Macaria
Tympanis et Macariis et aliis instrumentis horribiliter resonabant.Sed legendum
Anacaris, ut emendat Meursius. Sunt autem
MACA´RIA(Μακαρία,/un> Ptol. 5.14.4), a town on the N. coast of Cyprus, E. of Ceryneia. (Engel, Kypros, vol. 1. p. 83.)
[E.B.J]MACA´RIA(Μακαρία), that is, the blessed (island),a name given by the poets to several islands, such as CYPRUS, LESBOS,and RHODES;but also occurs as a proper name of an island in the south of the Arabian gulf, a little to the north of the gulf of Adule.
[L.S](Μακαρία). The daughter of Heracles and Deïanira. When Eurystheus, after the death of Heracles, made war upon the Heraclidae and their allies, the Athenians, an oracle declared that the descendants of Heracles would be victorious if one of them should devote himself to death. This lot Macaria voluntarily accepted, and the oracle was fulfilled in the success of the Athenians by whom Macaria was therefore held in great honour. A fountain at Marathon was called by her name (Pausan. i. 32).
(Μακαρία). (1) A name used by the poets for several of the Grecian islands—e. g. Cyprus, Rhodes, and Lesbos.
(2) An island in the southern part of the Red Sea.
- slays herself: Paus. 1.32.6
- Paus. 1.32.6