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flie holds, in one hand, a diftaft', inftead of a fpear. When 
flie appeared as the goddefs of the liberal arts, fine was ar¬ 
rayed in a variegated veil, which the ancients called pe- 
plum. Sometimes Miverva’s helmet was covered at the top 
with the figure of a cock, a bird which, on account of his 
great courage, is properly facred to the goddefs of war. 
Some of her ilatues represented her helmet with a fphinx 
in the middle, lupported on either fide by prifrits. In 
forne medals, a chariot drawn by four horfes, or fome- 
times a dragon or a ferpent, with winding fpires, appears 
at the top of her helmet. She was partial to the olive- 
tree ; the owl and the cock were her favourite birds, and 
the dragon among reptiles was facred to her. The func¬ 
tions, offices, and aftions, of Minerva, feem fo numerous, 
that they undoubtedly originate in more than one per- 
fon ; and it is probable that the Romans confidered Jupi¬ 
ter, Juno, and Minerva, as one and the fame divinity, un¬ 
der three different names: among which names, that of 
Jupiter might fignify fupreme goodnefs; that of Minerva, 
fupreme wifdom; and that of Juno, fupreme power : thus 
the learned Dr. Cudworth oblerves, (Intell. Syll. c. 4..) 
that the three Capitoline gods, Jupiter, Juno, and Mi¬ 
nerva, may be under-flood to have been nothing elfe but 
feveral names and notions of one fupreme deity, accord¬ 
ing to its feveral attributes and manifeftations. Cicero 
mentions five goddefles of the name of Minerva; and 
Clemens Alexandrinus admits alfo the fame number. 
MINER'VA, a town of Naples, in the province of 
Otranto: twenty-miles eaft-fouth-eaft of Matera. 
MINER'VAS CAS'TRUM, Arx Minerva, or Tem- 
plum Minerva, in ancient geography, a citadel, tem¬ 
ple, and town, on the Ionian Sea, beyond Hydrus; feen a 
great way out at fea. Now Cujiro, a town of Otranto in 
Naples. Lat. 46. 8.N. Ion. 19. 25. E. 
MINER'ViE PROMONTO'RRJM, in ancient geo¬ 
graphy, the feat of the Sirens, a promontory in the Sinus 
Prellanus, the fouth boundary of Campania on the Tufcan 
coaft; fo called from a temple of Minerva on it; lituated 
to the fouth of Surrentum, and therefore called Sttrren- 
tium. Now Campo della Minerva, on the weft coaft of Na¬ 
ples, over againft the ifland of Capri. 
MINERVA'LIA, among the Romans, called alfo Quin- 
quatria, were feafts celebrated in honour of Minerva. One 
of thefe feafts commenced on the 3d of January, and an¬ 
other on March 19th, and lafted five days. The firft day 
was fpent in prayers to the goddefs ; the reft in offering 
facrifice, feeing gladiators fight, afting tragedies upon 
Mount Albanus, and reciting pieces of wit, wherein the 
conqueror had a prize given him. During the folemnity 
fcholars obtained fome relaxation from their ftudious pur- 
fuits; and the prefent, which it was ulual for them to of¬ 
fer to their mailers, was called Minerval, in honour of the 
goddefs Minerva, who patronifed literature. Varro de Re 
ruftica, lib. ii.—For the other feilivals in honour of Mi¬ 
nerva, fee Panathenvea. 
MINERVFNO. See Minorbino. 
MIN'EVER, or Meniver, f. [menu vair, Fr.J The 
name of a fmall Mufcovian beaft, of a white colour, fa¬ 
mous for the firmnefs of its fur. The fur itfelf: 
A burnette cote honge there withal, 
Yfurrid with no menivere, 
But with a furre rough of here. Chaucer. 
MIN'FELD, a town of France, in the department of 
the Lower Rhine : feven miles fouth of Landau, and feven 
eaft-north-eaft of Weiffemburg. 
MING-CHAN', a town of China, of the third rahk, in 
Se-tchuen : ten miles north-eafl of Ya. 
MING-HIOL', i. e. Thousand Springs, a mountain 
in the north part of Armenia, fo named from its abun¬ 
dant fprings; from this mountain the Euphrates takes 
its rife. 
