Caefarienfis, in the lower age; fo | called from Sitifis, Ammian, its metropolis.

MAURUSIA, Strabo; the fame with Mauretania, the latter being the Roman, and the former the Greek name; in the fame manner as Maurufi is the Greek appellation of the Mauri of the Romans, MAUSOLI MONUMENTUM, the tomb of Mausolus king of Caria, erected at Halicarnaffus by his confort queen Artemifia, and reckoned one of the feven wonders of the world, Mela, Strabo. MAXERA, Ptolemy; a river of Hyrcania, running through the middle of that country, from fouth to north into the Cafpian fea. MAXYES, Herodotus; a people of Africa to the north of the Triton. MAZACA, orum, Coins, Strabo, Ptolemy; a principal city of Cappadocia, with the furname Eufebia at mount Argaeus, afterwards under Tiberius changed for the appellation Caefarea, in honour of Auguftus, Coin, Eutropius, Sextus Rufus, Pliny; diftant from the Euxine eight hundred ftadia, from the Pylae Ciliciae, a fix day's journey, Strabo. Mazarenus, the gentilitious name, id.

MAZAEI, Strabo; a people of Pan

nonia Inferior, of Dalmatia, Dio. MAZARA, Diodorus, Ptolemy, Stephanus; a citadel and port of the Selinuntii on the fouth-weft fide of the island of Sicily, with a cogno. minal rivulet.

MAZOR. See MIZRAIM. MAZUSIA. See MASTUSIA. MECHMAS. See MICHMAS. MECON, Stephanus; Mecone, Strabo; the ancient name of Sicyon, which fee: MECYBERNA, Herodotus, Scylax; a town of Macedonia, fituate between Olynthus and Torone. Hence the Sinus Mercybernaeus, Pliny; the fame with the Toronaeus. The : town was taken by Philip by treachery, Diodorus.

MEDAMA, Strabo; Medma, Pliny; a town and river of the Bruttii in Itały. The town now Rofarno, Clueverius a village of Calabria Ultra, on the Tuscan fea; the river retain⚫ing its ancient name.

MEDAMNE. See MESOPOTAMIA, MEDEA, Joshua; Medava or Meda ba, Ptolemy; a town a little to the north-weft of Hesbon in Arabia Petraea, Jerome; fituate in a plain in the tribe of Reuben; whereas Hefbon lay in a hilly country, Joshua.

MEDAURA. See MADAURA. MEDERIACUM, Itinerary; a town of Belgica, fituate between Sablones and Theudurum. Now faid to be Mierl, on the Meufe, three leagues from Venlo in Guelderland. MEDEON, Strabo, Pliny; a town of Boeotia,taking its name from a cognominal town of Phocis. The former fituate near Oncheftus, at the foot of mount Phoenix, and thence named Phoenicis, Strabo; the latter or Medeon of Phocis; fituate on the Sinus Criffaeds near Anticyra, and diftant one hundred and fixty ftadia to the west of the Medeon of Boeotia, id. lying in ruins, Paufa

nias.

MEDIA, Ptolemy; a country of the Farther Afia, terminated on the north, by a part of the Cafpian fea; on the west, by Armenia Major; on the east, by Parthia and Hyrcania; and on the fouth, by Perfis, Sufiana and part of Affyria. Divided into two parts, Strabo ; viz. Media Magna, whofe capital was Ecbatana; and into Media Atrapatia or Atrapatene, id. Pliny; ftretching out towards the Cafpian fea, Pliny. Atrapateni, the people, id. It takes its name from the Prefect Atrapatos, who made head against Alexander, and prevented his occupying that country; of which Atrapatos afterwards became king, and the crown continued in his family, down to Strabo's time. MEDIOLANUM, Livy, Pliny; an ancient city, the capital of the Infurbres, built by the Gauls, on their fettlement in that part of Italy. A municipium, and a place of great ftrength, Tacitus. The feat of the liberal arts, whence it had the name of Novae Athenae, Pliny the Younger, Infcription. Now Milan, capital of the Milanefe, fituate on the rivers Olana and Lombro. E. Long. 9° 30', Lat. 45° 25'. MEDIOLANUM AULERCORUM, Ptolemy,

