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

1092 MINUCIUS. MISAGENES.
conduct suspected. On inquiry, suspicion was the consular tribunes of the preceding year for misjustified, and Minucia was buried alive. (Liv. viii. conduct in the war with Veil. (Liv. v. 11, 12.)
15.) [W. B. D.] 2. M. MINUCIUS FESSUS, one of the first augurs
MINU'CIA GENS was originally, in some of elected from the plebs after the extension of the law
its branches at least, patrician [AUGURINUS]; but de Sacerdotiis:in B. C. 300, by the tribunes Q. and
more frequently occurs in history as a plebeian Cn. Ogulnius. (Liv. x. 9.)
house. Its principal cognomens were AUGURINUS, 3. Q. MINUCIUS, was legatus to the consul, M.
BASILUS, RUFUS, and THERMUS. Minicius and Claudius Marcellus, during the siege of Capua,
Municius are frequently confounded with Mi- B. C. 210. (Liv. xxvi. 33.)
nucius. The following coin of the Minucia gens 4. P. and Q. MINUCII, legionary tribunes in the
bears on the obverse the head of Pallas, and on the war of Rome with the Boian Gauls in B. e. 193.
reverse Jupiter in a chariot hurling a thunder-bolt, (Liv. xxxv. 5.)
with the legend L. Minucius. Who this L. Mi- 5. L. MINUCTUS, legatus of the praetor Q. Fulnucias was is unknown. [W. B. D.] vius Flaccus in the nearer Spain, B. c. 180. His
evidence as to the state of the province when examined by the senate differed from the account
given by the praetor. (Liv. xl. 35, 36.)
6. TIB. MINUCIUS, praetor peregrinus in'B. C.
180, died early in his official year. (Liv. xl.
35, 37.)
7. - MINUCIUS, died intestate before the citypraetorship of C. Verres, in B. C. 75-74. His
OIN OF MINUCIA GENS.: property therefore belonged to his gens; but Verres
issued a special edict regarding it, which Cicero
MINUCIA'NUS (MIrovUKacs). 1. A Greek held up to ridicule (in Verr. i. 45. ~ 115).
rhetorician, was a contemporary of the celebrated 8. CN. MINUCIUS, a person about whose political
rhetorician Hermogenes of Tarsus (fl. A. D. 170), opinions Cicero wrote to Cornificius in B. c. 43 (ad
with whom he was at variance. This we learn Fanm.-xii. 25). [W. B. ID.]
from the Scholiast on Hermogenes, and thus the MINU'CIUS FELIX. [FELIX.]
difficulty which Fabricius experienced (Bibl. Graec. MINU'CIUS NATA'LIS. [NATALIS.]
vol. vi. p. 107), is removed, as it is evident that MINU'CIUS PACA'TUS. [IRENAEUS,No.3.]
this Minucianus was a different person from the MI'NYAE (Mlv'u'a), an ancient race of heroes at
one following. (Schol. ad Hermog. pp. 26, 48, 49, Orchomenos, Iolcos, and other places. Their an71, 77, 99, 177, 179, 180, 181, 200, 287; comp. cestral hero, Minyas, is said to have migrated from
Schol. ad Aphthon. p. 226, Spengel; Westermann, Thessaly into the northern parts of Boeotia, and
Geschichlte der Griech. Beredtsamkeit, ~ 95, n. 10.) there to have established the powerful race of the
2. An Athenian, the son of Nicagoras, was also Minyans, with the capital of Orchomenos. As the
a Greek rhetorician, and lived in the reign of Gal- greater part of the Argonauts were descended from
lienus (A. D. 260-268). Suidas (s. v.) tells us the Minyans, they are themselves called Minyae;
that Minucianus was the author of Te'Xv7l p7TVopLcif, and the descendants of the Argonauts founded a
flpoyvAuvudaeraTa, and Aowyoei &dqopot. The TEXvi colony in Lemnos, which was called Minyae.
was commented -on by the sophist Pancratius Thence they proceeded to Elis Triphylia, and to the
(Suidas, s. v. cyIacyp.; Eudoc. p. 301), and is also island of Thera. (Herod. i. 146, iv. 145; Pind.
referred to by Tzetzes (Chil. iv. 693, vi. 739, xii. 01. xiv. 4, Pyth. iv. 69; Apollon. Rhod. i. 229;
570), but, as Westermann suggests, it may have Strab. ix. pp. 404, 414, viii. pp. 337, 347; Pans.
been written by the elder Minucianus [No. 1]. A vii. 2. ~ 2, ix 36; comp. Miiller, Orclrom. n. die
portion of this work, entitled Usepi'1rLXEtp71Azd7cw', Minyer.) [L. S.]
is extant, and bears the title MLvovKiavov h Niea- MI'NYAS (Msvvas), a son of Chryses, and the
yo6pov. It was published along with Alexander ancestral hero of the race of the Minyans; but the
Numenius and Phoebammon, accompanied with a accounts of his genealogy vary very much in the
Latin version, by L. Normann, Upsal. 1690, 8vo., different traditions, for some call him a son of
and is also printed in the Aldine collection of Orchomenus or Eteocles, others of Poseidon, Aleus,
Greek rhetoricians, pp. 731-734, and in the ninth Ares, Sisyphus, or Halmus. He is further called
volume of Walz's Rhetores Graeci. The work of the husband of Tritogeneia, Clytodora, or PhanoMinucianus, entitled Hpoyvucvdeuava, was com- syra. Orchomenus, Presbon, Athamas, Diochthonmented on by Menander of Laodiceia (Suidas,. v. das, Eteoclymene, Periclymene.-Leucippe, Arsinou,
Mevavg.). The eloquence of Minucianus is praised and Alcitho6, are mentioned as his children.' (Paus.
by Himerius. (Eel. vii. p. 166, Or. xxiii. p. 802, ix. 36. ~ 3, &c., 38. ~ 2; Schol. ad.pollon Rhod.
ed. Wernsdorf.; Fabric. Bibl. Graec. vol. vi. pp. i. 230, ad Pind. 01. xiv. 5, Pyth. iv. 120; Tzetz.
107, 108; Westermann, Ibid, ~ 98, n. 15.) ad Lyc. 875.) He is said to have built the first
MINUCIA'NUS, CORNE'LIUS, a friend treasury, of which ruins are said to be still extant.
and neighbour of the younger Pliny, who calls him (Pans. ix. 38. ~ 2.) His tomb was shown at Or"ornamentum regionis meae, seu dignitate, seu chomenos in Boeotia (ix. 38. ~ 3). [L. S.]
moribus," and speaks of him in other very laud- MISA (Miaa), a mystic being in the, Orpilic
atory terms in a letter addressed to Falco, in which mysteries, perhaps the same as Cybele, or an attrihe requests the latter to confer the rank of mi- bute of her. (Orph. Hymn. 41; Hesych. s. v.
litary tribulie upon Minucianus (Ep. vii. 22). MLao'ris.) [L. S.]
Three of Pliny's letters (iii. 9, iv. 11, viii. 12) MISA'GENES, a Numidian, son of Masinissa,
are addressed to this Minucianus. was appointed by his father to command the forces
MINU!CIUS. 1.'M. MINUCIUS, tribune of which he sent to the assistance of the Romans in
the plebs in B. c. 401, when he impeached two of the war against Perseus, B. C. 171. He appears