M A G 
received with every mark of friendrtiip by Guftavus I. 
who had fucceeded Chriftian, ftyled the Nero of the 
North. Soon after, he was appointed archbifhop of Up- 
fal; but, having oppofed with too much zeal the Lutheran 
religion, which Guftavus was endeavouring to introduce 
into Sweden, he loft the favour of that monarch, who, to 
remove him out of the way, fent him to Poland to demand 
for him in marriage the daughter of king Sigifmund ; but, 
before his departure, he colleited all the archives of the 
kingdom and of the church of Upfal, and carried them 
along with him. After fome ftay in Poland, he repaired, 
in 1553, to Rome ; and next year he proceeded to Dant- 
zic, where he remained four years, endeavouring by let¬ 
ters to induce Guftavus to alter his views in regard to the 
reformation. In 1537 he was invited to Rome by the 
pope, in order to be prefent at the council intended to be 
held at Vicenza ; but, as the meeting of this aflembly was 
prevented by various obftacles, he redded nine months 
with Quirini patriarch of Venice, and employed that time 
in compiling, in twenty-four books, a chronicie or Swe¬ 
den and Gothland, which, after his death, was published 
with portraits by his brother at Rome, in 1554. In 1541, 
he was recalled by Paul III. to that city, where he refided, 
in great poverty, in the hofpital of the Holy Ghoft, fup- 
ported by a fmall penfion from the pope and cardinals, 
till the period of his death, which took place in 1544, in 
the fifty-fixth year of his age. Befides his Hiftoria Go- 
thorum Suecorumque, libris xxiv. he wrote alfo Hiftoria 
Metropolitana, feu Epifcoporum et Archiepifcorum Up- 
falenfium Epiltolae variae. In 1549 queen Chriftina fent 
to Rome the celebrated Ludolph, to recover, if poftibie, 
the Swedifh archives which Magnus,as above-mentioned, 
had carried with him ; but, notwithftanding the ftridteft 
fearch, they were never found. Met. Algtmecn Hijl. IVoor- 
dtnboek dtior Luifcius ; Jochers Ge/e/irt. Lexicon. 
MAG'NUS (Olaus), brother of the preceding, was firft 
provoft of Stregnes, and afterwards accompanied his bro¬ 
ther to Rome, where, on his death, he was appointed titu¬ 
lar archbifhop of Upfal. He diftinguifhed himfelf at the 
council of Trent, to which he was deputed by the pope; 
was made a canon of St. Lambert at Liege, and fpent the 
remainder of his days at Rome, where he was maintained 
in the hofpital of St. Bridget by the penlion which had 
been granted to his brother. He died in 1558, and was 
buried in the Vatican. The work by which he is belt known 
is his Hiftoria de Gentibus Septentrionalibus eorumque 
diverlis Statibus, Conditionibus, Moribus, Ritibus, Su- 
perftitionibus, Dilciplinis, See. firft printed at Rome, 
1555, and afterwards at Bafle, 1567, folio. Thefe are the 
only complete editions, the reft being merely.abridgments. 
This work, which has been tranllated into moll of the 
European languages, though not into Swedifh, contains a 
great many curious things refpedling the northern nations, 
but intermixed with a variety of fables, which fhow that 
the author poflefled more credulity than difeernment, and 
that he did not examine his materials with the eye of a 
philofopher. He wrote alfo TabulaTerrarum Septentrio- 
nalium et Rerum mirabilium in eis ac Oceano vicino; 
printed at Venice 1539. Meflenius aferibes to him ano¬ 
ther w ork called Epitome Revelation urn S. Brigittae, 
printed at Rome in folio. Gezelius Biographijka. Lexicon. 
MAG'NUS {Jonas), bifhop of Skara in Sweden, fur- 
named Wexionenjis, from Wexio the place of his birth, was 
born in 1583; and in 1614 was appointed profeflor ofliif- 
tory and political economy at Upfal. In 1624 he was 
made profeffor of theology, and in 1640 obtained the de¬ 
gree of doctor, together with the bilhopric of Skara, where 
a fchool was eftablilhed, two years after, in confequence of 
an application which he made for-that purpofe to queen 
-Chrillina. He died in 1651. His principal works are, 
1. Epos in Coronatione Guftavi Adolphi Regis; Synoplis 
Hiftorite Univerfalis, Upfal, 1622, 8vo. 2. Oratio de Reg- 
norum Suecias et Gothiae per externos Gubernatores op- 
preflione, eorundemque per Guftavum Adolphum I. feli- 
eirtinia liberatione ; Difputationes Politicse XIII. ex poli- 
Vol< XIV. No. 962. 
