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Melisseus
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Melisseus, Melisseus
Melissus, Melisseus
Μελισσεύς
noun (., indeclinable declension)
A king of Crete, father of Melissa and Amalthea
A grammarian and comic poet, librarian to Augustus
A philosopher of Samos
Abbreviations
Melissus, i, m.
, = Μέλισσος. (Also called Melisseus, = Μελισσεύς.) A king of Crete, father of Melissa and Amalthea, Lact. 1, 22, 19; ib. § 28.
— A grammarian and comic poet, librarian to Augustus, Ov. P. 4, 16, 30; cf. Suet. Gram. 21.
— A philosopher of Samos, Cic. Ac. 2, 37, 118.
