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college for font years, lie was fent to Caen as a profeffor of 
philofophy, where the celebrated Huet was his difciple, 
and contracted a great affection for him. His inltruflions 
were fo popular, that he had in his clafs more than three 
hundred fcholars. He was afterwards profeffor of theo- 
logy at the college of la Fleche, where he died in 1661. 
Father Mambrun publilhed in Latin a Peripatetic Differta- 
t'ion on Epic Poetry, the fpirit of which may be eftimated 
from his maxim, “Veritas fine Ariftotelis phflofophia ne 
in poetica quidem locum habet.” Accordingly, he has 
framed a code of laws for the epopeeia entirely founded on 
the doctrines of the Stagyrite. His fame, however, is 
chiefly derived from his own performances in Latin poetry. 
In this walk he was fo exaft an imitator of Virgil, that he 
not only copied his diffion and verification, but followed 
his example in compofing eclogues, georgics, and an he¬ 
roic poem, all confifling of the Virgilian number of books. 
In his georgics, indeed, he deviates from the culture of the 
land to that of the foul and underftanding. His heroic 
poem is entitled, “ Conftantine; or, Idolatry overthrown.” 
But, though he was capable of exactly copying the exter¬ 
nal form of that great poet, he was not infpired with a fimi- 
lar fpirit; and his poems, though praifed for their purity, 
and a certain dignity of language and fentimenr, feem to 
have funk into oblivion. Tlie applaufe of Chapelain, and 
the character given of him by Menage, of “a great poet 
and a great critic,” will fcarcety procure him readers at 
the prefent period. Gen. Biog. 
MAMBURA'O, a town on the weft coaft of the ifland 
of Mindoro. Lat. 13 12. N. Ion. 120. 45. E. 
MAMDABAD', a town of Hindooftan, in Oude: twelve 
miles fouth-welt of Furruckabad. 
MAM'ELLS, a fmall ifland on the north fide of Lake 
Superior. Lat. 48. 26. N. Ion. 88. 4. N. 
MAMEN'DA, a town of Hindooltan, in the circar of 
Guntoor : ten miles north-weft of Innaconda. 
MAMER'CUS, a tyrant of Catana, who furrendered to 
Timoleon. His attempts to fpeak in a public affembly at 
Syracufe were received with groans and hiffes; upon 
which he dallied his head againlta wall, and endeavoured 
to deitroy himfelf. The blows were not fatal, and Ma- 
mercus was foon after put to death as a robber, B. C. 340. 
Polyanus .—A dictator at Rome, B. C. 437. 
MA'MERS, a town of France, and principal place of a 
dillriCl, in the department of the Sarte : twenty-three miles 
north-north-eatt of Le Mans, and twelvefouth-eaft of Alen- 
$on. Lat. 48 ai.N. Ion. o. 27. E. 
MAMER' THES, a man’s name ; a Corinthian who flew 
his brother’s -Ion to obtain the heirfliip, and was torn in 
pieces as a punilhment for the murder. Ovid. 
MAMERTI'NI, a mercenary'band of foldiers which 
paffed from Campania into Sicily at the requelt of Aga- 
thocles. When they were in the fervice of Agathocles, they 
claimed the privilege of voting at the eledion of magiftrates 
at Syracufe, and had recourfe to arms to fupport their un¬ 
lawful demands. The fedition was appeafed by the autho¬ 
rity of fome leading men ; and the Campanians were or¬ 
dered to leave Sicily. In their way to the coaft they 
were received with great kindnefs by the people of Mef- 
fina: but they returned perfidy for hofpitality : they 
confpired agairift the inhabitants, murdered all the males 
in the city, married their wives and daughters, and ren¬ 
dered themfelves inafters of the place. After this vio¬ 
lence they affumed the name of Mamertini, and called 
their city Mamertum, or Mamertium, from a provincial 
word which in their language figiiified martial or warlike. 
MAMER'TIUM, a town of Italy, in Brutium, near 
the fource of the Metaurus, and the Brutian foreft. The 
name was formed of Mamers, which'lvas the appellation of 
the god Mars in the language of the country. It is 
probable, that the foldiers of whom Polybius fpeaks, who 
made themfelves matters of Meflina, and who were deno¬ 
minated Mamertini, (fee the preceding article,) derived 
their name from this town. 
