MIDAS  , the name of several Phrygian See also:

• KINGS, FIRST AND SECOND BOOKS OF

kings . The first of these was said to have been the son of Gordius and See also:

• CYBELE, or CYBEBE (Gr. Ku/3X, Ku,(3i7sn)

Cybele, whose first See also:

• PRIEST (Ger. Priester, Fr. pretre)

priest he was, and in whose See also:

• HONOUR (Lat. honos or lwnor, honoris; in English the word was spelled with or without the u indifferently until the 17th century, but during the 18th century it became fashion-able to spell the word " honor "; Johnson's and Webster's Dictionaries stereoty

honour he founded a See also:

• TEMPLE
• TEMPLE, FREDERICK (1821-1902)
• TEMPLE, RICHARD
• TEMPLE, SIR RICHARD, BART
• TEMPLE, SIR WILLIAM, BART

temple at See also:

• PESSINUS (IIeaatvoi3r, lleacvoiis)

Pessinus . Having taken the drunken See also:

• SILENUS

Silenus back to his youthful See also:

• CHARGE
• CHARGE (through the Fr. from the Late Lat. carricare, to load in a carrus or wagon; cf. " cargo ")

charge See also:

• DIONYSUS (probably = " son of Zeus," from & Os and vv(7os, a Thracian word for " son ")

Dionysus, he was rewarded by the See also:

• GOD

god with the See also:

• POWER [WILLIAM GRATTAN] TYRONE (1797-1841)

power of transforming everything he touched into See also:

• GOLD
• GOLD [symbol Au, atomic weight 195.7(H = 1),197.2(0 =16)]

gold . Finding himself in danger of See also:

• STARVATION

starvation, even his See also:

• FOOD
• FOOD (like the verb " to feed," from a Teutonic root, whence O. Eng. foda; cf. " fodder "; connected with Gr. lrareicOae, to feed)

food and drink being changed by his See also:

• TOUCH (derived through Fr. toucher from a common Teutonic and Indo-Germanic root, cf. " tug," " tuck," O. H. Ger. zucchen, to twitch or draw)

touch, Midas entreated Dionysus to take back the See also:

• GIFT (a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. die Gift, gift, das Gift, poison, formed from the Teut. stem gab-, to give, cf. Dutch geven, Ger. geben; in O. Eng. the word appears with initial y, the guttural of later English is due to Scandinavian influence)

gift . By the command of the god he bathed in the See also:

• RIVER

river Pactolus, which henceforth became auriferous (See also:

• OVID [PUBLIUS OvID1us NASO] (43 B.C.–A.D. 17)

Ovid, See also:

• MELON (Late Lat. melo, shortened form of Gr. p XoaEawv, a kind of gourd; µijXov, apple, and a- brow, ripe)

Melon. xi . 85–145; See also:

• HYGINUS
• HYGINUS (surnamed GROMATICUS, from gruma, a surveyor's measuring-rod)
• HYGINUS, GAIUS JULIUS

Hyginus, Fab . 191) . Another See also:

• STORY, JOHN (c. 1510-1571)
• STORY, JOSEPH (1779-1845)
• STORY, ROBERT HERBERT (1835-1907)
• STORY, WILLIAM WETMORE (1819—1895)

story connects him with the musical contest between See also:

• APOLLO (Gr. 'A2r6XXwv,'Airkkhwv)

Apollo and See also:

• MARSYAS

Marsyas (or See also:

• PAN (" pasturer ")
• PAN (common in various forms to many Teutonic languages, cf. Ger. Pfanne; it is generally taken to be an early adaptation in a shortened form of Lat. patina, shallow bowl or dish, from patere, to lie open)

Pan) . Having decided against the god, his ears were changed into those of an See also:

• ASS (O.E. assa; Lat. asinus)
• ASS, FEAST OF THE

ass . He concealed them under a Phrygian cap; but the See also:

• SECRET (Lat. secretum, hidden, concealed)

secret was discovered by his See also:

• BARBER (from Lat. barba, beard)

barber, who, being unable to keep it, dug a hole in the ground and whispered into it " Midas has the ears of an ass." He then filled up the hole, thinking his secret safe; but the reeds which See also:

• GREW, NEHEMIAH (1641-1712)

grew up over the spot proclaimed it to all the See also:

• WORLD

world . Midas with the ass's ears was a frequent subject of the See also:

• ATTIC (i.e. "in the Attic style ")

Attic satyr-See also:

• DRAMA (literally "action," from Gr. Snail, act or do)

drama . There is no doubt that Midas was the name of one or more real persons around whom religious legends have grown up .

The name " Midas the See also:

• KING
• KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
• KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
• KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
• KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
• KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
• KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
• KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
• KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
• KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
• KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
• KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)

king " occurs on a very See also:

• ANCIENT
• ANCIENT (also spelt ANTIENT; derived, through the Fr. ancien, old, from the late Lat. antianum, from ante, before)

ancient See also:

• TOMB (Gr. Tuµ/3a, Tuµ(3os, probably allied to Lat. tumulus, literally a swelling, tumere, to swell)

tomb in the valley of the Sangarius, the legendary seat of the Phrygian See also:

• KINGDOM

kingdom . The Phrygian See also:

• MONARCHY (Fr. monarchic, from Lat. monarchia, Gr. uovapXia, rule of one, µbvos, alone, apXi7, rule)

monarchy was destroyed by the Cimmerians about 67o B.C., and the name Midas became in See also:

• GREEK
• GREEK, ETRUSCAN AND

Greek tradition the representative of this ancient See also:

• DYNASTY (Gr. &vvaareta, sovereignty, the position of a hevnori7r, lord, ruler, from SuvaaBay to be able, Suvaµas, power)

dynasty . On the connexion between Midas and the Attic story see J . G . Frazer, The See also:

• GOLDEN

Golden Bough, ii . 134 .