Mysia

, a country of Asia Minor, generally divided into major and minor. Mysia minor was bounded on the north and west by the Pro pont is and Bithynia, and Phrygia on the southern and eastern borders. Mysia major had Æolia on the south, the Ægean on the west, and Phrygia on the north and east. Its chief cities were Cyzicum, Lampsacus, . The inhabitants were once very warlike, but they greatly degenerated; and the words Mysorum ultimus were emphatically used to signify a person of no merit. The ancients generally hired them to attend their funerals as mourners, because they were naturally melancholy and inclined to shed tears. They were once governed by monarchs. They are supposed to be descended from the Mysians of Europe, a nation which inhabited that part of Thrace which was situate between mount Hæmus and the Danube. Strabo. — Hero dot us , bk. 1 , . — Cicero , Against Verres .— Flaccus , ch. 27 .— Florus , bk. 3 , ch. 5 .— Appian , Mithridatic Wars .――A festival in honour of Ceres, surnamed Mysia from Mysias, an Argive, who raised her a temple near Pallene in Achaia. Some derive the words ἀπο του μυσιαν , to cloy , or satisfy , because Ceres was the first who satisfied the wants of men by giving them corn. The festival continued during seven days, .