MING-TSING', a town of China, of the third rank, 
in Fo-kien : twenty-five miles north-weft of Fou-tcheou. 
MINGAL'LA, one of the fmall Weftern Illands of 
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Scotland, the largefl of thofe called the Bijhop's IJlands , 
about three miles long and one broad. Lat. 36.48. N. 
Ion. 7. 35. W. 
MIN'GAN ISLANDS, a clufter of iflands, near the 
fouth coaft of Labrador, in the gulf of St. Laurence ; fo 
called from the principal one. Lat. 50.15.N. Ion. 64. W. 
To MIN'GLE, v.a. [mengan, Sax. mengen, Germ, men- 
ga, Su. Goth, from maengd, a multitude. Wicliffe and 
Chaucer ule meng for mingle.] To mix ; to join ; to com¬ 
pound; to unite with fomething fo as to make one mafs. 
—Our lex, our kindred, our houfes, and our very names, 
we are ready to mingle with ourfelves, and cannot bear to 
have others think meanly of them. Watts. 
Lament with me ! with me your forrows join, 
And mingle your united tears with mine! Waljh. 
To contaminate ; to make of diffimilar parts.—The belt of 
us appear contented with a mingled, imperfect, virtue. 
Rogers. 
To confound the race 
Of mankind in one root, and earth with hell 
To mingle and involve. Milton. 
To confufe.—There mingle broils. Milton. 
To MIN'GLE, v.n. Tobe mixed; to be united with.—- 
Alcimus had defiled himfelf wilfully in the times of their 
mingling with the Gentiles. 2 Mac. xiv. 13. 
Norpriefts, nor ftatefmen, 
Could have completed fuch an ill as that, 
If women had not mingled in the mifehief. Rowe. 
MIN'GLE, /! Mixture: medley; confufed mafs.—Nei¬ 
ther can I defend my Spanilh Friar: though the comical 
parts are diverting, and the lerious moving, yet they are 
of an unnatural mingle. Dnjden. 
Trumpeters, 
With brazen din blaft you the city’s ear, 
Make mingle with our rattling tubourines. Shahefpcare. 
MIN'GLE-MANGLE, /.' A medley; a hotch-potch.—. 
He cannot love the Lord Jefus with his heart, which lend- 
eth one ear to his apollles, and another to falfe apoltles ; 
which can brook to lee a mingle-mangle of religion and 
luperllition, minifters and malfing priells, light and dark- 
nefs, truth and errour, traditions and feriptures. Hooker. 
MIN'GLEDLY, adv. Here and there confufedly. 
MIN'GLER, f. He who mingles.—Such brewers, and 
minglers of this wine. Harmar. 
MIN'GLING, f. The aid of mixing. 
MIN'GO, an Indian town on the river Ohio : forty- 
miles fouth-weft of Pittlburg. 
MIN'GOES, Indians of North America, who inhabit 
near the fouth branch of the Scioto. 
MIN'GOLZHEIM, a town of the grand duchy of Ba¬ 
den : fourteen miles fouth-eaft of Spire. 
MINGOT'TI (Regina), a female opera-finger and 
aflrefs of great abilities and celebrity, was born in Ca- 
rinthia, a German province, in the dominions of Auftria; 
and, though a native of a tranfalpine country, file became 
one of the moll eminent vocal performers on the Italian 
opera-ilage during the lall century. After feeing and 
hearing her frequently in England, (lays Dr. Burney,) 
where lhe arrived in the year 1754, we met with her, in 
1772, at Munich, in Bavaria, and in converlation ob¬ 
tained from her the following fketch of her aftive profef- 
fional life. 
Her parents were Germans; her father, an officer in 
the Auftrian fervice, being called to Naples upon dutyj 
his wife travelled with him hither during her pregnancy, 
and was there brought to bed of this daughter; who, how¬ 
ever, was carried to Gratz in Silelia before Hie was a year 
old ; and, her father dying while lhe was young, her un¬ 
cle placed her in a convent of Urlulines, where lhe was 
educated, and where lhe received her firft lelfons of muiic. 
She told us, that during her childhood, lhe remembers 
being fo pleafed with the muiic performed in the cliapel 