lemy, Peutinger; a town of Gallia Celtica. Which afterwards took the name of the Eburovicum Civitas, Antonine; corrupted to Civitas Ebroicorum, and this laft, to Ebroica, whence the modern appellation, Evreux, a city of Normandy. E. Long. 1° 12', Lat. 49°

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MEDIOLANUM GUGERNORUM, Antonine; a town of Gallia Belgica. Now the village Moyland, Cluverius; not far from Cologne. MEDIOLANUM ORDOVICUM, Ptolemy, Antonine; a town of Britain. Now Llan-Vethlin, Camden; a market-town in Montgomeryshire in Wales. MEDIOLANUM SANTONUM, Ptolemy;

Mediolanium, Strabo; which afterwards taking the name of the people, was called Santonica urbs, Aufonius; alfo Santones and Santoni, id. A town of Aquitain. Now Saintes, capital of Saintonge in Guienne, on the river Charente. W. Long. 36', Lat. 45o 50'. MEDIOMATRICI, Caefar; a people of Belgica. Now the diocefe of Metz.

MEDIOMATRICORUM OPPIDUM. See DIVODURUS.

MEDMA. See MEDAMA. MEDMASSA, Stephanus ; a town of Caria; one of the fix towns allotted by Alexander to the city of Halicarnaffus, Pliny. MEDOACUS, Pliny; Meduacus, Livy; Major and Minor, Peutinger; the former a river to the north called Brenta, and the latter to the fouth called Bachiglione; beth running down from the Alpes Tridentinae to the fouth-eaft, and falling into the Adriatic near Venice. MEDOBREGA, Hirtius; Medobriga or Meidobriga, Antonine; a town of Lufitania, near mount Herminius. Now extin&, and its ruins called Armenna, in Portugal, Refendius. Medobregenfes, the people, Hirtius. They had lead mines to work, whence they were furnamed Plumbarii, Pliny.

MEDUACUS. See MEDOACUS. MEDUANA, Lucan; a river of Gallia Celtica, running from north to fouth into the Laedus, and both together into the Ligeris, on its north

MEGABARENSES, Diodorus; a branch of the Troglodytae of the Higher Egypt.

MEGABRADI, Ptolemy; à people of Ethiopia beyond Egypt; Megabari, Strabo; whom he fometimes joins with the Blemyes and Nubae, MEGALE POLIS, dividedly, Ptolemy, Paufanias; or conjointly Megalopolis, Strabo; a very recent town of Arcadia, built under the auspices of Epaminondas, after the battle of Leuctra, many inconsiderable towns being joined in one great city, the better to withstand the Spartans, Paufanias;, the greatest city of Arcadia, Strabo, watered by the river Heliffon, Paufanias. Megalopolitae, the people, Stephanus. Megalopolitani, Livy.

MEGARA, ae, orum, Coin, Strabo;

Megaris, idos, Diodorus; anciently called Hybla, Stephanus, Strabo; a town towards the east coast of Sicily; extinct in Strabo's time; tho' the name Hybla remained, on account of the excellence of its honey. It was a colony of Megareans from Greece. Rifus Megarius, denotes a horfe laugh. MEGARA, orum, Thucydides, Livy, Juftin; Megara, ae, Pliny, Velleius; a noble city, and the capital of the territory of Megaris, which carried on for many years war with the Corinthians and Athenians; it had for some time a school of philofophers, called the Megarici, fucceffors of Euclid the Socratic, a native of Megara. Their dialect was the Doric, changed from the Attic, which it formerly had been, becaufe of Peloponnefian Colonists, who fettled there, Paufanias. At length it became a Roman colony, Pliny. Megarenfes, the people, Coins;

Megares, Plautus; the country of Theognis, the gnomist or fententious moralift. The territory produced excellent bulbous roots, Columella.

