Meges
- son of Phyleus, one of Helen's suitors, Hyg. Fab. 97.
(Μέγης), a son of Phyleus by Eustyoche, Ctimene, or Timandra, and a grandson of Augeas. He is mentioned among the suitors of Helen, and in forty ships he led his bands from Dulichium and the Echinades against Troy. (Hom. Il. 2.625, &c., 5.69, 13.692,15.520, &c., 19.269 ; Eustath. ad Hom. p. 303; Paus. 10.25.2; Strab. x. pp. 456, 459.) Polygnotus had painted him in the Lesche at Delphi as a wounded man. According to Dictys Cretensis (3.10) he was killed in the Trojan war. [L.S]
(Μέγης), an eminent surgeon, born at Sidon in Phoenicia (Galen, De Meth. Med. 6.6, vol. x. p. 454), who practised at Rome with great reputation and success, shortly before the time of Celsus, and therefore probably in the first century B. C. Cels. De Medic. vii. praef.) Works Medical Writings
He wrote some works which are highly praised and several times quoted by Celsus, but of which nothing remains. He is, perhaps, the same person who is quoted by Pliny (Plin. Nat. 32.24), Galen (De Compos. Medicam. sec. Locos, 3.3, 5.3, vol. xii. pp. 684, 845), and Scribonius Largus (Scr. Larg. De Compos. Medicam. 70.202, p. 227). Editions
A Greek fragment by Meges is preserved by Oribasius (Coll. Medic. 44.14), and was first published by Cardinal Mai in his collection entitled "Classici Auctores e Codicibus Vaticanis editi," vol. iv. p. 27, Rome, 8vo. 1831, and is also to be found in Dr. Bussemaker's edition of the forty-fourth book of Oribasius, p. 72, Groning. 1835, 8vo. [W.A.G]
- suitor of Helen: Apollod. 3.10.7
- leader of the Dulichians against Troy: Apollod. E.3.11
- cast away at Caphereus: Apollod. E.6.15
- wounded by Admetus: Paus. 10.25.5