. Dictionary of Greek and Roman geography . the Medmaeans, and thatwe should read MeS/ucubi in the passage in question.(Diod. xiv. 78.) Though never a very conspicuousplace, Medma seems to have survived the fall ofmany other more important cities of Magna Graecia,and it is noticed as a still existing town both byStrabo and Pliny. (Strab. I. c. ; Plin. iii. 5. s. 10.)But the name is not found in Ptolemy, and all sub-sequent trace of it disappears. It appears fromStrabo that the town itself was situated a littleinland, and that it had a port or emporium on the VOL. II. MEDOACUS. 305 sea-shore. T
. Dictionary of Greek and Roman geography . the Medmaeans, and thatwe should read MeS/ucubi in the passage in question.(Diod. xiv. 78.) Though never a very conspicuousplace, Medma seems to have survived the fall ofmany other more important cities of Magna Graecia,and it is noticed as a still existing town both byStrabo and Pliny. (Strab. I. c. ; Plin. iii. 5. s. 10.)But the name is not found in Ptolemy, and all sub-sequent trace of it disappears. It appears fromStrabo that the town itself was situated a littleinland, and that it had a port or emporium on the VOL. II. MEDOACUS. 305 sea-shore. The exact site has not been determined,but as the name of Mesima is stili borne by a riverwhich flows into the sea a little below Nicotera,there can be no doubt that Medma was situatedsomewhere in the neighbourhood of that town, andprobably its port was at the mouth of the riverwhich still bears its name. Nicotera, the name ofwhich is already found in the Antonine Itinerary(pp. 106, 111), probably arose after the decline ofMesma. [E. H. B.]. COIN OF MEDMA. MEDMASA (MeS/xaaa or MeS/xacos), a townof Caria, situated somewhere in the peninsulabetween the Ceramian and Iasian gulf, not farfrom Myndus. (Plin. v. 29; Steph. B. s. v.;Hecat. Fragm. 230.) It is probably the same townas the one which Stephanus elsewhere calls Ae5-fjLaaa; its site is unknown. [L. S.] MEDOACUS or MEDUACUS (MtSSaKos :Brenta), a river of Northern Italy, in the provinceof Venetia, falling into the extensive lagunes whichborder the coast of the Adriatic, in the neighbour-hood of the modern Venice. According to Pliny(iii. 16. s. 20), there were two rivers of the name,but no other author mentions more than one, andLivy, a native of the region, mentions the Me-duacus amnis without any distinctive epithet.(Liv. x. 2.) There can be no doubt that this is theriver now known as the Brenta, which is a veryconsiderable stream, rising in the mountains of theVol Sugana, and flowing near Padua (Patavium).A short distance from
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