s "greatest" or "supreme." Mithra
is the middle of the triplasian deity: the Mediator, Eternal Intellect,
and Architect of the world.

Her towers, where Mithra once had burned,
To Moslem shrines--oh shame!--were turned;
Where slaves, converted by the sword,
Their mean apostate worship poured,
And cursed the faith their sires adored.

Moore, _Lalla Rookh_ ("The Fire-Worshippers," 1817).

=Mithridate= (3 _syl._), a medicinal confection, invented by
Damoc'rat[^e]s, physician to Mithrida't[^e]s, king of Pontus, and
supposed to be an antidote to all poisons and contagion. It contained
seventy-two ingredients. Any panacea is called a "mithridate."

Their kinsman garlic bring, the poor man's mithridate.

Drayton, _Polyolbion_, xx. (1622).

_Mithridate_ (3 _syl._), a tragedy by Racine, (1673). "Monime" (2
_syl._), in this drama, was one of Mdlle. Rachel's great characters.

=Mithrida'tes= (4 _syl._), surnamed "the Great." Being conquered by the
Romans, he tried to poison himself, but poison had no effect on him, and
he was slain by a Gaul. Mithridat[^e]s was active, intrepid,
indefatigable, and fruitful in resources; but he had to oppose such
generals as Sulla, Lucullus, and Pompey. His ferocity was unbounded, his
perfidy was even grand.

[Asterism] Racine has written a French tragedy on the subject, called
_Mithridate_ (1673); and N. Lee brought out his _Mithridat[^e]s_ in
English about the same time.

=Mixit= (_Dr._), the apothecary at the Black Bear inn at Darlington.--Sir
W. Scott, _Rob Roy_ (time, George I.).

=M'liss=, brave, arch, and loving girl of the Wild West; the heroine of
one of Bret Harte's most popular sketches.

=M. M. Sketch= (_An_), a memorandum sketch.

=Mne'me= (2 _syl._), a well-spring of Boeo'tia, which quickens the memory.
The other well-spring in the same vicinity, called _L[^e]'th[^e]_, has the
opposite effect, causing blank forgetfulness.--Pliny.

Dant[^e] calls this river Eu'no[^e]. It had the power of calling to the
memory all the good acts done, all the graces bestowed, all the mercies
received, but no evil.--Dant[^e], _Purgatory_, xxxiii. (1308).

=Mo'ath=, a well-to-do Bedouin, father of Onei'za (3 _syl._), the
beloved of Thalaba. Oneiza, having married Thalaba, died on the bridal
night, and Moath arrived just in time to witness the mad grief of his
son-in-law.--Southey, _Thalaba, the Destroyer_, ii., viii. (1798).

=Mocca'sins=,