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

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Meliboea

（Μελίβοια).

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A town on the coast of Thessaly in Magnesia, between Mount Ossa and Mount Pelion, where Philoctetes reigned, who is hence called by Vergil, dux Meliboeus. It was noted for its purple dye (Lucret. ii. 499).

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An island at the mouth of the river Orontes in Syria.

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

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