This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1860 edition. Excerpt: ...metamorphosed by Proserpina (Persephone) and Pluto (Hades) into comets, and the Aonians erected to them a sanctuary near Orchomenos. Menippus (Mivurrroc). I. A cynic philosopher, and originally a slave, was a native of Gadara in Ccele-Syria. He seems to have been a hearer of Diogenes, and flourished ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1860 edition. Excerpt: ...metamorphosed by Proserpina (Persephone) and Pluto (Hades) into comets, and the Aonians erected to them a sanctuary near Orchomenos. Menippus (Mivurrroc). I. A cynic philosopher, and originally a slave, was a native of Gadara in Ccele-Syria. He seems to have been a hearer of Diogenes, and flourished about B.C. 60. He amassed great wealth as a usurer (v/urpodavEioriif), but was cheated out of it all, and committed suicide. We are told that he wrote nothing serious, but that his books were full of jests; whence it would appear that he was one of those cynic philosophers who threw all their teaching into a satirical form. In this character he is several times introduced by Lucian. His works are now entirely lost; but we have considerable fragments of Varro's Satura Menippece, written in imitation of Menippus.--2. Of Stratonice, a Carian by birth, was the most accomplished orator of his time in all Asia. Chero, who heard him, puts him almost on a level with the Attic orators.--3. Of Pergamus, a geographer, lived in the time of Augustus, and wrote a rij; ivrdc iJoAarrr, of which an abridgment was made by Marcianus, and of which some fragments are preserved. Vid. Marcianus. Mennis, a city of Adiabene, in Assyria, only mentioned by Curtius (v., 1). men6d6rus (Mjjpodwpof). Vid. Menas. Menodotus (MifpoiWof). a physician of Nieomedia in Bithynia, who was a pupil of Aniiochus of Landicca, and tutor to Herodotus ol Tarsus; he belonged to the medical sect of the Einpirici. and lived probably about the beginning of the second century after Christ. Mf.no: i Ei's (Mcvoucrvf)-1-A Theban, grandson of Pentheus, and father of Hipponome, Jocajta, and Oreon.--2. Grandson of the former, and son of Creon. He put;in end to his life because Tiresias had declared..
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