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 376 MUCHIEESIS. from Jovian. (Amrn. Marc. xxv. 7. § 9, comp. xxiii. 3. § 5 ; Le Beau, Bas Empire, vol. i. p. 380, vol. iii. p. 161 ; Gibbon, cc. xiii. xxiv.). Its exact position cannot be made out, though it must have been near Kurdistan. (Eitter, Erdlcwule, vol. x. p. 816.) [E.B.J.] MUCHIRE'SIS (Moyx«P';os «^- Mouxf'>'0"'S> Procop. B. G. iv. 2, 15, 16), a canton of Lazica, po- pulous and fertile : the vine, which does not grow in the rest of Colchis, was found here. It was watered by the river Eheon {'Peuv). Archaeopohs, its chief town, was the capital of Colchis, and a place of considerable importance in the Lazic war. (Le Beau, Bas Empire, vol. ix. p. 217; Gibbon, c. xlii.) [E. B. J.] MUCRAE or NUCRAE (the reading is uncertam), a town of Samnium, mentioned only by Silius Italicus (viii. 566), the situation of which is wholly un- known. [E.H.B.] MUCUNI. [Mauketania.] MUDUTTI. [MoDUTTi.] MUGILLA, an ancient city of Latium, mentioned only by Dionysius (viii. 36), who enumerates the Jlugillani (MoyiAaiVoi/j) among the places conquered Lv Coriolanas, at the head of the Volscian army. He there mentions them (as well as the Albietes, who are equally unknown) between the citizens of Pollusca and Corioh, and it is therefore probable that Mu- gilla lay in the neighbourhood of those cities; but we have no further clue to its site. The name does not again appear, even in Pliny's list of the extinct cities of Latium ; and we should be apt to suspect some mistake, but that the cognomen of JIugillanus, home by one family of the Papirian Giens, seems to coiifinii the correctness of the name. [E. H. B.] MUICU'RUM (MovTKoiipov'), a place on the coast of Ulyricum, near Salona, which was taken for Totila, king of the Gotlis, by Ilauf. (Procop. B. G. iii. 35; Le Beau, Bas Empire, vol. ix. p. 82.) [E. B. J.] MULELACHA, a town upon a promontory of the same name on the W. coast of Africa (Polyb. ap. PUn. V. 1), now Muley Bu Selhdm, the old Mamora of the charts. (Comp. London Geog. Journ. vol. vi. p. 302.) [E. B. .T.] MULUCHA, a river of Slauretania, which Sallust (Jtig. 92, 1 10), Mela (i. 5. §§ 1, 5), and Pliny (v. 2) assign as the boimdary between the Mauri and Jlas- saesyli, or the subjects of Bocchus and Jugurtha. As Strabo (xvii. j)p. 827, 829) makes the MoLO- CATii (MoAoxa9, MoAaxo^, Ptol. iv. 1. §7) seiTe the same purpose, there can be no doubt that they are one and the same river. The SLvlva (MaAoua, Ptol. I. c.) of Pliny (J. c), or the Miduwi, which forms the frontier between Morocco and Algeria, is the same as the river which bounded the Jloors from the Numidians. This river, rising at or near the S. extremity of the lower chain of Atlas, and flow- ing through a diversified countrj', as yet almost iintrodden by Europeans, falls into the sea nearly in the middle of the Gnlf of Melllah of our charts. (Shaw, Trav. pp. 10—16.) [E. B. J.] MUNDA (MovvZa). 1. An important town of Hispania Baetica, and a Roman colony belonging to the conventus.of Astigi. (Strab. iii. p. 141 ; Plin. iii. 1. s. 3.) Strabo {I.e.) says that it is 1400 stadia from Carteia. It was celebrated on account of two battles fought in its vicinity, the first in B.C. 216, when Cn. Scipio defeated the Cartha- ginians (Liv. xxiv. 42 ; Sil. Ital. iii. 400), and the second in b. c. 45, when Julius Caesar gained a victory over the sons of Pompey. (Dion Cass. MUEGANTIA. xliii. 