Part 13 (1/2)

=Metanoi'a=, Repentance personified, by William Browne, in _Britannia's Pastorals_, v. (Greek, _metanoia_, ”repentance”.)

Faire Metanoia is attending To croune thee with those joys that know no ending.

_Pastorals_, v. 1 (1613).

=Metasta'sio.= The real name of this Italian poet was Trapa.s.si (_death_).

He was brought up by Gravina, who Grecized the name (1698-1782).

? So ”Melancthon” is the Greek form of _Schwarzerde_ (”black earth”); ”colampadius” is the Greek form of the German name _Hausschein_; ”Desiderius Erasmus” is _Gheraerd Gheraerd_ (the first ”Gheraerd” is Latinized into _Desiderius_, and the latter is Grecized into _Erasmus_).

=Meth'os=, drunkenness personified. He is twin-brother of Gluttony, their mother being Caro (_fleshly l.u.s.t_). In the battle of Mansoul, Methos is slain by Agnei'a (_wifely chast.i.ty_) spouse of Eucra'tes (_temperance_), and sister of Parthen'ia (_maiden chast.i.ty_). (Greek, _methe_ or _methus_ is ”drunkenness.”)--Phineas Fletcher, _The Purple Island_, vii., xi. (1633).

=Met'ophis=, the corrupt chief minister of Sesostris.

Il avait l'ame aussi corrumpue et aussi artificieuse que Sesostris etait sincere et genereux.--Fenelon, _Telemaque_ (1700).

=Mexit'li=, chief G.o.d and idol of the Az'tecas. He leaped full-grown into life, and with a spear slew those who mocked his mother, Coatlan'tona (4 _syl._).

Already at [_his mother's breast_] the blow was aimed, When forth Mexitli leapt, and in his hand The angry spear.

Southey, _Madoc_, ii. 21 (1805).

? Of course, it will be remembered that Minerva, like Mexitli, was born full-grown and fully armed.

=Mezen'tius=, king of the Tyrrhenians, who put criminals to death by tying them face to face with dead bodies.--Virgil, _aeneid_, viii. 485.

=Mezzora'mia=, an earthly paradise in Africa, accessible by only one road.

Gaudentio di Lucca discovered the road, and lived at Mezzoramia for twenty-five years.--Simon Berington, _Gaudentio di Lucca_.

=M. F. H.=, Master [_of the_] Fox-hounds.

=Micaw'ber= (_Mr. Wilkins_), a most unpractical, half-clever man, a great speechifier, letter writer, projector of bubble schemes, and, though confident of success, never succeeding. Having failed in everything in the old country, he migrated to Australia, and became a magistrate at Middlebay.--C. d.i.c.kens, _David Copperfield_ (1849).

? This truly amiable, erratic genius is a portrait of d.i.c.kens's own father, ”David Copperfield” being d.i.c.kens, and ”Mrs. Nickleby” (one can hardly believe it) is said to be d.i.c.kens's mother.

=Mi'chael= (2 _syl._), the special protector and guardian of the Jews.

This archangel is messenger of peace and plenty.--Sale's _Koran_, ii.

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