Menippe

[ muh-nip-ee ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

, Classical Mythology.

a daughter of Orion who, with her sister Metioche, offered herself as a sacrifice to end a plague in Boeotia.

One book may be named as being familiarly known, the Satire Menippe.

This is No. 188, Menippe, whose elements are still somewhat uncertain.

Soon Menippe dwindled to a point, and I saw her inhospitable inhabitant no more.

Menippe, the one hundred and eighty-eighth, was also lost soon after its discovery in 1878.

On Menippe I knew "g" must equal about one twentieth of a foot, and "r" 31,680 feet.

April 23, 2024inveterate

[in-vet-er-it ]

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