He them referred, must have been composed about the
offered to accompany Diomedes on his exploring middle of the fifth century.
offered to accompany Diomedes on his exploring middle of the fifth century.
William Smith - 1844 - Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities - b
) affirms, apparently from actual
the Vatican MS. was published by Gabriel Ger- inspection of some manuscripts containing the
beron, a Benedictine, under the assumed name of work, that it does not belong to Mercurius at all,
Righerius, 12mo. Brux. 1673, and in the same but to a person called Abitianus. The writer has
year the first complete edition appeared at Paris in no means of deciding whether this assertion is cor-
folio, under the editorial inspection of the learned rect, but it agrees well enongh with the proof
Garnier, the text being formed upon a comparison arising from internal evidence that the work is de-
of the only two existing MSS. The most esteemed rived from Oriental sources, for this Abitianus must
edition is that of Baluze, 8vo. Par. 1684, reprinted be no other than the celebrated Arabic physician
with additions and corrections, by Galland, in his Abú ’Ali Ibn Síná, commonly called Avicenna.
Bibliotheca Patrum, vol. viii. pp. 615—737, fol. [ABITIANUS. )
(W. A. G. )
Venet. 1772. A very full account of the labours MERCU'RIUS TRISMEGISTUS. (HERMES
of Garnier and Baluze will be found in Schöne | TRISMEGISTUS. ]
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[L. S. ]
in v. p. 123, Muell. ed. ; Non. p. 28, 32 ; comp. MERMERUS (Mépuepos). 1. A son of
Isidor. Orig. IX. 2. § 12), and the word, un- Pheres, and grandson of Jason and Medeia. . He
changed in form, is extant in the modern Neapo was the father of Ilus and Ephyra, and skilled in
litan dialect The Merenda branch of the Gens the art of preparing poison. " (Hom. Od. i. 260;
Antonia was patrician (Dionys. x. 58) (ANTONIA Eustath. ad Hom. p. 1416. )
GENS).
2. A son of Jason and Medeia, is also called
1. T. ANTONIUS MERENDA, was decem vir in Macareus or Mormorus (Hygin. Fab. 239 ; Tzetz.
B. C. 450—49, and was defeated by the Aequians ad Lyc. 175); he was murdered, together with his
on the Algidus. (Dionys. x. 68, xi. 23, 33; Liv. brother Pheres, by his mother at Corinth. (Apollod.
ii. 35, 38, 41, 42; Fasti. )
i. 9. § 28 ; Hygin. Fab. 25 ; Diod. iv. 54. ) Ac-
2. Q. ANTONIUS T. F. MERENDA, probably a cording to others he was stoned to death by the
son of the preceding, was tribune of the soldiers, Corinthians (Paus. ii. 3. § 6 ; Schol. ad Eurip.
with consular authority, in B. C. 422. (Liv. iv. Med. 10), or he was killed during the chase by a
42; Fasti. )
lioness. (Paus. ii. 3. & 7. ) A centaur, Mermerus,
3. SERVIUS CORNELIUS MERENDA, was legatus is mentioned by Ovid. (Met. xii. 305. ) (L. S. )
in B. C 275, to the consul L. Cornelius Lentulus MEʻRMNADAE (Mepuváoa! ), a Lydian family,
(LENTULUS, No. 5), and was presented by him, which, on the murder of Candaules by Gyges, suc-
for the capture of a town in Samnium, with a ceeded the Heracleidae on the throne of Lydin,
golden chaplet of five pounds' weight. In the fol- and held it for five generations, during a period of
lowing year Merenda was consul, and again com- 170 years (about 716–546). The successive so-
manded in Samnium and Lucania. (Plin. H. N. vereigns of this family were Gyges, Ardys, Sady-
xxxiii, 11; Fasti. )
[W. B. D. ] attes, Alyattes, Croesus. (See these articles, and
MERGUS, M. LAETO'RIUS. (LAETORIUS, comp. Deioces ; also Thirlwall's Greece, vol. ii. pp.
No. 3. )
157, 158 ; Clint F. H. vol. i. sub anno 716, vol. ii.
