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Mūsaeus, ī, m.: Musaeus, a Greek poet contemporary with Orpheus, 6.667.

Mūsaeus, a, um, v. Museus.

Mūsaeus, i, m., = Μουσαῖος.

A famous Greek poet in the time of Orpheus, Cic. Tusc. 1, 41, 98; id. N. D. 1, 15, 41; Verg. A. 6, 667.—
II A Roman surname, Inscr. Grut. 701, 3.

1. Mūsaeus, ī, m. (Μουσαῖος), ein alter griech. Dichter, Zeitgenosse des Orpheus, Verg. Aen. 6, 667.

1 Mūsæus, a, um, v. Museus.

2 Mūsæus, (16) ī, m. (Μουσαῖος), Musée [poète grec, contemporain dʼOrphée] : Cic. Tusc. 1, 98 ; Nat. 1, 41.

Mūsaeus, ī m myth. zanger in Attica, leerling v. Orpheus.

Musaeus

(Μουσαῖος). (1) A mythical singer, seer, and priest, who appears especially in Attic legends. He is said to have lived in pre-Homeric times, and to have been the son of Selené and Orpheus or Linus or Eumolpus. Numerous oracular sayings, hymns, and chants of dedication and purification were ascribed to him which had been collected, and also interpolated, by Onomacritus, in the time of the Pisistratidae. His tomb was shown at Athens on the Museum Hill, southwest of the Acropolis (Pausan. i. 22, x. 9). See Eberhard, De Pampho et Musaeo (1864).

(2) A grammarian and Greek poet, who, in the beginning of the sixth century after Christ, wrote, in imitation of Nonnus (q.v.), a short epic of love, on the subject of Hero and Leander, which shows intense warmth of feeling, and has touches that are almost modern. It is edited by Passow (Leipzig, 1810), Schaefer (Leipzig, 1825), and Dilthey (Bonn, 1874). See Schwabe, De Musaeo Nonni Imitatore (Tübingen, 1876).

Musaeus Musaeus, son of Antiophemus

an Athenian prophet: Hdt. 7.6, Hdt. 8.96, Hdt. 9.43; Paus. 10.5.6, Paus. 10.12.11
receives from North Wind the gift of flying: Paus. 1.22.7
copies Orpheus: Paus. 10.7.2
composes hymn on Demeter for Lycomids: Paus. 1.22.7, Paus. 4.1.5
his oracles: Paus. 10.9.11, Paus. 10.12.11
poems attributed to him: Paus. 1.14.3, Paus. 1.22.7, Paus. 10.5.6
buried on Museum hill at Athens: Paus. 1.25.8
portrait of: Paus. 1.22.7

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