MELA´NTHIUS
MELA´NTHIUS (
Μελάνθιος), a small river on the north coast of Pontus, forming the boundary between Pontus Polemoniacus and Cappadocius, and flowing into the Euxine a little to the east of Cotyora. (
Plin. Nat. 6.4; Arrian,
Peripl. p. 17; Anonym.
Peripl. p. 12;
Tab. Peut., where it is called Melantus.)
It is probably the same river as that now bearing the name of
Melet Irmak. (Hamilton,
Researches, i. p. 267.)
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