a country of Asia Minor, generally divided into Major and Minor. Mysia Minor was bounded on the north and west by the Propontis and Bithynia, and Phrygia on the southern and eastern borders. Mysia Major had Æolia on the south, the Ægean sea on the west, and Phrygia on the north and east. Its chief cities were Cyzicum, Lampacus, &c. The inhabitants were once very warlike; but they greatly degenerated, and the words *Myrorum ultimus* were emphatically used to signify a person of no merit. The ancients generally hired them to attend their funerals as mourners. MYS

mourners, because they were naturally melancholy and inclined to shed tears. They were once governed by monarchs. They are supposed to be descended from the Myrians of Europe, a nation who inhabited that part of Thrace which was situated between Mount Hæmus and the Danube.