Mnestra, a mistress of Cimon.
Mnĕvis, a celebrated bull, sacred to the sun in the town of Heliopolis. He was worshipped with the same superstitious ceremonies as Apis, and, at his death, he received the most magnificent funeral. He was the emblem of Osiris. Diodorus, bk. 1.—Plutarch, de Iside et Osiride.
Moaphernes, the uncle of Strabo’s mother, &c. Strabo, bk. 12.
Modestus, a Latin writer, whose book De re Militari has been elegantly edited in 2 vols., 8vo, Vesaliæ, 1670.
Modia, a rich widow at Rome. Juvenal, satire 3, li. 130.
Mœcia, one of the tribes at Rome. Livy, bk. 8, ch. 17.
Mœnus, now Mayne, a river of Germany, which falls into the Rhine near Mentz. Tacitus, Germania, ch. 28.
Mœragĕtes, fatorum ductor, a surname of Jupiter. Pausanias, bk. 5, ch. 15.
Mœris, a king of India, who fled at the approach of Alexander. Curtius, bk. 9, ch. 8.——A steward of the shepherd Menalcas in Virgil’s, Eclogues, poem 9.——A king of Egypt. He was the last of the 300 kings from Menes to Sesostris, and reigned 68 years. Herodotus, bk. 2, ch. 13.——A celebrated lake in Egypt, supposed to have been dug by the king of the same name. It is about 220 miles in circumference, and intended as a reservoir for the superfluous waters during the inundation of the Nile. There were two pyramids in it, 600 feet high, half of which lay under the water, and the other appeared above the surface. Herodotus, bk. 2, ch. 4, &c.—Mela, bk. 1, ch. 6.—Pliny, bk. 36, ch. 12.
Mœdi, a people of Thrace, conquered by Philip of Macedonia.