_Memnon_, “the mad lover,” general of As´torax, king of Paphos.--Beaumont and Fletcher, _The Mad Lover_ (1617). _Memnon_, the title of a novel by Voltaire, the object of which is to show the folly of aspiring to too much wisdom. =Memnon’s Sister.= He´mera, mentioned by Dictys Cretensis. Black, but such as in esteem Prince Memnon’s sister might beseem. Milton, _Il Penseroso_ (1638). =Memorable= (_The Ever-_), John Hales, of Eton (1584-1656). =Memory.= The persons most noted for their memory are: Magliabecchi, of Florence, called “The Universal Index and Living Cyclopædia” (1633-1714). P. J. Beronicius, the Greek and Latin improvisator, who knew by heart Horace, Virgil, Cicero, Juvenal, both the Plinys, Homer, and Aristophănês. He died at Middleburgh, in 1676. Andrew Fuller, after hearing 500 lines twice, could repeat them without a mistake. He could also repeat verbatim a sermon or speech; could tell either backwards or forwards every shop sign from the Temple to the extreme end of Cheapside, and the articles displayed in each of the shops. “Memory” Woodfall could carry in his head a debate, and repeat it a fortnight afterwards. “Memory” Thompson could repeat the names, trades, and particulars of every shop from Ludgate Hill to Piccadilly. William Ratcliff, the husband of the novelist, could repeat a debate the next morning. _Memory_ (_The Bard of_), Samuel Rogers, author of the _Pleasures of Memory_ (1762-1855). =Men of Prester John’s Country.= Prester John, in his letter to Manuel Comnēnus, says his land is the home of men with horns; of one-eyed men (the eye being in some cases before the head, and in some cases behind it); of giants, forty ells in height (_i.e._ 120 feet); of the phœnix, etc.; and of ghouls who feed on premature children. He gives the names of fifteen different tributary states, amongst which are those of Gog and Magog (now shut in behind lofty mountains); but at the end of the world these fifteen states will overrun the whole earth. =Menalcas=, any shepherd or rustic. The name occurs in the _Idylls_ of Theoc´ritos, the _Eclogues_ of Virgil, and the _Shepheardes Calendar_ of Spenser.