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homilieg of St. Chrysostom on the Epistle to the and L. Scipiones. Mummius, intimidated by Cato,
Hebrews. He had also previously made a Latin withdrew his opposition, and the bill was. passed.
translation of the treatise of Gaudentius on Music He was praetor in B. C. 177, and obtained Sardinia
[GAUDENTIUS], as we learn from Cassiodorus, who for his province. In his praetorship Mummius
calls Mucianus " vir disertissimus." (Cassiod. was instructed by the senate to put in force a deDivin. Lect. 8.) The translation of the above- cree for dismissing to their respective cities all.mentioned homilies of Chrysostom is still extant, residents at Rome, who were possessed merely of
and has been highly praised by Savil and the the Jus Latii. (Liv.' xxxvii. 54, xli. 8.)
-other editors of and commentators on Chrysostom. 2. Q. IMUMMius, brother of the preceding, was
It was first printed at Cologne, 1530, 8vo., and his colleague in'the tribunate of B. C. 187. (Liv.
subsequently appeared in the Latin editions of the xxxvii. 54.)
works of this father, in which Mucianus is erro- 3. L. MUMMIUiS L. F. L. N. ACHAICUS, son of
neously called Mutius. In the Greek editions of No. 1, was praetor in B. C. 154. His province
the Homilies the translation of Hervetus is usually was the further Spain, where, after some serious
given; but Montfaucon has also printed in the reverses, he finally retrieved his reputation by victwelfth volume of his edition the version of Muci- tories over the Lusitanians and Blasto-Phoenicians,
anus. (Fabric. Bibl. Graec. vol. viii. pp. 558, and triumphed De Lusitaneis in the following year.
559.) (Appian, Hispan. 56-57; Eutrop. iv. 9; Fasti.)
MUGILLA'NUS, the name of a family of the Mummius was consul in B.C. 146, when he won
Gens Papiria at Rome. The Mugillani were a for himself the surname of Achaicus, by the deILatin family from Mugilla. (Dionys. viii. 36.) struction of Corinth, the conquest of Greece, and
1. L. PAPIRIvs L. F. MUGILLANUS, was con- the establishment of the Roman province of Achaia.
sul for the first time in B. C. 444, and for the second His surname was the more remarkable from the
in B. C. 427. No remarkable event signalised circumstance that Mummius wasthe first self-raised
either of his consulates, but Mugillanus was one of man —novus homo-who attained a national appelthe original pair of Censors. (Liv. iv. 7, 8, 30; lation from military service. From the double
Dionys. xi. 62; Fasti.) name of his descendant, Mummia Achaica, the sur2. L. PAPIRIUS L. F. L. N. MUGILLANUS son name appears to have been perpetuated in the
probably of the preceding, was consular tribune in Mummian family. The Achaean league, under its
B. C. 422. As interrex for holding the plebeians weak and rash leaders, the praetors Critoliaus and
comitia in the following year, Mugillanus was the Diaeus, had been for some time inspired by a warauthor of a law directing the quaestors to be chosen like spirit alien to their interests and the sounder
indifferently from the patricians and the plebeians policy of earlier years. Q. Caecilius Metellus
(Liv. iv. 44). He was censor in B. c. 418 (Fasti). Macedonicus, praetor in B. C. 148, had humbled
3. M. PAPiRrvs L. F. MUGILLANUS was con- Greece by his victories; but his leniency deceived
sular tribune in B. C. 418, and again in 416, and the Achaean chiefs, and they persuaded themselves
consul in 411 (Liv. iv. 45, 47; Fasti). Livy, that Rome was unable to complete its conquest.
however, in 411 gives Atratinus, not Mugillanus, They had assembled an army in the Isthmus
as the cognomen of the Papirius consul in that shortly before the arrival of Mummius. He
year. (Ib. 52.) promptly dismissed his predecessor, Metellus, de4. L. PAPIRIxS MUGILLANUS was consul in feated the army of the league, whose hasty levies
B. c. 326 (Liv. viii. 23; Fasti). It is doubtful, were no match for the discipline of the legions, and
however, whether for Mugillanus should not be read entered Corinth without opposition, since the garCursor, as the surname of the consul. [W. B. D.] rison and principal inhabitants had abandoned it,
MU'LCIBER, a surname of Vulcan, which and the, spirit of Greece was at length completely
seems to have been given to the god as a euphe- broken, The city was burnt, rased, and given up
mism, and for the sake of a good omen, that he to pillage: the -native Corinthians were sold for
might not consume byravaging fire the habitations slaves, and the rarest specimens of Grecian art,
and property of men, but might kindly and bene-. which the luxury and opulence of centuries had
volently aid men in their pursuits. It occurs very accumulated, were given up to the rapacity of an
frequently in the Latin poets. (Ov. iMdet. ii. 5; ignorant conqueror. Polybius the historian, who,
Airs Am. ii. 562.) [L. S.] on the fall of Corinth, had come from- Africa to
MU'LIUS (MoZhAow). 1. The son-in-lawv of mitigate, if possible, the calamities of his countryAugeas, and husband of Agamede, was slain by men, saw Roman soldiers playing at draughts.upon
Nestor. (Hom. II. xi. 738.) the far-famed picture of Dionysus by Aristides;
2. Two Trojans, one of whom was killed by and Mummius himself was so unconscious of the
Patroclus, and the other by Achilles. (Hom. II. real value of his prize, that he sold the rarer works
xvi. 696, xx. 472.) of painting, sculpture, and carving, to the king of
3. A servant and herald from Dulichium, in the Pergamus, and exacted securities from the masters
house of Odysseus. (Honm. Od. xviii. 422.) [L.S.] of vessels who conveyed the remainder to Italy, to
MU'MMIA ACHAICA, grand-daughter of Q. replace by equivalents any picture or statue lost or
Lutatius Catulus (CATULUS, No. 4], and great injured in the passage. But although ignorant,.
grand-daughter of L. Mummius Achaicus [MUM- Mummins was more scrupulous in his selection of
sfIvs, No. 3], was the wife of Serv. Galba, and the spoils than the Roman. generals of later times,:
mother of the emperor Galba and his brother or even than some of his contemporaries. He ap-.
Caius. (Sueton. Galb. 3.) [W. B. D.] propriated secular or private property alone, and
MU'IMMIUS. 1. L. MuMMIus was tribune religiously abstained from all that had been conof the plebs in B. C. 187. He opposed the bill of secrated to religious uses. Mummius remained in
M. Porcius Cato for inquiring into the amount of Greece during the greater part of s.c. 146-145,
monies paid by Antiochus the Great, king of Syria, in the latter year with the title of proconsul. lie
as the price of peace in B. C 188, to the brothers P. arranged the fiscal and municipal constitution of