M — Mormon Creed to Moscow (Part 3 of 3)

pretend to be masters of their wives. It also means, “If you have done what you say, you can accomplish anything.”

Morven Fingal's realm; probably Argyllshire and its neighbourhood.

Mosaic Work is not connected with the proper name Moses, but with the Muses (Latin, opus muscum, musium, or musivum; Greek, mouseion; French, mosaique; Italian, mosaico). Pliny says it was so called because these tesselated floors were first used in the grottoes consecrated to the Muses (xxxv. 21, s. 42). The most famous workman in mosaic work was Sosus of Pergamos, who wrought the rich pavement in the common-hall, called Asaroton oecon. (Pliny: Natural History, xxxvi. 4, 64.)

Moscow So called from the river Moscowa, on which it is built.
   The monarch of Moscow. A large bell weighing 193 tons, 21 feet high, and 21 feet in diameter.
   [So-and-So] was my Moscow. The turning- point of my good fortune, leading to future shoals and misery. The reference is to Napoleon's disastrous expedition, when his star hastened to its setting.

“Juan was my Moscow [the ruin of my reputation].”    Byron: Don Juan, xi. 56.