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4. MANLIUS LENTINUS, tile legate of C. Pomp- vol. xi. p. 795; Comment. in Hippocr. "'De Qffic.
tinius in Narbonese Gaul, in B. c. 61, took the city Med." praef. and i. 5, vol. xviii. pt. ii. pp. 629.
of Ventia, and defeated the barbarians. (Dion 666, De Compos. Medicacm. see. Gen. iv. 14, vol.
Cass. xxxvii. 47.) xiii. p. 751.) [W. A. G.]
5. CN,. MANLIUS, tribune of the plebs B. C. 58, MANTINEUS (Mavrvev's), a son of Lycaon,
brought forward a law granting to the freedmen and the reputed founder of Mantineia. (Apollod.
(libertini) the right of voting in all the tribes; but iii. 8. ~ l; Paus. viii. 8. ~ 4.) Another person
he was prevented from passing it by Domitius of the same name occurs in Apollodorus (ii. 2. ~
Ahenobarbus, who was then praetor (Ascon. in 1.) [L. S.]
Cic. llil. p. 46). Baiter, in his note on Asconius MANTI'THEUS (MawTrl0os), an Athenian, is
(I. c.), has shown that this Cn. Manlius is a mentioned by Xenophon (Hell. i. 1. ~ 10),as haydifferent person from C. Manilius, who was tribune ing been taken prisoner in Caria, but by whom,
in B. C. 66, and who brought forward a similar law. and on what occasion, does not appear, unless it.[MANILIUS, No. 7.] was (according to the suggestion of Weiske) in
MA'NLIUS VALENS. [VALENS.] the unsuccessful expedition of the Athenians to
MANNUS, a son of Tuisco, was regarded by Caria and Lycia, under Melesander, in B. c. 430.
the ancient Germans, along with his father, to have (Thuc. ii. 69.) Mantitheus was the companion of
been the founders of their race. They further Alcibiades in his escape, in B. C. 411, from Sardis,
ascribed to Mannus three sons, from whom the where Tissaphernes had confined him (Xen. 1. c.;
three tribes of the Ingaevones, Hermiones, and Plut. Alc. 27, 28). In B. C. 408 he was one of
Istaevones derived their names. (Tac. Germ. 2.) the ambassadors sent from Athens to Dareius; but
Others, however, represented Mannus, who was he and his colleagues were delivered, on their way
worshipped as a god, as the father of more than through Asia Minor, by Pharnabazus to Cyrus,
three sons. Mannus is perhaps the same being as who had come down with instructions from his
Iralin who is mentioned by other authors among father to aid the Lacedaemonians; and it was three
the German gods (Witechind of Corv. i.; J. Grimm, years before they were released. (Xeni. Hell. i.
Irmenstrasse und Irmensaile, p. 41), and seems to 3. ~ 13, 4.:~~ 4-7.) [E. E.]
have been a kind of German Mars; though some MA'NTIUS (Mdv'T&os), a son of Melampus, and
believe, that Irmin was the deified Arminius. It brother of Antiphates. (Hom. Od. xv. 242; Paus.
is not impossible that in later times Irmin and Ar- vi. 17. ~ 4; comp. MELAMPUS.) rL. S.]
minius may have become identified in the ima- MANTO (MavPcS). 1. A daughter of the
gination of the people.. [L. S.] Theban soothsayer Teiresias. She herself was a
MANNUS (Madveos). 1. A king of some part prophetess, first of the Ismenian Apollo at Thebes,
of Arabia bordering upon Mesopotamia, who sub- where monuments of her existed (Paus. ix. 10. ~
wuitted to Trajan on his expedition against the 3), and subsequently of the Delphian and Clarian
Parthians. (Dion Cass. lxviii. 21, 22.) Apollo. After the taking of Thebes by the Epi2. A son or grandson of the preceding, who goni, she, with other captives, was dedicated to
lived in the reign of M. Aurelius, and several of Apollo at Delphi. The god sent the captives to
whose coins are extant, bearing the effigies of M. Asia, where they founded the sanctuary of Apollo
Aurelius and his wife Faustina, and of L. Verus not far from the place where afterwards the town
and his wife Lucilla. The one annexed bears the of,Colophon was built. Rhacius, a Cretan, who
head of Faustina, having for its legend, on the had settled there before, married Manto, and beobverse, 4,AVCTIJNA CEBACTH, and on the re- came by her the father of Mopsus. (Apollod. iii.
verse, BACIAEVC MANNOC @IAOP (ZMAIOC). 7. ~ 4; Paus. vii. 3. ~ 1, ix. 33. ~ 1; Strab. ix.
(Spanheim, De Paest. et Usu Numism. vol. ii. p. p. 443; Schol. ad Apollon. i. 908.) According to
578; Eckhel, vol. iii. p. 513.) Euripides, she had previously become the mother
of Amphilochus and Tisiphone, by Alcmaeon, the'
leader of the Epigoni. (Apollod. iii. 7. ~ 7.)
Being a prophetess of Apollo, she is also called
Daphne, i. e. the laurel virgin. (Diod. iv. 66;
comp. Athen. vii. p. 298.)
2. A daughter of the soothsayer Polyeidus, and
sister of Astycrateia. The tombs of these two
sisters were shown at Megara, near the entrance of
COIN OF MANNUS. the sanctuary of Dionysus. (Paus. i. 43. ~ 5.)
3. A daughter of Heracles, is likewise described
M ANTIAS (MavTreias, or rather May'tas), *a as a prophetess, and as the personage from whom
physician, who was the tutor of Heracleides of the town of Mantua received its name. (Serv. ad
Tarentum (Galen, De Compos. Medicam. sec. Gen. Aen. x. 198.) [L. S.]
ii. 15, vol. xiii. p. 462, 502), and one of the fol- MA'NUEL I., COMNE'NUS (Marovi)X d
lowers of Herophilus (Id. De Compos. Medicam. KosvfvJds), emperor of Constantinople A. D. 1143
sec. Gen. vi. 9, vol. xii. p. 989); and who lived -1181, the fourth child and son of the emperor
therefore most probably in the third century B. C. Calo-Joannes (Joannes II.), was born about A. D.
Galen says he was no ordinary physician (De 1120, and succeeded his father in 1143. Of
Conmpos. Mfedicam. sec. Locos, ii. 1, vol. xii. p. 534), his three elder brothers, Alexis and Andronicus
and that he was the first who wrote a regular work had both died before their father; but the third,
on pharmacy (De Conmpos. Medicam. sec. Gen. ii. Isaac Sebastocrator, was still alive, and would have
1, voL xiii. p. 462). His works on this subject, had better claims to the crown than Manuel, but
which are several times quoted by Galen, are lost, for a special declaration of the late emperor, who
but the titles of some of them have been preserved. preferred the younger to the elder on account of his
(De SiMplic. JfIedicam. Temper. ac Facult. vi. praef. martial qualities. Manuel was with his father