an island in the Mediterranean, to the west of the Syrtis Minor. Supposed by Strabo and Polybius to be Homer's country of the Lotophagi; and hence Ptolemy and Eratosthenes denominate the island Lotophagitis, with a cognominal town Meninx. It was the country of Vibius Gallus the emperor, and of Volusianus. Now called Gerbi and Zarbi.

MENIPPUS, a cynic philosopher of Phenicia. He was originally a slave, but obtained his liberty with a sum of money, and became one of the greatest wits at Thebes. He grew so desperate from the continual reproaches and insults to which he was daily exposed on account of his meanness, that he destroyed himself. He wrote 13 books of satires, which have been lost.