Magnes

, a young man who found himself detained by the iron nails which were under his shoes as he walked over a stone mine. This was no other than the magnet, which received its name from the person who had been first sensible of its powers. Some say that Magnes was a slave of Medea, whom that enchantre changed into a magnet. Orphic Lithic a , bk. 10 , li. 7 .――A son of Æolus and An arett a, who married Nais, by whom he had Pierus, . Apollo dor us , bk. 1 , ch. 7 .――A poet and musician of Smyrna, in the age of Gyges king of Lydia.