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Background or reference information on the persons and peoples listed here may be be found in the open-access sources listed below or in one or more of the resources listed in the bibliography:

Smith, A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology

Smith, Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography

Sources

Myrsilus (Μυρσίλος) Historian and paradoxographer from Methymna in Lesbos.

Citations: Antigonus 5; 15c

Links: Smith

Subjects

Machlyes (Μάχλυες) A people inhabiting Libya.

Citations: Nicolaus F16

Links: Smith

Macrobii (Μακρόβιοι) A long-live people supposed to have lived in Ethiopia.

Citations:

Par. Flor. 23

Agatharchides F2

Isigonus F20.1

Links: Smith

Massaliots (Μασσαλιώτης) The inhabitants of Massalia.

Citations: MA 87; 89

Medeia, Medea (Μήδεια) The famous sorceress of Colchis, who married Jason (mythical).

Citations:

Antigonus 118

Par. Flor. 40

Links: Smith

Medusa See Gorgo.

Mentores (Μέντορες) A people of Liburnia.

Citations: MA 104

Links: Smith

Mosynoi, Mossyni, Mosynoeci (Μόσυνοι) A people inhabiting Pontus.

Citations: Nicolaus F8

Links: Smith