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Mĕnĕcles, is, m., = Μενεκλῆς, an Asiatic rhetorician from Alabanda, Cic. de Or. 2, 23, 95; id. Or. 69, 231.
Hence, Mĕ-nĕclĭus, a, um, adj., of or belonging to Menecles the rhetorician: Meneclium studium, Cic. Brut. 95, 326.

Mĕnecrătes, is, m., = Μενεκράτης.

  1. I. A poet of Ephesus, who wrote of husbandry, Varr. R. R. 1, 1, 9.
  2. II. A freedman of Pompey, Plin. 35, 18, 58, § 200.

* Mĕnĕdēmus, i, m., = Μενέδημος.

  1. I. An Eretrian philosopher, a disciple of Plato, Cic. Ac. 2, 42, 129.
  2. II. An Athenian rhetorician in the time of Crassus, Cic. de Or. 1, 19, 85.
  3. III. A peripatetic philosopher from Rhodes, Gell. 13, 5, 3.
  4. IV. A Greek admitted to the privileges of citizenship, but afterwards executed, Cic. Att. 15, 19, 2.
  5. V. A general of Alexander the Great, Curt. 7, 6, 13; 7, 7, 15.
  6. VI. The name of a man, one of the Dramatis Personae in Ter. Heaut.

Mĕnĕlāēus, a, um, adj., of or belonging to Menelaüs: thalamus, Prop. 2, 12 (3, 7), 14.

* Menelāis, ĭdis and ĭdos, f., a city in Epirus, Liv. 39, 26.

Mĕnĕlāites, an Egyptian name, Plin. 5, 8, 9, § 49.

* Mĕnĕlaĭus, i, m., a mountain in Laconia, on the Eurotas, near Sparta, Liv. 34, 28.

Mĕnĕlāüs, i, m., = Μενέλαος.

  1. I. Son of Atreus, brother of Agamemnon, and husband of Helen, who eloped from him with Paris, Cic. Brut. 13, 50; id. Rep. 5, 9, 14; Auct. Her. 3, 21, 34; Ov. M. 13, 203; id. A. A. 2, 359.
    1. B. Transf., a cuckold.
      Jestingly of M. Lucullus, whose wife was seduced by C. Memmius, Cic. Att. 1, 18, 3.
  2. II. Menelaus Marathenus, a Greek rhetorician, from the old Phoenician city of Marathus, Cic. Brut. 26, 100.
  3. III. Menelai portus, a city with a port of the same name on the shore of the Mediterranean, between Cyrene and Egypt, Nep. Ages. 8, 6; also called Menelaita urbs, Edict. Justin. 13, 9, 2.
    Hence, adj.: Mĕnĕlāĕus, a, um, of Menelaus, Prop. 2, 15 (3, 7), 14.

Mĕnēnĭānus, a, um, see the foll. art. II. B.

Mĕnēnĭus,

  1. I. name of a Roman gens. Its most celebrated member was Menenius Agrippa, who told the people the fable of the belly and the limbs, Liv. 2, 16, 7; 2, 32, 8; 2, 33, 10.
    Another Menenius in the time of Horace, noted as a foolish person, Hor. S. 2, 3, 287.
  2. II. Hence,
    1. A. Mĕnēnĭus, a, um, adj., Menenian: tribus, a Roman tribe, Cic. Fam. 13, 9, 2.
    2. B. Mĕnēnĭānus, a, um, adj., of or belonging to Menenius, Menenian: judicium, i. e. of Menenius Agrippa, Liv. 2, 52, 8.

Mĕnē̆phron, ŏnis, m., = Μενεφρων, the name of an immoral person, Ov M. 7, 386; called also Mĕnō̆phrus, Hyg. Fab. 253.

‡ Mĕnerva, v. Minerva init.

* Mĕnestheus (-steus), ei and eos, m., = Μενεσθευς, a man’s name.

  1. I. A son of Iphicrates the Athenian, Nep. lphicr. 3.
  2. II. A king of the Athenians, a leader in the Trojan war, Just. 2, 6.
  3. III. A charioteer of Diomedes, Stat. Th. 6, 661; 712.
  4. IV. = Mnestheus, q. v.

Mĭnerva (old orthogr. Menerva, like magester, leber, etc., acc. to Quint. 1, 4, 17), ae, f. [from the root men, whence mens, memini, moneo, etc.; v. infra], a Roman goddess, identified with the Grecian Pallas Athene, the daughter of Zeus, and the goddess of wisdom, of sense and reflection, of the arts and sciences, of poetry, and of spinning and weaving: Minerva dicta, quod bene moneat. Hanc enim pagani pro sapientiā ponebant; Cornificius vero, quod fingatur pingaturque minitans armis, eandem dictam putat, Paul. ex Fest. p. 123 Müll.; cf. Cic. N. D. 1, 30, 180; 3, 23, 59; Varr. L. L. 5, § 74 Müll.: daedala, Enn. ap. Paul. ex Fest. s. v. daedalam, p. 68: Minerva nostra, custos urbis, Cic. Fam. 12, 25, 1: Minerva Iliensis, Ulp. Fragm. 22, 6: Aristoteles … Minervam esse Lunam probabilibus argumentis demonstrat, Arn. 3, 31.
Prov.: pingui or crassā Minervā aliquid facere, without art, skill, or learning, plainly, rudely, Col. 1 praef. § 33; Cic. Lael 5, 19: rusticus crassā Minervā, Hor. S. 2, 2, 3: invitā Minervā, contrary to the bent of one’s genius or natural abilities, against the grain, Hor. A. P. 385: quia nihil decet invitā, ut aiunt, Minervā, id est adversante et repugnante naturā, Cic. Off. 1, 31, 301: sus Minervam (docet), a stupid man will instruct a wise one, Cic. Ac. 1, 5, 18: omnis Minervae homo, jack-of-alltrades, Petr. 43, 8: MINERVA MEDICA, i. e. medicina, the goddess of health, Inscr Rein. 11, 81: fecit ex ebore aeque Minervam, a statue of Minerva, Plin. 34, 8, 19, § 54.
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  1. A. A working in wool, spinning and weaving: tolerare colo vitam tenuique Minervā ( = telā, lanificio), Verg. A. 8, 409; Ov. M. 4, 33; Prop. 2, 9, 5.
  2. B. To form the name of a place.
    1. 1. Minervae Arx, v. Minervius, II. B.
    2. 2. Minervae Promontorium, a promontory in Campania, to the south-east of Surrentum, the abode of the Sirens, now Punta della Capanella, Liv. 40, 18, 8; Ov. M. 15, 709.