MEʻRICUS, a leader of Spanish mercenaries in App. xvii. )
(E. E. )
the service of Syracuse at the time when that city MEROBAUDES, FLAVIUS. In the collec-
was besieged by Marcellus. After the departure tion of the Christian poets by G. Fabricius, fol.
of Epicydes, and the massacre of the officers whom Basel. 1564, we find (p. 765) thirty hexameters,
he had left in the command, six new praetors were De Christo, said to be the work “Merobaudis His-
appointed, of whom Mericus was one ; but he en- panici Scholastici,” taken, as we are assured by the
tered into a correspondence with his countrymen editor, from a very ancient MS. This hymn was,
in the Roman service ; and being entrusted with at a subsequent period, most erroneously ascribed
the charge of part of the island of Ortygia, took the to Claudian, and in all the later impressions of his
opportunity to admit a body of Roman troops into poems is placed among the Epigrammata, and
that fortress. By this means Marcellus became numbered xcviii.
master of the citadel, which soon led to the capture About the year 1812 or 1813 the base of a
of the whole city, B. C. 212. Mericus was re- statue was dug up in the Ulpian forum at Rome,
warded for his treachery by appearing in the ova- bearing a long inscription in honour of Flavius
tion of the Roman general adorned with a crown Merobaudes, who is declared to have been equally
of gold, besides the more substantial benefits of the brave and learned, capable of performing glorious
Roman franchise, and an assignment of 500 jugera deeds, and of celebrating the achievements of others,
of land. (Liv. xxv. 30, 31, xxvi. 21. ) [E. H. B. ] well skilled in wielding both the sword and the
MEʻRIONES(Mmpiówns), a son of Molus (Hom. pen, a gallant and experienced soldier, a bard
Il. xiii. 249), conjointly with Idomeneus, led the worthy of the Heliconian wreath. It is then set
Cretans in 80 ships against Troy (ii
. 651, iv. 254), forth that, as a tribute to his rare qualities, a
where he was one of the bravest heroes, and usu- brazen image had been erected in the Ulpian
ally acted together with his friend Idomeneus (viii. forum, on the 29th of July, in the 15th consulship
264, x. 58, xiii. 275, 304, xv. 302, xvii. 258). of Theodosius, and the 4th of Valentinian (A. D.
He slew Phereclus (v. 59), Hippotion, and Morys 435).
(xiv. 514), Adamas (xiii. 567), Harpalion (xiii. Ten years afterwards Niebuhr succeeded in de.
650), Acamas (xvi. 342), Laogonus (xvi. 603), and cyphering, upon eight leaves of a palimpsest be-
wounded Deiphobus (xii. 528). He also offered longing to the monastery of St. Gall, several Latin
to fight with Hector, who afterwards slew his verses, which, from the subjects to which some of
charioteer, Coeranus (vii. 165, xvii. 610).
