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grandson of Pentheus, and father of Hipponome, may have been the father of the leader of ThessaJocaste or Epicaste, and Creon. (Apollod. ii. 4. lian cavalry mentioned by Thucydides in B. C. 431.
~~ 5, iii. 5. ~ 7; Eurip. Phoen. 10, and the schol. (Herod. vii, 107; Plut. Cim. 7; Paus. viii. 8;
on 942.) Thirlwall's Greece, vol. iii. p. 3.) [BOGES.]
2. A grandson of the former, and a son of 2. An Athenian, a fellow-workman of PHE1Creon. (Eurip. Phoen. 768.) In the war of the DrAS, was suborned to bring against him the accuSeven Argives against Thebes, Teiresias declared sation by which he was ruined. For this service
that the Thebans should conquer, if Menoeceus the faction which had employed Menon obtained
would sacrifice himself for his country. Menoeceus for him from the people the privilege of drAtea.
accordingly killed himself outside the gates of (Plut. Per. 31.)
Thebes. (Eurip. PHoen. 913, 930; Apollod. iii. 6. 3. A Thessalian adventurer, was a favourite of
~ 7). Pausanias (ix. 25. ~ 1) relates that Me- Aristippus of Larissa, who placed him in command
noeceus killed himself in consequence of an oracle of the forces, which he had obtained by the help of
of the Delphian god. His tomb was shown at Cyrus the Younger in order to make head against
Thebes near the Neitian gate. (Paus. 1. c.; comp. a party opposed to him. When Cyrus began his
Stat. Theb. x. 755, &c., 790.) [L. S.] expedition, in B. c. 401, Menon was sent by AriMENOETAS. [MELEAGER, No. 2.] stippus to his aid with 1500 men, and joined the
MENOETES. The name of two mythical per- prince's army at Colossae. Cyrus having reached
sonages. (Virg. Aen. v. 161, &c.; Ov. Met. xii. the borders of Cappadocia, employed Menon to
116.) [L. S.] escort back into her own country Epyaxa, the wife
MENOE'TIUS (MevoflTos). 1. A son of Ta- of Syennesis, the Cilician king. In passing through
petus and Clymene or Asia, and a brother of Atlas, the defiles on the frontiers Menon lost a number of
Prometheus and. Epimetheus, was killed by Zeus his men, who, according to one account, were cut off
with a flash of lightning, in the fight of the Titans, by the Cilicians; and in revenge for this, his troops
and thrown into Tartarus. (Hes. Tkeog. 507, &c., plundered the city of Tarsus and the royal palace.
51.4; Apollod. i. 2. ~ 3.; Schol. ad Aeschyl. Prom. When the Cyrean army reached the Euphrates,
347.) Menon persuaded the soldiers under his command
2. A son of Ceuthonymus, a guard of the oxen to be the first to cross the river, and thus to ingraof Pluto. (Apollod. ii. 5. ~ l 0; comp. HERACLES.) tiate themselves with the prince. At the battle of
3. A son of Actor and Aegina, a step-brother Cunaxa he commanded the left wing of the Greeks,
of Aeacus, and husband of Polymele, by whom and, after the battle, when Clearchus sent to
he became the father of Patroclus.. He resided at Ariaeus to make an offer of placing him on the
Opus, and took part in the expedition of the Argo- Persian throne, he formed one of the mission at his
nauts (Hom. 1l. xi. 785, xvi. 14, xviii. 326). own request, as being connected with Ariaeus by
Some accounts call his mother Damocrateia, and a ties of friendship and hospitality. He was again
daughter of Aegina; and instead of Polymele one of the four generals who accompanied Clearchus
they call his wife Sthenele or Periapis. (Apollod. to his fatal interview with Tissaphernes, and was
iii. 13. ~ 8; Schol. ad Pind. 01. ix. 107; Strab. detained, together with his colleagues. Clearchus,
p. 425; comp. Val. Flace. i. 407; Eustath. ad in seeking the interview for the purpose of deliverHom. p. 112). When Patroclus, during a game, ing up on both sides those who had striven to exhad slain the son of Amphidamas, Menoetius fled cite their mutual suspicions, had been instigated in
with him to Peleus in Phthia, and had him edu- a great measure by resentment against Menon,
cated there (Hom. II. xi. 770, xxiii. 85, &c.; whom he suspected of having calumniated him to
Schol. ad Pind. 01. ix. 104). Menoetius was a Ariaeus and Tissaphernes, with the view of obtainfriend of Heracles. (Diod. iv. 39.) [L. S.] ing the entire command of the army for himself.
MENO'GENES (Mevooye',rr), one of the nu- According to the statement which Ariaeus made to
merous commentators on Homer, who wrote a work the Greeks immediately after the apprehension of
in 23 books on the catalogue of ships in the second the generals, Menon and Proxenus were honourably
book of the Iliad. (Eustath. ad I[om. p. 199, ed. treated by the Persians, as having revealed the
Basil.) [L. S.] treachery of which he said Clearchus had been
MENO'GENES, a statuary, who was admired guilty; and Ctesias relates, in ignorance certainly
for his quadrigae. (Plin. H. N. xxxiv. 8. s. 19. of the details and in direct opposition to Xenophon,
~ 30.) [P. S.] that Clearchus- himself distrusted Tissaphernes,
MENON (MevvWY). 1. A citizen of Pharsalus and that the army was induced by the arts of
in Thessaly, who aided the Athenians at Eion Menon to compel him to agree to the interview.
with 12 talents and 200 horsemen, raised by him- That Menon did really act a treacherous part toself from his own penestae, and was rewarded by wards his countrymen is by no means improbable,
them for these services with the freedom of the as well from the circumstances of the case as from
city. (Dem. c. Arist. pp. 686, 687; Pseudo-Dem. his character, even if we make all allowance for
rEppi cvvTdcEws, p. 173; Wolf, ProLeg. ad Dem. c. some colouring which Xenophon's personal hostility
Lept. p. 74.) By some this Menon has been iden- to the man may have thrown into his invective
tified with the Pharsalian who commanded the against him. As. jto his fate, Ctesias merely says
troops sent from his native city to the aid of the that he was not-executed with the other generals;
Athenians in the first year of the Peloponnesian but Xenophon tells us' that he was put to death by
war, B. C. 431; while the above-mentioned assist- lingering tortures, which lasted for a whole year.
ance at lkion is referred by them to the eighth year If this latter account is the true one, Bishop Thirlof the same war, B.C. 424. (Thuc. ii. 22, iv. 102, wall's hypothesis seems not improbable, viz., that
&c.; Gedik. ad Plat. Men. p. 70.) Perhaps, he was given up to the vengeance of Parysatis as a
however, the service may have been rendered at compensation for the rejection of her entreaties on
the siege of Eion by Cimon in -B.. 476; and in behalf of Clearchus and his colleagues. There can
that case the Menon alluded to by Demosthenes be no doubt of the identity of the subject of the;
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