Suat. Theb. x. 755, &c. , 790. )
[L. S. ] expedition, in B. C. 401, Menon was sent by Ari-
MENOETAS. (MELEAGER, No. 2. ] stippus to his aid with 1500 men, and joined the
MENOETES. The name of two mythical per- prince's army at Colossae. Cyrus having reached
Bonages. (Virg. Aen. v. 161, &c. ; Ov. Met. xii. the borders of Cappadocia, employed Menon to
116. )
(L. S. ] escort back into her own country Epyaxa, the wife
MENOETIUS (Mevoltios). 1. A son of la- of Syennesis, the Cilician king. In passing through
petus and Clymene or Asia, and a brother of Atlas, the defiles on the frontiers Menon lost a number of
Prometheus and Epimetheus, was killed by Zeus his men, who, according to one account, were cut off
with a flash of lightning, in the fight of the Titans, by the Cilicians ; and in revenge for this, his troops
and thrown into Tartarus. (Hes. Theog. 507, &c. , plundered the city of Tarsus and the royal palace.
514; Apollod. i. 2. & 3; Schol. ad Aeschyl. Prom. When the Cyrean army reached the Euphrates,
347. )
Menon persuaded the soldiers under his command
2. A son of Ceuthonymus, a guard of the oxen to be the first to cross the river, and thus to ingra-
of Pluto. (Apollod. i. 5. $ 10; comp.
12, 15, 16, vii. 6, 10. )
[C. P. M. ] Here, in spite of the sanctity of the place, they
MENIPPE (Mevlan). 1. A daughter of were suddenly attacked by Menippus, and were
Orion and sister of Metioche. After Orion was all slain except about fifty, whom he captured.
killed by Artemis, Menippe and Metioche were (Liv. xxxv. 32, 33, 50, 51; comp. Diod. Exc. de
brought up by their mother, and Athena taught | Virt. et l'it. p. 574 ; App. Syr. 15. ) [E. E. )
them the art of weaving, and Aphrodite gave MENIPPUS (MéVITTOS), literary. 1. A
them beauty. Once the whole of Aonia was comic poet, according to Suidas; but Meineke sus-
visited by a plague, and the oracle of Apollo Gor- pects, on very good grounds, that the name is only
tynius, when consulted, ordered the inhabitants to a corruption of Hermippus. (Hist. Crit. Com.
propitiate the two Erinnyes by the sacrifice of two Graec. p. 494. )
maidens, who were to offer themselves to death of 2. A cynic philosopher, and originally a slave,
their own accord. Menippe and Metioche offered was a native of Gadara in Coele-Syria (Steph.
themselves ; they thrice invoked the infernal gods, Byz s. v. Tádapa ; Strab. xvi. p. 759). Diogenes
and killed theinselves with their shutties. Per-calls him a Phoenicia : Coele-Syria was goine-
.
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1012
MENODORUS.
MENOECEUS.
pandson o
Jocaste of
$ 3, ii. 5.
on 942)
Стр. 1
Seven An
that the
woalds
Bocording
Thebes
Docceus
of the 1
Thebes
S:21. TI
ME:
ME
Senazei
116. )
ΔΙΕ
petus 1
Prome
with :
and a
514
317. )
times reckoned as a part of Phoenicia, sometimes scnlptor, who made for the Thespians a copy of the
mot. He seems to have been a hearer of Diogenes. celebrated statue of Eros by Praxiteles, which
lle ainassed great wealth as a usurer (rue poðaver- originally stond at Thespiae, but was removed to
otńs), but was cheated out of it all, and committed Rome by the emperor Caligula. (Paus. ix. 27.
sl. icide. Diogenes, who has given us a short life s$ 3, 4, Bekker. ) The date of this artist aan
of him, with an epigram of his own upon him (ii. only be conjectured by supposing that his copy
99-100), informs us that he wrote nothing was made about the same time that the original
serious, but that his books were full of jests, like was removed, in order to supply its loss. There
those of his contemporary Meleager; and Strabo is nothing to determine whether or no he was the
and Stephanus call himn otovdove holos; that is, he same person as the statuary mentioned by Pliny,
was one of those cynic philosophers who threw all who made athletas et armatos el venutores, sucri-
their teaching into a satirical form. In this cha- ficantesque (11. N. xxxiv. 8. s. 19. § 34). [P. S. )
racter he is several times introduced by Lucian, MENO'DOTUS (Mevódotos). 1. Of Samos,
who in one place speaks of him as twv malusov was the author of at least two works connected
Kuvwv uóna v MaKTIKOV Kal kápxapov ( Bis dccus. 33). with the history of his native island. One bore
Even in the time of Diogenes, his works were the title Tων κατά Σάμον ενδόξων αναγραφή, and
somewhat uncertain; and they are now entirely the other depl TW kata td íepov Tſis Saulas "Hpas.
