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

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the Achaeans set up a statue of brass at Delphi, appear from an anecdote recorded by Plutarch that
representing Philopoemen giving the death-wound he hardly enjoyed consideration corresponding to
to Machanidas. (Polyb. x. 41, xi. 11-18, xiii. his former rank. (Plut. Apophth. p. 179; Athen.
6; Liv. xxvii. 30, xxviii. 5, 7; Plut. Philopoem. xiii. p. 557, c.; Droysen, Alexander, p. 43.)
10.) [W. B. D.] 2. An Aetolian, who was sent ambassador to
MACHAON (MaXda6O), a son of Asclepius by Sparta at the commencement of the Social war,
Epeione (Homn. Il. xi. 614; Schol. ad Pind. B. c. 220, to endeavour to induce the LacedaePytli. iii. 14), or, according to others, by Coronis monians to join the Aetolians against Philip V.,
(Hygin. Fab. 97), while others again call him a king of Macedonia, and the Achaean League. His
son of Poseidon. (Eustath. ad Horn. p. 859.) He first embassy was unsuccessful; but shortly after,
was married to Anticleia, the daughter of Diocles a change having occurred in the government of
(Paus. iv. 30. ~ 2), by whom he became the Sparta, in consequence of the election of the two
father of Gorgasus, Nicomachus (Paus. iv. 6. ~ 3), kings Agesipolis and Lycurgus, Machatas again
Alexanor, Sphyrus, and Polemocrates. (Paus. ii. repaired thither, and this time easily effected the.11. ~ 6, iv. 38. ~ 6; Apollod. iii. 10. ~ 8; Hygin. conclusion of the proposed alliance. From thence
Fcab. 81.) In the Trojan war Machaon appears as he proceeded to Elis, and induced the Eleians also
the surgeon of the Greeks, for with his brother to unite with the newly formed league against the
Podaleirius he had gone to Troy with thirty ships, Achaeans. (Polyb. iv. 34, 36.)
commanding the men who came from Tricca, 3. An Epeirot, son of the elder, and father of
Ithome, and Oechalia. (II. ii. 728, &c., xi. 515.) the younger Charops. (Polyb. xxvii. 13.) [CHAHe was wounded by Paris, but was carried from ROPS.] [E. H. B.]
the field of battle by Nestor. (II. xi. 505, 598, MACHA'TAS (MaXcdias), a sculptor, whose
833.) Later writers mention him as one of the name is known by an inscription, from which it
Greek heroes that were concealed in the wooden appears that he made a statue of Hercules,' which
horse (Hygin. Fab. 108; Virg. Aen. ii. 263), and was dedicated by one Laphanes, the son of Lashe is said to have cured Philoctetes. (Tzetz. ad thenes. (Montfaucon, Diario Italico, p. 425;Lycoph. 911; Propert. ii. 1, 59.) He was killed Brunck, Anal. vol. iii. p. 188, No. 187; Jacobs,'by' Eurypylus, the son of Telephus, and his remains Aninadv. in AnthI. Graec. vol. iii. pt. 1, p. 596.)
were carried to Messenia by Nestor. His tomb Machatas is mentioned in another inscription as
Iwas believed to be at Gerenia, in Messenia, where the maker of a statue dedicated to Asclepius.'a sanctuary was dedicated to him, in which sick (Bickh, CoTp. Inscrip. 1794; R. Rochette, Lettre
persons sought relief of their sufferings. It was a M. Schorn, p. 346, 2d edition.) [P. S.]
there that Glaucus, the son of Aepytus, was be- MACHON (MdXwo,), of Corinth or Sicyon, a
lieved to have first paid him heroic honours. (Paus. comic poet, flourished at Alexandria, where he
iv. 3. ~~ 2, 6, iii. 26. 4 7.) [L. S.] gave instructions respecting comedy to the gramMACHARES'(Maxapts), son of Mithridates marian Aristophanes of Byzantium. He was
the Great, was appointed by his father king of the contemporary with Apollodorus of Carystus, and
Bosporus, when he, for the second time, reduced flourished between the 120th and 130th Olympiads
that country, after the short war with Murena, (B. C. 300-260). He held a high place among
B. C. 80. In B. c. 73 Mithridates, after his defeat the Alexandrian poets; Athenaeus says of him,
at Cyzicus, applied to him for succours, which were sv 3' dya0ds 7ronr7)s r EY Trs dAAos rcv I.Et'a.rouls
at the time readily furnished; but two years after- earrd, and quotes an elegant epigram in his praise.
wards the repeated disasters of Mithridates proved We have the titles of two of his plays,'Ayvota
too much for the fidelity of Machares, and he sent and'EmlT-oAs, and of a sententious poem in iambic
an embassy to Lucullus with a present of a crown senarii, entitled Xpetat, of which Athenaeus has
of gold, and requested to be admitted to terms of preserved several fragments. (Athen. vi. p. 241, f;:alliance with Rome. This was readily granted by xiv. p. 664, a, b, c, viii. p. 345, f, xiii. p.
Lucullus; and as a proof of his sincerity, Machares 577, d; Meineke, lIist. Crit. Com. Graec. pp. 479,
-furnished the Roman general with supplies and 480, 462; Fabric. Bibl. Graec. vol. ii. pp. 452,
assistance in the siege of Sinope. (Appian, Mit/sr. 453.) [P. S.]
67, 78, 83; Plut. Lucull. 24; Memnon, 54, ed. MACI'STIUS. [MASISTIUS.]
Orelli.) But when Mithridates, after his defeat by MACISTUS (MdciraTos). 1. A surname of
Pompey, adopted the daring resolution of marching Heracles, who had a temple in the neighbourhood
with his army to the Bosporus, and renewing the of the town of Macistus in Triphylia. (Strab. viii.
contest from thence, Machares became alarmed for p. 348.)
the consequences of his defection; and on learning 2. A son of Athamas and brother of Phrixus,
the actual approach of his father (B. c. 65) fled to from whom the town of Macistus in Triphylia was
the city of Chersonesus, where he soon after, de- believed to have derived its name. (Steph. Byz.
spairing of pardon, put an end to his own life. s. v. M'KLasos.) [L. S.]
(Appian, Mithr. 102.) Dion Cassius, on the con- MACRIA'NUSand MACRIA'NUS,JUNIOR,
trary, relates (xxxvi. 33) that Mithridates deceived rank among the thirty tyrants enumerated by
him with promises of safety, and then put him to Trebellius Pollio. When -alerian undertook the
death. (Comp. Oros. vi. 5.) [E. H. B.] Persian war, he committed the chief command to
MACHA'TAS (MaXdras) 1. A Macedonian, Macrianus, whose valour, had been proved as a boy'father of Harpalus, and of Philip, the satrap of in Italy, as a youth in Thrace, as a man in Africa,
India. (Arr. Anab. iii. 6. ~ 7, v. 8. ~ 5.) He and when stricken in years in Illyria and Dalmatia..was a brother of Derdas and of Phila, one of the In consequence, it is' said, of his incapacity or:many wives of Philip of Macedonia, and belonged treachery, the campaign terminated in the capture
to the family of the princes of Elymiotis. After of the emperor, after which, Macrianus and Balista
the expulsion of those princes he seems to have having collected the scattered remniants of the
resided at the court of Philip, though it would Roman army, it was determined in solemn cons
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