. ulf on the S., and bounded on the W. by thegreat Thessalian plain. It was a mountainouscountry, as it comprehended the Mts. Ossa andPelion. Its inhabitants, the Magnetes, are saidto have founded the two cities in Asia mentionedbelow.—2. M. ad Sipylum (M. irpbs SiiruAp orinb SituAw : Manissa, Ru.), a city in theNW. of Lydia, in Asia Minor, at the foot of theNW. declivity of Mount Sipylus, and on the of the Hermus, is famous in history as thescene of the victory gained by the two Scipiosover Antiochus the Great, which secured
. ulf on the S., and bounded on the W. by thegreat Thessalian plain. It was a mountainouscountry, as it comprehended the Mts. Ossa andPelion. Its inhabitants, the Magnetes, are saidto have founded the two cities in Asia mentionedbelow.—2. M. ad Sipylum (M. irpbs SiiruAp orinb SituAw : Manissa, Ru.), a city in theNW. of Lydia, in Asia Minor, at the foot of theNW. declivity of Mount Sipylus, and on the of the Hermus, is famous in history as thescene of the victory gained by the two Scipiosover Antiochus the Great, which secured to theRomans the empire of the East, B. c. 190. Afterthe Mithridatie war, the Romans made it alibera civitas. It suffered, with other cities ofAsia Minor, from the great earthquake in thereign of Tiberius ; but it was still a place ofimportance in the fifth century. (Strab. p. 622;Liv. xxxvii. 37; Tac. Ann. ii. 47.)—3. M. adMaeandrum (M. r/ irpbs MaiduSprfi, M. ett!MaiavSpcp: Inek-bazar, Ru.), a city in the Lydia, in Asia Minor, was situated on the. Coin of Magnesia ad Maeandrum (2nd cent. ).Obv., head of Artemis ; rev., MATNHTnN ; Apollo beside tri-pod; below these, Maeander pattern, magistratesname, EY$HM02 riAYSANlOY ; -whole in oak-wreath. river Lethaeus, a N. tributary of the was destroyed by the Cimmerians (probablyabout B. c. 700) and rebuilt by colonists fromMiletus, so that it became an Ionian city byrace as well as by position. It was one of thecities given to Themistocles by Artaxerxes. Itwas celebrated for its temple of Artemis Leu-cophryene (see coin), one of the most beautifulin Asia Minor, the ruins of which exist. ( 101, iii. 122 ; Diod. xi. 57 ; Strab. pp. 636, 647.) Magnopolis CNlayvS-n-ohis), or EupatoriaMagnopolis, a city of Pontus, in Asia Minor, MAGO near the confluence of the rivers Lycus and Iris,begun by Mithridates Eupator and finished byPompey (Strab. p. 556; Appian, Mithr. 78,115). Mago (Maywv). 1. A Carthaginian, said
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