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

1.082 MICHAEL. MICIPSA.
Episcoporum Judiciis, &c. (Cave, Hist. Lit. ad fessio Brevis, extant in Leo Allatius's De Consensu
an. 1043; Fabric. Bibl. Graec. vol. xi. pp. 195, utriusque Ecclesiae, lib. ii. c. 12. (Fabric. Bibl.
196.) Graec. vol. xi. p. 702.) [W. P.]
7 E aPHESIus, archbishop of Ephesus, the author MI'CION (Muciwv). 1. A Macedonian officer,
of valuable scholia to Aristotle, especially the who made a descent upon the coast of Attica
Metaphysica, was, according to some, no other during the Lamian war (B. c. 323), but was dethan the emperor. Michael Ducas Parapinaces, who feated by Phocion, and fell in the action. (Plut.
was appointed to the see of Ephesus after his Phoc. 2,.)
forced abdication in 1078. Others pretend that 2. An Athenian orator and demagogue, who,
the. scholia ought to be ascribed to Michael Psellus. together with Eurycleides, possessed the chief
[PSELLVS.] (Leo Allatius, De Psellis, p. 40.) direction of affairs in his native city about B. C.
8. GRAMMATICUS, perhaps the same as Michael 216. They were guilty of the most abject flattery
Psellus, wrote Epigraimma in Agathiam, printed in towards the surrounding monarchs, but especially
the third vol. of Brunck's Analecta Vet. Poet. towards Ptolemy Philopator; and it was probably
Graec., in- the third vol. of Jacobs' Ant7Lologia their partiality towards the latter that led Philip
Graeca, and in some other collections. (Fabric. V., king of Macedonia, to procure their removal by
Bibl. Graec. vol. iv. p. 482, vol. xi. p. 204.) poison. (Polyb. v. 106; Paus. ii. 9. ~ 6.) Pau9. MONACH US, ecclesiae Constantinopolitanae sanias writes the name Micon, but the authority
presbyter and Ignatii patriarchae syncellus, wrote, of Polybius in favour of the form Micion is con1. Encomiumn Ignatii Patriarchae (who died in firmed by the evidence of coins, on which the two
877), edited Greek and Latin, in a very mutilated names of Micion and Eurycleides are found assoform, by Raderus in his Acta Concilii, Ingol- ciated together. [E. H. B.]
stadt, 1604, 4to., also in the eighth vol. of the MICIPSA (MLKt4as), king of Numidia, was
Concilia. 2. Encomiuns in Angelicorumr Ordinum- the eldest of the sons of Masinissa who survived
Ductores, Jlliclsaelem et Gabrielemn. 3. Encomium their father. -He is first mentioned in B. C. 150, as
in gloriosnmn Christi Apostolu~n Philippurn. 4. being sent by Masinissa, together with his brother
Perhaps Vita et:Miracula Sti Nicolai.' 5. Vita Gulussa, ambassador to Carthage, to demand the
Theodori Studitae, of which Baronius gives some restoration of the partisans of Masinissa who had
fragments in his Annales ad an. 795 and 826. been driven into exile: but the Carthaginians shut
The complete text with a Latin translation was the gates of the city against them, and refused to
published by Jacobus de la Baune in the fifth vol. listen to their proposals. (Appian, Pun. 70.)
of Opera Sirmondi, Paris, 1696, fol. The life of After the death of Masinissa (B. C. 148), the
Theodore Studita, as well as one or two of the sovereign power was divided by Scipio between
other productions, were perhaps written by an- Micipsa and his two brothers, Gulussa and Masother Michael Monachus, a contemporary and sur- tanabal, in such a manner that the possession of
vivor of Studita who died as early as 826. The Cirta. the capital of Numidia, and the treasures
author of this life was a very incompetent writer. accumulated there, together with the financial ad(Cave, Hist. Lit. ad an. 878; Fabric. Bibl. Graec. ministration of the kingdom, fell to the share of
vol. xi. p. 205 ) Micipsa. (Id. ibid. 106; Liv. Epit. I.; Zonar. ix,
10. PHlILE. [PHILE.] 27.) It was not long, however, before the death
11. PROCHIRUS, of uncertain age, the author of of both his brothers left him in possession of the
Dranmation, Mlusarunz et Fortunae Querimonium undivided sovereignty of Numidia, which he held
continens, et alia, ed. Graec. et Lat. F. Morellus, from that time without interruption till his death.
Paris, 1593, 1598, 8vo.; also in Maittaire's ll iscel- But few events of his long reign have been translanea (;raecor. aliquot Scriptor. Carmina, London, mitted to us. He appears indeed to have been of
1722, 4to. (Fabric. Bibl. Graec. vol. xi. p. 206.) a peaceful disposition; and after the fall of Car12. PRESBYTER, lived in the 9th century, thage, he had no neighbours who could excite his
wrote De Constrnuctione Partium Orationis s. jealousy.
Methlodus de Orationis Constructione, extant in With the Romans he took care to cultivate a
MS. in Milan, and in the Escurial libraries, which good understanding; and we find him sending an
is probably the same as ispi Uv~Trd! ews'rv auxiliary force to assist them in Spain against
puldT-rwY, ascribed to Georgius Lecapenus, under Viriathus (B.C. 142); and again in the more
whose name it was published, together with Theo- arduous war against Numantia. (Appian, Hisp.
dorus Gaza, at Florence, 1515, 1520, 8vo.; with 67; Sall. Jug. 7.) On the latter occasion his
others, ibid. 1526, 8vo.; and in Grammalici Giaec. auxiliaries were commanded by his nephew, JuVenice, 1525, 8vo. (Fabric. Bibl. Graec. vol. vi. igurtha, whom he had brought up with his own
p. 133.) sons, and whom he was even induced to adopt;
13. PSELLUS. [PSEL ]LUS but the intrigues and ambition of the young man
14. SBIRUS. [SBIRUS.] threw a cloud over the declining years of Micipsa,
15. SOPHIANUS. [SosPHIANiS.] and filled him with apprehensions for the future.
16. SYNCELLUS. [SYNCELLUS.] Jugurtha, however, was prudent enough -to repress
17. SYNODENSIS, or more correctly SYNNA- his ambitious projects during the lifetime of MiDENS1S, bishop of Synnada or Synnas, in Phrygia, cipsa: and the latter died at an advanced age in
(f uncertain age, wrote E4positio llaximrorum B.C. 118, having, on his' death-bed, urged on his
Miraculorumn SS. Archangelorum. (Leo Allatius, two sons, Adherbal and Hiempsal, and their adopted
De Symneonibus,. p. 107.) brother, the necessity of that harmony and concord
18. THESSALONICENSIS, magister rlhetorum and which he but too well foresaw there was little
magnae ecclesiae protecdicus, lived about 1160, chance of their'preserving. (Sall. Jtag. 5 —11;
and embraced the wide-spread Bogomilian heresy, Liv. Epit. lxii.; Oros. v. 15; Florus, iii. 2.)
for which he suffered severe persecutions till he Towards the close of the reign of Micipsa, Nureturned to the orthodox church. He wrote Con- midia was visited by a dreadful pestilence, which