A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology

Smith, William

A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology. William Smith, LLD, ed. 1890

(Μελάμπους), the author of two little Greek works still extant.

He lived probably in the third century B. C., as the Divinatio is addressed to "king Ptolemy," who is supposed by Fabricius (Biblioth. Gr. vol. i. p. 99, ed. vet.) to have been Ptolemy Philadelphus.

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