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Menendez de Avilés (mā-nandath da ä-velās'), Pedro. Born at Avilés, Asturias, 1519: died at Santander, Sept. 17, 1574. A Spanish captain. Hewas captain-general in the navy under Philip II., and served that monarch in many important enterprises; was disgraced and imprisoned in 1560; but regained favor, and in 1565 was appointed governor of Cuba and Florida, with orders to colonize the latter country. He sailed from Cadiz, June 29, 1565, with 19 ve els and 1,500 men. The fleet was scattered by a storm, and he reached Florida with only 7 ships. He founded St. Augustine Sept. 8, 1565, captured a colony of French Protestants on the St. John's River and ma acred nearly all of them, and, after Men no nites the privations of the first winter had pa ed, succeeded in establishing Spanish rule firmly in Florida. In subsequent voyages Menendez founded a post on Port Royal Bay, now in South Carolina, and left a mi ion on Chesapeake Bay. The latter was destroyed by the Indians, and in 1572 he ascended the Chesapeake and Potomac and killed many of them. In 1574 he was put in command of a large Spanish fleet destined to make a descent on the Netherlands, but he died soon after. Mineptah . Menenius Agrippa (me-nē'ni-us a-grip'ä). In Roman legend, the patrician amba ador to the plebeians during their sece ion to the Sacred Mount (about 494 B. C.). He is represented as having persuaded the plebeians to accept a compromise by Nelating the fable of the belly and the members. Menephtah, Menephthah, Menephthes. See Menes (mē'nēz), or Mena (mē'nä), or Men (men). [Gr. Μήν .] The founder of the 1st dynasty of Egyptian kings. His date is variously given by Egypt ologists, from 5702 в. с. to 2691. Brugsch gives it as 4445. Menezes (me-nā'zes), Luiz de. Born at Lisbon, July 22, 1632: committed suicide there, May 26, 1690. A Portuguese historian, general, and politician, third count of Ericeira. His prin cipal work is "Hist or i a de Portugal rest aura do" (two parts, 1679-98; various subsequent editions). It compre Spain from hends the military events in the war between Portugal and Menfi (men'fe), or Menfrici (men-freche). A town in the province of Girgenti, Sicily, situated 43 miles southwest of Palermo. Population (1881), 10,003. Mengs (mengs), Anton Raphael. Born at Au ig, Bohemia, March 12, 1728: died at Rome, June 29, 1779. A German historical and portrait painter. August us III., king of Poland, made him his court painter at the age of twenty-one, and he went soon after to Rome, where about 1754 he was made director of the school of painting then recently established there. From this time his reputation was great, and in 1761 he was made court painter to Charles III. of Spain, who had urged him to go to Madrid. He worked chiefly in Rome and in Spain. Among his works are decorations in the banqueting-hall of Madrid, and various works in Dresden, the chief of which is an "Ascension." Mengwe. See Iroquois . Menin (mė-nan'), Flem. Meenen (mā'nen). A town in the province of West Flanders, Bel gium, on the French frontier, situated on the Lys 32 miles southwest of Ghent. It is the center of a flourishing tobacco trade. Population (1890), 13,710. Ménippée, Satire. See Satire Ménippée . Menippus (me-nip'us). [Gr. Μένιππος.] Born at Gadara, Syria: lived probably about 250 в. с. A Cynic philosopher, originally a slave, noted for his satirical jests upon the follies of mankind, especially of philosophers. His writings, which combined prose and verse, are lost. Menkalinan (men-ka-le-nan' or men-kal'in an). [Ar. menkib - di - l'in an , the shoulder of the driver.] The bright second-magnitude star Aurige. The star is one of the first discovered and most remarkable "spectroscopic binaries," the two components moving in an orbit about 8,000,000 miles in diam eter, with a relative velocity of about 150 miles a second, thus causing the alternate doubling and undoubling of the lines in the spectrum of the star once in two days. Menkar (men'kär). [Ar. al - minkhir , the snout.] The 24-magnitude star a Ceti, in the nose or jaw of the sea-monster. Sometimes written Menkab . Menkaura (men-ka-rä'), or Mencheres (menchērēz). An Egyptian king of the 4th dynasty, builder of the third of the great pyramids at Gizeh. His date is given by Brugsch as 3633 в. с. Menkib (men-kib'). [Ar. menkib - al - far as , shoulder of the horse.] A rarely used Arabic name for the second-magnitude star ẞ Pegasi, more usually called Scheat. Menno (men'no) Simons, or Symons, or Simon is. Born at Witmarsum, Fries land, 1492: died at Oldesloe, Holstein, Jan. 13, 1559. A Friesian preacher and reformer, chief founder of the Men no nites. His works were published in 1681. Men no nites (men'on-its). A Christian denomination which originated in Fries land in the early part of the 16th century, and holds doctrines of which Menno Simons (1492-1559) was the chief exponent. The leading features of the Men no nite bodies have been baptism on profe ion of faith, refusal of oaths, of civic offices, and of the support of the state in war, and a tendency to asceticism. Many of these beliefs and practices have been modified. The sect became divided in the 17th century into the Upland (Obere) Men no nites, or Ammanites, and the Lowland (Untere) Men no nites, the former being the more conservative and rigor ous. Members of the sect are found in the Netherlands, Germany, Ru ia, etc., and especially in the United States. In the last-named country they are divided into Untere (or Old) Men no nites, Obere Men no nites (or Ammanites), New Men no nites, Evangelical Men no nites, and Reformed Men no nites (or Herrians). Meno ern An (Her month is). Hewas represented as Ra with the addition of the tall plumes of Amun. Mentu-hotep (men'tö-hō'tep). An Egyptian king of the 11th dynasty. He is represented in a bas-relief carved on the rocks of the island of Konono, near Philæ, above ancient Syene (A uan). There were several kings of this name.