Smith, William, A new classical dictionary of Greek and Roman biography mythology and geography

(New York :  Harper & Brothers,  1884.)

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MOKESES.
 

MORGANTIUM.
 

all ether ancient writers give the name of Mona

to the Isle of Anglesey, and the name of the

latter island is likely to have been mentioned

to Caesar on accp-unt of its celebrity in  connec¬

tion with the Diuids.

  Mon^ses.  1. A Parthian general, mentioned

by Horace (Carm., iii.,  6, 9), is probably the

same as Surenas, the general of Orodes,  who

defeated Crassus.—2. A. Parthian noble,  who

deserted to Antony and urged him to invade

Parthia, but soon afterward  returned to the

Parthian king Phraates.—3. A general of the

Parthian king, Vologeses  I.,  in  the reign of

Nero.

  Monapia or Monaeina (now Isle of Man), an

island between Britannia and Hibernia.

  Monda or Munda (now Mondego), a river on

the western coast of Spain, which flows  into

the ocean between the Tagus and Durius.

  Moneta, a surname of Juno among the Ro¬

mans, by which she was characterized as the

protectress of money.  Under this name  she

had a temple on the Capitoline, in which there

was at the same time the mint, just as the pub¬

lic treasury was in the temple of Saturn.   The

temple had been vowed by the dictator L. Furius

in a battle against the Aurunci, and was erect¬

ed on the spot where the house of M. Manlius

Capitolinu.3 had  stood.  Moneta signifies the

mint; but some writers found such a meaning

too plain. Thus Livius Andronicus used Moneta

as a translation of Mnemosyne (Mvnpoabvn), and

thus  made her the mother of the Muses or Ca-

mensa.  Cicero relates that, during an earth¬

quake, a voice was heard issuing from the tem¬

ple of Juno on the Capitol, and admonishing

(monens) that a pregnant sow should be sacri¬

ficed.  A somewhat more  probable reason for

the name is given by  Suidas, though he assigns

it to  too late a time.  In the war with Pyrrhus

and the Tarentines, he says, the Romans, being

in want of money, prayed to  Juno, and were

told  by the goddess that money would not be

wanting to them so  long  as they would fight

with the arms of justice.  As the Romans by

experience found the truth of the words of Juno,

they  called her Juno Moneta.   Her festival was

celebrated on the first of June.

  Monima (Movlpn), a Greek woman, either of

Stratonicea, in Ionia, or of Miletus,  was the

wife  of Mithradates,  but was  put to death by

order of this monarch when he fled into Arme¬

nia, B.C, 72.

   Monceoi Poetus,  also  Herculis Monceci

Portus (now Monaco), a port-town on the coast

of Liguria, between Nicaea and Albium Inteme-

lium, founded  by the Massilians, was situated

nn a promontory (hence the arx Monad of Virg.,

Mn , vi, 801), and possessed a temple of Her¬

cules Moncecus, from whom the place  derived

its name.  The harbor,  though small  and ex¬

posed to the southeastern wind, was of import¬

ance, as it was the only one on this part of the

coast of Liguria.

  Montanus, Cuetius, was exiled by Nero A.D.

67, but was soon afterward recalled at his fa¬

ther's petition.  On the accession of Vespasian,

he vehemently attacked in the senate the noto¬

rious delator  Aquilius Regulus.  If the same

person with the Curtius Montanus satirized by

luvenal (iv.,  107, 131; xi., 34),  Montanus in
 

 later life sullied the fair reputation he ei loves'

 in youth ; for Juvenal describes him as a corpu¬

 lent epicure, a parasite of Domitian, and a hack¬

 neyed declaimer.

   [Montanus, Julius, a versifier of some re¬

 pute  in the reign  of Tiberius, and one of tie

 emperor's private friends.]

  Montanus, Voltienus, an orator and declaim

 er in the reign of Tiberius.  From bis propen¬

 sity to refine upon thought and diction,  he wae

 named the  " Ovid"  of the rhetorical schools.

 He was convicted on a charge of majestas, and

 died an exile in the Balearic islands,  A.D. 25.

  Mopsia or Mopsopia, an ancient name of Pam-

 phylia, derived from Mopsus, the mythical lead¬

 er of certain Greeks who were supposed to have

 settled in  Pamphylia, as also in Cilicia and

 Syria, after the Trojan war, and whose name

 appears more than  once  in  the  geographical

 names in Cilicia.  (Vid. e. g. Mopsucrene, Mop

 suestia.)

  Mopsium (Mmpwv : Mofwg), a town of Thes¬

 saly in Pelasgiotis,  situated  on a hill of the

 same name, between Tempe and Larissa.

  Mopsucrene (Moipov Kpbvn or Kpijvai, i. e., the

 Spring of Mopsus), a city of Cilicia Campestris,

 on the southern slope of the Taurus, and twelve

 Roman miles from Tarsus, was the place whare

 the Emperor Constantius died, A.D. 364.

   Mopsuestia (Moipov iarla,  Moipovearia, i. e ,

 the Hearth  of Mopsus,  also Moipov  iroXig and

 Mbfog:  Moyjedrng:  Mamistra, in the  Middle

 Ages: now Messis),  an important city of Cilicia

 Campestris, on both banks of the River Pyr-

 amus, twelve Roman miles from its mouth, or

 the road from Tarsus to Issus, in the beautifu1

 plain called rb 'AXij'tov ireSlov, was a civitas li¬

 bera under the Romans.  The two parts of tlv»

 city were connected by a handsome bridge buih

 by Constantius over the Pyramus.  In ecclesi¬

 astical history, it is  notable as the birth-plact

 of Theodore of Mopsuestia.

  Mopsuo (Mcnpog).  1. Son of Ampyx  or Am¬

 pyous by the nymph  Chloris.   Being  a seer, he

i was also called a son of Apollo by  Himantis.

 He was one of the Lapdhae of CEchalia or Ti-

 taeron (Thessaly), and took part in the  combat

 at the wedding of Piriihous.   He was  one of

 the  Calydonian hunter.", and also  one of the

 Argonauts, and was a famous prophet among

 the  Argonauts.  He died in Libya of the bite

 of a snake, and was buried there by the Argo¬

 nauts.  He was afterward worshipped as an

 oracular hero.—2 Son of Apollo and Manto, the

 daughter of Tiresias, and also a celebrated seer.

 He contended in prophecy with Calchas at Col¬

 ophon, and showed  himself superior to the lat

 ter in prophetic  power.   Vid Calchas.   He

 was believed to have founded Mallos  in Cilicia,

 in conjunction with the seer Amphiloohus.  A

 dispute arose between the  two seers respecting

 the  possession of the town, and both fell in

 combat by each other's hand.   Mopsus  had an

 oracle at Mallos, which existed as late as the

 time of Strabo.

  Moegantium, Moegantina,Muegantia,Mok

 oentia (Mopydvrwv,  Mopyavrivn : Mopyavrivoc

 Murgentinus), a town in Sicily founded by the

 Morgetes, after  they had  been driven  out of

 Italy by tke CEnotrians.  According to Livj

 (xxiv., 27)  this city  was stuated on  the east

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