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

1112 MONETA. MONTANUS.
MOLPA'DIA (MohAra'La), an Amazon, who- cal tale. During an earthquake, he says, a voice
was said to have killed Antiope, another Amazon, was heard issuing from the temple of Juno on the
and was afterwards slain herself by Theseus. Her Capitol, and admonishing (monens) that a pregnant
tomb was shown at Athens. (Plut. Thes. 27; sowshould be sacrificed. A somewhatmore probable
Paus. i. 2. ~ l.) [L. S.] reasonfor the name is given by Suidas(s.v. Moljra),
MOLPAIGORAS (MohrayJpas), a demagogue though he assigns it to too late a time. In the war
of Cios, in Bithynia, who, by the usual arts of his with Pyrrhus and the Tarentines, he says, the
class, raised himself to absolute power in his state. Romans being in want of money, prayed to Juno,
To the imprudence of the men of Cios, in placing and were told by the goddess, that money would
confidence in him and in persons like him, Polybius not be wanting to them, so long as they would
ascribes mainly the capture of their city by PhilipV. fight with the arms of justice. As the Romans
of Macedon, in B. c. 202. (Polyb. xv. 2]; comp. by experience found the truth of the words of Juno,
Liv. xxxii. 33, 34.) [E. E.] they called her Juno Moneta. Her festival was
~ MOLPIS (M6Arls), a Laconian, the author celebrated on the first of June. (Ov. Fast. vi. 183,
of a work on the constitution and customs of &c.; Macrob. Sat. i. 12.) [L. S.]
the Lacedaemonians, entitled AaKceaquovwv IroAL- MO'NIMA (Monlat), daughter of Philopoemen,'eta, quoted by Athenaeus (iv. p. 140, xiv. p. a citizen of Stratoniceia, in Ionia, or according to
664). [C. P. M.1 Plutarch, of Miletus. At the capture of her native
MOLPIS (Mdhals), a Greek surgeon mentioned city by Mithridates, in B. C. 88, her beauty made
by Heracleides of Tarentum (ap. Gal. Comment. in a great impression on the conqueror, but she had
Hippocr. "De Artic." iv. 40, vol. xviii. pt. i. the courage to refuse all his offers, until he conp. 736), who must therefore have lived in or before sented to marry her, and bestow on her the rank
the third century B. C. He wrote apparently on and title of queen. She at first exercised great
fractures and luxations. [W. A. G.] influence over her husband, bu. this did not last
MOLUS (McXos or M6Xos). 1. A son of long, and she soon found but too much reason to
Ares and Demonice, and a brother of Thestius. repent her elevation, which had the effect of re-.
(Apollod. i. 7. ~ 7. DEMONICE.) moving her from Greek civilisation and consigning
2. A son of Deucalion, and father of Meriones. her to a splendid imprisonment. When Mithri(Hom. II. x. 269, xiii. 279; Apollod. iii. 3. ~ 1; dates was compelled to abandon his own dominions
Diod. v. 79; Hygin. Fab. 97; comp. MERIONES.) and take refuge in Armenia, B. C. 72, Monima was
According to a Cretan legend, he was a son of put to death at Pharnacia, together with the other
Minos, and a brother of Deucalion (Diod. 1. c.); wives and sisters of the fugitive monarch.: Her
and it was said, that as he had attempted to violate correspondence with Mithridates, which was of a
a nymph, he was afterwards found without a head; licentious character, fell into the ha-nds of Pompey
for at a certain festival in Crete they showed the at the capture of the fortress of Caenon Phroluimage of a man without a head, who was called rion. (Appian, Mithr. 21, 27, 48; Plut. Lzcull.
Molus. (Plut. De Def. Orac. 13.) [L. S.] 18, Pomp. 37.) [E. H. B.]
MOMUS (M6c1os), a son of Nyx, is a personi- MO'NIMUS (Mvmpos), son of Pythion, a Mafication of mockery and censure. (Hes. Theog. 214.) cedonian officer, who espoused the cause of OlymThus he is said to have censured in the man formed pias in her final struggle with Cassander, anld was
by Hephaestus, that a little door had not been left one of the last who remained faithful to her; but
in his breast, so as to enable one to look into his finding himself unable to relieve her at Pydna, he
secret thoughts. (Lucian, Hermotim. 20.) Aphro- withdrew to Pella, which city he hold for a time,
dite alone was, according to him, blameless. (Pli- but surrendered it to Cassander a:ter the fall of
lostr. Ep. 21.) [L. S.] Pydna, B. c. 316. (Diod. xix. 50.) From an anecMONAESES (Movratols). 1. One of the most dote related by Phylarchus (ap. Athen. xiii. p. 609,
distinguished men in Parthia in the time of b), it appears that he had been attached to the
Antony, the triumvir, is spoken of in Vol. 1. p. court of Olympias for some time. [E. H. B.]
357, a. MO'NIUS. [MONUNIUS.]
2. A general of the Parthian king, Vologeses I. MONOBA'ZUS (Movo',aSos), was king or
[See Vol. I. p. 358, b.] tetrarch of Adiabene in A. D. 63, when Tigranes,
MONE'TA, a surname of Juno among the Ro- king of Armenia, invaded his kingdom. Monomans, by which she was characterised as the pro- bazus applied for aid to Vologeses, the Parthian
tectress of money. Under this name she had a monarch; and the troops of Adiabene and Parthia
temple on the Capitoline, in which there was at entered Armenia, and invested its capital, Tigranothe same time the mint, just as the public treasury certa. Monobazus afterwards accompanied Volowas in the temple of Saturn. The temple had been geses to the camp of Corbulo [CORBUro] at
vowed by the dictator L. Furius in a battle against Randeia, to negotiate a truce between Parthia and
the Aurunci, and was erected on the spot where Rome. The sons of Monobazus were in the suite
the house of M. Manlius Capitolinus had stood. of Tiridates on his visit to Nero in A. D. 66. (Tac.
(Liv. iv. 7, 20, vi. 20, vii. 28, xlii. 1; Ov. Fast. Ann. xv. 1, 14; Dion Cass. lxii. 20, 23, lxiii.
i 638, vi. 183.) Moneta signifies the mint, and 1.) [Mvr. B. D.]
such a surname cannot be surprising, as we learn MONOECUS (MdvoKuos), a surname of Herafrom. St. Augustin (De Civ. Dei, vii. 11), that cles, signifying the god who lives solitary, perhaps
Jupiter bore the surname of Pecunia; but some because he alone swas worshipped in the temples
writers found such a meaning too plain, and Livius dedicated to him. (Strab. iv. p. 202; Virg. Aeo.
Andronicus, in the beginning of his translation of vi. 831; Plut. Quaest. Rom. 87.) In Liguria
the Odyssey, used Moneta as a translation of Mv,- there was a temple called Monoecus (now Monaco;
juoaz6v, and thus made her the mother of the Strab. Virg. a1. cc.; Tacit. Hist. iii. 42; Steph.
Muses or Camenae. (Comp. Hygin. Fab. Praef.) Byz. s. sa.). I. S.]
Cicero (de Div. i. 45, ii. 32) relates an etymologi- MONTA'NUS, ALPI'NUS. [ALPINUS.]