MEDICINE, see Apollo.
MEDITATION, see Harpocrates.
MEDU′SA. One of the Gorgons. Minerva changed her beautiful hair into
serpents. She was conquered by Perseus, who cut off her head, and
placed it on Minerva’s shield. Every one who looked at the head was
turned into stone.
Ulysses, in the Odyssey, says he wished to see more of the inhabitants
of Hades, but was afraid, as he says--
“Lest Gorgon, rising from the infernal lakes,
With horrors armed, and curls of hissing snakes,
Should fix me, stiffened at the monstrous sight,
A stony image in eternal night.”