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 2')G MALLUS. XV. p. 701 ; Curt. is. 4.) The people occupied the .space between the Acesines (Asikni) and Hyarotis (^Irdvati), which both enter the Indus at no great distance. There can be little doubt that the name represents at once the country and the town of the Main, being itself derived from the Sanscrit Mdla- sthiini. Pliny speaks of Malli quorum Mons Mallus (vi. 17. s. 21). If his locality corre- sponds with that of the other geographers, the name might be taken from the mountain which was con- spicuous there. It is not, however, possible from Pliny's brief notice, to determine anything of the position of his Malli. It was in this country, and not improbably in the actual town of the IIal!i (as Arrian appears to think) that Alexander was nearly slain in combat with the Indian tribes of the Panjah. [V.] MALLUS (MaXdy: EthMaXXuTTis), an ancient city of Cilicia, which, according to tradition, was founded in the Trojan times by the soothsayers JIopsus and Amphilochus. (Strab. xiv. p. 675, &c. : Arrian, Anab. ii. 5.) It was situated near the mouth of the river Pyramus, on an eminence opposite to Jlegarsus, as we must infer from Curtius (iii. 7), ■who states that Alexander entered the town after throwing a bridge across the Pyramus. ]Iallus therefore stood on the eastern bank of the liver. According to Scylax (p. 40) it was necessary to sail up the river a short distance in order to reach Jlallus ; and Jlela (i. 13) also states that the town is situated close upon the river; whence Ptolemy (v. 8. § 4) must be mistaken in placing it more than two miles away fi-om the river. JIallus was a town of consi- derable importance, though it does not appear to have possessed any particular attractions. Its port- town was Magarsa [JIagarsa], though in later times it seems to have had a port of its own, called Portus Palorum (Geogr. Nub. p.l95; Sanut. Secret. Fid. ii. 4, 26, whence we learn that in the middle ages it continued to be called Malo; comp. Callim. Frar/m. 15; Appian, Mhhrid. 96; Dionys. Per. 875; Ptol. viii. 17. § 44: Plin. //. N. v. 22; Stadiasm. JSfar. 3f. §§ 151, 152; Leake, Asia Minor, pp. 216, &c.) [L. S.] COIN OF MALLUS IN CILICIA. MALOETAS. [Methydeium.] MALVA. [MuLUCHA.] MALUS. [Male.; Megalopolis.] MAMALA (Mdfj.aa Kuifxr]), a village of the Cassanitae, south of Badei Regia, on the Arabian coast of the Red Sea. (Ptol. vi. 7. § 5) [Gasandes; Badei Regia.] It has been supposed to be repre- sented by the modern town of Konfoda, and to have been the capital of the piratical tribe of Conraitae, mentioned bv Arrian (Pei-ipliis, p. 15). [G. W.J MAMRKirNI. [Messana.] MA.ME'KTIUM (Mafx4pTiov : Eth. Vla/JLeprwos), a city in the interior of the Bruttian peninsula. It is noticed only by Strabo, who places it in the JIANDALAE. mountains above Locri, in the neighbourhood of the great forest of Sila, and by Stephanus of Byzantium, who calls it merely a city of Italy. (Strab. vi. p. 261 ; Steph. B. s. v.) There is no reason to reject these testimonies, though we have no other account of the existence of such a place ; and its position cannot be determined with any greater pre- cision. But the Mamertini who figure in history as the occupants of Messana are wholly distinct from the citizens of this obscure town. [Mes- sana.] [E. H. B.] MAMMA (MafjL/xii'), a district in Byzacena, at the foot of a chain of lofty mountains, where in a. d. 536 the eunuch Solomon, with 10,000 Romans, inflicted a signal defeat upon 50,000 Moors. (Procop. B.V. ii. 11 ; Corippus, Jokannis, vi. 283 ; Theophan. p. 170; Anast. p. 61; Le Beau, £as Empire, vol. ^nii. pp. 307— 311; comp. Gibbon, c. xli.) Jus- tinian afterwards fortified Mamma (Procop. de Aed. vi. 6), which is represented by the plains lying under the slopes of Jehel Truzza near Kiruan, in the Regency of Tunis. (Barth, Wanderungen, pp. 247, 285.) [E. B. J.] MAMPSARUS MONS. [Bagradas.] MANA'PII (Mavatnoi), a people of Ireland on the east coast, possessing a town called Manapia (Mavairia), near the mouth of the Modonus, the present Did)lin. (Ptol. ii. 2. §§ 8, 9.) The name is the same as one of the Celtic tribes of Gaul. [Menapii.1 MANAR""MANIS PORTUS (Vlavapp.avh M/itiv), a harbour on the west coast of Germany, and pro- bably formed by the mouth of the river Unsingis. It is perhaps identical with the modem Mama in West Friesland, which may even owe its name to the ancient port. (Ptol. ii. 11. § 1; Marcian. Heracl. p. 51, where it is called Mapapf/.apSs.') [L. S.] MANASSEH. [Palaestina.] MANCHANE (^Mayxdvj]), a town in Mesopo- tamia, of which the site is uncertain. (Ptol. v. 18. §9) MANCU'NIUM, a town of the Brigantes in Britain {It. Ant. p. 482), now Manchester. But few, if any, of the remains of the ancient town are to be traced at the present day. From inscriptions we learn that at some period of the Roman domination a cohort of the Frisians was stationed at Mancunium ; and that the sixth legion, or one of its divisions was there, probably on the occasion of some journey into the north. [C. R. S.] MANDACADA (MavSaKciSa), a place in Mysia, which is not mentioned till the time of Hierocles (p. 663), though it must have existed before, as Pliny (v. 32) mentions Cilices Mandacadeni in the northern part of Blysia on the Hellespont. [L. S.] MANDAGARA {Mavoaydpa, Ptol. vii. 1. § 7), a small port on the western coast of Ilindostdn, in the district now called Cancan. It was situated a little to the S. of Bombay, nearly in the same lati- tude as Poonah. The author of the Periplus calls it Mandagora (p. 30). [V.] MANDAGARSIS (MavSayapais, Ptol. vi. 2. § 2), a small port on the shores of the Caspian sea, between the rivers Strato and Charindas. Forbiger has conjectured that it may be represented by the present Mesheddizar. [V.] MANDALAE (UavUhai, Ptol. vii. 1. § 72), an Indian tribe who occupied both banks of the Ganges in the neighbourhood of Palimbothra (^Patna), which was perhaps (as has been conjectured by some geographers), their chief city. They seem-