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

METRODORUIS. METROPHANES. 1071.5. Surnamed d bewprqLuarL' cs, a disciple first of philosopher, of such distinction, that when Aeni.
Theophrastus, afterwards of Stilpo% is mentioned lius Paullus, after his victory over Persepls (.. c,
only by Diogenes Lairtius (ii. 113). 168), requested the Athenians to send him their
6. Of SCEPSIS, a contemporary and friend of De- most approved philosopher, to educate his children,
metrius of Scepsis, to whom he was indebted for and their best painter, to represent his triumph,
his advancement, when he abandoned philosophy, they selected Metrodorus as the most competent
and betook himself to politics. He was originally man for both offices; and Paullus concurred in
poor, but gained distinction by his writings, the their: opinion. (Plin. H. N. xxxv, 11. s. 40.
style of which was peculiar and new, and married ~ 30.) [P. S.]
a wealthy Carthaginian lady. He attached himself METRODO'RUS (M-lTpd6wpos), the name of
to Mithridates Eupator, accompanied him into several physicians.
Pontus, and was raised to a position of great in- 1. A pupil of Chrysippus of Cnidos, and tutor
fluence and trust, being appointed supreme judge, to Erasistratus, who lived in the fourth and third
without appeal even to the king. Subsequently, centuries B. C. He was the third husband of
however, he. was led to desert his allegiance, when Pythias, the daughter of Aristotle, by whom he
sent by Mithridates on an embassy to Tigranes, had a son named after her celebrated father. (Sext.
king of Armenia; Tigranes sent him back to Empir. Cont. Mlathem. i. 12, p. 271. ed. Fabric.)
Mithridates, but he died on the road. According 2. A pupil of Sabinus, in the first and second
to some accounts he was despatched by order of the centuries after Christ, is mentioned by Galen as
king; according to others he died of disease (Strab. one of those who had commented on part of the
xiii. pp. 609, 610). Methodorus is frequently men- Hippocratic Collection (Comment. in Hippoor.
tioned by Cicera; he seems to have been particu- "Epid. III." i. 4, " Epid. VI." i. 29, vol. xvii.
larly celebrated for his powers of memory (Cic. de pt. i. pp. 508, 877), and is probably the physician
Orat. ii. 88. ~ 360). This is also mentioned by who was one, of the followers of Asclepiades.
Pliny (H. N. vii. 24). In consequence of his hos- (Galen,. De Simpl. Medicam. Temper. ac Facult.
tility to the Romans he was surnamed the Roman- i. 29,.35, vol. xi. pp. 432, 442.)
hatter (Plin. H.Ar. xxxiv. 7 or 16). He was a 3. The author of the work quoted by Pliny
contemporary of L. Crassus, the orator, who heard (H. N. xx. 81), and entitled'E7rrroTn)'vI'Pi'oTohim when in Asia (Cic. de Orat. iii. 20. ~ 75). /xovdEsvwp, appears to have been a different person
Athenaeus (xii. p. 552, c.) quotes a work by this (though sometimes reckoned as the same), and may
Metrodorus, Iesp1 4Aen7rrTcir. We also find men- be supposed to have been a contemporary of
tion of a Metrodorus as the authorofa HepL4Tiyr7es Cratevas in the first century B.C. (Plin. H. N.
(Placidus Lutatius on Statius, iii. 478). Notices xxv. 4.)
which might very well have been derived from a 4. The physician mentioned by Cicero (Ep. ad
work of that kind, are given by Pliny (H. N. v. Famil. xvi. 20) as attending on his freedman Tiro,.31. s. 38, viii. 14), on the authority of a Metro- B. c. 46.
dorus; and as similar notices (H. N. iii. 16. s. 20, One of the above (perhaps the third) is quoted
xxviii. 7. s. 23, xxxvii. 4. s. 15) are taken by him by Marbodus (De Gemmis), and called by him
from Metrodorus of Scepsis,. the latter was very "maximus auctor." (See Fabric. Bibl. Gr. vol. xiii.
probably the author of the rlepnlyqais in question. p. 337, ed. vet.)- [W. A. G.]
Strabo also (xi. p. 504) quotes from Metrodorns METRO'PHANES (M'oTpomdr,7s), a general of
of Scepsis a geographical notice respecting the Mithridates the Great, who sent him with an army
Amazons. (Voss. de Hist. Graecis, p. 180, ed. into Greece, to support Archelaus, B.c. 87. He
West. ) reduced Euboea, as well as Demetrias and Magne7. Of STRATONICE in Caria. He was at first a sia in Thessaly, but was defeated by the Roman
disciple of the school of Epicurus, but afterwards general Bruttius Sura. (Appian, Mitlri; 29.) He
attached himself to Carneades. Cicero speaks of is again mentioned in e. C. 73, as commanding,
him as an orator of great fire and volubility (de together with the Roman exile L. Fannius, a deOrat. i. 11. ~ 45). He flourished about B. C. 110. tachment of the army of Mithridates, which was
(Diog. Lai'rt. x. 9; Cic. Acad. ii.. 6. ~ 16, 24. ~ defeated by Mamercus during the siege of Cyzicus.
78; Fabric. Bibl. Graec. vol. iii. p. 607.) (Oros. vi. 2; comp. Sall. Hist. lib. iii. p. 217, ed.
8. A distinguished grammarian, the brother of Gerlach. miin.) [E. H. B.]
Anthemius of Tralles'ANTHEMIUS], mentionled by METRO'PHANES (Mrr'popdvvs), the name
Agathias, v. 6. (Voss. de Hist. Graecis, p. 470.) of three later Greek writers, mentioned by Suidas
9. A native apparently of Alexandria or Egypt, (s. v.).
mentioned by Photius (Cod. 115, 116) as the 1. Of Eucarpia, in Phrygia (comp. Steph. Byz.
author' of a cycle for the calculation of the time s. v. Eivapfia), wrote a work on Phrygia, and also
of Easter. He lived after the time of Diocle- the following treatises on rhetoric:-lHepl iecr,
tian, but nothing more exact is known respect- Ao'yov, IIepl o'rd'eEw, and commentaries on Hering him. (Fabric. Bibl. G'aec. vol. x. p. 712; mogenes and Aristides, in consequence of which he
Noris. Dissert. de Cyclo Pasch. Ravenn. c..3, p. is regarded by some as the author of the Scholia
183.) [C. P. M.] on Aristides. (Westermann, Gesch. der Griech..METRODO'RUS (Mnrrpd~opos), the author of Beredtsanmkeit, ~ 104, n. 15.)
two epigrams in the Greek Anthology. (Brunck, 2. Of Lebadeia, in Boeotia, the son of the rheAnal. vol. ii. p. 476; Jacobs, Anth. Graec. vol. iii. torician Cornelianus, was the author of the followp. 180.) His age is very uncertain, and it is even ing works:-FIIepl Ic Xapatc'rpwY of Plato,
doubtful whether both the epigrams ought to be Xenophon, Nicostratus, and Philostratus, MeXA.rac,
ascribed to the same poet. (Jacobs, Anth. Graec. and Aoyoe 7rayvyvpuicof.
vol. xiii. pp. 917, 918; Fabric. Bibl. Graec. vol. 3. A descendant of the sophist Lachares, against
iv. p. 482.) [P. S.] whom the sophist Superianlus wrote a book. This
METRODO/RUS, of Athens, a painter and Metrophanes is mentioned by Damascius in his