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

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Melissus

（Μέλισσος).

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A Samian philosopher of Eleatic tendencies. He is probably not the person who commanded the fleet opposed to Pericles in B.C. 440, but of earlier date. Only fragments of his work remain.

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A Latin grammarian and comic poet, the freedman of Maecenas. Augustus intrusted him with the arrangement of a library in the portico of Octavia (Gramm. 21).

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

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