He them referred, must have been composed about the
offered to accompany Diomedes on his exploring middle of the fifth century. For a considerable
expedition into the Trojan camp ; but when Dio- time it seemed impossible to determine the author,
medes chose Odysseus for his companion, Meriones no name appearing on the parchment; but upon
gave to the latter his bow, quiver, sword, and comparing the preface to the principal piece with
famous helmet (x. 662, &c. ). He and Ajax pro- the inscription just mentioned, some expressions in
tected the body of Patroclus (xvii. 669); and at the former were found to be so completely an echo
the funeral games of Patroclus he won the fourth of the words in the latter, that it became almost
prize in the chariot-race, in shooting with the bow certain that Merobaudes must be the person sought,
the first, and in throwing the javelin the second and this conclusion was confirmed by a passage in
(xxiii. 351, 528, 614, 860, &c. ). Later traditions Sidonius Apollinaris, which contains an allusion to
state that on his way homeward he was thrown on this very statue. (Carm. ix. Ad Felicem, 278–
the coast of Sicily, where he was received by the 302, comp. the note of Sirmond. ) The fragments
Cretans who had settled there (Diod. iv. 79); thus recovered are miserably mutilated. The pages
whereas, according to others, he returned safely to preserved do not follow each other in regular order;
Crote, and was buried and worshipped as a hero, the initial or the final words in most of the larger
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bound up into a new volume, and in some places iv. 3. § 3, &c. ; Hygin. Fab. 184; comp. Ar
the original writing has been completely obliterated. PYTUS. )
(L. S. )
What remains consists of
MEROPS (Mépo4). 1. The father of Eumelns,
1. Four Carmina. The first, a fragment com- king of the island of Cos, which he thus called after
prising 23 lines in elegiac measure, is a description his daughter, while the inhabitants were called
apparently of the Triclinium of Valentinian. The after bim, Meropes. His wife, the nymph Ethe-
second, a fragment comprising 14 lines in elegiac mea, was killed by Artemis, because she had neg-
measure, is a description of a garden probably lected to worship that goddess, and was carried by
attached to the Triclinium. The third, a fragment Persephone to the lower world. Merops, from a
comprising 7 lines in elegiac measure, depicts the desire after his wife, wished to make away with
beauties of a garden, the property Viri Jul. himself, but Hera changed him into an eagle, whom
Fausti. The fourth, a fragment in 46 hendeca- she placed among the stars (Hygin. Pöct. Astr.
syllabics, is a birthday ode in honour of the son of ii. 16 ; Anton. Lib. 15; Eustath. ad Hom. p. 318 ;
Aëtius Patricius.
Eurip. Helen. 384.
11. A fragment, extending to 197 hexameters, 2. " Also called Maerops, a king of the Ethiopians,
of a panegyric on the third consulship of Aëtius by whose wife, Clymene, Helios became the father
Patricius, to which is prefixed an introduction in of Phaëton. (Strab. i. p. 33; Ov. Met. i. 763,
prose, in a very wretched condition. This Aëtius i Trist. iii. 4. 30; comp. Welcker, Die Aeschyl.
was consul for the first time a. D. 432, for the Tril. p. 572, &c. )
second time A. D. 437, for the third time A. D. 446. 3. A king of Rhindacus, of Percote, on the
If we assume that the whole of these five scraps Hellespont, is also called Macar, or Macareus. He
are by the same author, and that he is the Spanish was a celebrated soothsayer and the father of Cleite,
Merobaudes who wrote De Christo, & proposition Arisbe, Amphius, and Adrastus. (Hom. II. ii. 831,
which, although highly probable, cannot be strictly xi. 329 ; Apollon. Rhod. i. 975; Strab. xiii. p.
demonstrated, it follows, as a matter of course, that 586; Conon, Narrat. 41; Steph. Byz. s. v.
he must have been a Christian, although unques 'Aploén; Serv. ad Aen, ix. 264; Apollod. iii. 12.
tionably the terms in which he laments that the $ 5. )
morals of the olden time and the ancient religion 4. A Trojan, who was slain by Turnus in his
had passed away together. seem at first sight little attack on the camp of Aeneas. (Virg. Aen. ix.
favourable to such an idea. On the other hand, 702. )
[L. S. )
the reference to baptism (Carm. i. sub fin. ) is such MEROVEUS, a Frankish chieftain, of whom
as could scarcely have proceeded from a gentile. little is known that is authentic, beyond the fact that
Niebuhr conjectures that the Disticha de Miraculis he was the grandfather of Clovis, the real founder
Christi, and the Carmen Paschale, placed side by of the Frankish monarchy in Gaul. The chroni-
side with the De Christo, among the epigrams of clers of the middle ages augmented this little by
Claudian (xcv. xcix. ), to whom they confessedly their fables, and Meroveus figured in the lists of
do not belong, ought to be assigned to Merobaudes. the kings of the Frankish nation, of which he
(The fragments were first published by Niebuhr at could have been only one among many petty chiefs.