MEGARIS, ides, the country of the Magaréans, which Pliny makes a X X 2 part

MEGARSUS. See MAGARSUS. MEGATICHOS, Pliny; a town on a hill between Egypt and Ethiopia; called Myrfon by the Arabs. MEGIDDO, Judges v. 19. Magedo or Mageddo, Jofephus; by the waters, fuppofed to be the river Kison; near which, verfe 21. the battle with Sifera happened. A town of Galilee, recited Joshua xvij. 11. among the cities of Manaffeh, in the tribe of Iffachar or Affer, on the weft fide of Jordan. Famous for the fate of Ahaziah and Jofiah, who perihed there:

near it was

an open plain, fit for drawing up armies in battle-array. And thus it was fituate to the north, contrary to its pofition in the common maps. The Canaanites being tributary to the Ifaelites, dwelt in it, Joshua xvii. was rebuilt by Solomon, 1 Kings ix,"

MEGISBA, Pliny, a lake of Taprobane, which emits two rivers; not mentioned by Ptolemy, though very full in his account of that island. MEGISTA, Pliny, Ptolemy, an island on the coaft of Cilicia, in the Lycian fea; its city was extinct in Pli"hy's time.

ME JARKON, the water of Jarkon, Joshua xxi. a town in the tribe of Dan.

MELDOBRIGA. See MEDOBREGA. MELA, a mall river of the Tranfpadana, running by, not through Brixia, as in the common editions of Catullus, on the west fide, praecurrit for percurrit from north to fouth into the Allius; called Mella, Virgil, Servius. Still called Mela. MELAE, Livy; a town of Samnium; 'called alfo Meles, id.

MELAENAE, Pliny; Melenaeae, Paufanias; a town of Arcadia.

MELAMPHYLLUS, Pliny; Melamphylus, Strabo; an ancient name of Samos. MELANCHLAENI, Pliny; a people of Sarmatia Afiatica, near the Bof porus Cimmerius, fituate between the Hippici Montes and the river Rha, Diodorus Siculus; fo called from wearing black, Mela, Dio Chryfoftomus.

MELANE, Pliny; a small island near Ephefus.

MELANEIS, Stephanus; a town of Euboea, called alfo Eretria, Strabo, MELANEN, Pliny; a town of Arcadia.

MELANES, or Nigri Montes, Ptolemy; mountains of Arabia Petraea, running northwards from the Wildernefs of Paran or Pharan. Alíq mountains of Arabia Felix, towards the Perfian Gulf, Ptolemy. MELANIA, Strabo; a town of Cilicia.

MELANIPPEA, Strabo, Stephanus ; one of the islands or rocks near Cyprus, called Cheledoniae. MELANO, Pliny; an island in the Si nus Ceramicus. MELANOGAETULI, Ptolemy; a peaple in the fouth of Gaetulia Pro

pria, towards the Niger; which river they had to the fouth of them. MELANTIANA, Peutinger, Melantias, ados, Antonine; called in Suidas's time Melitias; a village of Thrace, diftant an hundred and two stadia from Byzantium, the river Athyras runs by it; which after running a little way, and gradually inclining to the north-east, falls into the Propontis; with a dock at its mouth,

MELANTII, Apollonius Rhodus, Strabo; rocks in the fea, near Samos; faid by the Scholiaft to be two in number, near Thera, fo called from the owner Melas.' MELANTHUS, Ovid; a river of Sarmatia Europea, running into the Borysthenes.

