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

LYTIERSES. MACARIUS. 873
the human face in gypsum; and from this mould
he produced copies by pouring into it melted wax.
(Plin.. N. xxxv. 12. s. 44.) He made a statue M.
of Melanippe. (Tatian. adv. Graec. 54, p. 117,
ed. Worth.) [P. S.] MA (Ma') signifies probably mother, as in AesLY'SIUS (Av0'aos), i. e. the Deliverer, a sur- chylus (,ua?ya, Suppl. 890), who applies it to the
name of Dionysus, under which he was worshipped earth to designate her as the mother of all. But,
at Corinth, where there was a carved image of the according to Stephanus Byzantinus (s. V. Md.agod, the whole figure of which was gilt, while the Taupa), Ma was the name of a nymph in the suite
face was painted red. (Paus. ii. 2. ~ 5.) He was of Rhea, to whom Zeus entrusted the bringing up
also worshipped at Sicyon, where the Theban of the infant Dionysus. The same author tells us
Phanes was said to have introduced the god (ii. 7. that Rhea herself was by the Lydians called Ma,
~ 6), and at Thebes. In the last-mentioned place he and that bulls were sacrificed to her, whence the
had a sanctuary near one of the gates, and there name of the town Mastaura was derived. (Comp.
was a story. that the god had received the surname Welcker, Trilog. p. 167.) [L. S.]
from the fact of his once having delivered Theban MACAR or MACAREUS (MaKap or MaKaprisoners from the hands of the Thracians in the peus). 1. A son of Helios and Rhodos, or, accordneighbourhood of Haliartus (ix. 16. ~ 4; Orph. ing to others, a son of Crinacus, who after the
l/ymn. 49, 2, &c.) [L. S.] murder of Tenages fled from Rhodes to Lesbos.
LYSIZO'NA (Auln'dvnl), i. e. the goddess who (Homrn II. xxiv. 544; Diod. v. 56; Plat. de Leg.
loosens the girdle, is a surname of Artemis and viii. p. 838; Arnob. adv. Genzt. iv. 24; Ilgen, ad
Eileithyia, who were worshipped under this name Hymn. Hom. p. 203.)
at Athens. (Theocrit. xvii. 60; Schol. ad Apollon. 2. A son of Aeolus, who committed incest with
Ilhod. i. 287.) [L. S.] his sister Canace, and, according to some accounts,
LYSO, a Sicilian of rank at Lilybaeum, whom killed himself in consequence. (Hygina Fab. 238;
Verres, while praetor of Sicily in B. C. 73-71, Plut. Parall. Hist. Gr. et Rom.; comp. AEOLUS.)
robbed of a statue of Apollo. (Cic. in Vetr. iv. 17.) 3. A son of Lycaon, from whom the town of
A son of Lyso, bearing the same name, is recom- Macaria in Arcadia derived its name. (Paus. viii.
mended by Cicero to M'. Acilius Glabrio, proconsul 3. ~ 1; Steph. Byz. s. v. MaKap a; Apollod. iii.
in Sicily in B. C. 46. (ad Fam. xiii. 34.) [GLA- 8. ~ 1.)
BRao, No. 6.] [WV. B. D.] 4. A son of Jason and Medeia, who is also
LYSO, a native of Patrae, in Achaia (Cic. called Mermerus or Mormorus. (Hygin. Fab. 239;
ad Fam. xiii. 19), who is commonly said to have Tzetz. ad Lycoph. 175; comp. MERMERUS.)
been a physician, and to have attended Cicero's 5. Of Nericus, one of the companions of Odysfreedman Tullius Tiro during his illness at that seus. (Ov. Met. xiv. 159.)
place, B. C. 51. This, however, is probably a mis- 6. A Lapithes, who at the wedding of Peirithous
take, as he is no where called a physician, and slew the centaur Erigdupus. (Ov. Met. xii. 452.)
rather seems to be distinguished from Tiro's medi- 7. The founder of Lesbos, was a son of Crineus
cal attendant, whose name was Asclapo (ibid. xvi. and a grandson of Zeus. (Diod. v. 81.) [L. S.]
4, 5, 9); so that, altogether it is more likely that MACAREUS (MaKapev's). Athenaeus cites in
Lyso was the person with whom Tiro lodged during two places (vi. p. 262, c. xiv. p. 639, d) the KwaKa
his illness. Cicero seems at one time to have been of Macareus. As his citation, the same in both
afraid of his not being sufficiently attentive to his places, is from the third book, we know that the
guest, and advises Tiro, if necessary, to go to the history comprehended at least three books: but
house of M'. Curius (ibid. xvi. 4). Tiro himself, nothing more seems known either of the author or
however, seems to have been quite satisfied with the work, except that it was written after the time
his care and attention; and, accordingly, when of Phylarchus, from whom Maca'eus quotes three
Lyso visited Rome a short time afterwards, and hexameter lines, and who appears to have lived in
stayed there for about a year, he lived on the most the reign of Ptolemy Euergetes and Ptolemy Phiintimate terms with Cicero, and saw him almost lopator, kings of Egypt, i. e. B. c. 246-204. (Faevery day (ibid. xiii. 19, 24). When Servius Sul- bric. Bibl. Graec. vol. viii. p. 367.) [J. C. M.]
picius was going as proconsul to Achaia, Cicero MACA'RIA (Matcapia), a daughter of Heracles
wrote two letters to him in Lyso's favour, B. C. 47, by DeYaneira, from whom Zenobius derives the
in which he speaks of him in terms of great affec- proverb d8hhA' es uaKcaplac, because she had put an
tion and gratitude (ibid. xiii. 19, 24). [W.A. G.] end to herself. (Pans. i. 32. ~ 6; Zenob. Prov.
LYSON (A-dwvp), a statuary, who is mentioned ii. 61.) [L. S.]
by Pliny among those who made "athletas, et ar- MACA'RIUS (MaKadplos), a Spartan, was one
matos, et venatores, sacrificantesque" (H. N. xxxiv. of the three commanders of the Peloponnesian
8. s. 19. ~ 34), His statue of the Athenian people force which was sent to aid the Aetolians in the
in the senate-house of the Five Hundred is men- reduction of Naupactus, B. C. 426, which however
tioned by Pausanias (i. 3. ~ 4). [P. S.] was saved by Demosthenes with the aid of the
LYSUS (Aacros), a Macedonian statuary, who Acarnanians. Macarius took part in the expedimade the statue of Criannius, the Eleian, in the tion against Amphilochian Argos, in the same
Altis at Olympia. (Paus. vi. 17. ~ 1.) [P. S.] year, and was slain at the battle of Olpae. (Thuc.
LYTE'RIUS (Avv-fptos), i. e. the Deliverer, a iii. 100-102, 105-109.) [E. E.]
surname of Pan, under which he had a sanctuary MACA'RIUS (MaK4psos). 1. AEGYPTIUS, the
at Troezene, because he was believed during a EGYPTIAN. There were in the fourth century in
plague to have revealed in dreams the proper remedy Egypt two eminent ascetics and contemporaries,
against the disease. (Paus. ii. 35. ~ 5.) [L. S.] though probably not disciples of St. Antony, as is
LYTIERSES (AvTriepOls), another form of asserted by Rufinus, and perhaps by Theodoret.
Lityerses. (Theocr. x. 41.) [LITYERSES.] [ANTONIUS, No. 4, p. 217, b.] Of these the