(Caius), a celebrated Roman consul, conqueror of the ancient Latins, 338 B.C. He was the first who hung up the prows, &c. of the galleys he had taken at the naval engagement of Actium, upon the place where the tribunes harangued the people; from whence it was called the rostra.

MÆONIA, or Mæonia. See Mæonia and Lydia.

MŒSIA, or Mysia, (anc. geog.) a country of Europe, extending from the confluence of the Savus and the Danube to the shores of the Euxine. It was divided into Upper and Lower Mœsia. Lower Mœsia was on the borders of the Euxine, and comprehended that tract of country which received the name of Pontus from its vicinity to the sea. Upper Mœsia lay beyond the other, in the inland country.