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

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Maenus - Mamaea

Mamercus - Maps

Maracanda - Markland , Jeremiah

Marmarĭca - Masts

Masurius Sabīnus - Meals

Mecyberna - Melanogaetūli

Melanthius - Menelāï Portus

Melitensia Vestimenta

Menelāï Portus

Menelaïum - Mesōgis

Mesomēdes - Mettius

Metūlum - Minucius Felix

Minucius Thermus - Moliŏnes

Molionĭdae - Mortarium

Mortgage - Munychion

Mural Crown - Myinda

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Meliae

（Μελίαι) and Meliădes (Μελιάδες).

1.

The nymphs who, with the Gigantes and Erinnyes, sprang from the drops of blood that fell from Uranus and were received by Gaea.

2.

The nymphs who nursed the infant Zeus (q.v.).

Harry Thurston Peck. Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities. New York. Harper and Brothers. 1898.

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