A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology. By various writers. Ed. by William Smith. Illustrated by numerous engravings on wood.

~MENIPPE. MENIPPUS. o41
MENE'STHI US (MEro-0oso). 1.. A son of sephone and HIades metamorphosed them into
Areithous and Philomedusa, of Arne in Boeotia, comets. The Aonians erected to them a sanctuary
was slain at Troy by Paris. (Hom. II. vii. 9, &c., near Orchomenos, where a propitiatory sacrifice
136, &c.) - was offered to them every year by youths and
2. A son of the river-god Spercheius or of maidens. The Aeolians called these maidens CaBorus and Polydora, was one of the commanders ronides. (Ov. Met. xiii. 685; Allton. Lib. 25
of the hosts of Achilles. (Hom. II. xvi. 173, Schol. ad Hornm. 11. xviii. 486.)
&c.) [L. S.] 2. A daughter of Peneius, and wife of Pelasgus,
MENE'STRATUS (Meveorparos), an Athe- by whom she became the mother of Phrastor
nian, of the demus of Amphitrope, in the tribe (Dionys. i. 28).
Antiochis, who, being in danger from an accusation 3.'A daughter of Thamyris, and according to
brought against him by the informer Agoratus, rome the mother of Orpheus (Tzetz. Chdil. i. 12).
under the tyranny of the Thirty, saved his own 4. A daughter of Nereus and Doris. (Hes.
life by giving false information against a number Theoq. 260.) [L. S.]
of his fellow-citizens. After the restoration of the MENIPPUS (MEtwir7os), a son of Megareus,
democracy he was brought to trial for this, and who was believed to be buried in the prytaneum at
condemned to be beaten to death, —airETvlu ratdT8rq. Megara. (Paus. i. 43. ~ 2.) [L. S.]
(Lys. e. Agor. pp. 134, 135.) [E. E.] MENIPPUS (Mve'rrros), historical. 1. One of
MENE'STRATUS' or MENESTAS (MeVe- those who, with Philistides, succeeded, against the
ar'paTos, Mevo'ras), of Epeirus, was one of the opposition of Euphraeus, and by the aid of Philip
chief instigators of the Aetolians to their war, in of Macedon, in making themselves tyrants of Oreus
conjunction with Antiochus, against Rome, which in Euboea. They were driven out by the Athecommenced in n.c. 192., In' the following year, nians under Phocion, in B. C. 341. (Dem. P/ail.
when the Aetolians sued for peace, M';. Acilius iii. p. 126, De Cor. pp. 248, 252, &c.; comp.
Glabrio, the consul, demanded that Menestratus Aesch.: c. Ctes.'p. 68; Plut. Demosth. 17; Diod.
should be delivered up, but the demand was not xvi. 74.) [CALLIAS, Vol. I. p. 568, a;, CLEIcomplied with. (Polyb. xx. 10, xxii. 14; Liv. TARCSUS.]
xxxvi. 28, xxxviii. 10.).[E. E.] 2. An officer of Philip V. of Macedon. In B. c.
MENE'STRATUS (MEverr'paros), artists. 1. 208, when. Philip was recalled from the war in the
A worthless painter, ridiculed in an' epigram by South against the Romans and Aetolians by tidings
Lucillius, who says that his Phai'thon was only fit of disturbance and revolt in Macedonia, he left
for the fire, and his Deucalion for the water. Menippus and Polyphantas in command of 2500
(Brunck, Anal. vol. ii. p. 337. No. 93; Anti. Pal. men for the protection of the Achaeans. In the
xi. 213; comp. Martial, v. 53.) Nothing more following year Menippus was sent by Philip to
is known of him, except what the epigram itself aid in the defence of Chalcis in Euboea against
shows; namely, that:he was a contemporary of Attalusl I. of Pergamus and the' Romans, by
Lucillius, and lived,:: therefore, in the time of whom an unsuccessful attempt was made upon
Nero.. the, town. (Liv. xxvii. 32, xxviii. 5, 6; Polyb.
2. A sculptor, of uncertain time and country, x. 42.)
whose Hercules and'Hecate were greatly admired. 3. One of the envoys of Antiochus the Great to
The latter statue stood in the Opisthodomus. (post Rome in B. C. 193, on which occasion, however,
aedem) of the temple of Artemis at Ephesus, and the negotiation failed in consequence of the dewas made, says Pliny, of marble'of such brilliancy mands of the Romans. (Liv. xxxiv. 57-59; App.
that it was necessary to warn the beholders to Syr. 6.) [HEGESIANAX.] In B. c. 192, Menippus
shade their eyes. (Plin. H. AN. xxxvi. 5. s. 4. was sent by Antiochus'as ambassador to the Aeto~ 10.)' From this passage of Pliny, Sillig conjec. lians, whom he stimulated to war with Rome by
tures that the artist lived about the time of magnifying the power and resources of his master.
Alexander the Great. Tatian mentions him as the In the same year Antiochus placed:him in commaker of a statue of a poetess named Learchis. mand of 3000 men to aid in intercepting all succours
(Adv. Graec. 52, p. 113, Worth.) [P. S. sent to Chalcis in Euboea by Eumenes II. of
MENE'XENUS (MEv4eevos), an Athenian, Pergamus and the Achaeans, who contrived, howson of Demophon, was a disciple of Socrates, and ever, to throw aid into the town:before the passage
is introduced by Plato as one of the interlocutors thither by sea and land had been barred by the
in the dialogues. Lysis and Mlenexrenus. [C. P. M.] Syrian forces. But, after Menippus had occuME'NIDAS (Mevisas), one of the generals of pied the road to Antis, 500 Roman soldiers, also
Alexander the Great, whose name occurs on several destined for the relief of' Chalcis, arrived, and
occasions. (Arrian, iii. 13. ~ 4, 26. ~ 5; Curt. iv. found themselves obliged to turn aside to Deliumn.
12, 15, 16, vii. 6, 10.) [C. P. M.] Here, in spite of the sanctity of the place, they
MENIPPE (Mevrrrn). 1. A daughter of were suddenly attacked by Menippus, and were
Orion and' sister of Metioche. After Oiion was all slain except about fifty,. whom he captured.
killed by Artemis, Menippe and 1Metioche were (Liv. xxxv. 32, 33, 50, 51; comp. Diod. Exc. de
brought up by their mother, -and Athena taught Virt. et Vit. p. 574; App. Syr. 15.): [E. E.]
them the art of weaving, and Aphrodite gave MENIPPUS (ME'm7r7ros),' literary. 1. A
them beauty. Once the whole of Aonia was comic poet, according to Suidas; but Meineke susvisited by a plague, and the oracle of Apollo Gor- pects, on very good grounds, that the name is only
tynius, when consulted, ordered the inhabitants to a corruption of Hermippus. (Hist. CGrit. Cont..
propitiate the two Erinnyes by the sacrifice of two Graec. p. 494.)
maidens, who were to offer themselves to death of 2. A cynic philosopher, and originally a slave,
their own accord. Menippe and Metioche offered was a native of Gadara'in Coele-Syria (Steph.
themselves; they thrice invoked the infernal gods, Byz. s. v. ra'aepa; Strab. xvi. p. 759). Diogenes
and killed themselves with their shuttles. Per- calls him a Phoenician: Coele-Syria was someVOL. II. 3