Bonn, 8vo. 1823, again in 1824, and will be found, This list of French kings included Pharamundus
edited by Bekker, in the “Corpus Scriptorum Hise or Pharamond, the reputed founder of the monarchy,
toriae Byzantinae," in the same volume with Co- and after him, in regular descent and succession,
rippus, 8vo. Bonn, 1836. See Rheinisches Museum, Clodion, Meroveus, Childericus or Childéric, and
1843, p. 531. The inscription is in Orelli, No. Chlodoveus or Clovis. Pharamundus is not men-
1183. With regard to Aëtius, consult Hansen, tioned by Gregory of Tours, the best, as well as
De Vita Aëtii, 8vo. Dorpat. 1840 ; see also Nicol. the first in point of time, of the early historians of
Anton. Bibl. Hispan. Vet. ii. 3. ) (W. R. ) France. Gregory, however, does mention Clodion,
ME'ROPE (Mepóarn). 1. A daughter of Ocea- or, as he writes the name, Chlogion, and states
nus, and by Clymenus the mother of Phaëton. that, according to some accounts, he resided in the
(Hygin. Fah. 154. )
castle of Dispargum, on the border of the Thoringi,
2. One of the Heliades or sisters of Phaëton. the locality of which is much disputed ; that he
(Ov. Met. ii. 310, &c. ; Hygin. Fab. 154. ) surprised and took Camaracum (Caulbrai) and sub
3. A daughter of Atlas, one of the Pleiades, and died all the country as far as the Sumina (Somme);
the wife of Sisyphus of Corinth, by whom she he adds, that some affirmed that Meroveus was of
became the mother of Glaucus. In the constella- the race of this Chlogion. (Greg. Turon. Histor.
tion of the Pleiades she is the seventh and the Francor. ii. 9. ) The date of this conquest is not
least visible star, becavse she is ashamed of having determined. Some place it before a. D. 428, in
had intercourse with a mortal man. (Apollod. i. which year the Clodion who had occupied a
9. $ 3, i. 10. $ 1; Ov. Fast. iv. 175; Eustath. ad part of Gaul was driven out by Aëtius : others
Serv. ad Virg. Georg. i. 138; comp. make this a second and later invasion, placing it as
Hom. N. vi. 154 ; Schol. ad Pind. Nom. ii. 16; late as A.
the Vatican MS. was published by Gabriel Ger- inspection of some manuscripts containing the
beron, a Benedictine, under the assumed name of work, that it does not belong to Mercurius at all,
Righerius, 12mo. Brux. 1673, and in the same but to a person called Abitianus. The writer has
year the first complete edition appeared at Paris in no means of deciding whether this assertion is cor-
folio, under the editorial inspection of the learned rect, but it agrees well enongh with the proof
Garnier, the text being formed upon a comparison arising from internal evidence that the work is de-
of the only two existing MSS. The most esteemed rived from Oriental sources, for this Abitianus must
edition is that of Baluze, 8vo. Par. 1684, reprinted be no other than the celebrated Arabic physician
with additions and corrections, by Galland, in his Abú ’Ali Ibn Síná, commonly called Avicenna.
Bibliotheca Patrum, vol. viii. pp. 615—737, fol. [ABITIANUS. )
(W. A. G. )
Venet. 1772. A very full account of the labours MERCU'RIUS TRISMEGISTUS. (HERMES
of Garnier and Baluze will be found in Schöne | TRISMEGISTUS. ]
mann, Bill. Patrum Lat. vol. ii. & 16. See also · MEREN'DA, was a surname, of rare occus
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[L. S. ]
in v. p. 123, Muell. ed. ; Non. p. 28, 32 ; comp. MERMERUS (Mépuepos). 1. A son of
Isidor. Orig. IX. 2. § 12), and the word, un- Pheres, and grandson of Jason and Medeia. . He
changed in form, is extant in the modern Neapo was the father of Ilus and Ephyra, and skilled in
litan dialect The Merenda branch of the Gens the art of preparing poison. " (Hom. Od. i. 260;
Antonia was patrician (Dionys. x. 58) (ANTONIA Eustath. ad Hom. p. 1416. )
GENS).
