A special fund provided by the United States Congress, in
1803, for the War with Tripoli.
_H. Adams,
History of the United States,
volume 2, chapter 7._
MEDITERRANEAN SEA:
When named.
"For this sea … the Greeks had no distinctive name, because
it had so long been practically the only one known to them;
and Strabo can only distinguish it as 'the Inner' or 'Our'
Sea. … The now familiar appellation of Mediterranean is in
like manner first used by Solinus [third century], only as a
convenient designation, not as a strictly geographical term.
… The first extant author who employs it distinctly as a
proper name is Isidorus, who wrote in the seventh century."
_E: H. Bunbury,
History of Ancient Geography,
chapter 21, section 1,
chapter 23, section 2, foot-note,
chapter 31 (volume 2)._
MEERUT, The Sepoy mutiny at.
See INDIA: A. D. 1857 (MAY).
MEGALESIA, The.
See LUDI.
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MEGALOPOLIS: B. C. 371.
The founding of the city.
See GREECE: B. C. 371.
MEGALOPOLIS: B. C. 317.
Defense against Polysperchon.
See GREECE: B. C. 321-312.
MEGALOPOLIS: B. C. 222.
Destruction and restoration.
The last exploit of Cleomenes of Sparta, in his struggle with
the Achæan League and its ally, the king of Macedonia, before
the fatal field of Sellasia, was the capture of Megalopolis,
B. C. 222. Most of the citizens escaped. He offered to restore
their town to them, if they would forsake the League. They
refused, and he destroyed it, so utterly that its restoration
was believed to be impossible. But in the following year the
inhabitants were brought back and Megalopolis existed again,
though never with its former importance.
_Polybius,
Histories,
book 2, chapter 55 and after (volume 1)._
MEGALOPOLIS: B. C. 194-183.
In the Achaian League.
"The city of Megalopolis held at this time [B. C. 194-183] the
same sort of position in the Achaian League which the State of
Virginia held in the first days of the American Union. Without
any sort of legal preëminence, without at all assuming the
character of a capital, Megalopolis was clearly the first city
of the League, the city which gave the nation the largest
proportion of its leading statesmen. Megalopolis, like
Virginia, was 'the Mother of Presidents,' and that too of
Presidents of different political parties. As Virginia
produced both Washington and Jefferson, so Megalopolis, if she
produced Philopoimen and Lykortas, produced also Aristainos
and Diophanes."
_E. A. Freeman,
History of Federal Government,
chapter 9, section 2._
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