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

MNASEAS. MNASIPPUS. 1105
MInaseas was the author of two works, one of a in the Venetian scholia on the Iliad. (Villcisoi,
chorographical description, and the other a collec- Prolegom. p. xxx.)
tion of oracles given at Delphi. These works MNA'SEAS (MaaEas), orMNASAEUS (Moaseem to have had extensive circulation in an- oacos), a physician, who belonged to the ancient
tiquity, and to have been preserved for a con- sect of the Methodici (Gal. Introd. c. 4. vol. xiv.
siderable time. The oldest writer by whom they p. 684), and lived probably in the first century
are referred to is Lysimachus, who wrote HIepl vo- after Christ. He wrote some medical works, which
oa-rv (Athen. iv. p. 158, d.), and they were extant are not now extant; and he is quoted by Galen
in the time of Athenaeus, who frequently refers to (De Coinpos. A4~dican. sec. 6en. i. 4, 17, vii. 6, vol.
them. - xiii. pp. 392, 445, 962, 963, 965), Soranus (De
1. repfirXovs is the name given to the former of Arte Obstetr. pp. 21, 23, 279, 289, ed. Dietz),
Mnaseas's two works byAthenaeus (viii. p. 331, e.), Caelius Aurelianus (De Morb. Acut. ii. 5, 29, Do
Photius, and Suidas (s. v. 7r0ov XeAikovoy), and Alorb. Chiron. i. 5, ii. 1, 7, pp. 81, 142, 329, 348,
seems to be its correct title. Stephanus of Byzan- 380), Ai'tius (ii. 2. 18, 89, pp. 258, 290), Paulus
tium (s. v.'E'y-yeiawes) calls it, The Three Books Aegineta (vii. 17, p. 676), and Alexander Tralof Periegeseis (y' 7.r 7repLny'o-eoov), where the lianus (iii. 7, vii. 1, pp. 187, 213). [W. A. G.]
plaral probably refers to the work being divided MNASICLES (M;var:uKx, s), a Cretan officer of
into three sections, each of which was again sub- mercenaries, who joined Thimbron the Lacedaedivided into several books. Periplus was thus the monian, in his expedition against Cyrene; but
general title; but the three sections, which treated quickly deserted him, and went over to the Cyreof Europe, Asia, and Africa respectively, are fre- naeans, by whom he was ultimately appointed
quently referred to as distinct works. general, and carried on the war against Thimbron.
1. Evps7rnr, or EpawrtaK, was divided into three (Diod. xviii. 20, 21.) [E. H. B.]
books: at least we have a quotation from the third MNASI'LOCHUS (MatANoXoo), was a chief
hook of this section. The first book appears to of the Acarnanians, who, in B. C. 191, was bribed
have treated of the history of inventions, and con- by Antiochus the Great, and, in return, persuaded
sequently of the civilisation of Europe; and the or fraudulently compelled a diet of his countrymen
second and third to have been devoted to a de- to embrace the Syrian instead of the Roman alliscription of the coasts of the various parts of Eu- ance. In all the preliminaries of peace between
rope. (Athen. iv. p. 158, d., vii. p. 296, b., xii. Rome and Antiochus, after the defeat of the latter
p. 530, c.; Harpocrat. s. v. rs. i.; Bekker, at Magnesia in B. c. 190, one article was the'surAnecd. Graec. p. 350, 26; Schol. ad Theocr. i. 64; render of Mnasilochus to the Romans. (Polyb.
Ammon. s. v. N7petres; Phot. and Suid. s. v. xxi. 14. ~ 7, xxii. 26. ~ 11; Liv. xxxvi. 11, 12,
lipa clrn; Schol. ad Goermanic. Progeost. apud xxxvii. 45, xxxviii. 38.) [W. B. D.]
Arat. vol. ii p. 111, ed. Buhl; Fulgent. Mlythol. MNASINUS (Msvaoyvous), a brother of A2naxis,
ii. 19.) and a son of one of the Dioscuri; he and-his brother
2. Aoia, was also divided into several books, of were represented on the throne of Apollo at Amywhich the first and second are quoted. (Schol. ad clae. (Paus. ii. 22. ~ 6, iii. 18. ~ 7.) [L. S.]
Apollon. i. 1128; Eudocia, p. 103; Athen, viii. MNASIPPUS (Mvadcrros), a Lacedaemonian,
p. 346, d. e.) was appointed to the command;of the armament
3. Aienvi, likewise contained several books which was sent to Corcyra, in B. c. 373, to recover
(Mvaoea e'rTs 7rep? A7 uiTbls), but their number is the island from the Athenians. Having landed
not mentioned. (Hesych. s. v. BapKafos oiXOLS; there, he ravaged the country, and, blockading the
Plin. AI. N. xxxvii. 11. s. 38.) city by sea and land, reduced the Corcyraeans to
II. AEAeccxV, XpnoPlsc T ~ovaZw?, is the name the greatest extremities. Imagining, however,
of the other work of Mnaseas on the Delphic ora- that success was now within his grasp, he dis —
cles. (Schol. ad Hes. Theog. 117.) Sometimes it missed some of his mercenaries and kept the pay
is simply called flopl XP7zvu. (Schol. ad Pind. of the rest in arrear. It would appear, too, that
Ol. ii. 70.) The following passages, in which discipline was less strictly preserved among~ his
Mnaseas is quoted, seem to be taken from this men than heretofore; for we read that. the several
collection of Delphic oracles: —Zenob. v. 74; posts of the besiegers were now imperfectly guarded,
Schol. ad Eurip. Phoen. 411; Phot. and Suid. s. v. and that their soldiers were dispersed in straggling
juE~Z Z Meyape?s; Tzetz. Chil. ix. 871-894. parties throughout the country. The Corcyraeans,.
(Vossius, de Iist. Graec. p. 178, ed. Wester- observing this, made a sally, in which they slew
mann; Clinton, F. H. vol. iii. p. 534; Jahn, de some, and made some prisoners. Mnasippus pro-.
Palamede, p. 31; and more especially Preller, in ceeded in haste against them, ordering his officers:
the Zeitschrift far die Alterthumlswissenschafl, to lead out the mercenaries; and, when they repre1846, pp. 673-688, from whom the preceding ac- sented to him that they could not answer for the
count is chiefly taken.) obedience of the men while they remained unpaid,:
2. An AGRICULTURAL writer, who translated he met their remonstrances with blows-an exinto Greek the works of the Carthaginians Mago hibition of coarse arrogance by no: means uncomand Hamilcar on this subject. (Varro, R. R. i. 1; mon with Spartans in power. It may well be
Colum. xii. 4.) conceived that the spirit which animated his troops
3. Of BERYTUS, a rhetorician, who, according was not one of alacrity or of attachment to his perto Suidas (s. v.), wrote a Te4Xvr PTp'opIK7, and'rpl son. In the battle which ensued close to the gates'ArTKCV 0ovop04rw70Y. of the town, the Corcyraeans were victorious and
4. Of LocRs or COLOPHON, a poet, who left Mnasippus was slain. According to Diodorus,
behind him a collection of Ila'iyYma. (Athen. vii. these successful operations were conducted under
p. 321, f.; Eustath. p. 1163, 14.) the command of Ctesicles (doubtless the Stesicles
5. A disciple of theegreat grammarian. Aristarchus of Xenophon), whom the Athenians had sent to
(Suid. s. v.'EpaTCoeOe'Y7 s). He is. mentioned also: the aid of Corcyra with a body of 500 or 600 tarVOL. iL. 4 B