2. A son of Jason and Medeia, is also called
1. T. ANTONIUS MERENDA, was decem vir in Macareus or Mormorus (Hygin. Fab. 239 ; Tzetz.
B. C. 450—49, and was defeated by the Aequians ad Lyc. 175); he was murdered, together with his
on the Algidus. (Dionys. x. 68, xi. 23, 33; Liv. brother Pheres, by his mother at Corinth. (Apollod.
ii. 35, 38, 41, 42; Fasti. )
i. 9. § 28 ; Hygin. Fab. 25 ; Diod. iv. 54. ) Ac-
2. Q. ANTONIUS T. F. MERENDA, probably a cording to others he was stoned to death by the
son of the preceding, was tribune of the soldiers, Corinthians (Paus. ii. 3. § 6 ; Schol. ad Eurip.
with consular authority, in B. C. 422. (Liv. iv. Med. 10), or he was killed during the chase by a
42; Fasti. )
lioness. (Paus. ii. 3. & 7. ) A centaur, Mermerus,
3. SERVIUS CORNELIUS MERENDA, was legatus is mentioned by Ovid. (Met. xii. 305. ) (L. S. )
in B. C 275, to the consul L. Cornelius Lentulus MEʻRMNADAE (Mepuváoa! ), a Lydian family,
(LENTULUS, No. 5), and was presented by him, which, on the murder of Candaules by Gyges, suc-
for the capture of a town in Samnium, with a ceeded the Heracleidae on the throne of Lydin,
golden chaplet of five pounds' weight. In the fol- and held it for five generations, during a period of
lowing year Merenda was consul, and again com- 170 years (about 716–546). The successive so-
manded in Samnium and Lucania. (Plin. H. N. vereigns of this family were Gyges, Ardys, Sady-
xxxiii, 11; Fasti. )
[W. B. D. ] attes, Alyattes, Croesus. (See these articles, and
MERGUS, M. LAETO'RIUS. (LAETORIUS, comp. Deioces ; also Thirlwall's Greece, vol. ii. pp.
No. 3. )
157, 158 ; Clint F. H. vol. i. sub anno 716, vol. ii.
MEʻRICUS, a leader of Spanish mercenaries in App. xvii. )
(E. E. )
the service of Syracuse at the time when that city MEROBAUDES, FLAVIUS. In the collec-
was besieged by Marcellus. After the departure tion of the Christian poets by G. Fabricius, fol.
of Epicydes, and the massacre of the officers whom Basel. 1564, we find (p. 765) thirty hexameters,
he had left in the command, six new praetors were De Christo, said to be the work “Merobaudis His-
appointed, of whom Mericus was one ; but he en- panici Scholastici,” taken, as we are assured by the
tered into a correspondence with his countrymen editor, from a very ancient MS. This hymn was,
in the Roman service ; and being entrusted with at a subsequent period, most erroneously ascribed
the charge of part of the island of Ortygia, took the to Claudian, and in all the later impressions of his
opportunity to admit a body of Roman troops into poems is placed among the Epigrammata, and
that fortress. By this means Marcellus became numbered xcviii.
master of the citadel, which soon led to the capture About the year 1812 or 1813 the base of a
of the whole city, B. C. 212. Mericus was re- statue was dug up in the Ulpian forum at Rome,
warded for his treachery by appearing in the ova- bearing a long inscription in honour of Flavius
tion of the Roman general adorned with a crown Merobaudes, who is declared to have been equally
of gold, besides the more substantial benefits of the brave and learned, capable of performing glorious
Roman franchise, and an assignment of 500 jugera deeds, and of celebrating the achievements of others,
of land. (Liv. xxv. 30, 31, xxvi. 21. ) [E. H. B. ] well skilled in wielding both the sword and the
MEʻRIONES(Mmpiówns), a son of Molus (Hom. pen, a gallant and experienced soldier, a bard
Il. xiii. 249), conjointly with Idomeneus, led the worthy of the Heliconian wreath. It is then set
Cretans in 80 ships against Troy (ii
. 651, iv. 254), forth that, as a tribute to his rare qualities, a
where he was one of the bravest heroes, and usu- brazen image had been erected in the Ulpian
ally acted together with his friend Idomeneus (viii. forum, on the 29th of July, in the 15th consulship
264, x. 58, xiii. 275, 304, xv. 302, xvii. 258). of Theodosius, and the 4th of Valentinian (A. D.