Jost: but we have considerable fragments of (Athen. xiv. p. 655, xv. pp. 672, 673. )
Varro's Saturae Menippeae, which were written 2. Of Perinthus, is referred to by Diodorus
in imitation of Menippus. (Cic. Acad. i. 2, 8; Siculus (Frugm. lib. xxvi. 3, p. 513) as the author
Gell. ii. 18; Macrob. Sat. i. 11. ) The recent of a work entitled 'Exinuikal apayuatelan, in
edition of the fragments of Varro by Oehler con- fifteen books, but is otherwise unknown.
tains a short but excellent dissertation on the date 3. The author of a work on the Athenian
of Menippus, whom he places at B. c. 60.
painter Theodorus. (Diog. Laërt. ii. 104. ) (LS. )
The works of Menippus were, according to MENOʻDOTUS (Myvóotos), a physician of
Diogenes (vi. 101), thirteen in number, namely, Nicomedeia in Bithynia, who was a pupil of An-
Νεκυία, Διαθήκαι, Επιστολαί κεκομψευμέναι από tiochus of Laodiceia, and tutor to Herodotus of
του των θεών προσώπου, προς τους φυσικούς και | Tarsus ; he belonged to the medical sect of the
μαθηματικούς και γραμματικούς, και γονάς Επι- | Empirici, and lived probably about the beginning
κούρου και τας θρησκευομένας υπ' αυτών είκάδας, | of the second century after Christ. (Diog. Laert.
and others. (Comp. Menag. Observ. in loc. ) ix. $ 116 ; Galen, De Meth. Med. ii. 7, vol. x. p.
3. Of Stratonice, a Carian by birth, was the 142, Introd. c. 4. vol. xiv. p. 683 ; Sext. Empir.
most accomplished orator of his time in all Asia. Pyrrhon. Hypotup. i. & 222, p. 57, ed. Fabric. ) He
( About B. c. 79. ) Cicero, who heard him, puts refuted some of the opinions of Asclepiades of
him almost on a level with the Attic orators Bithynia (Gal. De Nat. Facult. i. 14, vol. ii. p.
(Brut. 91 ; Plut. Cic. 4; Diog. Laërt. vi. 101 ; 52), and was exceedingly severe against the Dog-
Strab. xiv. p. 660).
matici (id. De Subfig. Empir, c. 9, 13, vol. ii. pp.
4. Of Pergamus, a geographer, lived in the time 343, 346, ed. Chart. ). He enjoyed a considerable
of Augustus, and wrote a llepin lous tñs évtos reputation in his day, and is several times quoted
Salátins, of which an abridgement was made by and mentioned by Galen. (De Cur. Rat. per l'en.
Marcianus, and of which some fragments are pre- Sect. c. 9, vol. xi. p. 277; Comment. in Hippocr. “ De
served. He is also quoted several times by Ste-Artic. ” iii. 62, vol. xviii. pt. i. p. 575; Comment, in
phanus Byzantinus.
(See Hoffmann, Menippos der Hippocr. “ De Rat. Vict. in Morb. Acút. ” iv. 17, vol.
Geogruph. Leipz. 1841. )
[P. S. ] xv. p. 766 ; De Libr. Propr. c. 9, vol. xix. p. 38; De
MENIPPUS, artists. Diogenes Laërtius (vi. Compos. Medicam. sec. Locos, vi. i. vol. xii. p. 904. )
101) mentions a statuary and two painters of this He appears to have written some works which are
[P. S. ) quoted by Diogenes Laërtius, but are not now ex-
MENOʻCHARES (Mnvoxápns), an officer of tant. There is, however, among Galen's writings
Demetrius Soter, king of Syria. In B. C. 161, a short treatise entitled, ralyvov Mapaopáo Tou
when Deinetrius had escaped from Rome and esta- του Μηνοδότου Προτρεπτικός Λόγος επί τας
blished himself on the Syrian throne, he sent Me | Téxvas, Galeni Paraphrastae Menodoti Suasoria
nochares to plead his cause with Tiberius Gracchus ad Artes Oratio. This is supposed to have been
[No. 6. ) and his fellow-commissioners, then in written originally by Menodotus, and afterwards
Cappadocia. In the following year, Menochares revised and polished by Galen ; but its history is
was sent by Demetrius to Rome, to conciliate the not quite satisfactorily made out, and its genuine
senate by the present of a golden crown and the ness (as far as Galen is concerned) has been
surrender of Leptines, the assassin of Cn. Octavius, doubted. Its object is sufficiently expressed by
the Roman envoy. (Polyb. xxxi. 4,6 ; Diod. xxxi. the title, and it is composed in a somewhat decla-
E. cc. Leg. xxv. p. 626. ) [LEPTINES, No. 6. ) [E. E. ] matory style, which has perhaps caused it to be
MENODO'RUS, freedman of Pompey. [Me- both unduly admired, and unjustly depreciated. .
