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fliadows between this engraving and thofe which are cer¬ 
tainly by the hand of Mantegna, combined with its palpa¬ 
ble inferiority to the original drawing ; amount in my mind 
to the molt perftCf conviction that Andrea Mantegna is 
not the engraver of this print. The drawing is an at¬ 
tempt to revive a loft picture of Apelles, which, but that 
its memory has been perpetuated by Lucian, had long 
fince been loft in oblivion. The original drawing Itill 
exifts, with the following particulars on the back of it, in 
the hand-writing of the late celebrated collector, Mr. Bar¬ 
nard : ‘Lucian deferibes an allegorical picture painted 
by Apelles, of which his own misfortunes were the fub- 
jeCt. He was falfely accufed by Antiphilus, a contempo¬ 
rary artift who envied his abilities, of having entered into 
a confpiracy againft king Ptolemy. The monarch, en¬ 
raged, was very near putting Apelles to death ; but that 
one of the real confpirators, compaflionating him, unde¬ 
ceived the king; who, repenting of his credulity, gave 
Apelles an hundred talents, and his accufer to be his Have. 
Andrea Mantegna made this drawing from the deferip- 
tion of Lucian. The King, diftinguifhed by his crowned 
head and extraordinary ears, is fitting on the left; the two 
figures near him are Miftruft and Ignorance; the firft 
figure facing him is Envy, conducting Calumny, who has 
a burning torch in her right hand, and under whom Man¬ 
tegna has written Calumnia di Apelles: (he drags accufed 
Innocence by the hair: Deceit follows, deeding her up; 
and infidious Villainy urging her on; laftly. Truth and 
Penitence clofe the procellion.’ It feems often to have 
been the fortune of this very curious drawing to have be¬ 
longed to fome diftinguifhed artift. It was once in the 
poffeflion of Rembrandt, who has left a copy of it by his 
own hand : it has fince belonged to Richardfon, the 
painter; and to Arthur Pond; and is now, as well as 
Rembrandt’s copy, the property of Mr. Weft, prelident 
of the Royal Academy. 
“ Some critics have thought that Mantegna’s admira¬ 
tion of the antique was too predominant in his works; 
that it too frequently engrojfed his powers; and hurried 
him too entirely away from that contemplation of Nature, 
■which, I believe, muft always be one of the parents of ori¬ 
ginality in Art. Yet, if this enthufiafm be a fault, it is 
a fault proceeding fo neceffarily, and fo immediately, from 
the localities of time and place, and the redundance of his 
merits, that it is as fecure of pardon from the candid, as 
thofe merits are of praife.” Mantegna died at Mantua in 
the year 1517, though fome place his death in 1505. Land. 
Jeer's LeElures on Engraving. 
MANTEI'GAS, a town of Portugal, in the province 
of Beira : fifteen miles fouth-weft of Guarda, and twenty- 
feven fouth-eaft of Vifeu. 
MAN'TEL, a town of Bavaria, in the principality of 
Sulzbach : four miles fouth-weft of Weiden, and thirteen 
north-eaft of Sulzbach. 
MAN'TEL, f. [old French.] Work raifed before a 
chimney to conceal it, whence the name, which originally 
fignifies a cloak.—From the Italians we may learn how to 
raife fair mantels within the rooms, and how to difguife the 
fhafts of chimnies. Wotton. 
MAN'TEL-TREE, f. The (helf againft the mantel.— 
If you break any china on the mantel-tree or cabinet, ga¬ 
ther up the fragments. Swift. 
MANTELAN', a town of France, in the department of 
the Indre and Loire: fixteen miles fouth of Tours, and 
feven weft of Loches. 
MAN'TELET, f. [French.] A fmall cloak worn by 
women. 
Mantelet, in military language, a kind of move- 
able parapet, made of planks about three inches thick, 
nailed one over another to the height of almolt fix feet, 
generally cafed with tin, fet upon little wheels, and guided 
by a long pole; fo that in a fiege they may be driven be¬ 
fore the pioneers, and ferve as blinds, to (helter them from 
the enemy’s fmall (hot. There are alfo other forts of 
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mantelets, covered on the top, of which the. miners make 
ufe to approach the walls of a tower or caltle. 
