Selected Essays of Plutarch, Vol. II. · Plutarch
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Maeotic Bay (Sea of Azov), 300. Magi, the, 126. Magnesia, district of Thessaly, 96. Malis, 89. Marăthon, on the east coast of Attica (famous for the battle of 490), 183. Mardonius, the Persian general (defeated and killed at Plataea, 479), 121. Marius, 184. Medes, 288. Megalopŏlis, the chief town of Arcadia, 183. Megăra, a city on the Saronic gulf, 18, 96, 122, 124. Megasthĕnēs, a Greek writer on India (fl. 300), 294. Melanthius, an Athenian tragic poet (fl. 420), 181. Melētus, one of the three accusers of Socrates, a poet, 16. Melissus, 20. Mĕlon, 8, 30, 47, 48. Melos, an island in the Aegean, 166. Memphis, a city of Egypt, on the Nile, 13. Menaechmus, 14 _n._ Menelaüs, a speaker in the Dialogue on the _Face in the Moon_. Mercury (the planet), 154, cp. 268. Meriŏnēs, 131. Messenians, 176, 229. Metapontium (Metapontum), a Greek city in Southern Italy, 21, 88. Mētrodōrus, of Chios, a disciple of Democritus (fl. 330), 137, 275. Midas, a mythical king of Phrygia, 229. Milētus, a city of Caria, 23, 193. Miltiădes, son of Cimon, the victor of Marathon, 183. Mimnermus, elegiac poet, of Smyrna and Colophon (fl. 600), 282. Minos, son of Zeus, king of Crete, and afterwards a judge in Hades, 179. Mitys, of Argos, 186. Mnesarĕtē (Phryne), 94, 95. Mnesinoē, 95. Molionĭdae, the sons of Actor, by Molione, 94. Molus, 131. Mopsus, founder of Mallos in Cilicia, where he had an oracle, 163. Muses, the, 35, 86, 97, 98, 199, 226. Myrĭna, an Aeolian town on the west coast of Mysia, 96. Myron, 185. Myrtălē, 95. Mys, a Carian, employed by Mardonius to consult the oracles in Greece, 121.
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