MYCONUS, in Ancient Geography, one of the
islands called Cyclades, near Delos, under which the
last of the Centaurs slain by Hercules are feigned to lie
buried. Hence the proverb, Omnia sub unam Myconum
congerere, applied to an injudicious or unnatural far-
rage. Myconii, the people, noted for baldness. Hence
Myconius, a bald person. According to Strabo, the
inhabitants became bald at the age of 20 or 25; and
Pliny says that the children were always born without
hair. The island was poor, and the inhabitants very
avaricious; whence Archilochus reproached a certain
Pericles, that he came to a feast like a Myconian; that
is without previous invitation. Now called Mycone,
which see.