It appears from Vegetius, that mantelets were in ufe 
among the ancients under the name of vineee-, but they 
were built (lighter and much larger than our’s, being 
eight or nine feet high, as many broad, and fixteen long; 
they were defended by a double covering, the one of 
boards, the other of faggots, with the ribs of ofiers; and- 
were cafed without with (kins, fteeped in water, to pre¬ 
vent fire. 
MANTELLE', adj. in heraldry, having the two cor¬ 
ners cut off by lines drawn from the centre of the upper 
edge to the chief point on the fides, fo as to reprefent a 
kind of mantle. 
MAN'TERA, a fmall ifland in the Atlantic, near the 
coaft of Africa. Lat. 10. 4.5. N. 
MAN'TES, a town of France, and principal place of a 
diftrict, in the department of the Seine and Oife, on the 
Seine, over which is a bridge of thirty-fix arches. In 
1087, this town was taken by William the Conqueror. 
Philip Augultus died here in the year 1223. It is fivepolts 
and a half eaft of Evreux, and feven welt-north-welt of 
Paris. Lat. 48.59. N. Ion. 1.48. E. 
MAN'TICE, f [from pxrrut1, Gr. magic.] Divina¬ 
tion ; the pretended art of foretelling future events by 
magic. 
MANTICH'ORA, f. An Indian wild-beaft, deferibed 
by Pliny, 1 . viii.— Mantichoras, monltrous beafts, enemies 
to mankind, that have double rows of teeth in their 
heads. Mijeries of Inf. Marriage. 
MAN'DICLUS, in mythology, a name given to Her¬ 
cules, under which title he had a temple without the walls 
of Medina in Sicily. This temple was built by Manticlus, 
the chief of a colony of Meifenians, about 664 years be¬ 
fore Chrift ; or, as others fay, the leader of a colony which 
fettled in the ifie of Zacinthus, now Zante. 
MANTIC'ORA, f in entomology, a genus of coleop¬ 
terous infeeds. Generic characters : Antennae filiform, 
the joints cylindrical; feelers four, filiform; thorax round¬ 
ed before, emarginate behind ; head projecting ; mandi¬ 
bles exferted ; (hells united; wings none. There is but 
one fpecies, 
Manticora maxillofa, the fnouted manticora. Body 
black ; head fubglobular, impreffed each fide ; mandibles 
toothed at the inner bale ; thorax impreffed in the middle, 
elevated behind, the margin rounded and notched at the 
tip. Shells brown; above flat, deflected at the edges, 
with a very (harp marginal ferrate line; below rougher, 
with (harp tubercles interfperfed with hairs. Legs Am¬ 
ple black; feet brown. Inhabits the Cape. Fuelsly, af¬ 
ter noticing that the delineations of this inieCt by De Geer 
and Thunberg are incorreCt, has given that which we 
have copied on the annexed Plate at fig. 1. 
To MANTIC'ULATE, v. n. [manticulo Lat.] To pick 
pockets. Bailey. 
MANTINE'A, in ancient geography, a town fituated 
in the fouth of Arcadia, on the confines of Laconia, 
called afterwards Antigonea, in honour of king Antigonus. 
It is memorable for a battle fought in its neighbourhood 
between the Thebans and Spartans, in which fell the cele¬ 
brated commander Epaminondas. See the article Greece 
vol. viii. p. 917, 8. 
MANTINE'RA, a fmall ifland in the Mediterranean, 
near the coaft of Naples. Lat. 39. 55. N. Ion. 13. 5- E 
MANTINO'RUM OP'PIDUM, a town of Corficaj now 
fuppofed to be Bajlia. 
MAN'TIS, f. the Soothsayer; in entomology, a ge¬ 
nus of hemipterous infeCts. Generic characters : Head un- 
fteady; mouth armed with jaws; feelers filiform; win^s 
four, membranaceous; convolute, the under ones plaited • 
fore-legs coinpreifed, ferrate or toothed beneath, armed 
with a (ingle claw and lateral jointed procefs; the four 
liind-ones imooth and formed for walking j thorax (moltly) 
linear, elongated, and narrow,, 
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