e la Ligue_, by Gillot, Pithou, Rapin and
Passerat, published 1594.

[Asterism] Menippus was a cynic philosopher and poet of Gadara, in
Phoenicia, who wrote twelve books of satires in prose and verse.

Varro wrote in Latin a work called _The Satires of Menippus_ (_Satyrae
Menippeae_).

=Mennibojou=, a North American Indian deity.

=Mentz= (_Baron von_), a Heidelberg bully, whose humiliation at the hands
of the fellow-student he has insulted is the theme of an exciting
chapter in Theodore S. Fay's novel, _Norman Leslie_ (1835).

=Menteith= (_the earl of_), a kinsman of the earl of Montrose.--Sir W.
Scott, _Legend of Montrose_ (time, Charles I.).

=Mentor=, a wise and faithful adviser or guide. So called from Mentor, a
friend of Ulyss[^e]s, whose form Minerva assumed when she accompanied
Telemachus in his search for his father.--F['e]nelon, _T['e]l['e]maque_
(1700).

=Mephistoph'eles= (5 _syl._), the sneering, jeering, leering attendant
demon of Faust in Goethe's drama of _Faust_, and Gounod's opera of the
same name. Marlowe calls the name "Mephostophilis" in his drama entitled
_Dr. Faustus_. Shakespeare, in his _Merry Wives of Windsor_ writes the
name "Mephostophilus;" and in the opera he is called "Mefistofele" (5
_syl._). In the old demonology, Mephistophel[^e]s was one of the seven
chief devils, and second of the fallen archangels.

=Mephostophilis=, the attendant demon of Faustus, in Marlowe's tragedy of
_Dr. Faustus_ (1589).

There is an awful melancholy about Marlowe's "Mephostophilis,"
perhaps more expressive than the malignant mirth of that fiend in
the renowned work of Goethe.--Hallam.

=Mephostophilus=, the spirit or familiar of Sir John Faustus or [Dr.] John
Faust (Shakespeare, _Merry Wives of Windsor_, 1596). Subsequently it
became a term of reproach, about equal to "imp of the devil."

=Mercedes=, Spanish woman, who, to disarm suspicion, drinks the wine
poisoned for the French soldiery who have invaded the town. She is
forced to let her baby drink it, also, and gives no sign of perturbation
until the invaders, twenty in number, have partaken of the wine, and the
baby grows livid and expires before their eyes.--Thomas Bailey Aldrich,
_Mercedes_ (drama, 1883).

=Mercer= (_Major_), at the presidency of Madras.--Sir W. Scott, _The
Surgeon's Daughter_ (time, George II.).

=Merchant of Venice= (_The_), Antonio, who borrowed 3000 ducats for three
months of Shylock,