(), nymphs who were worshipped as the
protectors of flocks and of fruit-trees. They are also called Μηλίδες or Ἐπιμηλίδες. (Theocrit. 1.22,
with Valck. note, 13.45; Eustath. ad Hom. p. 1963.)
The same name is also given to the nymphs of the district of the Malians on the river
Spercheius. (Soph. Philoct. 725.)