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 368 MOGETIANA. Timachi by the river Timaclms. The Triconesii, who derived their name from Tricornum, were on the confines of Dahnatia. The Peucini inhabited the island of Pence, at the mouth of the Danube. The Thraces were near their own country; the Scordisci, between the Dardani and Dahnatia. The Moesi, or Mysi, proper, inhabited the heart of the country to which they gave their name, on the banks of the river Ciabrus. [A. L.] MOGETIANA or MOGENTIANA, a place in Lower Pannonia, on the road from Sopianae to Sabaria. {It. Ant. pp. 263, 233.) Its exact site is uncertain. [L' S.J MOGONTIACUMor MAGONTIACUM {Mainz), a city of Gallia, on the Rhine. On this spot was built a monument in honour of Drusus the father of Germanicus. (Eutrop. vii. 13.) Magontiacum, as it is written in the test of Tacitus, is often men- tioned in the history of the war of Civilis. (Tacit. Hist. iv. 15, 24, &c.) Ptolemy (ii. 9. § 14) writes the name MoKoiria/cdi', and places the town in Germania Inferior. In Eutropius the form of the word is Mogontiacum (ed. Verheyk); but the MSS. have also the forms Maguntia and Moguntia, whence is easily derived the French form Mayence, and the German Mainz. The position of Mogontiacum at Mainz on the Rhine is determined by the Itins. which place it 18 M. P. from Bingium {Binqen), also on the Rhine. It was an important position under the Roman empire, but no great events are connected with the name. Ammianus Slarcellinus (xv. 1 1) calls it a Municipium, which means a town that had a Roman form of administration. [G. L.] MOGRUS {Mciypos), a navigable river in Colchis, flowing into the Eusine between the Phasis in the north, and the Isis in the south; its mouth is just midway between the two, being 90 stadia distant from each. (Arrian, Peripl. Pont. Eux. p. 7 ; Plin. yi. 4.) As an ancient reading in Pliny is Nogrus, and the Table has Nigrus, it is possible that the real name of the river may have been No- grus, and that in Arrian also we must read Nai- 7/)os. [L. S.] MOLADA (MwXaSa), a town of Palestine, reckoned among the uttennost cities of the tribe of Judah toward the coast of Edom southward {Joshua, XV. 21. 26), and indeed in that part which fell to the tribe of Simeon, " whose inheritance was within the inheritance of the children of Judah." (lb. xix. 1, 2; 1 Chron. iv. 24. 28.) Reland re- marks, " Videtur esse eadem ac Malatha " {Palaest. s. V. p. 901.), which Malatha is mentioned by Jo- sephus as a castle of Idumaea, to which Agrippa,the son of Aristobulusand son-in-law of Herod the Great, retired in his distress after his return from Rome, and where he meditated suicide. {Ant. xviii. 7. § 2.) It is mentioned also by Eusebius and S. Jerome as iv. M. P. distant from Arad ('Apa/^d), which they describe as an ancient city of the Amoritcs, situated in the wilderness of Kadesh (KdSSrjs), xx. M.P. from Hebron, on the road to Aila. {Onomast. s. vv. 'Apand, 'Affaaav dafidi/- Reland, Palaestina, s.v. Malatha, pp. 885, 886.) The site of Arad is still marked by a ruin of the same name, at the required distance S. of Hebron ; near to which are wells and ruins named El Milh, which Dr. Robinson " was disposed to regard as marking the site of the an- cient Moladah of the Old Testament, the Malatha of the Greeks and Romans." {Bib. lies. vol. ii. p. 621.) [G.W.] MOLINDAE (PIm. vi. 19. s. 22), a peojile men- MONESI. tioned by Pliny, who lived in the eastern part of India extra Gangem. It seems probable that they are the same as those noticed by Ptolemy with the name Marundae {MapovvSai, vii. 2. § 14). [V.] MOLOCATH. [MuLUCHA.] MOLOEIS. [Plataeae.] MOLOSSI, MOLO'SSIA. [Epeirus.] MOLUTtlS. [Megara, Vol. II. p. 317, a.] MOLYCREIUM,MOLYCREIA, or MOLY'CRIA {MoKvKptiov, Thuc. ii. 84 ; MoAu/cpeia, Strab. x. p. 451, et alii ; MovKpia, Polyb. v. 94 ; Paus. ix. 31. § 6; Eth. MovKptos, more rarely MoXvKpievs, MovKpa7os, feni. MoAvKpuraa, MoAu/fpids), a town of Aetolia, situated near the sea-coast, and at a short distance from the promontory Antirrhium, which was hence called 'Plop rh MovKpiK6y (Thuc. ii. 86), or MovKptov 'P'iov. (Strab. viii. p. 336.) Some writers call it a Locrian town. It is said by Strabo to have been built after the return of the Heracleidae into Peloponnesus. It was colonised by the Corinth- ians, but was subject to the Athenians in the early part of the Peloponnesian War. It was taken by the Spartan commander Eurylochus, with the assistance of the Aetolians, B.C. 426. It was considered sacred to Poseidon. (Strab. x. pp. 451, 460; Scyl. p. 14; Thuc. ii. 84, iii. 102 ; Diod. xii. 60 ; Polyb., Paus., II. cc. ; Plin. iv. 2. s. 3 ; Ptol. iii. 15. § 3; Staph. Byz. s. V.) MOJIEMPHIS {Mooixifxipis, Strab. xvii. p. 803: Diodor. i. 66, 97; Steph. B. s. i^.), the capital of the nome Mo-Memphitis, in the Delta. It was seated in lat. 31° 5' N., on the eastern shore of the lake Mareotis, N. of the Natron Lakes. Both its ancient and its modern appellation — Manoufelseffiy — indicate its position as the Lower Itlemphis, or Memphis in the marshes. During the troubles which led to the Dodecarchy, Momemphis was a place of some strength, owing to the difficulties of its approaches. It was chiefly remarkable for its exportation of mineral alkalies from the neighbouring Natron Lakes. Atbor or Aphrodite, under the form of a cow, was worshipped at Momemphis. [W. B. D.] MONA (Mom, Ptol. iii. 2. § 12 ; Mtowa, Dion Cass. Ixii. 7), an island in Britain, off the coast of the Ordovices, the Isle of Anglesey. Caesar describes Mona as situated in the middle of the passage from Britain to Ireland {B. G. v. 13), but by Mona in this passage he must mean the Isle of Man, which Pliny calls Monapia (iv. 16. s. 30); and Ptolemy that of Monarina or Mo- NAOED. {^ovapiva, MovdoiSa). Ihe. Isle of Anglesey was first invaded by Sue- tonius PaulUnus, governor of Britain under Nero, A. D. 61. Previous to the appointment of Sueto- nius Paullinus, the Romans had met with some re- verses in the west of Britain. From the vigorous measures adopted by Paullinus on entering upon the government of Britain, it may be inferred that the Druids of ]Iona had excited the Ordovices and the Silures to rise in rebellion ; or had assisted them ; probably both. Tacitus states that Mona was a re- ceptacle for fugitives. The island was well populated, and there the priests of the Druidical rehgion had established themselves in great strength. Paullinus was recalled from the conquest of Anglesey by the revolt of the Britons under Boadicea, and its subju- gation was not completed till A. D. 78 by Agricola. (Tac. Agi-ic. pp. 15, 18, Ann. xiv. 29.) [C. R. S.] MONAPIA. [Mona.] JIONDA. [Munda.] MONESI, one of the many peoples of Aquitania