Dictionary of Greek and Roman geography . fer from Curtius (iii. 7),?who states that Alexander entered the town afterthrowing a bridge across the Pyramus. ]\Iallustherefore stood on the eastern bank of the to Scylax (p. 40) it was necessary to sailup the river a short distance in order to reach Jlallus;and Jlela (i. 13) also states that the town is situatedclose upon the river; whence Ptolemy (v. 8. § 4)must be mistaken in placing it more than two milesaway fi-om the river. JIallus was a town of consi-derable importance, though it does not appear tohave possessed any particular
Dictionary of Greek and Roman geography . fer from Curtius (iii. 7),?who states that Alexander entered the town afterthrowing a bridge across the Pyramus. ]\Iallustherefore stood on the eastern bank of the to Scylax (p. 40) it was necessary to sailup the river a short distance in order to reach Jlallus;and Jlela (i. 13) also states that the town is situatedclose upon the river; whence Ptolemy (v. 8. § 4)must be mistaken in placing it more than two milesaway fi-om the river. JIallus was a town of consi-derable importance, though it does not appear tohave possessed any particular attractions. Its port-town was Magarsa [JIagarsa], though in latertimes it seems to have had a port of its own, calledPortus Palorum (Geogr. Nub. ; Sanut. ii. 4, 26, whence we learn that in the middleages it continued to be called Malo; comp. 15; Appian, Mhhrid. 96; Dionys. Per. 875;Ptol. viii. 17. § 44: Plin. //. N. v. 22; 3f. §§ 151, 152; Leake, Asia Minor, pp. 216,&c.) [L. S.]. COIN OF MALLUS IN CILICIA. MALOETAS. [Methydeium.] MALVA. [MuLUCHA.] MALUS. [Male.\; Megalopolis.] MAMALA (\a Kuifxr]), a village of theCassanitae, south of Badei Regia, on the Arabiancoast of the Red Sea. (Ptol. vi. 7. § 5) [Gasandes;Badei Regia.] It has been supposed to be repre-sented by the modern town of Konfoda, and to havebeen the capital of the piratical tribe of Conraitae,mentioned bv Arrian (Pei-ipliis, p. 15). [G. MAMRKirNI. [Messana.] (Mafx4pTiov : Eth. Vla/JLeprwos),a city in the interior of the Bruttian is noticed only by Strabo, who places it in the JIANDALAE. mountains above Locri, in the neighbourhood of thegreat forest of Sila, and by Stephanus of Byzantium,who calls it merely a city of Italy. (Strab. 261 ; Steph. B. s. v.) There is no reason toreject these testimonies, though we have no otheraccount of the existence of such a place ; and itsposition cannot be determined with any greater pre
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