Mons Sacer, a mountain near Rome, where the Roman populace retired in a tumult, which was the cause of the election of the tribunes.
Mons Sevērus, a mountain near Rome, &c.
Montānus, a poet who wrote in hexameter and elegiac verses. Ovid, ex Ponto.——An orator under Vespasian.——A favourite of Messalina.——One of the senators whom Domitian consulted about boiling a turbot. Juvenal, satire 4.
Mony̆chus, a powerful giant, who could root up trees and hurl them like a javelin. He receives his name from his having the feet of a horse, as the word implies. Juvenal, satire 1, li. 11.
Mony̆ma. See: [Monima].
Mony̆mus, a servant of Corinth, who, not being permitted by his master to follow Diogenes the cynic, pretended madness, and obtained his liberty. He became a great admirer of the philosopher, and also of Crates, and even wrote something in the form of facetious stories. Diogenes Laërtius.
Mophis, an Indian prince conquered by Alexander.
Mopsium, a hill and town of Thessaly, between Tempe and Larissa. Livy, bk. 42.
Mopsopia, an ancient name of Athens, from Mopsus, one of its kings, and from thence the epithet of Mopsopius is often applied to an Athenian.
Mopsuhestia, or Mopsos, a town of Cilicia near the sea. Cicero, Letters to his Friends, bk. 3, ch. 8.