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

1132 -MYRTILUS. MYS.:trated into Thessaly, to take vengeance for the the names of two of his plays, the TlTravlraves,
desertion of the Thessalian troops to the Lacedae- and the'Epores, One object of his ridicule in the
monians at the battle of Tanagra; but he failed in former was the tasteless love of display shown by
his attempt on the town of Pharsalus, and was the Megarian Choregi. (Aspasius ad Aristot. Ethic.
obliged to return to Athens. It is possible that Nic. iv. 2; Meineke, Hist. Crit. Com. Graec. p. 100;
the subject of the present article may have been Bode, Geschichte der Hellen. Dichtkunst, vol. iii.
the father of ARCHINUS, the Athenian statesman, part ii. p. 170). [C. P. M.]
who took a chief part in the overthrow of the thirty MY'RTILUS, a slave or a freedman, seems to
tyrants, B. C. 403; for Demosthenes mentions a have been bribed by Antony, or some one of that
son of Archinus, called Myronides, who may have party, to make an attempt upon the life of D.
been named after his grandfather, according to a Brutus, but was detected and put to death. (Cic.
custom by no means uncommon. (Thuc. i. 105, ad Att. xv. 13, xvi. 11.)
106, 108, iv. 95; Aristoph. Lys. 801, Eccl. 303; MY'RTILUS, L. MINUTCIUS, was handed
Aristot. Polit. v. 3, ed. Bekk.; Lys.'ETrrao. p. over to the Carthaginians, because he had beaten
195; Diod. xi. 79-83; Plat. Menex. p. 242; the ambassadors of the latter,, B.c. 187. (Liv.
Dem. c. Tinocrat. p. 742; Herm. Pol. Ant. ~ 169, xxxviii. 42.)
note 1; Wachsmuth, Hist. Ant. vol. ii. p. 133, MYRTIS (MprTLs), an Argive, whom, with'
Eng. transl.; Thirlwall's Greece, vol. iii. p. 30, several others of that and other states, Demosthenes
note 2, p. 33, notes; Thuc. i. iii.) [E. E.] (de (Cr. p. 324, ed. Reiske) charged with treachery
MYRRHA (MJPa), a daughter of Cinyras on the ground of their having misled their fellowand, mother of Adonis. (Luc. D. Syr. 6; comp. citizens with respect to the danger to be appreA-DONIS.) Lycophron (829) calls Byblos in Phoe- hended from the growing power of Philip, and so
nicia MSj3pas actov.; [L. S.] kept them from combining against him. He charges
MYRSILUS. [CANDAVLLES.] them also with having done so from corrupt moMY'RSILUS, a Greek historical writer, a na- tives. Polybius (xvii. 14) exonerates them from
tive of Lesbos. When he'lived is not known. the charge of treachery. [C. P. M.]
Dionysius of Halicarnassus (i. 23) has borrowed MYRTIS (MvpTls), a lyric poetess, a native of
from him almost verbatim a part of his account of Anthedon. She was reported to have been the
the Pelasgians. He refers to him again in i. 28. instructress of Pindar, and to have contended with
Myrsilus was the author of the notion that the him for the palm of superiority. This is alluded
Tyrrhenians, in consequence of their wandering to in an extant fragment of Corinna. (Bergk's
about after they left their original settlements, got Poetae Lyrici Gr-aeci, p. 815.) There were statues
the name of IIexapyo[, or storks. Athenaeus (xiii. in honour of her in various parts of Greece. She
p. 610, a.) quotes from a work by Myrsilus, en- was also reckoned amongst the nine lyric Muses.
titled'Ieropuc&a 7rapasota. He is also quoted by (Anthol. Pal. ix. 26; Suidas s. vv. Hivapos,
Strabo (i. p. 60, xiii. p. 610), and by Pliny Kdpvva; Tatian. Orat. ad Graec. 52; Fabric.
