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 254 MALA. was made their sepulchre after tlieir executions (Josh. X. 16—28.) It is placed by Kusebius (Onomast. s. v.) 8 miles east of Eloutlieropolis. [Bethogabris.] [G. W.] MALA (MoAa, MaX??), a town in Colchis, which Scylax (p. 32), in contradiction to other writers, makes the birthplace of Jledeia. [E. B. J.] MALAGA (MdKaKa, Strab. ; Ptol. ii. 4. § 7 ; MaXaKT], Steph. B. s. v. : Eth. MaLKirav6s : Ma- laga), an important town upon the coast of Hispania Baetica, east of Calpe, which was equidistant from Gadeira and Malaca. (Strab. iii. p. 156.) Ac- cording to the Antonine Itinerary (p. 405), the dis- tance from Gadeira to JIalaca was 1 45 miles ; ac- cording to Strabo (iii. p. 140) the distance from Gadeira to Calpe was 750 stadia. Malaca stood upon a river of the same name, now Guadalmedlna. (Avien. (h Mar. 426; JIalaca cum fluvio, Plin. iii. 1. s. 3.) Strabo says (Z. c.) that JIalaca was built in the Phoenician fashion, whence we may conclude that it was a Phoenician colony. Accordingly some modern writers have supposed that the name was derived from tlie Phoenician word malcha, " royal ; " but Humboldt says that Malaca is a Basque word, signifying the " side of a mountain." Under the Komans it was a foederata civitas (Plin. I. c), and had extensive establishments for salting fish. (Strab. I. c.) Avienus says {I. c.) that ilalaca was for- merly called Maeuaca; but Strabo had already no- ticed this error, and observed not only that JIaenaca was further from Calpe, but that the ruins of the latter city were clearly Hellenic. Malaca is also mentioned in Strab. iii. pp. 158, 161, 163; Hirt. £. Alex. 46; Geogr. Rav. iv. 42. There are still a few remains of Roman architecture in Malaga. MALACHATH (MaAaxa9). a city of Libya In- terior, which Ptolemy (iv. 6. § 25) places in the country above the Kigeir, in E. long. 20° 20', and N. lat. 20° 15'. [E. B. J.] MALAEA. [Malea.] MALAEI COLON (MaAai'ou, or MaXe'oy k^Xov, Ptol. vii. 2. § 5), a promontory on the southern coast of the Golden Chersonesus. Its exact posi- tion cannot be determined, but it was probably along the Straits of Malacca. [V.] MALAJIANTUS (5 MaXduavros, Arrian, hid. c. 4), a small tributary of the Cophen, or river of Kabul, perhaps now the Pandjcora. [V.] MALANA (MaAaj/a, Arrian, Ind. c. 25), a cape which enters the Indian Ocean, and forms the western boundary of the Oreitae (one of the sea- coast tribes of Gedrosia) and the Ichthyophagi. There is no doubt that it is the same as the present C. Malan in Mehran, the measurements of Xearchus and of modern navigators coiTesponding remarkably. (Vincent, I'o^. o/A'efM-c/ms, vol. i. p. 216.) [V^] MALANGA (MaAo77o, Ptol. vii. 1. § 92), the chief town of the Arvarni, a tribe who inhabited the eastern side of Hindostdn, below where the Tyndis (now Kistna) flows into the sea. It has been sup- posed that it is the same place as the present Madras, but it may Jiave been a little higher up near Nellore. [V.] MALAO (Mao(a, Ptol. iv. 7. § 10. com. Mo^ Aews), probably answers to the modern Berbera, the chief town of the Somdleh, who inhabit the western coast of Africa from the straits of Bab-el- Maiukb to cape Guardafui. This district has in all times been the seat of an active commerce between Africa and Arabia, and .Malao was one of the principal marts for gums, myrrh, frankincense, cattle, slaves, goid- MALEA. du t and ivory. (See Heeren, African Nativns, vol. i. p. 330, Engl, transl.) [W. B. D.] MALATA, according to an inscription, or Milata according to the Peuting. Table, a place in Pannonia Inferior, on the Danube. As the inscription was found at Peterwardein, JIalata was perhaps situ- ated at or near the latter place. (Geor. Rav. iv. 19 ; Marsilius, Damib. ii. p. 1 18, tab. 47.) [L. S.] MALCHUBII. [JUuRETAJiiA.] MALCOAE. [Mandrus.] MA'LEA (MoAe'a), a town in the district of Aegytis in Arcadia, the inhabitants of which were ti'ansferred to Slegalopolis upon the foundation of the latter city. (Paus. viii. 27. § 4.) Its territory was called the Maleatis (j] MaAearis). Xenophon describes Leuctra as a fortress situated above the Maleatis ; and as Leuctra was probably at or near Leonddri, JIalea must have been in the same neigh- bourhood. [Leuctra.] Leake, however, connecting JIalea with the river JIall'S (MaXovs, Paus. viii. 35. § 1), a tributary of the Alpheius, places the town on this river, and on the road from Jlegalo- polis to Carnasium (Leake, Peloponnesiaca, p. 248) ; but this is not probable. The place Midea (MiSe'o) mentioned by Xenoplion (^Hell. vii. 1. § 28) is pro- bably a corrupt form of Malea. (Curtius, Pelopon- nesos, vol. i. p. 336.) MA'LEA (MaAe'a, Steph. B. s. v. et alii; MaXf'ai, Herod, i. 82; Strab. viii. p. 368), still called Malid, a promontory of Laconia, and the most southerly point in Greece with the exception of Taenarum. For details see Vol. II. p. 114. MA'LEA (MaAca, Thucyd. iii. 4, 6; Xen. Hell. i. 6. §§ 26, 27; MciAia, Strab. siii. p. 617; MoWo, Ptol. V. 2; see Schol. ad Aristoph. Ran. p. 33), the southernmost point of the inland of Lesbos, reck- oned by Strabo to be 70 stadia distant from Myti- lene, 560 stadia from Cape Sigrium, and 340 from Jklethymna. Immediately opposite, on the mainland, were the point of Case and the islands of Argi- NUSAE [see those articles]. The modern name of Malea is Zeitoun Bouroun, or Capie St. Mary, and it is a high and conspicuous point at sea. Xeno- phon says {I. c.) that the fleet of Callicratidas oc- cupied this station before the sea-fight off Arginusae. There is some obscurity in Xenophon's topography in reference to this place ; and the Malea of Thucy- dides (I. c.) can hardly have been C. St. Mary, unless there is some error in his relation. He says distinctly (c. 4.), that Malea lay to the north of Mytilene, and (c. 6.) that the Athenians had their market there, while besieging the city. The first statement is inconsistent with the position of Cape St. Mary, and the second with its distance from Mytilene. Possibly the Malea of Thucydides had some connection with the sanctuary of Apollo Maloeis. (See the notes of Arnold and Poppo, and Thiriwall's Greece, vol. iii. p. 173.) [J. S. H.] JIA'LEA (MoAe'a, or MaAaia opos, Ptol. vii. 4. § 8), a large group of mountains in the southern part of the ancient Taprobane or Ceylon. There can be little doubt that it comprehends the mountain tract now known by the name of Newera Ellia, one of the chief mountains of which is called, from the Arabs, Adam's Peak, by the natives Sripada. Pto- lemy states, that it is the water-shed of three rivers, which he calls the Soanas, the Azanus, and the Baraces, and describes with remarkable truth the present condition of the island, when he adds that in the low ground below it, towards the sea, are the pastures of the elephants. Pliny speaks of a moun-