HERODOTUS

INDEXMelampygus, name of a rock on the mountain side aboveThermopylae, vn. 216Melanchlaeni (Black-Cloaks), a tribe N. of Scythia, iv. 20, 100;their customs, iv. 107 ; their part in the war with Darius, IV.119, 125his culta friend of theMelanippus, (1) a legendaryat Sicyon, v. 67. (2) Theban hero;A Mytilenaean,introducedpoetAlcaeus, v. 95Melanthius, an Athenian commander sent to assist the Ionianrebels against Darius, v. 97Melanthus, father of Codrus, I. 147, v. 65Melas (black), epithet of (1) a river in Thrace, crossed by Xerxes,vn. 58. (2) A bay into which the above flows, vi. 41, vn.58. (3) A river in Malis near Thermopylae, vn. 198Meles, king of Sardis, i. 84Meliboea, near the coast of Magnesia; wreck of Xerxes' fleetnear it, vn. 188Melians (of Melis, or Malis), their submission to Xerxes, vn.132; mountains of Melis, vn. 198; Thermopylae in Melis,vn. 201; discovery of the Anopaea path, vn. 215; Meliansin Persian armies, vm. 66, ix. 31 ;Melian gulf a stage onthe way from the Hyperboreans to Delos, iv. 33Melians of Melos, colonists from Lacedaernon, in the Greek fleet,vm. 46, 48Melissa, wife of Periander of Corinth, in. 50, v. 92Membliarus, a Phoenician, founder of a settlement in the islandof Calliste or Thera, iv. 147Memnon, legendary king of Ethiopia; a rock figure hi Ioniawrongly taken to represent him, n. 106 ; Susa called " Memnonian,"v. 53, vn. 151Memphis, in Egypt, its temple of " Hephaestus," n. 3, 112, 153;pyramids there, II. 8; hills above it, n. 12, 158; Nile floodbelow Memphis, n. 97, 99; works of Min there, n. 99; precinctof Proteus, n. 112; quarries of Memphis, n. 175; watersupply from Memphis, in. 6; Memphis taken by Cambyses,in. 13 ;his return thither from Ethiopia, in. 25 ;his sacrilegethere, in. 37 ;Persian garrison there, in. 91 ;Darius andSyloson at Memphis, in. 139Menares, a Spartan, father of Leutychides, vi. 65, 71, vm. 131Mende, a town on the promontory of Pallene in Chalcidice, vii.123Mendee, an Egyptian deity; identified with Pan, n. 42, 46;359