INDEX TO NAMES OF PERSONS. 



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Menas, ecclesiastical writer, 576. 



Mencius, Chinese philosopher, see Meng-tseu. 



Mendana, Alvaro de, Spanish navigator, 898, 917. 



Mendelssohn, translator of Bible into German, 1027. 



Mendez, Soeiro, governor of Arguin, 825. 



Mendoca, Antonio de.viceroy of Mexico, 882, 



Mendoza, Peter de, leader of a Spanish colony, 875. 



Menecrates of Nysa, Greek grammarian, 400. 



Menelaus, Greek chieftain, 176. 



Menelaus, Jewish high-priest, 399. 



Menelaus of Caria, Greek astronomer, 518. 



Meneptha Sethos, king of Egypt, 123. 



Meneptha II., king of Egypt, 130. 



Meneptha III., king of Egypt, 131. 



Menes, first king of Egypt, 62. 



Meneses, Emman. Telez de, Portuguese navigator, 860. 



Menestheus, king of Athens, 174. 



Meng-tseu, Chinese philosopher, 312, 325. 



Meniates, Elias, modern Greek writer, 997. 



Menilec, Abyssinian king, 407. 



Menippus of Caria, Greek rhetor, 434. 



Menippus of Gadara, Greek philosopher, 382. 



Menkera, or Mycerinus, king of Egypt, 68. 



Menkera II., king of Egypt, 71. 



Menodotus of Perinthus, Greek historian, 396. 



Mento, C. Julius, Roman consul, 282. 



Mentnatep, king of Egypt, 80. 



Mentuatep II. Nebtura, see Nuantef IV. 



Mentuatep III., king of Egypt, 81. 



Mentuatep IV., king of Egypt, 83. 



Mentzelius, Christian, German botanist, 978. 



Menzel, Phil, and Alb., German botanists, 936. 



Menzies, botanist on Vancouver's voyage, 1046, 1048. 



Merboldus, 675. 



Mercator, Gerhardus, chronographer, 902. 



Mercator, Marius, ecclesiastical writer, 560. 



Meredyth ab Rhys, Welsh bard, 712. 



Merenra, king of Egypt, 75. 



Merera Miamun, king of Egypt, 131. 



Merhet, Egyptian prince, 67. 



Merian, M. S., naturalist in Surinam, 1004. 



Merlin, or Myrdhyn, Welsh bard, 609. 



Merobaudes, Latin poet, 566. 



Merrett, Christopher, English botanist, 958, 965. 



Merula, Georgius, philologist and historian, 831. 



Mervellius, traveller in Arabia, 1002. 



Merwan, fourth Ommiad khalif, 612. 



Merwan 1 1., fourteenth and last Ommiad khalif, 619-20. 



Mesesimordachus, king of Babylon, 220. 



Mesochris, king of Egypt, 66. 



Mesomedes, Greek poet, 526. 



Messala, M. Valerius, Roman painter, 389. 



Messala Corvinus, Roman writer, 457. 



Messerschmid, traveller in Siberia, 1005, 1007, 1013. 



Mestor, king of Argos, 163. 



Mesue the elder, see Ebn Masawia. 



Metacom, or Philip, aborig. American chief, 964, 972. 



Metagenes, Greek comic poet, 2S1. 



Metellus, L. Caecilius, Roman general, 417. 



Metellus, Q. Caacilius, Roman consul and general, 



394. 411,446- 

 Methodius, early Christian writer, 546. 

 Methodius, missionary to the Slavonians, 639. 

 Methusael, son of Mehujael, 3. 

 Methuselah, 64. 

 Metius, Hollander, inventor of the telescope, 928. 



Meton, Greek astronomer, 281. 



Metrodorus, Greek philosopher, 370. 



Metrodorus of Chios, Greek philosopher, 299. 



Metrodorus of Persia, Greek writer, 544. 



Metrodorus of Scepsis, Greek writer, 424. 



Metrophanes of Smyrna, Greek writer, 639. 



Meursius, John, archaeologist and critic, 933. 



Meyan, botanist on the Hawaiian Islands, 1066. 



Meyenberg, H. I. botanist, 097. 



Meyendorf, ambassador, 1062. 



Meyer, Ernst H. F., botanist, 1065, 1067. 



Meyer, K. A., botanist in Siberia, 1064, 1066. 



Mezeray, French historian, 965. 



Micah, Jewish prophet, 213. 



Micah of Mount Ephraim, 150. 



Michael Curopalata, twenty-ninth Byzantine emp., 626. 



Michael II., Balbus, thirty-first Byzantine emp., 627-28. 



Michael III., thirty-third Byzantine emperor, 630, 639. 



Michael IV., Paphlago, forty-second Byzantine em- 

 peror, 675-76. 



Michael V., Calaphata, forty-third Byzantine emp., 676. 



Michael VI. Strato, forty-sixth Byzantine emperor, 678. 



Michael VII. Ducas, forty-ninth Byzant. emp , 680-81. 



Michael VIII. Palaeologus, sixty-first Byzantine em- 

 peror, 751, 757. 



Michaux, Andre, botanist in N. America, 1038, 1041, 

 1043-44. 



Michaux, F. A., botanist in N. America, 1053, 1056-57. 



Micheli, Petr. Ant., botanist, 894, 1010. 



Michetti, Italian botanist, 973. 



Midas, king of Phrygia, 150. 



Middleton, Conyers, 1012. 



Miebidos, king of Egypt, 64. 



Mieg, Ach., Swiss botanist, 1027. 



Miesrob, translator of the Bible and inventor of the 

 Armenian alphabet, 561. 



Millar, John, Protestant martyr, 887. 



Miller, J. F., botanist, 1036. 



Miller, Philip, English botanist, 1021, 1024, 1029. 



Milo, Greek wrestler, 252. 



Miltiades, early Christian writer, 529. 



Miltiades of Athens, Greek general, 258. 



Milton, John, English poet, 965. 



Mimnermus, Greek poet, 227. 



Minis, Christopher, Englishman, 960. 



Minervius Burdigalensis, Roman rhetor, 548. 



Ming-ti, king of Wei in China, 536. 



Ming-ti, of the Han, Chinese emperor, 482, 497. 



Ming-ti, II , of the Tcin, Chinese emperor, 546. 



Ming-ti IV., of the North. Soung, Chinese emp , 56S. 



Ming-ti V., of the Thsi, Chinese emperor, 570. 



Ming-tsoung, of the later Thang, Chinese emp., 649. 



Minos, Cretan legislator and king, 151. 



Min-ti, of the later Thang, Chinese emperor, 650. 



Minuart, botanist, 1025. 



Minucianus, Greek rhetor, 537. 



Mirbel, C. F. B., French botanist, 1052. 



Miriam, sister of Moses, 129. 



Mirkhond, Persian historian, 845. 



Mitchell, John, American botanist, 1018. 



Mithraeus, or Metraius, Assyrian emperor, 160. 



Mithridates, king of Pergamus, 455. 



Mithridates, king of Pontus, 318. 



Mithridates IV., king of Pontus, 389. 



Mithridates V., king of Pontus, 411. 



Mithridates VI., king of Pontus, 411, 434, 440, 447. 



