arents' tears,
Though, for the noise of drums and timbrels loud,
Their children's cries unheard, that passed thro' fire
To his grim idol. Him the Ammonite
Worshipped in Rabba.

Milton, _Paradise Lost_, i. 392, etc. (1665).

=Mo'ly= (Greek, _m[^o]lu_), mentioned in Homer's _Odyssey_. An herb with a
black root and white blossom, given by Herm[^e]s to Ulysses, to counteract
the spells of Circ[^e], (See HAEMONY.)

... that M[=o]'ly
That Herm[^e]s once to wise Ulysses gave.

Milton, _Comus_ (1634).

The root was black,
Milk-white the blossom; M[^o]ly is its name
In heaven.

Homer, _Odyssey_, x. (Cowper's trans.).

=Momus's Lattice.= Momus, son of Nox, blamed Vulcan, because, in making
the human form, he had not placed a window in the breast for the
discerning of secret thoughts.

Were Momus' lattice in our breasts,
My soul might brook to open it more widely
Than theirs [i. e. _the nobles_].

Byron, _Werner_, iii., 1 (1822).

=Mon= or =Mona=, Anglesia, the residence of the Druids. Suetonius
Paul[=i]nus, who had the command of Britain in the reign of Nero (from
A.D. 59 to 62), attacked Mona, because it gave succor to the rebellious.
The frantic inhabitants ran about with fire-brands, their long hair
streaming to the wind, and the Druids invoked vengeance on the Roman
army.--See Drayton, _Polyolbion_, viii. (1612).

=Mon'aco= (_The king of_), noted because whatever he did was never right
in the opinion of his people, especially in that of Rabagas, the
demagogue: If he went out, he was "given to pleasure;" if he stayed at
home, he was "given to idleness;" if he declared war, he was "wasteful
of the public money;" if he did not, he was "pusillanimous;" if he ate,
he was "self-indulgent;" if he abstained, he was "priest-ridden."--M.
Sardou, _Rabagas_ (1872).

_Monaco._ _Proud as a Monegasque._ A French phrase. The tradition is
that Charles Quint ennobled every one of the inhabitants of Monaco.

=Monaldini= (_Signor_), rich, _bourgeois_ citizen of Rome, who purchases,
fits up and lets to desirable tenants an old palace.--Mary Agnes
Tincker, _Signor Monaldini's Niece_ (1879).

=Monarch of Mont Blanc=, Albert Smith; so-called, because for many years
he amused a large London audience, night after night, by relating "his
ascent of Mont Blanc" (1816-1860).

=Monarque= (_Le Grand_), Louis XIV., of France (1638, 1643