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 372 MORIMARUSA. topographers, and three or four locahties have been proposed. Of these, Seaton and Hemhtry, ne:ir Honiton, appear to have the best claims for consi- deration ; but as the stations next to large towns were often merely establishments for relays of horses and other purposes connected with posting, they were the least likely to be constructed on a large or substantial scale; and thus we have often great diifi- cultv in detecting even a vestige of them. [C. R. S.J jiOKlMARUSA. [OcEA>-us Septentrioxalis.] MORI'MENE {nopijxev/i), a district in the north- west of Cappadocia, comprising both banks of the river Halys, is said to have been fit only for pasture land, to have bad scarcely any fruit-trees, and to have abounded in wild asses. (Strab. xii. pp. 534, 537, 539, 540 ; Plin. H. N. vi. 3.) The Romans regarded it as a part of Galatia, whence Ptolemy (vt 6) does not mention it among the districts of Cappadocia. L^- ^-J MO'RINI, a nation of Belgica. Virgil is the au- thority for the quantity : — " Extremique hominum Morini." (^Aen. viii. 727.) It has been shown in the article Menaph that on the north the Morini were bounded by the Blenapii. On the west the ocean was the boundary, and on the south the Ambiani and the Atrebates. The eastern boundary cannot be so easily determined. The element of Morini seems to be the word mor, the sea, which is a common Flemish word still, and also found in the Latin, the German, and the English languages. Caesar, who generally speaks of the Morini with the Menapii, has fixed their position in general terms. When he first invaded Britannia he went into the countiy of the Morini, because the passage from there to Britain was the shortest {B. G. iv. 21). In the next expedition, B. c. 54, he sailed from Portus Itius, having ascertained that the passage from this port to Britain was the most commodious. Portus Itius is in the country of the Morini [Itius Poktus]. Ptolemy (ii. 9. § 8) mentions two cities of the Morini, Gesoriacum or Bononia (^Boulogne), and Taruenna (Thtrouenne), east of it, in the interior. If we add Castellum Slorinorum (^CasseT), in the interior, south of Dunkerque, " we see that, besides the diocese of Boulogne, the territory of the Morini comprises the new dioceses of St. Omer and Ypern, which succeeded to that of Tottrnai" (D'Anville.) But if Cassel is not within the limits of the Morini, their territoiy will not be so extensive as D'Anville makes it. [Menapii.] Caesar's wars with the Morini were more suc- cessful than with the Menapii. A large part of the territory of the Morini did not offer such natural obstacles as the land of the Menapii. The marshes of the Morini would be between Calais and Dun- kerque. The force which the Morini were supposed to be able to send to the Belgic confederation in B. c. 57 W.1S estimated at 25,000 men. Though most of the Morini were subdued by Caesar, they rose again in the time of Augustus, and were put down by C. Carinas (Dion Cassius, li. 21). When Bononia was made a Roman port, and Taruenna a Roman town, the country of the Morini would become Romanised, and Roman usages and the Roman lan- guage would prevail. There were Roman roads which terminated at Bononia and Castellum. An inscription mentions the Decemviri of the Colonia Morinorum, but it is unknown what place it is. [G. L.] MOSCHA PORTUS. MO'RIUS. [BoEOTiA, Vol. I. p. 412. b.] MORON (Vlopuiv), a town of Lusitania upon the Tagus, which Brutus Callaicus made his head- quarters in his campaign against the Lusitanians. (Strab. iii. p. 152.) Its exact site is unknown. MORONTABARA (to llopovraSapa, Arrian, Indie, c. 22), a place on the coast of Gedrosia, at no great distance W. of the mouths of the Indus, noticed by Arrian in his account of Nearchus's expedition with the fleet of Alexander the Great. It does not appear to have been satisfactorily identified with any modern place. [V,] MOROSGI, a town of the Varduli in Hispania Tarraconensis, identified by Ukert with St Sebastian, which, however, more probably represents Menosca. (Plin. iv. 20. s. 34; Ukert, ii." 1. p. 446; Forbiger, iii. p. 80.) JIORTUUM MARE. [Palaestina.] JIORTUUM MARE. [Septextrionalis OCEANUS.] MORYLLUS. [Mygdoxia.] MOSA in Gallia is placed by the Antonine Itin. between Andomatunum {^Langres) and Tullum (^Toul). It is 18 N. P. from Andomatunum to Mosa, which is supposed to be Meuve, situated at a passage over the Maas, and in the line of an old Roman road. [G. L.] MOSA (3faas), a river of Gallia, which Caesar supposed to rise in the Vosegus ( Vosges) within the limits of the Lingones. {B. G. iv. 10.) This passage of Caesar, in which he speaks of the Mosa in the lower part of its course receiving a part of the Rhine, called Vahahs ( Waal), is very obscure. This matter is discussed in the article BAT.4^a. Dion Cassius writes the word in the form tUdaas (sliv. 42); and Ptolemy (ii. 9. § 3) has the form Mtitra in the genitive. Caesar {B. G. vi. 33) says that the Scaldis (^Schelde) flows into the Blosa; a mistake that might easily be made with such knowledge of the coast of Belgium and Holland as he possessed. The only branch of the Mosa which Caesar mentions is the Sabis (Sambre), which joins the Maas on the left bank at Charltroi in Belgium. The Maas, called Meuse by the French, rises about 48° N. lat. in the Faucilles, which unite the Cote dOr and the Vosges. The general course of the Maas is north, but it makes several great bends before it reaches Liege in Belgium, from which its course is north as far as Grave, where it turns to the west, and for 80 miles flows nearly parallel to the Waal. The Maas joins the Waal at Gorcum, and, retaining its name, flows past Rotterdam into the North Sea. The whole length of the Maas is above 500 miles. [G. L.] JIOSAEUS (Mcio-aioy. Ptol. vi. 3. § 2), a small stream, placed by Ptolemy between the Eulaeus and the Tigris. It is probably the same as that called by Marcian (p. 17) the Mayoioi. It was, no doubt, one of the streams which together form the mouths of the Tigris, and may not impossibly be the same which Pliny names the Aduna (vi. 27, 31), and which he appears to have considered as a feeder of the Eulaeus. [V.] MOSCHA PORTUS (USirxa. XifJivv). 1. A hai-bour on the S. coast of Arabia, near the extreme east of the Adrajiitae, or more properly of the Ascitae, since the next named place is " Syagros ex- trema" C^vaypos &Kpa), and the Ascitae extended from Syagros mons to the sea. (Ptol. vi. 7. p. 153, comp. p. 154). Mr. Foi-ster thinks there is no difli-