Mene
he is numbered; TEKEL, he is weighed; UPHARSIN, and they are divided, the Chaldee words supernaturally traced on the wall at Belshazzar's impious feast, and significant of his impending doom (Dan. v.). The astrologers could not read them, perhaps because they were written in antique Hebrew characters; still less could they explain, even if they had dared to do so. Daniel, however, received skill to understand, and courage to declare their awful meaning; and the same night witnessed their fulfillment.
MENELAUS (men-e-lā'us), in Greek legend, one of the Greek heroes, a King of Sparta, brother of Agamemnon, and the unfortunate husband of the lovely but faithless Helen, whose flight with Paris, the youthful envoy from Priam, led to the Trojan war. In the "Iliad" he fights a duel with Paris and does many brave deeds, including the bearing of the body of Patroclus from the battlefield.
In the 10th year of the Trojan war, Helen, by perfidiously introducing Menelaus into the chamber of Deiphobus, obtained his forgiveness and she returned with him to Sparta, after a voyage of eight years.
He died some time after his return.