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MEDULLINUS. MEDUSA, I 005
centuries B.c. Galen says he was held in good 3. L. FuRius MEDULLTNUS FusUS, was consul
repute among the Greeks (I. c. p. 252), and quotes in B. C. 474. IHe opposed a revival of the agrarian
him apparently as a respectable authority on an law of Sp. Cassius, *and, on laying down his
anatomical question (Comment. in Hippoc. "De office, was therefore impeached by Cn. Genucius,
Vat. Hornm." ii. 6, vol. xv. p. 136). Like the one of the- tribunes of the plebs. (Liv. ii..54;
other pupils of Chrysippus, he entirely abstained Dionys. ix. 36, 37.)
from blood-letting (Galen, 1. c.). He was, perhaps, 4. P. FURIUS MED'ULLINUS Fusus, was consul
the brother of Cretoxena, the mother of Erasis- in B. c. 472, and opposed the rogation of Publilius
tratus (Suid. in'Epaieo-rp.), but could not have Volero, tribune of the plebs, that the tribunes
been much his' senior. [W. A. G.] should be chosen by the comitia of the tribes, inME'DOCUS. [AMADOCUS.] stead of the comitia of centuries. (Liv. ii. 56;
MEDON (Me,wr). 1. A herald in the house Dionys. ix. 40, 41.)'
of Odysseus. (Hom. Od. iv. 677, xxii. 357.) 5. SP. FURIUS MEDULLINUS FUSUS, was consul
2. A son of Oileus and Rhene, and a brother of in B. c. 464. He was defeated, wounded, and bethe lesser Ajax. Having slain Eriopis, one of his sieged in his camp by the Aequians. (Dionys. ix.
mother's kinsmen, he left his father's house, and 62-67'; Liv. iii. 4, 5.)
fled to Phylace. He commanded the Pythians in 6. P. FURIUS MEDULLINUS, brother and legatus
the war against Troy, and when Philoctetes was of the preceding, was slain in the Aequian war.
wounded, Medon commanded the Methonians in (I)ionys. ix. 63; Liv. iii. 5.)
his place. He was slain by Aeneas. (Hom. II. 7. AGR1PPA FURIUS MEDULLINUS, was consul
ii. 727, &c., xiii. 693, &c., xv. 332.) in B. C. 446. He was engaged in the Volscian and
Two other mythical personages of this name oc- Aequian wars, and protested against the unjust decor in Ovid (Met. xii. 303), and Hyginus (Fab. cision of the curies at Rome respecting a tract of
134). [L. S.] land claimed by Ardea on the one side and by
MEDON (M78jov). 1. King of Argos, was son Aricia on the. other. (Dionys. xi. 51; Liv. iii. 66.
of Ceisus, and grandson of Temenus the Hera- 70,71.) The praenomen Agrippa was probably
cleid. (Paus. ii. 19; Clint. F. H. vol. i. p. 249, derived from some accident at the birth of Medulnote v.) linus (Plin. H. V. vii. 6), as it was not a family
2. A citizen of Beroea, was one of the ambas- name in the Furia gens.
sadors whom Perseus, king of' Macedonia, sent 8. L. FURIvs Sp. F. MEDULLINUS FUSUS, was
with a proposal of peace to the Romans after he thrice military tribune, with consular authority:
had defeated them, under P. Licinius Crassus, on I. B. C. 432 (Liv. iv. 25). II. B. C. 425 (id. ib.
the banks of the Peneus, in B. C. 171. Licinius, 35). III. B. C. 420 (id. ib. 45).
however, adhered to the regular Roman policy, of 9. L. FURIUS MEDULLINUS, was twice connever granting peace but after a victory. (Polyb. sul, B. C. 413, 409. In his first consulate he conxxvii. 8; Liv. xlii. 62.) [E. E.] ducted the Volscian war and'took Ferentinum
~ MEDON (Me'aor), a Lacedaemonian statuary, (Liv. iv. 51); in his second both the Aequian and
the brother of Dorycleidas, and the disciple of Volscian, when he captured Carventuni (id. ib. 54,
Dipoenus and Scyllis, made the gold and ivory 55).
statue of Athena in the Heraeum at Olympia 10. L. FURivs L. F. SP. N. MEDULLINUnS, was
(Paus. v. 17. ~ 1). He flourished about B. c. seven times military tribune with consular autho550. [P.S.] rity: I. B.C. 407 (Liv. iv. 57); II. 405, in the
MEDO'SADES (M-Ooahd8rxs), a man employed year the siege of Veii began (id. ib. 61); III. B.C.
by Seuthes, king of Thrace, to conduct his negoti- 398 (Liv. v. 12); IV. 397 (Liv. v. 14); V. 395
ations with Xenophon and the troops under his (id. ib. 24); VI. 394 (id. ib. 26); VII. B. c. 391
command, after their return from their Asiatic ex- (id. i6. 32; Fasti).
pedition. (Xen. Anab. vii. I ~ 5, vii. 2. ~ 10, 11. SP. FURIUS L. F. SP. N. MEDULLINUS, tri24, vii. 7. ~ 1, &c.) [C. P. M.] bune of the soldiers with consular authority, B. c.
MEDULLI'NUS, a family-name of the gens 400. (Fasti.)
Furia, a very ancient patrician house at Rome. 12. L. FuRIus SP. F. L. N. MEDULLtNUS (son
[FURIA GENS.] Medullia, from which the sur- of the preceding), was twice military tribune with
name comes, was a Latin town very early incorpo- consular authority, B. c. 381, 370. In his first conrated with Rome (Dionys. iii. 1; Liv. i. 33, 38), sular tribunate he was joined in the command of
and, since Medullinus appears on the Fasti in B. C. the Volscian war with M. Furius Camillus. [CA488, only five years after the Cassian treaty of MILLUS, No. 1.] Medullinus was through his
isopolity with the Latin league, this branch of the own rashness defeated by the enemy. Camillus,
Furii was doubtless Latin. The Tullii Hostilii however, rescued him, and afterwards named him
also were originally from Medullia. (Dionys. 1. c.; his colleague in a second campaign. Medullinus
Macrob, Sat. i. 6.) was censor in B. C. 363. (Liv. vi.22-25, 36;
1. SEXT. FURIus MEDULLINUS Fusus, was Fast.)
consul in B. C. 488, the year in which, according to 13. Sp. FuviUS SP. F. L. N. MEDULLINUS,
the common story, Coriolanus led the Volscians brother of the preceding, was military tribune B.C.
against Rome. (Dionys. viii. 16, 63; Liv. ii. 378. He commanded in the war with the Volscians
39.) of Antium. (Liv. vi. 31.)' [W. B. D.]
2. Sp. FURIUs MEDULLINUS Fusus, was consul MEDULLIFNUS, MAENIUS. [MAENIUS,
in B. C. 481. Livy says that his consulate was No. 8.]
occupied by tribunitian dissensions, and an inroad MEDUS (M8eos), a son of Medeia and Jason.
into the'territory of Veii (ii. 43). Dionysius re- [See MEDETA and MEDEIUS.] A second person.
presents him as a popular consul (587umrmmcos), and age of the same name is mentioned by Plutarch.
assigns, him a successful campaign against the (De Fliv. 24.) [L. S.]
Aequians (ix. 1, 2). MEDU/SA(ME'Sovoa). I. A daughter of Phort