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See Hybla Minor. Megarics (me-gar'iks), The. A school of Greek philosophy, founded by Euclid of Megara, which combined the ethical doctrines of So crates and the metaphysics of the Eleatics. Megaris (meg'a-ris). [Gr. Μεγαρίς .] In ancient geography, a district in Greece which formed part of the isthmus connecting the Peloponne sus with central Greece and lay southwest of Attica and northeast of Corinthia. Chief town, Megara. The surface is mountainous. Megasthenes (me-gas'the-nez). [Gr. Μεγασ θένης.] Lived about 300 B. C. A Greek writer, a friend and companion of Seleucus Nicator, and his amba ador to Sandrocottus, king of the Prasii in India, whose capital, Palibothra, was probably near the modern Patna. He wrote a work on India which was the chief source of the later Greek information on the subject. Megerle, or Megerlin. See Abraham a Sancta Clara . Meghazil (me-ghä-zēl'). See the extract.