39 ; Auct. Bell. Hisp. 30, seq. ; Strab. iii. pp. 141, 160; Flor. iv. 2 ; Vak Mas. vii. 6.) It was taken by one of Caesar's generals, and, according to Pliny, from that time it ceased to exist. (" Fuit Munda cum Pompei filio rapta," Plin. iii. J. s. 3.) But this cannot be correct, as Strabo (J,, c.) describes it as an important place in his time. It is usually identified with the village of Monda, SW. of Malaga ; but it has been pointed out that in tlie vicinity of tlte modern Monda, there is no plain adapted for a field of battle, and that the ancient city should probably be placed near Cordova. It has been supposed that the site of Munda is indicated by the remains of ancient walls and towers lying between Martos, Alcaudete, Espejo, and Bcena. At all events this site agrees better with the statement of Strabo, that Munda is 1 400 stadia from Carteia, for the distance from the modern Monda to the latter place is only 400 stadia ; and it is also more in accordance with Pliny, who places Munda between Attubi and Urso. (Forbiger, vol. iii. p. 51.) 2. A town of the Celtiberi in Hispania Tarra- conensis, probably near the frontiers of the Carpe- tani. (Liv. xl. 47.) 3. A river on the W. coast of Lusitania, falling into the sea between the Tagus and Durius, now the Mondego. (Plin. iv. 21. s. 35 ; MoiivSas, Strab. iii. p. 153 ; ^6vhas, Ptol. ii. 5. § 4 ; Marc. p. 43.) MUNDOBRIGA. [JiIedobbiga.] JIUNLMENTUM COEBULONIS. [Corbulo- KIS MUNIMEXTUM.] IMUNIMENTUM TEAJAKT, a fort in the coun- try of the Mattiaci. (Amm. Marc. xvii. 1.) Its site is not certain, though it is generally beheved that the Roman remains near Hochst are the ruins of this fort. (Wilhelm, Geivnanien, p. 148.) [L.S.] MUNY'CHIA. [Athenae, p. 306.] MURA'NUM (M<jrano),a. town of the interior of Lucania, the name of which is not found in any ancient author ; but its existence is proved by the Itinerary of Antoninus, which places a station Sum- murano, evidently a corruption of Sub Murano, on the road from Nerulum to Consentia ; and this is confirmed by the inscription found at La PoUa [Forum Popilu], which gives the distance from that place to JIuranum at 74 M. P. It is, there- fore, evident that Muranum must have occupied the same site as the modern town of Morano, on a con- siderable hill, at the foot of which still runs the high road from Naples to Reggio, and where was situated the station noticed in the Itinerary. Near it are the sources of the river Coscile, the ancient Sybaris. {Itin. Ant. pp. 105, 110; Orell. Inscr. 3308 ; Romanelli, vol. i. p. 387.) [E. H. B.] MU'RBOGI (Moupgo7oi, Ptol. ii. 6. § 52), a people in Hispania Tarraconensis, the southern neighbours of the Cantabri, are the same as the people called Turmodigi by Pliny (iii. 3. s. 4) and Orosius {y. 21). This may be inferred from the fiict that Pliny calls Segisamo a town of the Tur- modigi, and Ptolemy ca,lls Deobrigula a town of theMurbogi; while in the Antonine Itinerary (p. 449) these two towns are only 15 miles apart. (Forbiger, vol. iii. p. 102.) MURGA'NTI A, 1. A city of Samnium, mentioned only by Livy, who calls it " a strong city " (validam urbem, x. 17), notwithstanding which it was taken by assault, by the Roman consul P. Decius, in a single day, b. c. 296. Its position is fixed by Ro- manelli at Baselice, a considerable town near the sources of the Fortore (Frento), in the territory of