MAMERTI'NUS (Claudius), an orator, who lived in 
MAM 
the latter part of the third and beginning of the fourth 
centuries, is known by two panegyrics whiih he pro¬ 
nounced in honour of Maximian Hercules.-—Another 
Claudius 'Mamertinus , fuppofed to be the ton of the pre¬ 
ceding, was in high favour with the emperor Julian, who 
gave him great employments, and railed him to the con- 
lulate A. D. 362. He pronounced a panegyric on that 
emperor in his prefence, which is extant. The three 
pieces above-mentioned have been feveral times printed 
in the collections called Panegyrici Latini veteres. Moreri. 
MAMERVAN', a town of Perfian Armenia: forty- 
five miles fouth-fouth-weft of Kars. 
MAMHOF'KA, a town of Poland, in the palatinate 
of Braclaw : thirty-fix miles fouth-eaft of Braclaw. 
MAMIS'TRA. See Mopsuestia. 
MAMMA', f. [Latin. This word is faid to be found, 
for the compeliation of mother in all languages 5 and is 
therefore fuppofed to be the firft word that a child pro¬ 
nounces. Joknfon.'] The fond word for mother.—Little 
matters and mi'ffes are great impediments to fervants; the 
remedy is to bribe them, that they may not tell tales t© 
papa and mamma. Swift. 
Poor Cupid fobbing fcarce could fpeak ; 
Indeed, mamma, I did not know yej 
Alas! how eafy my initiake, 
I took you for your likenefs Cloe. Prior. 
MAM'MJE,/. in anatomy, the breafts. See, the ar¬ 
ticle Anatomy, vol. i. p. 604. —The breafts, from their 
prominence and delicate glandular texture, are fubjefl to 
many accidents and diforders, the chief of which is the 
Jchirrus , or cancer; of which in its place. There is a cu¬ 
rious cafe, detailed in the ivth vol. of the Phil. Tranf. 
relative to a ludden and unaccountable exceffive enlarge¬ 
ment of a young woman’s brealts; fome few particulars of 
which we lhall here relate. “ Elizabeth Travers, twenty- 
three or twenty-four years of age, of fair complexion,, 
brown-haired, of a healthy conttitution, low of Itattfre, of 
honett repute, but of mean and poor parentage, near the 
town of Plymouth, was on Friday, July 3, 1669, in good 
health, and went well to bed, where (he took as good reft 
and fleep as ever before, but was in the morning when 
fhe awakened, and attempted to turn herfelf in her bed, 
was not able, finding her breafts fo fwelled, that Ihe was 
affrightened to aftoniftiment. Then endeavouring to fit 
up, the weight of her breafts fattened her to her bed, yet 
entirely without pain and weaknefs either in her breafts 
or in any other part. This being noifed abroad, feveral 
phyficians and furgeons reforted to her; fome propofed 
cutting off her breafts, which however was over-ruled. 
At this time it was fuppofed that the left brealt weighed 
about twenty-five pounds, the right fomewhat lefs ; and 
the Ikin of the back, neck, and belly, feemed to be drawn 
towards the breafts, to fervefor the diftenlion.” We need 
not detail the remedies employed in this cafe; though we 
may juft mention Salivation and the cauttic. Sometimes 
the diforder feemed to yield a little, and the brealts were 
diminiflied in fize ; yet upon the whole they increafed ; 
and the young woman died on the 21ft of October. She 
had loll her appetite and reft feveral weeks before, and 
made great complaints of her breafts from their exceflive 
diitenfion ; and her whole body was exceedingly emaci¬ 
ated. The author of the paper then proceeds: “ The next 
morning I fent for a furgeon, and fome others, to be pre¬ 
fent at the opening, and taking off, her brealts; though 
we only took off the largeft, which was the letr, and, hav¬ 
ing weighed it, we found it 64. pounds weight. Upon 
opening it, (which we did in feveral places,) we could rind 
neither water, nor cancerous humours, nor any thing vi- 
tious, more than the prodigious fize; and the tubuli and 
parencbymous fiefli were purely white and folid, and no 
other than what we lee in the founded brealts of wo¬ 
men, or the bell udders of other animals. I have 
fent you inclofed one meafure, which was the breadth cf 
her two brealts, (as Ihe was laid out on a table, being. 
dead 