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tices Lipfii; fereniftimi et potentiflimi Principis ac Domini 
D. Guftavi Adolphi S. G. W. R. debitum Elogium 
1632. 3. Tuba Angelica, being an Explanation of Pirt 
of the Book of Revelation, 1637. Gezelius Biographi/ka 
Lexicon. 
MAG'NUS CAM'PUS, in ancient geography, a traft 
lying towards Scythopolis, or Bethfan in Galilee, beyond 
which it extends into Samaria; Jofephus placing the com¬ 
mon boundary between thefe two diftri&s ip the Campus 
Magnus. Called alfo Efdraelon (Judith) ■ thirty miles 
long, and eighteen broad ; having Samaria with Mount 
Ephraim to the fouth, the Lake Gennefareth to the eait. 
Mount Carmel to the weft, and Lebanon to the north. 
MAG'NUS POR'TUS, in ancient geography, a port of 
Belgae, in Britain, on the Channel. Now thought to be 
Portfmouth in Hampfhire.—Another Portus Magnus of 
Bastica in Spain ; a port to the eaft of Abdera. 
MAGNY', a town of France, in the department of the 
Seine and Oife : twelve miles north of Mantes, and thirty 
north-weft of Paris. Lat.49. 10. N. Ion. 1. 53. E. 
MAG'NY, a town of France, in the department of the 
Nyevre : eight miles north of St. Pierre, and eight fouth 
of Nevers. 
MA'GO, a town of the ifland of Ceylon, near the fouth- 
ealt coaft : nine miles fouth-eaft of Candi. 
MA'GO, the name of feveral Carthaginian generals. 
See Carthage, vol. iii. and the article Rome.— One of 
thefe is faid to have given his name to Port Mahon, Por¬ 
tus Magonis ; another was the father of Aldrubal and Ha- 
inilcar.—Alfo the name of a Carthaginian more knowm by 
his writings than by his military exploits. He wrote 
twenty-eight volumes upon hulbandry ; thefe were pre- 
ferved by Scipio at the taking of Carthage, and prefented 
to the Roman fenate. They were tranllated into Greek 
by Dionyfius Calfius of Utica, and into Latin by order of 
the Roman fenate, though Cato had already written fo 
copioufly upon the fubjeft ; and the Romans, as it has 
been obferved, confulted the writings of Mago with 
greater earneftnefs than the books of the Sibylline verfes. 
Columella. 
MAGOA'R, a town of France, in the department of 
the North Coafts: ten miles fouth of Guingamp, and ele¬ 
ven north of Roftrenen. 
MAGO'DUS,/. Among the Romans, a name given to 
thofe players who fometimes afted the part of men, and 
fometimes of women. The word is derived from the Greek. 
pscyoc, magic, and u$o;, a finger, and properly denotes 
thofe players who performed extraordinary feats and gel- 
tures. 
MA'GOG, [Hebrew', a roof.] Son ofjapheth, (Gen. x.z.) 
father of the Scythians or Tartars, as is believed. The name 
Scythian was heretofore of great extent, comprehending 
the Get®, the Goths, the Sarmatians, the Sac®, the Mal- 
fagetae, and others. The Tartars and Mufcovites portefs 
the country of the ancient Scythians, and have ftill fe- 
veral traces of the names of the Gog and Magog. They 
were formerly called Mogli; and in Tartary are the pro¬ 
vinces Lug, Mongug, Cangigu, Gigui, Engui, Corgan- 
gui, Caigui, See. St. Ambrole was of opinion, that Gog 
and Magog were the Goths, who in the fifth and fixth 
centuries ravaged the Roman empire. Ambrof. lib. ii. ad 
Gratian. cap. 4. Gog and Magog have in a manner parted 
into a proverb, to exprefsa multitude of powerful, cruel, 
barbarous, and implacable, enemies to God and his wor- 
ftiip. See Gog, vol. iii. p. 659, 60. 
MA'GOG MIS'SABIB, [Hebrew.] A man’s name, 
M A'GQLSHEIM, a town of Wurtemberg : thirty miles 
fouth of Stuttgart. 
MA'-GON, a town of the ifland of Minorca, (aid to have 
been founded by the Carthaginians. 
MAGONTI'ACUM, Mogonti'acum, or Mogon,, 
ti'acus, truncated afterwards by the poets to Mogomia 
Maguntia, and Moguntia ; a town of Gallia Belgicar Now 
Mentz, in Germany ; fituated at the confluence ot the Rhine 
and Maine. Lat. 50. N. Ion. S, E. 
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MAGOPHO'NIA. 
