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 incorporated with the Milesians, 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 Milesus. Artaxerxes allotted this town to Themistocles, in order to furnish his table with meat: Magnesia was to support him in bread, and Lampascus 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. Abbe 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 Slavic 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 m, by omitting the last column, is formed n; and thus from the capital N, by omitting the first column, is formed the Greek minuscule r. Hence from biennies, &c. the Latins frequently use bimus, &c. and the same people convert the Greek r, at the end of a word, into an m, as φαρμακεν, pharmaceutum, &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 x, γ, ζ, η, changed the γ into ζ: 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