e." So _Utopia_ is a Greek compound, meaning "no place;"
_Kennaquhair_ is a Scotch compound, meaning "I know not where;" and
_Kennahtwhar_ is Anglo-Saxon for the same. All these places are in
91[degrees] north lat. and 180[degrees] 1' west long., in the
Nilt[=a]l[^e] Ocean.

=Medea=, a famous sorceress of Colchis who married Jason, the leader of
the Argonauts, and aided him in getting possession of the golden fleece.
After being married ten years, Jason repudiated her for Glauc[^e]; and
Medea, in revenge, sent the bride a poisoned robe, which killed both
Glauc[^e] and her father. Medea then tore to pieces her two sons, and fled
to Athens in a chariot drawn by dragons.

The story has been dramatized in Greek by Eurip[)i]d[^e]s; in Latin by
Sen[)e]ca and by Ovid; in French by Corneille (_M['e]d['e]e_, 1635),
Longepierre (1695), and Legouv['e] (1849); in English by Glover (1761).

Mrs. Yates was a superb "Medea."--Thomas Campbell.

=Mede'a and Absyr'tus.= When Medea fled with Jason from Colchis (in Asia),
she murdered her brother, Absyrtus, and, cutting the body into several
pieces, strewed the fragments about, that the father might be delayed in
picking them up, and thus be unable to overtake the fugitives.

Meet I an infant of the duke of York,
Into as many gobbets will I cut it
As wild Medea young Absyrtus did.

Shakespeare, 2 _Henry VI._ act v. sc. 2 (1591).

=Mede'a's Kettle.= Medea, the sorceress, cut to pieces an old ram, threw
the parts into her caldron, and by her incantations changed the old ram
into a young lamb. The daughters of Pelias thought they would have their
father restored to youth, as AEson had been. So they killed him, and put
the body in Medea's caldron; but Medea refused to utter the needful
incantation, and so the old man was not restored to life.

Change the shape, and shake off age. Get thee Medea's kettle, and
be boiled anew.--W. Congreve, _Love for Love_, iv. (1695).

=M['e]decin Malgr['e] Lui= (_Le_) a comedy by Moli[`e]re (1666). The
"enforced doctor" is Sganarelle, a faggot-maker, who is called in by
G['e]ronte to cure his daughter of dumbness. Sganarelle soon perceives
that the malady is assumed in order to prevent a hateful marriage, and
introduces her lover as an apothecary. The dumb spirit is at once
exorcised, and the lovers made happy with "pills matrimoniac."

In 1723 Fielding produced a farce called _The Mock Doctor_, which was
based