Meliboea, ae, f., = Μελίβοια, a maritime town of Thessaly, at the foot of Mount Ossa, the birthplace of Philoctetes, now Kastri, Mel. 2, 3; Plin. 4, 7, 16, § 32; Liv. 36, 13, 6; 44, 13.

—Hence, Derivv. Meliboeus, a, um, adj., Melibaean: purpura, Lucr. 2, 500; Verg. A. 5, 251.

— Meliboeensis, e, adj., of or belonging to Melibaea, Serv. ad Verg. A. 5, 251.