Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898)

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Melas

（Μέλας). The name of several rivers, whose waters were a dark colour.

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1.

A small river in Boeotia, flowing between Orchomenus and Aspledon.

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2.

A river of Thessaly, in the district Malis, falling into the Malic Gulf.

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3.

A river of Thessaly in Phthiotis, falling into the Apidanus.

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4.

A river of Thrace, falling into the Melas Sinus.

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5.

A river in the northeast of Sicily, flowing into the sea between Mylae and Naulochus, through excellent meadows, in which the oxen of the Sun are said to have fed.

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6.

A river in Asia Minor, the boundary between Pamphylia and Cilicia.