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revelry, and strove to double his allotted time by The Myniscus who was ridiculed by: Plato was
turning night into day. He built a pyramid also, perhaps his grandson. (Athen. viii. p. 344,
or rather began to build it, but died before it was d. e.; Meineke, Fragmenta Post. Corn. vol. ii. p.
finished. It was smaller than those of Cheops and 668.) [C. P. M.]
Chephren, and, according to Herodotus, was wrongly MYNNIO [MINIO, No. 2.]
ascribed by some to the Greek hetaera Rhodopis. MYREPSUS, NICOLAUS. [NICOLAUS.]
(Herod. ii. 1.29-134; Diod. i. 64; Ath. x. p. 438, MYRINA (Mv'psva). 1. A daughter of Creb.) [E. E.] theus and the wife of Thoas, from whom the town
MYDON, of Soli, a painter of some note, was of Myrina in Lemnos was believed to have derived
the disciple of the statuary Pyromachns. He its name. (Schol. ad Apollon. Rhod. i. 604.)
therefore flourished about O1. 138 or B. c. 228. 2. An Amazon, who is likewise said to have
(Plin. H. AN. xxxv. 11. s. 40. ~ 42.) [P. S.] given the name to the town of Myrina in Lemnos.
MYGDON (Mv5yesv). 1. A brother ofAmycus, (Strab. xii. p. 573; Steph. Byz. s. v.)
king of the Bebryces, was slain by Heracles, who 3. A daughter of Teucer and the wife of Darassisted Lycus in his war with Mygdon. (Apollod. danus. (Hom. II. ii. 814; Eustath. ad Horn. p.
ii. 5. ~ 9.) 351.) [L. S.]
2. A son of Acmon, a Phrygian king, who MYRINUS appears as the name of an epigramfought with Otreus and Priam against the Amazons. matic writer in Brunck's Anal. (ii. p. 107). No(Hom. 11. iii. 186, &c.; Eustath. ad Horn. p. 402.) thing more is known of him. It has been conjecA part of the Phrygians are said to have been tured that he is no other than Agathias of Myrina.
called after him Mygdonians. (Paus. x. 27, init.; [AGATHIAS.] (Fabric. Bibl. Graec. vol. iv. p.
comp. COROEBUS.) [L. S.] 483.) [C. P. M.]
MYIA (Mvia). 1. Daughter of Pythagoras MYRME'CIDES (Mvp/wvfdCqv), a sculptor and
and Theano (Porphyr. p. 3; Clemens Alex. Strom. engraver, of Miletus or Athens, is generally meniv. p. 522; Suidas), was, according to lamblichus, tioned in connection with Callicrates, like whom
the wife of Milon of Crotona. A letter, addressed he was celebrated for the minuteness of his works.
to a certain Phyllis, is extant under her name. [CALLICRATES.] His works in ivory were so
(Lucian, JAuscae Enc. extr.; Fabric. Bibl. Graec. small that they could scarcely be seen without
vol. i. pp. 883, 886.) placing them on black hair. (Varro, L. L. vii., ix.
2. A Spartan poetess, who composed hymns to 62; Cic. Acad. ii. 38; Suid. s. vv. Mvpl7p31S77s and
Apollo and Diana (Suidas, s. v.). Lucian (i/Juscae?yeAo7os.) [P. S.]
Enc. extr.) mentions an ancient poetess of the name, MYRMEX (MWppqrn), that is, an ant, from
celebrated for her beauty and learning, but whether which animal, according to some traditions, the
he refers to the Spartan poetess or not, is uncertain. Myrmidons in Thessaly derived their name. An
3. A Thespian poetess, who wrote some lyrical Attic maiden of the name of Myrmex, it is said,
poems (Suidas, s. v.). She is probably the same was beloved by Athena; and when the goddess
with Corinna [CORINNA], who bore that sur- had invented the plough, Myrmex boastfully pre-.name. [C. P. M.] tended to. have made the discovery herself, whereMYIAGRUS or MYIODES (Mviaypos), that upon she was metamorphosed into an ant. But
is, the fly-catcher, is the name of a hero, who was when afterwards Zeus made his son Aeacus king
invoked at Aliphera, at the festival of Athena, as of Thessaly, which was not inhabited by human
the protector against flies. (Paus. v. 14. ~ 2, viii. beings, he metamorphosed all the ants of the
26. ~ 4.) [L. S.] country into men, who were thence called MyrMYLES (MhVNs), a son of Lelex, brother of midones. (Virg. Aen. iv. 402, with the note of
Polycaon, father of Eurotas, and king of Lace- Serv.; Hygin. Fab. 52; Strab. viii. p. 375, ix.
daemon, was regarded as the inventor of mills. p. 433; comp. ABAcus.) According to Philo(Paus. iii. 1. ~ 1, 20. ~ 2, iv. 1. ~ 2.) Stephanus chorus (ap. Harpocr. s. v. MeMAiT7) Myrmex was
Byzantius mentions MUvdv'To'L Eop as the pro- the father of Melite, from whom the Attic demos
tectors of mills. [L. S.] of Melite derived its name. [L. S.]:
MYLLUS (MhAAos), a comic poet, a contem- MY'RMIDON (Mvpu&sc v), a son of Zeus and
porary of Epicharmus, who with Euetes and Eu- Eurymedusa, the daughter of Cleitos, whom Zeus
xenides revived comedy in Athens at the same time deceived in the disguise of an ant. Her son was
that Epicharmus was labouring in the same direction for this reason called Myrmidon (from IjSppnq, an
in Sicily. He appears to have been especially suc- ant), and was regarded as the ancestor of the
cessful in the representation of a deaf man, who, Myrmidons in Thessaly. He was married to
nevertheless, hears every thing; whence arose a Peisidice, by whom he became the father of
proverb, Mv'AXos 7rdvJT' otoveL. According to Eus- Antiphus and Actor. (Apollod. i. 7. ~ 3; Apollon.
tathius he was an actor as well as a dramatist, and Rhod. i. 56; Eustath. ad Horn. p. 320; Clem,
still adhered to the old practice of having the faces Alex. Protrept. p. 34; Arnob. adv. Gent. iv.
of his actors besmeared with red-ochre. (Suidas, 26.). [L. S.]
s. v.'ErtXappos; Hesychius, vol. ii. p. 632; Eus- MY'RMIDON (Ml)vpMlAcv), an Athenian, who
tathius, ad II. p. 906, 53, ad Od. p. 1885, 21; commanded a force of 10,000 men, which formed
Meineke, Hist. Crit. Corn. Graec. p. 26.) [C. P.M.] part of the armament sent by Ptolemy, the son of
MYNES (Mv'rls), a son of Evenus of Lyrnesus, Lagus, under his brother Menelaus, to effect the
and husband of Briseis, was slain by Achilles. reduction of Cyprus, B. C. 315. He was afterwards
(Hom. Il. ii. 692, xix. 296; Eustath. ad Hornm. despatched to the assistance of Asander in Caria,
p. 322.) [L. S.] against the generals of Antigonus. (Diod. xix.
MYNISCUS (MvviiKos) a tragic actor, a native 62.) [E. H. B.]
of Chalcis, who was attacked by Plato in his comedy MYRIS. [MOERIs.]
called vipc)a&, on account of his gluttony. A man MYRO (Mvpci). 1. The elder of the two
named Myniscus was one of the actors of Aeschylus. daughters of Aristotimus, tyrant of Elis. [ARIa