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Melissus, Melissī

Melissus, Melisseus

Μελισσεύς

noun (m., 3^rd Greek 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.