(H. N. iii. 7, iv. 12). By Arnobius (iii. 37, Bibl. Graec. vol. ii. p. 133; Bode, Gesclh. der
iv. 24), he is called Myrtilus.,Voss. de Hist. Hellen. Dichtkunst, vol. ii. pt. 2, p. 112.) [C.P.M.]
GrCec. p. 473, ed. Westermann). [C. P. M.] MYRTO (MvpTmi), a woman from whom, acMYRSUS (M'poos), a Lydian, son of Gyges, cording to some, the Myrtoan sea derived its
was the bearer to Polycrates of the letter containing name. (Paus. viii. 14. ~ 8; Apollon. Rhod. i.
the treacherous promises by which he was induced 752; comp. MYRTILUS.) [L. S.]
to place himself in the power of Oroetes, satrap of MYRTO (MvpT'ro), a daughter of one ArisSardis. Myrsus was one of those who were slain teides, was, according to some accounts, the first
in an ambuscade by the Carians in the Ionian war, wife of Socrates. (Ath. xiii. p. 555, d.; Bickh,
B.c. 498. (Herod. iii. 122, v. 121.) [E. E.] Publ. Econ. of Athens, b. i. c. 20.) [E. E.]
MY'RTILUS (Mvp'riXos), a son of Hermes by MYRTOESSA (MvpTcW'eo'oa), the nymph of a
Cleobule, or by Clytia (Hygin. Poet. Astr. ii. 13), well of the same name in Arcadia; she was reor, according to others, by Phaetusa or Myrto. presented at Megalopolis along with Archiroe,
(Schol. ad Apollon. Rhod. i. 752.) He was the Hagno, Anthracia and Nais. (Paus. viii. 31.
charioteer of Oenomaus, king of Elis, and, having ~ 2.) [L. S.]
betrayed his master, he was thrown into the sea MYRTON (MVp-rv,), and his son NICANOR
by Pelops near Geraestus in Euboea; and' that (Nrcmiop), were men of weight and influence il
part of the Aegean is said to have thenceforth Epeirus, and are mentioned by Polybius (who
been called after him the Myrtoan sea. At the bears testimony at the same time to their previous
moment he expired, he pronounced a curse upon high character for uprightness) as having lent
the' house of Pelops, which' was hence harassed themselves to abet the cruel and oppressive conby the Erinnyes of that curse. His father placed duct of CHAROPS [No. 2]. Charops was accomhim among the stars as auriga. (Soph. Elect. panied by Myrton, when he went to Rome to
509; Eurip. Or. 993, &c.; Apollon. Rhod. i. 755; endeavour to obtain the senate's confirmation of
Paus. ii. 18. ~ 2, v. 1. ~ 5, viii. 14. ~ 8; Tzetz. his proceedings. (Polyb. xxxii. 21, 22.) [E. E.]
ad Lye. 156, 162; Hygin. Fab. 84, Poet. Astr. ii. MYS (Mvs), an artist in the toreutic depart13; Serv. ad Virg. Georg. i. 205, iii. 7; Eustath. ment, engraved the battle of the Lapithae and the
ad Hons. p. 184.) His tomb was shown at Centaurs and other figures on the shield of Phidias's
Pheneus, behind the temple of Hermes, where colossal bronze statue of Athena Promachos, in the
the waves were believed to have washed his body Acropolis of Athens. (Paus. i. 28. ~ 2.) If we are to
on the coast. There he was also worshipped as believe Pausanias, these works were executed from
a hero, and honoured with nocturnal sacrifices. designs by Parrhasius, who flourished half a cen(Paus. vi. 20. ~ 8, viii. 14. ~ 7.) [L. S.] tury later than Phidias. It is probable that there
MY'RTILU S (MvprTAos), a Greek comic poet, is a mistake in the passage of Pausanias, and that
the brother of Hermippus. Suidas has preserved Mys ought to be, considered as a contemporary of