Dictionary of Greek and Roman geography . ilostorg. vi. 5 ; Eutrop. x. 7 ; Amm. Marc. xxi. 29 ;Itin. Ant. p. 145, where it is called Namsucrone ;It. Hieros. p. 579, where its name is mutilated intoMansverine.) MOPSUESTIA (M6\i/ov iaria or Mo^oufffrla :Eth. Moi|/fOT7js), a considerable town in the extremeeast of Cilicia, on the river Pyraraus, and on theroad from Tarsus to Issus. In the earlier writersthe town is not mentioned, though it traced itsorigin to the ancient soothsayer Mopsus; but Pliny(v. 22), who calls it Mopsos, states that inhis time it was a free town. (Comp. Strab. 676 ;
Dictionary of Greek and Roman geography . ilostorg. vi. 5 ; Eutrop. x. 7 ; Amm. Marc. xxi. 29 ;Itin. Ant. p. 145, where it is called Namsucrone ;It. Hieros. p. 579, where its name is mutilated intoMansverine.) MOPSUESTIA (M6\i/ov iaria or Mo^oufffrla :Eth. Moi|/fOT7js), a considerable town in the extremeeast of Cilicia, on the river Pyraraus, and on theroad from Tarsus to Issus. In the earlier writersthe town is not mentioned, though it traced itsorigin to the ancient soothsayer Mopsus; but Pliny(v. 22), who calls it Mopsos, states that inhis time it was a free town. (Comp. Strab. 676 ; Cic. ad Fam. iii. 8 ; Steph. B. 5. v.;Procop. de Aed. v. 5 ; Amm. Marc. xiv. 8 ; 176; Ptol. v. 8. § 7; It. Ant. p. 705; 705 ; It. Hieros. p. 680, where it is called Man-sista.) A splendid bridge across the Pyramus wasbuilt at Mopsuestia by the emperor Constantius.(Malala, Chron. xiii.) It was situated only 12miles from the coast, in a fertile plain, called ^AK-^iovireSioj. (Arrian, Anab. ii. 5 ; Eustath. ad COIN OF mopsuestia. MORGANTLA. Fer. 872.) In the middle ages the name of tlieplace was corrupted into Mamista ; its present nanieis Messis or Mensis. Ancient remains are not men-tioned, and travellers describe Mensis as a dirty anduninteresting place. (h6\\ke, Asia Minor, p. 217;Otters Reisen, i. c. 8.) [L. S.] MORBIUJI, in Britain, is mentioned in the Notitiaas the quarters of a body of horse Cataphractarii( praefectus equitum Cataphractariorum Morbio).We are justified by an inscription in placing Mor-bium at Moresby near Whitehaven, where the re-mains of a Roman camp are yet to be traced. Theinscription, preserved in a MS. of Dr. Stukeley, butnot read by him, is upon a monument to the me-mory of a soldier of the Cataphractarii, which wasfound within the precincts of the Camp. [] MORDULAMNE (MopSouAa^ufrj, Ptol. vii. 4. § 5),a port on the eastern coast of Taprobane (Ceylon).The name is probably a corruption of the MSS., andought to be
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