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to light the intrigues of many of the Roman'nobles 44; Porphyr. ad Hor. Sat. i. 3. 21; Pseudo-Ascon.
of high family. The latter in their turn retorted, in Cic. Divin. in Caecil. p. 121, ed. Or.; Becker,
by bringing charges against the dictator and the Handbuch der Rihmisch. Allertl. vol. i. p. 300.)
magister equitum; whereupon both Maenius and 12. C. MAENIUS, praetor B. C. 180, received
Fosliuis resigned their offices, demanded of the Sardinia as his province, and also the commission
consuls a trial, and were most honourably acquitted. to examine into all cases of poisoning which had
(Liv. ix. 26, comp. 34.) occurred beyond ten miles from the city. After
Ill B. C. 318 Maenius was censor with L. Papirius condemning 3000 persons, he still found so many
Crassus. In his censorship he allowed balconies to who were guilty, that he wrote to the senate to
be added to the various buildings surrounding the state that he must abandon either the investigation
forum, in order that the spectators might obtain or the province. (Liv. xl. 35, 43.)
more room for beholding the games which were 13. Q. MAENIUS, praetor B. c. 170, was employed
exhibited in the forum; and these balconies were in the Macedonian war. (Liv. xliii. 8.)
called after him Maenians (sc. aedificia). They MAENON (Maivowv), a Sicilian, a native of
are frequently mentioned by the ancient writers, Segesta, had fallen as a captive when a youth into
and are described at length by Salmasius (ad the hands of Agathocles, and rose to a high place
Spartian. Pescenn. 12, p. 676). Comp. Paul. Diac. in the favour of the Syracusan monarch; notwithp. 134, ed. M-uller; Cic. Acad. iv. 22, who speaks standing which, he was induced by Archagathus,
of the llaenianorumn umbra; Suet. Cal. 18; the grandson of Agathocles, to unite in a project
Vitruv. v. 1; Val. Max. ix. 12. ~ 7; Pseudo- against the life of the aged king. He is said to
Ascon. in Cic. Diin. in Caecil. p. 121, ed. Orelli, have administered poison to him by means of a
who, however, absurdly mixes them up with the quill used asa toothpick, which brought about the
Columna Maenia, and with the spendthrift men- death of Agathocles, with the most exkcruciating
tioned below [No. 11]. pains. Archagathus was at the time absent from
In B. C. 314 Maenius was a second time dicta- Syracuse with an army, and the people having retor, and again appointed M. Foslius the magister established the democracy on the death of the old
equitum. (Fasti Capit.) king, Maenon fled from Syracuse to the camp of
7. MaENIUS, the proposer of the law, about Archagathus, but soon after took an opportunity to
1. c. 286, which required the patres to give their assassinate the young prince, and placed himself at
sanction to the election of the magistrates before the head of his troops. With this mercenary force
they had been elected, or in other words to confer, he made war on the Syracusans, and though opor agree to confer, the imperium on the person posed by Hicetas with an army, he obtained the
whom the comitia should elect. (Cic. Brut. 14.) powerful support of the Carthaginians, which enPighius and Freinsheim supposed that this Mae- abled him to dictate the terms of peace. One of
nius was a tribune of the plebs; but Niebuhr the conditions imposed was the return of the exiles;
conjectures (Hist. of Rome, vol. iii. p. 421) that but though this would seem likely to have placed
he may have been the same as the C. Maenius Maenon in a prominent position at Syracuse, we
above-mentioned rNo. 6], and that the high cha- hear nothing more of him from this time. (Diod.
racter and venerable age of the latter may have xxi., Exec. Hoescl. pp. 491 —493.) [E. H. B.]
had some influence in procuring the enactment of MAEON (Malwv), a son of Haemon of Thebes.
the law. He and Lycophontes were the leaders of the band
8. P. MAENIUS ANT(IATICUS) ME(GELLUS) or that lay in ambush against Tydeus, in the war of
ME(DULLINUS), occurs on a coin, the obverse of the Seven against Thebes. Maeon was the only
which represents the head of Hercules, and the one whose life was spared by Tydeus, and when
reverse the prow of a ship. On other coins we the latter fell, Maeon is said to have buried him.
find only the names P. Maen. Ant.; and it is con- (Hom. II. iv. 394, &c.; Apollod. iii. 6. ~ 5; Paus.
jectured that the Megellus or Medullinus was an ix. 18. ~ 2.) Another personage of this name
agnomen to distinguish this Maenius Antiaticus occurs in Diodorus (iii. 58). [L. S.]
from other members of his family. (Eckhel, vol. v. MAEO'NIDES (Mao61,Lvr8s), properly a son of
pp. 240, 241.) Maeon, the husband of Dindyme, who was the
9. M. MAEUNIUS, tribune of the soldiers, fell in mother of Cybele, or a native of Maeonia, which
battle against Mago, in the country of the Insu- was the ancient name of a portion of Lydia, but
brian Gauls, B.C. 203. (Liv. xxx. 18.) was also applied to the whole country of Lydia;
10. T. MAENIUS, praetor urbanus B. C. 186. As Homer was believed by some to have been a
He served as tribune of the soldiers in B. c. 180, native of Lydia, he is sometimes called Maeonides,
in the army of the praetor Q. Fulvius, against the or the Maeonian bard. The feminine form of this
Celtiberi. (Liv. xxxix. 6, 8, 18. xl. 35.) patronymic, Maeonis, also occurs as a surname of
11. MAENIUS, a contemporary of Lucilius, was Omphale (Ov. Fast. ii. 310), and of Arachne (Ov,
a great spendthrift, who squandered all his property Met. vi. 103), because both were Lydians. [L. S.]
and afterwards supported himself by playing the MAEO'NIUS, the cousin, or, according to
buffoon. He possessed a house in the forum, which Zonaras, the nephew of Odenathus, whom he
Cato in Ihis censorship (B. C. 184) purchased of him, murdered in consequence of a hunting quarrel, not,
for the purpose of building the basilica Porcia. it is said, without the consent of Zenobia, wha was
Some of the ancient scholiasts ridiculously relate, filled with jealous rage on perceiving that her
that when Maenius sold his house, he reserved for husband preferred Herodes, his son by a former
himself one column, the Columna Maenia, from marriage, to her own children, Herennianus anct
which he buiit a balcony, that he might thence Timolaus. Maeonius finds a place among the
witness the games. The true origin of the Columna thirty tyrants enumerated by Trebellius Pollio [AuMaenia, and of the balconies called Maeniana, has REOLUS], and a coin of very doubtful characteris
been explained above. [See No. 6.]. (Hor. Sat. described in the Pembroke collection with the
i. 1. 101, i. 3. 21, Epist. i. 15. 26, &c.; Liv. xxxix. legend IMP. C.MARONIUS; but those published by
vo1. if. 3 M