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1114 MOSCHION. MOSCHOPULUS.
the deepest dye in Hades any one who ever copied MOSCHION (MoaXocv), the author of a short
out a speech of Morsimus. Besides his profession Greek treatise, IIepl Re.v ruvaLelkou, fla&Ocv, De
as a poet, he seems to have practised as a physician Mulierum Passionibus, who is supposed to have
and oculist, in which departments, according to all lived in the beginning of the second century after
accounts (Schol. ad Arist. Equit. 401; Hesychius, Christ, as he mentions Soranus (c. 151). Nos. v. KAAYeros), he was not much more successful. thing is known of the writer's personal history, nor
(Ran. 151; comp. Equit. 401, Pax, 776, with can it be determined with certainty whether he is
the scholia on those passages.) Frigidity seems to the same person as either of the physicians menhave been the predominant characteristic of his tioned below. The work is composed in the form
poetry. (Suidas, s. a.; Fabric. Bibl. Graec. vol. ii. of question and answer, and is an interesting little
p. 311; Meineke, Fragmenta Com. Graec. vol. ii. book, containing much useful and valuable matter.
part ii. p. 659.) [C. P. M.] It is supposed to have been written originally in
MO'RYCHUS (MopvXos), a tragic poet, a con- Latin, and to have been translated into Greek by
temporary of Aristophanes, noted especially for his some late author: this Greek text is all.that now
gluttony and effeminacy. (Aristoph. Acharn. 887, remains. It was first published in Casp. Wolf's
Vesp. 504, 1137, Pax, 1008, with the note of the Collection of Writers on Female Diseases, Basil.
scholiast.) There was a proverb: MopkXov EOs- 1566, 4to., and in the two subsequent editions of
6e'repos,,1fore foolish than Morychus; but whe- that work. These editions contain eleven chapters
ther it had reference to the tragic poet of that at the end which are supposed to be spurious, and
name, or not, we do not know. (Fabric. Bibl. omit the author's preface. Probably the latest
Graec. vol. ii. p. 311; Bode, Gesch. der Hellen. and best edition is that by F. O. Dewez, 8vo.
Dichtkunst, vol. iii. part i. p. 548.) [C.'P. M.] Vienn. 1793, Greek and Latin. (See Fabric.
MORZES, or, according to Polybius, MO'R- Bibl. Gr. vol. xii. p. 702, ed. vet.; Choulant,
ZIAS (Mopelas), a king of Paphlagonia, who Handb. der Biicherkunde fiir die Aeltere Medicin.)
fought against the Romans in the Gallo-Graecian 2. A physician quoted by Soranus (ap. Gal.
wvar, B.C. 189. Morzes had been conquered by De Compos. Medicaum. sec. Loc. i. 2, vol. xii.
Pharnaces, king of Pontus, and was indemnified p. 416), Andromachus (ibid. vii. 2, vol. xiii.
in the treaty of peace imposed on the latter prince p. 30), and Asclepiades Pharmacion (ap. Gal. De
by Eumenes II. king of Pergamus, in B.c. 189- Compos. Medicarn. sec. Gen. iii. 9, vol. xiii. p. 646),
188. (Polyb. xxvi. 6. ~ 9; Liv. xxxviii. 26; and who lived, therefore, in or before the first cenStrab. xii. p. 562.) [W. B. D.] tury after Christ.. He may perhaps be the same
i MOSCHAMPAR, GEO'RGIUS (rowpylos d person who was called AWpOTrls, Corrector, beMorXda'lrap), chartophylax magnae ecclesiae at cause, though he was one of the followers of
Constantinople, was a friend and contemporary of Asclepiades of Bithynia, he ventured to controvert
George of Cyprus, patriarch of Constantinople his opinions on some points. (Galen, De Diar.
A. D. 1283-1289 [GEORGIUS, literary, No. 20]. Puls. iv. 16, vol. viii. p. 758).
He took a leading part in opposition to the doctrine A physician of the same name is mentioned
of the Latin church on the procession of the Holy also by Soranus (De Arte Obstetr. p. 184), PluSpirit, and to the distinguished advocate of that tarch (Sympos. iii. 10. ~ 2), Alexander Trallianus
church, Joannes Beccus or Veccus. He seems, (i. 15, p. 156), Aetius (iv. 3, ~ 13, p. 755), Pliny
however, to have had little weight even with his (H. N. xix. 26, ~ 4), and Tertullian ()De Anima,
own party. He published several treatises in op- c. 15). [W. A. G.]
position to Veccus, to which the latter ably replied; MOSCHION (MooXinov), the son of Adamas,
but neither the attacks of the one nor the answers an. Athenian sculptor, made, in conjunction with
of the other seem to be preserved. There is a his brothers Dionysodorus and Ladamas, a statue
letter of Moschampar to his friend George of of Isis in the island of Delos. The names of the
Cyprus, printed in the life of the latter, which was artists are preserved by an inscription on the statue,
published by J. F. Bernard de Rubeis, Venice, which is now at Venice. (Winckelmann, Gesch.
1753. (Pachymer. Hist. i. 8; Allatius, Graec. d. Kunst, bk. ix. c. 2. ~ 10.) [P. S.]
Orthodox. vol. ii. pp. 3, 9, 10; Fabric. Bibl. Graec. MOSCHOPU'LUS, MA'NUEL or EMA'Nvol. xii. pp. 46, 47, comp. vol. viii. pp. 53, 54.) UEL (Mavouv)x s.'EAavouv)A MoX0rovhos), a
MOSCHION (MooXiWY). 1. A tragic and Greek grammarian of the later period of the
comic poet, mentioned more than once by Stobaeus, Byzantine empire. There are few writers whose
who has preserved the names of three of his plays. works have had so extensive a circulation
1. OejuoroTKhAss. 2. T4rAeqos. 3. cepa7oi. (Sto- whose time and history are so uncertain. Acbaeus, Edl. Phys. i. 38.; Clem, Alex. Strom. vi. p. cording to the account generally current among
623; Fabric. Bibl. Graec. vol. ii. p, 311,.) the historians of literature, there were two Mos2. A Greek writer, who drew up an account of chopuli, both bearing the name of Manuel, uncle
the construction of the enormous ship which was and nephew; the uncle, a native of Crete, who
built by command of Hieron, under the direction lived in the time of the emperor Andronicus
of the celebrated Archimedes. [HIERON; ARCHI- Palaeologus the Elder, about A. D. 1392; the
MEDES.] Moschion's account is quoted at length nephew, a native of Constantinople, who, on the
by Athenaeus (v. p. 206, d, 209, e). capture of that city by the Turks, A. D. 1453, fled
3. A celebrated cook, who was purchased by into Italy. Of his fortunes, connections, or place
Demetrius Phalereus, and speedily realised a large of residence in that country-, nothing appears to
fortune from. the perquisites allowed him by his have been known, nor do we find any record or
extravagant master. (Athen. xii. p. 542.) A para- notice of his death. (Comp. Walder. Praef. ad
site of the same name seems to have enjoyed stffi- Moschopuli Grammat. Artis Method., A.D. 1540;
cient notoriety to be mentioned in more than one Burton, Ling. Graec. Historia, p. 57, 12mo. Lond.
passage quoted by Athenaeus (vi. p. 246, b, c, ix. 1657; Scherpezeelius, Praef. ad Moschopuli Scholia
p. 382, d). [C. P. M.] ad Iliad. Hardwick, A. D. 1702; Fabric. Bibl.