MYUS, in Ancient Geography, one of the twelve towns of Ionia; seated on the Meander, at the distance of 30 stadia from the sea. In Strabo's time it was incorpo- M Y X rated with the Milefians, on account of the paucity of inhabitants, from its being formerly overwhelmed with water: for which reason the Ionians consigned its suffrage and religious ceremonies to the people of Miletus. Artaxerxes allotted this town to Themistocles, in order to furnish his table with meat: Magnesia was to support him in bread, and Lampacus in wine. The town now lies in ruins. MYXINE, the HAG; a genus of animals belonging to the order of vermes intestina. See HELMINTHOLOGY Index. N. N, A liquid consonant, and the 13th letter of the Greek, Latin, English, &c. alphabets. The n is a nasal consonant: its sound is that of a d, passed through the nose; so that when the nose is stopped by a cold, or the like, it is usual to pronounce d for n. M. Abbé de Dangeau observes, that in the French, the n is frequently a mere nasal vowel, without any thing of the consonant in it. He calls it the Slavonic vowel. The Hebrews call their n nun, which signifies child, as being supposed the offspring of m; partly on account of the resemblance of sound, and partly on that of the figure. Thus from the n, by omitting the last column, is formed n; and thus from the capital N, by omitting the first column, is VOL. XIV. Part II. formed the Greek minuscule ν. Hence for biennies, &c. the Latins frequently use bimur, &c. and the same people convert the Greek ν, at the end of a word, into an m, as φάρμακον, pharmacum, &c. See M. N before p, b, and m, the Latins change into m, and frequently into l and r; as in in-ludo, illudo; in-rigo, irrigo, &c.: in which they agree with the Hebrews, who, in lieu of nun, frequently double the following consonants: and the Greeks do the same; as when for Manlius, they write Μανλιος, &c. The Greeks also, before κ, γ, ζ, χ, changed the ν into γ: in which they were followed by the ancient Romans: who, for Angulus, wrote Aggulus; for anceps, ageps, &c. The Latins retrench the n from Greek nouns ending