MIGIPSA, -see, king of Numidia, x48 —xx8 n.c., left his kingdom to his two sons, Adherbal, Hiempsal, and to Jugurtha.
Minors, mid'-as, king of Phrygia, son of Gordius. He was allowed by Bacchus, for his hospitality to the god's teacher Sil6nus, to choose whatever gift he pleased, and asked for the power of converting everything he touched into gold (see ANCHURUS) ; when even the food he tasted was changed into gold, he prayed the god to revoke the gift, and Bac chus ordered him to wash in the Pactolus, whose sands were ever after gold-laden. When afterwards umpire at a musical contest, he decided for Pan against Apollo, whereon Apollo punished him by giving him the ears of an ass. Midas concealed the metamorphosis with his Phrygian cap ; but one of his servants discovered it, and, unable to keep the secret, and yet afraid to reveal it, dug a hole, whispered in it, "King Midas has ass's ears," and covered up the hole ; but out of it reeds grew, which in their waving and rustling betrayed the secret.
IIItLANtON, (see ATALANTA).
MILETUS, M/-1,-e11S. T. Son of Apollo and Aria of Crete, lied from Minos to Asia. 2. One of the twelve confederate cities of Ionia, founded by (1), in Caria, on the Latmicus Sinus, opposite the Mmander's estuary ; early rose to great naval power, and founded a large number of colonies. It was subjected to Lydia
and Persia, and headed the Ionic revolt against the latter, being destroyed at its close, 494 B.C. It was again destroyed after a siege by Alexander, but attained some position under the Roman emperors. Its territory was very rich for grazing flocks, and it had a large trade in woollen goods (Mirada velltra), in high repute for their softness and beauty. MIL°, Mit-o. T. A celebrated athlete of Crotona, in Italy, 511 mc. 2. T. ANNIUS PAiINIANUS, an'-niaes pa-fin'-i-a'azus, son in-law of Sulla, was chief magistrate of his native town, Lanuvium, 53 B.C., and tribune of plebs at Rome, 57 ; he opposed Clodius's faction with an armed band. Milo and Clodius met on the Appian Way, and a fight ensued between their bands, when Clodius and eleven of his gladiators were killed. Milo was tried, defended by Cicero (who could not deliver his oration from the threats of Clodius's sympa thizers), but banished to Massilia ; he was killed near Thurii, 48, when supporting the insurgent prmtor M. Cmlius.