(C. Mucius), a young Roman of illustrious birth, is particularly celebrated in the Roman history for a brave but unsuccessful attempt upon the life of Porfena king of Hetururia, about the year before Christ 504. See the article ROME, n° 71.

in botany; a genus of the monogynia order, belonging to the pentandria clas of plants. The corolla is monopetalous; the tube slit longitudinally; the border quinqued and lateral. The fruit is a plum inferior and monoferous; the nucleus bilocular.