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Headword:
*me/lissa
Adler number: mu,511
Translated headword: Melissa, bee
Vetting Status: high
Translation: A name of a city.[1] Also a small creature, which labours at [sc. producing] honey.[2]
Greek Original:*me/lissa: o)/noma po/lews. kai\ zwu/+fion, o(/per e)rga/zetai to\ me/li.
Notes:
[1]
Stephanus of
Byzantium and Aelius Herodian mention 3 cities called
Melissa: one in Libya, 'one in Asia' (which both claim is mentioned by
Hecataeus) and a small village in the territory of
Kyzikos, northern Turkey. None of these is firmly located, although the Barrington Atlas thinks the Asian one is in
Phrygia (central Turkey), somewhere near the present-day town of Oynes.
[2] cf.
mu 512,
mu 518,
mu 524,
mu 526.
Translated by: Nicholas Fincher on 2 August 2003@12:29:59.
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