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 328 MENAPILA. were removed to the west side of the Rhine. The Toxandri, who were settled in Xoi'ih Brabant, occu- pied the pkre of those Menapii who bordered on the Eburones. But the Menapii still maintained them- selves on the west. Tacitus (Nht. iv. 28), in his description of the rebellion of Civilis, still speaks of the " Menapios et Jlorinos et estrema Galliarum." Part of the former territory of the Jlenapii was finally included in Germania Inferior, and the rest in Belgica. The name Menapii subsisted for a long time. Aurelius Victor (t/e Caesarihus, 39) calls Carau>ius *• Menapiae civis;" and it appears m t le middle ages. D'Anville observes that though the Notitia o"t' the Empire mentions a body of soldiers named Jlenapii, we see no trace of this nation_ m any city which represents it; but Walckenaer( Ceo^r. (f-c vol. i. p. 460) contends that Turnacum (Toumai) was their chief place, to which place probably belong the Belgic silver medals with the legend dvrnacvs (Bast, Recueil, #c.) "In an act of Charles the Bald. A. d. 847, in favour of the abbey of St. Amand, which is south of Tournai, this abbey is said to be ' in territorio Menapiorum quod nunc Jlempiscum appellant.' " We thus obtain, as it seems, a fixed point for part of the territory of the Menapii, which under the later Empire may have been limited to the country west of the Schelck. It is observed that '' though it is very probable that Caesar never advanced into the interior of Flanders, it is, however, certain that the Eomans afterwards, if they did not absolutely make them- selves masters of it, at least were there for some time at different epochs. Their idols, their Dei Pe- nates, sepulchral urns, lamps, Roman utensils, and especially the medals of almost all the emperors, discovered in great numbers, are irrefragable evi- dence of this." (Bast, Recueil d Antiquites Roniaines et Gauloises, cf-c. Introduction.) " Ancient earthen vessels have been found in great numbers all along the coast from Dunkerque to Bruges, which shows that the sea has not gained here, and refutes the notion that in the time of Caesar and Pliny this coast was neither inhabited nor habitable." (Walckenaer,Geo<7. (fc. vol. i. p. 469.) An inscription found at Rimini, of the age of Ves- pasian, mentions tlie " Salinatores Menapioram," or saltmakers of the Menapii. If the position of the Meldi of Caesar has been rightly determined [Meldi], they were aMenapian people. There is nothing to show whether the Jle- napii were Galli or Germani. [G. L.] MENAPILA [Menapia.] MKNDE (Me'i'Sj;, Herod, vii. 123 ; Scyl. p. 26; Thuc. iv. 123; Steph. B.), or MEXDAE (MeVSai, Paus. V. 10. § 27 ; Plin. iv. 10 ; MeVSo, Polyaen. ii. 1. § 21 ; Suid. s. v. ; IIendis, Liv. xxxi. 45 : Eth. Mei'Saros), a town of Pallene, situated on the SW. side the cape. It was a colony of Eretria in Euboea, which became subject to Athens with the other cities of Pallene and Chalcidice. On the aiTival of Brasidas, Mende revolted from the Athe- nians (Thuc. I. c ), but was aftei-wards retaken by Kicias and Nicostratus (Thuc. iv. 130; Diod. xii. 72). It appears, from the account which Livy (I. c.) giTcs of the expedition of Attalu.s and the Romans (b. c. 200), to have been a small maritime place under the dominion of Cassandria. Together with Scione, Mende occupied the broadest part of the peninsula (Pomp. Mela, ii. 3. §11), and is probably represented by some Hellenic remains which have been observed on the shore near Kdvo- MENELAUS. Posidhi to the E., as well as on the heights above it. (Leake, North. Greece, vol. iii. p. 156.) The types on its autonomous coins — Silenus riding upon an ass, and a " Diota " in a square (Eckhel, vol. ii. p. 72) — refer to the famous Mendaean wine, of which the ancients make honourable mention. (Athen. i. pp. 23, 29, iv. p. 129, viii. p. 364, xi. p. 784 ; Hippocrat. vol. ii. p. 472, ed. Kiihn ; Jul. Poll. Onomast. vi. segm. 15.) [E. B. J.] 166; §9; COIN OF MENDE. MENDES (MfV5r/j, Herod, ii. 42, 46. Diod. i. 84 ; Strab. xvii. p. 802 ; Mela, i. 9 Plin. V. 10. s. 12; Ptol. iv. 5. § 51 ; Steph. B. s. V. : Eth. Mei'Sjjcrios), the capital of the Men- de.sian nome in the Delta of Egypt. It was situ- ated at the point where the Mendesian arm of the Nile {M.iv'5i(nov arS/j-a, Scylax, p. 43 ; Ptol. iv. 5. § 10 ; Mendesium ostium, Pliny, Mela, 11. cc) flows into the lake of Tanis. Mendes was, under the Pharaonic kings, a considerable town ; the nome was the chief seat of the worship of Mendes or Pan, the all-producing-principle of life, and one of the eight greater deities of Aegypt, and represented under the form of a goat. It was also one of the nomes assigned to that division of the native army which was called the Calasirii, and the city was celebrated for the manufacture of a perfume designated as the Mende.sium unguentum. (Plin. xiii. 1 . s. 2.) Mendes, however, declined early, and disappears in the first century A. D. ; since both Ptolemy {I. c.) and Aristides (iii. p. 1 60) mention Thmuis as the only town of note in the Mendesian nome. From its position at the junction of the river and the lake, it was probably encroached upon by their w.aters, after the canals fell into neglect under the Macedonian kings, and when they were repaired by Augustus (Sueton. Atiff. 18, 63) Thmuis had attracted its trade and population. Ruins, however, supposed to be those of Mendes, have been found near the hamlet of A chvidn-Tanah (Champollion, I'Erjypte, vol. ii. p. 122.) [W.B.D.] MENDICULEIA. 1. A town of the Ilergetes, probably Momon. [Vol. II. p. 32, a.] 2. A town in the interior of Lusitania, on the bank of the Tagus. (Ptol. ii. 5. § 8, where some MSS. have Mei'SiKouAr/ia, otheii's MefSTjKouAi'o.) MENEDE'MIUM {m.iv(^sxiov), a town in the western part of Pisidia, two miles west of Pogla. (Ptol. V. 5. § 6; Steph. s. v., who calls it a town of Lycia.) [L. S. ] MENELAI PORTUS {miViXdios Mfxriv, Herod, iv. 169), a harbour of Marmarica, situated to the V. of Paraetonium (Strab. i. p. 40, xvii. p. 838), and a day's voyage from Petras. (Scylax, 107, d.) Here, according to legend, the hero Menelaus landed (Herod, ii. 119); and it was the place where Agesilaus died in his march from the Nile to Cyrene, B.C. 361. (Corn. Nep. Arjes-^.) Its position must be sought on the coast of the Wady Daphneh, near the Ras-al- Milhr. (Pacho, Voyage dans la Marmarique, p. 47.) [E. B. J.] MENELAIUJL [Sparta.1 MENELA'US (Meve'Aaos, Strab. xviii. p. 803; Steph. B. s. v.: Eth. Menelaites), was a town of the