Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898), M, Minucius Thermus, Mogontiăcum, Moguntiăcum

Home Collections/Texts Perseus Catalog Research Grants Open Source About Help

Hide browse bar Your current position in the text is marked in blue. Click anywhere in the line to jump to another position:

This text is part of:

Greek and Roman Materials

View text chunked by:

Mogontiăcum, Moguntiăcum

or Magontiăcum. The modern Mainz or Mayence; a town on the left bank of the Rhine, opposite the mouth of the river Moenus (Main). It lay within the territories of the Vangiones, and finally became the capital of Germania Prima. (See Germania.) It was strongly fortified by Drusus, and until the downfall of the Roman Empire remained one of the chief of the Rhenish fortresses ( Hist. iv. 15, 24; Amm. Marc. xv. 11).

Harry Thurston Peck. Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities. New York. Harper and Brothers. 1898.

The National Endowment for the Humanities provided support for entering this text.

Greek Display:
Arabic Display:
View by Default:
Browse Bar:

Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898)

This text is part of:

View text chunked by:

Table of Contents:

Mogontiăcum, Moguntiăcum