ensued.--Ariosto, _Orlando Furioso_ (1516).

[Asterism] This incident of bk. xix. is similar to that in Homer's
_Iliad_, iii. iv., where Paris and Menel[=a]os agree to settle the
contest by single combat; but Minerva persuades Pand[)a]ros to break
the truce, and a general battle ensues.

=Me'lita= (now _Malta_). The point to which the vessel that carried St.
Paul was driven was the "Porto de San Paolo," and according to
tradition, the cathedral of Citta Vecchia stands on the site of the
house of Publius, the Roman governor. St. Paul's grotto, a cave in the
vicinity, is so named in honor of this great apostle.

=Meli'tus=, a gentleman of Cyprus, in the drama called _The Laws of
Candy_, by Beaumont and Fletcher (1647).

=Melizyus=, king of Thessaly, in the golden era of Saturn. He was the
first to tame horses for the use of man.

_Melizyus_ (_King_) held his court in the Tower of Chivalry, and there
knighted Graunde Amoure, after giving him the following advice:

And first _Good Hope_ his legge harneyes should be;
His habergion, of _Perfect Ryhteousnes_,
Gird first with the girdle of _Chastitie_;
His rich placarde should be good busines,
Brodred with _Alms_ ...
The helmet _Mekenes_, and the shelde _Good Fayeth_,
His swerde _God's Word_, as St. Paule sayeth.

Stephen Hawes, _The Passe-tyme of Plesure_, xxviii. (1515).

=Mell= (_Mr._), the poor, down-trodden second master at Salem House, the
school of Mr. Creakles. Mr. Mell played the flute. His mother lived in
an almshouse, and Steerforth used to taunt Mell with this "degradation,"
and indeed caused him to be discharged. Mell emigrated to Australia, and
succeeded well in the new country.--C. Dickens, _David Copperfield_
(1849).

=Melle'font= (2 _syl._), in love with Cynthia, daughter of Sir Paul
Pliant. His aunt, Lady Touchwood, had a criminal fondness for him, and,
because he repelled her advances, she vowed his ruin. After passing
several hair-breadth escapes from the "double dealing" of his aunt and
his "friend," Maskwell, he succeeded in winning and marrying the lady of
his attachment.--W. Congreve, _The Double Dealer_ (1700).

=Mellifluous Doctor= (_The_), St. Bernard, whose writings were called "a
river of paradise" (1091-1153).

=Melnotte= (_Claude_), a gardener's son, in love with Pauline, "the Beauty
of Lyons," but treated by her with contempt. Beauseant and Glavis, two
other rejected suitors, conspired w