He slew Phereclus (v. 59), Hippotion, and Morys 435).
(xiv. 514), Adamas (xiii. 567), Harpalion (xiii. Ten years afterwards Niebuhr succeeded in de.
650), Acamas (xvi. 342), Laogonus (xvi. 603), and cyphering, upon eight leaves of a palimpsest be-
wounded Deiphobus (xii. 528). He also offered longing to the monastery of St. Gall, several Latin
to fight with Hector, who afterwards slew his verses, which, from the subjects to which some of
charioteer, Coeranus (vii. 165, xvii. 610).
He them referred, must have been composed about the
offered to accompany Diomedes on his exploring middle of the fifth century. For a considerable
expedition into the Trojan camp ; but when Dio- time it seemed impossible to determine the author,
medes chose Odysseus for his companion, Meriones no name appearing on the parchment; but upon
gave to the latter his bow, quiver, sword, and comparing the preface to the principal piece with
famous helmet (x. 662, &c. ). He and Ajax pro- the inscription just mentioned, some expressions in
tected the body of Patroclus (xvii. 669); and at the former were found to be so completely an echo
the funeral games of Patroclus he won the fourth of the words in the latter, that it became almost
prize in the chariot-race, in shooting with the bow certain that Merobaudes must be the person sought,
the first, and in throwing the javelin the second and this conclusion was confirmed by a passage in
(xxiii. 351, 528, 614, 860, &c. ). Later traditions Sidonius Apollinaris, which contains an allusion to
state that on his way homeward he was thrown on this very statue. (Carm. ix. Ad Felicem, 278–
the coast of Sicily, where he was received by the 302, comp. the note of Sirmond. ) The fragments
Cretans who had settled there (Diod. iv. 79); thus recovered are miserably mutilated. The pages
whereas, according to others, he returned safely to preserved do not follow each other in regular order;
Crote, and was buried and worshipped as a hero, the initial or the final words in most of the larger
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lines have been pared off when the sheets were mother of Aepytus. (Apollod. ii. 8. $ 5; Pans
bound up into a new volume, and in some places iv. 3. § 3, &c. ; Hygin. Fab. 184; comp. Ar
the original writing has been completely obliterated. PYTUS. )
(L. S. )
What remains consists of
MEROPS (Mépo4). 1. The father of Eumelns,
1. Four Carmina. The first, a fragment com- king of the island of Cos, which he thus called after
prising 23 lines in elegiac measure, is a description his daughter, while the inhabitants were called
apparently of the Triclinium of Valentinian. The after bim, Meropes. His wife, the nymph Ethe-
second, a fragment comprising 14 lines in elegiac mea, was killed by Artemis, because she had neg-
measure, is a description of a garden probably lected to worship that goddess, and was carried by
attached to the Triclinium. The third, a fragment Persephone to the lower world. Merops, from a
comprising 7 lines in elegiac measure, depicts the desire after his wife, wished to make away with
beauties of a garden, the property Viri Jul. himself, but Hera changed him into an eagle, whom
Fausti. The fourth, a fragment in 46 hendeca- she placed among the stars (Hygin. Pöct. Astr.
syllabics, is a birthday ode in honour of the son of ii. 16 ; Anton. Lib. 15; Eustath. ad Hom. p. 318 ;
Aëtius Patricius.
Eurip. Helen. 384.
