sacrifices his first-born, v. 110

Mesopotamia, artificial fertilization of the date-palm in, ix. 272 sq.;

Atrae in, x. 82

Mespelaer, in Belgium, St. Peter's fires at, x. 195

Messaria, in Cythnos, children passed through holed rock near, xi. 189

Messenia, Andania in, ii. 122

Messiah, pretended new, in America, i. 409;

pretended Jewish, at Smyrna, iv. 46;

“the Anointed One,” v. 21

Metageitnion, an Attic month, vii. 77, viii. 17 n. 2, ix. 354