NAS. )
On the one hand, Erasmus translated it himself
MENODO’RUS (Mnvóówpos), a writer on bo- into Latin, and it has been several times published
tany and materia medica, quoted by Athenaeus apart from Galen's other works ; and on the other,
(Deimos. ii. p. 59), who says he was a follower of a writer in the Cambridge Museum Criticum (vol.
Erasistratus, and a friend of the physician Hice- ii. p. 318) calls it “a very inferior composition,
sius. He lived, therefore, probably at the end of incorrect in language, inelegant in arrangement,
the first century B. C. , and is perhaps the person and weak in argument. " Perhaps the latest edi-
who is quoted by Andromachus (ap. Gal. de tion is that by Abr. Willet, Greek and Latin, 8vo.
Compos. Medicam. sec. Locos, vii. 3, vol. xiii. p. Lugd. Bat. 1812.
(W. A. G. ]
64).
(W. A. G. ] MENO'DOTUS, sculptor. [Diodorus, No. 2. )
MENODO’RUS (Mevdowpos), of Athens, a MENOECEUS (Mevoskevs). 1. A Theban,
of PI
3.
of A
heb
Opu
Dan
Sot
dan
the
P
ba
SCO
name.
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MENON.
1048
MENON.
grandson of Penthcus, and father of Hipponome, may have been the father of the leader of Thessa-
Jocaste or Epicaste, and Creon. (A pollod. ii. 4. lian cavalry mentioned by Thucydides in B. C. 431.
§ 5, iii. 5. § 7 ; Eurip. Phoen. 10, and the schol. (Herod. vii. 107; Plut. Cim. 7; Paus. viii. 8;
on 942. )
Thirlwall's Greece, vol. iii. p. 3. ) [Boges. )
2. A grandson of the former, and a son of 2. An Athenian, a fellow-workman of Phel-
Creon. (Eurip. Phoen. 768. ) In the war of the DIAS, was suborned to bring against him the accu-
Seven Argives against Thebes, Teiresias declared sation by which he was ruined. For this service
that the Thebans should conquer, if Menoeceus the faction which had employed Menon obtained
would sacrifice himself for his country. Menoeceus for him from the people the privilege of åráresa.
accordingly killed himself outside the gates of (Plat. Per. 31. )
Thebes (Eurip. Phoen. 913, 930 ; Apollod. iii. 6. 3. A Thessalian adventurer, was a favourite of
$ 7). Pausanias (ix. 25. § 1) relates that Me | Aristippus of Larissa, who placed him in command
nocceus killed himself in consequence of an oracle of the forces, which he had obtained by the help of
of the Delphian god. His tomb was shown at Cyrus the Younger in order to make head against
Thebes near the Neitian gnte. (Paus. l. c. ; comp. a party opposed to him. When Cyrus began his
Suat. Theb. x. 755, &c. , 790. )
[L. S. ] expedition, in B. C. 401, Menon was sent by Ari-
MENOETAS. (MELEAGER, No. 2. ] stippus to his aid with 1500 men, and joined the
MENOETES. The name of two mythical per- prince's army at Colossae. Cyrus having reached
Bonages. (Virg. Aen. v. 161, &c. ; Ov. Met. xii. the borders of Cappadocia, employed Menon to
116. )
(L. S. ] escort back into her own country Epyaxa, the wife
MENOETIUS (Mevoltios). 1. A son of la- of Syennesis, the Cilician king. In passing through
petus and Clymene or Asia, and a brother of Atlas, the defiles on the frontiers Menon lost a number of
Prometheus and Epimetheus, was killed by Zeus his men, who, according to one account, were cut off
with a flash of lightning, in the fight of the Titans, by the Cilicians ; and in revenge for this, his troops
and thrown into Tartarus. (Hes. Theog. 507, &c. , plundered the city of Tarsus and the royal palace.
514; Apollod. i. 2. & 3; Schol. ad Aeschyl. Prom. When the Cyrean army reached the Euphrates,
347. )
Menon persuaded the soldiers under his command
2. A son of Ceuthonymus, a guard of the oxen to be the first to cross the river, and thus to ingra-
of Pluto. (Apollod. i. 5. $ 10; comp.