11. A fragment, extending to 197 hexameters, 2. " Also called Maerops, a king of the Ethiopians,
of a panegyric on the third consulship of Aëtius by whose wife, Clymene, Helios became the father
Patricius, to which is prefixed an introduction in of Phaëton. (Strab. i. p. 33; Ov. Met. i. 763,
prose, in a very wretched condition. This Aëtius i Trist. iii. 4. 30; comp. Welcker, Die Aeschyl.
was consul for the first time a. D. 432, for the Tril. p. 572, &c. )
second time A. D. 437, for the third time A. D. 446. 3. A king of Rhindacus, of Percote, on the
If we assume that the whole of these five scraps Hellespont, is also called Macar, or Macareus. He
are by the same author, and that he is the Spanish was a celebrated soothsayer and the father of Cleite,
Merobaudes who wrote De Christo, & proposition Arisbe, Amphius, and Adrastus. (Hom. II. ii. 831,
which, although highly probable, cannot be strictly xi. 329 ; Apollon. Rhod. i. 975; Strab. xiii. p.
demonstrated, it follows, as a matter of course, that 586; Conon, Narrat. 41; Steph. Byz. s. v.
he must have been a Christian, although unques 'Aploén; Serv. ad Aen, ix. 264; Apollod. iii. 12.
tionably the terms in which he laments that the $ 5. )
morals of the olden time and the ancient religion 4. A Trojan, who was slain by Turnus in his
had passed away together. seem at first sight little attack on the camp of Aeneas. (Virg. Aen. ix.
favourable to such an idea. On the other hand, 702. )
[L. S. )
the reference to baptism (Carm. i. sub fin. ) is such MEROVEUS, a Frankish chieftain, of whom
as could scarcely have proceeded from a gentile. little is known that is authentic, beyond the fact that
Niebuhr conjectures that the Disticha de Miraculis he was the grandfather of Clovis, the real founder
Christi, and the Carmen Paschale, placed side by of the Frankish monarchy in Gaul. The chroni-
side with the De Christo, among the epigrams of clers of the middle ages augmented this little by
Claudian (xcv. xcix. ), to whom they confessedly their fables, and Meroveus figured in the lists of
do not belong, ought to be assigned to Merobaudes. the kings of the Frankish nation, of which he
(The fragments were first published by Niebuhr at could have been only one among many petty chiefs.
Bonn, 8vo. 1823, again in 1824, and will be found, This list of French kings included Pharamundus
edited by Bekker, in the “Corpus Scriptorum Hise or Pharamond, the reputed founder of the monarchy,
toriae Byzantinae," in the same volume with Co- and after him, in regular descent and succession,
rippus, 8vo. Bonn, 1836. See Rheinisches Museum, Clodion, Meroveus, Childericus or Childéric, and
1843, p. 531. The inscription is in Orelli, No. Chlodoveus or Clovis. Pharamundus is not men-
1183. With regard to Aëtius, consult Hansen, tioned by Gregory of Tours, the best, as well as
De Vita Aëtii, 8vo. Dorpat. 1840 ; see also Nicol. the first in point of time, of the early historians of
Anton. Bibl. Hispan. Vet. ii. 3. ) (W. R. ) France. Gregory, however, does mention Clodion,
ME'ROPE (Mepóarn). 1. A daughter of Ocea- or, as he writes the name, Chlogion, and states
nus, and by Clymenus the mother of Phaëton. that, according to some accounts, he resided in the
(Hygin. Fah. 154. )
castle of Dispargum, on the border of the Thoringi,
2. One of the Heliades or sisters of Phaëton. the locality of which is much disputed ; that he
(Ov. Met. ii. 310, &c. ; Hygin. Fab. 154. ) surprised and took Camaracum (Caulbrai) and sub
3. A daughter of Atlas, one of the Pleiades, and died all the country as far as the Sumina (Somme);
the wife of Sisyphus of Corinth, by whom she he adds, that some affirmed that Meroveus was of
became the mother of Glaucus. In the constella- the race of this Chlogion. (Greg. Turon. Histor.
tion of the Pleiades she is the seventh and the Francor. ii. 9. ) The date of this conquest is not
least visible star, becavse she is ashamed of having determined. Some place it before a. D. 428, in
had intercourse with a mortal man. (Apollod. i. which year the Clodion who had occupied a
9. $ 3, i. 10. $ 1; Ov. Fast. iv. 175; Eustath. ad part of Gaul was driven out by Aëtius : others
Serv. ad Virg. Georg. i. 138; comp. make this a second and later invasion, placing it as
Hom. N. vi. 154 ; Schol. ad Pind. Nom. ii. 16; late as A.
