I.honey-apples, previously called mustapples (mustea mala): “quae antea mustea vocabant, nunc melimela appellant,” Varr. R. R. 1, 59; cf.: “mustea a celeritate mitescendi, quae nunc melimela dicuntur a sapore melleo,” Plin. 15, 14, 15, § 51; Col. 5, 10 fin.; 12, 45; Hor. S. 2, 8, 31; Mart. 7, 25, 7. —In sing.: melimelum a dulcedine appellatum, quod fructus ejus mellis saporem habeat, vel quod in melle servetur, unde et quidam (Mart. 13, 24, 1) Si tibi Cecropio saturata Cydonia melle Ponentur: “dicas haec melimela licet,” Isid. Orig. 17, 7; cf. melomeli.
mĕlĭmēla , ōrum, n. plur., = μελίμηλα,
A Latin Dictionary. Founded on Andrews' edition of Freund's Latin dictionary. revised, enlarged, and in great part rewritten by. Charlton T. Lewis, Ph.D. and. Charles Short, LL.D. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1879.
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