MORGETES.
 

jUOSELLa.
 

bit. coast, probably at the mo'ith of the Symaa-

thus; but, according to other writers, it was

situated in the interior of the island, southeast

of Agyrium, and near the Symaethus.   The

neighboring country produced good wine.

  Morgetes (Mdpy^TEf), an ancient people  in

the south of Italy.  According to Strabo  they

dwelt in the neighborhood of Rhegium, but, be¬

ing driven out of Italy by the CEnotrians, cross¬

ed over to Sicily, and there founded the town

of Morgantium.   According to Dionysius of

Halicarnassus, Morges  was the successor of

the CEnotrian  king Italus, and  hospitably re¬

ceived Siculus, who had been driven out of Lati¬

um by the Aborigines, in consequence of which

the earlier CEnotrians were called Italietes, Mor¬

getes, and Sieuli.  According to this account,

the Morgetes ought to be regarded as a branch

of the 03notrians.

  Moeia or Moeija (Mapwv bpog),  a mountain

of Judaaa, within the city of Jerusalem, on the

summit of which the temple  was built.   Vid.

Jerusalem.

  LMoricambe^Estuarium (MopiKapBn elgxvaig),

now Morecambe Bay), an estuary or bay on the

western coast of Britannia.]

  Morimene (Moptpevij), the northwestern dis¬

trict of Cappadoeia, on the banks of the Halys,

assigned under  the Romans to Galatia.  Its

meadows were entirely devoted to  the feeding

of cattle.

  M5eini, a people in Gallia Belgica, west of

the Nervii and Menapii, and the most northerly

people in all Gaul, whence Virgil calls  them

extremi hominum (Mn., viii., 727). ,  They dwelt

on the coast, opposite Britain, and  at the nar¬

rowest part  of the channel between Gaul and

Britain, which is hence sometimes called Fre-

tum Morinorum or Morinum.  They were a brave

and warlike people.  Their country was  cov¬

ered with woods and marshes.  Their  princi¬

pal town was Gesoeiacum.

  [Moritasgus, brother of Cavarinus, king  of

the Senones at the arrival of Caasar in Gaul]

  Morius (Mdpiog), a small river in Boaotia, a

southern tributary of the Cephisus, at the foot

of Mount Thurion, near Chaeronea.

   Mormo (Moppd, also MoppoXvKn, MoppoXvx-

eiov), a female spectre,  with which the Greeks

used to frighten children.

   Morpheus  (Mop^eiic), the son of Sleep, and

the god  of dreams. The  name signifies the

fashioner or moulder,  because he  shaped  or

formed  the  dreams wbioh appeared to the

sleeper.

   Moes,  called Thanatos  (Odvarog) by the

Greeks, the god of death.  In the Homeric po¬

ems Death does not appear as a distinct divin¬

ity, though he is described as the brother  of

Sleep, together with whom he carries the body

of Sarpedon from the field of battle  to the coun¬

try of the Lycians.  In Hesiod he is a son  of

Night and a  brother of Ker and Sleep, and

Death and Sleep reside in the lower world.  In

the Alcestis of Euripides, where Death comes

upon  the stage, he appears as an austere priest

of Hades in  a dark robe and with the sacrificial

sword, with  which he cuts off a lock of a dying

person, and devotes it to the lower world.  On

the whole, later poets describe Death as a sad

or terrific being (Horat., Carm., i.t  4, 13;  Sat.,

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ii, 1, 57) ; but the best artists of tne Greens,

avoiding any thing that  might be displeasing,

abandoned the idea suggested to them  by the

poets,  and  represented  Death under a more

pleasing aspect.   On the chest  of Cypselus,

Night was represented with two boys, one black

and the other white; and at Sparta there were

statues of both Death and Sleep.   Both were

usually represented as slumbering youths, or as

genii with torches turned upside down.  There

are traces  of sacrifices having  been offered

to Death, but no temples  are mentioned anj

where.

  [Morsimus (Mbpmpog), son of Philocles, and

brother of Melanthius, a tragic poet, who, as

well as his brother, was made the object of the

bitterest attacks of Aristophanes, on account

of both his dull and lifeless poetry and his de

based character.]

  Moryohus (Mbpvxog),  a tragic  poet,  a  con¬

temporary of Aristophanes, noted  especially for

his gluttony and  effeminacy.

  [Morys (Mbpvg), son of  Hippotion, a Phrygi¬

an, slain by Meriones at the siege of Troy/

  Mosa (now Maas or Meuse), a river in Gailta

Belgica, rises in Mount Vogesus, in the terri¬

tory of the Lingones, flows first northeast and

then northwest,  and falls into the Vahalis or

western branch of the Rhine.

  Moscha (Mdo^a : now Muscat), an important

sea-port on  the  northeastern coast of  Arabia

Felix,  northwest of Syagrus, the easternmost

promontory of the peninsula (now Ras el-Had);

a chief emporium for the  trade between India

and Arabia.

  Mosoin (Mdcriw), a people of Asia, whose ter¬

ritory (b MoaxiK-n, Moschorum Tractus)  formed

originally the southern part of Colchis, but, at

the time of Augustus, was  divided between Col¬

chis, Iberia, and  Armenia.

  Moschici  Montes or -Tcus Mons  (ra  Moaxi-

Ka bpn: now Mesjidi), a range of mountains ex¬

tending south and southwest from the main

chain of the Caucasus to that of the Anti-Tau¬

rus, and forming the boundary between Colchis

and Iberia: named after the Moschi, who dwelt

among them.  Though  lofty,  they  were  well

wooded to the summit, and their lower slopes

were planted with vines.

  Moschion (Moaxlav), a  Greek physician, the

author  of a  short Greek treatise " On Female

Diseases," is supposed to have lived in  the be¬

ginning of the second century after Christ.  The

work is edited by Dewez, Vienn., 1793.

   Mosohus  (Mboxog), of Syracuse,  a gramma¬

rian and bucolic poet,  lived about B.C. 250.

Suidas says that he was acquainted with Aris-

tarchus.  According to this statement, his date

ought  to be  placed later; but he calls himself a

pupil of Bion in the idyl  in  which he bewails

the death of the  latter.  Vid. Bior.   There are

four of his idyls extant.   He wi/tes with ele¬

gance  and liveliness; but he is inferior to Bion,

and comes still further behind Theocritus. His

style labors under an excess of polish and or¬

nament. For editions, vid. Bion, [and add, by

Hermann, Leipzig, 1849.]

   Mosella  (now Mosel  or Moselle), a river ir.

Gallia Belgica, rises in  Mount Vogesus, flows

northeast through the territories of the Treviri,

and falls into the Rhine  at  Confluentes  (nuw