MELAS, anos, Strabo; a river of Achaia, running by Olenus. Another of Boeotia, which runs into the lake Copais, or Cephifis, Paufanias. But Strabo writes, that it quite difappeared, being either fwallowed up in a gulf, or in lakes: it is faid not to have run a great way; but

that

that rifing at Orchomenus, it foon after loft itself in lakes. A third Melas, a river of Pamphylia, running from north to fouth, into the Mediterranean, to the east of Side, with a harbour at its mouth, or a road for fhips, Strabo. A fourth of Thrace, Mela; which gives name to the Sinus Melanes. A fifth of Sicily, called alfo Facelinus. See FACELINAE. Mela, ae, Ovid whose banks afforded pafture and stalls to the oxen of the fun. MELDAE, Ptolemy; Moldi, Strabo ; Meldi Liberi, Pliny; nor unknown to Caefar; a town of Gallia Celti- | ca, called Meldorum Civitas, Notitia; on the Matrona. Alfo the name of the people. Now Meaux, a city in Champaign on the Marne. E. Long. 30, Lat. 49°.

the appellation. Now called la Pif motta, Cluverius.

MELICUS. See MALIACUS.

MELIEIS. See MELOS. MELIGUNIS, Callimachus; one of the Eolian islands, afterwards called Lipara.

MELINA, Stephanus; a town of Argos; from which Venus is called Melinea.

MELIS. See MALIACUS.
MELISSA, Athenaeus; a village of
Phrygia, fituate between Synada
and Metropolis; the burial place of
Alcibiades.

MELITA, Pliny; one of the Demi, or hamlets of Attica. Meliteus, the gentilitious name, Infcription. MELITAEA, Strabo, Melitia, Thucydides; a town of the Phthiotis in Theffaly.

ca.

Phrygia, to the eaft of Synada, on the borders of Galatia.

as; a fine river running by the walls of Smyrna in Ionia, with a cave at its head, where Homer is faid to have written his poems. Meletaeus, the epithet, as Meletaeae chartae, Tibullus, Homer's works. And from it Homer takes his original name Melefigenes, given him by his mother Critheis, as being born on its banks, Herodotus. MELETIS SINUS. See SMYRNAEUS. MELIBOCUS MONS, Ptolemy; a mountain of Germany, fituate between the Vifurgis and Albis. Cluverius thinks it is in the Hartz. Quere, whether it is not the Blockberg, a name not very unlike the original name.

MELIBOEA, Livy; a town of Theffaly, fituate at the foot of mount Oeta, where it verges towards Theffaly.

MELIBOEA, Lucretius, Virgil; an inland of Syria, at the mouth of the Orontes; which, before it falls into the fea, forms a spreading lake round it. This inland was famous for its purple dye: thought to be a colony of Theffalians: and hence Lucretius's epithet, Theffalicus. MELCHIE, or Milichie, Pliny; a fountain below the Neapolis of Syracuse, remarkable for the fweetness and falubrity of its water; and hence

referred to Africa, Scylax, Ptolemy; but nearer Sicily, and allotted to it by the Romans: commended for its commodious harbours, for a city well-built, with artificers of every kind, especially weavers of fine linen, Diodorus; all owing to the Phoenicians, the first colonists. Now Malta. Remarkable for St. Paul's fhipwreck, Luke.

MELITE, Agathemerus; Melita, Pliny; Melitina Infula, Ptolemy. An island on the coaft of Illyricum, in the Adriatic. The Catuli Melitaei, Pliny; were famous. Now Melede.Melite, Strabo; the name of the inland Samos.

MELITE, Vitruvius; a town of Ionia, ftruck out of the number of the Ionian towns, on account of the arrogance of the people, and Smyrna admitted in lieu of it. Its situation not faid. MELITENE, Pliny, Strabo; a preIfecture, or government of Cappadocia, and one of the nobleft; washed by the Euphrates on the east, which feparates it from Sophene, a diftrict of Armenia Major. F. qually fertile with Sophene, and more fo than any other part of Cappadocia, producing wine and oil, and a fpecies of the former, called Monarites,equal to any Greek