. swampy. MantlUS (Mayrios), son of Melampus, andbrother of Antiphates. [Melampus.] MantO (NlavTw, -ovs). 1. Daughter of theTheban soothsayer Tiresias, was herself pro-phetess of the IsmenianApollo at Thebes. Afterthe capture of Thebesby the Epigoni, she wassent to Delphi withother captives, as anoffering to Apollo, andthere became the pro-phetess of this afterwards senther and her companionsto Asia, where theyfounded the sanctuaryof Apollo near the placewhere the town of Co-lophon was afterwardsbuilt. Ehacius, a Cre-tan,
. swampy. MantlUS (Mayrios), son of Melampus, andbrother of Antiphates. [Melampus.] MantO (NlavTw, -ovs). 1. Daughter of theTheban soothsayer Tiresias, was herself pro-phetess of the IsmenianApollo at Thebes. Afterthe capture of Thebesby the Epigoni, she wassent to Delphi withother captives, as anoffering to Apollo, andthere became the pro-phetess of this afterwards senther and her companionsto Asia, where theyfounded the sanctuaryof Apollo near the placewhere the town of Co-lophon was afterwardsbuilt. Ehacius, a Cre-tan, who had settledthere, married Manto,and became by her thefather of Mopsus. Ac-cording to Euripides,she had previously be-come the mother ofAmphilochus and Tisi-phone, by Alcmaeon,the leader of the Epi-goni. Being a pro-phetess of Apollo, sheis also called Daphne, the laurel virgin. (Apollod. iii. 7, 4 ; Paus. Plan of the Plain of Marathon, vii. 3, 1, ix. 33, 1 ; Strab. p. 443.)—2. Daughter of Heracles, was j Sicyon, who having been expelled from Pelo-. likewise a prophetess, and the person fromwhom the town of Mantua received its name(Verg. Aen. x. 199). Mantua (Mantuanus : Mantua), a town inGallia Transpadana, on an island in the riverMincius, was not a place of importance, but iscelebrated because Virgil, who was born at theneighbouring village of Andes, regarded Mantuaas his birthplace. It seems to have been onfriendly terms with Rome in the second Punicwar (Liv. xxiv. 10), and later became a munici-pium. After the death of Caesar, Octavian as-signed some of the lands of Cremona to hissoldiers, and, as these were not sufficient, tooksome of the Mantuan territory also, which wasthe occasion of Virgils loss of property. It wasoriginally an Etruscan city, and is said to havederived its name from Manto, the daughter of ponnesus by the violence of his father, settledin Attica ; while, according to another account,he was an Arcadian who took part in the expe-dition of the Ty
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