Page:Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography Volume II.djvu/273

 MANDANE. however, to have lived rather lower down the river near Monr/hh; in the district now called Behar. (See Lassen's map.) [V.] MANDANE (Ma;'5aVr/), a town on the coast of Cilicia, between Celenderis, and Cape Pisidium, from which it was only 7 stadia distant {Stadiasm. §§ 174, 175.) It is probably the same place as the Myanda or Mysanda in Pliny (v. 27); and if so, it must also be identical with the town of Myus (Muow) mentioned by Scylax (p. 40) between Nagidus and Celenderis. [L. S.] MANDARAE (Moi'Sapoi), the district about Cyrihus in Macedonia. (Steph. B. s. v.) [E.B. J.] MANDELA. [Digentia.] MANDORL [Mandrus.] MANDROCIUM. [Carthago, Vol. L p.551, a.] MANDRUANI (Plin. vi. 16. s. 18), a people mentioned by Pliny as occupying a part of Western Bactriana, under the spurs of the Paropamisus. They are now, like several other tribes whose names are given by that geographer to the same locality, no longer to be identified. [V.] MANDRU'POLIS (MarSpoi^VoAu or Uav^p6- ■woKts), a town in Mysia (Hierocl. p. 664), now called Me.nduria or Mendreghora, at the foot of Mount Temnus. Stephanas of Byzantium («. v.) erroneously places the tovn in Phrygia. There seems to be little doubt but that Mandrupolis is the same town as Mandropus or Mandrupium, mentioned by Livy (xxxviii. 15). [L. S.] MANDRUS MONS(Tb MaSpor,^ MarSpou opos), one of the chief mountains of Libya, from whence flow all the streams from Salathus to Massa ; the middle of the mountain has a position of 14° E. long, and 19° N. lat., assigned to it by Ptolemy (iv. 6. § 8). Afterwards (§ 14) he describes the river Nigeir as uniting, or yoking together (eTn^su- yvvcav), Jlount Mandrus with Mount Thala. [Ni- geir.] (Conip. London Geogr. Journ. vol. ii. p. 19; Donkin, Dissertation on the Niger, p. 81.) Ptolemy (§ 17) places the following tribes in the neighbour- hood of this mountain: the Rabu ('Pa§ioi), the MANDUBIL 257 Malcoae (MaX/coai), and the Mandori (Mdj'- SopoO- [E. B. .J.] IVLANDU'BII (MwSou'gioi), a Gallic people whom Strabo (iv. p. 19 1) erroneously calls the neighbours of the Arvemi. When Caesar (b. c. 52) was march- ing through the territory of the Lingones, with the intention of retreating through the Sequani into tbe Provincia, he was attacked by the confederate Galli under Vercingetorix (Z?. G. vii. 68). The Galli were defeated, and Vercingetorix, with liis men, took refuge in Alesia, a town of the Mandubii. The site of the battle is not indicated by Caesar, but the po- sition of Alesia is at Alise, ov Alise Sainte Reine, as it is also called, in the department of the Cute dOr. The railroad from Paris to Blion crosses the hills of the Cote crC?', of which Alesia and the heights around it are a part. The Mandubii were a small people who fed their flocks and cattle on the grassy hills of the Cote dOr, and cultivated the fertile land at the foot of Alesia. Before the blockade was formed, they had driven a great quantity of their animals (pecus) within the walls. (A G. vii. 71.) The Mandubii who had received their countrymen into the city, were turned out of it by them, with their wives and cliildren, during Caear's blockade, in order that the scanty supply of provisions for the troops might last longer. The Romans refused to receive the JIandubii and give them food. The cer- tain conclusion from Caesar's narrative is, that these unfortunate people died of hunger between tlieir own walls and the Roman circumvalhition (iJ. G. vii. 78; Dion Cass. xl. 41). Caesar's description of Alesia is true ; and the operations of his army about the place (5. G. vii. 69 — 90) are easily understood. This plan of Alesia and the surrounding country is taken from Cassini's large map of France. The city of the Mandubii, or Alesia, was " on the summit of a hill, in a very elevated position," as Caesar cor- rectly describes it. This hill stands alone, and, ex- cept on the west side, where there is a plain, it is surrounded by hills of the same height, whicji are se- parated from Alesia by valleys. In the flat valley PLAN OF THE ENVIRONS OF ALESIA. A. The east end of the hill of Alesia, where Vercingetorix I E. Ditto. built his stone wall. F. Hospital of ^/we. B. Hill partly occupieii by Caesar. a a. Koad from Muntbard and Auxerre. C. Ditto. 66. Koad to Dijun. D. Ditto. • VOU II,